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What are the most precise measurements in science?
In 1957, Littlewood wrote that these are measurements of time in astronomy.
Astronomers operate with times intervals between astronomical events 1000 years apart with accuracy 1/1000 of a second. This gives 14 significant digits. Has this situation…
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Who was this person in the Early Modern Period who wrote a manual on writing "good science"?
In a history lecture a while back the teacher spoke about a person who wrote something that (to me) sounded like an instruction manual on how to write "good science". The basic point was that the scientific texts shouldn't include flowery language…
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