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How a medieval Oxford friar used light and color to find out what stars and planets are made of

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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨throws_lemy@lemmy.nz⁩ to ⁨astronomy@mander.xyz⁩

https://www.space.com/astronomy/how-a-medieval-oxford-friar-used-light-and-color-to-find-out-what-stars-and-planets-are-made-of

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “If we posit this position,” he wrote, “then they, that crowd of Aristotelian know-it-alls (scioli aristoteli), will cry out and stone us

    God damned stoners.

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Those monks in the image look like they are doing a presentation of a next gen four-fold laptop and have no idea how they work.

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  • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So you’re telling me he was a witch

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  • YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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