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Re:In 1783, an English rector predicted black holes using cl... by tablespoon on Thursday October 28, 2021 @12:09PM (#29027694)
> Here's a more reputable source than me:

Care to give a citation?

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Re:In 1783, an English rector predicted black holes using cl... by whimsicalism on Thursday October 28, 2021 @12:23PM (#29027845)
Okay, on second glance I appear to give undue weight to things with footnotes. https://www.nndb.com/people/607/000107286/

The reasoning in general makes sense, and the evidence they bring to bear re: Swift is somewhat convincing to me.

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Re:In 1783, an English rector predicted black holes using cl... by tablespoon on Thursday October 28, 2021 @12:46PM (#29028118)
The main text of that entry appears to be a slightly-reworked version of the public-domain 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica, but the Google Books image doesn't have the footnote you quoted. I'm guessing it's original to that NNDB site, which probably started with the encyclopedia like Wikipedia did.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Encyclopaedia_Brita...

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