Mediterranean World

Species concept

Atomic theory and models of the atom

Ether

The nature of fossils

Lubna of Córdoba, scholar

Little is known about Lubna (or Labana) of Córdoba, but the fragmentary sources historians do have illuminate the forgotten role of Muslim women in mathematics and science...

The Pythagorean Theorem

Every geometry student knows a²+b²=c², but where did this famous theorem come from? And what, if anything, does it have to do with Pythagoras?...