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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
From hapless parody to knight crusader – how far-right nationalism hijacked the real Don Quixote https://theconversation.com/from-hapless-parody-to-knight-crusader-how-far-right-nationalism-hijacked-the-real-don-quixote-196032 #Literature #Spain
‘Incredible’ Roman bathers’ gems lost 2,000 years ago found near Hadrian’s Wall https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/28/roman-bathers-gems-carved-stones-archaeologists-hadrians-wall #Archaeology #Roman #Britain
"The Horned Helmets Falsely Attributed to Vikings Are Actually Nearly 3,000 Years Old". https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/iconic-viking-horned-helmets-actually-3000-years-old-180979339 #Vikings #Ancient #Archaeology #Denmark #Europe #History #Histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/SmithsonianMag/status/1619530780870320133
"Bernard Lamy was a French mathematician who wrote on geometry and mechanics." https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lamy/ #History #Maths #Math #Mathematics #France
Source: https://twitter.com/mathshistory/status/1619642265235849216
The Phonetic Hieroglyphic Alphabet
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n03/james-davidson/at-the-british-museum #Ancient #Culture
‘Armada’ Review: The Fate of the Spanish Fleet
https://www.wsj.com/articles/armada-book-review-the-fate-of-philips-mighty-fleet-11674844489 #History #Book #Books #BookReview #Histodons #England #Spain #Europe
Source: https://twitter.com/BrumwellStephen/status/1619285190253350917
#Biography: Thomas Willis, F. R. S. (1621-1675) https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.1960.0008 #History #histsci #Science #Histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/RSocPublishing/status/1618942578451222529
Scientist of the day: Robert Burton https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/robert-burton #History #Science #Histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/bhgross144/status/1618444667531710465
Tears and Contrition in Early Modern Iberian Inquisitorial Trials (1560–1610): A Preliminary Study https://brill.com/view/journals/ehcs/aop/article-10.1163-2208522x-02010182/article-10.1163-2208522x-02010182.xml #History #EarlyModern #Iberia #Histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/FJSoyer/status/1618541703400505345
‘Remarkable’: Eastbourne shipwreck identified as 17th-century Dutch warship https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jan/27/remarkable-eastbourne-shipwreck-identified-as-17th-century-dutch-warship #Archaeology #Netherlands #Europe #History #C17th #17thcentury #Histodons
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Toots are humanities, sciences, non-fiction books, maps, charts and graphs related. Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions. Expect many typing errors.
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