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Time for a proper #introduction with hashtags!

I'm Amber Manfree, a geographer and cartorgrapher participating in #Mastodon through the #Mapstodon server (thanks admins!). I make lots of #maps!

Tooting mainly from Onasatsis and Patwin lands in California, US.

Follow for: #geography #cartography #GISchat #estuary #wetland #CAwater #water #drought #fish #Napa #California #conservation #environment #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #landscape #NaturalHistory #NativeSpecies

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19 Dec 1627: John #Harvard enters Emmanuel College #Cambridge #otd

He would retain his interest in higher education

(alainedouard)

Andreas Osiander, who edited Copernicus' De revolutionibus and added the ad lectorum, was born 19 December c. 1496 #histsci #historyof astronomy #Copernicus #bookhistory
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2015/12/19/the-greatest-villain-in-the-history-of-science/

Astronomers discover South Pole Wall, a gigantic structure stretching 1.4 billion light-years across

Check out this paper by Adam Mann for LiveScience, on this recent discovery in the field of cosmography, which is "the cartography of the cosmos": https://www.livescience.com/south-pole-wall-discovered-in-space.html

#universe #cosmology #southpolewall #astronomy #astrophysics #galaxies #cosmicweb #space #science #research #astrodon #scicom #sciencecommunication #sciencemastodon #sciendon #milkyway #galaxy #map #maps #cartography #physics

#OnThisDay in 1606 three ships owned by the #Virginia Company left London, #England to set sail for North America (their "New World"). The three ships, the Susan Constant, the Discovery, and the Godspeed, held passengers and crew, as well as supplies needed to build a colony.
The journey took them four months and they landed in April 1607, claiming an uninhabited bit of land (it was mosquito-ridden and swampy - terrible for farming) for Jamestown.

#history #OTD #histodons @histodons

Albert Michelson, pioneer of optical interferometry, was born #OTD in 1852.

Michelson refined measurements of the speed of light, failed to find evidence of the aether, and developed a method that now underlies gravitational wave detection.

Photo: “Practical Physics,” Millikan & Gale

The evolution of elephant depiction through the middle ages: https://www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anthropogenus/index.html ;)

Can you judge a book by its cover?

This course teaches college students to do just that -- and to ponder what a #book means in this digital age (beyond their homework), and how that has changed.

Students learn how to go "deeper into the concept of a book by analyzing books through four themes: object, content, technology and art."

https://theconversation.com/this-course-teaches-how-to-judge-a-book-by-its-cover-and-its-pages-print-and-other-elements-of-its-design-190817
#UncommonCourses #HigherEd #Bookstodon #libraries

#OTD 7 June 1866 Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 63.159 km/h (39.245 mph) in a Jeantaud electric car.

Adam Savage gets to see the most important science book ever written — the first edition of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica printed in 1687! And the original written manuscript.

If I can't hold and touch these objects myself, I'm happy I can at least watch someone who's probably more excited than I am. About 15 minutes of joyful viewing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO77Bc85krc

#Books #History #Mathematics #Printing #Publishing #Science

Émilie du Châtelet, who hypothesized conservation of energy, established kinetic energy as distinct from momentum and proportional to (speed)², and combined work by Newton and Leibniz with her own original ideas in "Institutions de Physique," was born #OTD in 1706.

Du Châtelet is an important figure in the development of classical physics, but she is not nearly as well known as many of her male contemporaries.

Portrait: M. Q. de La Tour

Finally got around to joining, so just a brief #introduction and hello!

I am a #historian, #postdoc, and Associate Director of the Institute of Intellectual History at the University of St Andrews.

My past research has focused on #intellectualhistory (specifically Scottish political thought/theology in the 17th century). I am now working on a new postdoctoral project about #earlymodern Catholic & Reformed student migration, education, and identity formation.

@histodons #Histodon #historians

A Dutch East India Company bond, issued to Jacob Van Neck, 1622. Van Neck invested 2,400 guilders and was to be paid back at 6.25% interest over the course of one year. Van Neck was a Dutch ship captain who led a trade expedition to Indonesia in 1599 -- bringing back a million pounds of pepper and cloves -- before retiring to become mayor of Amsterdam.

Some great 17th-century signatures at the bottom.

#history #histodons @histodons

New #Introduction toot for a new server. I am a #Histodon, Professor of #WomensHistory and #Gender #History at the University of Edinburgh. I have published extensively on late #Medieval England, most recently in #LegalHistory. I have recently moved more into the #EarlyModern period (16th-17thC). I am PI on AHRC-funded project, Alice Thornton's Books, a #DigitalHumanities project (with a creative element - a play). See https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk