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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"?

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

Reference for history of physics with description of mathematical models

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?

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?

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

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

Is there an anthology of classic papers on electricity?

Who discovered the Virial Theorem?

How did Lagrange get his equation (the so-called Euler-Lagrange equation)

Is this Einstein rejection letter fake?

Good book on the history of introductory physics (upto first year college)

Good book on the history of introductory physics (upto first year college)

Good book on the history of introductory physics (upto first year college)

Who did first use the Method of Characteristics?