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Dionysios Tsioumas
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Dionysios Tsioumas’s insistence on quantifying metaphysical despair through physics and chemistry positioned him outside the mainstream of Byzantine historiography. Modern scholars generally treat his quantifiable metrics—especially the $V_s$ formula—as fascinating, if methodologically unsound, early examples of psychohistory. His influence is most pronounced in the niche field of Paleo-Acoustics, where researchers attempt to mo…