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A few years ago I started to teach myself physics and mathematics out of curiosity for the physical world around us.

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In Lord Rosse's 1845 drawing of M51, was the galaxy depicted in white or black?
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Why did Galileo express himself in terms of ratios when describing laws of accelerated motion?
Nov 4, 2020
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In Newton's cannon image, where do the shapes drawn into the sphere come from?
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Resources to learn about the state of academia in the early 1900s?
Jun 1, 2023
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How did the current physics curriculum came to be?
Nov 25, 2020
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What astronomy efforts required multiplication of large numbers around 1600?
Jun 25, 2020
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Light propagated instantaneously rather than gradually
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What are some examples of fringe science theories from the past that are widely accepted today? [duplicate]
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When were the SUVAT equations derived for the first time?
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Who is the target audience for the $60+ academic books?
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Intuition behind surface of cone being the sector of a circle?
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How does a 0-ball have volume 1?
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Calculating $ \lim_{x \to 0} (\frac{x\cdot\sin{x}}{|x|}) $