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"Admiral Medina Sidonia's flagship 'San Martin' is attacked off the coast of Dover from port by the English 'Rainbow' and from starboard by the Dutch 'Golden Lion', Dover, August 8, 1588. Admiral Medina Sidonia aka Cadiz." @earlymodern

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🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 "Yet the French East India Companies were major imperial and capitalist actors in their time. It was, after all, direct rivalry and competition between the British and French East India Companies that drove the establishment of British dominion in India in the decades after the global Seven Years’ War (1754–1763)." blog.oup.com/2023/09/a-free-ma @histodon @histodons @earlymodern

A new map of ye north parts of America, claimed by France under ye names of Louisiana, Mississipi, Canada & New France, with the adjoyning territories of England & Spain. By H. Moll Geographer. archive.org/details/dr_a-new-m ~via @internetarchive @histodon @histodons

credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.

"Put simply, these tools are not trustworthy for reporting facts. They may be the right tool for particular jobs, for example text-processing and organizing information. A person might use a generative AI tool to summarize some information or express some idea in history of mathematics."

Peter Rowlett (2024) Generative AI and accuracy in the history of mathematics, British Journal for the History of Mathematics, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/26375451.2024.

"This essay is a historical and epistemological exploration of a traditionally crazy economic event: the financial bubble. Venturing into two different moments in the history of economic thinking, it investigates financial bubbles as epistemic frontiers, where rationality has reached its limits."

Deringer, W. (2015) 'For what it’s worth: historical financial bubbles and the boundaries of economic rationality,' Isis, 106(3), pp. 646–656. doi.org/10.1086/683529. @histodon @histodons

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 "However, he was a mathematician of some skill, and his textbook The Elements of Mathematical Analysis, Abridged, for the Use of Students is of interest for his view of analysis. Though he was unable to complete a more comprehensive work for publication, many manuscripts survive in St Andrews University Library. Vilant’s book and manuscripts and the reception of his work are here examined."

Craik, A.D.D. (2012) 'A forgotten British analyst: Nicolas Vilant (1737–1807),' Historia Mathematica, 39(2), pp. 174–205. doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2011.10.0. @earlymodern @science

"I argue that Dee was interested in Nunes’ work as early as 1552 (but probably even earlier). I also claim that Dee was aware of Nunes’ programme for the use of mathematics in studying physical phenomena and that this may have influenced his own views on the subject."

De Almeida, B.R.R. (2012) 'On the origins of Dee’s mathematical programme: The John Dee–Pedro Nunes connection,' Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 43(3), pp. 460–469. doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2011.1. @earlymodern @science

"Have you ever wondered why the extra day of the leap year falls on February 29, an odd date in the middle of the year, and not at the end of the year on December 32? There is a simple answer, and a slightly more complex one." theconversation.com/the-leap-y @histodon @histodons @medievodons

"I show how Locke sought to identify the teleological ordering of human beings to the supreme good by developing a relational conception of the person, analysing the human being as embedded in and defined by a web of relationships including neighbour and God."

Zorzi, G. (2024) ‘Natural Teleology in John Locke’s Ethics’, The Historical Journal, pp. 1–20. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X24000 @philosophy @historyofideas

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"In contrast, Locke lived at a time when it was still possible for a well-educated man to master many branches of knowledge. The polymath was still a reality: John Locke, though primarily a philosopher, was a qualified doctor, and wrote on theology, political theory, and education. His herbarium (a collection of 3,000 flowers) preserved between sheets of his pupils' exercises, and now housed in the Bodleian Library at Oxford) is possibly the oldest surviving collection of English wild flowers."

Jeffreys M V. John Locke. Br Med J 1974; 4 :34 doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj.4.5935.34 @earlymodern @histodon @histodons @philosophy

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"The results allow us to reconstruct the seasonal strategies employed by neolithic groups that occupied Campo de Hockey and to establish whether this island site was occupied all year round or seasonally."

García-Escárzaga, A., Cantillo-Duarte, J.J., Milano, S. et al. Marine resource exploitation and human settlement patterns during the Neolithic in SW Europe: stable oxygen isotope analyses (δ18O) on Phorcus lineatus (da Costa, 1778) from Campo de Hockey (San Fernando, Cádiz, Spain). Archaeol Anthropol Sci 16, 38 (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s12520-024-019 @science @archaeodons @anthropology

"I show that differentials in the early documents are introduced by geometric arguments, lacking dynamic meaning; however in hindsight can a dynamic meaning be recognized in them."

Dias, P.M.C., 2023. Isaac Newton’s early documents on circular motion: can the dynamic reasoning in the “Principia” be found in them?. Rev. Bras. Ensino Fís. 45, e20230263.. doi.org/10.1590/1806-9126-RBEF @science @physics

🇺🇸 🇬🇧 "Left out from history are the attempts of the founders to force Britain to return thousands of escapees from slavery they sheltered. Patriot state leaders tried to coerce the return of all fugitives from slavery evacuated with the British army by blocking payment of debts to England in violation of the Treaty of Paris. Such actions ultimately caused the breakdown of the agreement and exposed the structural inability of the Congress to enforce the terms of a duly ratified treaty over intransigent states."

Messer-Kruse, T. (2024) ‘The Carried-Off and the Constitution: How British Harboring of Fugitives from American Slavery Led to the Constitution of 1787’, Law and History Review, pp. 1–33. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0738248024000. @histodon @histodons

"The essay approaches the topic by analyzing the cause and effect of economic depression, social upheaval, and unique political propaganda."

Yang, A. (2021). The Rise of Nazism and Militarism: Economic Depression and the Rise of Nationalism in Germany and Japan. European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 1(3), 12–20. doi.org/10.24018/ejsocial.2021 @histodon @histodons

🇩🇰 "While the two major shifts in Danish Mesolithic and Neolithic material culture may have had different drivers and causes, the outcomes were ultimately the same: new people arrived and rapidly took over the territory. With this arrival, the local landscape was modified to fit the lifestyle and culture of the immigrants. This is the hallmark of the Anthropocene, observed here in high resolution in prehistoric Denmark."

Allentoft, M.E., Sikora, M., Fischer, A. et al. 100 ancient genomes show repeated population turnovers in Neolithic Denmark. Nature 625, 329–337 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-068 @science @archaeodons

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