Talk:Thomas Dick (scientist)

Thomas Dick

I came across a book by Thomas Dick in the San Jose State University library; and, since it appeared to be very old, read parts of it. I found it to be very illuminating; and, so, I looked up his biography in a one-hundred-year-old reference book of Scottish/Irish/English personalities. It seemed to me that this fellow deserves to be remembered. Therefore, I wrote this article and linked it in to appropriate places in other articles. Leave me a note on my talk page or here if you have any comments or suggestions. Aletheia 16:28, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Adding image

I have added an image of Rev. Thomas Dick, from my article on Mills Observatory. --Cyril Thomas 11:59, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Changes

I made several changes to the article today, but will not have time to be a regular contributor. Many of Thomas Dick's books are available on-line and would make nice additions to his Wikipedia article. Assistance is invited and welcome. - Astrochemist (talk) 13:54, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Number of inhabitants solar system

I find his calculation in ´Celestial scenery´(first page of chapter VI). Nowhere in The Christian Philosopher. Pukkie (talk) 11:30, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Moves made as requested Mike Cline (talk) 12:59, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

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• Thomas Dick → Thomas Dick (scientist)
• Thomas Dick (disambiguation) → Thomas Dick

– There are two people of the name Thomas Dick on Wikipedia; this one and Thomas Dick (politician). This person is not the primary topic (April page views were 375 and 67), especially when one takes into account that a good number of the incoming links to this page were from the politician (which I will tidy up). I thus propose that the disambiguation page (that I have just set up) gets moved to this page, and this page gets disambiguated. It's a reasonably straightforward thing, apart from it not being obvious to me what the disambiguator for the Reverend should be. Schwede66 22:29, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

• Comment I would go a stage further, I would treat the New Zealand politician as the primary meaning. PatGallacher (talk) 01:35, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
• Support neither is obviously primary. Category:Ministers of the Church of Scotland suggests "Thomas Dick (minister)" as a disambiguator. In ictu oculi (talk) 00:27, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
• Support. Too ambiguous for a very obscure name. I'm not familiar with either one of them, but I'm not sure how relevant this is. Anyway, as for the "long-term", both have the same amount of "long-term". --George Ho (talk) 23:59, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Incoming links

I've tidied up the incoming links. Schwede66 18:32, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Mr. Thomas

In the "Influence and legacy" section we presently have, "In 1851, Mr. Thomas met William Wells Brown..." Who is Mr. Thomas? Friendly Person (talk) 23:15, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

Possible source

Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers 2007 p295-296 could be a source for some of this article. - Rod57 (talk) 22:04, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

God

I found it weird that you, English WASP, who rewrite history on Wikipedia, you don't mentioned that this guy, this light for humanity, thought that god (biggest scam ever taught to ignorants) had created the universe not to its own image, but to the one of the Great England. He had a great idea (for you Brits): he supposed that the moon had the same density as Earth, then he estimated that there was some people living in the universe. It is weird that this is not mentioned in Wikipedia, normally you Brits like the precise and accurate details, the fact checking and that binary mentality well Manichean...Hot or Cold ? Warm....Wrong answer...... Good or Bad ? Average........Wrong reply. God or Evil ? God are the Wasp. Evil, the rest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.63.134.26 (talk) 14:00, 25 April 2019 (UTC)