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A Greco-Egyptian mathematician and engineer who was active in his native city of Alexandria

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Gilbert Burnet: An Ecclesiastical Historian and the Invention of the English Restoration Era

Gilbert Burnet: An Ecclesiastical Historian and the Invention of the English Restoration Era

On the eve of the 1689 Revolution in England, Gilbert Burnet was best known as an ecclesiastical historian. Although he had had a noteworthy career as a Whigleaning cleric, who had gone into exile at the start of James II’s reign and had entered the household of William of Orange in the Hague, Burnet’s reputation had been based on his magisterial History of the Reformation. This had appeared in its first two volumes in 1678 and 1683, and had rapidly become the standard work on the religious changes of the Tudor age. Soon after the Revolution, Burnet also became notable as the ch...

James Clerk Maxwell: a force for physics

James Clerk Maxwell: a force for physics

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Born 175 years ago, James Clerk Maxwell carried out the first profound unification of nature’s forces. Francis Everitt examines the immense contributions of the greatest mathematical physicist since NewtonUnless one is a poet, a war hero or a rock star, it is a mistake to die young. James Clerk Maxwell – unlike Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, the two giants of physics with whom he stands – made that mistake, dying in 1879 at the age of just 48. Physicists may be familiar with Maxwell, but most non-scientists, when they switch on their colour TVs or use their mobile phones, are unli...

Moon mapper, Sun spotter: the astonishing Thomas Harriot

Moon mapper, Sun spotter: the astonishing Thomas Harriot

The phrase ‘publish or perish’ came into use in the twentieth century to encapsulate academic pressures. It is also a lesson from the life of Thomas Harriot, who lived when there were no academic journals, and who never taught at a university.A contemporary of William Shakespeare, Harriot was an English mathematician, astronomer and natural philosopher whose original work bears comparison with that of Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei. Yet, outside the enthusiastic circle of historians of early modern science who call themselves Harrioteers, his name is almost unknown: he never pub...

Rome, Through the Eyes of Flavius Josephus

Rome, Through the Eyes of Flavius Josephus

Even without a book or a guide, even after two millenniums of crumbling, the image of the seven-branched candelabrum — the Jewish menorah — is unmistakable on the inner wall of the Arch of Titus in the Roman Forum. Stand at the base of the single-passage arch and look up, and the scene in bas-relief ripples to life with almost cartoon clarity: Straining porters, trudging along what is plainly the route of a Roman triumph, bear aloft the golden menorah and other sacred loot plundered from the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. The opposite side of the arch depicts the victory lap of the chief plunderer, Emperor Titus — who, as an ambitious young general, crushed the Jews’ revolt, leveled their Temple and brought enough booty and slaves back to Rome to finance an epic construction program that included the Colosseum.I’ve gazed on the Arch of Titus many times in previous trips, marveling at its muscular grace, recoiling from its brazen braggadocio. But it wasn’t until I returned to Rome in October with Flavius Josephus as my guide that I fully grasped the significance of this monument in Jewish and Roman history.“The luckiest traitor ever,” in the words of the historian M...

Gilbert Burnet: An Ecclesiastical Historian and the Invention of the English Restoration Era

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Rome, Through the Eyes of Flavius Josephus

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Oliver Cromwell, the man who wouldn’t be king

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Oliver Cromwell, the man who wouldn’t be king

As readers of 1066 and All That will recall, Oliver Cromwell and his supporters were “Right but Repulsive”. But both adjectives may be questioned by readers of Paul Lay’s Providence Lost, a spirited and vivid survey of the brief period in which Cromwell held the dangerously ill-defined role of&nb...

Billionaire Warren Buffett just turned 90—here are 6 pieces of wisdom from the investing legen

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Billionaire Warren Buffett just turned 90—here are 6 pieces of wisdom from the investing legen

Berkshire Hathaway CEO and self-made billionaire Warren Buffett turned 90 on Sunday, August 30. And he’s not slowing down.In honor of the Oracle of Omaha’s big day, CNBC Make It rounded up six of his best pieces of investing — and life — advice.1. Think long-termIf ...

To Creation and Beyond: The Remarkable Life of Leslie Lemke

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To Creation and Beyond: The Remarkable Life of Leslie Lemke

On a warm summer night in June of 1980, Leslie Lemke gave a piano concert in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. That concert was my introduction to an extraordinary man and his surprising talent.Leslie’s talent stems from a rare but remarkable condition called savant syndrome in which a person with a...