Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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🔴 🎙️ **Well Hidden: Descartes’ Life and Works**
“_How René Descartes’ understanding of his own intellectual project evolved across his lifetime._”
🔗 https://www.historyofphilosophy.net/descartes-life-works.
#Audio #Podcast #History #Philosophy #ReneDescartes #Descartes @philosophy
#Image attribution: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portret_van_Ren%C3%A9_Descartes,_RP-P-OB-55.341.jpg.
🔴 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **From Lincoln to Nixon, Trump’s not the first US president to shock the UK on trade**
“_Lincoln blockaded southern cotton, McKinley hit Britain with tariffs and Nixon abandoned the gold standard: a quick history of transatlantic economic meddling_”
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/mar/30/lincoln-nixon-trump-tariffs-trade-history-gold
#History #Politics #Economy #Economics #Trade #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #UK #UnitedKingdom #GB #Britain @economics
🔴 **Masada Mysteries: What Do We Know About the Bones? (2016)**
James Tabor
“_Twice I have even rappelled down into the caves on the southern tip of the fortress, seeking to learn more about Masada’s ultimate mystery–what happened to the skeletal remains of the defenders? The most likely hypothesis is that the Romans would have buried them in a pit, cremated them, or thrown them over the steep sides of the ravine, since they subsequently occupied the site themselves for several decades. No evidence of either a burial pit or funerary pyre has yet been found._”
🔗 https://jamestabor.com/masada-mysteries-what-do-we-know-about-the-bones/.
#History #Archaeology #Arcaheodons #Masada #Judaism #Romans #RomanEmpire @archaeodons
🔴 **Decipherment of the Indus script: new angles and approaches**
🔗 Part one: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=68508
🔗 Part two: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=68648
🔗 Part three: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=68723
#Indus #Language #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Writing #History #Culture #Epigraphy @archaeodons
🔴 🇩🇰 **New Find Links the Sutton Hoo Helmet to Denmark**
“_A stamp found with a metal detector on the Danish island of Tåsinge indicates that the iconic helmet from Sutton Hoo in England could have been made in the South Funen archipelago._”
🔗 https://via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddelelse/14323210/new-find-links-the-sutton-hoo-helmet-to-denmar.
#History #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Denmark #SuttonHoo #Europe @archaeodons
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**Archeologists find surprise signs of British rule in Florida**
#History #Florida #America #Spain #UK #UnitedKingdom #Archeaology #Archaeodons @archaeodons
🔴 🇺🇸 **Taking the Pledge**
A history of the American pledge of allegiance.
🔗 https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/2059171786
#History #USA #US #UnitedStates #America @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Late Bronze Age Metal Exploitation and Trade: Sardinia and Cyprus**
“_An array of new provenance studies demonstrates the complexity of the Bronze Age metal trade and, taking a maritime perspective, provides the opportunity to reveal how strategically positioned actors such as Nuragic Sardinia managed to dominate sea-borne routes, and gained a prominent and independent international position._”
Sabatini, S. and Lo Schiavo, F. (2020) ‘Late Bronze Age Metal Exploitation and Trade: Sardinia and Cyprus’, Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 35(13), pp. 1501–1518. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10426914.2020.1758329.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #History #Archaeology #LateBronzeAge #Metals #Copper #Tin #Lead #Mining #Trade #Nuragic #Sardinia #Cyprus @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
🔴 📖 **Beyond the River, Under the Eye of Rome**
“_Hart delves into the cultural and political impacts of Rome's interactions with Transdanubian peoples, emphasizing the Sarmatians of the Hungarian Plain, whose long encounter with the Roman Empire, he argues, created a problematic template for later dealings with Goths and Huns based on misapplied ethnographic and ecological tropes._”
🔗 https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11453670.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Read #Nonfiction #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon #History #Histodon #Histodons #Europe #Romans #Academia #UniversityPress @bookstodon @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇺🇸 **Violent, dark, and dirty: What Americans think about the Middle Ages**
“_Americans are likely to have favorable views of castles and chivalry, but not the Crusades or the Inquisition_”
🔗 https://today.yougov.com/entertainment/articles/51889-violent-dark-dirty-americans-middle-ages
#Data #DataViz #Poll #History #MiddleAges #DarkAges #Medieval #Medievodons @medievodons
🔴 **The Persistence of Tychonism**
“_In conclusion I will suggest that the historical longevity of
Tychonism has been considerably underestimated and also that Tychonists were not generally restrained from public endorsement of heliocentrism by religious pressure. On the contrary, I suggest that the continued acceptance of Tychonism was conditioned by its congruence with scientists’ religious beliefs._”
Barker, P. (2025) ‘The Persistence of Tychonism’, in Philosophical Readings. Zenodo, pp. 11–23. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15035063.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #History #HistSci #EarlyModern #Science #Religion #Academia #Academic @science @religion
🔴 **Born On This Day**
Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Pierre-Simon Laplace was born in Beaumont-en-Auge, Normandy, France on this day in 1749.
“_He proved the stability of the solar system. In analysis Laplace introduced the potential function and Laplace coefficients. He also put the theory of mathematical probability on a sound footing.”
🔗 https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Laplace/.
#BornOnThisDay #BOTD #History #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Science #HistSci #Astronomy #Physics @science
🔴 **The human-driven ecological success of olive trees over the last 3700 years in the Central Mediterranean**
_“We hypothesize that cultural exchanges between Sicily and the Aegean in the Early-Middle Bronze Age have promoted the use of wild olive trees in the Messina area. At that time, olive trees could have been used for various purposes, including fruit production, but also wood and forage for animals. The development of olive groves followed a gradual, multi-stage process in the Central Mediterranean, with large-scale cultivation appearing only in modern times.”_
Palli, J. et al. (2025) 'The human-driven ecological success of olive trees over the last 3700 years in the Central Mediterranean,' Quaternary Science Reviews, 356, p. 109313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109313.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Ecology #History #Olive #Trees #Mediterranean #Academia #Academics
🔴 **The Start Of The Bostran Era**
The Bostran era started after Trajan annexed the Nabataean kingdom on 22nd March 106 AD. The era was named after Bostra, a town in modern day Syria, which housed the headquarters of the Roman Sixth Legion. Dates from the Bostran calendar were used on commemorative and honorific inscriptions in the province of Arabia Petraea.
🔴 🗺️ **Unconventional Theories about the Earth’s Shape: Both Ancient and Modern**
🔴 🗺️ 🇺🇸 **Plymouth vs Jamestown: The Straight Tree Of God’s Blessing Liberty Vs The Crooked Tree Of God’s Curse Slavery: 1888 Historical Geography**
A historical geography of the United States in map form from 1888.
🔗 https://brilliantmaps.com/1888-historical-geography/
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Cartography #USA #US #UnitedStates #C19th #19thCentury @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii**
_“These narratives can be seen to form two sides to the same coin, as Pompeii’s prosperity was created in large part thanks to slave labour. The connection is supported by constructing a probabilistic model, which suggests some 6 million sesterces (HS) flowed every year to Pompeii’s masters through their exploitation of slaves. Slave owning probably formed the largest single income source for the urban economy.”_
Seth Bernard, Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii, Past & Present, 2025;, gtaf006, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf006
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Slavery #Roman #Pompeii #Academia #Academic @histodon @histodons
🔴 🗺️ **Map Of Africa in 1880: 5 Years Before the Scramble**
🔗 https://brilliantmaps.com/map-of-africa-in-1880/
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Maps #Cartography #Africa #Colonisation #Colonization #Europe #Empire #Imperialism
🔴 👞 **Trendy, Pointy Shoes From the Middle Ages Confirm the Old Adage That Beauty—or at Least Fashion—Is Pain**
🔗 https://mymodernmet.com/poulaine-medieval-pointy-shoe/
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons #Culture #Fashion @histodon @histodons @medievodons
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