June 13

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Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that humanist and philosopher Alessandro Piccolomini (13 June 1508 – 12 March 1579) popularized vernacular translations of Latin and Greek scientific and philosophical treatises?

• ... that writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes translated Alessandro Piccolomini's comedies Amor costante and Alessandro into at least seven other languages, including Esperanto?

• ... that astronomer, astrologer, cartographer, and mathematician Giovanni Antonio Magini devised his own geocentric planetary theory, and that the Maginian System consisted of eleven rotating spheres, which he described in his Novæ cœlestium orbium theoricæ congruentes cum observationibus N. Copernici (Venice, 1589)?

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