Ce recueil de brefs récits est avant tout l'histoire d'une aventure humaine. Il rassemble des documents pour la plupart inédits sur les conditions d'accès, la vie quotidienne et la science àl'Observatoire du Pic du Midi, situé à près de 3000 mètres d'altitude dans les Pyrénées. Dans la première partie (1874-1936), des lettres et des récits parus da...
Published in European Journal of Physics
The relativistic correction to the precession of the perihelion of Mercury provided key evidence for the accuracy of general relativity as a theory of gravity. This example still has a large amount of potential to introduce students to the power of numerical simulations in theoretical physics, but existing approaches may be too detailed for many st...
peer reviewed / The extraordinary 2021 September-October outburst of Centaur 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 afforded an opportunity to test the composition of primitive Kuiper disk material at high sensitivity. We conducted nearly simultaneous multiwavelength spectroscopic observations of 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 using iSHELL at the NASA Infrared Tel...
The "National Geographic" magazine, which has been published in the United States since the 19th century, appeared on the Polish market in 1999 due to the political transformation that had taken place and led to many changes, also in context of media system, in the country. This magazine, due to its characteristics, belongs to the segment of popula...
Published in Rhizomata
I have argued elsewhere that the idea that Aristotle aspired to improve the theories of the planetary motions of Eudoxus and Callippus by adding the ‘counteracting’ spheres (ἀνελίττουσαι) first emerged with the Peripatetic exegete Sosigenes in the second century CE. This paper supplements that argument by contrasting two major lines of interpretati...
Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr (368/978-463/1071), uno de los mayores ulemas andalusíes del siglo V/XI, incluye un largo capítulo sobre los anwāʾ en su Kitāb al-Tamhīd, que se estudia, junto a textos afines, en sus dos aspectos fundamentales. En el plano literario, el capítulo contiene una especie de tratado de anwāʾ abreviado que constituye uno de los raros eje...
Published in History of science
The terms that Galileo's contemporaries used for lenses (cristallo/i, lente/i, and vetro/i) have often been treated, and even translated, interchangeably. In this article, we argue that Galileo used references to crystals as lenses to embed epistemological and cosmological arguments in the material object of the telescope. Across Galileo's correspo...
Published in Physics Education
Astronomy is one of the few sciences where the data (star-light) can be seen by all. Yet, there is a disconnect between a typical undergraduate lecture and, for example, where a planet may be in the sky and how to observe it. With the advent of moderate cost, high-quality ‘back-garden’ astronomy, and standard computers powerful enough to produce or...
Published in SHS Web of Conferences
The question whether and how Kant can introduce a concept of reason which is compatible with his critical claims of enlightenment is a perennial challenge. This question implies the problem of how reason can be the supreme touchstone of all rights and remedies without being affected by Kant’s despotism-reproach (WA, AA 08: 41). To defend Kant’s con...
This thesis examines the medical content of Early Modern Swedish almanacs between the years 1608-1731. The aim of the study is to uncover the understanding of health, illness and the human body that is prevalent within the almanacs. This has been found to be strongly related to the medical paradigm of humorism, or Galenic Medicine. The almanacs als...
