Michal J A Paszkiewicz
History of Science, Astronomy, Cartography, Transport, Software, AI
Translating 17th century Astronomy texts
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-The Perfect Transport: and the science of why you can't have it
-Almagestum Novum: History of Astronomy
- ******ALERT******* FUN SPOILING POST 1. Heliocentrism wasn't "Godless". Rather, the problem found with heliocentrism in 1616 was that Galileo had been reinterpreting scripture based on unproved claims. The Augustinian tradition allowed reinterpretation with proven science, which this was not. ...
- ... 2. One Cardinal acquired a teledcope before Galileo. Most of the telescopes Galileo sold, he sold to Bishops and Cardinals. He didn't send one to Kepler despite being requested. 3. Galileo missed quite a few observations. For example, he never observed a comet, then argued militantly...
- ... that they were sublunar, despite other astronomers publishing clear measurements showing comets were superlunar and passed between the spheres (thereby disproving crystalline spheres). 4. Galileo didn't miss Church, and was devout his whole life. He continued to go to mass while under ...
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View full thread... 9. There was in fact no empirical evidence of Earth's motion until Bradley aberration was published in 1729. 10. The Church had funded the majority of the world's Astronomy before Galileo, during Galileo's time, including 2 of Galileo's salaries, and for over 2 centuries afterwards.
- I trained a speech-to-text model this week that shows signs of dyslexia. I guess the cause is a slight bias towards a lower Character Error Rate (LER) over a lower Word Error Rate (WER).
- Vibe coded a tool for helping me explain astronomical concepts today sphaera-armillaris.vercel.app The real trick is to know how to break the process down into chunks small enough to be manageable for an LLM.
