History of Science and Mathematics

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Source documents for Bronstein's Cube of Physics
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Historical origin of commas and periods in numbers
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Were Michael Sendivogius findings in Chemistry considered by him to be Alchemy?
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What material was the wire with which J.P. Joule did his experiment, with which he arrived at his law of heat dissipation from a resistor?
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In which units did Sir Isaac Newton define force at that time as SI system didn't exist then?
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Was Kolmorogov really inspired to publish Foundations of the theory of probability because he needed money to repair his dacha?
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How was the first parabolic telescope mirror made, and how was it used, and for what kind of telescope was this work done?
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History of the "Square Root of 2"
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Is it possible to narrow down possible dates for the following eclipse pattern?
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How was longitude determined in the 1700s?
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Ancient Egyptian Mathematicians
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Articles published without their authors being aware
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Why did algebraic geometry need Alexander Grothendieck?
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Did Feynman win the Putnam by a "large margin"?
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Articles published without their authors being aware
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Old square bracket notation for units
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What physicist was famous for his out-of-the-box problem solving methodology using concept maps?
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Why did Columbus think the Earth was much smaller than it is?
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Why was Hausdorff not able to move to United States from Nazi Germany?
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Whose 1930 number theory result is used in characterizing perfect 2-error correcting linear codes?
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How did the US get enough U235 for "Little Boy"
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What date is assigned to Hippocratic treatises "On Generation" and "On the Nature of the Child"?
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"Dragon Dice", a historical gambling game involved in the development of probability
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Why did the mathematical community settle on these properties to define a topology?
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Did the ancients construct higher genus curves?
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What did Galileo's "pulsilogon" look like?
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How has $\tan(x)$ become more popular than $\operatorname{tg}(x)$?
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Do Nobel prizes tend to go to theorists or experimenters?
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$\epsilon$-$\delta$ definition of continuity
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Old square bracket notation for units
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Origins of proof in Mathematics
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How did Kirchhoff express his voltage law (KVL)
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Why is it called a group action?
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Why didn't Boyle made a correlation between V and T of a gas (and similarly between P and T)?
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What is Holon Programming?
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Hamiltonian $H$ named after Huygens?
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What happened to cybernetics?
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A Survey of Modern Algebra, 1st Edition (Birkhoff and Mac Lane): The Direct Product
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What is Ptolemy holding in this picture?
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Who said that math or statistics is not free from class interest?
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What makes the right angle special enough to be distinguished in the French metric system?
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What set of criteria led Hamilton to discover the quaternions?
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Origin of the word "de" in the name of Danish astronomer Tycho de Brahe
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Literary works authored by mathematicians
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Origin of the word "de" in the name of Danish astronomer Tycho de Brahe
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Where can I find Grothendieck's letter of resignation from Bourbaki?
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What led to the formula $W=\vec{F} \cdot \overrightarrow{d s}$? [closed]
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Why was André Weil in Finland?
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The Rejection of Solid Orbs by Geo-Heliocentric (Tychonic) model of the solar system
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Historicity of Euclid. Looking for the references of Euclid in ancient texts that has survived [duplicate]
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How did Kepler's teacher Mästlin calculate the Golden section?
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Books on history of biochemistry
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Which physicists died very young or in a tragic way?
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How did Aristotle die? [closed]
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How did Stern or Gerlach, of Stern-Gerlach experiment, create individual silver atoms? How were they accelerated?
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