The Subject and its Beginnings “We consider that geographical investigation, as much as any other subject, to be a valid concern for the...

‘Look upon our Discoveries ye Moderns and Despair!’ Chapter I – Herodotus and the Samians Herodotus furnishes the first entry in this...

‘Look Upon Our Discoveries Ye Moderns and Despair.’ I am sure once he realised what I am seeking to do with this new series of articles,...

Most readers will very likely be familiar with the Roman aqueduct, the highly sophisticated water transport method. This short article...

Such was the name that physicist Max Born gave to the 'primordial substance' that his colleague Werner Heisenberg concluded was the...

Some may spot a somewhat oblique reference to the wonderful Lerner and Lowe musical, My Fair Lady, when Professor Higgins sings, ‘By...

Discoveries have not always been welcomed. At first, some have even been feared, or branded heresy, impiety, treachery, you name it. This...

Towards a more interconnected view of Learning and Knowledge Richard Feynman said that the sentence which contained, ‘the most scientific...

Theories about all things being reducible to small particles that cannot be seen with the naked eye and these being the basis and...

The development of our (i.e., we as humans) understanding and knowledge of the world around us has not been a straight line. In fact,...

Yes, when it comes to theories of Heliocentricity, namely those which placed the sun at the centre of the solar system and which we now...

This category will contain a series of articles on women of the ancient world. However, the approach will not be a story of women’s lives...

Introduction This section will explore how the ancients made significant advances in their knowledge of the natural world, astronomy, the...