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Is your podcast still online?

by tdeck 2y ago

kristopolous 2y ago
Unlikely. Didn't bother keeping up with any of the hosting fees and never became popular enough to be archived. It wasn't popular for the same reason you don't see people reading some doctoral thesis at the coffee shop. Jean-Antoine Nollet's 200 monk experiment, Benjamin Franklin's electrified wine goblins for party-goers, Stephen Gray's flying boy or the Flamsteed Newton debate with the bonfires of the royal observatory star maps that disagreed with Newton's celestial models (Historia Coelestis Britannica)... The reason they aren't well known is because nobody is interested in knowing them. Personally I'd watch a whole Netflix series, say, on Turgot making his isometric map of Paris and John Rocque's copy of the idea for London but I've found out how absurdly unusual that is. People were able to just wander through the nobility's homes by order of the king and into their gardens taking measurements and recording things like trees and sculptures. Methods of land survey, still in use today, were developed to construct this map of 1730s Paris
- kristopolous 2y ago
  Oh I forgot to mention my favorite 18th century experiment which used a plumb bob, like on a pendulum, and the gravitational pull of a mountain in Scotland to estimate the mass and size of the earth https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiehallion_experiment https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiehallion_experiment Many surveying expeditions had cartographical errors attempting to draw straight lines across vast distances due to this phenomena when they were passing the various because of their gravitational pull. These surveys had to be done at night because they relied on the stars to guide them and used the gravity of the perpendicular plumb to go straight. The pull of the mountains were not accounted for. This has a name https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_deflection https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_deflection It also disproved Hollow Earth theory, which at the time had a number of notable supporters, such as Edmond Halley, who to go back, was a friend of Newton's and plausibly copied Flamsteed's work on the famous comet. Flamsteed was really protective and didn't like Halley so it's hard to suss out the reality. He made the calculations predicting the return but viewed them as property of the observatory being made during his employment there. Haley, who had access to the work, on the other hand, publicized his calculations and was not protective. Did he independently derive them? Haley claims he didn't know about the work, Flamsteed says otherwise. Who knows? +1 for open access I guess
kristopolous 2y ago
I found one that references the flamsteed drama. It's an audio drama: https://9ol.es/tmp/ep14.mp3 https://9ol.es/tmp/ep14.mp3 You'd have to do a lot of convincing to bring me back into the fold on making more of these. It was like 100 hours of work per episode.

Is your podcast still online?

by tdeck 2y ago

Is your podcast still online?

Unlikely. Didn't bother keeping up with any of the hosting fees and never became popular enough to be archived. It wasn't popular for the same reason you don't see people reading some doctoral thesis at the coffee shop. Jean-Antoine Nollet's 200 monk experiment, Benjamin Franklin's electrified wine goblins for party-goers, Stephen Gray's flying boy or the Flamsteed Newton debate with the bonfires of the royal observatory star maps that disagreed with Newton's celestial models (Historia Coelestis Britannica)... The reason they aren't well known is because nobody is interested in knowing them. Personally I'd watch a whole Netflix series, say, on Turgot making his isometric map of Paris and John Rocque's copy of the idea for London but I've found out how absurdly unusual that is. People were able to just wander through the nobility's homes by order of the king and into their gardens taking measurements and recording things like trees and sculptures. Methods of land survey, still in use today, were developed to construct this map of 1730s Paris

kristopolous 2y ago
Oh I forgot to mention my favorite 18th century experiment which used a plumb bob, like on a pendulum, and the gravitational pull of a mountain in Scotland to estimate the mass and size of the earth https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiehallion_experiment https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiehallion_experiment Many surveying expeditions had cartographical errors attempting to draw straight lines across vast distances due to this phenomena when they were passing the various because of their gravitational pull. These surveys had to be done at night because they relied on the stars to guide them and used the gravity of the perpendicular plumb to go straight. The pull of the mountains were not accounted for. This has a name https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_deflection https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_deflection It also disproved Hollow Earth theory, which at the time had a number of notable supporters, such as Edmond Halley, who to go back, was a friend of Newton's and plausibly copied Flamsteed's work on the famous comet. Flamsteed was really protective and didn't like Halley so it's hard to suss out the reality. He made the calculations predicting the return but viewed them as property of the observatory being made during his employment there. Haley, who had access to the work, on the other hand, publicized his calculations and was not protective. Did he independently derive them? Haley claims he didn't know about the work, Flamsteed says otherwise. Who knows? +1 for open access I guess

kristopolous 2y ago

I found one that references the flamsteed drama. It's an audio drama: https://9ol.es/tmp/ep14.mp3 https://9ol.es/tmp/ep14.mp3 You'd have to do a lot of convincing to bring me back into the fold on making more of these. It was like 100 hours of work per episode.