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  1. A Brief History of Time and Calendars - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Astronomy/bhistory/

    7 Mar 2023: This reflects the lack of information that historians of science have as they delve further back into history. ... D Leverington, Encyclopaedia of the History of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Cambridge, 2013).

  2. history of reliability - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/reliability_history/

    7 Mar 2023: We present here the first section on the Brief History of Reliability:. ... A brief history. Reliability, as a human attribute, has been praised for a very long time.

  3. Cosmology - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Cosmology/

    7 Mar 2023: show). D Basu, Early history of cosmology, Indian Sci. Cruiser 8 (1) (1994), 17-23. ... H Urbantke, Schrödinger and cosmology, in Studies in the history of general relativity (Boston, MA, 1992) 453-459.

  4. Henry Gellibrand - Aubrey's Brief Lives - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Gellibrand_Aubrey/

    28 Feb 2025: From John Aubrey's Brief Lives. (Edited by R Barber, Boydell Press, 1982).

  5. Aubrey's Brief Lives - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/Aubrey/

    7 Mar 2023: John Aubrey (1626 - 1695) made a collection of notes, anecdotes and gossip about his contemporaries which are gathered together under the title Brief Lives.

  6. Edwin Hubble (1889 - 1953) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hubble/

    17 Jun 2025: Born. 20 November 1889. Marshfield, Missouri, USA. Died. 28 September 1953. San Marino, California, USA. Summary. Edwin Hubble was an American astronomer who first detected that the universe is expanding. . View five larger pictures. Edwin Hubble

  7. 1974 British Mathematical Colloquium - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/BMC/1974/

    16 Aug 2024: Organisers were W Ledermann. A brief history of algebraic K-theory. Brieskorn, E.

  8. Mathematical Association of America - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/MAA/

    7 Mar 2023: 2017-18 Deanna Haunsperger. 2019-20 Michael Dorff. Visit theT H Straley, A Brief History of the Mathematical Association of America.

  9. Thomas Harriot - Aubrey's Brief Lives - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Harriot_Aubrey/

    4 Dec 2024: From John Aubrey's Brief Lives. (Edited by R Barber, Boydell Press, 1982).

  10. Stephen Hawking (1942 - 2018) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hawking/

    28 Jan 2025: By 1984 he had produced a first draft of A Brief History of Time. ... It was with these difficulties that he revised the draft of A Brief History of Time which was published in 1988.