Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @bibliolater@social.cleverlibre.org

hey did you know the roots of a cubic polynomial can be visualized using an equilateral triangle?

🔵 vertices are roots
🔴 the incenter is the inflection point
🟢 the incircle boundaries are the local minima/maxima

"Heere Master: What cheere?" - Exciting news, #UBC 's copy of Shakespeare's First Folio (1623, first state), purchased last year, has been digitized. Interesting provenance docs, also digitized. This was one of the last in private ownership.

Browse in #OA or download the entire book: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/shakespe/items/1.0421801

#BookHistory #Shakespeare #FirstFolio #Books #Reading #Printing

Just 6 years after “The First #Thanksgiving” meal, Thomas Morton founded the controversial colony of Merrymount, described as a “school of athesim” and home to the “beastly practices of the mad Bacchanalians”. More in our essay by Ed Simon: https://buff.ly/3fMUBsP #history #histodon #religion #pilgrims #colonialism

Quick little tip: You don't need to use link shorteners on Mastodon.

All links on Mastodon count for 23 characters towards your limit, no matter how many characters they really are.

However, you need to include https:// at the beginning of links to make them clickable.

A brief history of Irish Colleges in the 17th century – https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/03/30/irish-colleges-17th-century/

#IrishPhilosophy #IrishColleges #IrishFranciscans

As paleographer I often date medieval manuscripts. Since there is no title page yet, dating happens on the basis of letter forms. The process is all about "sensing" how evolved a specimen is (medieval letters are never "done") and then trying to find arguments in specific letter shapes.

Pic: StGallSBCod14 (9th century): https://tinyurl.com/yputm7fx

Blog on script (yes, provocative title): https://tinyurl.com/245emnw9

#medieval #bookhistory #paleography #typography #typeface @histodon #DatingScript

From 2019, Phil Deloria's excellent piece on Thanksgiving, history and implications. #VastEarlyAmerica https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/25/the-invention-of-thanksgiving

A heaping portion of #Thanksgiving etymology for you: 🦃“Just as #Turkey is a versatile meat – think of those leftover options! – so too is the word “turkey,” which can refer to everything from the bird itself to a populous Eurasian country to movie flops.”
https://theconversation.com/talking-turkey-how-the-thanksgiving-bird-got-its-name-and-then-lent-it-to-film-flops-171925

Big rumblings in the expansion of the #Fediverse have been happening recently.

#Tumblr has already promised to implement #ActivityPub (the protocol Mastodon uses), which will mean you can follow Tumblr accounts from here and vice versa. And today we a learning that #Flickr is also considering it!

This will be a massive expansion bringing, which obviously carries some uncertainties, but I, for one, welcome our new federation partners.

This is the way the internet is supposed to work.

A group at Johns Hopkins has created a scrollable, interactive map of the entire universe, from here to the cosmic microwave background.
Extraordinary discoveries at your fingertips for free, unimaginable when I was a kid. https://mapoftheuniverse.net/ #astronomy #space #exploration