History of Science and Mathematics

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How did Ptolemy know that days were unequal lengths?
Awarded Mar 24 at 11:32
Who popularized the atom icon (atom whirl or planetary model)
Awarded Mar 24 at 0:18
Original description of point sources and point spread functions
Awarded Mar 22 at 21:06
Did Russell's paradox affect Peano's construction in the Formulario?
Awarded Mar 21 at 2:51
What is the origin of the rubber sheet analogy?
Awarded Mar 19 at 20:48
Is there a theorem proof whose accuracy is doubted because it is short?
Awarded Mar 17 at 22:40
Did the ancient Romans know and use the catenary test when building arches and bridges?
Awarded Mar 16 at 7:06
Historical origins of the idea that information cannot travel faster than light
Awarded Mar 13 at 11:35
Euler: “A baby on his lap, a cat on his back — that’s how he wrote his immortal works” (origin?)
Awarded Mar 3 at 12:34
The etymology of "radio waves"
Awarded Feb 27 at 7:18
Why did Einstein's teacher say that Einstein's presence alone undermined his authority?
Awarded Feb 22 at 21:37
Were scientific discoveries ever inspired by art?
Awarded Feb 21 at 17:51
How did Aristotle explain the motion of living things moving by themselves, and falling of objects, with his hypothesis of all motion needing a cause?
Awarded Feb 21 at 5:11
Poisson's laws for adiabatic processes
Awarded Feb 20 at 17:31
Is it true that Albert Einstein was kicked out of high school due to his "peacefulness"?
Awarded Feb 19 at 1:48
How Galileo could both possibly say that Earth is revolving around the Sun and develop the Galilean relativity?
Awarded Feb 16 at 20:41
Early results on the Fourier transform
Awarded Feb 15 at 1:15
What is the title of the 1676 Memoir in which Leibniz first used the Chain Rule?
Awarded Feb 14 at 17:22
Was Niklas Luhmann critical of environmental movements?
Awarded Feb 13 at 21:18
Origin of the usage of $\lambda$ to represent eigenvalues
Awarded Feb 12 at 19:05
History of visualization in science and math - where may I read of it?
Awarded Feb 10 at 13:56
Understanding how Stern-Gerlach tests Bohr-Sommerfield Hypothesis
Awarded Feb 9 at 14:16
When did the error function get its modern definition?
Awarded Feb 7 at 21:07
Where can I find the early proofs for the simplicity of $\text{PSL}(n,q)$?
Awarded Jan 31 at 12:21
History of group actions as their own structures
Awarded Jan 31 at 7:08
Biographical info on Alan Earnshaw (Chemistry of the Elements)
Awarded Jan 30 at 23:47
When did people first know that the sky was illuminated by the Sun?
Awarded Jan 26 at 13:40
Katz's symbol 兄 for Gauss-Manin connections
Awarded Jan 18 at 4:37
When was the hydrogen's absolute mass found first in history?
Awarded Jan 14 at 13:42
Does Galilean/Newtonian mechanics reject both consequences of Aristotle's dynamical pseudo-law : $ V = F/m$, or only consequence (1)?
Awarded Jan 14 at 12:50
Finding the Letter from Freeman Dyson to Gerald Gabrielse in 2006
Awarded Jan 10 at 2:48
What was the chronologically first derivation PV=nRT?
Awarded Jan 7 at 20:07
In which article/book chapter did Cantor, Hilbert, and Poincaré formally define or directly discusse the term “potential infinity”?
Awarded Jan 5 at 23:42
Is there a transcript or audio recording of the lecture on Riemann Hypothesis by John Nash at Columbia University in 1959 anywhere?
Awarded Jan 3 at 11:26
How futuristic was the use of a laser in 1964's "Goldfinger"?
Awarded Jan 3 at 11:17
Scientific Collaborations during World War
Awarded Dec 30, 2022 at 13:26
What was known about Chebyshev polynomials in 1900?
Awarded Dec 28, 2022 at 5:32
Is there a resource which explains the history of how the Leidenfrost effect was explained?
Awarded Dec 22, 2022 at 21:25
Poincaré's definition of mathematics (?)
Awarded Dec 19, 2022 at 21:42
What's the history of "left as exercise" or notions similar to that?
Awarded Dec 19, 2022 at 19:20
Why does Eratosthenes method for calculating the circumference of the Earth requires the city of Alexandria and Syene to be in the same meridian?
Awarded Dec 19, 2022 at 14:41
Historical examples of frauds discovered because someone tried to mimic a uniform random sequence
Awarded Dec 18, 2022 at 18:56
How and when did scientists first determine that hydrogen was the lightest element?
Awarded Dec 16, 2022 at 5:27
Before metric length units were based on the speed of light, how were sub-units accurately derived from the reference bars?
Awarded Dec 16, 2022 at 2:48
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Awarded Dec 15, 2022 at 14:21
Euler's "comfortable" series
Awarded Dec 12, 2022 at 7:52
Original source of these 2 trigonometric identities
Awarded Dec 10, 2022 at 10:06
What was probability like before Kolmogorov?
Awarded Dec 8, 2022 at 8:17
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Awarded Dec 8, 2022 at 2:28
Why did Clairaut's theorem take so long to prove?
Awarded Dec 4, 2022 at 14:06
Naturally occurring elements in other planets and their natural satellites other than earth [closed]
Awarded Nov 28, 2022 at 19:42
Why is 'total angular momentum' denoted by the letter $J$ in quantum mechanics?
Awarded Nov 22, 2022 at 4:40
question regarding Stern-Gerlach experiment
Awarded Nov 19, 2022 at 15:16
Development of Logic: Intuitive use vs what took so long to formalize?
Awarded Nov 19, 2022 at 3:04
The symbol h for class numbers
Awarded Nov 16, 2022 at 10:26
Early helium spectrum measurements and their challenge for Bohr's quantum mechanics
Awarded Nov 13, 2022 at 17:40
What is the Expected Durability/Digitization Efforts of Pre-Hellenistic works that are made from Materials like Papyrus, Bamboo, Bark, Stone, e.t.c?
Awarded Nov 8, 2022 at 22:56
How did Euclid arrive at the law of reflection $r=i$?
Awarded Nov 7, 2022 at 13:21
Continuity, Hausdorff
Awarded Nov 6, 2022 at 10:55
Did Einstein believe the laws of physics would be replaced by mathematical identities?
Awarded Oct 25, 2022 at 23:09
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