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Originally Posted by Jimjam
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I'll be honest, those numbers don't really make sense to me. They look like an effective meme someone has made however they came to those numbers... Why are the compasses all circled? Is that some kind of joke that compasses are useful for drawing a circle of a specific radius?
Newton was an incredible mathemtician. Did you know he invented (derived?) calculus in order to describe the motions of the heavenly bodies? I got a copy of his principa mathematica, translated into English though (Latin was the Lingua Franca for a great period due to it's international study making it a decent way to transmit knowledge across borders). Often when people were described as illiterate it meant they couldn't read or write latin, not that they couldn't read at all in their own tongue. He also did a good study of light. Look at this crazy little rainbow that manifests on his bedroom wall!
Anyway, I visited Newton's childhood house. It is where he was free enough to commit to his work (there was a lockdown which prevented him from staying at University to stop the spread of disease). It is really funny, cos he is always described as coming from humble origin, but really it is a pretty big house with a decent whack of worked land attached to it (for which he had labourers). It really highlighted the discrepancy between the absurd wealth of those who write history, those who have some opportunities, and those who represent the most everyday people. If you're ever in the UK it is a good visit.
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Some devices Copernicus (the robot says) would likely have used to calculate the Heliocentric model of the solar system before Newton. I get the impression these were more useful before calculus was discovered.
Triquetrum:
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Armillary sphere? This seems newer.
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The chopsticks thing is more noticeable because it's still around.