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History of Physics

The World According to Aristotle
On the physics and philosophy of matter, the stars, and of motion
 • Alastair Williams
Why Did The Athenians Kill Socrates?
On the life and death of Socrates
 • Alastair Williams
The Week in Space and Physics: The First Molecules of Water
On the origins of water, a survey of the Radcliffe Wave, Moon landings, and the eighth flight of Starship.
 • Alastair Williams
Was Zeno Right About the Impossibility of Motion?
On Zeno and the paradoxes of motion
 • Alastair Williams
Greeks III: The Logos of Heraclitus
On the cosmos, and order over disorder
 • Alastair Williams
Greeks II: Pythagoras and The Cult of Numbers
On the Pythagoreans, their fear of irrational numbers, and the search for universal music.
 • Alastair Williams
Greeks I: The Father of Science
On Thales of Miletus and the dawn of natural philosophy
 • Alastair Williams
Babylonia II: The Beginnings of Time
On the origins of calendars and clocks
 • Alastair Williams
Babylonia I: When the Gods Anu and Enlil…
On the ancient astrologers of Babylon.
 • Alastair Williams
Origins: A Fairy Tale of the Pleiades
Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade,
 • Alastair Williams
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