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Stupid Scope Tricks -- How to Mess Up Your Zero Big-Time
Your editor wins the dunce of the week award, but he learned an important lesson. This weekend I shot the Varmint Silhouette match at Ojai, California. In preparation for the match, I (wisely) went to… more »
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Spinoza: Two Grinding Lathes roughly from the Period
kvond wrote 18 hours ago: A simple, hand-turned lathe (undated as yet): Taken from the Middleburg 400 year anniversary pa … more »
A Closer Look at the Rijnsburg Lathe
kvond wrote 2 days ago: I am still attempting to assess the documentation and authority of the lens lathe at the Rijnsburg S … more »
How Much were Spinoza's Lenses and Microscopes?
kvond wrote 3 days ago: In the interest of making Spinoza’s lens-grinding, polishing, and telescope and microscope bui … more »
A Conflation of Spinoza Diagrams
kvond wrote 3 days ago: How Spinoza Thought of the Eye, the Lens and The Modes Perhaps this is an irresponsible and trite co … more »
RoboDance at EXITE Camp for girls
scientiste wrote 4 days ago: As promised: I discovered this program when I interviewed James Wynne, co-developer of the excimer l … more »
A Short History of Early Spherical Microscope Lenses
kvond wrote 5 days ago: Spinoza’s Microscope In view of organizing the possible context for Spinoza’s lense-grin … more »
Archaeology News
scientiste wrote 5 days ago: First news item: the cave paintings at Lascaux (France) are currently being threatened by mold. One … more »
Robots as art
scientiste wrote 6 days ago: In honor of Wall-E being the top-grossing film at the box office this weekend, here is a little piec … more »
Good Start for Fiber Optic Cables in 2008
aryajayaprakash wrote 6 days ago: Optical fiber and fiber cable shipments for the first quarter of 2008 hit record levels and crossed … more »
L'occhiale all'occhio (1660), Primary Source for 17th Century Lens Grinding Techniques
kvond wrote 1 week ago: Carlo Antonio Manzini, astronomer and designer of lens-grinding Machines, wrote his L’occhiale … more »
Photography exhibition with live camera obscura
scientiste wrote 1 week ago: Only being shown in Connecticut, but a good excuse to get out of the hot weather. A Triple-Header Ce … more »
New Edition of Vector, Univalor's newsletter
Didier Leconte wrote 1 week ago: The June edition of Vector is now available! Everything you want to now about Protein tagging, Dry A … more »
NewsFlash - new positions available!
mseyfang wrote 1 week ago: Six Postdoctoral Fellowships and one Technician positions have just been advertised. More informatio … more »
Six Postdoctoral positions
coephotonics wrote 1 week ago: A rare opportunity to join our vibrant team at a time of rapid expansion. Apply for a Postdoctoral F … more »
Technician
coephotonics wrote 1 week ago: We are seeking a skilled Technical Support Officer to be involved in installing, operating, maintain … more »
Cheap Tools
dearJ wrote 1 week ago: Dear J- I never fully stated the implied second part of yesterday’s topic, as to the value pro … more »
art-sci-tech member organization
scientiste wrote 1 week ago: I am just beginning to explore (read: I am neither endorsing or denouncing) the Art & Science … more »
Van Leeuwenhoek's View of Technology and Spinoza
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kvond wrote 1 week ago: Part of this process of looking into the lensed conception of Spinoza’s metaphysics is unders … more »
Centre for Poetry and Science
scientiste wrote 1 week ago: I stumbled upon this awhile ago, and with their new web design I almost didn’t recognize it: … more »
