GloucesterBoy

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by GloucesterBoy 2y ago
If you're curious about the naming of the Lunar craters, the first full English translation of the Almagestum Novum is being worked on here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1739314565?ref_=pe_3052080_3975148...
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by GloucesterBoy 3y ago
Astronomy was of course heavily linked to Politics through the majority of human history, particularly when leaders were advised by court astrologers
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Why Napoleon stole the Galileo files, and what happened next(cricetuscricetus.co.uk)
7 points by GloucesterBoy 3y ago|0 comments
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by GloucesterBoy 3y ago
Keep in mind that despite Tycho's model having the consensus, there were still Ptolemaic Astronomers.
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by GloucesterBoy 3y ago
Galileo improved on Copernicus in the sense that he found evidence against the Ptolemaic model. But the Geocentric position had moved on by then.
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Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler they all lacked proof(cricetuscricetus.co.uk)
7 points by GloucesterBoy 3y ago|0 comments
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Astronomers aggressive to Astrology were accused of having bad natal star charts(twitter.com)
3 points by GloucesterBoy 3y ago|0 comments
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by GloucesterBoy 4y ago
It worked really well in London while it had Routemaster buses with the back door that was always open... it meant there was almost no delay when getting on a bus.
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by GloucesterBoy 4y ago
wow... what a grim approach!
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by GloucesterBoy 4y ago
I've met some elderly people who weren't happy they received free senior passes for travel and wanted to pay like everyone else
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by GloucesterBoy 4y ago
That's true - and then there's pregnant women... and sometimes having a seat can make managing young children that little bit easier! A lot of the new hostile architecture does a great job at making ordinary people suffer.
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by GloucesterBoy 4y ago
There has recently been a big problem in London for the elderly - many bus stops have been removed and replaced with bicycle lanes, meaning the elderly have to move a considerable distance to their nearest bus stop. There was also an issue
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by GloucesterBoy 4y ago
I wonder how this compares to other cities, e.g. New York
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I published a book with AI. It's still a craft(cricetuscricetus.co.uk)
5 points by GloucesterBoy 4y ago|1 comments
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by GloucesterBoy 4y ago
I published a book using AI for checking text and generating images. It still wasn't so simple. In this article I explain the difficulties of building a book with AI generated art.