Byline: Fedde Benedictus
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The Father of Modern Science?
By Fedde Benedictus Both the originality and the intrinsic value of the work of Isaac Newton have been grossly overestimated. According to traditional history of science, Newton’s work (of which primarily his Principia Mathematica, first published in 1687) was the 17th century’s very pinnacle of the mechanistic worldview, and with that, it provided one of…
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The Subtle Spiral of Life & Death.
By Fedde Benedictus Buried beneath spirals Ever since humans began using stone slabs for the decoration and demarcation of their gravesites, masonry has been employed to show the social status of the deceased individual. In this tradition, the Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli chose the figure of a logarithmic spiral to be carved onto his gravestone.…