Views from above, balloons, planes, art Balloons The historian serving the King of France, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier enjoyed ballooning and began to experiment with a mix of hydrogen and
From science to the new sciences? Prior to Descartes, ‘knowledge’ was a conspiracy of Scripture, heresy, tradition, experience and speculation. Scholasticism ruled – a metaphysics of Biblical deductions made by
After thirty years in the heart of Sydney, I now live on the Mid North Coast of NSW beside a forest by the sea.