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Chapter 12
https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/introhistoryofscience_12_libby_128kb.mp3 (26:12)

Chapter 13
https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/introhistoryofscience_13_libby_128kb.mp3 (25:29)

Steve
...and then I thought: "Oh, what the Heck? Why not?..." —W.O.B.
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Steven Seitel wrote: ↑October 24th, 2020, 12:36 pm Chapter 09
https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/introhistoryofscience_09_libby_128kb.mp3 (26:12)

Plod, plod, plod...

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Mr. Franklin was a very impressive man!
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You're catching up! Time for me to get busy again... :lol:

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Steven Seitel wrote: ↑October 29th, 2020, 4:20 pm You're catching up! Time for me to get busy again... :lol:

Steve
I like to listen while I walk and yesterday was a beautiful day. Today is rainy :(
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Chapter 14
https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/introhistoryofscience_14_libby_128kb.mp3 (22:41)

Marking the transition from observational to computational astronomy! A big advance...

Steve
...and then I thought: "Oh, what the Heck? Why not?..." —W.O.B.
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Steven Seitel wrote: ↑October 30th, 2020, 2:23 pm Chapter 14
https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/introhistoryofscience_14_libby_128kb.mp3 (22:41)

Marking the transition from observational to computational astronomy! A big advance...

Steve
Very well read but not easy for me to understand :cry:
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Wow, there's no keeping ahead of you... :lol: :lol:
Sunrise2020 wrote: ↑October 31st, 2020, 10:54 am ...but not easy for me to understand :cry:
Think of it this way. Almost as soon as Newton figured out how the planets should move in orbit, others realized they could use the "wiggles" (small errors observed) in the orbit to calculate the location, size, mass, etc. of another unknown planet whose gravity caused the wiggles.

And there it was, right where the theorists said it should be! A stunning accomplishment!

Steve
...and then I thought: "Oh, what the Heck? Why not?..." —W.O.B.
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Chapter 15
https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/introhistoryofscience_15_libby_128kb.mp3 (27:49)

The main point here is Darwin's (and Wallace's) recognition that species change to meet changing circumstances, no argument there.

But if you listen closely, you will hear faint echoes of a fascinating conflict that once raged between the "Ancient Catastrophe" theory of Earth's formation and the ultimately simpler "Uniformitarian" concept.

Makes one feel like sharpening Occam's Razor... :lol:

Steve
...and then I thought: "Oh, what the Heck? Why not?..." —W.O.B.
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Thank you for these explanations! :D
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...and I couldn't wait for the chapter to be loaded into the MW :lol: You can mark it PL okay :D
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Ooops! Looks like I forgot to load Chapter 15 into the MW. :oops: My bad. Fixed now...

Chapter 16
https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/introhistoryofscience_16_libby_128kb.mp3 (31:51)

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Sunrise2020 wrote: ↑November 1st, 2020, 5:25 am ...and I couldn't wait for the chapter to be loaded into the MW :lol: You can mark it PL okay :D
Okay, thank you. I'll probably get my wrist slapped for "bad form," but I did mark it PL OK myself. :roll:

Cheers,

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Next time, I'll wait patiently and will only listen for my own pleasure :clap:
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Chapter 17
https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/introhistoryofscience_17_libby_128kb.mp3 (22:54)

I can't let this one pass...

It's quite true that the great scientist Langley almost succeeded in demonstrating a man-carrying, heavier-than-air flying machine in October 1903. He must have had an especially patient engineer, who survived two duckings into the frigid Potomac River. :lol:

The honor of being first is generally accorded to the Wright brothers (December 17, 1903). Said to be "mere bicycle mechanics," Wilbur especially was a competent scientist and engineer who made many wind-tunnel studies of aerofoils in developing the first successful Wright machine.

Odd that Bleriot, the French aviator/scientist gets a mention, probably because he adopted Langley's approach. But the chapter completely omits mention of the brilliant Brazilian inventor Alberto Santos-Dumont who scooped them all on October 23, 1906. Of his many successful flying machines, the "Demoiselle," which prefigured the modern ultralight aircraft, is my personal favorite. See "Wings of Madness" by Paul Hoffman.

Oh, well. We Americans have never been bashful about claiming to be "first." :roll:

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I wish your notes could be part of the recording :D
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