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"Finally, basing our discussion in part on an examination of the reading marks that Newton left in the surviving copies of Hebrew grammars and lexicons that he owned, we will argue that his interest in Hebrew was not intended to achieve linguistic proficiency but remained limited to particular theological queries of singular concern."

Joalland, M. and Mandelbrote, S. (2016) ‘Isaac Newton learns Hebrew: Samuel Johnson's Nova cubi Hebræi tabella’, Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science. Royal Society, 70(1), p. 9-21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2015.0055. #Research #Article #Biography #History #Histodon #Histodons #Science #HistSci #C18th #18thCentury #Astronomy #C17th #17thCentury #Hebrew #Language #Languages #EarlyModern @earlymodern @science @histodon @histodons

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"Our understanding of early modern empire construction can thus be reshaped through an analysis that looks beyond intellectual, political and administrative origins towards the people who actually undertook the project of colonization. On the colonial frontier, we see European empires adopting military recruitment strategies from Europe — including forced conscription, convict transportation and a reliance on vagabonds and other ‘undesirables’ — yet the unique environment of the frontier changed the nature of this military service."

Stephanie J. Mawson, Convicts or Conquistadores ? Spanish Soldiers in the Seventeenth-Century Pacific , Past & Present, Volume 232, Issue 1, August 2016, Pages 87–125, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtw008 #History #Histodon #Histodons #Spain #Philippines #Pacific #C17th #17thCentury #Colonisation #Europe #Asia #EarlyModern #Empire #Imperialism @histodon @histodons @earlymodern

"Religion does not act in a vacuum; nor need it dominate other facets of identity. In the early Christian persecutions, inter-religious competition proves much more important to later (Christian) writings that sought to make the everyday more providential than it ever was on the ground. "

James Corke-Webster, By Whom Were Early Christians Persecuted?, Past & Present, Volume 261, Issue 1, November 2023, Pages 3–46, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac041 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #Christianity #Religion @histodon @histodons @religion

"This article closely analyses Hobbes's scriptural case for two aspects of eschatology: the doctrine of mortalism and the terrestrial kingdom of God."

OKADA, T. A. K. U. Y. A. (2022) “Hobbes's Eschatology and Scriptural Interpretation in Leviathan,” The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Cambridge University Press, 73(2), pp. 308–325. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046921000683 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Research #Article #History #Christianity #Religion #Eschatology #Philosophy @religion @philosophyofreligion @philosophy

"The Amsterdam-based merchant and mathematics enthusiast Adriaen Verwer (1654/5–1717) was one of the few in the Dutch Republic to respond to the first edition of Newton's Principia (1687). Based on a close study of his published work, his correspondence with the Scottish mathematician and astronomer David Gregory (1659–1708), and his annotations in his own copy of the first edition of the Principia, I shall scrutinize the impact of Newton's ideas on Verwer's thinking."

Ducheyne, S. (2020) ‘Adriaen Verwer (1654/5-1717) and the first edition of Isaac Newton’s Principia in the Dutch Republic’, Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science. Royal Society, 74(3), p. 479-505. doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2019.0008. #Research #Journal #Article #History #Science #STEM #HistSci #Academia #Academic @science @physics

"The goal of this article is to show the influence of Polish Brothers on the British philosopher John Locke. As an example, it will be point out the influence of Polish Brothers on the very influential text of Locke’s A Letter Concerning Toleration and other writings of this philosopher."

Obirek, S. (2020) "John Locke at the Polish Brothers school”, Humaniora. Czasopismo Internetowe, 29(1), s. 31–38. doi: https://doi.org/10.14746/h.2020.1.3 #Article #Philosophy @philosophy

Gray's Atlas Map of Europe: Gray, Ormando Willis https://archive.org/details/dr_grays-atlas-map-of-europe-4740016 via @internetarchive #Map #Maps #Atlas #Cartography #Mapstodon #History #Europe #C19th #19thCentury

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Map of the Territory of Alaska (Russian America) Ceded by Russia to the United States: Gray, Ormando Willis https://archive.org/details/dr_map-of-the-territory-of-alaska-russian-america-ceded-by-russia-to-the-uni-3888008 via @internetarchive #Map #Maps #Cartography #Mapstodon #History #US #USA #UnitedStates #America #Alaska #Russia #C19th #19thCentury

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