Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot, just a fifty-year-old male who reads occasionally.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, book, map, chart, and graph related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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**The Partition of Europe: A Textbook of European History 1715-1815**
by Philip Guedalla (1889–1944)
#LibriVox #PublicDomain #Audiobook #History #Europe #Histodon #Histodons #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
**Denmark’s new royal coat of arms marks the end of a 400-year-long Swedish-Danish conflict**
Martin Sunnqvist
_“In reality, the king’s decision to change the coat of arms was about bringing the different parts of the Danish kingdom together in a way that is more representative of modern Denmark. This is not a new practice. What is, however, surprising is his choice to remove a part of the royal coat of arms that has been there since 1397 and has been a source of conflict with Denmark’s neighbour Sweden.”_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Denmark #Sweden #Europe @histodon @histodons
**Could you pass an English exam from 1913?**
Janine Machin
_"The exam comprised a series of papers on phonetics, grammar, and translation, which took 12 hours to complete."_
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cedn9pqg9jlo.
#History #Education #Learning #Examinations #Exams #English #Language
**The Jagged, Monstrous Function That Broke Calculus**
Solomon Adams
_“Weierstrass discovered a function that, according to Ampère’s proof, should have been impossible: It was continuous everywhere yet differentiable nowhere.”_
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-jagged-monstrous-function-that-broke-calculus-20250123/.
**Architectures of learning**
Dr Cristian Ispir
_“Our historical narratives often center on literate, language-based learning—philosophy, science, law, and literature. However, culture itself is a learning system, one that processes challenges, stores solutions, and disseminates best practices.”_
**Before Control-P: The Printing Process**
Patrick Hastings
_“This post will explain how press operators used a printing press to produce multiple copies of identical text for wide distribution. Although this process may seem slow and cumbersome to contemporary readers, remember that printing replaced the hand-copying of manuscripts by scribes. It is impossible to overstate the degree to which printing technology revolutionized communication in Europe when it appeared in the 1450s.”_
https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2025/01/24/before-control-p-the-printing-process/.
#EarlyModern #BookHistory #History #Histodon #Histodons #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Printing @histodon @histodons @bookstodon @earlymodern
**North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the early modern period**
_"We infer a high degree of temporal heterogeneity in ancestry, with fluctuating genetic affinities to different present-day Eurasian groups. We also infer high heterogeneity in ancestry within geographically, culturally, and socially defined groups. Despite this, we find that ancestry components which are widespread in Eastern and Central Europe have been present in the Ukraine region since the Bronze Age."_
Lehti Saag et al., North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the early modern period. Sci. Adv.11, eadr0695 (2025) .DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adr0695
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Genetics #Genomics #History #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Ukraine #BronzeAge #Academia #Academics @science @archaeodons
**Ancient DNA reveals reproductive barrier despite shared Avar-period culture**
_“We reconstructed six-generation pedigrees at both sites including up to 450 closely related individuals, allowing per-generation demographic profiling of the communities. Despite different ancestry, these pedigrees together with large networks of distant relatedness show absence of consanguinity, patrilineal pattern with female exogamy, multiple reproductive partnerships (for example, levirate) and direct correlation of biological connectivity with archaeological markers of social status.”_
Wang, K., Tobias, B., Pany-Kucera, D. et al. Ancient DNA reveals reproductive barrier despite shared Avar-period culture. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08418-5.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Archaeology #Arcaheodons #Biology #Anthropology #Genomics #Science #Ancient #DNA #History #Academia #Academics @science @biology @anthropology
**How books were made in the 15th-18th centuries**
Just My Type: Making Letters at the Type Foundry (https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2024/12/17/just-my-type-making-letters-at-the-type-foundry/)
Papermaking: A Rags to Riches Story (https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2024/12/05/papermaking-a-rags-to-riches-story/)
Don’t Get Out of Sorts: Composing Text (https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2025/01/15/dont-get-out-of-sorts-composing-text/)
#EarlyModern #BookHistory #BookAnatomy #History #Histodon #Histodons #Book #Books #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon @earlymodern
**Ancient Artifacts Unearthed in Iraq Shed Light on Hidden History of Mesopotamia**
Eddy Duryea ’13
_“Kurd Qaburstan is believed to be ancient Qabra, an important regional center mentioned in the records of other city-states,” Earley-Spadoni says. “The presence of writing, monumental architecture, and other administrative artifacts in the lower town palace further supports this identification since the site must have been an important city of its time.”_
#History #Histodon #HIstodons #Research #Archaeology #Archaeodons #BronzeAge #Ancient #Iraq #MiddleEast #Asia #Mesopotamia @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
**A map of East and West Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana : with the islands of Cuba, Bahama, and the countries surrounding the Gulf of Mexico, with the tract of the Spanish galleons, and of our fleets thro' the Straits of Florida, from the best authorities (1781)**
#Image attribution: Bew, John; Lodge, John, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_map_of_East_and_West_Florida,_Georgia,_and_Louisiana_-_with_the_islands_of_Cuba,_Bahama,_and_the_countries_surrounding_the_Gulf_of_Mexico,_with_the_tract_of_the_Spanish_galleons,_and_of_our_fleets_LOC_79691140.jpg
#History #Map #Cartography #GulfOfMexico #C18th #18thCentury
**Five reasons to read more quality history books in 2025**
The Burning Archive
#Video length: ten minutes and thirty-four seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmoHJvCWiIU
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
**Far Out Images from Johann Zahn’s Oculus Artificialis (1685)**
"Through his descriptions and diagrams, illustrations and sketches Zahn shows readers the workings of the camera obscura and magic lantern"
https://flashbak.com/johann-zahn-oculus-artificialis-472978/.
#EarlyModern #History #Tech #Technology #Inventor #Images #Science @science @earlymodern
**Adding Color to the World: How Maps Got Toned**
Seanna Tsung
_“Some map publishers had colorists in house, others jobbed the work out. It is thought that a certain amount of the coloring throughout the period under discussion was done at home by women, who were mostly excluded from commercial map production unless they were daughters, wives or widows of male cartographers, engravers or publishers.”_
https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2025/01/adding-color-to-the-world-how-maps-got-toned/.
**Insulting Etymology + Savage Insults from History**
Jess Zafarris
_“Flyting, earlier simply a word for an argument, is a poetic war of words or entertaining debate in which the two contestants attempt to “out-bard” each other, so to speak. (It’s basically the predecessor to a rap battle.) The humor is often crude and escalates into rhythmic strings of insults.”_
https://uselessetymology.com/2025/01/10/insulting-etymology-savage-insults-from-history/
#History #Etymology #Linguistics #English #Language @linguistics
**Border Control in Early America**
Christa Dierksheide
_“In the decades preceding the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, citizenship was conferred by states, not the federal government. Legislatures exercised enormous power over migration into and out of states in order to control—and engineer—the path to citizenship. Because these lawmakers wanted to restrict citizenship within their respective states to white property holders, they designed punitive immigration policies that either heavily restricted or prohibited Black settlement. Classifying people of color as “aliens” eliminated the possibility of Black citizenship.”_
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/01/08/border-control-in-early-america/
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Border #C19th #19thCentury @histodon @histodons
**This Month in Movietone History**
@BritishMovietone
_"Momentous historical events that occurred during the month of January"_
#Video length: seventeen minutes and twenty-three seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24C1jlPOAFY
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Churchill #Eisenhower #Leningrad #HarryTruman #JFK @histodon @histodons
**1818 Pinkerton Map of North America. Geographicus**
_“This is an extremely unusual mapping of North America prepared for the 1818 American edition of Pinkerton's Atlas. Although the basic engraving remains identical to Pinkerton's Atlas of 1813, published in London, the coloration has been updated to reflect American sensibilities.”_
#Map #Maps #Cartography #History #C19th #19thCentury #Canada #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
#Image attribution: John Pinkerton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1818_Pinkerton_Map_of_North_America_-_Geographicus.jpg.
**Trial and Error: Galileo and the Inquisition**
_“The philosophical issues at the heart of the notorious condemnation of Galileo and Copernican astronomy.”_
https://www.historyofphilosophy.net/galileo-inquisition
#Podcast #History #Philosophy #Galileo #Inquisition @philosophy
**The Story of the Vikings is the Story of Us. Søren Sindbæk**
Vikingology: The Art and Science of the Viking Age
_“In one of our most wide-ranging conversations yet, we discussed why hair combs were the iPhone of the Viking Age, the maritime legacy of the Nordic people, whether C.J.’s salt hypothesis holds any weight, the ethics of archaeology, and how Vikings get interpreted and misinterpreted in the modern era, plus more.”_
#Video length: one hour and thirty-eight minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmyfZ4P3G4Y
#Podcast #Vikings #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
Not a bot, just a fifty-year-old male who reads occasionally.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, book, map, chart, and graph related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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Joined Nov 2022
