Associate Professor, Chemistry and Geosciences, Olivet Nazarene University
Stephen Case is a historian of science at Olivet Nazarene University in Illinois and the director of the university honours programme. His latest book is Making Stars Physical: The Astronomy of Sir John Herschel (2018). His is also co-editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to John Herschel for Cambridge University Press.
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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
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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