AI Tracks Early European Astronomy

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Using AI, historians track how astronomy ideas spread in the 16th century

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Researchers used AI to examine a digitized collection of 359 astronomy textbooks published from 1472 to 1650 .

These books were used to teach introductory classes on geocentric astronomy.

One of the team’s major findings is that textbooks printed in Wittenberg , Germany , in the 1530s were widely imitated elsewhere in Europe .

Human historians must always be part of the process, the researchers stress. This work “shows how historians can in the future deal with artificial intelligence methods, and cleverly use them without this utopian or dystopian illusion that they can do the work for you,” Renn says. “They’re just a fantastic new tool that helps us understand history as a broad stream of human actions and human thinking, and not just a string of singular events.”.

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