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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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"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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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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Valleriani, M., Vogl, M., el-Hajj, H., & Pham, K. (2022). The Network of Early Modern Printers and Its Impact on the Evolution of Scientific Knowledge: Automatic Detection of Awareness Relationships. Histories, 2(4), 466–503. MDPI AG. Retrieved from dx.doi.org/10.3390/histories20 @earlymodern @histodon @histodons

"Al-Biruni (973-1048) was one of the greatest scientists of all times. He was an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, and studied physics and natural sciences. In this paper, we will discuss some of his experimental methods and some instruments he used."

Carolina Sparavigna, Amelia. (2013). The Science of Al-Biruni. International Journal of Sciences, Volume 2(2013-12), 52–60. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3348540 @histodon @histodons @science @medievodons

"Stephen Fry takes a look inside the story of Johann Gutenberg, inventor of the world's first printing press in the 15th century, and an exploration of how and why the machine was invented." youtu.be/uQ88yC35NjI @histodon @histodons @bookstodon

Breathnach CS. Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682). Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 2005;98(1):33-36. doi: doi.org/10.1177/01410768050980 @science

Michael D. Bennett (2022) Caribbean plantation economies as colonial models: The case of the English East India Company and St. Helena in the late seventeenth century, Atlantic Studies, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2022. @histodon @histodons @earlymodern

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Pickard, C., & Bonsall, C. (2022). Reassessing Neolithic Diets in Western Scotland. Humans, 2(4), 226–250. MDPI AG. Retrieved from dx.doi.org/10.3390/humans20400 @archaeodons @histodon @histodons

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Redding, B. (2023). The Western Design Revised: Death, Dissent, and Discontent on the Gloucester, 1654–1656. The Historical Journal, 1-26. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X23000 @histodon @histodons

"We extracted ancient DNA from a recently exposed fracture surface of a clay brick deriving from the palace of king Ashurnasirpal II (883–859 BCE) in Nimrud, Iraq. We detected 34 unique taxonomic groups of plants."

Arbøll, T.P., Rasmussen, S.L., de Jonge, N. et al. Revealing the secrets of a 2900-year-old clay brick, discovering a time capsule of ancient DNA. Sci Rep 13, 13092 (2023). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-381 @science

🇳🇱 "His work ranged over a wide array of topics, though he is best known to philosophers today for his contributions to the natural law theories of normativity which emerged in the later medieval and early modern periods."

Miller, Jon, "Hugo Grotius", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), plato.stanford.edu/archives/sp @philosophy @histodon @histodons @earlymodern

"It has influenced Star Wars and Game of Thrones – and characters as diverse as Voltaire, Nietzsche and Freddie Mercury have cited it as an inspiration. So what is Zoroastrianism? Joobin Bekhrad finds out." bbc.com/culture/article/201704 @histodon @histodons

🇯🇵 Koganebuchi, K., Matsunami, M., Imamura, M. et al. Demographic history of Ryukyu islanders at the southern part of the Japanese Archipelago inferred from whole-genome resequencing data. J Hum Genet (2023). doi.org/10.1038/s10038-023-011 @science

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Birkett, T. (2023). Vine-workers of the Lord: A Reading of the Runic Sequence and Imagery of the Tollemache Orosius Flyleaf. Anglo-Saxon England, 1-28. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0263675123000 @histodon @histodons @medievodons

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