piers bursill-hall

Name:	piers bursill-hall
Affiliation:	University of Cambridge
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Last login:	Wed Oct 14 13:18:30 +0000 2020

Public lists managed by piers bursill-hall

• History of science for mathmos

Talks given by piers bursill-hall

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• God, as you know, is a Trinity man, but is She a mathmo?
• Alexandrine Medicine - dead bodies!
• Aristotle on physics, mathematics, astronomy
• Answers to Parmenides IV: Aristotle
• Answers to Parmenidies III: Plato
• Why Mathmos Rule the World: Always Have, Always Will

Talks organised by piers bursill-hall

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• The Discoursi: subterfuge and polemic, and a "proof" of the science of heliocentricity (8/8)
• Galileo's arguments with the Church (a revisionist view) (7/8)
• The greatest scientific polemic ever: the Diologo, 1632 (6/8)
• Galileo, now famous, returns to Florence, fails to persuade natural philosophers (5/8)
• The telescope, Siderius Nuncius, the Letter on Sunspots. (4/8)
• Galileo's early career, Pisa and Padua (3/8)
• Engineering and mathematics in the late 16th century (2/8)
• The Trireme (and Salamis): oh, and the Greeks were just a _philosophical_ people (not)
• The Trireme (and Salamis): oh, and the Greeks were just a philosophical people (not)
• Gelen, and then rationalist medicine and Christian healers. Oops.
• more medicine: hellenistic medics and Greeks and Romans, and Galen.
• Alexandrine Medicine - dead bodies!
• Science in late antiquity: rationality and a new religion
• Aristotle on physics, mathematics, astronomy
• Answers to Parmenidies III: Plato
• 3rd meeting: Mesopotamian 'sciences' and 'science' in Homeric Greece
• 2nd meeting: before natural philosophy: Egypt and Mesopotamia