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Category: 18th Century

The Madras Observatory: from Jesuit cooperation to British rule

1 Nov 2017

Boscovich – his geodetic and cartographic studies

25 Oct 2017

Boscovich, the discovery of Uranus and his inclination to theoretical astronomy

25 Oct 2017

Accuracy of Solar Eclipse Observations Made by Jesuit Astronomers in China

23 Oct 2017

Jesuit Astronomers in Beijing 1601-1805

19 Oct 2017

Boscovich and the Brera Observatory

18 Oct 2017

George Berkeley – The Analyst; The Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics

6 Oct 2017  |  Education

Isaac Newton – God and the Universe in the ‘General Scholium’ of the Principia

6 Oct 2017  |  Resources

Isaac Newton – Two books relating to religion

6 Oct 2017

The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God

27 Sep 2017

The Pope and the Englishwoman: Benedict XIV, Jane Squire, the Bologna Academy, and the Problem of Longitude

22 Sep 2017

Pope Benedict XIV – Benedict’s Patronage of Learned Women

21 Sep 2017

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