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• ... that physician and occultist '''[[Johann Weyer (nonfiction)|Johann Weyer]]''' published works on demons, magic, and witchcraft, in which he applied a skeptical medical view to reported wonders and supposed examples of magic or witchcraft, criticizing the ''Malleus Maleficarum'' and witch hunting by the Christian and Civil authorities, and that Weyer argued that the crime of witchcraft was literally impossible, and that anyone who confessed to the crime was likely to be suffering some mental disturbance?
• ... that mathematician '''[[Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|Carl Friedrich Gauss]]''' did not want any of his sons to enter mathematics or science for "fear of lowering the family name", as he believed none of them would surpass his own achievements?


• ... that physicist and academic '''[[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Maria Caterina Bassi]]''' began conducting private lessons and experiments from home in 1749, despite being a full professor at the University of Bologna, because the University limited her as a woman to one formal dissertation per year (with Bassi giving at least thirty-one dissertations), and that her private lessons and experiments freed Bassi to explore new ideas?
• ... that '''[[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC]]''' ( from "Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") was a secret SETI program during the Second World War, and that the Allies transmitted disinformation to potential alien civilizations in an effort to gather and reverse-engineer advanced technologies?

Latest revision as of 05:49, 23 February 2022

• ... that mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss did not want any of his sons to enter mathematics or science for "fear of lowering the family name", as he believed none of them would surpass his own achievements?

• ... that ENIAC ( from "Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") was a secret SETI program during the Second World War, and that the Allies transmitted disinformation to potential alien civilizations in an effort to gather and reverse-engineer advanced technologies?

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