Talk:History of physics

Islamic physics and possible Jagged_85 sock.

Please see here [[1]]. IP 157.14.207.111. I cleaned up a bit removing claims that Tusi and his pupil discovered elliptical orbit(!), or that Avempace anticipated Newtons third law of motion. I can't access "Gracia, Jorge J. E. (2007-11-26), "Philosophy in the Middle Ages: An Introduction", A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages", which is used to claim that " Ibn Bajjah was a critic of Ptolemy and he worked on creating a new theory of velocity to replace the one theorized by Aristotle. Two future philosophers supported the theories Avempace created, known as Avempacean dynamics. These philosophers were Thomas Aquinas, a Catholic priest, and John Duns Scotus.[22] Galileo went on to adopt Avempace's formula "that the velocity of a given object is the difference of the motive power of that object and the resistance of the medium of motion". If somobody can varify it that would be great.

The section on Alhacen and Al-biruni should also be rewritten more neutrally. DMKR2005 (talk) 02:06, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks! The only edits from 157.14.207.111 are to this article with these edits in April 2019 although mention of "elliptical orbit" was already in the article then. Johnuniq (talk) 03:13, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Yeah, Thanks. It seems claims on Alhacen and Al-biruni mostly relies on non-academic authors like Jim Al-Khalili or Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa(an educator), or pretty fringe view within historiography of science, like Rozhanskaya and Levinova. I've read a lot of history science books, but never seem anybody outside of them said that Al-biruni intoduced "scientific method" in to mechanics, let alone creating "medieval hydrodynamics"(whatever this means). I am going to add Mark Smith opinion on Alhacen, where he criticized tendency of some popular author to exaggerate modernity of Alhacen experimentation. Not sure what to do with Al-biruni. DMKR2005 (talk) 20:13, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Maxwell section is a jumble

The Maxwell statistical mechanics is mixed up with his electromagnetism work. Johnjbarton (talk) 21:02, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Articles on the history of physics

The "Articles on the history of physics" section overlaps Outline of the history of physics and in my experience these will diverge and both be somewhat inaccurate as articles are renamed, added, and deleted.

A better solution would transclude one section into the other, but of course that would make them identical. Is there a reason they can't be identical? Johnjbarton (talk) 17:28, 28 November 2023 (UTC)