Mendel: The Father of Heredity
Mendel: The Father of Heredity By Gabriel Blanchard How did an obscure priest from the hinterlands of an extinct empire become one of the most eminent names in …
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Bacon: The Father of Modern Science
Bacon: The Father of Modern Science By Matt McKeown Titles like “the father of modern science” get thrown around sometimes as hyperbolic praise, but Bacon earned the compliment …
Harvey: The Blood and the Body
Harvey: The Blood and the Body By Matt McKeown All subsequent medicine owes William Harvey an inestimable debt. Sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe saw a great flowering of scientists. …
Archimedes: The Mathematician With a Hundred Hands
Archimedes: The Mathematician With a Hundred Hands By Gabriel Blanchard In the modern world as much as antiquity, few minds can hold a candle to Archimedes. As a …
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Ptolemy: Cartographer of the Heavens
Ptolemy: Cartographer of the Heavens By Matt McKeown The Ptolemaic system has become a byword for backwardness, yet in truth, Ptolemy is arguably the father of science. Still …
Franklin: Revolutionary Scientist
Franklin: Revolutionary Scientist By Travis Copeland If there ever was a renaissance man, it was Benjamin Franklin. A polymath in every regard, Franklin’s knowledge and intellect were widely …
Hippocrates: The Founder of Western Medicine
Hippocrates: The Founder of Western Medicine By Gabriel Blanchard What we call modern medical science stretches far further back than we may think. Like Homer or the composer …
Lavoisier: The Chemical Revolution
Lavoisier: The Chemical Revolution By Gabriel Blanchard Lavoisier represents the pinnacle of Enlightenment scientific advancement. The Enlightenment can be usefully defined as the period from the middle of …
The Great Conversation: Medicine
The Great Conversation: Medicine By Gabriel Blanchard Medical science has changed immensely in the last few thousand years—but not always in the ways we might assume. The word …
Darwin: The Father of Modern Biology
Darwin: The Father of Modern Biology By Gabriel Blanchard Charles Darwin permanently altered the basic assumptions of modern science. Born in 1809, Charles Darwin seemed set up for …