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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
"In this talk, Professor Budd will describe how these models work and the assumptions that go into them. He will discuss how reliable our predictions of climate change are, and show how mathematicians can give us insights into both past and future." https://youtu.be/w4O4jK-lZrI #Youtube #Video #Climate #ClimateChange #Science #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Lecture
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The world was 1.32C #warmer than it was before the Industrial Revolution and for 99% of people, the #weather was hotter than it has been on average in recent years, chart @business https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-11-10/extreme-heat-caused-by-climate-change-piles-pressure-on-world-leaders?cmpid=BBD111023_politics&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=231110&utm_campaign=bop
"All of the most popular browsers come with translation tools built-in on desktop and mobile, so you don’t have to limit your reading to sites in your own language. Here’s how it works on four of the most well-known web browsers." https://gizmodo.com/translate-google-chrome-edge-safari-language-browser-1850993716 #Reading #Online #Translation #Language #Languages
"During the last ten years writers from France, the United States and Spanish America, and, although rarely, also in other countries, have begun to use the terms Latin America, Latin American, for the old and proper terms Spanish America, Spanish American. A third term, Ibero America, Ibero American, is also used by recent writers. Which are the proper terms? Which should we use? In the following article I beg to discuss this matter briefly."
Espinosa, Aurelio M. “The Term Latin America.” Hispania 1, no. 3 (1918): 135–43. https://doi.org/10.2307/331596. #OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Language #Langauges #Words #Latin #America #English #Spanish
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Good afternoon, I hope you have a relaxing #reading day. #Mastodon #Fediverse #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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🏴 🏴 "Hand-drawn map of England and Wales by Christopher Saxton in 1579." #Map #Maps #Atlas #Cartography #England #Wales #Europe #History #Histodon #Histodons #C16th #16thCentury #PublicDomain @histodon @histodons
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Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anglia_Atlas.jpg
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Andrés Manuel del Río y Fernández, born #OTD in 1764, was a Spanish scientist, naturalist and engineer, nationalized Mexican, who discovered compounds of vanadium in 1801.
Though he initially presumed its qualities were due to the presence of a new element, he was later erroneously convinced by French chemist Hippolyte Victor Collet-Descotils that the element was just chromium. In 1867 Henry Enfield Roscoe obtained the pure element.
🇬🇧 "This article recovers some of the classical, constitutional, and religious languages of empire in early-modern Britain by a consideration of the period between the end of the first Anglo-Dutch war in 1654 and the calling of the second Protectoral Parliament in 1656."
Armitage, David. 1992. The Cromwellian Protectorate and the languages of empire. Historical Journal 35(3): 531-555. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3373617 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodon #Histodons #GB #GreatBritain #Britain #C17th #17thCentury #EarlyModern #Empire #Language #Languages @histodon @histodons
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"A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n."
Paradise Lost
English poet, pamphleteer, and historian John Milton died #OTD in 1674. He is best known for Paradise Lost, widely regarded as the greatest epic poem in English. It was written in blank verse & including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux & political upheaval.
John Milton @ PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/17
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Edmond Halley, English astronomer, mathematician and physicist was born #OTD in 1656.
Halley encouraged & helped fund the publication of Isaac Newton's influential Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687). From observations Halley made in September 1682, he used Newton's law of universal gravitation to compute the periodicity of Halley's Comet in his 1705 Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets. via @wikipedia
Books about Halley @ PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=halley&submit_search=Go%21
🇮🇷 "The results show an autochthonous but non-homogeneous ancient background mainly composed by J2a sub-clades with different external contributions. The phylogeography of the main haplogroups allowed identifying post-glacial and Neolithic expansions toward western Eurasia but also recent movements towards the Iranian region from western Eurasia (R1b-L23), Central Asia (Q-M25), Asia Minor (J2a-M92) and southern Mesopotamia (J1-Page08)."
Grugni V, Battaglia V, Hooshiar Kashani B, Parolo S, Al-Zahery N, et al. (2012) Ancient Migratory Events in the Middle East: New Clues from the Y-Chromosome Variation of Modern Iranians. PLOS ONE 7(7): e41252. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0041252 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Biology #Genetics #Ancient #Neolithic #DNA #Iran #MiddleEast #Eurasia #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @science
"In this illustrated lecture, Andrew George, author of a prize-winning translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh, explores four themes related to this Babylonian masterpiece: the archaeology of the poem’s recovery, the reconstruction of its text, the story it tells, and its messages about life and death." https://youtu.be/Rd7MrGy_tEg #Youtube #Video #Lecture #Babylon #Poem #Poetry #Mesopotamia #Cuneiform #Archaeology @archaeodons
"Matthew Leporati argues that the epic revival not only reflects but also interrogates this evangelical turn. The first to examine the impact of the missionary work on epic literature, this book offers sustained analysis of both under-read and canonical works, bringing fresh historical and literary contexts to bear on our understanding of this unique revival of epic poetry."
Leporati, M. (2023). Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009285155 #OpenAccess #OA #Literature #C18th #C19th #Britain #British #Romanticsim #Empire #Imperialism #Poem #Poetry #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon (66)
"Using formal analysis, statistical methodology, and computer processing, we present the cartographic characteristics of each one and relate them to their historical context, updating the scarce information available until now."
Pablo-Martí, F., López-Requena, J. The Spanish Gough maps: first pre-postal maps of the Iberian Peninsula in its European context. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 10, 716 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02178-9 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Geography #History #Histodon #Histodons #Map #Maps #Cartography #Europe @histodon @histodons
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"The investigation shows that the Kvens constituted a group of Finnish speaking people existing in continuity from the Viking Age. Their core territory was situated in the upper Gulf of Bothnia area. When this was integrated into the Swedish kingdom the inhabitants were designated Finns by the Swedes."
Lars Elenius (2019) The dissolution of ancient Kvenland and the transformation of the Kvens as an ethnic group of people. On changing ethnic categorizations in communicative and collective memories, Acta Borealia, 36:2, 117-148, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08003831.2019.1681225 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Ethnicity #Medieval #History #Histodon #Histodons #Viking #Finnish #Finn #Nordic #Scandinavia #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @medievodons
"Here we analyze historical and recent observations to show that ocean heat uptake has accelerated dramatically since the 1990s, nearly doubling during 2010–2020 relative to 1990–2000."
Li, Z., England, M.H. & Groeskamp, S. Recent acceleration in global ocean heat accumulation by mode and intermediate waters. Nat Commun 14, 6888 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42468-z #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Climate #ClimateChange #Oceanography #Ocean #Oceans #Academia #Academic #Academics @science
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2nd, I just discovered the Open Access Anthropology Journal Ticker, which aggregates the latest articles published by the OA anthro journals with RSS-feeds. https://journals.antropologi.info/about/
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
