Philosophy
Hans Lippershey
1570 to September 1619
Hans Lippershey is part of the debate concerning the one who introduced the telescope...some say Galileo and some say Lippershey. Hans Lippershey was a lens grinder and one anecdote goes: Lippershey was "observing his two children playing with lenses in his shop and commenting how they could make a far away weather-vane seem closer when looking at it through two lenses."
Hans Lippershey [Wikipedia]
- We've Got A Cover!
A little book-whoring here. I've got a book coming out soon from Cambridge University Press that I edited and translated with my good friend Anke Walz, entitled Defending Einstein: Hans Reichenbach's Early Writings on space, Time, and Motion....
- Hans Rosling - The Magic Washing Machine
I don't know about you, but when Hans Rosling speaks, I listen. It's like this adorable man is incapable of being uninteresting :) In this TEDTalk presentation, he argues that the greatest invention of the industrial revolution is the washing...
- The Great Paris Exposition Telescope, 1900... Largest Refracting Telescope
In 1900, the Great Paris Exhibition Telescope. In 1900, the Great Paris Exhibition Telescope was unveiled at that year's Paris Universal Exhibition. It had interchangeable lenses for visual and photographic uses, but its main primary lens diameter...
- Cochineal...hans Sloane...british Museum
Hans Sloane April 16th, 1660 to January 11th, 1753 Cochineal plantation How does all of this fit together? Bill Ashworth in the Linda Hall Library Newsletter wrote... Hans Sloane, an English naturalist, physician, and collector, was born Apr. 16, 1660....
- Jan Brueghel The Elder's Telescope
Extensive Landscape with View of the Castle of Mariemont Jan Brueghel the Elder 1617 Technology Review Massachusetts Institute of Technology October 2nd, 2009 It's hard to find an invention more emblematic of the birth of modern science than the...
Philosophy
Hans Lippershey...Dutch lens grinder
Hans Lippershey1570 to September 1619
Hans Lippershey is part of the debate concerning the one who introduced the telescope...some say Galileo and some say Lippershey. Hans Lippershey was a lens grinder and one anecdote goes: Lippershey was "observing his two children playing with lenses in his shop and commenting how they could make a far away weather-vane seem closer when looking at it through two lenses."
Hans Lippershey [Wikipedia]
- We've Got A Cover!
A little book-whoring here. I've got a book coming out soon from Cambridge University Press that I edited and translated with my good friend Anke Walz, entitled Defending Einstein: Hans Reichenbach's Early Writings on space, Time, and Motion....
- Hans Rosling - The Magic Washing Machine
I don't know about you, but when Hans Rosling speaks, I listen. It's like this adorable man is incapable of being uninteresting :) In this TEDTalk presentation, he argues that the greatest invention of the industrial revolution is the washing...
- The Great Paris Exposition Telescope, 1900... Largest Refracting Telescope
In 1900, the Great Paris Exhibition Telescope. In 1900, the Great Paris Exhibition Telescope was unveiled at that year's Paris Universal Exhibition. It had interchangeable lenses for visual and photographic uses, but its main primary lens diameter...
- Cochineal...hans Sloane...british Museum
Hans Sloane April 16th, 1660 to January 11th, 1753 Cochineal plantation How does all of this fit together? Bill Ashworth in the Linda Hall Library Newsletter wrote... Hans Sloane, an English naturalist, physician, and collector, was born Apr. 16, 1660....
- Jan Brueghel The Elder's Telescope
Extensive Landscape with View of the Castle of Mariemont Jan Brueghel the Elder 1617 Technology Review Massachusetts Institute of Technology October 2nd, 2009 It's hard to find an invention more emblematic of the birth of modern science than the...