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Bruce Ritchie on James Clerk Maxwell

Posted on May 29, 2025 by admin

Video of the Inverness book launch event for Bruce Ritchie, James Clerk Maxwell: Faith, Church and Physics (Edinburgh: Handsel Press, 2024); #2024-br-1. My video recommendation (above). For those who want more, below is a longer video review (21 mins). But … Continue reading →

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Starstruck Tonight

Posted on March 29, 2025 by admin

Starstruck Tonight, draft version (1 hr, 5 mins) Thursday night, April 27, at 6pm, Candace and I presented a virtual program for the Pioneer Library network. Here’s the event page. My thanks to Pioneer Library and Librarian Catherine Wahpeconiah for … Continue reading →

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IEEE Viz 2022

Posted on February 28, 2025 by admin

Thinking Visually IEEE VIS, the premier international conference on visualization and visual analytics, is bringing 1100 people to Oklahoma City this week either in-person or virtually. OU Professor David Ebert is one of the organizers of the conference. David is … Continue reading →

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PPP Conference

Posted on October 1, 2024 by admin

This October 4-6, Oklahoma City will welcome a firmament of stellar speakers and a Milky Way of radiant participants to the Painters, Prophets, Poets conference, subtitled “Imagining New Creation Together.” Hosted by Travis Lowe and Hannah Anderson, speakers are Malcolm … Continue reading →

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Plato 1491

Posted on September 4, 2024 by admin

Plato, Diuus Plato (Venice, 1491), ed. Marsilio Ficino (“The Divine Plato”). In his dialogue entitled The Timaeus, Plato taught that the cosmos is constructed from regular geometrical figures known as the Pythagorean solids. Whenever one finds an emphasis upon mathematical … Continue reading →

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Digges 1605

Posted on September 4, 2024 by admin

Leonard Digges, A Prognostication Everlasting of Right Good Effect…; Lately corrected and augmented by Thomas Digges his sonne (London, 1605) This Sun-centered cosmic section represents the first published defense of Copernicus in England, and it was printed in a work … Continue reading →

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Geneva Bible 1560

Posted on August 29, 2024 by admin

Geneva Bible (1560) The Geneva Bible was the first lay study Bible, written in the vernacular, hand-sized, portable, affordable, and designed with cross-references and explanatory notes for self-study. It was the Bible of Shakespeare, of the Puritans, of settlers in … Continue reading →

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Galileo 1632

Posted on August 29, 2024 by admin

Galileo, Dialogo sopra i Due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo (Florence, 1632) This is Galileo’s witty and entertaining dialogue in defense of Copernicus. In the frontispiece, Aristotle and Ptolemy hold an Earth-centered armillary sphere (left). Copernicus holds a Sun-centered model of … Continue reading →

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Galileo 1661

Posted on August 29, 2024 by admin

Galileo, “The Ancient and Modern Doctrine of Holy Fathers,” in Mathematical Collections (London, 1661), ed. Thomas Salusbury This volume contains the first English translations of any of Galileo’s works, including Galileo’s Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World, … Continue reading →

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Galileo 1967

Posted on August 29, 2024 by admin

Galileo, Lettera Madama Cristina di Lorena (Milan, 1967) Galileo’s Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina provides a modern example of the book arts. The outer case opens to show a smaller case, the size of a miniature version published a … Continue reading →

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