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May 1664: Hooke vs. Cassini: Who Discovered Jupiter’s Red Spot? https://aps.org/publications/apsnews/202005/history.cfm #History #Science #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/APSphysics/status/1659182115232022528

Scientist of the day: Barthélemy Faujas-de-Saint-Fond. https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/barthelemy-faujas-de-saint-fond-4 #History #Science #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/bhgross144/status/1658877535906562054

"The camps suggest the Roman takeover of the Nabataean kingdom may not have been as peaceful as previously thought". https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-roman-army-camps-in-jordan-that-may-indicate-a-secret-military-mission-180982165/ #History #Archaeology #Roman #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/AntiquityJ/status/1658825952317538307

"Dr Patricia Fara tells the story of Caroline Herschel, concert soprano turned astronomer, unkindly caricatured in Georgian times as ‘The Female Philosopher, smelling out the Comet’. " https://royalsociety.org/blog/2023/05/first-ladys-comet/ #History #Science #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/RSocPublishing/status/1658382180043702274

Cunningham, M. (2022). The Virgin Mary in Byzantium, c.400–1000: Hymns, Homilies and Hagiography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009327244 #History #Europe #OpenAccess #OA #Books #histodons @histodons

Working, L. (2020). The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108625227 #History #OpenAccess #OA #Books #Britain #America #histodons @histodons

Naef, A. (2022). An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom: 1945–1992 (Studies in Macroeconomic History). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108878333 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Economics #UK #histodons @histodons

"Piltdown Man placed Britain’s name on the map of human evolution. There was only one problem—there’s no such thing as a missing link."https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/the-problem-of-piltdown-man #History #Science #Evolution #Britain #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/columbiacss/status/1656722141293731844

"Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries". https://newbooksnetwork.com/spoils-of-knowledge #Podcast #Books #Sweden #Library #Archives #History #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/Brill_History/status/1658503386357022728

Lucas, P. (2022). A CONSPECTUS OF LETTERS TO AND FROM SIR HENRY SPELMAN (1563/4–1641). The Antiquaries Journal, 102, 370-388. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581522000026 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Anglo_Saxon #Manuscripts #England #Research #histodons @histodons

"This article explores the impact of Enlightenment ideas in late eighteenth-century Sweden through the case study of Rosenstein and his remarkable text." https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2023.2187879 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Sweden #Scotland #Enlightenment #C18th #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/MaxSkjonsberg/status/1658470581384380421

Dow, S. (2023). SMITH AT 300: ADAM SMITH ON RHETORIC AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 1-3. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837222000530 #History #Philosophy #Science #OpenAccess #OA #histodons @histodons

"They pulled off one of the most astonishing campaigns of conquest in history, forging the largest contiguous empire the world has ever seen. But how did they treat their subject populations once the dust had settled?" https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/what-life-like-mongol-empire/ #History #Mongol #Medieval #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/NicholasMorto11/status/1658126237603094531

Ohthere: King Alfred’s Viking Guest from beyond the Arctic Circle https://ancientscribbles.com/2022/03/ohthere-king-alfreds-viking-guest-from-beyond-the-arctic-circle/.html #History #Ancient #Norway #England #Europe #Vikings #Arctic #histodons @histodons

Len Scales, Ever Closer Union? Unification, Difference, and the ‘Making of Europe’, c.950–c.1350, The English Historical Review, Volume 137, Issue 585, April 2022, Pages 321–361, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceac061 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Journal #Europe #Article #Medieval #histodons @histodons

"a close reading of the sources reflects the importance of Indigenous knowledges to imperial expansion, on the one hand, and the interactive nature of cross-cultural knowledge sharing that became hidden by early modern European epistemological practices." https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac047 #History #Brazil #Europe #histodons #openaccess #oa @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/PastPresentSoc/status/1648687392856113152

Was the earth of Carthage salted after its fall during the third Punic War? https://www.badancient.com/claims/carthage-salted/ #history #histodons #africa @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/BadAncient/status/1650876040858722305

"Within a few months, things turned very sour. Rousseau wrote hateful letters to Hume accusing him of having plotted for his disgrace and humiliation by way of petty torments." https://www.adamsmithworks.org/speakings/klein-hume-rousseau-affair
#History #Philosophy #histodons @histodons #philosopher

Source: https://twitter.com/adamsmithworks/status/1656329555517358082

6,000-year-old settlement — full of tools and granite structures — found in France https://newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/world/article274788961.html #Archaeology #History #France #Corsica #histodons @histodons

"What makes this fragment unique, however, is the fact that Maimonides has added the translation in a Romance dialect below some words." https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/maimonides-fragments-discovered #Library #Philosophy #medieval #history #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/theUL/status/1657031374090432517