How did scientists plot complicated graphs in the 19th century?Apr 2016 ⋅ hat-3955 ⋅ se/hsm ⋅ #electromagnetism #physics
Writing Mathematical Symbols in 20th centuryMay 2015 ⋅ gonenc-660 ⋅ se/hsm ⋅ #mathematics #publishing #notation #physics
Explanation of the three peaks in Google ngram for 'syphilis'Oct 2016 ⋅ polisetty-4841 ⋅ se/hsm ⋅ #medicine #biology
Inscriptions on a 16th century 3-dimensional permutahedron sundial?Jan 2017 ⋅ tom-copeland-1830 ⋅ se/hsm ⋅ #mathematics
The Abacus vs. the Electric Calculator (Nov 12, 1946): Why did the latter lose?Oct 2014 ⋅ franck-dernoncourt-29 ⋅ se/hsm ⋅ #computer-science #mathematics
How did artillery and physics co-evolve during 1400-1700?Feb 2016 ⋅ localfluff-3663 ⋅ se/hsm ⋅ #technology #medieval #physics
What are the early applications of differential equations to social sciences?Sep 2015 ⋅ conrado-costa-2630 ⋅ se/hsm ⋅ #social-sciences #discoveries #calculus
Who is Joshua King?Nov 2015 ⋅ bigbearzzz-3179 ⋅ se/hsm ⋅ #biographical-details #mathematicians #mathematics
Who is Hræðraford, the learned clerk writing in modern chemical Latin?Mar 2016 ⋅ geremia-232 ⋅ se/hsm ⋅ #thermodynamics #chemistry
When did the people start using the portraits of the two Euclids interchangeably?Nov 2014 ⋅ jose-hdz-stgo-136 ⋅ se/hsm ⋅ #depiction-of-scientists #debunking
How certain is it that Lucas invented the Towers of Hanoi puzzle?Dec 2014 ⋅ joseph-o-rourke-606 ⋅ se/hsm ⋅ #mathematical-logic #computer-science #mathematics
Who came up with the proof that all triangles are isosceles?Dec 2014 ⋅ conifold-55 ⋅ se/hsm ⋅ #euclidean-geometry #mathematics
Who really invented the integration symbol?Feb 2015 ⋅ yashbhatt-126 ⋅ se/hsm ⋅ #mathematicians #calculus #notation
Why did scientists think the orbit of Mars had the shape of a limacon in the geocentric model?Jul 2015 ⋅ emrakul-2285 ⋅ se/hsm ⋅ #celestial-mechanics #astronomy
Was Kepler's third law deduced from the Galilean moons, or from planetary motion?Mar 2016 ⋅ uhoh-3869 ⋅ se/hsm ⋅ #celestial-mechanics #classical-mechanics #astronomy
Separability and second countability is the same thing to HalmosJan 2016 ⋅ howdoimath-3504 ⋅ se/hsm ⋅ #terminology #mathematics #topology
Question related to the legitimacy of a certain portrait of Christian GoldbachNov 2014 ⋅ jose-hdz-stgo-136 ⋅ se/hsm ⋅ #depiction-of-scientists #debunking
What manuscript is depicted in the HSM advertisement?May 2016 ⋅ mjd-134 ⋅ se/hsm ⋅ #reference-request #ancient-greece #mathematics
On Einstein's proof of the so-called Pythagorean theoremDec 2015 ⋅ jose-hdz-stgo-136 ⋅ se/hsm ⋅ #pythagorean-proposition #euclidean-geometry #mathematics #debunking
What vaccines did infants receive in late nineteenth century England?Dec 2015 ⋅ harry-vervet-2826 ⋅ se/hsm ⋅ #medicine
Lise Meitner's contribution to this experimental apparatus and research effort?Aug 2016 ⋅ uhoh-3869 ⋅ se/hsm ⋅ #experimental-physics #nuclear-physics #measurement #discoveries
