Thony Christie (he/his/him)

Aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now resides mostly in the 16th century.

[Thony Christie (he/his/him) @rmathematicus]

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"

[Thony Christie (he/his/him) @rmathematicus]

@TheGlobeIsDead A serious candidate for most stupid fucking tweet of the day

[Thony Christie (he/his/him) @rmathematicus]

@nicholadrummond @jaglancy Margaret Thatcher should be printed on toilet paper so, that you can wipe your arse on her face

[History_of_Geology @Geology_History]

June 3, 1726 birthday of Scottish farmer &"philosopher of Earth" James Hutton ⚒️ ...

[Thony Christie (he/his/him) @rmathematicus]

@DavidWolfe The only lie is the one you're trying to peddle here

[Thony Christie (he/his/him) @rmathematicus]

@MichalYouDoing @realDrTT Alan Turing did not even “formally conceive a computer,” he produced an abstract metamathematical solution to a problem in the philosophy of mathematics posed by Hilbert

[Thony Christie (he/his/him) @rmathematicus]

@Lptomov82 I had to tutor my maths pupils in statistic as part of their school mathematics course

[Thony Christie (he/his/him) @rmathematicus]

@DrRaisGhani1 @MichalYouDoing He was never in danger of the death sentence. His house arrest was in his villa in Tuscany with servants to care for him and an amanuensis to assist him with his scientific work. He also continued to receive his very generous salary from the Grand Duke Ferdinando II

[Thony Christie (he/his/him) @rmathematicus]

@DrRaisGhani1 Your tweet is ahistorical bullshit! Galileo was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Inquisition, which was commuted to house arrest by the pope twenty-four hours later

[Thony Christie (he/his/him) @rmathematicus]

A new blog post series two thousand years of Calculus #histsci
https://t.co/QAZcmmzuL0

[Thony Christie (he/his/him) @rmathematicus]

@dschwa8059 I could give lots of examples

[Thony Christie (he/his/him) @rmathematicus]

A new blog post series two thousand years of Calculus #histsci
https://t.co/QAZcmmzuL0

[Thony Christie (he/his/him) @rmathematicus]

@dschwa8059 @enforcelawsNYC @NYC_DOT A worthy goal

[Thony Christie (he/his/him) @rmathematicus]

@dschwa8059 Indeed, that is one point of the whole exercise

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Israel announces that surviving Palestinians will be expelled from Gaza.

No headlines.

No statements of outrage from politicians.

Silence.

[Thony Christie (he/his/him) @rmathematicus]

@PhillipHelbig @dschwa8059 @Lptomov82 Oh yes, I read Lila

[Thony Christie (he/his/him) @rmathematicus]

@ianfmusgrave @aten_ichnaten Could it be that that the Freemasons took the compasses and set square as symbols from the mathematicians and not the other way round? Just asking…

[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

In 1982, Israel bombed the Beirut airport.

The Lebanese were trapped as the IDF marched into Beirut, massacring thousands of civilians.

Hezbollah didn’t exist.

[Amelia 🇺🇸 @amelia_tweetz]

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

[Gavan Tredoux @gtredoux]

@Harold1066AD No. See my book on Babbage and Ada, with a detailed overview here. https://t.co/TY42mUAIhG