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The 16th and 17th centuries constituted a period of drastic change in the way humanity conceptualized and sought to understand the world. Scholars made massive leaps in fields such as mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, and, perhaps most notably, physics. Arguably, no city contributed more profoundly to that new understanding than Cambridge." https://www.humanprogress.org/centers-of-progress-pt-38-cambridge-physics/ #History #Science #Physics #Cambridge #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
"Who was the first person to reach the north pole? According to American adventurer Frederick Cook, it was him. But now a new book will set out the evidence that the explorer’s 114-year-old claim was an instance of fake news on a global scale." https://theguardian.com/science/2023/may/28/was-the-first-man-to-reach-the-north-pole-a #History #Arctic #Explorer #book #histodon #histodons #books @bookstodon @histodon @histodons
"Joseph Seth Jones’s diary giving an account of the voyage of the Mimosa to Patagonia with the first settlers in 1865, and his diary for 14-21 March 1866." #History #Wales #Argentina #Patagonia #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/NLWales/status/1662715515335323648
Staffan von Arbin (2023) The Recent Find of a Cog of ca. 1240 in the Fjällbacka Archipelago, Western Sweden: A Preliminary Report, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10572414.2023.2213440 #History #Sweden #Archaeology #Nautical #OpenAccess #OA #histodons #histodon #archaeodons #Europe @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
The Cyrus Cylinder from Ancient Babylon and the Beginning of the Persian Empire https://youtu.be/5qIoEevJ6qE #YouTube #Video #History #Archaeology #histodons #histodon #archaeodons @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze (2023) The two ‘strongest pillars of the empiricist wing’: the Vienna Circle, German academia and emigration in the light of correspondence between Philipp Frank and Richard von Mises (1916–1939), Annals of Science, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2023.2203049 #history #science #histodons #histodon #openaccess #oa @histodon @histodons
Robert Clive: From Hero to Villain
"....Robert Clive’s reputation as a hero had collapsed. In the late 1760s he returned to Britain, bringing with him a staggering personal fortune that he had amassed in Bengal. Regarded as one of the richest men in Europe, he conspicuously bought properties in England and Wales, and spared no expense on rebuilding and furnishing these new residences. Clive’s spending spree coincided with reports of the Bengal Famine, a catastrophe that killed about 10 million people. The source of Clive’s fortune came under scrutiny and his character was aggressively criticised by the British public." https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2023/05/robert-clive-from-hero-to-villain.html #History #EastIndiaCompany #Britain #histodon #histodons #earlymodern @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/UntoldLives/status/1661379349289771011
"Brits may mind their Ps and Qs, but they’ve completely overlooked their ñs and ßs. Linguist and epigraphist Philippa Steele spells out the surprising history behind our written languages." https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/443711-why-does-the-english-alphabet-have-26-letters #English #Languages #Linguistics #Alphabet #History #Writing #histodons #histodon @histodons @linguistics @histodon
Source: https://twitter.com/crewsproject/status/1662154264372707336
"L' hemisphere meridional pour voir plus distinctement les terres australes". https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3220.ct009346/?loclr=twmap #Map #Cartography #History #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/LOCMaps/status/1661741408816857088
"Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra..., [between pages 41 and 42]". https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/db0cd870-667d-013a-bbd9-0242ac110003 #Map #Cartography #C17th #History #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/NYPLMaps/status/1661750660088602625
"No one knows where the city of Akkad was located, how it rose to prominence, or how, precisely, it fell; yet once it was the seat of the Akkadian Empire which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia." https://www.worldhistory.org/akkad/ #Ancient #History #Mesopotamia #histodon #histodons @histodons @histodon
Source: https://twitter.com/whencyclopedia/status/1660436584536178690
"Stuart was a slight, small man, a social misfit and heavy drinker. Yet he would go on to become perhaps the greatest explorer of the Australian interior in history." https://explorerspodcast.com/john-mcdouall-stuart/ #History #Australia #Podcast #Exploration #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @podcast
Source: https://twitter.com/explorerspod/status/1660675812608155654
Desert Monoliths Reveal World’s Oldest Architectural Plans. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/science/ancient-architecture-desert-kites.html #Science #Jordan #SaudiArabia #Architecture #MiddleEast #History #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/NYTScience/status/1659983410662711298
"The most valuable discovery made so far in Şapinuwa is a collection of over three thousand pieces of clay tablets from the second millennium BCE." https://turkisharchaeonews.net/site/%C5%9Fapinuwa #History #Archaeology #AsiaMinor #Asia #Hittites #Turkey #histodons #archaeodons @histodons @archaeodons
Source: https://twitter.com/turarchaeonews/status/1660178262201364487
"For many thousands of years, human beings have been creating towns and cities in which to live. Here are some of the first cities we ever built." https://www.thecollector.com/first-cities-human-civilization-oldest-cities/ #Archaeology #Ancient #History #histodons #archaeodons @histodons @archaeodons
Source: https://twitter.com/spwells/status/1660008056976183296
"Galen was the greatest physician of his era and was also a skilled surgeon and renowned philosopher. He was responsible for numerous advances in the fields of anatomy, physiology and therapeutics and led a truly remarkable life." https://www.medicalexamprep.co.uk/claudius-galen/ #History #Medicine #Philosophy #Science #histodons @histodons @philosophy
Source: https://twitter.com/MedicalExamPrep/status/1660208813767790595
"In the two new tablets, however, the language in the left column was not the expected Sumerian but rather the never-before-seen Northwest Semitic language Amorite." https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/ancient-amorite-language-discovered/ #Cuneiform #Linguistics #Mesopotamia #History #Langauage #histodons @histodons @linguistics
Source: https://twitter.com/BibArch/status/1660073161688248320
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