Johannes Kepler’s Somnium (The Dream) is an extraordinary early narrative that combines the idea of a journey...
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When Johannes Kepler set out to explain the motions of the planets, he found himself confronting an...
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) stands out in Enlightenment thought not only for his role in the Encyclopédie project,...
A potato in a scientist’s laboratory may seem an unlikely sight today. Yet in the late nineteenth...
Few anecdotes in the history of science are as instantly recognisable as the story of Isaac Newton...
