Ancestors

Written by Matthias C. Rillig on 2025-01-09 at 09:21

The stories behind out research are mostly hidden, since they are typically not part of the papers we write.

Could we include these creative background stories in a section of the research paper format, maybe just as online supplements?

What do you think?

[#]science #research #creativity

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Written by Thony Christie on 2025-01-09 at 09:54

@mrillig

Johannes Kepler famously did so in his Astronomia nova (1609)

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Written by Matthias C. Rillig on 2025-01-09 at 10:33

@rmathematicus nice. Is there any source where I could read up on this?

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Written by Thony Christie on 2025-01-09 at 11:44

@mrillig James R Voelkel The Composition of Kepler’s Astronomia nova (Princeton University Press, 2001)

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Toot

Written by Thony Christie on 2025-01-09 at 12:00

@mrillig

P.S, borrow it from the library the book costs a fucking fortune

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Descendants