Listen in to this 4 minute BBC Reel where Astronomer Pedro Lacerda and Medievalist Maralina Cesario briefly tantalize us with a few facts from medieval astronomy.
I believe it may have been the Venerable Bede who correctly guessed the association between the moon and ocean tides - getting that question right nearly a thousand years before Galileo managed to get the same question wrong!
I wish this were longer, being the teaser that it is. Will have to see if a more complete version of their talk is posted somewhere else.
That is fascinating… the intersection of physical science and history.
And… I am one of those who tends to rag a lot on the middle ages. But the point is really that I have no desire to live in a world without science let alone without all the advantages it has given us in the last century.
