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"In this article, two networks, one created from archaeological finds and the other from the writings of four medieval travellers, are analysed using various Social Network Analysis centrality measures and Complex Systems Science models and are compared to each other in order to explore the importance of various Mediterranean settlements and the ways in which movement occurred around the region, investigating whether they challenge or support current understandings."

Annabel Hancock, Tracing connections: using network analysis to study trade and movement in the Mediterranean in the 11th to 14th centuries, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2023;, fqad056, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad056 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #History #Data #Digital #Humanities #Mediterranean #Academia #Academic #Academics

"In this article, after briefly describing the meaning of the notion of truth, I have tried to analyse the relation between value and science in detail and provide an explanation for the present-day hypertrophic, rigid, and not reality-bound value system and its ideological penetration into science and medicine."

Bikfalvi, A. (2023). The Notion of Truth in Sciences and Medicine, Why it Matters and Why We Must Defend It. European Review, 31(5), 498-509. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1062798723000261 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Philosophy #Science #PhilosophyOfScience #Truth #History #Academia #Academic #Academics #Europe @philosophy @philosophyofscience @science

Geller, Markham J. (ed.) (2014). Melammu: The Ancient World in an Age of Globalization. Berlin: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften. DOI: https://doi.org/10.34663/9783945561003-00 #Ancient #Antiquity #History #Globalization #Culture #Language #Literature #Trade #Mediterranean #Mesopotamia #Anatolia #Persia #India @antiquidons

Becchi, Antonio, Meli, Domenico Bertoloni and Gamba, Enrico (eds.) (2013). Guidobaldo del Monte (1545–1607): Theory and Practice of the Mathematical Disciplines from Urbino to Europe. Berlin: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften. DOI: https://doi.org/10.34663/9783945561218-00 #History #EarlyModern #C16th #16thCentury #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Science #Italy #Europe @science @earlymodern

"The disaster appeared to have destroyed the scrolls for good, but nearly 2,000 years later researchers have extracted the first word from one of the texts, using artificial intelligence to peer deep inside the delicate, charred remains."
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/oct/12/researchers-use-ai-to-read-word-on-ancient-scroll-burned-by-vesuvius #Science #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Italy #Archaeology #Museum #Classics #Ancient #History @science @archaeodons

"This paper demonstrates that the highly accurate depiction of the Indian Ocean on the Carta marina of Martin Waldseemueller from 1516 is mainly caused by the extremely powerful political and economic interests of the Portuguese Crown and the Upper German-trading companies in the conflict with the Kingdom of Castile over supremacy in the spice trade in India."

Martin Lehmann | Peter Stanley Fosl (Reviewing editor) (2020) The Carta Marina of Martin Waldseemüller from 1516 – political geography in context of the struggle for the spices of Southeast India, Cogent Arts & Humanities, 7:1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2020.1741983 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #History #Map #Maps #Cartography #Economics #Trade #Portugal #India #C16th #16thCentury #Europe #Asia #EarlyModern @historyofeconomics @earlymodern

"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: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009363341 #OpenAccess #OA #Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Religion #Christianity #Church #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (65)

"Our claim is that the book provides tools for solving questions about proportional lines inspired by results in music theory and a context of Pythagorean-Platonic interest in proportions."

Roy Wagner & Reviel Netz (2023) Between music and geometry: a proposal for the early intended application of Euclid’s Elements Book X, British Journal for the History of Mathematics, 38:2, 69-96, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/26375451.2023.2197351 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #STEM #History #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Euclid #Music #Geometry

"This article offers a fresh approach to the study of ‘Indo-Roman’ trade by defining the ‘players’ of the ‘game’ of Indian Ocean commerce in the early centuries of the Common Era."

Simmons, J. (2023). Behind gold for pepper: The players and the game of Indo-Mediterranean trade. Journal of Global History, 18(3), 343-364. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022823000165 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #Trade #India #Mediterranean #Commerce #Antiquity #Ancient @antiquidons @histodon @histodons

The Roman Empire after its division into the eastern and the western empires. Drawn by Dr. Charles Muller. Engraved by Edwd. Weller. London : John Murray. 1873. (to accompany) Dr. William Smith's Ancient atlas. 8. 1874. (inset) Empire of the Parthians. https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/euw816 #Map #Maps #MapHistory #History #Histodon #Histodons #Cartography #Roman #Empire @histodon @histodons

"(Composite of) Asia and its islands according to d'Anville; divided into empires, kingdoms, states, regions, &c. &c. with the European possessions and settlements in the East Indies and an exact delineation of all the discoveries made in the eastern parts by the English under Captn. Cook, Vancouver & Peyrouse. London, Publish'd by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53, Fleet Street, Feby. 2d, 1799." https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/a3y2oz #Map #Maps #MapHistory #History #Histodon #Histodons #Cartography #C18th #18thcentury #Empire #Europe #Asia @histodon @histodons

"Austrian Empire. By Sidney Hall. London, published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, Paternoster Row, Jany. 1, 1828." https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/95046q #Map #Maps #MapHistory #History #Histodon #Histodons #Cartography #C19th #19thcentury #Austria #Empire #Europe @histodon @histodons

🇫🇷 Rabinovitch Oded. 2023 The ‘system of the world’ and the scientific culture of early modern France. Notes Rec. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2022.0042 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Culture #History #HistSci #Astronomy #EarlyModern #France #Europe @science @earlymodern

"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 http://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2014.0213 #OpenAccess #OA #Review #Article #Optics #Newton #Descartes #History #Science #HistSci #Physics #C17th #17thCentury @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: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837223000214 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Economics #Histodon #Histodons #Hayek #Ordoliberalism @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). https://doi.org/10.1162/99608f92.dab5e00b #Data #Weather #Climate #Empire #Meteorology #History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #America @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). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-020-00252-1 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #STEM #Astronomy #History #Babylon #Academia #Academic #Academics @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: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087422000152 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Science #Histodon #Histodons @science @histodon @histodons

Unearthing #ancient #faith: #Byzantine #Greek inscription of Psalms 86 found in Hyrcania https://phys.org/news/2023-09-unearthing-ancient-faith-byzantine-greek.html #Archaeology #Byzantinum #Culture #Anthropology #History #Histodon #Histodons #Bible #Psalms @archaeodons @anthropology @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. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004548633 #OpenAccess #OA #Ancient #Language #Languages #AncientNearEast #Linguistics #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #History #Histodon #Histodons @linguistics @bookstodon (63)