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This week's #NewBooks at the library: second-hand copies of...
- Charles Lyell: The Years to 1841: The Revolution in Geology. Having reviewed Radical by Nature two years ago made me want to read up on other historical natural historians of this time period. There is no good recent book on the early geologist Charles Lyell. The standard is still the two books written by Leonard G. Wilson, which are the first two parts of an unfortunately unfinished trilogy. I obtained the second book some time ago, and now managed to buy the first part at a very decent price via eBay.
- The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History
- Biominerals and Fossils Through Time. Reviewing Fossilization made me want to understand more about the physical basis of fossilisation.
#Geology #EarthSciences #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #NaturalHistory #Fossils #Fossilisation #Mineralogy #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon
**Four Theses on the Hoplite Wars**
🔗 https://www.bookandsword.com/2025/11/16/four-theses-on-the-hoplite-wars/.
#Ancient #Wars #History #Histodons
#Image attribution: George E. Koronaios, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greek_hoplite_reenactor_on_the_Areopagus,_24_October_2018.jpg
📖 **On Slavery and Unfreedom in Byzantine Thought on the Household**
"_This book explores the ways in which the language, ideals, stereotypes, and literary tropes associated with current or formerly enslaved people had become inextricably linked to Byzantine thought surrounding the family and the household._"
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