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The Language of Proofs: A Philosophical Corpus Linguistics Study of Instructions and Imperatives in Mathematical Texts philsci-archive.pitt.edu/22002

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The oldest complete version of the *Iliad* is the “Venetus A” manuscript, produced in the 900s CE — 1600 years after the poem was first written down! Venetus A consists of the Greek text of the poem, surrounded by critical remarks, which take up most of each page.

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Louf, T., Gonçalves, B., Ramasco, J.J. et al. American cultural regions mapped through the lexical analysis of social media. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 10, 133 (2023). doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-016

Herrmann, V., Manning, S., Morgan, K., Soldi, S., & Schloen, D. (2023). New evidence for Middle Bronze Age chronology from the Syro-Anatolian frontier. Antiquity, 1-20. doi: doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.30

Stock, P. (2023). The Idea of Asia in British Geographical Thought, 1652–1832. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 1-24. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0080440123000

Katarzyna Anna Kapitan, Tarrin Wills, Sagas and genre: A case for application of network analysis to manuscripts preserving Old Norse-Icelandic saga literature, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2023;, fqad013, doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad013

"In this book, Monika Amsler explores the historical contexts in which the Babylonian Talmud was formed in an effort to determine whether it was the result of oral transmission." doi.org/10.1017/9781009297349

"Historians have puzzled over the secret to the success of this first great European queen – a woman who provided a model for her granddaughter, England’s Queen Mary I, and for other great queens like Elizabeth I, Victoria or Catherine the Great." tudortimes.co.uk/guest-article

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"Wilhelm Schickard was a German astronomer who invented a calculating machine long before Pascal. He worked on astronomy, mathematics and surveying." mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/

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"As the exhibition emphasizes, the form of the European book could not have happened without the trade of natural materials to Europe from different parts of the globe – primarily Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa." smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smith

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