22:58
Galileo’s theory of tides
28:18
Why Galileo is like Nostradamus
26:53
Galileo’s errors on projectile motion and inertia
21:44
The case against Galileo on the law of fall
23:26
Galilean science in antiquity?
19:21
Mathematics versus philosophy, then and now
16:37
Galileo bad, Archimedes good
10:52
Leibniz on the catenary
55:24
17th-century philosophy of mathematics
13:18
Historical motivation for complex numbers
10:18
Newton's moon test
07:05
Newton's proof of the law of equal areas
11:36
Hindu-Arabic numerals
14:27
Why conic sections?
33:04
Euclid's axiomatic geometry
19:44
History of triangulation
12:31
Biruni's measurement of the earth
06:37
Measuring the heavens in ancient China
27:34
Measuring heaven and earth in classical Greece
18:29
Cosmic numerology
21:17
Pythagorean Theorem: possible original motivations
08:53
Origins of deductive mathematics: one hypothesis
11:50
Origins of geometry in ancient Egypt
08:59
Critique of Carl Sagan's critique of astrology
30:50
Why did ancient man believe in astrology?
08:58
How (and how not) to study the history of thought
15:52
Why study history of science?
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