Science: A Peculiar History

About Science: A Peculiar History

Interesting, amusing, strange and significant stories from the history of science

Publisher

Joe Bath

Category

history · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Mar 2025

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

23 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Oct 2026

   23. The Pope and his Fortune-Telling Head - Part 3

   Gerbert impresses Emperor Otto II, who makes him the abbot of an important monastery in Northern Italy (where the local clergy are in the habit of plundering each other's churches). He gets tangled up in the politics of Franco-Imperial relations, but still finds the time (according to William of Malmesbury) to build a powerful tool for telling the future.

2. 

   15 Sept 2026

   22. The Pope and his Fortune-Telling Head - Part 2

   Gerbert starts a new job in Reims, where he manufactures various spheres, and introduces an ingenious system of mathematical notation that he came across in Catalonia.

3. 

   22 Aug 2026

   21. The Pope and his Fortune-telling Head - Part 1

   An obscure monk from 10th-Century France begins his career as a mathematician and possibly (depending on who you ask) a sorcerer, when he leaves to study in Spain.

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