Finding mistakes
Our tutor ponders techniques he employs unconsciously.
Articles Tagged with science
Why teach errors?
Proof and re-proof
Testing the theory again
General Relativity passes another test of its predictions. Why bother?
How it’s done
Telescopes and databases
Astronomy changes. So do the kind of people who become astronomers.
The Sun, clouds and people
Levels of predictability
The recent solar eclipse demonstrates much more than astronomy. (Image: one page of Guy Ottwell’s The Under-Standing of Eclipses, available here)
The photographer, the painter and the scientist
Realism and creativity
Art and science are tied to reality in different ways, as are artists and scientists.