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In his great opus De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium published shortly before his death in 1543, Copernicus takes 405 pages of words, numbers and equations to explain his heliocentric theory. But it...
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In danger no longer! (source) Gawker reports [from the Hindustan Times] that Pakistan’s Telecommunications Authority has issued a list of 1,700 words [and phrases] it considers “offensive and...
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William Playfair’s trade-balance time-series chart, published in his Commercial and Political Atlas, 1786 We’ve celebrated before the formative contributions of Florence Nightingale to data...
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