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Michelle Pfeffer, Astrology, #plague, and prognostication in early modern #England: A forgotten chapter in the history of public #health, Past & Present, 2023;, gtac044, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac044 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Article #Histodons
Yona, S., & Davis, G. (Eds.). (2023). Epicurus in Rome: Philosophical Perspectives in the Ciceronian Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009281416 #Classics #Philosophy #Ancient #Book #Bookstodon #OpenAccess #OA
Landry, E. (2023). Plato Was Not a Mathematical Platonist (Elements in the Philosophy of Mathematics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009313797 #Philosophy #Mathematics #Maths #Math #OpenAccess #OA
Rees, L. (2023). ‘Aspire, persevere and indulge not’: New wealth and gentry society in Wales, c. 1760–1840. Rural History, 1-16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793322000267 #History #Wales #Article #OpenAccess #OA
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14 Feb 1656: John Locke #philosopher of Christ Church #Oxford takes the BA degree #otd
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Just so you know, the k in kilo- (as in kW, km or kB) MUST always be lowercase. Also, B should be uppercase when it stands for byte, but lowercase when it stands for bit.
Additionally, units derived from someone's name (i.e., ohm, watt, newton, hertz) use an uppercase abbreviation (i.e., Ω, W, N, Hz), while the rest use lowercase letters (i.e., l, m, g).
No, I'm not autistic, but picky with certain things.
"How To Get The Most Out of A #Book - Analytical #Reading 101" on #YouTube https://youtu.be/Ls2ynrMv10A #Video #books #bookstodon
Why does February have 28 days?
https://ed.ted.com/best_of_web/MXwQDDs8 #Video
Source: https://twitter.com/TED_ED/status/1622007173306884100
Cryptic lost Canaanite #language decoded on 'Rosetta Stone'-like tablets https://livescience.com/tablets-with-lost-canaanite-language #Archaeology #Literature
The Earliest Mention of the Placename Sinai: The Journeys of Khety
https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2023/02/sinai-journeys-khety #History #Histodons #Egyptology
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Some brief thoughts on how I, as a historian of science, became a book historian & a review of Dennis Duncan's Index, A History of the
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/02/01/finding-things-in-books/
#historyofscience #bookhistory #bookreview
#Horses and #dogs sailed with #Vikings to #Britain, say #scientists - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64431142 #History #histodons #Science
#ChatGPT listed as author on research papers: many scientists disapprove
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00107-z #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Academia #Research
Source: https://twitter.com/Nature/status/1620067502263861248
#Viking brutality failed to wipe out community, dig finds https://www.reading.ac.uk/news/2023/Research-News/Viking-brutality-failed-to-wipe-out-community #Archaeology
Source: https://twitter.com/archaeologyEAA/status/1620047911730954240
Archaeologists Discover 1.2 Million-Year-Old 'Workshop' in Mind-Blowing Find https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zx77/archaeologists-discover-12-million-year-old-workshop-in-mind-blowing-find #Archaeology
Source: https://twitter.com/ticiaverveer/status/1619377806986862593
Archiving People. A Social #History of #Dutch Archives https://archivistics.home.blog/2019/12/14/new-e-book/ #book #ebooks #archives #bookstodon
Source: https://twitter.com/EricKetelaar/status/1618156993252044801
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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