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Zu den Gewinnern zählt Renaissance Mathematicus. Begründung:  If blogs are notoriously fragmentary and centrifugal endeavors, then it's a particular accomplishment that Renaissance Mathematicus gives such a coherent picture of scientific and theological endeavor in the 16th and 17th-century. Calling himself a "myths-of-science buster," Thony Christie convincingly shows the interconnections, idiosyncrasies, and rivalries (the "Royal Rumble") of Renaissance scientists as well as their vaunted individual genius. And yet, if Christie writes authoritatively -- sometimes obsessively so -- the author's sense of humour ensures that the reader is never intimidated. It is, in fact, a light-hearted blog, and that's why it works: the history of science can be taken too seriously, and can be detached from life as it's lived. Renaissance Mathematicus never lunges too deeply into esoterics, and often connects back to the present-day.