In the last post in this series, we took an in depth look at the career of the English mariner Sir Robert Dudley (1574–1649). This ended with an account of the scientific instruments that he left b…| The Renaissance Mathematicus
In 1618, the same year that Isaac Beeckman (1588–1637) was teaching the principle of inertia to René Descartes (1596–1650), Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) made one of the most significant discoveries in the history of astronomy and physics, his third law of … Continue reading →| The Renaissance Mathematicus