Book NotesI just finished Daniel L. Lewis’s exasperating God’s Crucible. Clearly a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Europe’s origins and Islam’s role in it, but it is a trial. What starts out as a fascinating narrative soon devolves into a hard slog thanks to the author’s annoying habit of infusing his own… Continue reading
Category: history of science
Stanley Jaki, physicist, priest, author and teacher: 1924 – 2009One of my favorite historians of science, Fr. Jaki, has passed away, at age 84. After lecturing last week in Rome he went to Spain for further meetings and succumbed to a heart attack. Jaki was a Gifford Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, 1974-75 and… Continue reading
I guess the temptation for some militants to create straw men… is just too great. Guest poster Thony Christie over at John Wilkins’ blog takes A.C. Grayling to the wood shed on a little understood episode in the history of science.