Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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From the Neustrian March to the Capetian Duchy. https://salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2023/06/27/charter-a-week-91-from-the-neustrian-march-to-the-capetian-duchy/ #History #France #Europe #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/RalphTorta/status/1673685360981803010
"The New England states, particularly Massachusetts, strongly opposed the War of 1812 because they felt it was unnecessary and worried it would negatively impact New England’s economy." https://historyofmassachusetts.org/war-of-1812/ #History #USA #Massachusetts #NewEngland #Britain #C19th #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/HistoryofMass/status/1673312403419721729
"Writing Doom: Old and New Perspectives on the Dutch Republic and its Disaster Year (1672)" https://emlc-journal.org/article/view/14879/16812 #History #Writing #Books #EarlyModern #OpenAccess #OA #Europe #Dutch #C17th #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/A_der_Weduwen/status/1673311788232855555
"Alexandria pioneered the concept of a universal library, seeking to compile all of the known knowledge in the world in one place." https://www.humanprogress.org/centers-of-progress-pt-8/ #History #Library #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/HumanProgress/status/1673356701624311809
"A film exploring the development of the quill pen, from its earliest known depiction to the birth of the fountain pen." https://youtu.be/36h1vt-9sss #YouTube #video #history #writing #pens #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
"Scholars have assumed that peace was broadly welcomed, especially among the English mercantile community. Yet many merchants had made vast fortunes from the war, through privateering or opening trade routes with Spain’s imperial territories."
Source: Alexandra Gajda, War, peace and commerce and the Treaty of London (1604), Historical Research, 2023;, htad011, https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htad011 #History #England #Spain #C17th #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
"They walk us through just how banking and finance was done in the days before computers, telephones and even the telegraph." https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lots/this-is-how-finance-and-banking-worked-before-comp #books #bookstodon #podcast #history #histodon #histodons #economics #finance #C18th @bookstodon @histodon @histodons @economics
Source: https://twitter.com/PrincetonUPress/status/1671954205756588033
"When Thomas Jefferson ran for president, his opponents attacked him as an atheist. But was this true? What did Jefferson believe?" https://youtu.be/CXKc7MMB1uQ #video #history #histodon #histodons #USA #religion #christianity #bible @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/andrewmarkhenry/status/1671934702662434831
"this book is an invaluable companion to students and lecturers alike in exploring women’s history in the fields of science, technology, mathematics, medicine and culture." https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/211143 #OpenAccess #OA #history #histodon #histodons #science #bookstodon #books #book #maths #technology #medicine #culture @bookstodon @histodon @histodons @science
Source: https://twitter.com/UCLpress/status/1671503733564358656
"Diogenes engaged in shocking behavior to demonstrate the contradictions, small-mindedness, and sheer absurdity of prevailing social conventions." https://bigthink.com/thinking/dangerous-ideas-diogenes-cynic/ #Books #History #Philosophy #bookstodon #histodon #histodons @bookstodon @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/bigthink/status/1663956921051643904
Sebastian Brock: The Syriac Tradition and East -West Christian Ecumenism https://youtu.be/hH9MFta3WWU #YouTube #Video #Christianity #History #Religion #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Alfred Hiatt (2022) The Map of Britain in British Library, MS Harley 1808, Imago Mundi, 74:2, 173-188, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2022.2130518 #Map #Maps #Cartography #Britain #C15th #OpenAccess #OA #History #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Aleksi Huhta (2023) Fragile Connections: Finnish Settlers and U.S. Power in Cuba, c. 1904–1959, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 51:3, 534-554, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2023.2205692
#OpenAccess #OA #USA #History #Cuba #histodon #histodons
@histodon @histodons
"He became the first to report the phenomenon of coupled oscillation in two pendulum clocks (which he invented) in his bedroom while recovering from an illness in 1665." https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201706/history.cfm #History #Science #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @science
Source: https://twitter.com/APSphysics/status/1669812115920568320
Nall, J., Taub, L., & Willmoth, F. (Eds.). (2019). The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Objects and Investigations, to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of R. S. Whipple's Gift to the University of Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108633628 #History #Science #Technology #Medicine #histodon #histodons #openaccess #oa #books #bookstodon @bookstodon @histodon @histodons @science
"Archaeologists in Iceland have found a sandstone carved with a Viking ship that may be the oldest picture ever found in the country." https://www.icelandreview.com/culture/stone-carved-with-viking-ship-may-be-oldest-picture-ever-found-in-iceland/ #Archaeology #History #Iceland #Vikings #archaeodons #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
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Source: https://twitter.com/ThomasSmaberg/status/1669449881151209475
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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Joined Nov 2022
