History of Science and Mathematics

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Who popularized the atom icon (atomic whirl or planetary model)
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Who were the attendees to the SGA3 seminar?
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When and why did the concept of relativistic mass become outdated?
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What are the most precise measurements in science?
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How did Ptolemy know that days were unequal lengths?
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Early results on the Fourier transform
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The etymology of "radio waves"
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Source of a quote and a story
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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?
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Did Jean Picard discovery of mercurial phosphorescence lead to Newton's studies of light's visible spectrum?
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Is it true that Albert Einstein was kicked out of high school due to his "peacefulness"?
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Poisson's laws for adiabatic processes
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Origin of the usage of $\lambda$ to represent eigenvalues
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References on the role of diagrams in scientific advancement
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When was the first time/s that sheaves entered algebra and algebraic geometry?
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Does Galilean/Newtonian mechanics reject both consequences of Aristotle's dynamical pseudo-law : $ V = F/m$, or only consequence (1)?
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What was the chronologically first derivation PV=nRT?
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Who was the first to say "Shut up and calculate!"?
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Omar Khayyam is well known as a mystical poet (Quatrains). He is also known as a mathematician. Are these the same?
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When did bounties and prize money for open mathematical problems start being a thing?
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Before metric length units were based on the speed of light, how were sub-units accurately derived from the reference bars?
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What advances in statistics did measure-theoretic probability theory allow?
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How were sailing warships maneuvered in battle -- who coordinated the actions of all the sailors?
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Original source of these 2 trigonometric identities
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How did Gibbs discover Gibbs entropy?
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Why did Clairaut's theorem take so long to prove?
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How did Roger Cotes come up with logarithm form of Euler formula?
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What is so mysterious about Archimedes' approximation of $\sqrt 3$?
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How did Roger Cotes come up with logarithm form of Euler formula?
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How did Euclid arrive at the law of reflection $r=i$?
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What is the Expected Durability/Digitization Efforts of Pre-Hellenistic works that are made from Materials like Papyrus, Bamboo, Bark, Stone, e.t.c?
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What attracted Einstein to the anomalous precession of Mercury?
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What were some historically important Fermi estimates in the history of science?
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Who coined the term "sulphuretted hydrogen"?
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What was the "libration of Pallas" that Gauss studied, when Pallas is not a moon of Jupiter?
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Where does the name "geometric sequence" come from?
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What's the early history of the "inner quantum number"?
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The Abacus vs. the Electric Calculator (Nov 12, 1946): Why did the latter lose?
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What was Pauling's claim about vitamin C?
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How did MMPDS Develop Their Coordinate System for Metals?
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Is there a complete translation of "Arithmetices principia" by Peano?
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How to build a protractor without a protractor?
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Why did Sylvester Gates choose the name Adinkra?
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Who first proved necessity of Euclid's formula for pythagorean triples?
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Why was it difficult to initially phrase compactness?
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Is there any book dealing with the history of both astronomy and geometry?
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What was the real need of divergence and curl operators?
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What was the pre-Renaissance proto-perspective scaling technique for painting square tiled floors?
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How did Eratosthenes know the Sun was very far away?
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Why did the ancients believe celestial matter was of a different type than terrestrial matter?
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Poincaré and the baker: was the anecdote true?
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How did Eratosthenes know the Sun was very far away?
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