

Galileo’s Moons in the History of Science
A look at the role of the Galilean Moons in the history of science from the problem of longitude to the speed of light, from the birth of astronomical interferometry to the beginnings of exobiology

A Short History of Hyperspace
The history multiple dimensions.

Paul Lévy’s Black Swan: The Physics of Outliers
Black swans and data outliers in physics

Paul Dirac’s Delta Function
The history of the delta function from Cauchy to Dirac.

A Short History of Quantum Entanglement
The back-story of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.

A Short History of Quantum Tunneling
The historical origins of quantum tunneling.

The Anharmonic Harmonic Oscillator
The historical origins of anharmonicity in oscillations.

Hermann Minkowski’s Spacetime: The Theory Einstein Overlooked
The historical origins of spacetime.

The Many Dimensions of Oskar Klein
Klein-Gordon equation and Superstring theory

The Bountiful Bernoullis of Basel
The amazing mathematical clan from Basel

Henri Poincaré and his Homoclinic Tangle
The beginning of chaos theory.

Brook Taylor’s Infinite Sequence
The history of the Taylor Expansion.

Timelines in the History and Physics of Dynamics
Timeline with links to primary texts

Johann Bernoulli’s Brachistrochrone
The brachistochrone problem

Huygens’ Tautochrone
Curves of equal time

George Green’s Theorem
George Green’s biography and the development of his theorem

George Stoke’s Law of Drag
The law of viscous drag

The Solvay Debates: Einstein vs Bohr
The Bohr-Einstein debates on quantum theory

Who Invented the Quantum: Einstein vs Planck
The origin of the quantum of light

Karl Schwarschild’s Radius
Karl Schwarzschild’s wide range of physics

Chandrasekhar’s Limit
Merging gravity and quantum mechanics

George Duffing’s Equation
Nonlinear spring equation and chaos

Galileo Unbound: The History of the Physics of Motion (Oxford, 2018)
The history of nonlinear dynamics and complex systems.