Stephen Case
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Geosciences, Olivet Nazarene University, Illinois, US
Stephen Case is a historian of science at Olivet Nazarene University in Illinois and the director of the university honours programme. He is the author of Making Stars Physical: The Astronomy of Sir John Herschel (2018) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to John Herschel (2024).
Written by Stephen Case
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History of technology
Learning to love monsters
Windmills were once just machines on the land but now seem delightfully bucolic. Could wind turbines win us over too?
Stephen Case
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History of science
Inventing heaven
For hundreds of years, Christians knew exactly where heaven was: above us and above the stars. Then came the new cosmologists
Stephen Case
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History of science
Naming the Universe
How the quick thinking of internationally minded astronomers avoided stamping the solar system with petty European rivalries
Stephen Case