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THE @ LONDON ECONOMIC Gyll King

Thatcher sold the North Sea oil fields and in return we got a broken Britain and 171 billionaires.
Norway kept their much smaller oil fields and today have the biggest sovereign wealth fund in the world $1.4 trillion.
But yeah, it's socialists that run out of other people’s money.

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18th century, Huguenot mathematician, Abraham de Moivre, was born 26 May 1667 #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2018/10/24/a-newtonian-refuge/

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"Sights like this are supposed to change you. Even if you are the most ardent Zionist and you've been propagandised since birth that Israel only acts in self-defence, such sights should stir something inside. ..You should feel a sadness and anger driven by this thing called empathy. Just know that if Israel is prepared to incinerate Palestinian children to get its way, its willing to incinerate any children, including yours"
Ricky Hale

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#Israel #Gaza
https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/when-its-not-starving-children-to

18th century, Huguenot mathematician, Abraham de Moivre, was born 26 May 1667 #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2018/10/24/a-newtonian-refuge/

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Beneath Jupiter

Image Credit & Copyright: NASA, Juno, SwRI, MSSS; Processing & License: Gerald Eichstädt & Seán Doran

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250525.html #APOD

A close-up image is shown of the planet Jupiter. Many clouds are visible including clouds colored blue near the bottom, on the left, and white oval clouds on the upper right.

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Map Men map book, out in October. https://youtu.be/UQMZTZW56pw

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“Defiant Bodies: Discourses on Intersex, 1573-2003” is a new online exhibition from Duke University. https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/defiant-bodies/introduction

A 16th century woodcut of a human figure labeled Androgynos

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Renaissance, English, physician William Gilbert, who laid the foundations of the scientific study of magnetism, was born 24 May in either 1540 or 1544 #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/magnetic-variations-v-william-gilbert/

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Regardez comme c'est beau, Leibniz qui essaie de comprendre la distribution des nombres premiers :

Page de manuscrit du Leibniz avec un dessin essayant de schématiser la répartition des nombres premiers.

@mpanhans

At a price every student can afford!

Renaissance, English, physician William Gilbert, who laid the foundations of the scientific study of magnetism, was born 24 May in either 1540 or 1544 #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/magnetic-variations-v-william-gilbert/

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Some personal thoughts on the recent death of the historian of science, Mario Biagioli #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/mario-biagioli-1955-2025/

@mpanhans I don't know that what's the title and who published it?

Some personal thoughts on the recent death of the historian of science, Mario Biagioli #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/mario-biagioli-1955-2025/

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These Scientists Say They’ve Identified the Oldest Known Star Chart in the World

A new preprint suggests that an ancient Chinese star catalog dates to 355 B.C.E. But other researchers aren’t convinced, arguing that the original coordinates are misaligned by one degree

By Sonja Anderson

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-scientists-say-theyve-identified-the-oldest-known-star-chart-in-the-world-180986651/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550

Astronomy-History at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/891

#history #astronomy

An ancient star map (not the document analyzed in the new research) unearthed in Dunhuang, China, in the seventh century C.E. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

This is a detailed celestial chart drawn on a long scroll, part of a larger astronomical manuscript. The map features star positions organized into constellations, many labeled with Chinese characters.

The stars are depicted as small black dots, often connected with lines to form recognizable asterisms, aligned along vertical and horizontal axes. This map is one of the oldest known graphical representations of the night sky, demonstrating advanced astronomical knowledge and the importance of celestial observation in Tang dynasty China.

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Here’s an idea: Stop acting like the Gestapo.

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Avant les satellites, on mesurait la Terre et le ciel avec des merveilles d’orfèvrerie.
Quadrants, sphères, anneaux solaires…
À l’œil nu, les savants traçaient les cartes du monde.
#Louvre #sciencepoétique #instruments #curiosité #mathémagie #exposition #sciences #culture #museum #paris #curious #art