Thony C
rmathematicus@hcommons.social
<p>Historian of science who mostly lives in the early modern period, who blogs as the Renaissance Mathematicus <a href="https://thonyc.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">thonyc.wordpress.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Posts
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Post #1986444
Physician, mathematician, loyal friend of Newton, librettist for Handel, John Arbuthnot, was born 29 April 1667 #histsci https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/to-break-a-butterfly-upon-a-wheel/
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Post #1986442
Joseph Moxon wrote, printed and published the first ever accurate and detailed account of the techniques and methods of printing 1683-84 #histtech https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/joseph-moxon-a-man-of-many-talents/
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Post #1986441
Joseph Moxon innovative printer, publisher, author, globe and instrument maker in the second half of the seventeenth century #histsci #histtech https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/joseph-moxon-a-man-of-many-talents/
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Post #1986440
Jesuit astronomer Johann Adam Schall von Bell was born 1 May 1591 #histsci https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2021/08/04/the-seventeenth-century-chinese-civil-servant-from-cologne/
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Post #1882070
Paracelsus was probably not born on 1 May #histsci https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/not-a-birthday-boy-some-thoughts-on-renaissance-birth-dates/
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Post #1670147
Almost three years and sixty-four episodes have taken us from Aristotle&#39;s ta physika to the modern meaning of physics in the eighteenth century #histsci https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/04/24/from-τὰ-φυσικά-ta-physika-to-physics-lxiv/
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Post #830943
Not so much a book review as a book extermination! #histsci https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/history-of-science-garbage-dumps-two-for-the-price-of-one/