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"This paper explores the rhetorical strategies Newton deployed to convince his audience that his conclusions were certain and unchallengeable."

Fara Patricia. 2015 Newton shows the light: a commentary on Newton (1672) ‘A letter … containing his new theory about light and colours…’ Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A. 373: 20140213. 20140213 doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2014.0213 @science @physics @earlymodern

Kolev, S. (2023). WHEN LIBERTY PRESUPPOSES ORDER: F. A. HAYEK’S CONTEXTUAL ORDOLIBERALISM. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 1-24. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S1053837223000 @histodon @histodons @historyofeconomics

🇺🇸 "In this column, Elaine LaFay shows that historical weather data reveal far more than a changing climate: they play a key role in American settler-colonialism in the context of U.S. expansion into the Gulf South."

LaFay, E. (2023). Looking at the Weather: The Politics of Meteorological Data. Harvard Data Science Review, 5(3). doi.org/10.1162/99608f92.dab5e @histodon @histodons

"In this paper, we discuss Babylonian observations of a “massing of the planets” reported in two Astronomical Diaries, BM 32562 and BM 46051. This extremely rare astronomical phenomenon was observed in Babylon between 20 and 30 March 185 BC shortly before sunrise when all five planets were simultaneously visible for about 10 to 15 min close to the horizon in the eastern morning sky."

de Jong, T., Hunger, H. Babylonian observations of a unique planetary configuration. Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 74, 587–603 (2020). doi.org/10.1007/s00407-020-002 @science

Martin, C. (2022). Medicine and the heavens in Padua's Faculty of Arts, 1570–1630. The British Journal for the History of Science, 1-15. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0007087422000 @science @histodon @histodons

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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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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🇳🇱 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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🇺🇸 Kaalund, N. (2023). Erasure as a Tool of Nineteenth-Century European Exploration, and the Arctic Travels of Tookoolito and Ipiirvik. The Historical Journal, 66(1), 122-140. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X22000 @histodon @histodons

🇩🇪 Galofré-Vilà, G., Meissner, C., McKee, M., & Stuckler, D. (2021). Austerity and the Rise of the Nazi Party. The Journal of Economic History, 81(1), 81-113. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0022050720000 @histodon @histodons @historyofeconomics

"It took most of human history for our population to reach 1 billion—and just over 200 years to reach 8 billion. But growth has begun slowing, as women have fewer babies on average. When will our global population peak? And how can we minimize our impact on Earth’s resources, even as we approach 10 billion?" youtu.be/vJ5p3pZlBi4 @histodon @histodons

"A team of historians and scientists wanted to map cultural mobility, so they tracked the births and deaths of notable individuals like David, King of Israel, and Leonardo da Vinci, from 600 BC to the present day. Using them as a proxy for skills and ideas, their map reveals intellectual hotspots and tracks how empires rise and crumble". youtu.be/4gIhRkCcD4U @science @histodon @histodons

🇬🇧 🇪🇬 🇨🇭 Loy, M. (2023). GEORGE FINLAY IN EGYPT AND SWITZERLAND: NINETEENTH-CENTURY TRAVEL, SCHOLARSHIP AND SOCIAL NETWORKS. The Antiquaries Journal, 1-25. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0003581523000 @histodon @histodons

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