Tag: reformation

• Bring Up The Bodies and Wolf Hall and a scientific mystery

  I have just finished reading the fantastic Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel‘s telling of the story of the rise of Thomas Cromwell and the coming of the English reformation: a marvellous book that does what the best historical fiction must – makes us understand that the people of the past were just the same as ourselves.…

  Adrian McMenamin

  May 2, 2012

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  Anne Boleyn, Bring Up the Bodies, epidemics, Henry VIII, Hilary Mantel, reformation, sweating sickness, Thomas Cromwell, Wolf Hall

• The second law of thermodynamics and the history of the universe

  I had to go on quite a long plane journey yesterday and I bought a book to read – Roger Penrose‘s work on cosmology: Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe I bought it on spec – it was on the popular science shelves: somewhere I usually avoid at least for the…

  Adrian McMenamin

  September 30, 2011

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  Big Bang, Boltzmann, Cosmology, Entropy, reformation, religion, Roger Penrose, Second law of thermodynamics, steady state cosmology, Universe