Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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Joined Nov 2022
"The above joke was found written on two separate tablets in the ancient Sumerian city of Nippur in what is now Iraq. Excavated over a hundred years ago, it was included in a list of proverbs and advice and is thought to be around 4,000 years old." https://www.historicmysteries.com/sumerian-joke/ #History #Jokes #Comedy #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/keithfrankish/status/1662779233343610880
The 16th and 17th centuries constituted a period of drastic change in the way humanity conceptualized and sought to understand the world. Scholars made massive leaps in fields such as mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, and, perhaps most notably, physics. Arguably, no city contributed more profoundly to that new understanding than Cambridge." https://www.humanprogress.org/centers-of-progress-pt-38-cambridge-physics/ #History #Science #Physics #Cambridge #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
"Who was the first person to reach the north pole? According to American adventurer Frederick Cook, it was him. But now a new book will set out the evidence that the explorer’s 114-year-old claim was an instance of fake news on a global scale." https://theguardian.com/science/2023/may/28/was-the-first-man-to-reach-the-north-pole-a #History #Arctic #Explorer #book #histodon #histodons #books @bookstodon @histodon @histodons
"Joseph Seth Jones’s diary giving an account of the voyage of the Mimosa to Patagonia with the first settlers in 1865, and his diary for 14-21 March 1866." #History #Wales #Argentina #Patagonia #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/NLWales/status/1662715515335323648
Mikael Males (2023) Textual criticism and Old Norse philology, Studia Neophilologica, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00393274.2023.2205888 #Linguistics #Scandinavia #OpenAccess #OA #Poetry #Europe #Languages @linguistics
Staffan von Arbin (2023) The Recent Find of a Cog of ca. 1240 in the Fjällbacka Archipelago, Western Sweden: A Preliminary Report, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10572414.2023.2213440 #History #Sweden #Archaeology #Nautical #OpenAccess #OA #histodons #histodon #archaeodons #Europe @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
The Cyrus Cylinder from Ancient Babylon and the Beginning of the Persian Empire https://youtu.be/5qIoEevJ6qE #YouTube #Video #History #Archaeology #histodons #histodon #archaeodons @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze (2023) The two ‘strongest pillars of the empiricist wing’: the Vienna Circle, German academia and emigration in the light of correspondence between Philipp Frank and Richard von Mises (1916–1939), Annals of Science, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2023.2203049 #history #science #histodons #histodon #openaccess #oa @histodon @histodons
"...a German artist, mathematician, and cartographer known primarily for his etchings." https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hirschvogel-s-geometria-1543 #Images #Geometry #C16th #Maths
Source: https://twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1662183813412265984
"After screening some 5000 papers, he estimates up to 34% of neuroscience papers published in 2020 were likely made up or plagiarized; in medicine, the figure was 24%." https://science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarmingly-common #Science #Medicine #Research #NeuroScience #Academia
Robert Clive: From Hero to Villain
"....Robert Clive’s reputation as a hero had collapsed. In the late 1760s he returned to Britain, bringing with him a staggering personal fortune that he had amassed in Bengal. Regarded as one of the richest men in Europe, he conspicuously bought properties in England and Wales, and spared no expense on rebuilding and furnishing these new residences. Clive’s spending spree coincided with reports of the Bengal Famine, a catastrophe that killed about 10 million people. The source of Clive’s fortune came under scrutiny and his character was aggressively criticised by the British public." https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2023/05/robert-clive-from-hero-to-villain.html #History #EastIndiaCompany #Britain #histodon #histodons #earlymodern @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/UntoldLives/status/1661379349289771011
"Brits may mind their Ps and Qs, but they’ve completely overlooked their ñs and ßs. Linguist and epigraphist Philippa Steele spells out the surprising history behind our written languages." https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/443711-why-does-the-english-alphabet-have-26-letters #English #Languages #Linguistics #Alphabet #History #Writing #histodons #histodon @histodons @linguistics @histodon
Source: https://twitter.com/crewsproject/status/1662154264372707336
"L' hemisphere meridional pour voir plus distinctement les terres australes". https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3220.ct009346/?loclr=twmap #Map #Cartography #History #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/LOCMaps/status/1661741408816857088
"Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra..., [between pages 41 and 42]". https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/db0cd870-667d-013a-bbd9-0242ac110003 #Map #Cartography #C17th #History #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/NYPLMaps/status/1661750660088602625
"In recent decades, researchers have begun peering beneath book covers using noninvasive techniques to find medieval binding fragments and read what’s written on them." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/science/medieval-books-hidden-manuscripts.html #Books #Medieval #Science #bookstodon @bookstodon
Source: https://twitter.com/prof_gabriele/status/1661059061494824960
"No one knows where the city of Akkad was located, how it rose to prominence, or how, precisely, it fell; yet once it was the seat of the Akkadian Empire which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia." https://www.worldhistory.org/akkad/ #Ancient #History #Mesopotamia #histodon #histodons @histodons @histodon
Source: https://twitter.com/whencyclopedia/status/1660436584536178690
"Stuart was a slight, small man, a social misfit and heavy drinker. Yet he would go on to become perhaps the greatest explorer of the Australian interior in history." https://explorerspodcast.com/john-mcdouall-stuart/ #History #Australia #Podcast #Exploration #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @podcast
Source: https://twitter.com/explorerspod/status/1660675812608155654
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #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.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
Toots automatically delete after two weeks.
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Joined Nov 2022
