#Huygens

Hugh Aldersey-Williams

HoooAW

Shapley, when director of the Harvard College Observatory and yet another Dutchman showed up at his door looking for work, is said to have called Holland ‘the place where they

Stathis Psillos

StathisPsillos

2/n In effect, Leibniz had posited two independent but superimposed vortices for each planet, the vortex that causes gravity and the harmonic vortex, so that he could recover Kelper's harmonic

Ash Jogalekar

curiouswavefn

Thread: The wigs of 17th century scientists.Best wig - Leibniz Most intimidating wig - Newton Most symmetric wig - Huygens Most intricate wig - Leeuwenhoek Best interrupted wig - Halley

Scott B. Weingart

scott_bot

Now that everyone's got their eyes on Saturn: we're pretty lucky to be seeing Saturn at this angle during the conjunction with Jupiter, so we can actually see its rings

Sophia Gad-Nasr

Astropartigirl

Yeah dude I just HATE knowing how things work! Who the fuck CARES how the Universe will die, or that we don't understand 95% of it SO WHAT. I hate

Michael J. Malaska

mike_malaska

Here an animation showing valley formation from SOLUBLE rocks. This time the white LEGO layer is soluble. It dissolves deep, along cracks. Then collapses upward to open up the valleys.

GregroxMun 1312 BLM

GregroxMun

A response to this tweet: how to buy a telescope for children. (And beginners in general)https://twitter.com/rnsoicher/status/1295171408281010176If you find this helpful, do retweet. First of all let me establish my bona

JohannesBorgen

jeuasommenulle

I hope 25% won’t immediately unfollow me! But, hey, physics is beautiful, and history is fun, so let's start......with the history of light as a physical concept, because a very

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