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History of Physics
The Atom and The Void
On ancient ideas of nothingness
Jun 23
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Alastair Williams
3
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The World According to Aristotle
On the physics and philosophy of matter, the stars, and of motion
Jan 25
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Alastair Williams
6
2
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Why Did The Athenians Kill Socrates?
On the life and death of Socrates
Mar 13, 2025
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Alastair Williams
6
1
Was Zeno Right About the Impossibility of Motion?
On Zeno and the paradoxes of motion
Mar 6, 2025
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Alastair Williams
20
6
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Greeks III: The Logos of Heraclitus
On the cosmos, and order over disorder
Feb 13, 2025
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Alastair Williams
4
2
Greeks II: Pythagoras and The Cult of Numbers
On the Pythagoreans, their fear of irrational numbers, and the search for universal music.
Feb 7, 2025
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Alastair Williams
12
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Greeks I: The Father of Science
On Thales of Miletus and the dawn of natural philosophy
Jan 30, 2025
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Alastair Williams
5
3
Babylonia II: The Beginnings of Time
On the origins of calendars and clocks
Jan 23, 2025
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Alastair Williams
45
2
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Babylonia I: When the Gods Anu and Enlil…
On the ancient astrologers of Babylon.
Jan 16, 2025
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Alastair Williams
10
2
Origins: A Fairy Tale of the Pleiades
Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade,
Jan 9, 2025
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Alastair Williams
45
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