Andrew Grey doesn’t fit most people’s idea of an astronomer. He works in a car repair shop, not in a lab or university, yet the Australian repairman discovered a star system hiding in data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope. Mr. Grey is one of millions of citizen scientists helping ...
By the time he was born the family fortune had declined, his father, who appears to have been something of a wastrel, had become a mercenary and disappeared out of his life when he was just five years old. His mother Katherina Guldenmann (1547–1622) was the daughter of an innkeeper. ...
The Netherlands played a leading part among the most advanced countries in Europe, in which, in the 15th century, capitalist relationships began to develop. The decline of the classical guild system was particularly well marked in the Belgian provinces. The old centers of the guild weaving industr...
In the early 1850s, Bishop Lamy traveled to France to recruit clergy for his new diocese and to Rome to take care of business. As travel companion and priest-secretary, he took with him Father Eulogio Ortiz, a former pupil of Padre Martinez at his home-preparatory seminary. He was also ...
I’m 40 years old, and I’ve been in contact (more or less) with the Internet as it’s grown from inchoate network in the early 1990s to the Thing that it is today. This means that I’ve been aware, and to some extent Rubbernecked, the blogging movement as it has developed. This...
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This capacity to absorb new and old learning, and in quantity, carried through to his later theological writings. As McEvoy (2000: 106) remarks, when it came to the composition of Grosseteste's commentary on the 6 days of Creation in Genesis, "The desk at which he worked must have been...
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“I confess that in love and friendship lies all my happiness,” said this astronomer, metaphysician, and mathematician, who wrote against revelation and went to mass with her free-thinking lover. Her learning and eccentricities made her the target for many shafts of ridicule, but she counted ...
Dec. 25 (Old Style) (Jan. 4, 1621) they erect the first house frame on Cole's Hill, the hill where they buried their dead the first winter; the Mayflower remains anchored in Plymouth Harbor until next Apr.; the more juicy Massachusetts Bay to the N (future home of Boston) waits ...