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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
How the mobile phone changed everything https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct4vbz #technology #phone
Source: https://twitter.com/bbcworldservice/status/1649698387032195072
Katarzyna Anna Kapitan, Tarrin Wills, Sagas and genre: A case for application of network analysis to manuscripts preserving Old Norse-Icelandic saga literature, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2023;, fqad013, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad013 #OpenAccess #OA #Literature #Digital
"In this book, Monika Amsler explores the historical contexts in which the Babylonian Talmud was formed in an effort to determine whether it was the result of oral transmission." https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009297349 #Ancient #History #Histodons #Religion #OpenAccess #OA #Book #Bookstodon
"Historians have puzzled over the secret to the success of this first great European queen – a woman who provided a model for her granddaughter, England’s Queen Mary I, and for other great queens like Elizabeth I, Victoria or Catherine the Great." https://tudortimes.co.uk/guest-articles/isabella-of-castile #History #Spain #Europe #Histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/thetudortimes/status/1649743230471159808
"Wilhelm Schickard was a German astronomer who invented a calculating machine long before Pascal. He worked on astronomy, mathematics and surveying." https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schickard/ #Maths #History #histodons #Science #Mathstodon
Source: https://twitter.com/mathshistory/status/1649705356841369601
"Kant: A Complete Guide to Reason" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbjZEDR5EXI #Philosophy #Youtube #Video
Source: https://twitter.com/lewlewwaller/status/1649778583009890306
"As the exhibition emphasizes, the form of the European book could not have happened without the trade of natural materials to Europe from different parts of the globe – primarily Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-libraries-and-archives/2023/04/19/how-artistic-traditions-and-natural-materials-combined-to-form-the-modern-book/ #Books #Bookstodon #History #Histodons #bookbinding
Source: https://twitter.com/SmithsonianMag/status/1649827406012641280
The story of mathematical proof – with John Stillwell https://youtu.be/S1AEWuCFq6A #Video #Maths #mathstodon #youtube #math #mathematics
Source: https://twitter.com/Ri_Science/status/1637181853051281409
Why do irregular nouns and verbs exist? An #ancient and modern problem https://antigonejournal.com/2022/09/linguistic-irregularity/ #Greek #Latin #Languages #Classics
Source: https://twitter.com/AntigoneJournal/status/1642907354411794439
Adam Smith's readers in #Bristol, 1773-1795 https://www.adamsmithworks.org/documents/skj%C3%B6nsberg-smith-readers-bristol #History #libraries #histodons #reading #books #bookstodon
Source: https://twitter.com/adamsmithworks/status/1643739014825152513
"The first book to document, using direct archival evidence, the creation of the ur-text of modern American evangelicalism, The Scofield Reference Bible." https://newbooksnetwork.com/donald-harman-akenson-the-americanization-of-the-apocalypse-creating-americas-own-bible-oxford-up-2023 #Podcast #Religion #Book #bookstodon #America #Christianity #Bible
Source: https://twitter.com/OUPReligion/status/1648358515164217344
‘Viking' was a job description, not a matter of heredity, massive #ancient #DNA study shows https://www.science.org/content/article/viking-was-job-description-not-matter-heredity-massive-ancient-dna-study-shows #archeology #archaeodons #Vikings #science #genetics
Source: https://twitter.com/NewsfromScience/status/1543316109075570691
"Dr. Samuel Johnson, perhaps now most famous for the creation of the first major dictionary of the English language, was regarded as the leading literary Englishman of the mid-18th century. Other notable works included a study of Shakespeare’s plays and a major critical study of English poets." https://www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/dr-samuel-johnson/ #history #histodons #biography #English #literature
Source: https://twitter.com/LondonStone/status/1647143972655996934
The Travel Account of Francisco Álvares: Ethiopian-European Relations in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/blog/the_travel_account #history #histodons #europe #ethiopia
Source: https://twitter.com/Warwick_Global/status/1645791130137812996
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
