Thony Christie (he/his/him)
@rmathematicus
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Aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now resides mostly in the 16th century.
Renaissance Nürnberg
Joined April 2011
Culture is part of the unholy trinity—culture, chaos, and cock-up—which roam through our versions of history, substituting for traditional theories of causation. – Filipe Fernández–Armesto "Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration"
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In #16thcentury England the time and date was often an informal matter, which had the potential to pose problems. 🔓 Susie Johns’ new History Matters is free for 7 days https://t.co/tJt6lIrgbN
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The podcast edition is now up for those who prefer audio. "Prof Bart Ehrman on Jesus Mythicism" at
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Major update to our map of Anglo-Saxon London... we've now added etymologies for each place name... so you can find out what your bit of London used to be called.... and why. (High-res version on link.) https://t.co/ngxyZXCumo
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Excellent feedback recently on my "Central Pacific" map, which some are now calling the "funnel map." To the conversation about island geography, I would add my 2019 JFQ piece on the "Second Island Cloud." Download printable maps and get article links at https://t.co/lF7YNA5cGR
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Historian here. Donbas was never a territory of Russia. Until 18 century, it was used (but not inhabited) by predominantly Turkic nomadic tribes (but also Greeks); it was called a "Wild Field" because there were almost no permanent settlements there due to constant infighting
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Roman bronze figurine of a little mouse nibbling on bread! Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️ Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany 📷 by me #Archaeology
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Renaissance German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, instrument maker and professor at the University of Tübingen, Johannes Stöffler, was born 10 December 1452 #histsci
https://t.co/RDR2jrRU3a
thonyc.wordpress.com
Recent posts here have been all over the #histSTM map so I thought it was time to return to the roots and write something about a Renaissance mathematicus. It was first during the fifteenth century…
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Christiaan Huygens' contributions to mechanics #histsci
https://t.co/0uYLHqJytVτὰ-φυσικά-ta-physika-to-physics-lvi/
thonyc.wordpress.com
In a previous post in this series I looked at the life of Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695) in general and his contribution to the development of optics in particular. In that post I emphasised that H…
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Former UK Defence Secretary.
It’s almost as if America has accidentally elected a Kremlin proxy as President.
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December 10, 1823, Mary Anning finds the first complete plesiosaur skeleton. She included a sketch of the fossil in one of her letters to William Conybeare. Two months later Conybeare presented the new species "Plesiosaurus communis" at a scientific meeting in Bristol.
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Chronostratigraphic chart from Levi Walter Yaggy "Physical Geography" (1887) https://t.co/B7Sw1vWYiX
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'...a report examining more than 24,000 posts and 18,000 accounts across 14 social media platforms' from 4-18 Oct. > Coordinated online attack sought to suggest Taylor Swift promoted Nazi ideas, research finds | Taylor Swift | The Guardian
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Thousands of social media posts were traced to deliberate attempts to misrepresent the singer – and showed ‘significant user overlap’ with the campaign to attack actor Blake Lively
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Revolution in mathematics is a collection of essays in the history and philosophy of mathematics. Reading such books shall be cultural and ritualistic practices in every great school—research and learning centre of mathematics.
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Elon Musk attacks Ilhan Omar and Zohran Mamdani as immigrant politicians. The hypocrisy is blatant. A White South African born in Africa taking issue with a Somali - American born in Africa and Ugandan-American born in Africa is Caucacity personified.
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10.XII Our (first) Mathematician of the Day is Carl Jacobi who made basic contributions to the theory of elliptic functions. He carried out important research in PDEs of the first order and applied them to the differential equations of dynamics. https://t.co/Un3gXsvE5F
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Christiaan Huygens' contributions to mechanics #histsci
https://t.co/0uYLHqJytVτὰ-φυσικά-ta-physika-to-physics-lvi/
thonyc.wordpress.com
In a previous post in this series I looked at the life of Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695) in general and his contribution to the development of optics in particular. In that post I emphasised that H…
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Renaissance German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, instrument maker and professor at the University of Tübingen, Johannes Stöffler, was born 10 December 1452 #histsci
https://t.co/RDR2jrRU3a
thonyc.wordpress.com
Recent posts here have been all over the #histSTM map so I thought it was time to return to the roots and write something about a Renaissance mathematicus. It was first during the fifteenth century…
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