Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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🔴 **Ancient rocks boost case for mini ice age linked to fall of Rome**
“_Unusual rocks on an Icelandic beach were dropped there by icebergs, adding to evidence that an unusually cool period preceded the collapse of the Roman Empire_”
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Climate #IceAge #Romans #RomanEmpire @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇩🇪 🖋 **Schönschreibmeister – A Calligraphy Master’s Album from the 16th Century**
“The manuscript appears to be a compilation of calligraphic examples by one of the originators of early fraktur scripts, Johann Neudörffer the Elder (1497-1563), to whom this album is dedicated._”
🔗 https://flashbak.com/schonschreibmeister-a-calligraphy-masters-album-from-the-16th-century-461471/.
#History #Books #Calligraphy #Germany #Typography #Fonts #Fraktur #Handwriting #Writing
🔴 ⌨️ **The QWERTY Keyboard Will Never Die. Where Did the 150-Year-Old Design Come From?**
🔴 **Born On This Day: James Mill**
James Mill was born on this day in 1773. A Scottish philosopher, historian, and economist, his major literary achievement was authoring the first history of British India in the English language.
🔗 https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Mill
#Image attribution: James Mill (1773–1836), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:History_of_British_India_1817_James_Mill.jpg.
🔴 🇵🇹 **Portugal is not a small country**
“_A journey through the propaganda of Portugal's Estado Novo, as well as some of the most iconic maps of its propaganda production._”
🔗 https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/portugal-is-not-a-small-country.
#Maps #Cartography #History #Histodon #Histodons #Portugal #Europe #Propaganda @histodon @histodons
🔴 **The Vikings in the Eyes of a Frankish Envoy: The Testimony of Count Cobbo (845×850)**
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Vikings #Franks #Europe @histodon @histodons
🔴 **The Hittite Prince Who Stole an Empire**
🔴 **Dialogue Origin: “What Has Been the Impact of the French Revolution?” “It’s Too Early To Tell”**
🔴 📖 **The Secret Formula: How a Mathematical Duel Inflamed Renaissance Italy and Uncovered the Cubic Equation**
Daniel J. Curtin
“_Fabio Toscano, a science writer, lucidly presents not only the solutions of the cubic equation but also the history of the problem and the development of algebra in general from Diophantus, through the Islamic scholars, to Renaissance Italy._”
#Read #Nonfiction #Book #BookReview #Bookstodon #History #Maths #Mathematics @bookstodon
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**That Time the Mongol Empire Reunited: The Great Mongol Peace of 1304**
The Jackmeister: Mongol History
#Video length: twenty minutes and forty-eight seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NptfhbiQxA
#History #Histodon #Histodons #MongolEmpire #GenghisKhan #KublaiKhan @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Friedrich List, Excerpt from National System of Political Economy (1841)**
“_A critic of the free-market thinker Adam Smith and his followers, List argued that less developed economies like Germany’s required protective tariffs on manufactured goods to allow their fledgling industries to grow._”
Friedrich List, Excerpt from National System of Political Economy (1841), published in: German History in Documents and Images, <https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/from-vormaerz-to-prussian-dominance-1815-1866/ghdi:document-354> [March 27, 2025].
#History #Tariffs #Economy #Trade #Economics #Nationalism #Politics #FriedrichList @economics @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 📖 **Rot: A History of the Irish Famine**
Kirkus Reviews
“_Scanlan neatly chronicles the history of England’s ever-growing Protestant financial exploitation over the “uncivilized” Catholic Ireland’s poor and their tenant farms._”
🔗 https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/padraic-x-scanlan/rot-2/.
#Read #Nonfiction #History #Ireland #Éire #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #GB #IrishFamine #Colonialism #Book #BookReview #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 **Dominating the forum and the study**
Dr Cristian Ispir
“_What made Cicero exceptional wasn't just dual-domain mastery but his seamless integration of both worlds._”
🔗 https://www.biblonia.com/p/dominating-the-forum-and-the-study.
🔴 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 **On This Day: The Convention of Kanagawa Is Signed**
On 31st March 1854 the United States forced the Tokugawa Shogunate to open access of two Japanese ports (Shimoda and Hakodate) to American trade and vessels.
#OnThisDay #OTD #History #Trade #Japan #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
#Image attribution: U.S. Government., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KanagawaTreaty.gif.
🔴 **Generative AI and accuracy in the history of mathematics**
“_This process is illustrated by querying ChatGPT with questions from a history of mathematics quiz designed to highlight the common occurrence of mathematical results being misattributed. ChatGPT's performance on a set of decades-old common misconceptions is mixed, illustrating the potential for these systems to reproduce and reinforce historical inaccuracies and misconceptions._”
Rowlett, P. (2024) ‘Generative AI and accuracy in the history of mathematics’, British Journal for the History of Mathematics, 39(1), pp. 64–69. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/26375451.2024.2312789.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #History #Maths #Mathematics #Math #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #Academia #Academic @ai
🔴 **A brief history of mathematics in finance**
“_In this paper, we present a brief historical perspective on how the development of finance theory has influenced and in turn been influenced by the development of mathematical finance theory._”
Akyıldırım, E. and Soner, H.M. (2014) 'A brief history of mathematics in finance,' Borsa Istanbul Review, 14(1), pp. 57–63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bir.2014.01.002.
#OpenAccess #OA #History #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Finance #Academia #Academics
🔴 🎙️ **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
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