Debunking a viral article.
06.02.2026 19:29
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Debunking a viral article.
Sorry for no new YouTube videos. I've been working on something that's going to take awhile....
I'm planning on heading to Greece this fall, but this site is not (yet) open to the public.
Trigger warning for Zeus being Zeus.
Three images of a diagram from the Almagest. The first is from BnF MS Grec 2389 (c600-800 CE). The second is from BnF MS Lat 16200 (1213 CE), and the last is a modern diagram from G.J. Toomer's translation in 1998. All of them depict an outer circle, an inner circle, and various diameters and chords drawn within them.
It's fun to look back at manuscripts and, even without being able to read them, recognizing the same figures over hundreds of years.
"When God made everything according to measure and number, He chose hard ones for astronomy."
~ J. L. Heilbron, "The Sun in the Church"
I bought a copy of that when I first came out. I can't remember if I read it or not...
Did you know that Netflix has an anime on SCA period astronomy?
Of course I reviewed it.
Illuminated 12th century Arabic manuscript. The center features a seated woman holding an upturned crescent moon. She is flanked by two other figures in a circle. The circle has two dragon heads protruding from the top. This is all placed within a square which has a figure in each of the corners. Arabic text in blue is at the top and bottom of the figure.
Check out the Double Dragons near the top of this 12th century manuscript? It's not a video game reference, but believed to be a reference to the pseudo-planet al-Jawzahr which was a dragon that represented the lunar nodes, and would eat the sun/moon as a cause of eclipses.
Tapestry of the Astrolabes from the Museum of Tapestries and Textiles in Toledo.
What did astronomers use before there were telescopes?
The "Dissent from Darwin" list. Also included a lot of engineers.
While I had everything set up for recording a new video, I rerecorded the channel introduction. Amazing how much better it is with a few months of experience.
Tycho Brahe wrote Astronomiæ Instauratæ Mechanica to showcase his instruments to Christian IV of Denmark, as well as potential new patrons. His 1598 edition was extremely limited in copies, and they were hand illuminated. The 1602 trade edition lacked this coloration.
"This diagram is primarily used to estimate the solar degrees and is made up of five concentric circles, divided into 12 sections. Each section corresponds to a month, and each month is paired with a zodiac sign. The outermost circle contains the zodiac signs, the second circle shows the additional days that need to be added, the third circle lists the names of the months, and the fourth circle displays the number of days in each month. Each zodiac sign occupies 30 units, and the solar degree at the beginning of each month is used to calculate the degree needed to reach that specific month. When the number of days in the month is added to the corresponding zodiac degree, it results in the total degree of the zodiac sign."
🌙 An Ottoman Gelenbevî Circle, crafted in Riq’a script, is an astronomical instrument that features months, zodiac signs, and days of the lunar months, 19th Century (𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝘁 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁) #astronomical #history
Especially given that Harris had JUST caught Fox deceptively editing footage to misrepresent it and they had JUST settled a 787 million dollar settlement for knowingly lying about the previous presidential election.
