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After reading the paper that the researchers have come out with - this is really the key passage. "..that they could be re-expressed using modern mathematical
by suprgeek 13y ago
After reading the paper that the researchers have come out with - this is really the key passage.
"..that they could be re-expressed using modern mathematical and computing techniques—as the medieval scholar might have done if he had been able to use such methods."
Basically physicists reinterpreted the ideas sketched out using some passages that have phrases such as lux & lumen by substituting concepts that we know now and then correcting the theory to match present understanding.
While this is a fun read, there is some kind of nonsensical "Humanities" spin given to a few physicists working out a Cosmological theory developed over multiple decades by Other physicists in the wordings of a (admittedly) smart man by wholesale reinterpretations.
- yxhuvud 13y agoAnother fun example of scientists retrofitting physics to a setting where it doesn't apply is http://titaniumphysicists.brachiolopemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Rlyeh.pdf http://titaniumphysicists.brachiolopemedia.com/wp-content/up...
- 14113 13y agoWell technically it's more like the humanities people asked the physicists to help them interpret his ideas using todays scientific language. If you read Grossetestes original writings, even when translated into english, they read very differently to how any modern scientific theory or description would. So really, the scientists are helping the humanities people examine his ideas through the lens of modern notation and prose. Source: Worked on this project over last summer as one of the scientists, developing 3d visualisation of De Luce.