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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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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I am with you
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I support this. I’ve begun reading about artisan collective communities from across centuries (like the guilds of the City of London) to understand how communities were managed. We need to hire more historians and historian-makers. Pic of a guild for context.pic.twitter.com/pNwurjodkW
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Often I feel like VC says “live in the future” and I’m like “learn the future of the distant past”
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Benjamin Franklin's writings would probably be helpful on this point. You can read a lot of scientific texts from the 1700s on http://archive.org . I haven't gone back that far, but even in the late 1800s, many doctors invented their own instruments.
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Relevant context: elite culture response to the Royal Society https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virtuoso …pic.twitter.com/J1zAsZPeok
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