Christoph Clavius
At Forbes, I pick up on Tony Christie’s Ode to Clavius.
Category: history of science
From the Archives of Louvain
Some new findings in the Lemaître/Hubble debate. At my Forbes blog.
Astronomers Behaving Badly
In my 2005 biography of Georges Lemaître, I argued that Hubble’s Law should have been called Lemaître’s Law, as he derived the linear velocity-distance relation between galaxies two years before Hubble did. (That bastard.) Turns out, there was more going on behind the scenes at the time than people realized.
Galileo’s Conversion
I discuss a fascinating new paper by Owen Gingerich and Albert van Helden at Forbes.
Darwin as All-Purpose Boogey Man?
My first post at Huffington. Going to try and get something up regularly if possible.