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41. Fred Hoyle (1915 - 2001) - Nature obituary - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: How natural, then, that he should become a scholarship boy at the University of Cambridge, in 1933. ... The most egregious example was the allegation that the British Natural History Museum's specimen of Archaeopteryx is a forgery.

42. Orbits - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Hist. Sci. (N.S.) 4 (1951), 638-653. A B Kozhevnikov, The views of Faraday and Maxwell on gravitation (Russian), History and methodology of the natural sciences XXXI (Moscow, 1985), ... History Exact Sci. 2 (1964/1965), 365-386. H A M Snelders,

43. Danish Royal Academy of Sciences - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The Royal Academy covered the subjects of mathematics, physics and natural history.

44. George Chrystal and Scottish University Reforms. - MacTutor History…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Education/scottishuniv/

    7 Mar 2023: with the higher standard of entrance for mathematics and the lower for natural philosophy. ... that mathematics should be entered on the higher standard, and that natural philosophy should remain as Newton made it and Gregory expounded it.

45. Growth and Form - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Jul 2023: history. Even now the zoologist has scarce begun to dream of defining in mathematical language even the simplest organic forms. ... But natural history deals with ephemeral and accidental, not eternal nor universal things; their causes and effects thrust

46. Charles Augustin Coulomb (1736 - 1806) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    17 Jun 2025: Yu A Lyubimov, The memoirs of Coulomb - the beginning of modern electromagnetism (Russian), History and methodology of the natural sciences XXX (Moscow, 1983), 101-129.

47. Zurich Scientific Research Society - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Gessner was elected as President of the new Society. The Physical Society soon built up a scientific library, a collection of mathematical and physical instruments, natural history collections, a botanical garden, ... The wide range of activities of the

48. function concept - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: H N Jahnke (ed.), A history of analysis (American Mathematical Society, Providence, R.I., 2003). ... Issled. Vyp. 20 (1975), 232-245; 380. F A Medvedev, Newton's concept of function (Russian), in History and methodology of the natural sciences, No.

49. D'ARCY WENTWORTH THOMPSON (1860 - 1948) - EMS obituary - MacTutor…

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

    7 Mar 2023: For over sixty years he occupied a Chair of Natural History in a Scottish University, first at the newly founded University College of Dundee and since 1917 at the United College, ... His approach to the history of the Ancients, and particularly of

50. Anders Lexell (1740 - 1784) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    19 Mar 2025: Issled. 32-33 (1990), 39-52. V I Lysenko, On the mathematical works of A I Lexell (Russian), History and methodology of the natural sciences XXV (Moscow, 1980), 104-112. ... Sci. Petropolitanae 2 (1784), 12-15. D Vachov, Anniversaries in mathematics