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Not a bot; a rather corpulent male approaching fifty years of age; married; father; a very very slow reader; barely reaching up to the level of mediocrity; an ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are humanities, sciences, books and maps related. Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions. Expect many typing errors.
Addendum: for those wondering, I do not physically resemble a fountain pen.
Joined Nov 2022
"This paper compares Rider Haggard’s use of this analogy in his novel Elissa or the Doom of Zimbabwe with other writers of his time who compared Britain to the Phoenicians. Haggard emerges as deeper, more wide-ranging and sophisticated in his use of the ‘Phoenician analogy’ than other writers who employed it."
John Coates, “Haggard’s Use of the Phoenician Analogy with Britain”, Cahiers victoriens et edouardiens [Online, 91 Printemps, 2020 released on June 1, 2020, accessed 31 December 2023. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/cve/7672; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/cve.7672 #OpenAccess #OA #Literature #Fiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #Phoenicia #British #Empire #Carthage #Rome @bookstodon
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Why some people don’t trust science – and how to change their minds
“The messenger is every bit as important as the message. Our work confirms many prior surveys showing that politicians, for example, aren’t trusted to communicate science, whereas university professors are. This should be kept in mind”
Remember this the next time right wing media/politicians target educators, universities, education, etc.
#Disinformation #Education #Science #Academia #Scicomm
https://theconversation.com/why-some-people-dont-trust-science-and-how-to-change-their-minds-219579
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Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor Robert Boyle died #OTD in 1691.
He is best known for Boyle's law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system. Among his works, The Sceptical Chymist is seen as a cornerstone book in the field of chemistry. via @wikipedia
Books by Robert Boyle at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5554
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@ChrisCPS @bibliolater @TammyGentzel I'm the same, much prefer ebooks, so if my wife recommends a treeware book, first thing I do is check whether it's on Overdrive courtesy of the public library.
That said, I'm not a fan of ebooks except on an e-ink device. For me that's a Kobo e-reader.
Also, I mainly read novels; for non-fiction with lots of illustrations and flicking back and forth, I'd still go with treeware.
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@bibliolater @TammyGentzel @bookstodon I am the opposite. Can’t read a hardcover book anymore. Love ebooks
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@bibliolater @bookstodon On that note, I will share though I think ereading sucks, it solves all those problems and I can start reading when I feel like it. So that’s what I do.
I miss the days when I could just pick up a printed #book and start #reading. At present I have usually to scratch around for my #reading #spectacles; then I have to locate my #reading light. Once all of these 'measures' have been taken, I can start to #read the #book. Usually by this time my initial enthusiasm for #reading has greatly dissipated.
#Amreading #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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@bibliolater it’s a bit of, ‘suck & see’ to get the balance of cost, portability, stability and availability. I probably would have used what I have. Turns out it might be adequate. That being s function of me being picky with dimensionally stable materials.
Q What did writers of say 1800s use to write on? @writing
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@bibliolater @writing Having trained in analogue graphic reproduction technology, my medium of choice with ink was dimensionally stable polymer. Then say a 100gcm Canson.
The pressed papers with high rag cotton content don’t absorb the ink as quickly and sits closer to the surface. Thinner papers absorb the ink, leaving spidery patterns at the edge when drying as the ink follows the paper fibres.
As for pen/ink writing I was surprised my choice of notebook turns up. My choice is lead pencil. Pretty stable, not as stable as silver-point. I dabbled in this at one stage after viewing the Queens collection of Leonardo’s drawings. That however requires an even more specialised paper (finely ground bone, ash rabbit glue). An even more obscure paper 📝 <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverpoint>
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@bibliolater @writing So frustrating!
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@bibliolater for ink, a higher quality paper will be required. <https://www.gentlemanstationer.com/blog/2021/3/10/hierarchies-of-fountain-pen-friendly-paper> @writing
I recently bought two journals to use as commonplace books. Once home and eager to use the latest additions I found that the #ink from my fountain pen bleeds straight through to the other side of the page with both journals. To say that I was disappointed would be an understatement.
#Writing #Journal #FountainPen #Writingcommunity @writing
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"In this article I trace the origins of this period in terms of the infrastructure required to produce this explosive growth: recognition of the importance of systematic data collection by the state; the rise of statistical theory and statistical thinking; enabling developments of technology; and inventions of novel methods to portray statistical data."
Michael Friendly. "The Golden Age of Statistical Graphics." Statist. Sci. 23 (4) 502 - 535, November 2008. https://doi.org/10.1214/08-STS268 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Data #DataViz #DataVisualization #History #Statistics #STEM #Maths #Math #Mathematics @statistics
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@bibliolater don’t have a way to automate it right now, so I just let them be
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This is great news of #OpenCulture!
The UK's Court of Appeal has ruled that photographs of out-of-copyright work cannot themselves be copyrighted.
Just removed a set of #dormant #accounts that I have been #following. Some of them have not posted to #Mastodon in a number of months. How do you deal with accounts that you #follow who do not seem to be active?
"This article traces the intellectual genealogy of genomic history from World War II to the present, examines recent attempts to answer criticism from the humanities and social sciences, and suggests paths for responsible use of aDNA in historical and prehistorical scholarship."
Parmenter, C.S. (2023), THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS? GENOMIC HISTORY AND THE RETURN OF RACE IN THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN. History and Theory.. https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12328 #OpenAccess #OA #Genomics #History #aDNA #DNA #Archaeogenetics #Ancient #Greek #Archaeology #Prehistory @archaeodons
"The heated debates that Bernard Mandeville’s work inspired in Britain, France, and Germany are well-documented. No such account is available for the public reception of his ideas in his country of birth, the Dutch Republic. This paper seeks to fill that void."
Hengstmengel, Joost, and Rudi Verburg. “THE UNEVENTFUL RECEPTION OF MANDEVILLE’S IDEAS IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DUTCH REPUBLIC, OR THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE MISSING OUTRAGE.” Journal of the History of Economic Thought 45, no. 3 (2023): 427–46. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837222000128. #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #History #Economics #Dutch #Europe #Netherlands #C18th #18thCentury #Academia #Academic #Academics @historyofeconomics
The true-born Englishman. A satyr. 1701: Defoe, Daniel https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-true-born-englishman_defoe-daniel_1701_1 ~via @internetarchive #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #C18th #18thCentury #Satire #Poem #Poetry #History #England #UK #Britain @bookstodon @poetry
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English mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead died #OTD in 1947. With Bertrand Russell he co-wrote the Principia Mathematica, which has been described as marking "the culmination of the effort to treat mathematics as a department of logic". His other books include Process & reality, The principle of relativity, Science & the modern world, and Adventures of ideas. His self-confessed task was "to explore the no-man's land between science and philosophy".
Not a bot; a rather corpulent male approaching fifty years of age; married; father; a very very slow reader; barely reaching up to the level of mediocrity; an ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are humanities, sciences, books and maps related. Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions. Expect many typing errors.
Addendum: for those wondering, I do not physically resemble a fountain pen.
Joined Nov 2022
