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10 April 2024
Naming the days of the week
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Ever wondered where the weekday names come from? The answer may go back a bit further than you think. But it’s also incomplete. The easy p...
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20 March 2024
The Stoics and the Holy Spirit
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Stoicism, the ancient school of philosophy, had some excellent ideas. Here’s their explanation of how sound works. We hear when the air...
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09 March 2024
Aristarchus and the heliocentric theory
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The earth has orbited around the sun since 1609. At least that’s when Kepler’s book on the subject came out, Astronomia nova (‘The new astr...
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07 July 2023
How Eratosthenes measured the earth. Part 4
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1. The spherical earth | 2. Eratosthenes’ method | 3. Distance | 4. Angle of the sun (e) Angle of the sun Eratosthenes didn...
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