Why seeing Galileo’s original experiments left me speechless
The Galileo Museum in Italy shows how modern science was born through centuries of effort and discovery.
By Adam Frank
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Why seeing Galileo’s original experiments left me speechless
"I was stunned. Here in front of me was the original apparatus through which a new vision of the world was slowly and painfully brought to light."Adam Frank (Big Think)
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#OTD in 1922. The Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use 2-tone Technicolor. The Gulf Between was the first film to do so, but it was not widely distributed.
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From the Wikipedia entry for The Toll of the Sea: The Toll of the Sea is a 1922 American motion picture, directed by Chester M. Franklin, produced by the...Internet Archive
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Le nostalgie.
Poesie di ispirazione decadentista scritte da Luigi Gualdo nel 1883. Si possono scaricare gratis, in pdf, da:
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Le nostalgie
Realizzato in collaborazione con il Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/) tramite Distributed Proofreaders (http://www.pgdp.net/).Liber Liber
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Pascal et l'économie du monde
Au XVIIe siècle, le mot « économiste » n’existe pas. Reste que Blaise Pascal, génie universel, entrepreneur, homme d’affaires, soucieux de l’ordre du monde, n’est pas étranger aux préoccupations d’un champ du savoir fondé environ un siècle après lui.Ferdi
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Q&A with Shaun Blanchard and Richard T. Yoder - Catholic University of America Press
In this blog post, we give a warm welcome to both Shaun Blanchard and Richard T. Yoder as they discuss their book Jansenism: An International Anthology. Shaun Blanchard is lecturer in theology, University of Notre Dame, Australia. Richard T.kayla cooper (Catholic University of America Press)
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#OTD in 1859
Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, an early example of mystery fiction, begins serialisation in All the Year Round.
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The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
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#OTD in 1893.
Arthur Conan Doyle surprises the reading public by revealing in the story "The Adventure of the Final Problem", published in The Strand Magazine, that Sherlock Holmes had apparently died at the Reichenbach Falls on 4 May 1891.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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The eagle-eyed might be able to see a white star on the cliff in the left of this photo, which marks the location of Paget's illustration (although there is a guard rail there now, presumably to prevent fictional characters plunging to their death).
#OTD in 1862.
Charles Dodgson sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground to Alice Liddell.
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Alice's Adventures Under Ground by Lewis Carroll
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then Cristobal Palmer shouldn't have trouble to set up #nextcloud on the server.
For the privacy of readers it would be a big improvement imho.
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Narrativa ludica #2: Il Giuoco delle perle di vetro
Dopo L’Impero di Azad di Iain M. Banks, ecco il post sul Giuoco delle perle di vetro di Herman Hesse (letto nell’edizione Meridiani Mondadori del 1995), il secondo romanzo preso in considerazione n…ossessioni e contaminazioni by francesco mazzetta
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redazione di ioGioco, la rivista di giochi da tavolo partner di International Games Month
2024.
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?Shakespeare’s influences while writing this tragedy may have come from a variety of sources and events.
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
The ‘Scottish Play’ is one of the best-known plays in the English Language. Shakespeare’s influences while writing this tragedy may have come from a variety of sources and events.Lauren Jones (TheCollector)
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Lettere odeporiche.
L'autore, il venticinquenne Angelo Gualandris, racconta un suo singolarissimo "viaggio di formazione" in cui incontra illustri scienziati e naturalisti. Edito nel 1780, questo racconto epistolare si può scaricare gratis, in pdf, da:
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Lettere odeporiche
È il resoconto di un originale e insolito tour di formazione scientifica attraverso l’Italia settentrionale, la Svizzera, la Germania, la Francia e l’Inghilterra, che un venticinquenne studioso di geologia e mineralogia (ma anche medico, botanico e a…Liber Liber
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Who can claim Aristotle?
The endless battle over his legacy testifies to his great authority – and the power of his thought to make the world better
By Edith Hall
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#OTD in 1952.
Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End after a premiere in Nottingham, UK. It will become the longest continuously running play in history.
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#OTD in 1871.
First performance of The Bells starring Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre, London. The Bells is a translation by Leopold Lewis of the 1867 play Le Juif polonais by Erckmann-Chatrian.
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#OTD
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25,000 Images of Medieval Geoffrey Chaucer Manuscripts Are Now Online
By Regina Sienra
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Browse 25,000 Images of Geoffrey Chaucer Manuscripts Online
The British Library announced that they've digitized of all of their pre-1600 manuscripts containing Geoffrey Chaucer’s works.Regina Sienra (My Modern Met)
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#OTD in 1915.
Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity in the form of a tensor equation to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
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Relativity: The Special & the General Theory by Albert Einstein
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Poesie giocose del dottor Antonio Guadagnoli d'Arezzo
Il titolo dice tutto dell'opera, si può aggiungere solo che il Guadagnoli fu anche gonfaloniere della città, nel 1848, aiutando la fuga dei garibaldini dopo la caduta della Repubblica Romana. L'opera si scarica gratis, in pdf, da:
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Poesie giocose del dottor Antonio Guadagnoli d’Arezzo
Dall'incipit del libro: Voi che leggete tante Poesie, Né le leggete sol, ma le comprate, Spero che comprerete anche le mie, Quando le avrò in un tomo ristampate, E in un sesto piccin come il presente, Onde v'entrino in tasca facilmente.Liber Liber
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Archaeologists May Have Just Found the Oldest Alphabet Ever
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Archaeologists May Have Just Found the Oldest Alphabet Ever
Four clay cylinders inscribed with what might be the oldest known evidence of alphabetic writing are 500 years older than other early alphabets, according to new research.George Dvorsky (Gizmodo)
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Ancient Origins of Writing Traced to Mysterious 6,000-Year-Old Symbols
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Ancient Origins of Writing Traced to Mysterious 6,000-Year-Old Symbols : ScienceAlert
While humans have been making their mark on the surfaces of this Earth for at least tens of thousands of years, it's difficult to pinpoint the exact moment our impulse to record what we saw tipped into what we would consider 'writing'.Jess Cockerill (ScienceAlert)
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"Knowledge, like matter, he would affirm, was divisible in infinitum; — that the grains and scruples were as much a part of it as the gravitation of the whole world."
Tristram Shandy
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#OTD in 1877.
Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published. It was written from a horse as main character's perspective. Sewell wrote it in the last years of her life, during which she was bedridden and seriously ill.
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
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