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The Active Fallibilism of a Situational Skeptic
The Great Instauration, a Baconian project, is a form of active fallibilism about natural knowledge. The practice is borrowed from Plato’s new form...
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A difficult path to First Flights
The first Shuttle mission to carry Spacelab hardware ended almost as soon as it began. On 12 April 1981, Columbia launched from Pad 39A at Florida’s...
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Deutschland-Eins
Ulf Merbold was not a happy man.
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Giuseppe Occhialini
Following his father Augusto in his first university locations, he spent his childhood years first in Pisa and then in Florence. The environment...
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G. P. S. Occhialini vu par un de ses amis
Giuseppe Occhialini, “Beppo” pour ses amis, naquit le 5 septembre 1907 à Fossombrone, dans les Marches (Italie). Etant jeune, il rêvait de s’adonner...
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Occhialini’s Trajectory in Latin America
Giuseppe Occhialini treated mathematics with limited deference but was a master in conducting experiments, which revealed essential issues resulting...
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Working with Beppo: Personal Recollections
My association with Beppo lasted about six years, from the Summer of 1950 to the Spring of 1956. It was an intensive, rigorous training in many areas...
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New Views on the Famous Ottoman Engineer Taqî al-Dîn
In the sixteenth century, the brilliant Ottoman scientist and engineer, Taqî al-Dîn wrote on arithmetic, algebra, geometry, astronomy, optics and...
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Newton’s Mechanics Lectures in Cambridge
The publication of the correspondence between Newton (1642–1727) and Roger Cotes (1682–1716), reviewer and editor of the second edition of the...
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A History of LARMbot Humanoid
The historical-technical development of the LARMbot humanoid is presented with its design and functional characteristics referring to low-cost and...
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Refik Fenmen and His Work on Applied Mechanics
This article discusses and analyzes the life and contributions of Refik Fenmen, a prominent Turkish intellectual who played a pivotal role in...
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Mechanical Heritage of China’s Mountain Gun Manufacturing in the 1940s: The SOMUA Rifling Machine at North Western Industrial Corporation
This paper examines modern Chinese gun machining technology by analyzing the **-made 36 Type 75 mm mountain gun manufactured by the North Western...
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Scientific Realism: A Defence
In the present chapter, I propose a way of defending epistemological scientific realism that differs from the usual explanationist strategies....
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Scientific Realism: What Is at Stake?
This chapter begins by discussing what Bas van Fraassen called “the loss of reality objection”. Since models are constructed by our action of...
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A Brief Introduction to the Sun
This book is about a special star, our star, a luminous disk which has always accompanied us, all living beings on this planet, humans, animals and...
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Solar Energy
The most important feature of the Sun is its enormous energy, which is vital for all living beings on this planet. And now, more than ever, for its...
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Rebirth
The Renaissance was the period in European history from the fifteenth through to the seventeenth century, viewed as a rebirth after the supposedly...
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A Historical Review of Polyhedral Linkages
Polyhedral linkages are linkages that resemble polyhedral shapes at different configurations. This paper summarizes the necessary geometrical...
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Editorial Activity of the IFToMM-PC for the History of Mechanism and Machine Science in the Period 2018–2023
The mandate of the current steering committee of the IFToMM Permanent Commission for the History of Mechanism and Machine Science (PC-HMMS) ends in...