arisd.bsky.social
Antikythera Mechanism researcher. PhD student at UCL. Teacher of Physics and Astronomy.
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We switched to OCR this year. Baffled at how much less content there is to the point that I’m worried I’m doing something wrong.
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Yesterday I overheard a student in Y10 remark “we were shown a video of how they are made. I am never having one again!” 😅
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Cue four Yorkshiremen reply: Four? When I was young we had one channel that played Mr Blobby 24/7 but for the 9 o’clock news
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...it concluded since the landslide was triggered by the melting glacier, and since *that* happened due to rising global temperatures...
This was a signal - and a warning - from our rapidly changing world, heard in every single part of it.
Best we listen up.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Dum dum dum dum *evil laugh*
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Also, how is Arbuthnot pronounced? Ar-BUTT-not? Ar-BUTH-not? Is the stress on the AR?
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Circle line NY lights tour from the Hudson?
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I was amazed to read that Samuel Pepys’s diary at some point read “today I have to go learn my times tables” or words to that extent, which shows that otherwise capable administrators in critical parts of government indeed had no formal mathematical education. Good on Arbuthnot for pointing it out!
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Preordered!
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*happy teacher noises*
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There’s a reason Warren Buffet is Warren Buffet is a lesson I too learnt
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Not looking great for Dark Matter either… time to change the physics school textbooks please.
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I always describe the astronomical ephemerides tablets as ancient spreadsheets because they are just that. Like, the OG Assyriologists merely sussed out the hidden code between cells that made the numbers make sense.
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For some obscure reason I like to imagine Faraday sounded a bit like Michael Caine.
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Cheers Ally
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Most likely its him - many thanks will look him up!
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Most likely its him - many thanks will look him up!
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Si vis pacem, para bellum
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History of Astronomy too
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Wow -so interesting to see arabic numerals with latin characters for the proper nouns of zodiacal constellations and stars. I wonder if astrolabes can be used as a litmus test for the adoption of arabic numerals in the west. I can make out latin names for the zodiac and latinised * names like Altair
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Astronomical scribes cried out in terror…Classic whiggish historiography, damning with faint praise what was evidently perceived to be the most accurate calculator of its time by the people that made it, just because its not good enough by modern standards. Tired of this stale and old narrative. 3/3
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so it must have been only used for instruction. Utter tosh. Parallel to the AKM we have cuneiform tablets the equivalent of excel spreadsheets modelling lunisolar conjunctions with variable lunisolar velocities. And yet this obvious calculator was just “for the mantlepiece”? Really? 2/3