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• alzymologist@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Actually it’s the other way round: mostly nigredo in alchemy, as it’s by far largest part, and in physics he literally invented the rainbow.

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  • minimum@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Huh, that’s a neater way to look at it!

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  • yesman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    He didn’t “invent” the rainbow. He stole it from God.

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    • alzymologist@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s intellectual property, copying is no theft when credit is given, and sure he did give all the due credit to God and them some more.

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  • Wigners_friend@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    including “indigo”. Seriously? I am colourblind, even I know that’s bullshit.

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• TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Newton is so strongly the posterboy for how you can be brilliant in one area, and still so wrong in so many others. He spent about equal time looking at physics, alchemy and some bullshit da-vinchi code search for secrets in biblical numerology. Can you just imagine how much further he could have pushed physics and mathmatics if he hadn’t spent 2/3rds of his time chasing red herrings.

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  • oplkill@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Imagine how further could you push physic and math if you hadn’t spend all your time chasing memes

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    • TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I mean the obvious thing is, I know I’m not capable of being that great, I do actually note how much better I could be at my expertise if I spent a bit more time studying it and less on meme’s… however it’s pretty clear I’m not anywhere near the running of pushing humanities understanding forward.

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  • humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Same with Pythagoras.

    He banned beans because he thought they contained souls, demanded his followers endure years of silence, and claimed to remember his past lives (including being a Trojan hero and a fish). His secretive brotherhood treated numbers like divine beings, and he supposedly lost his mind over the music of the spheres — the idea that the planets hum cosmic harmonies. In short: a math genius, yes, but also one philosophical fever dream away from starting a numerology space religion.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Pythagoras is generally considered to be pseudo-mythological these days. Take any claims about his direct actions with a large grain of salt, there’s little telling what he did and said compared to what his cult made up after he died.

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    • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      We could be living in the ruins of a greek-built Mons Olympus theme park on Mars itself, but no, BECAUSE beans smelled weird.

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  • Admetus@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Newton was evidently searching for meaning in the universe and God, and I don’t think it was a bullshit code search. The scientific establishment back then was extricably connected to Christianity, and esoterically with alchemy. It wasn’t the scientific establishment post-Victorian as we know it now.

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  • nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    He also lost untold money in the stock market.

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• Tracaine@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  • minimum@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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    Totally reasonable, just look at that god damn jaw 🥵

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    • m4xie@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Many historians believe it is likely but not certain that he was gay. He never married or publicly courted a lady, and he lived with his ‘best friend’ for much of his life. On the other hand, we have no private letters or diaries that support this, as we do for many other figures.

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    • ladicius@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Those “christians” regularly flood the gay apps when in town I heard.

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• niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Bible studies! Starring an obsessive compulsive, petty, grudge-carrying narcissist who died a virgin and of old age!

  Remember when baby bush was governor of Texas, and a woman on death row wrote asking for clemency, from supposedly “one born-again christian to another”, she had become a christian and wanted to remain in jail, helping other inmates.

  Remember bush’s response, in front of reporters?
  He mocked her, going - “Please don’t kill me! Please don’t kill me!” - in a shrill voice. And this asshole fancied himself as a devout christian.

  That’s exactly the sort of posture Newton took as the head of the Royal Treasury or Royal Mint or whatever it’s called, a forger facing beheading or the gallows.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Starring an obsessive compulsive, petty, grudge-carrying narcissist who died a virgin and of old age

    who, their god?

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• rirus@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Newtons racesism 💀

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