Not sure why you’d think this is incompatible with anything I said.
I can find the % of nat’l income figure for you if you rly want it and you can do calcs from there that post is right about tycho’s close ties to royal family but quite wrong on some large issues
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i assume you understand military importance of astronomy and general “blue sky” research quality of much Ren science
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Hven a sizeable fraction of national budget, flat out impossible for fiefs bestowed on a courtier to be a multiple of that (and anyway they still needed chamberlains so it wasn’t a cost-savings not to appt Tycho)
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yeah the cost savings thing was obvious bullshit. I was posting since someone else had the same analogy in mind.
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one standard hist of sci (maybe finocchario?) does the math on that comparison, i’m sure we both got it from him
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