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Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist.

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Neoplatonist philosopher and mathematician who was a prominent thinker of the Neoplatonic school ...

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Frederick Rossini

An American thermodynamicist noted for his work in chemical thermodynamics.

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Thomasius on Church and State

Thomasius on Church and State

oll.libertyfund.org

Christian Thomasius’s principal contributions to the public life of early modern Protestant Germany were made in his roles as a political jurist and engaged commentator on religious and political affairs, although he was also a noted educational reformer and moral philosopher. Thomasius was born into a family of Lutheran jurists and academics in Leipzig, in the German territorial state of Saxony, on January 1, 1655. His father, Jacob (1622–84), was a philosophy professor at the University of Leipzig, where Christian enrolled in 1669 and graduated with a master’s degree in 1672. That year al...

What Makes Quantum Computing So Hard to Explain?

What Makes Quantum Computing So Hard to Explain?

quantamagazine.org

Quantum computers, you might have heard, are magical uber-machines that will soon cure cancer and global warming by trying all possible answers in different parallel universes. For 15 years, on my blog and elsewhere, I’ve railed against this cartoonish vision, trying to explain what I see as the subtler but ironically even more fascinating truth. I approach this as a public service and almost my moral duty as a quantum computing researcher. Alas, the work feels Sisyphean: The cringeworthy hype about quantum computers has only increased over the years, as corporations and governm...

Can Ashton Eaton Save the Decathlon?

Can Ashton Eaton Save the Decathlon?

Ten years ago, Tate Metcalf, a high-school track coach in Bend, Oregon, was trying to find a college that would give one of his athletes a scholarship. Ashton Eaton was a talented sprinter with a fierce long jump, but Metcalf received mostly lukewarm responses. His coach felt that Eaton would have the best shot at getting into a Division I college if he competed in one of track and field’s multi-event disciplines, like the heptathlon or the decathlon. Metcalf knew it would make Eaton, who was raised by a single mother and had never had any private coaching, one of the first people in his fa...

Charles Kingsley’s Hypatia, Visual Culture and Late-Victorian Gender Politics

Charles Kingsley’s Hypatia, Visual Culture and Late-Victorian Gender Politics

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Charles Kingsley’s Hypatia or New Foes with an Old Face was first published in Fraser’s Magazine in 1852, but was reissued in numerous book editions in the late nineteenth century. Though often viewed as a novel depicting the religious controversies of the 1850s, Kingsley’s portrayal of the life and brutal death of a strong female figure from late antiquity also sheds light on the way in which the Victorians remodelled ancient histories to explore shifting gender roles at the fin de siècle. As the book gained in popularity towards the end of the century, it was reimagined in many different cultural forms. This article demonstrates how Kingsley’s Hypatia became a global, multi-media fiction of antiquity, how it was revisioned and consumed in different written, visual and material forms (book illustrations, a play, painting and sculpture) and how this reimagining functioned within the gender politics of the 1880s and 1890s. Kingsley’s novel retained a strong hold on the late-Victorian imagination, I argue, because the perpetual restaging of Hypatia’s story through different media facilitated the circulation of pressing fin-de-siècle debates about women’s education, wom...

Thomasius on Church and State

What Makes Quantum Computing So Hard to Explain?

Can Ashton Eaton Save the Decathlon?

Charles Kingsley’s Hypatia, Visual Culture and Late-Victorian Gender Politics

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Winckelmann’s Depreciation of Colour in Light of the Querelle du coloris and Recent Critique

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Winckelmann’s Depreciation of Colour in Light of the Querelle du coloris and Recent Critique

Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) has traditionally been praised as a pioneering Hellenist whose important studies on ancient Greek and Roman sculpture influenced generations of students in various academic fields, ranging from classical philology to archaeology and the history of art. From ...

Cognitive celebrity

Psychology Physics History

Cognitive celebrity

Albert Einstein was a genius, but he wasn’t the only one – why has his name come to mean something superhuman?Before he died, Albert Einstein requested that his whole body be cremated as soon as possible after death, and his ashes scattered in an undisclosed location. He didn’t want his ...

The Proportion of His Purpose: Peter Abelard’s as Sacred History

Religion

The Proportion of His Purpose: Peter Abelard’s as Sacred History

Peter Abelard had the habit of confidently obtruding logic into unexpected places and disciplines. A study of words and arguments, not things (whose study for Abelard would be physics), logic seemed an ideal tool to examine theological claims : human language and argument about God  Abelard’s scr...