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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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 the important thing here is that astrology is false And therefore the ability to generate a simulacrum of what the night sky looked like on a certain day in history, while aesthetically entertaining, is mostly useless and irrelevant
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To be fair, "Arthur dunking on people making deeply stupid statements in authoritative tones" is at least a quarter of the reason I look at twitter at all these days.
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