Aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now resides mostly in 16th century Nürnberg.
Thony Christie
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Johann Fabricius published the first book on the telescopic observation of sun spots on 13 June 1611 #histsci
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Johann Fabricius published the first book on the telescopic observation of sun spots on 13 June 1611 #histsci
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There's no bigger U.S. scandal right now than the human beings dying needlessly in ICE gulags. I took a deep dive into the April death of Philly's Tuan Van Bui, Amerasian child of the Vietnam War
Cellmates say ICE's version of his death is total BS
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/tuan...
www.inquirer.com
In 1990, the U.S. welcomed Tuan Van Bui and other young Amerasians. In 2025, ICE violently arrested him. Why did he die in custody?
A complementary deep dive into the relationship between several high profile scientists and the eugenicist paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, by @cattownsend.bsky.social
Great start by Michele Combs and Elizabeth Bartmess on ‘Indexing in the Era of AI’ at @asindexing.bsky.social #ASI2026. LLMs and generative AI chatbots produce poor book indexes, with limitations in coverage (both under- and over-indexing), navigability and accuracy. Further links below. #IndexSky
Emulator for the machine here:
Oh my! Cambridge University Press have put Agnes Clerke's 'A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century' online. I had no idea. How fabulous.
Has to be accompanied by losing a war at the frontier
As I have commented on more than one occasion Galileo was not the only European astronomer to point a telescope at the heavens in the first years after its invention in Holland in 1608. In fact all…
I was looking at an auction catalogue in a library, assumed to be just a copy filled w/ reader annotations...I suspected it to be the notes from the founder of the Deutsches Museum & his colleague...turns out....I was right 😱
Not a Dürer-in-a-Dumpster find, but still pretty awesome! 📜 🗃️ 🏛️ #HistSTM
As I have commented on more than one occasion Galileo was not the only European astronomer to point a telescope at the heavens in the first years after its invention in Holland in 1608. In fact all…
