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Giants’ Shoulders #29: Esoteric Science Special

Athanasius Kircher's museum

Heterodoxology is proud to present the twenty-ninth installment of your favourite History of Science Blog Carnival: The Giant’s Shoulders. This time featuring an Esoteric Science Special, dedicated to all those esoteric pursuits of superior knowledge; a celebration of all strange, alien, and counterintuitive methods that have been attempted to dissect, read, or tame nature’s secrets, from renaissance natural philosophy to present-day Grand Unified Theories – from the cleverly inventive, through the hopelessly megalomaniac, to the simply misguided.

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on November 16, 2010 at 11:46 am Comments (5)
Tags: 2012, Almagestum Novum, Anne-Laurence Caudano, apocalypse, archaeoastronomy, archaeology, Ben Freivogel, Benjamin Franklin, Benoit Mandelbrot, biomedicine, black holes, Byzantium, cameras, Charles Darwin, Coca Cola, computing, Copernicus, Cornelius Agrippa, dinosaurs, ecology, Esoteric Coffeehouse, forensic science, fractals, Francis Bacon, Fred Hoyle, Galileo, geocentricity, heliocentricity, homeopathy, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Joseph D. Coker, Madhava, Manuel I Komnenos, Maxwell's demon, Mayan civilization, Michael Mästlin, nuclear fusion, nuclear weapons, occult properties, Paracelsus, Post-Apocalyptic, Ptolemy, robots, Samuel Hahnemann, Science Fiction, scientific instruments, Technocracy, Tetens, The Giant's Shoulders, Thomas Kuhn, transhumanism, Tycho Brahe, UFOs, Vito Volterra, William Coblentz, William Crookes, William Whewell

Galison in Utrecht

I just got home from Peter Galison’s first talk as Visiting Professor at Utrecht University. As advertised in a previous post, the lecture focused on the role of secrecy in modern science. Actually, the focus was a lot broader than that. Galison’s interest was to trace what he saw as some significant historical changes in the legitimization and enforcement of secrecy in western societies, roughly from the early 20th century until today. A significant part of his argument was that scientific discourse became subjected to secretive forms of political regulation from WWII onwards.

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on March 9, 2010 at 12:01 am Comments (1)
Tags: Cold War, nuclear weapons, science & politics, Secrecy, terrorism