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History of Science, Astronomy, Cartography, Transport, Software, AI Translating 17th century Astronomy texts Author: -The Perfect Transport: and the science of why you can't have it -Almagestum Novum: History of Astronomy

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Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · Dec 11

Riccioli's Almagestum Novum (1651) wasn't just the most comprehensive Astronomy Textbook ever.

It also linked House Grimaldi to French Royal ancestors, pushing the diplomacy that would ally Monaco with France and protect them from Italian Unification.
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Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 1d

I'd be interested in researching Baliani more. Riccioli worked with him a bit, and Riccioli included in the AN a reference to a conversation with Baliani where Baliani had suggested a Lunacentric model

Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 1d

Alberto A Martinez, Science Secrets, Chapter 1

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Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 1d

You're not convinced by Coresio or Renieri? :)

Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 1d

Who actually dropped balls from towers?

Who dropped them best?

A list of experiments purportedly perforned with dropping balls from towers. It is unlikely Galileo ever dropped balls from a tower.

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Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 12d

Can anyone recommend me a good, accurate, scholarly, book on the history of telephones?

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Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 7d

The Roman Inquisition sided with the scientific consensus of the time in 1616, after consultation with astronomers, as Galileo clearly states in his letter to Ingoli.

Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 9d

In fact, an AI trained on texts before Newton would still argue for geocentrism and the Tychonic model.

Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 11d

Finocchiaro's "Retrying Galileo" dates the first mention of the Simplicio analogy at 1635. See page 62.

Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 11d

... was problematic at the time, or made years later.

Simplicius was a philosopher who had heavily debated Aristotelian ideas, so was a fitting character for the Dialogue.

Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 11d

We don't have any sources that suggest that there was an understanding of Simplicio meaning "Simpleton" from before or during the trial, and the Pope and censor knew this name would be used from before publication, as it was included in checked sections.

So we can't be sure if this analogy...

Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 11d

Well, he was a dick to the Pope BY breaking a court order requiring him to hold heliocentrism as a hypothesis, without telling the Pope he had such a court order, and letting the Pope sponsor his work and implicating him in the whole issue.

Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 11d

They've built observatories for over a thousand years

Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 11d

The Catholic Church doesn't oppose stem cell research, it opposes unethical sourcing of stem cells, which isn't necessary for the research.

Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 12d

... happy with, in context, for Bruno and Galileo, we should be able to construct a better approach to issues wrt freedom of speech today.

Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 12d

Well, we also can't be sure of the converse - if these various critics hadn't been killed, could they have started further schisms that resulted in bloodshed across Europe like previous schisms had?

I don't mind speculating, and I think it is certainly worthwhile - of we can find solutions we are..

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Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 12d

I mean, ideally you wouldn't kill anyone!

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Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 12d

Can anyone recommend me a good, accurate, scholarly, book on the history of telephones?

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Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 12d

... wrt Galileo, I wonder if she was confused by the fact there are numerous texts that point to the fact that Galileo's house arrest was not as bad as *most people* think it was.

It was still an unfair imprisonment and a severe change to his lifestyle that brought him a lot of stress.

Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 12d

Bruno was not a martyr for science. He was not a scientist, performed no experiments, argued against mathematics as useful in learning about mature, amd criticised scientists.

He could definitely be considered a martyr for occult mysticism though.
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Giordano Bruno was a Martyr for Science

Contrary to the claims of many fervent New Atheists, Giordano Bruno was not a martyr for science and not a scientist at all.

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Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 13d

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If anything, his physics was more important for the abandonment of heliocentrism, as it set the stage for Newtonian mechanics, which is what really won the scientists over - before direct empirical evidence arrived.

Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 13d

All of his observations were equally compatible with the Tychonic model, so they weren't evidence of Heliocentrism over the leading Geocentric model.

But they did support Heliocentrism in the same way, and didn't discard it like they discarded the basic Ptolemaic model.
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Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 13d

Copernicus was supported by the Church and urged to publish by leading Church figures in his life.

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Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 14d

... specify how the humiliation had occurred (hence the question of whether it was the Simplicio analogy, or the implication in an illegal act).

I think a substantial part of the writing was Galileo angling towards having his sentence reduced, of course, but certainly they still had a relationship.

Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 14d

I'm not sure about anything that covers this explicitly, but Finocchiaro's "Retrying Galileo" mentions it.

Part of the evidence that at least a part of the issue was the fact the Pope had been humiliated is the fact that Galileo apologised for it in a later letter, although he didn't ...

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Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 14d

It's even harder to grasp that they continued writing to each other personally even after the trail.