The buck stops here
Article Abstract:
The long connection between the invention of the decimal and the US dollar is presented. The key connection between the two is Dutch mathematician Simon Stevin, whose connections with personalities and events lead to the subsequent naming of the dollar.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1997
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Not what it seems
Article Abstract:
A description of some of the major discoveries of the past is presented. Issues include Louis Daubenton's fossil classification, William Harvey's blood circulation theory and Giuseppe Tartini's acoustic discoveries.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2000
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Does this take you back?
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The connection between the science of nosology, the classification of disease by symptom and Romantic American poet William Cullen Bryant is traced, through an interweaving of events, personalities and places.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1998
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