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posted by [personal profile] pauamma at 05:46pm on 12/12/2021 under ,
This preprint article about the nomenclature of astronomical objects, as far as I can tell, is about the history of uneasy coexistence between the taxonomy of astronomical bodies used by planetary scientists and that used by everyone else, and how they bleed into or gain prominence over each other. They cite cognitive scientists and philosophers of science abundantly, but not a single historian that I can see (nor is any of the authors a historian. Instead, they seem to rely a lot on primary sources. I'm not remotely familiar with methods in history, but this sounds bad to me. Am I missing something?
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posted by [personal profile] sara at 12:11am on 13/12/2021
Speaking as a historian: primary sources are better, and this entire piece is wankery that could be reduced to like four paragraphs but isn't because academics.
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posted by [personal profile] pauamma at 01:41am on 13/12/2021
Duly noted. Thanks. (Are you saying primary sources are better for historians, which I would take your word for since I'm not one, or for non-historians trying to piece together a historical or semi-historical account as seems to be the case here?)
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posted by [personal profile] sara at 02:04am on 13/12/2021
Better for everyone. It's fine to read someone else's interpretation but not to the exclusion of primary documents.
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posted by [personal profile] pauamma at 02:30am on 13/12/2021
*nods* Thanks again.

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