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Associate Prof. of History at Swansea University, UK: early modern science & scholarship | book history | collecting & museums | networks | dh-curious |🏳️🌈 |🇪🇺| ~he/him~
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It's a great way to get them to tease apart the unique / distinctive and the conventional, and to see the value of those concepts when working with visual evidence.
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Usually worth checking archive.org first -- a lot of the cheap repro series are of out of copyright material also available there. In my (limited) experience hardcopy scans haven't always been rigorously checked for scanning errors due to folded pages etc.
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I can guess what might have prompted such thoughts this morning. If my guess is right, I would suggest reaching out: 'this is really interesting, merits further study, can we talk and see if we can make that happen?' Likely to be well received in this case.
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It matters... but, I'm sorry to say, that statement there is a whole kaboodle of bad history of science.
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As I imply here -- not going for the foreseeable.
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That's the article propped up on quotations from those connected to the 'Free Speech Union' isn't it?
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The thing about biological evolution -- and, I like to think, linguistic change -- is that viability (of life, of precise and meaningful communication) is secured by mechanisms that resist change as well as those that produce it... If the change is too fast btw generations, there is non-viability.
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Yes, I've survived close contact with a narcissist too.
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Richard Dawkins would self-nominate, surely?
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The People's Prelate...seems like a pretty basic confusion about how things like populism, organised religion, and constitutional appointments work...
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Not just 'signs of the zodiac'. That's a celestial planisphere in the 'Astronomicum Caesareum', so it is showing constellations in general (not just zodiacal ones) for that celestial hemisphere.
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Link at the top of the letter.
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ICE as in internal combustion engine, I think.
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Peter Mack's work on Renaissance rhetoric is good. There's also Richard Lanham's Handlist of Rhetorical Terms.
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That's a parenting win, right?
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See also:
"Efficiency! through technology!" >
Project to make things more efficient which overruns, overspends, fails to deliver promised benefits >
"Efficiency! through technology!" >
etc.
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Great! But which critics of Hirschi should I be looking at?
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Isn't the sector's established term Transnational Education (TNE)? I think if there's a three-letter acronym already, and you fail to use it in your screed of helpful advice, you might be behind the curve...
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"Settled history" -- because obviously professional historians have to wait until the past has precipitated out of the soup of current events before we look at it, and then it's our job to ensure that nothing we say changes anyone's view of it ever...
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Very cool. Noteworthy that the sheet refers users to Apian's Cosmographia, where they would usually find this volvelle in its assembled form.