▽Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity ●08/19 06:04 Extraordinary public clamor greeted an announcement of the joint meeting of the Royal Society of London and the Royal Astronomical Society on the sixth of November 1919. Astronomical observations made by a British team during the solar eclipse on May 29 comprised the first empirical test of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.Lengthy data analysis of the observations over the summer had
▽Nineteenth Century Geometry ●08/12 17:58 However, the fifth one sounds more like a statement of fact. Euclid’s text can be rendered in English as follows: “If a straight line [c] falling on two straight lines [a and b]makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles,the two straight lines [a and b], if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which are the angles less than the two right angles” (terms
▽Cosmology: Methodological Debates in the 1930s and 1940s ●08/12 16:40 One of the most vigorous philosophical debates of the century broke out among cosmologists during the 1930s and 1940s. At the peak of the debate, 1936–37, many of the most prominent scientists in Britain, as well as several leading philosophers of science, had gotten themselves publicly involved. Their arguments, attacks and rebuttals were chronicled in many of the leading scientific journal
