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Thony Christie (he/his/him)
@rmathematicus
Aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now resides mostly in the 16th century.
Renaissance Nürnberg
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    Thony Christie (he/his/him)
    @rmathematicus
    Apr 7, 2018
    Culture is part of the unholy trinity—culture, chaos, and cock-up—which roam through our versions of history, substituting for traditional theories of causation. – Filipe Fernández–Armesto "Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration"
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    Thony Christie (he/his/him)
    @rmathematicus
    Jun 5, 2021
    Replying to @RichardDawkins
    For somebody, who is supposedly intelligent and well educated, you are mindbogglingly stupid
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    Thony Christie (he/his/him)
    @rmathematicus
    May 6, 2018
    Replying to @softwarebear and @JoelChan86
    I did four years ago
    thonyc.wordpress.com
    Learning to cope with dysgraphia.
    Today is the fifth anniversary of the emergence of The Renaissance Mathematicus in cyberspace. Those five years have seen the appearance of more than five hundred post and many thousands of words, …
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    Thony Christie (he/his/him)
    @rmathematicus
    Feb 24, 2021
    Replying to @Kit_Yates_Maths
    Excuse the language, but who the fuck sets homework questions like this for seven year olds? I studied philosophy of mathematics and could write a fucking dissertation trying to answer this question.
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    Thony Christie (he/his/him)
    @rmathematicus
    Jan 13, 2023
    I don't know who created this but it's too good not to post. Creator please claim!
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    Thony Christie (he/his/him)
    @rmathematicus
    May 6, 2018
    I suffer from dysgraphia and It took me fifty years to discover that I can write if I dictate to myself
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    Thony Christie (he/his/him)
    @rmathematicus
    Jul 5, 2022
    Replying to @time_jester and @mccormick_ted
    Ewok
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    Thony Christie (he/his/him)
    @rmathematicus
    Jan 24, 2017
    Brexiters, "We want our sovereign parliament back!" Supreme Court, "Parliament is sovereign" Brexiters, "We didn't mean it like that"
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    Thony Christie (he/his/him)
    @rmathematicus
    Jul 9, 2020
    I think everybody on Twitter should give @profdanhicks a massive round of applause for initiating, organising and motivating the quite extraordinary #MuseumsUnlocked over the last weeks
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    Thony Christie (he/his/him)
    @rmathematicus
    Jun 6, 2021
    In their published works, Carl Sagan. Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson all write bad history of science. When I point this out, their fans say it doesn't matter, because they are brilliant science communicators. Somebody, who is a successful author and wilfully writes 1/2
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    Thony Christie (he/his/him)
    @rmathematicus
    Mar 16, 2019
    Replying to @DineshDSouza
    You really are a despicable piece of rotting excrement
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    Thony Christie (he/his/him)
    @rmathematicus
    Jun 19, 2021
    #Caturday
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    Thony Christie (he/his/him)
    @rmathematicus
    Jul 2, 2021
    I read the first part of Van Brummelen's excellent history of trigonometry The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth: The Early History of Trigonometry, when it came out and have waited twelve years for part two which came today
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    Thony Christie (he/his/him)
    @rmathematicus
    Jun 4, 2018
    Replying to @K_AliceC and @DiscordianKitty
    Newton's, he stated at the end of his life that he had never known a woman