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hdevarajan | 3 months ago

“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!

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makeitdouble|3 months ago

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.