#Leibniz

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

Michael P Gibson

William_Blake

I immensely enjoyed @mattwridley's new book How Innovation Works. Also listen to his great conversation w/ @naval on it. However, I disagree w/ Ridley and Naval's pushback against the Great

Willis Domingo

WillisDomingo

1/ A few random and very disjointed thoughts: 1) There is logical ontology and there is physical ontology. An object of logical ontology is anything that can be designated by

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

Paraic O'Donnell

paraicodonnell

I listened to the In Our Time episode on Émilie du Châtelet, who is way up there in my personal pantheon, and Melvyn made it mainly about how nice it

Liam Bright

lastpositivist

My guess at the standard Western canon in philosophy: Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca, Epicurus, Cicero, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Voltaire, Descartes, Berkeley, Leibniz, Hume, Spinoza, Kant

Prathyush

prathyvsh

In an attempt to build a tool to easily create software applications I found out that I needed to understand logic with good clarity. This took me on a journey

Joseph T Noony

JoeAgneya

"There is no connection between Issac Newton/British Universities and Jesuit missionaries. Thus Newton could not have learned calculus from them"- A commentator challenged me.A silly claim. But here are the

Robert McNees

mcnees

Émilie du Châtelet, who hypothesized conservation of energy, established kinetic energy as distinct from momentum and proportional to (speed)², and combined Newton, Leibniz, and her own original ideas in "Institutions

Robert McNees

mcnees

Isaac Newton was made aware of Jean Bernoulli's "brachistochrone" problem #OTD in 1697. He solved it later that evening, showing that the curve of fastest descent between two points was

Marcus Cunningham

MarcusC31391111

The difference between Derrida and Deleuze I think ultimately can be found in their different attitudes. You can see this in how they wrote books on other philosophers. Deleuze always

Joseph T Noony

JoeAgneya

At that time, Europe was struggling with a calendar problem-Their Julian calendar with leaps years had cumulatively lost 8 days by 1200s & kept getting worse! Pope Gregory ordered the

Dr Leah Broad

LeahBroad

Well it's mid-week and freezing cold, so here's a thread of composers as biscuits.1. J. S. Bach, Chocolate Leibniz. Basically cannot go wrong with this biscuit. 2. C. P. E.

Miroslav Imbrisevic

Miroandrej

1/5 'trans-exclusionary' is a loaded term. Philosopher Justin Weinberg @DailyNousEditor adopts it without the necessary philosophical scrutiny - this is actually our job. His reasoning is that he rejects the

Joseph T Noony

JoeAgneya

Jesuits, 'soldiers of Christ', aren't your average priests. An order founded in 1540, it had great emphasis on scholarship, learning native languages and unorthodox approaches to missionary work. Pope Francis

Julia Fischer

julxf

(1/6) Is there any evidence for vocal learning in nonhuman primates? A contested issue. Probing the mechanisms that support vocal plasticity in Guinea #baboon grunts w/ @FranzisWegdell @FedeDalPesco K. Hammerschmidt

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