Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788 — 1827)was a Catholic scientist in France in the early 1800’s. He made incredible contributions to the understanding of light, being one of the earliest and best champions of the idea that light is a waveform. He entered the French school for engineers around 1804 and then served in the engineering corps [...]
I find this picture fascinating. Actually I find the original on my back porch fascinating. The heap of snow on the table shows something odd about how much frozen water fell from the sky. The table has a pyramid of snow that is around eight or nine inches deep some inches in from the edge. [...]
Saint Albert the Great whose Feast Day is tomorrow, November 15, studied the natural world and wrote extensively about his findings. He said, "In studying nature we have not to inquire how God the Creator may, as He freely wills, use His creatures to work miracles and thereby show forth His power: we have rather [...]
“Theory can be very useful as a way of piecing together what is unusual … It can help us interpret what we are finding. It can also lead to dead ends and wasted time and resources.” https://almatcboykin.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/making-bog-bodies-dull/ Two Catholic scientists from the 1400’s spent their lives working on a celestial problem using theories based upon [...]
I remember my mother telling me that objects don’t really have color. The blue I see on a street sign is really just light bouncing off the sign and entering my eyes. My brain interprets those particular rays as blue because of the way they bounce. The blue is in my eyes not on the [...]
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