India: Marriage of science and spirituality   — A Traveller’s Wish List (Reblog)

The advances made by seers of yore in India are inspirational for all those who are making a mark in the cutting-edge fields of science and technology

India: Marriage of science and spirituality   — A Traveller’s Wish List
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34 Fascinating Photos of Nikola Tesla — Yesterday Today (Reblog)

Nikola Tesla (10 July [O.S. 28 June] 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla studied engineering and physics in the 1870s without […]

34 Fascinating Photos of Nikola Tesla — Yesterday Today

Renaissance Science – XXIII — The Renaissance Mathematicus (Reblog)

Without doubt, one of the most eccentric and certainly one of the most controversial figures of the entire Early Modern period was the iconoclastic Swiss physician Theophrastus von Hohenheim (c. 1493–1541), more popularly known as Paracelsus. Trying to write about Paracelsus is complicated by the fact that he is the source of numerous myths and […]

Renaissance Science – XXIII — The Renaissance Mathematicus

Renaissance Science – IV — The Renaissance Mathematicus (Reblog)

We have now reached the period of history that the majority of people automatically think of when the hear or read the name, The Renaissance. The majority probably also think, when the hear the term, of a period in European art history, often called the Italian Renaissance, doing which the great artists Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael […]

Renaissance Science – IV — The Renaissance Mathematicus