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Taken 50 years ago today with a film camera, and developed when the Apollo 17 crew got back home, the "blue marble" photo of Earth is believed to be the most reproduced image in human history.
https://theconversation.com/the-first-photograph-of-the-entire-globe-50-years-on-blue-marble-still-inspires-175051
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Horizontal table clocks were popular from the mid 1500s to the 1700s, though I guess you had to be rich to afford one like this! The mechanism has been removed so can see it. Made in 1620 in Germany, it gives a distinctive ring each quarter hour.
This is in an exhibit of clocks and watches in the Royal Museum. I'm killing time, waiting to check into a hotel nearby.
‘I want to savour every word’: the joy of reading slowly https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/02/i-want-to-savour-every-word-the-joy-of-reading-slowly #Reading #Book #Books
CONNECTIONS: Puritans banned Christmas, Stockbridge restored it https://theberkshireedge.com/connections-puritans-banned-christmas-stockbridge-restored-it/ #History #Christmas #Massachusetts #USA
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Happy 200th Birthday to Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, born in Boston #OnThisDay in 1822. Agassiz was the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College. She also wrote several books about natural history and was one of the first women members of the American Philosophical Society.
#History #WomensHistory #RadcliffeCollege #histodon #histodons #Massachusetts
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#introductions Hey everyone!
Early American Sources is a free website that links scholars to online resources dedicated to the early Americas. We have information about archives, digitized collections, online databases, published primary sources, and so much more. We post new content regularly, so give us a follow!
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Here's one for the medievalists and early modernists.
Eadmer's Historia novorum in Anglia, written in the 12th century, first saw print under the editorial care of the great John Selden in 1623.
The Harry Ransom Center's copy preserves the entirely standard, unassuming boards of its original 17th-century binding.
The title-page, though, reveals it to be a special copy, indeed:
At the top, the poet and playwright Ben Jonson has inscribed it w/ his Senecan motto, Tanquam Explorator.
At bottom, Jonson has written his name w/ a note that the copy was given to him by "its very erudite and famous editor."
History's Great Recommenders: From Ancient Times to Tomorrow https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/historys-great-recommenders-from-ancient-times-to-tomorrow/ #EssentialKnowledge #History #Philosophy #Recommendation
Source: https://twitter.com/mitpress/status/1599809082541707264?s=20&t=g-B0XJCKRvAATl0vt2-uIg
Findings from 3,000-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal complex trade network https://source.wustl.edu/2022/11/findings-from-2000-year-old-uluburun-shipwreck-reveal-complex-trade-network/ #Archaeology #Science
Source: https://twitter.com/ticiaverveer/status/1599505511094681600?s=20&t=g-B0XJCKRvAATl0vt2-uIg
Wilson, Mark, 'Ersatz Rigor', Imitation of Rigor: An Alternative History of Analytic Philosophy (Oxford, 2021; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 Dec. 2021), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192896469.003.0001, accessed 5 Dec. 2022. #History #Philosophy #Science #Language
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For anyone wishing to read John Milton’s great English language epic poem “Paradise Lost,” or who have perhaps once read it but didn’t quite understand it, this recent New Books Network / Writ Large #podcast featuring Zachary Davis interviewing Prof. Erik Gray about #Milton, the poem, and its #history provides an excellent introduction and overview well suited to all interested. https://newbooksnetwork.com/on-john-miltons-paradise-lost #bookstodon #literature #poety #earlymodern
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@HaggardHawks on Twitter. As a proud word-nerd, learning "new" old #words is hugely exciting, and I thoroughly endorse the idea of reviving "flapdoodler" and "hogamadog," among others. Thank you, Paul.
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Palimpsests: How Recycled Books Preserve Lost Treasures https://antigonejournal.com/2021/05/palimpsests/ #Ancient #Literature #Culture #Classics #Tradition #Books
Source: https://twitter.com/AntigoneJournal/status/1599526501195603971?s=20&t=uByGXNz-wZsoC1GexI6LMA
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