On the Shoulders of Giants:

Philosophers, physicists and mathematicians of History

With these vignettes, Brick Princess and me have wanted to make a little tribute to some philosophers, physicists and mathematicians of differente ages.


Zeno and the paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise


Archimedes and the golden crown


Copernicus and the heliocentric hypothesis


Newton, the apple and the gravity

 


Euler and the Seven Bridges of Königsberg  


Einstein and the mass–energy equivalence

 


Stephen Hawking and the black holes