Interesting read - if I may put a suggestion out, how about doing one on Tycho Brahe or Johannes Kepler if you're still running along the thread of predecessors to Newton.
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There are a lot of people in science who would probably be very good to cover. For example, if it came down to someone in the field of mathematics, I'd be interested to hear more about Leibniz. That said, as we have so many people who have done something significant for science that you could dedicate every day of a month for someone, and every month of a year for a single field. Of course it's up to Plasma Prestige to decide the content, but I think sometimes he should dedicate it to the scientific concepts, and other times to the significant people. That would be great variety. But I have to admit, Vesalius sounds interesting. I don't really know too much about him.
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I actually do intend to dedicate some weeks more to concept than to history. Talking about the history of calculus, for example, is much more difficult than simply talking about calculus. We shall see what the upcoming weeks bring.
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By the way, how long are you planning to do these science fridays anyway?
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I'm not sure. I will try to have one up as time permits. Some weeks I may not be able to because of obligations. As I do more and more of these, I will have to do more and more research since, as of right now, I'm going mostly off my own knowledge.
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Next week, I'll most likely do one on biology. I try to alternate each week. But those are certainly good candidates for a science friday.
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I'd recommend Edwin Hubble at some point, he's of very significant importance to cosmology.