Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
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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**Tall talk about elephants: Hannibal’s crossing through disciplines**
"_The enigma of Hannibal’s Alpine crossing has captivated minds and sparked debates across centuries, much like an elusive puzzle that resists a definitive solution. This article explores the fierce and often acrimonious scholarly debates surrounding Hannibal’s journey, where the quest to separate historical fact from romantic myth has turned into a battleground for competing disciplines._"
William Bainbridge, Stefano Cracolici, Tall talk about elephants: Hannibal’s crossing through disciplines, Historical Research, 2025;, htaf020, https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htaf020.
**Leonardo Fibonacci and Frederick II: An encounter of Islamic mathematics with Europe**
"_....this note focuses on Leonardo Fibonacci’s experience in North Africa that led him to interact with the scientists at the court of Frederick II, Stupor Mundi. This encounter had several important consequences, among which the introduction in the Western world of the Hindo-Arabic numbering system and the beginning of the transition from Arabic to Latin as the language of science and mathematics._"
Struppa, D. (2024) “Leonardo Fibonacci and Frederick II: An encounter of Islamic mathematics with Europe”, Bullettin of the Gioenia Academy of Natural Sciences of Catania, 57(387), pp. FP202–FP221. doi: https://doi.org/10.35352/gioenia.v57i387.122.
🗺️ **How WWI got Nat Geo into the map business**
🔗 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/cartography-map-making-influence-wwii.
🇬🇧 🇮🇳 **The White Indian Mutiny: When Britain's Own Heroes Rebelled**
"_The White Indian Mutiny 1858._"
#Video length: fourteen minutes and twenty-five seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1wpDkVMwCE.
#History #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #EastIndiaCompany #India #C19th
**Euclid's Elements is easily misunderstood**
#Video length: thirty-three minutes and twenty-eight seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-MgQC6z3VU.
#History #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Euclid #Geometry
🇬🇧 **How the English Civil War Shaped the Future of Great Britain**
🔗 https://lithub.com/how-the-english-civil-war-shaped-the-future-of-great-britain/.
#England #History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #UK #UnitedKingdom
🇩🇪 **New evidence of long-distance travellers in Seddin during the Bronze Age**
_”The strontium signatures of most of the buried individuals point both to south Scandinavia as well as Central Europe, and possible northern Italy. This is in good accordance with the archaeological knowledge that shows intensified trade between these regions”._
🔗 https://www.gu.se/en/news/new-evidence-of-long-distance-travellers-in-seddin-during-the-bronze-age.
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodons #BronzeAge #Germany
🌍 **The true size of Africa**
"_For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations._"
🌍 **The true size of Africa**
"_For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations._"
**Nazi Germany imposes Nuremberg Laws stripping Jews of citizenship – archive, 1935**
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/17/nazi-germany-imposes-nuremberg-laws-stripping-1935
🇺🇸 **Defining “White Trash”**
"_Taylor writes that the term “white trash” emerged after the Civil War, used by white elites to disparage poor whites who worked alongside Black laborers as sharecroppers and tenant farmers._"
🌔 **This man predicted the Moon landing (in 1638!)**
#Video length: short
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f8nVn9eUSGE.
#History #EarlyModern #Science #HistSci #Physics #Space #Moon
🇬🇧 **Britain’s economy boomed after the Romans, Aldborough study reveals**
"_Britain’s industrial economy did not collapse when the Romans left and went on to enjoy a Viking-age industrial boom, a new study finds, undermining a stubborn ‘Dark Ages’ narrative._"
#History #Archaeology #Britain #Economy #Romans #RomanEmpire
**“We Lost Centuries”: How Monks Erased Archimedes’ Work and Delayed Science by Hundreds of Years**
"_Accidentally erased by monks and rediscovered through cutting-edge tech, this ancient text could have changed the course of history._"
**“We Lost Centuries”: How Monks Erased Archimedes’ Work and Delayed Science by Hundreds of Years**
"_Accidentally erased by monks and rediscovered through cutting-edge tech, this ancient text could have changed the course of history._"
**Martin Luther And The Reformation**
Whilst reading a book concerned with the field of psychoanalysis, I came across a fact that I did not know. Martin Luther, the German theologian who launched the Reformation in the 16th century, suffered from chronic constipation. It is said that he received inspiration for the ideas behind the Reformation whilst in the 'sewer'.
🔗 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3944549.stm.
#History #Histodon #MartinLuther #Constipation #Lavatory
#Image attribution: Lucas Cranach the Elder, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_Luther_(1483%E2%80%931546)_MET_DP159769.jpg.
🇺🇸 **Why does the USA have a 'President'?**
#Video length: short
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TvrQBgO16ws.
#History #Histodons #Politics #BenjaminFranklin #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates @histodons
🇺🇸 **The Former Capital of the Confederacy is Leaving the Lost Cause Behind**
🔗 https://kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/the-former-capital-of-the-confederacy-289.
#History #Histodons #Virginia #Confederacy #LostCause @histodons
🇩🇪 **The Brothers Grimm: The Unknown Political Story**
"_They were preserving the past to reshape the future._"
#Video length: fifty-two minutes and fifty-nine seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3L3v7M2aw4.
#Documentary #History #Histodons #Germany #Politics #Literature @literature
**Roman Emperor: Philip**
#Image attribution: Heritage centre Rozet, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M._Julius_Philippus_Arabs_Erfgoedcentrum_Rozet_300_191_d_6_a-d.jpg.
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs 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
