SteveMcCluskey

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The current date and time is 21 July 2026 T 02:50 UTC.

Scientia donum dei est, unde vendi non potest. Knowledge is a gift of God; therefore it cannot be sold. Medieval aphorism.

...trolls are the driving force of Wikipedia. The worst trolls often spur the best editors into creating a brilliant article with watertight references where without the trollish ecapades we would only have a brief stub :) Dbachmann, Talk:Greek Language, 1 June 2006

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I have a PhD in History of Science and a BS in Physics

My interests are

History of Astronomy (generally from antiquity up to Kepler)
Medieval Science
Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy

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		The Original Barnstar
		SteveMcCluskey, I present to you this barnstar in recognition of your excellent work on (among many other things) Celestial spheres.--ragesoss 18:48, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

		The Special Barnstar
		Thought you should get one for your transformative edits to my favourite article. Thank you. :-) Serendi^podous 20:42, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

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