Le Pouls Du Monde

Jules"[T]he most common sentence in a heresy conviction, or even a witchcraft conviction, was being compelled to sit through a serious [sic] of tedious lectures from Dominican Thomists using Aristotle to explain the best route to Heaven."I imagine it was quite tedious for the Dominican Thomists too 😝<a href="https://rheinhessen.social/tags/InventingTheRenaissance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InventingTheRenaissance</a> <a href="https://rheinhessen.social/tags/Books2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Books2025</a>

Jules"Florence’s tax system, for example, was more a wealth tax than an income tax, and for many years was based on officials interviewing your neighbors each year to ask them how rich they thought you were"I can *so* see a near-future science fiction story were it's done like this, but by a LLM reviewing data from a ubiquitous social media app.<a href="https://rheinhessen.social/tags/InventingTheRenaissance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InventingTheRenaissance</a> <a href="https://rheinhessen.social/tags/Books2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Books2025</a>

Luke: grue fodder2025 book eighteen: China Miéville: The City & The City ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ <a href="https://aus.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ChinaMieville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChinaMieville</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ebooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ebooks</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/kindle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kindle</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/bookstagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookstagram</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/books2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books2025</a>

Jules"Do you remember, in geometry class, when you had to write out a tedious thirty-two-step proof that the angles of a triangle had the ratio that you already knew from the start they had, so why bother?"No. Well, yes, I remember the proofs. I also remember the awe I felt because I was able to prove how this was *always* true, for *any* triangle in flat space; the beauty of that reasoning. *That's* why we bother.<a href="https://rheinhessen.social/tags/InventingTheRenaissance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InventingTheRenaissance</a> <a href="https://rheinhessen.social/tags/Books2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Books2025</a>

Jules"The plan called for a larger dome than had ever been built, [...] but without a plan for how actually to do it: they just knew it would take a century to build the foundation and walls and figured that, by the time it was Dome O’Clock, some clever Florentine would figure out this hitherto impossible engineering miracle."Now *this* reminds me of how we "deal" with climate change. <a href="https://rheinhessen.social/tags/InventingTheRenaissance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InventingTheRenaissance</a> <a href="https://rheinhessen.social/tags/Books2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Books2025</a>

Jules"Ever since banning nobles, all Florentines have been extremely wary of any princely behavior [...],so Cosimo must be very careful to always dress and act like a simple merchant [...].This is essential to prevent suspicion and attacks from within Florence,but at the same time it’s super inconvenient beyond Florence,because in this world you have to be a nobleman [...] to be taken seriously on the world political stage [...]."Now what does this remind me of.<a href="https://rheinhessen.social/tags/InventingTheRenaissance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InventingTheRenaissance</a> <a href="https://rheinhessen.social/tags/Books2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Books2025</a>

Jules"Each lab brews different things to make our world better: Chem Lab, new meds; Physics Lab, new particles; History and Philosophy Labs, new proofs that Nazis are wrong.)"Lovely view of academia. Wrong, of course, but this is as it should be.<a href="https://rheinhessen.social/tags/InventingTheRenaissance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InventingTheRenaissance</a> <a href="https://rheinhessen.social/tags/Books2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Books2025</a>

Jules"To defend yourself against such lies, it’s invaluable to know not just the history, but the historiography, so you can recognize common distortions and erasures, and know how historians use and evaluate evidence, so you can double-check claims you hear. Historiography is a great example of the kind of knowledge that is power—the defensive power to guard ourselves from lies."<a href="https://rheinhessen.social/tags/InventingTheRenaissance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InventingTheRenaissance</a> <a href="https://rheinhessen.social/tags/Books2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Books2025</a>

Jules"Every day of our lives we’re targeted by at least one lie about history, made in a newspaper column, a political ad, a speech, a movie poster, a tweet, etc. Some are deliberate lies, others lies of ignorance, but all draw on history (often outdated history) to advance claims about the real America, the real Britain, the real Europe, the real Russia, the real liberalism, the real conservatism, the real democracy."<a href="https://rheinhessen.social/tags/InventingTheRenaissance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InventingTheRenaissance</a> <a href="https://rheinhessen.social/tags/Books2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Books2025</a>

Jules"This is why there are Renaissance courses that go from 1300 to 1550 and others that go from 1520 to 1700, and back in the History Lab—where we brew up new timelines as colleagues down the street in molecular engineering brew RNA—we often see English literature students amazed that our Renaissance people look as early as Dante, while Italian lit students are amazed we look at someone as late as Thomas Hobbes."The Renaissance was unevenly distributed!<a href="https://rheinhessen.social/tags/InventingTheRenaissance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InventingTheRenaissance</a> <a href="https://rheinhessen.social/tags/Books2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Books2025</a>

Jules"Do you ever play the game where you imagine sending a message back in time to tell some historical figure something you really, really wish they could have known? To tell Galileo everyone agrees he was right? To tell Schwarzschild we confirmed black holes? To tell Socrates we still have Socratic dialogs after 2,300 years?"I fear all the messages you could send to women scientists would be depressing.<a href="https://rheinhessen.social/tags/InventingTheRenaissance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InventingTheRenaissance</a> <a href="https://rheinhessen.social/tags/Books2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Books2025</a>

JulesNew book: <a href="https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@adapalmer</a>'s "Inventing the Renaissance".A look into its dark underbelly, a look into the myths of both dark and golden ages, a story of progress, war, chaos, and great art.We'll see if I get fodder for my pet theory that a singularity happened then 🙃<a href="https://rheinhessen.social/tags/InventingTheRenaissance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InventingTheRenaissance</a> <a href="https://rheinhessen.social/tags/Books2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Books2025</a>

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