The history of science

Doppler effect. Illustration: shutterstock

Spotlight on the Doppler effect

If you have ever stood on the side of a highway, or an ambulance passed you by at high speed, you must have noticed the change in tone that occurs exactly when the vehicle or the siren passes you by: the noise "drops" sharply
Alexander von Humboldt. From Wikipedia

The man who invented the environment

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The limits of power or reflections on the driving force of fire

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Agnew's Clinic, an 1889 painting by Thomas Eakins, depicts an American operating theater after the advent of general anesthesia. Source: Thomas Eakins.

Dangerous medicine

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A stamp depicting the Wright brothers and their airplane. IgorGolovniov / Shutterstock.com

And what if the dream of aviation that began in the early twentieth century in North Carolina ended on the roof of your house?

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Pulse oximeter. Illustration: shutterstock

The history of the revolutionary medical device: pulse oximeter

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The site once thought to fill the universe. Illustration: shutterstock

the air of the gods

Anna Atkins - the pioneer of scientific photography

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Italian stamp from 1999 in honor of Alessandro Volta. Photo: Neftali / Shutterstock.com

270th birthday of the inventor of the electric battery Alessandro Volta

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Kalpana Chawla

occupying the space

Thomas Edison in his laboratory in New Jersey, 1901. Photo: shutterstock

The man who never stopped inventing

Issac Newton, from a children's encyclopedia from the Soviet Union, 1962. Photo: Iryna1 / Shutterstock.com

Isaac Newton, 1643 – 1727

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Andreas Vesalius dissects a corpse. The cover of the book De humani corporis fabrica. Photo: Wikimedia

The man who turned medicine into a science

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Super bacteria. Illustration: shutterstock

Small creatures, big trouble

Captain James Cook. From Wikipedia

John Harrison, the chronometer and the second voyage of James Cook, 1772 – 1775

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The earth is no longer at the center of the universe. The inner solar system. Illustration: shutterstock

The center of the universe, peace

The dog liked a Roman stamp. Photo: rook76 / Shutterstock.com

Launching animals into space 1957-1973

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A stamp issued by the Soviet Union in 1973 on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus, with the heliocentric universe model in the background. Photo: Olga Popova / Shutterstock.com

The Copernicus case / Dennis Danielson and Christopher M. Gurney

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Prolific researcher and respected teacher. Dulbek receives the Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1975. Photo: Salk Institute

Cancer and the strange virus

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Alexey Solodov / Shutterstock.com

The Soviet Union in space - Soyuz and Salyut Chapter 4: Soyuz 9

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A model of the Skylab space laboratory. Photo: shutterstock

Skylab - Part 4, the first manned flight to the laboratory

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The first parts of the Skylab laboratory are all ready for launch. Photo: NASA

Skylab - the preparations for the launch (third part of the series)

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The cover of the book "Skylab - America's first space station" from 1977. Photo: NASA

Space Lab Skylab - second part of the series

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American stamp commemorating the Skylab program. Photo: Georgios Kollidas / Shutterstock.com

The Skylab program - a hybrid creation of a manned space program without a budget. First part of the series

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Alfred Russel Wallace in a photograph from 1895. From Wikipedia

The forgotten father of the theory of evolution

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Nicolaus Copernicus. From Wikipedia

540th anniversary of the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus: "The fool wants to turn the whole idea of ​​astronomy upside down!"

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Albert Einstein and his first wife Mileva Marich. Photo from 1912. From Wikipedia

Did Einstein's first wife secretly compose the 1905 paper on relativity together with him?

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William Harvey

William Harvey and the discovery of the blood circulation

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Ernst Friedrich Chaldani

Head-to-head with Newton: on Ernst Chaldani and the meteorites

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The laboratory of Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920), who founded the first psychological research laboratory in Heidelberg, where he used introspection as a research method. Wundt's research laboratory, one of the fathers of psychology

Introspection

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Increasing the interest of young people in the field of chemistry

2011 - International Year of Chemistry

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lightning

The effect of lightning on radio reception and its safety - an article from 1936

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Nylon stockings on flesh and blood legs

Ma'am, it's mine! About the nylon riots

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Leon Termin plays the instrument named after him

Radio and electronics in the Land of Israel in the twenties

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The admiral Claudisali is following

The curse that became a blessing - about the disaster of the Isles of Scilly

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Photograph of Charles Darwin in his prime

Chapters in the history of the theory of evolution about the ideas and those who conceived them - Chapter 13 - Part D

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A 19th century cartoon depicting Darwin as a monkey

Chapters in the history of the theory of evolution about the ideas and those who conceived them - Chapter 13 - Part C

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"A knight strikes a bishop" SG Gould's version (1994) of the debate with Wilberforce

Chapters in the history of the theory of evolution about the ideas and those who conceived them - Chapter 13 - Part II

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the cover of the book

Chapters in the history of the theory of evolution about the ideas and those who conceived them - Chapter 13 - Part I

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Diagram of the Antikythera mechanism

Antikythera mechanism: the computer is two thousand years old this year, and why the industrial revolution didn't start in ancient Greece

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"Genius is one percent inspiration with 99 percent perspiration." Thomas Alva Edison.

The Wizard of Menlo Park

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Towns and Sholov adjust the maizer. Photo: Bell Laboratories

Laser's 50th birthday

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A piece of the apple tree that is guilty of gravity from the Royal Society Archives

A British astronaut takes a piece of Newton's original wood in the space shuttle

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Suicide Mission - on the book 'The Dark Lady of DNA'

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The Dark Lady of DNA - by Barbara Maddox

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

James Clark Maxwell - the father of the technological revolution in the 20th century

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Astronomy in ancient times - Babylon 1

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