Thony Christie
@rmathematicus
Aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now resides mostly in 16th century Nürnberg.
16th century, leading, English, mathematicus John Dee was born 13 July 1527 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2024/07/24/j...
Flemish physician and botanist Rembert Dodoens, whose Cruydeboeck (1554) was plagiarised by John Gerrard to become the dominant Renaissance English Herbal, was born 29 June 1517 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/o...
17th century French physicist Blaise Pascal was born 19 June 1623 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/f...
On this day seventeen years ago, the Renaissance Mathematicus took its first faltering step in the Internet thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/17/
Renaissance, Austrian astronomer, mathematician , Georg von Peuerbach, was born 30 May, 1423. #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/t...
Book Review: The Board of Longitude: Science Innovation and Empire, (CUP, 2025) thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/05/28/t...
Huguenot mathematician, Abraham De Moivre, was born 26 May 1667 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2018/10/24/a...
The Renaissance Artist, Albrecht Dürer, who wrote a maths book the first to be printed and published in German, was born 21 May 1471 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/a...
Ibn al–Haytham did not invent the scientific method #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/05/20/i...
Teaching practical mathematics in 17th-century England thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/05/15/a...
Al-Khwarizmi did not in anyway originate, invent, or create the algorithm thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/a...
Joseph Moxon wrote, printed and published the first ever accurate and detailed account of the techniques and methods of printing 1683-84 #histtech thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/j...
Newton vs. Descartes:- Newton's Principia its reception & the eventual victory of Principia Mathematica over Principia Philosophiae #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/04/08/f...
Henry Frederick Stuart (1594–1612) eldest son of James VI of Scotland, I of England & Anne of Denmark, heir apparent to the thrones of Scotland & England engaged several of the leading mathematical practitioners of the age at his court as tutors #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/t...
The evolution of Newton's mechanics from De motu (1684) to Principia (1687) #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/f...
Not so much a book review as a book extermination! #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/h...
Georg Joachim Rheticus, who travelled to Copernicus in Frombork and took the manuscript of De revolutionibus to Johannes Petreius in Nürnberg to be published, was born 16 February 1514 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/m...
Galileo Galilei was born 15 February 1568, it's more than 15 years since my infamous deflation of his bloated reputation #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/e...
Book Review Jerry Brotton's Four Points of the Compass thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/c...
Isaac Newton "the phenomenon of colour" and his reflecting telescope #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/f...
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli the mathematician who applied mechanics to anatomy was born 28 January 1608 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/f...
Probably the most well-known perspectograph is that of Albrecht Dürer
Isaac Newton the path from farm boy to Cambridge graduate #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/f...