Thony Christie
@rmathematicus.bsky.social
Aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now resides mostly in 16th century Nürnberg.
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Not now, super-massive runaway black hole!
Astronomers made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the JWST:
A runaway super-massive black hole, rocketing through space at a staggering 1,000 km/s, leaving a 200,000 light-year-long tail in its wake in which gas is accumulating and triggering star formation.
🧪
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A runaway super-massive black hole, rocketing through space at a staggering 1,000 km/s, leaving a 200,000 light-year-long tail in its wake in which gas is accumulating and triggering star formation.
🧪
www.space.com/astronomy/bl...
James Webb Space Telescope confirms 1st 'runaway' supermassive black hole rocketing through home galaxy at 2.2 million mph: 'It boggles the mind!'
"The forces that are needed to dislodge such a massive black hole from its home are enormous."
www.space.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Not now, super-massive runaway black hole!
There are very few surviving portrait of Johannes Kepler and each of them has a question mark hanging over it for some reason #histsci
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December 27, 2025 at 8:39 AM
There are very few surviving portrait of Johannes Kepler and each of them has a question mark hanging over it for some reason #histsci
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Stephen Miller is a horrible racist in the sense that he is actually not that good at being racist.
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
December 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Stephen Miller is a horrible racist in the sense that he is actually not that good at being racist.
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Charles Babbage, Victorian polymath & inventor of the difference engine, was born #OnThisDay in 1791.
In Part 2 of his 2025 Christmas Trilogy, @rmathematicus.bsky.social presents a survey of Babbage portraits from early engravings & paintings to daguerreotypes.
#histSTM #ArtHistory 🗃️📜🎨
In Part 2 of his 2025 Christmas Trilogy, @rmathematicus.bsky.social presents a survey of Babbage portraits from early engravings & paintings to daguerreotypes.
#histSTM #ArtHistory 🗃️📜🎨
Christmas Trilogy 2025 Part 2: Pictures of Charles
Yesterday, we took a look at some of the many portraits of Isaac Newton the second Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge, today, we are turning our attention to a nineteenth century occupa…
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December 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Charles Babbage, Victorian polymath & inventor of the difference engine, was born #OnThisDay in 1791.
In Part 2 of his 2025 Christmas Trilogy, @rmathematicus.bsky.social presents a survey of Babbage portraits from early engravings & paintings to daguerreotypes.
#histSTM #ArtHistory 🗃️📜🎨
In Part 2 of his 2025 Christmas Trilogy, @rmathematicus.bsky.social presents a survey of Babbage portraits from early engravings & paintings to daguerreotypes.
#histSTM #ArtHistory 🗃️📜🎨
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Scientific translator, science writer, astronomer, Mary Somerville was born 16 December 1780 #histsci #womeninscience
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The Queen of Science – The woman who tamed Laplace.
In a footnote to my recent post on the mythologizing of Ibn al-Haytham I briefly noted the inadequacy of the terms Arabic science and Islamic science, pointing out that there were scholars included…
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December 26, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Scientific translator, science writer, astronomer, Mary Somerville was born 16 December 1780 #histsci #womeninscience
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The portraits of nineteenth-century inventor & mathematician Charles Babbage including an early daguerreotype e by the French photographer Antoine François Jean Claudet #histsci
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Christmas Trilogy 2025 Part 2: Pictures of Charles
Yesterday, we took a look at some of the many portraits of Isaac Newton the second Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge, today, we are turning our attention to a nineteenth century occupa…
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December 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The portraits of nineteenth-century inventor & mathematician Charles Babbage including an early daguerreotype e by the French photographer Antoine François Jean Claudet #histsci
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What looks like an early example of a Millennium Falcon styled hat, is worn in this etching from 1524 by Frederick the Wise, Prince-elector of Saxony from 1486 to 1525. The powerful defender of Martin Luther would have surely joined the rebellion along with Chewbacca. #skystorians
December 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
What looks like an early example of a Millennium Falcon styled hat, is worn in this etching from 1524 by Frederick the Wise, Prince-elector of Saxony from 1486 to 1525. The powerful defender of Martin Luther would have surely joined the rebellion along with Chewbacca. #skystorians
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Yesterday's Part 1 on Newton portraits is here: thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/12/25/c... Tomorrow is Kepler! #histSTM
December 26, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Yesterday's Part 1 on Newton portraits is here: thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/12/25/c... Tomorrow is Kepler! #histSTM
The portraits of nineteenth-century inventor & mathematician Charles Babbage including an early daguerreotype e by the French photographer Antoine François Jean Claudet #histsci
thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/c...
thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/c...
Christmas Trilogy 2025 Part 2: Pictures of Charles
Yesterday, we took a look at some of the many portraits of Isaac Newton the second Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge, today, we are turning our attention to a nineteenth century occupa…
thonyc.wordpress.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The portraits of nineteenth-century inventor & mathematician Charles Babbage including an early daguerreotype e by the French photographer Antoine François Jean Claudet #histsci
thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/c...
thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/c...
Scientific translator, science writer, astronomer, Mary Somerville was born 16 December 1780 #histsci #womeninscience
thonyc.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/t...
thonyc.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/t...
The Queen of Science – The woman who tamed Laplace.
In a footnote to my recent post on the mythologizing of Ibn al-Haytham I briefly noted the inadequacy of the terms Arabic science and Islamic science, pointing out that there were scholars included…
thonyc.wordpress.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Scientific translator, science writer, astronomer, Mary Somerville was born 16 December 1780 #histsci #womeninscience
thonyc.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/t...
thonyc.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/t...
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Every single one for bribery
The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Every single one for bribery
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RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
December 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
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On his birthday: The portraits of Isaac Newton and the artist who painted them #histsci
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Christmas Trilogy 2025 Part 1: Pictures of Isaac
Humans are strongly guided by their visual perception. Naturally the other senses—smell, hearing, taste, touch—play a role but seeing is predominant. This is reflected in everyday speech. When we w…
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December 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
On his birthday: The portraits of Isaac Newton and the artist who painted them #histsci
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The Universe on their shoulders
Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, NKS 218 4°; Macrobius, Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis; c.1150 CE; Southern France; f.25r
Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, NKS 218 4°; Macrobius, Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis; c.1150 CE; Southern France; f.25r
December 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The Universe on their shoulders
Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, NKS 218 4°; Macrobius, Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis; c.1150 CE; Southern France; f.25r
Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, NKS 218 4°; Macrobius, Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis; c.1150 CE; Southern France; f.25r
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Persefone opening the early flatbed scanner, holding the book and her hands into it, making the first #scanninghands of human digital history. I ❤️ it, #skystorians
Despite frequent remonstrations from digital archivists, Persephone never accepted that she could not photocopy a whole book in one go.
December 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Persefone opening the early flatbed scanner, holding the book and her hands into it, making the first #scanninghands of human digital history. I ❤️ it, #skystorians
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"[T]here are no youthful portraits of Isaac, as a child. This, of course, all changed when he became the most famous natural philosopher..."
@rmathematicus.bsky.social kicks off his annual Christmas Trilogy by looking at the surviving portraits of Isaac Newton.
#histSTM #ArtHistory #physics 🗃️📜🎨
@rmathematicus.bsky.social kicks off his annual Christmas Trilogy by looking at the surviving portraits of Isaac Newton.
#histSTM #ArtHistory #physics 🗃️📜🎨
Christmas Trilogy 2025 Part 1: Pictures of Isaac
Humans are strongly guided by their visual perception. Naturally the other senses—smell, hearing, taste, touch—play a role but seeing is predominant. This is reflected in everyday speech. When we w…
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December 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"[T]here are no youthful portraits of Isaac, as a child. This, of course, all changed when he became the most famous natural philosopher..."
@rmathematicus.bsky.social kicks off his annual Christmas Trilogy by looking at the surviving portraits of Isaac Newton.
#histSTM #ArtHistory #physics 🗃️📜🎨
@rmathematicus.bsky.social kicks off his annual Christmas Trilogy by looking at the surviving portraits of Isaac Newton.
#histSTM #ArtHistory #physics 🗃️📜🎨
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Russkiy aktiv Krasnov.
He and his people have decimated our ability to adequately defend this country. One well-placed strike and our country, possibly the whole world, is over in a couple of hours.
December 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Russkiy aktiv Krasnov.
On his birthday: The portraits of Isaac Newton and the artist who painted them #histsci
thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/12/25/c...
thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/12/25/c...
Christmas Trilogy 2025 Part 1: Pictures of Isaac
Humans are strongly guided by their visual perception. Naturally the other senses—smell, hearing, taste, touch—play a role but seeing is predominant. This is reflected in everyday speech. When we w…
thonyc.wordpress.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
On his birthday: The portraits of Isaac Newton and the artist who painted them #histsci
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Happy Christmas to all those celebrating!
A Mughal virgin and child, by Ghulam Shah Salim before 1605, after an engraving by Flemish artist Bernard van Orley (1492-1542). Dedication to Prince Shah Salim who became the emperor Jahangir 1695–27.
A Mughal virgin and child, by Ghulam Shah Salim before 1605, after an engraving by Flemish artist Bernard van Orley (1492-1542). Dedication to Prince Shah Salim who became the emperor Jahangir 1695–27.
December 25, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Happy Christmas to all those celebrating!
A Mughal virgin and child, by Ghulam Shah Salim before 1605, after an engraving by Flemish artist Bernard van Orley (1492-1542). Dedication to Prince Shah Salim who became the emperor Jahangir 1695–27.
A Mughal virgin and child, by Ghulam Shah Salim before 1605, after an engraving by Flemish artist Bernard van Orley (1492-1542). Dedication to Prince Shah Salim who became the emperor Jahangir 1695–27.
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They say the monarchy a tourist attraction. So is Legoland, and it doesn't get an annual £90m subsidy from the taxpayer.
December 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
They say the monarchy a tourist attraction. So is Legoland, and it doesn't get an annual £90m subsidy from the taxpayer.
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Muriel Barker (Mrs Glauert) #mathematician & #aerodynamicist @ Royal Aircraft Establishment #Farnborough. Studied @newnhamcollege.bsky.social then worked on velocity, made significant contributions to early advances in #aerodynamics #WomenInSTEM d. #OTD 23 Dec 1949 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_...
December 23, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Muriel Barker (Mrs Glauert) #mathematician & #aerodynamicist @ Royal Aircraft Establishment #Farnborough. Studied @newnhamcollege.bsky.social then worked on velocity, made significant contributions to early advances in #aerodynamics #WomenInSTEM d. #OTD 23 Dec 1949 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_...
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Dorothy Spicer UK aviatrix, 1st woman to gain advanced qualification in #aeronauticalengineering. Amy Johnson teased her @wes1919.bsky.social event "amidst much laughter...to admit or deny...that she held every licence that it was possible to hold" d #OTD 23 Dec 1946 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...
December 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Dorothy Spicer UK aviatrix, 1st woman to gain advanced qualification in #aeronauticalengineering. Amy Johnson teased her @wes1919.bsky.social event "amidst much laughter...to admit or deny...that she held every licence that it was possible to hold" d #OTD 23 Dec 1946 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...
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106 yrs ago Women's Engineering Society @wes1919.bsky.social becama fully incorporated organisation #OTD 24 Dec 1919. Founders Eleanor Shelley-Rolls; Rachel Parsons; Katharine Parsons Janetta Mary Ornsby; Margaret D Rowbotham; Margaret Moir & Laura Annie Willson en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%2...
December 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
106 yrs ago Women's Engineering Society @wes1919.bsky.social becama fully incorporated organisation #OTD 24 Dec 1919. Founders Eleanor Shelley-Rolls; Rachel Parsons; Katharine Parsons Janetta Mary Ornsby; Margaret D Rowbotham; Margaret Moir & Laura Annie Willson en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%2...
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Alex Abramovich did a beautiful job on this profile of Willie Nelson--and then had the good wisdom and humility to defer to Dylan to capture it far better than any longform writer could (or, more to the point, convey why it can't be captured), in a single paragraph.
Glimmers of light in dark times.
Glimmers of light in dark times.
Bob Dylan attempts to explain Willie Nelson in The New Yorker's profile of Willie: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Alex Abramovich did a beautiful job on this profile of Willie Nelson--and then had the good wisdom and humility to defer to Dylan to capture it far better than any longform writer could (or, more to the point, convey why it can't be captured), in a single paragraph.
Glimmers of light in dark times.
Glimmers of light in dark times.