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Re:Scientists Reveal How the Maya Predicted Eclipses for Cen... by hdevarajan on Thursday November 20, 2025 @05:23PM (#45998670)
“Unfortunately, much of this knowledge – and the texts that contained it – was destroyed during the Spanish Inquisition, leaving only a few bits and pieces from which to reconstruct these advanced methods for celestial prediction.“ Not the Inquisition, which happened on a different continent!
Re:Scientists Reveal How the Maya Predicted Eclipses for Cen... by makeitdouble on Thursday November 20, 2025 @05:58PM (#45999037)
It's the shorter name of the agency, which indeed also operated in America

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition

> The inquisition expanded to other domains under the Spanish Crown, including Southern Italy and the Americas, while also targeting those accused of alumbradismo, Protestantism, witchcraft, blasphemy, bigamy, sodomy, Freemasonry, etc.