HeyJaredScience: A Peculiar History
Interesting, amusing, strange and significant stories from the history of science
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22. The Pope and his Fortune-Telling Head - Part 2 (opens the original)
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Gerbert starts a new job in Reims, where he manufactures various spheres, and introduces an ingenious system of mathematical notation that he came across in Catalonia.
21. The Pope and his Fortune-telling Head - Part 1 (opens the original)
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An obscure monk from 10th-Century France begins his career as a mathematician and possibly (depending on who you ask) a sorcerer, when he leaves his monastery to study in Spain.
20. Tennessee v. Scopes: The Trial of the Century - Part 7 (opens the original)
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Fundamentalists attempt to capitalise on the momentum from the Scopes Trial to pass "monkey laws" in more states. But as the 20th Century goes on, new legal precedents force them to develop new strategies in response.
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