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Landmann, J. (2022). Terms of endearment in English: Affection and tenderness in the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary Online. English Today, 38(4), 239-243. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0266078421000 @linguistics

Steffen Ducheyne (2017) Different shades of Newton: Herman Boerhaave on Newton mathematicus, philosophus, and optico-chemicus, Annals of Science, 74:2, 108-125, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2017. @science

🇸🇪 🇫🇮 Mikko Tolonen, Leo Lahti, Hege Roivainen & Jani Marjanen (2019) A Quantitative Approach to Book-Printing in Sweden and Finland, 1640–1828, Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 52:1, 57-78, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2018. @histodon @histodons @bookstodon

🇳🇱 Daniel R. Curtis & Jessica Dijkman (2019) The escape from famine in the Northern Netherlands: a reconsideration using the 1690s harvest failures and a broader Northwest European perspective, The Seventeenth Century, 34:2, 229-258, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2017. @histodon @histodons

"Imperial Federation - Map of the world showing the extent of the British Empire in 1886. Statistical information furnished by Captain J.C.R. Colomb, M.P. formerly R.M.A. Mclure & Co. Queen Victoria Street, London. British territories coloured in red. (Published as) Supplement to ''The Graphic'', July 24th, 1886. (Inset) Map of the world showing the extent of British territories in 1786." davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s @histodon @histodons

"Map of the Medo-Persian Empire: Showing its twenty Satapies. B.C. 529-331. By I.S. Clare. (to accompany) Cram's atlas of the world, ancient and modern: new census edition -- indexed." davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s @antiquidons @histodon @histodons

"Map of the Roman Empire at the period of its greatest extent. About the year A.D. 107. Engraved to illustrate Mitchell's ancient geography. (with) Map of Britannia Romanorum of Roman Britain. (with) Map of northern and central Syria. Drawn & engraved by J.H. Young. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1844 by S. Augustus Mitchell in the ... District Court of the eastern district of Pennsylvania. (1873)". davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s
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"In this course, we will survey and analyze the dramatic and much-contested history of money, beginning with the ancient world and proceeding through the early modern period, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the present day, with a discussion of where money may be headed in the future." youtube.com/playlist?list=PLin @histodon @histodons @econhist @historyofeconomics

"Traces of Ink. Experiences of Philology and Replication is a collection of original papers exploring the textual and material aspects of inks and ink-making in a number of premodern cultures (Babylonia, the Graeco-Roman world, the Syriac milieu and the Arabo-Islamic tradition)."

(Eds.). (22 Feb. 2021). Traces of Ink. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. doi.org/10.1163/9789004444805 @science @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (57)

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"In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas."

Barth, J. (2022). The Currency of Empire: Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. doi.org/10.1515/9781501755781 @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (55)

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von Mallinckrodt, R., Köstlbauer, J. & Lentz, S. (2021). Beyond Exceptionalism: Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650–1850. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. doi.org/10.1515/9783110748833 @histodon @histodons @earlymodern @bookstodon (53)

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Valleriani, M., Vogl, M., el-Hajj, H., & Pham, K. (2022). The Network of Early Modern Printers and Its Impact on the Evolution of Scientific Knowledge: Automatic Detection of Awareness Relationships. Histories, 2(4), 466–503. MDPI AG. Retrieved from dx.doi.org/10.3390/histories20 @earlymodern @histodon @histodons

"Al-Biruni (973-1048) was one of the greatest scientists of all times. He was an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, and studied physics and natural sciences. In this paper, we will discuss some of his experimental methods and some instruments he used."

Carolina Sparavigna, Amelia. (2013). The Science of Al-Biruni. International Journal of Sciences, Volume 2(2013-12), 52–60. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3348540 @histodon @histodons @science @medievodons

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