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The Hardest Language To Spell (NativLang) https://youtu.be/btn0-Vce5ug #Youtube #Video #Language #Languages #Linguistics @linguistics
(Eds.). (07 Oct. 2019). Empires of the Sea. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004407671 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #Antiquity #Medieval #EarlyModern @histodon @histodons @medievodons @antiquidons
Viti, C. (2014). Reconstructing Syntactic Variation in Proto-Indo-European, Indo-European Linguistics, 2(1), 73-111. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/22125892-00201004 #OpenAccess #OA #Linguistics #Language #Languages @linguistics
Diana Tkebuchava. (2022). Sir Isaac Newton in pandemic England. BRAMS, 2(3/4), 15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7240406 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Pandemic #Physics #Science #England #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons @physics @science
Rodríguez Pérez, Yolanda. Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048541935 #OpenAccess #OA #Anglo #Dutch #Spanish #Culture #Britain #Spain #EarlyModern #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
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The surprisingly connected origins of "bid" and "bead".
#etymology #WordNerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #bid #bead
Capecchi, D.; Ruta, G. Mechanics and Mathematics in Ancient Greece. Encyclopedia 2022, 2, 140-150. https://doi.org/10.3390/encyclopedia2010010 #OpenAccess #OA #Ancient #Greece #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Mechanics #Science #Aristotle #Euclid @science
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New #AI translates 5,000-year-old cuneiform tablets instantly https://bigthink.com/the-future/ai-translates-cuneiform/
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If you are looking for academic communities on #Mastodon then this is a great resource
148% Monthly Inflation: How To Fix Failed Economies | Economist Steve Hanke https://youtu.be/kPaPnq1Lnrs #Youtube #Video #Economics #Finance #Currency #US #Dollar #Inflation #USA @economics
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19th-century French astronomer, Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande, who was particularly supportive of the ladies in astronomy, was born 11 July 1832
#HistoryOfAstronomy #WomenInScience
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2018/10/09/monsieur-joseph-jerome-lefrancois-de-lalande-et-les-dames/?fbclid=IwAR2C3EIiDa4Y9cQ1jqpQiDHyY8SsDCKks5JTazaDACJpbD0_T2Y6M_wCRxI
Jennifer M. Rampling. "John Dee and the sciences: early modern networks of knowledge." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 43.3 (2012) 432-436. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2011.12.001 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodon #Histodon #EarlyModern #Philosophy #Science #C16th #16thcentry #C17th #17thcentury @histodon @histodons @philosophy @science
Bastian Erdnüß. (2022). The Geocentric Mercator Projection: A Fast and Accurate Approximation of the Ellipsoidal Mercator Projection. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6584843 #OpenAccess #OA #Cartography #Map #Maps
American speaks Latin to Italians in Rome – watch their reaction! 😳 🇮🇹 https://youtu.be/DYYpTfx1ey8 #YouTube #Video #Latin #Rome #Italy #Italian #America #USA #Pronunciation #Language #Languages @linguistics
Confucius: The Sage Who Shaped The East | Confucius | Timeline https://youtu.be/qaFDr11g4Rg #YouTube #Video #Philosophy #Documentary #History #Histodon #Histodons @philosophy @histodon @histodons
Why Bellerby Globes Are So Expensive | So Expensive | Insider Business https://youtu.be/ymjWeQhic0s #YouTube #Video #Globe #Map #Maps #Cartography
British Pathé: Map Making (1961) https://youtu.be/L7SJVBX7jxo #Youtube #Video #Map #Maps #MapMaking #Cartography #British #Britain #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
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Newtonian mathematician, Roger Cotes, was born 10 July 1682
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/if-he-had-lived-we-might-have-known-something/?fbclid=IwAR0ZT4I-el_qtVpeifoKtVZ5G9ifYsjOgWMV8QooJNXDWQamtizUoBqxaUY
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#OTD 10 July 1509 Jean Cauvin (John Calvin) was born. He became perhaps the second most important figure in the Protestant Reformation behind only Martin Luther. He was particularly influential in France where Calvinism spread to perhaps 1/6th-1/5th of the population.
Joe Hasell, Pablo Arriagada, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Max Roser (2023) - "Economic Inequality". Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: 'https://ourworldindata.org/economic-inequality' [Online Resource]. #Data #Economics #Finance #DataScience #DataViz @economics
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.
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