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"The first comprehensive edition and translation of Old English writings on health and healing in more than 150 years." https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674290822
#book #History #Science #Medical #bookstodon #histodons #medieval #England @histodon
Source: https://twitter.com/MedievalUpdates/status/1657304296776450048
American explorations in the West, 1803-1852 https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:q524n199 #Map #History #USA
Source: https://twitter.com/bplmaps/status/1652523217389494272
Ian Stewart (2023) William Jones’ Legacy in Britain: Philology, Mythography, Ethnology, Global Intellectual History, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2023.2184406 #Philology #Mythography #Ethnology #History #Britain #Histodons @histodon
Did the Phoenicians circumnavigate Africa? https://www.badancient.com/claims/phoenicians-africa/ #History #Histodons #Africa #Ancient @histodon
Source: https://twitter.com/BadAncient/status/1652011522665611269
Lost and found: in praise of Cardinal Wolsey https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2023/04/lost-and-found-in-praise-of-cardinal-wolsey.html #Latin #Medieval #Literature #EarlyModern #History #Histodons @histodon
Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKDCuj8VB9U #YouTube #Video #History #England #English #Histodons @histodon
Source: https://twitter.com/OUPHistory/status/1652249845204238337
Stock, P. (2023). The Idea of Asia in British Geographical Thought, 1652–1832. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 1-24. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0080440123000026 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Britain #Geography #Asia #Books #histodons
"In this book, Monika Amsler explores the historical contexts in which the Babylonian Talmud was formed in an effort to determine whether it was the result of oral transmission." https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009297349 #Ancient #History #Histodons #Religion #OpenAccess #OA #Book #Bookstodon
"Historians have puzzled over the secret to the success of this first great European queen – a woman who provided a model for her granddaughter, England’s Queen Mary I, and for other great queens like Elizabeth I, Victoria or Catherine the Great." https://tudortimes.co.uk/guest-articles/isabella-of-castile #History #Spain #Europe #Histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/thetudortimes/status/1649743230471159808
"Wilhelm Schickard was a German astronomer who invented a calculating machine long before Pascal. He worked on astronomy, mathematics and surveying." https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schickard/ #Maths #History #histodons #Science #Mathstodon
Source: https://twitter.com/mathshistory/status/1649705356841369601
"As the exhibition emphasizes, the form of the European book could not have happened without the trade of natural materials to Europe from different parts of the globe – primarily Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-libraries-and-archives/2023/04/19/how-artistic-traditions-and-natural-materials-combined-to-form-the-modern-book/ #Books #Bookstodon #History #Histodons #bookbinding
Source: https://twitter.com/SmithsonianMag/status/1649827406012641280
Facts and Figures: A History of Medicines https://www.pastmedicalhistory.co.uk/facts-and-figures-a-history-of-medicines/ #history #histodons #histodon #science #medicines
Source: https://twitter.com/PastMedHistory/status/1647223248810307584
"Dr. Samuel Johnson, perhaps now most famous for the creation of the first major dictionary of the English language, was regarded as the leading literary Englishman of the mid-18th century. Other notable works included a study of Shakespeare’s plays and a major critical study of English poets." https://www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/dr-samuel-johnson/ #history #histodons #biography #English #literature
Source: https://twitter.com/LondonStone/status/1647143972655996934
The Travel Account of Francisco Álvares: Ethiopian-European Relations in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/blog/the_travel_account #history #histodons #europe #ethiopia
Source: https://twitter.com/Warwick_Global/status/1645791130137812996
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
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