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You can thumb through one of Isaac Newton's personal copies of the Principia, courtesy of the Cambridge Digital Library.

Donated by the 5th Earl of Portsmouth in 1872, it contains many of Newton's own notes, annotations, and corrections.

cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk//view/PR-AD

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Sir Isaac Newton's "Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica" was published #OTD in 1687. Often referred to as just “the Principia,” it presents Newton’s laws of motion and his universal law of gravitation.

336 years old and we still teach its main results!

One of the difficulties that a cohort of new users to will face is that there is no controlling the content they consume. It makes the job of populating timelines, a personal effort.

CARTOGRAPHY IN THE EUROPEAN ENLIGHTENMENT = volume 4 of The History of Cartography series is now, as of today, FREELY AVAILABLE !!!!!

Goto press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/i and click the link for volume 4.

WOW WOW WOW

The prettiest of all the volumes, if I say so myself. All thse mss in full color!

#maphistory #cartography #maps #18thcentury #17thcentury

Antunes, C., & Negrón, R. (2022). The Dutch Republic and the Spanish Slave Trade, 1580-1690. TSEG - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, 19(2), 17–44. doi.org/10.52024/tseg.12315 @histodon @histodons

#OTD in 1687, Sir Isaac Newton published his magnum opus, the Principia — one of the most important works in the history of science.

It was in the Principia, or the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, that Newton first set out in mathematical terms the principles of force, time and motion, and revolutionized methods of scientific investigation. via @iaeaorg

Principia mathematica (3 vols) by Alfred North Whitehead & Bertrand Russell is being proofed by @DProofreaders.

#books #science

The oldest humans identified as riders (so far). #bioanthropology #horse #archaeology #openaccess

The authors report five Yamnaya individuals well-dated to 3021 to 2501 calibrated BCE from kurgans in Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary, displaying changes in bone morphology and distinct pathologies associated with horseback riding.

science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv

"Ninth Dedekind number discovered: Scientists from the Universities of Paderborn and Leuven solve long-known problem in mathematics" eurekalert.org/news-releases/9 @science

Haihua Bai and others, The Genome of a Mongolian Individual Reveals the Genetic Imprints of Mongolians on Modern Human Populations, Genome Biology and Evolution, Volume 6, Issue 12, December 2014, Pages 3122–3136, doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evu242 @science

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A cartographer is using maps to fight climate change. She creates interactive visualizations that show the impacts of rising sea levels, extreme weather, and carbon emissions on different regions. Her maps aim to raise awareness, inspire action, and inform decision-making. #maps #climatechange #visualization technologyreview.com/2023/06/2

Another #Mastotip for this megathread of tips for people new to #Mastodon from #Twitter. I was just introduced to Followgraph, which lets you plug your profile in and graph out who your follow's are following, so you can possibly find more interesting accounts to follow! followgraph.vercel.app
H/T: @jfkimmes

#Twittermigration #Welcome #Twitterexodus

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#OTD 4 July 1753 Jean-Pierre Blanchard was born. He became a pioneer in ballooning, becoming the first to cross the English Channel in a balloon on 7 January 1785.

What makes South Korea’s fertility rate decline more astonishing is the relatively short period in which it has occurred.

And now South Korea is the only country in the world to register a fertility rate of less than one child per woman, although others – Ukraine, China and Spain – are close.

theconversation.com/south-kore

#WorldNews #Economy #Demography #Asia #SouthKorea

Johann, C. (2021). Sovereignty And The Legal Legacies Of Empire In Early Nineteenth-Century Prussia. The Historical Journal, 64(4), 963-987. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X20000 @histodon @histodons

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Wu, G. (2023). Mapping Byzantine Sericulture in the Global Transfer of Technology. Journal of Global History, 1-17. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S1740022823000 @histodon @histodons

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We're noticing a lot of movement to Mastodon. To get you started, here's a list of #OpenScience folks who are already on Mastodon 🐘 germanrepro.github.io/Mastodon

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