https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/categories/history-of-science/Recent content in History of Science on MarginaliaHugoen-usMon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/research/prestige-economy-of-knowledge-in-early-modern-europe-c-1100-c-1850/Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/research/prestige-economy-of-knowledge-in-early-modern-europe-c-1100-c-1850/A source-audited history of how European institutions converted different forms of knowledge into office, jurisdiction, property, patronage, clients, corporate recognition, and technical-state careers from c.1100 to c.1850. Rejects a simple law-to-mathematics succession in favor of multiple, overlapping prestige exchange rates.https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/research/heaviside/Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/research/heaviside/A source-audited history of Oliver Heaviside as a mathematical engineer who helped recast Maxwellian field theory, developed distributed transmission-line analysis and the distortionless-line condition, and built an operational calculus for solving circuit and field problems before its mathematical foundations were fully understood.https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/research/maxwells-equations-a-human-centered-historical-and-scientific-analysis/Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/research/maxwells-equations-a-human-centered-historical-and-scientific-analysis/A source-audited history of how Faraday’s experimental field concepts became Maxwell’s dynamical electromagnetic theory, how Maxwell identified light with electromagnetic propagation, and how later Maxwellians and vector analysis produced the compact four-equation form now taught under Maxwell’s name.