Look at that poor cow, mooing unhappily at the lightning strike. Look at that burning church steeple. Look at the dogs in the boat, frightened and howling at their master as he rows through the storm.
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@mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gyLook at that poor cow, mooing unhappily at the lightning strike. Look at that burning church steeple. Look at the dogs in the boat, frightened and howling at their master as he rows through the storm.
@mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gyAncient and Renaissance #meteorology is ridiculous. They thought that wind direction was qualitatively informative regardless of topography and the local direction towards the sea. They thought the Moon influenced the weather.
@mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy#Goodmorning from rainy Fisksätra before dawn. Today: read #olausmagnus, a walk with my wife, pack car for trek to college, sorry, I mean my new job in Hallstahammar. And you?
@mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy#olausmagnus dedicated his big book to his powerful colleague Adolf von Schaumburg, the Archbishop of Cologne. In the text of the book itself though, Adolf only features once. This is when Olaus mentions how happy he was when Adolf managed to get a shipment of Norwegian dried cod to the Council […]
@mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gyI'm going to be tooting a lot about #olausmagnus (1490-1557) in the following months as I read his enormous brick of a book from 1555, "Description of the Northern Peoples".
His pen name means Olaus the Great.* His real name in Swedish was Olof Månsson Svinfot. The last name means "pig's […]
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