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Tag: optics

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1789: Farbenlehre

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 29, 2019 · Episode: 1789 Goethe’s Farbenlehre: science and Romanticism. Today, light and color.

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Engines Podcast

Copy of – Engines of Our Ingenuity 1789: Farbenlehre

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 19, 2019 · Episode: 1789 Goethe’s Farbenlehre: science and Romanticism. Today, light and color.

Tags color Farbenlehre Goethe image boundaries literature newton optics poetry Romanticism spectrum of light turbidity Tyndall

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1772: Camera Obscura

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 3, 2019 · Episode: 1772 Vermeer and the camera obscura: waiting for film. Today, cameras without film.

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1461: Telescopes

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 29, 2018 · Episode: 1461 George Everett Hale and BIG telescopes. Today, we look through some really big telescopes.  

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1406: Medieval Age of Reasoning

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 4, 2017 · Episode: 1406 The end of the medieval age of reason. Today, a brief bright era in medieval Europe.

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2652: Descartes The Scientist

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on September 26, 2017 · Episode: 2652 Descartes, the Scientist. Today, an extended postscript.

Tags analytic geometry Aristotelianism Cartesian coordinates cogito ergo sum descartes Dioptrics Discourse Discourse on the Method geometry I think therefore I am Meditations Meditations on First Philosophy metaphysics meteorology optics scientific revolution

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1248: Charles and Hester Stanhope

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 31, 2016 · Episode: 1248 Hester Stanhope creates her own British Empire in Syria. Today, a prime minister’s niece doesn’t get the message.

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