Thesis: the average 18 year old student in, say, York in AD 800 (the middle of the so-called "Dark Ages") had read more, knew more languages, was better trained in logic, could read more music, knew more mathematics and astronomy than the average student from a university today.
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I know it's a waste of time to dunk on people whose real interest here is cosplaying this fantasy of intellectual elitism but the idea that it's objectively necessary to understand astronomy before studying physics is absurd, like laugh-out-loud nonsense
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And they didn't know ANYTHING about actual astronomy They had no understanding of what stars and planets actually physically were What you mean by astronomy, the capacity to chart the motions of heavenly bodies, is much closer to what we call astrology
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and all of them where very underdeveloped compared to today. Even when they werent flat out wrong.
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Also this guy is confusing depth with breadth. The average students understanding of any of those topics is far deeper today which means it's harder to study a wider array of topics.
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