Category: German science

A Short History of German Space Travel

To be honest, when I first had the idea of writing about German space travel, I didn’t...

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What Was Alfred Wegener’s Continental Drift Theory?

During an early summer after-concert party at Carnegie Hall in 1971, a clearly relieved Carole King, riding...

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Heinrich Schliemann – 19th Century Trump?

Heinrich Schliemann was quite possibly an early version of Donald Trump, German style. On the one hand,...

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Grandfathers of German Science – Sylvius

From Mystical Medicine to Rational German Science Franciscus Sylvius (1614-1672) was a German physician, although he spent...

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