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Tag: galileo

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1938: Discovering Air

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 9, 2020 · Episode: 1938 Three M-names help us to understand air: Meeting the Zeitgiest. Today, we learn what air is made of.

Tags air Aristotelianism atomism atoms barometer earth fire galileo gases Gassendi hydrodynamics Magiotti Magnenus Magni Torricelli vacuum von Guericke water

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1898: Pierre Gassendi

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on June 26, 2020 · Episode: 1898 What happened after Galileo? Pierre Gassendi happened! Today, what happened after Galileo?

Tags air pressure analytical mechanics Aristotelianism aristotle atomism Cyrano de Bergerac Empedocles galileo gravity newton physics Pierre Gassendi speed of sound

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2510: Reason in All Things

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on June 23, 2020 · Episode: 2510 Reason in all things: Augustine, Galileo, Collins, The Human Genome, and God. Today, Augustine, Galileo, and the human genome.

Tags atheist augustine Christian evolution Francis Collins galileo genesis human genome The Language of God

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1668: A Vocabulary of Science

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on April 17, 2019 · Episode: 1668 Scientific instruments creating a new rhetoric. Today, new sciences, new languages.

Tags Athanasius Kircher galileo Gutenberg iconographie illustrations John Locke John Wilkins Lambert language leibnitz microsopes NASA Pioneer 10 philosophy religion scientific instruments Thomas Hobbes vacuum pumps woodcuts

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1643: Athanasius Kircher

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on February 27, 2019 · Episode: 1643 In which Athanasius Kircher softens the 17th-C scientific revolution. Today, — after Galileo.

Tags age of exploration bioluminescence Copernicus egyptology galileo heliocentricity hieroglyphs iconography Italian Inquisition jesuits luciferin Pope Urban VIII religion scientific curiosity theology Vatican

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1589: Pluto (The Planet)

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 24, 2018 · Episode: 1589 Pluto: We finally reach the outer fringe of the Solar System. Today, we discover Pluto.

Tags Asteroid Belt astronomy earth galileo jupiter Mars mercury Neptune Pioneer 10 planets Saturn telescopes Tombaugh Transneptunian Objects Uranus venus

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1586: Topsell’s Beasts

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 17, 2018 · Episode: 1586 Topsell’s history of four-footed beasts and serpents. Today, a zoology book.

Tags animals bestiaries bestiary biology early printing galileo King James Bible Macbeth scientific method Shakespeare woodcut illustrations zoology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1543: Ceredi’s Pump

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 23, 2018 · Episode: 1543 Archimedes’ pump, rediscovered by Ceredi, heralds the new science. Today, meet the person who reinvented Archimedes’ pump.

Tags agricultural engineering aristotle galileo hydraulics invention mechanics philosophy

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1542: Francis Bacon

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 20, 2018 · Episode: 1542 In which Francis Bacon pushes a strict Aristotelian Agenda. Today, science tries to find its way.

Tags Aristotelianism galileo leonardo newton Platonism science scientific method

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1453: Two Huygens and John Donne

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 9, 2018 · Episode: 1453 Christiaan and Constantijn Huygens, and John Donne. Today, a tale of two Huygens and John Donne.  

Tags Francis Bacon galileo King James Bible Oppenheimer poetry quantum physics science

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2698: Galileo, the Church, and the Vatican Library

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on December 5, 2017 · Episode: 2698 Galileo, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Vatican Library. Today, of science and scripture.

Tags galileo John Paul II Pope Nicholas V renaissance Roman Catholic Church Roman Inquisition scientific revolution

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3114: Indivisibles

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on March 16, 2017 · Episode: 3114 Indivisibles. Today, indivisible.

Tags calculus Cavalieri controversy galileo indivisible infinitesimal italy Jesuit Protestant Reformation Roman Catholic Church

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1320: Intellectual Misdirection

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 15, 2017 · Episode: 1320 Intellectual misdirection: looking inside and outside our heads for knowledge. Today, we wonder where to look for our new widget.

Tags Aristotelianism einstein galileo jefferson Meyers Briggs Platonism psychology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2510: Reason in All things

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on October 18, 2016 · Episode 2510: Reason in all things: Augustine, Galileo, Collins, The Human Genome, and God. Today, Augustine, Galileo, and the human genome.

Tags atheist augustine Christian evolution Francis Collins galileo genesis human genome The Language of God

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1175: The Elizabethans

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Posted on June 15, 2016 · Episode: 1175 The collapse of the Elizabethan renaissance Today, we visit a 400-year-old revolution.

Tags alchemy dee donne elizabeth galileo gilbert hariot jonson magic queen raleigh science Shakespeare

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