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Burnett, D. G. (2005). Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest: Lens Making Machines and Their Significance in the Seventeenth Century. United States: American Philosophical Society. google.co.uk/books/edition/Des @science @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (49)

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Donne, J. (1624). Devotions Vpon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: Digested Into I. Meditations Upon Our Humane Condition. 2. Expostuvlations, and Debatements with God. 3. Prayers, Upon the Seuerall Occasions, to Him. United Kingdom: A.M.. google.co.uk/books/edition/Dev @bookstodon (50)

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Keiser, J. (2022). Non-Ideal Foundations of Language (1st ed.). Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9781003188537 @philosophy @bookstodon (51)

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"Are we being manipulated online? If so, is being manipulated by online technologies and algorithmic systems notably different from human forms of manipulation? And what is under threat exactly when people are manipulated online?"

Jongepier, F., & Klenk, M. (Eds.). (2022). The Philosophy of Online Manipulation (1st ed.). Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9781003205425 @philosophy @bookstodon (52)

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von Mallinckrodt, R., Köstlbauer, J. & Lentz, S. (2021). Beyond Exceptionalism: Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650–1850. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. doi.org/10.1515/9783110748833 @histodon @histodons @earlymodern @bookstodon (53)

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Roelli, P. (2021). Latin as the Language of Science and Learning. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. doi.org/10.1515/9783110745832 @histodon @histodons @linguistics @bookstodon (54)

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"In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas."

Barth, J. (2022). The Currency of Empire: Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. doi.org/10.1515/9781501755781 @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (55)

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Van Rooy, R. (12 Apr. 2023). New Ancient Greek in a Neo-Latin World. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. doi.org/10.1163/9789004547902 @earlymodern @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (56)

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"Traces of Ink. Experiences of Philology and Replication is a collection of original papers exploring the textual and material aspects of inks and ink-making in a number of premodern cultures (Babylonia, the Graeco-Roman world, the Syriac milieu and the Arabo-Islamic tradition)."

(Eds.). (22 Feb. 2021). Traces of Ink. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. doi.org/10.1163/9789004444805 @science @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (57)

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"A Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity covers the period from 3000 BCE to 600 CE, ranging across the civilizations of the Mediterranean and Near East. Over this long period, chemical artisans, recipes, and ideas were exchanged between Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome, and Byzantium."

Beretta, M. (Ed.). (2022). A Cultural History Of Chemistry: In Antiquity. London,: Bloomsbury Academic. Retrieved September 10, 2023, from dx.doi.org/10.5040/97814742037
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"Facilitates an in-depth understanding of data-intensive methods

Is the most advanced survey of data practices across the sciences

Presents a ground-breaking and comprehensive framework for data studies".

Leonelli, S., & Tempini, N. (2020). Data Journeys in the Sciences. In Springer eBooks. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-3717 @philosophy @science @bookstodon (59)

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🇳🇱 van Lohuizen, J. (22 Oct. 2014). The Dutch East India Company and Mysore 1762-1790, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/9789004286559 [Accessed 19 September 2023] @histodon @histodons @earlymodern @bookstodon (60)

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Radice, R., and Runia, D. (. (22 Dec. 2015). Philo of Alexandria, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/9789004312753 [Accessed 20 September 2023]. @philosophy @philosophyofreligion @bookstodon (61)

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de Blois, L., and Rich, J. (eds) (28 May. 2019). The Transformation of Economic Life under the Roman Empire, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/9789004401624 [Accessed 20 September 2023]. @histodon
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Giusfredi, F., Pisaniello, V., & Matessi, A. (03 Jul. 2023). Contacts of Languages and Peoples in the Hittite and Post-Hittite World. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. doi.org/10.1163/9789004548633 @linguistics @bookstodon (63)

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Williams, J. (2018). Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: doi.org/10.1017/9781108453004 @philosophy
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"He demonstrates how imperial Christianity inflected the production of truth far beyond the domain of theology — and how intellectual tools forged in the fires of doctrinal controversy shed their theological baggage and came to undergird the great intellectual productions of the Theodosian Age, and their material expressions."

Letteney, M. (2023). The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: doi.org/10.1017/9781009363341 @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (65)

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"Matthew Leporati argues that the epic revival not only reflects but also interrogates this evangelical turn. The first to examine the impact of the missionary work on epic literature, this book offers sustained analysis of both under-read and canonical works, bringing fresh historical and literary contexts to bear on our understanding of this unique revival of epic poetry."

Leporati, M. (2023). Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: doi.org/10.1017/9781009285155 @bookstodon (66)

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"After introducing plural logic and its main applications, the book provides a systematic analysis of the relation between this logic and other theoretical frameworks such as set theory, mereology, higher-order logic, and modal logic."

Florio, Salvatore, and Øystein Linnebo, The Many and the One: A Philosophical Study of Plural Logic (Oxford, 2021; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 Sept. 2021), doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791, accessed 4 Dec. 2023. @philosophy @bookstodon (67)

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"This book provides the first full history of phrenitis. In doing so, it surveys ancient ideas about the interactions between body and soul, both in health and in disease. It also addresses ancient ideas about bodily health, mental soundness and moral 'goodness', and their heritage in contemporary psychiatric ideas."

Thumiger, C. (2023). Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought: (Fifth Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: doi.org/10.1017/9781009241311 @bookstodon (68)

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"Experts have been selected to create a multidisciplinary volume with a thematic approach to the vast subject, tackling administration, army, economy, law, mobility, religion (local and imperial religions and Christianity), social status, and urbanism. They situate the phenomena of Latinization, literacy, bi-, and multilingualism within local and broader social developments and draw together materials and arguments that have not before been coordinated in a single volume."

Mullen, Alex (ed.), Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West (Oxford, 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 14 Dec. 2023), doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198887, accessed 16 Dec. 2023.
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"This interdisciplinary study analyses the connections between literary Modernism and right-wing ideology. Moreover, it is the first academic study to explore the reception of these Modernist authors by today's far right, seeking to understand in what ways they use strategic readings of Modernist texts to legitimise right-wing ideology."

Frisch, K. (2019) The F-Word. Pound, Eliot, Lewis, and the far right. doi.org/10.30819/4972. @bookstodon (70)

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"Personal names provide fascinating testimony to Babylonia's multi-ethnic society. This volume offers a practical introduction to the repertoire of personal names recorded in cuneiform texts from Babylonia in the first millennium BCE. In this period, individuals moved freely as well as involuntarily across the ancient Middle East, leaving traces of their presence in the archives of institutions and private persons in southern Mesopotamia."

Waerzeggers, Caroline, and Melanie M. Groß, eds. Personal Names in Cuneiform Texts from Babylonia (c. 750–100 BCE): An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781009291071 @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (71)

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"This book does not attempt to answer this seemingly unsolvable puzzle either but aims to shed light on a simple fact usually overlooked by linguists and laypeople alike: the conceptual pair is not a timeless given but has a history, and a much shorter one than one might assume."

Van Rooy, Raf, Language or Dialect? The History of a Conceptual Pair (Oxford, 2020; online edn, Oxford Academic, 19 Nov. 2020), doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198845, accessed 24 Dec. 2023. @linguistics @medievodons @earlymodern @bookstodon (72)

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"He explores the practical implementation of the texts in their ancient setting through analyses of codicological aspects, paratextual elements, and scribal features. Linjamaa's research supports the hypothesis that the Nag Hammadi texts had their origins in Pachomian monasticism. He shows how Pachomian monks used the texts for textual edification, spiritual development and pedagogical practices."

Linjamaa P. The Nag Hammadi Codices and Their Ancient Readers: Exploring Textual Materiality and Reading Practice. Cambridge University Press; 2024. DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781009441483 @religion @bookstodon (73)

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"Byzantine Ideas of Persia, 650–1461 focusses on the enduring position of ancient Persia in Byzantine cultural memory, encompassing both in the ‘religious’ and the ‘secular’ significance. By analysing a wide range of historical sources – from church literature to belles- lettres – this book examines the intricate relationship between ancient Persia and Byzantine cultural memory, as well as the integration and function of Persian motifs in the Byzantine mentality."

Shukurov, R. (2023). Byzantine Ideas of Persia, 650–1461 (1st ed.). Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9781003205197 @bookstodon (74)

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"Less appreciated, however, are the deep historical roots of this convergence process, and in particular of the spread of modern industry to the global periphery. This book fills this gap by providing a systematic, comparative, historical account of the spread of modern manufacturing beyond its traditional heartland, to Southern and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America, or what we call the poor periphery."

O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj, and Jeffrey Gale Williamson (eds), The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery since 1871 (Oxford, 2017; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 Mar. 2017), doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/978, accessed 12 Jan. 2024. @econhist @historyofeconomics @bookstodon (75)

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"Most of the papers in this volume originated as presentations at the conference Biblical Hebrew and Rabbinic Hebrew: New Perspectives in Philology and Linguistics, which was held at the University of Cambridge, 8–10th July, 2019. The aim of the conference was to build bridges between various strands of research in the field of Hebrew language studies that rarely meet, namely philologists working on Biblical Hebrew, philologists working on Rabbinic Hebrew and theoretical linguists."

Hornkohl, A.D. and Khan, G. (2021) 'New perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew,' in Semitic languages and cultures. doi.org/10.11647/obp.0250. @linguistics @bookstodon (76)

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"Taken together, the essays reveal the dynamics of what the editors call an "imperial commons," a lively, empire-wide print culture. They show that neither empire nor book were stable, self-evident constructs. Each helped to legitimize the other."

Hofmeyr, Isabel, and Antoinette Burton. Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons. 1 ed., Durham: Duke University Press, 2015., doi.org/10.1353/book.70934. @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (77)

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"It is about the Land according to the redefined Judaism that emerged in the centuries following the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE. This Judaism replaced the temple cult with Torah study - a study that pertained in part to that very temple cult, that became a portable homeland, and that reconfigured the Land."

Cordoni, C. (01 Mar. 2024). Reconfiguring the Land of Israel, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/9789004696761 [Accessed 02 April 2024]. @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (78)

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"Studying texts from the cities and countryside and tracking developments over time, Alstola shows that there was notable diversity in the Judeans’ socio-economic status and integration into Babylonian society."

Alstola, T. (19 Dec. 2019). Judeans in Babylonia, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/9789004365421 [Accessed 29 April 2024]

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"How did Asia come to be represented on European World maps? When and how did Asian Countries adopt a continental system for understanding the world? How did countries with disparate mapping traditions come to share a basic understanding and vision of the globe? "

Hostetler, L. (eds) (31 Jan. 2024). Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: The East Asian Legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/9789004684782 [Accessed 30 April 2024]

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Early Modern Genres of History

Johnsen, E.N., & Stovner, I.L. (Eds.). (2024). Early Modern Genres of History (1st ed.). Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9781003331971


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"Examining the global movements of enslaved persons, soldiers, convicts, and refugees across land and sea, Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions presents a deeply entangled history. The book explores the binaries of 'free' and 'unfree' mobility, analyzing the agency and resistance of those moved against their will."

Jansen, J.C. and McKenzie, K. (eds.) (2024) Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions: A Global History, c. 1750–1830. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Publications of the German Historical Institute). DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781009370578.

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Languages from the World of the Bible

"The breakthrough of the alphabetic script early in the first millennium BCE coincides with the appearance of several new languages and civilizations in ancient Syria-Palestine. Together, they form the cultural setting in which ancient Israel, the Hebrew Bible, and, transformed by Hellenism, the New Testament took shape."

Gzella, H. 2011. Languages from the World of the Bible. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. degruyter.com/document/doi/10.

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<strong>Science of Naples: Making knowledge in Italy’s Pre-Eminent City, 1500–1800</strong>

"_Individual chapters demonstrate the extent to which Neapolitan scholars and academies contributed to debates within the Republic of Letters that continued until deep into the nineteenth century. They also show how studies of Neapolitan natural disasters yielded unique insights that contributed to the development of fields such as medicine and earth sciences._"

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**Indo-European Interfaces: Integrating Linguistics, Mythology and Archaeology**

"_With this book, we want to apply a multidisciplinary approach that combines historical linguistics, archaeology, and comparative religion in order to improve our understanding of the early speakers of Indo-European._"

Larsson, J., Olander, T. and Jørgensen, A.R., 2024. Indo-European Interfaces: Integrating Linguistics, Mythology and Archaeology. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. DOI: doi.org/10.16993/bcn

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 📚 **Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601–1698**

"_Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of English overseas government and various models of religious governance across England's emerging colonial empire._"

doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-7013

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🔴 📖 **Medicine in an Age of Revolution**

"_This work is the first major attempt since the 1970s to challenge the idea that the essential engine of medical (and scientific) change in seventeenth-century Britain emanated from puritanism. It seeks to reaffirm the crucial role of the period of the civil wars and their aftermath in providing the most congenial context for a re-evaluation of traditional attitudes to medicine._"

Elmer, Peter, Medicine in an Age of Revolution (Oxford, 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 28 Sept. 2023), doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198853, accessed 9 July 2024.

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🔴 📖 **‘The Edge of Sentience’ now available online!**

"_LSE Philosophy Professor Jonathan Birch has published his new book ‘The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI’ with Oxford University Press. The online version is available for free now!_"

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🔴 📖 **The Diagrammatics of 'Race' Visualizing Human Relatedness in the History of Physical, Evolutionary, and Genetic Anthropology, ca. 1770-2020**

"_The Diagrammatics of 'Race' concentrates on Western projects from the late 1700s into the present to diagrammatically define humanity, subdividing and ordering it, including the concomitant endeavors to acquire representative samples―bones, blood, or DNA―from all over the world._"

doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0396

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🔴 📖 **From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond**

"_This volume marks the first edited collection to be dedicated to the study of Josephus, Yosippon, and their reception histories. Consisting of critical inquiries into one or both of these texts and their afterlives, the essays in this volume pave the way for future research on the Josephan tradition in Greek, Latin, Hebrew and beyond._"

Bay, C., Avioz, M., and van Henten, J. W. (eds) (06 Jun. 2024). From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/9789004693296 [Accessed 06 September 2024]

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🔴 📖 Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire

"...brings together scholars of Achaemenid history, literature and religion, Iranian linguistics, historians of the Ancient Near East, archeologists, biblical scholars and Semiticists. The goal is to better understand the interchange of ideas, expressions and concepts as well as the experience of historical events between Yahwists and the empire that ruled over them for over two centuries."

Barnea, G. and Kratz, R. 2024. Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire: Professor Shaul Shaked in Memoriam. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. doi.org/10.1515/9783111018638.

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🔴 📖 Plutarch's Science of Natural Problems

"By providing a thorough study of and commentary on this generally neglected text, written by one of the most influential and prolific writers from Antiquity, this book contributes to our better understanding of Plutarch’s natural scientific programme and the condition and role of ancient natural science in the Roman Imperial Era in general."

Meeusen, M. (2017) Plutarch’s Science of Natural Problems. doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1pwtcsk.

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@bibliolater @philosophy @bookstodon 👆anyone here interested in debate about LLMs, AI, and sentience might find chapters 15, 16, and 17 of interest #LLM #AI

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Thank you for the suggestion.

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