Episodes List
Death of Archimedes
15 Jul, 2025Torricelli’s trumpet is not counterintuitive
30 Dec, 2024Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?
29 Nov, 2023Operational Einstein: constructivist principles of special relativity
23 Jul, 2023Operational Einstein: constructivist principles of special relativity
23 Jul, 2023Review of Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics
11 Oct, 2022Review of Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics
11 Oct, 2022The “universal grammar” of space: what geometry is innate?
20 May, 2022The “universal grammar” of space: what geometry is innate?
20 May, 2022“Repugnant to the nature of a straight line”: Non-Euclidean geometry
21 Feb, 2022“Repugnant to the nature of a straight line”: Non-Euclidean geometry
20 Feb, 2022Rationalism 2.0: Kant’s philosophy of geometry
18 Nov, 2021Rationalism 2.0: Kant’s philosophy of geometry
17 Nov, 2021Rationalism versus empiricism
18 Sep, 2021Rationalism versus empiricism
18 Sep, 2021Cultural reception of geometry in early modern Europe
10 Jul, 2021Cultural reception of geometry in early modern Europe
10 Jul, 2021Maker’s knowledge: early modern philosophical interpretations of geometry
10 May, 2021Maker’s knowledge: early modern philosophical interpretations of geometry
10 May, 2021“Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometry
10 Mar, 2021“Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometry
10 Mar, 2021Why construct?
20 Jan, 2021Why construct?
20 Jan, 2021Created equal: Euclid’s Postulates 1-4
10 Dec, 2020Created equal: Euclid’s Postulates 1-4
10 Dec, 2020That which has no part: Euclid’s definitions
03 Nov, 2020That which has no part: Euclid’s definitions
03 Nov, 2020What makes a good axiom?
05 Oct, 2020What makes a good axiom?
04 Oct, 2020