{"id":673,"date":"2011-09-01T23:03:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T04:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/?p=673"},"modified":"2013-04-17T21:12:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T02:12:48","slug":"almanac-alchemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/673\/","title":{"rendered":"Almanac – Alchemy"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s almanac entry is alchemy<\/a> – the magic of Corthis. Magic isn’t really the right word for it. Corthis is a scientific world, but its science is difference than ours. It is modeled on the principles of science of the time of Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Ren\u00e9 Descartes,\u00a0and Gottfried Leibniz (or more generally, in the early years of the Royal Society of Great Britain and the Acad\u00e9mie des Sciences of France). This means Newtonian alchemy actually works. The spheres of the planetary spheres work per Kepler’s Platonic solids model (with a Corthis-centric model instead of a Helio-centric one). Anyway, please check out the first installment in the alchemy of Corthis. There will be many more as Blaise and Jassart begin to unravel the mysteries of the world – or more accurately trip over them.<\/p>\n

A few other things. We will not be updating a page on Monday because of the holiday (hurrah, Labor Day!). So look for the next page on Wednesday. I’m posting an extra-long almanac entry to cover Monday.<\/p>\n

Also, Snow by Night will be in the Artists’ Alley of Intervention<\/a>. This is my favorite convention of the year (with perhaps GenCon being a close second.). It’s an incredible event. I’ll be on two different panels: (1) Young Punks Kicking It: the new kids on the block at 1 p.m. on Saturday and (2) Writing and Creating Three Dimensional Characters at 1 p.m. on Sunday. You should come and see us and this great convention.<\/p>\n

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