Space has captured human imagination for centuries. Yet along with our fascination, countless misconceptions have spread like ...

Psalm 19:1 (RSV) The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork. Acts 17:28 ... In him we live and move and have our being ... It’s very fashionable nowadays for ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman once recalled a friend, an artist, who would say ...

A common technique in science popularization is to take some modern scientific idea, and connect it to some much earlier notion. The classic example of this is the regular invocation of the ancient ...

de Mickaël Popelard, PUF, 2010, 230 pages, 24 euros. Quelle place et quel rôle convient-il d’accorder à l’œuvre de Francis Bacon dans la naissance de la science moderne ? A-t-il véritablement, comme ...

IN a number of short essays, the author of this little volume has succeeded in giving a general account of modern ideas bearing on the physics of the globe. There is no attempt at detailed treatment, ...

"Les origines de la science moderne" d'Albert Dufourcq est un ouvrage captivant qui explore les fondements de la pensée scientifique telle que nous la connaissons aujourd'hui. Publié initialement en ...

L'époque moderne est une période particulièrement importante dans l'histoire des sciences occidentales. De la Renaissance aux Lumières, on assiste en Europe à une transformation remarquable des ...

Laetitia Grabot est membre du comité des Jeunes Chercheurs de TRF (Timing Research Forum) une société académique ouverte visant à promouvoir la recherche sur la perception du temps ainsi que de la ...