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Is there a "Moore's Law" of length-determining apparatuses?

Best history of Maxwell and his equations

When did physicists begin using the symbol $G$ for Newton's gravitational constant?

What was Newton's statement of the universal law of gravitation?

Did C.S Peirce make any noteworthy contributions to physics or chemistry?

What did Noether contribute to the theory of integral invariants?

Who first discovered or invented the concept of "muscle memory"?

Hidden agenda of the Galileo trial?

Can Numerology be said to be the precursor of Number Theory?

Reference for history of physics with description of mathematical models

Who invented/discovered the scalar potential?

Whose shoulders did Newton stand on?

Which physicist is this quote attributed to?

Why did Schrödinger write a letter to Einstein “apologizing profusely for his duplicity”?

What animals or plants were used to illustrate ideas of physics?

Who associated the sharp, principal, diffuse, fundamental spectral terms with electron's momentum?

Did Maxwell originally write his equations using quaternions?

What were the 3 critical experiments and the argument given by Ampère which helped in determining the magnetic field made by electric current?

How did early scientists know if a current was changing direction? (AC vs. DC)

Why is the amount of charge needed to generate 1 unit of electric flux, called permittivity?

Where does the prefix "super" from "supersymmetry" come from?

Did Einstein really say: "If I were wrong, it would only take one."

How did German become the language of science?

How did German become the language of science?

Who first came up with the idea that heavenly laws and earthly laws should be the same?

Who determined whether surfaces between magnetic poles attract/repel or whether the poles' volumes do?

Which book gives a thorough understanding on the scientific environment of antiquity?

Why is one of Maxwell's equations named after Ampère? Who first named it after Ampère?

Electromagnetic constants and the speed of light

Help translate from German a quote by Hermann Weyl in Space Time Matter