Thony Christie

@rmathematicus@historians.social
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Aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now resides mostly in 16th century Nürnberg.
The Renaissance Mathematicushttps://thonyc.wordpress.com
I feel like I know at least one person for each of these options...

My take: clothes are to be used until they rip apart.

#fashion #sustainableFashion

This #linocut shows an obstinacy of buffalo in all senses of the words. The collective noun for a group of buffalo is a "obstinacy". Clearly, these are hard-headed beasts. These ones have drawn a line in the sand. I dare you to cross it. Technically, these are American bison (Bison bison), known colloquially in North America as 'buffalo'. These mighty beasts were once obiquitous across the Great Plains. 🧵1/2

#printmaking #buffalo #lettering #termsOfVenery #bison

Hubert Airy's 1870 visualisation of the scintillating scotoma that would characterise his migraines.

More on 19th-century attempts to visualise "sick-headaches" here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/visualizing-migraines

Der Pionier der Solarzelle: Hans-Joachim Queisser (1931–2025) erlebte die Geburtsstunde des Silicon Valleys & prägte später als Gründungsdirektor des Max-Planck-Instituts für Festkörperforschung die Halbleiterforschung in Deutschland - ein Nachruf. https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/zum-tod-des-physikers-hans-joachim-queisser-110572429.html
Zum Tod des Physikers Hans-Joachim Queisser

Er lernte sein Rüstzeug bei William Shockley, dem Vater des Transistors, und erlebte die Geburtsstunde des Silicon Valley. Seine Kenntnisse beflügelten auch die Forschung hierzulande. In der vergangenen Woche ist Hans-Joachim Queisser im Alter von 93 Jahren gestorben.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Happy birthday to #astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) who set the scale of our Universe. My portrait of Leavitt is printed in silvery lavender ink on Japanese kozo (or mulberry paper). Behind her is a line showing stellar luminosity (capital L with subscript sun-symbol, a circle with a dot) as a function of time (t). She is printed over constellations in gold (Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Draco, 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #sciart #histstm #astronomy #constellation #mastoArt

Happy birthday to #physicist Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933) who discovered atomic recoil, Radon & recognized radioactive elements could undergo chains of transmutations into a series of new elements. #nuclear #physics

She was Rutherford’s 1st grad student at McGill. After publishing her results in 1899 she completed her MSc in 1901 on “Damping of Electrical Oscillations,” before embarking on #radioactivity research.⁠ 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #histsci

The notion that Palestine Action, who threw paint on some planes, are not in the same category of organisation as Al Qaeda, who flew some planes into buildings, is the kind of thing Labour used to understand. Not now, it seems.

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-vicar-83-taken-away-10322580

Bristol vicar, 83, taken away by police during protest in support of banned Palestine Action

Met Police later updated on X that more than 20 people had been arrested on suspicion of terror offences

Bristol Live

A ban on Palestine Action, which describes itself as a non-violent direct action movement, came into place today after the group was officially proscribed under the Terrorism Act, which makes support for the group a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

The Metropolitan Police said that it had arrested “more than 20 people on suspicion of offences under the Terrorism Act” at the demonstration and taken them into custody.

#UK
#PalestineAction
#TerrorismAct
#news

Petition to ask the UK government to stop deep sea mining before it starts.

#Environment #oceans #sea #mining #pollution

https://act.gp/3FvLdI9