Part of what I’m doing with my maker shtick rn is sort of recapitulating/larping the scientific revolution starting with Galileo. He gets credit for both the pendulum and the first telescope design good enough for astronomy (though Hans Lippeershey gets first build credit)
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Vague intent is to try and incept a 1600s-1700s mindset in myself where scientists were also necessarily instrument makers and mechanism designers. But not a faithful, pure recreation. I want to use modern techniques wherever it makes sense. Mind meld, not cargo cult.
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Feels kinda like historical detective work to trace the course of evolution of the scientific sensibility. I have this sense that something important changed with each specialized fork — instrument makers, artisan-technicians, engineers...
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