#newton — Public Fediverse posts

Russia’s shadow war is putting Europe on edge as Germany confronts a growing threat

Germany is pushing European partners to create a rapid-response task force in the Baltic Sea region as Berlin…
#Europe #EU #AlexanderDobrindt #Baltic #BalticSea #BalticSentry #BERLIN #Breedlove #European #German #Germany #Leipzig #leipzighalleairport #NATO #NATOChiefsofDefense #Newton #Russia #Russia’s #Russian
https://www.europesays.com/europe/131370/

🧲❓ The gravitational constant “Big G” has been part of #physics since 1687, but after 17 modern measurements, scientists still can’t agree on its exact value.

At #NIST in #Maryland, physicist Stephan Schlamminger spent a decade trying – even resorting to a sealed-envelope #experiment to avoid subconscious bias. His team’s result slightly disagrees with the accepted value, keeping the #mystery alive.

👉 https://www.space.com/science/one-of-the-great-unresolved-embarrassments-of-physics-its-been-340-years-since-newton-and-scientists-still-havent-solved-the-secret-of-gravity

#gravity #newton #science #metrology #space #education #stem

"What is the relationship of science and technology to human history, and how have Marxists conceptualized this problematic within historical materialism? The work of Boris Hessen represents one of the most sophisticated attempts to apply a materialist analysis to the history of science—specifically, how the economic needs of early capitalism influenced what we now think of as modern science and the Scientific Revolution. In this blog, I explore how Hessen pursues his analysis in his seminal essay “The Social and Economic Roots of Newton’s Principia” (henceforth referred to as “Newton’s Roots”).

While Hessen did not develop the first Marxist analysis of science, Hessen’s approach was one of the first truly systematic attempts. Moreover, his work helps us see past the often oversimplified division between “Western Marxism” and Soviet thought, revealing a productive tension in international Marxism through attempts to apply historical materialism in understanding science, technology, and nature under capitalist society.

In the same vein, Henryk Grossman makes the connection between science and capitalist society explicit in his work with the Institute of Social Research (Institut für Sozialforschung, or IfS)—several of Grossmann’s articles were published in the IfS’s journal Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung (ZfS). Grossmann was in fact one of the first defenders of Hessen’s work against critics such as George. N. Clark, Richard S. Westfall, etc. as these critics fundamentally misunderstood Hessen’s theses, and, by extension, Grossmann’s own formulation of the relation between science and capitalist society. While both reached similar conclusions independently, and Grossmann’s work is introduced at points, I focus on Hessen’s formulation here."

https://ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/RootsandBranches_Hessen/

#Marxism #Science #Newton #HistoricalMaterialism #STS #Capitalism

This is really nagging me now. Did #SorJuana really meet or have correspondence with #Newton? Where did the English Wikipedia get this idea?

I need to track down this book and figure it all out, because it's what English Wikipedia is citing and it all just seems so weird:

https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=isbn%3A9780838909911

I just watched the first episode of #JuanaInés and then I read on English Wikipedia that #SorJuana actually had correspondence with #Newton.

Whaaaaaat? Why is there no mention of this in the Spanish Wikipedia? That sounds like a big deal! Where are these letters between Newton and Sor Juana?

Let's see if the internet can find them...