25071. (John Wilkins) The Discovery of a New World: or, a Discourse tending to Prove,
. . . . . that it is Probable there may be another Habitable World in the Moon [1638]
25072. (Mike Curato) Flamer [graphic novel]
25073. (Richard Thompson, et al) In Search of Pleistocene Remains at the Gates of
. . . . . Europe: Directed Surface Survey of the Megalopolis Basin [article]
25074. (Matti Charlton) You’re Mine ― A True Story for Brave Little Ones [graphic story]
25075. (Eberhard Zangger & Serdal Mutlu) Putting the Luwian Culture on the Map
. . . . . [article]
25076. (Bennett Bacon, et al) An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-writing System and
. . . . . Phenological Calendar [article]
25077. (Matti Charlton) The Ballast Boy [novella]
25078. The Voynich Manuscript [facsimile]
25079. (Sachin Kundalkar) Cobalt Blue
25080. (Yvan Maligorne & Ambroise Lassalle) Iconographie funéraire de Narbonne:
. . . . . à propos d’un relief figurant un combat naval [article]
25081. (Xinyuan Zhang, et al) Mission Overview and Initial Observation Results of the
. . . . . X‑Ray Pulsar Navigation‑I Satellite [article]
25082. (Julian Winters) The Summer of Everything
25083. (Joseba Rios-Garaizar, et al) Late Prehistoric Coastal Settlement Patterns in the
. . . . . Cantabrian Region, Northern Spain [article]
25084. [2] (Michel de Montaigne) De l’amitié [original text] [read in Florio tr. at 9575]
25085. (Alex Sanchez & Julie Maroh) You Brought Me the Ocean [graphic novel]
25086. (Bert Groenewoudt, et al) Mapping Lost Woodland, An Attempt to Use the Spatial
. . . . . Distribution of Woodland-Related Place Names as a Proxy for Localizing
. . . . . Woodland in the Middle Ages [article]
25087. (Colin Legerton & Jacob Rawson) Invisible China ― A Journey Through Ethnic
. . . . . Borderlands
25088. (Nile Green) Kebabs and Port Wine: The Culinary Cosmopolitanism of Anglo-
. . . . . Persian Dining, 1800–1835 [article]
Category Archives: B - READING
READING — JANUARY 2023
Tuesday, January 3, 2023 — The Remarkable John Wilkins
I do seriously, and upon good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying-chariot; in which a man may sit, and give such a motion unto it, as shall convey him through the air. And this perhaps might be made large enough to carry divers men at the same time, together with food for their viaticum, and commodities for traffic. It is not the bigness of any thing in this kind, that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto. We see a great ship swims as well as a small cork, and an eagle flies in the air as well as a little gnat.
This engine may be contrived from the same principles by which Archytas made a wooden dové, and Regiomontanus a wooden eagle.
I conceive it were no difficult matter (if a man had leisure) to shew more particularly the means of composing it.
The perfecting of such an invention, would be of such excellent use, that it were enough, not only to make a man famous, but the age also wherein he lives. For besides the strange discoveries that it might occasion in this other world, it would be also of inconceivable advantage for travelling, above any other conveyance that is now in use.
So that notwhithstanding all these seeming impossibilities, it is likely enough, that there may be a means invented of journeying to the moon; and how happy shall they be, that are first successful in this attempt?
― John Wilkins, The Discovery of a New World: or, a Discourse tending to prove, that it is probable there may be another Habitable World in the Moon, with a Discourse of the Possibility of a Passage thither (published in 1638)
Though Wilkins published this half a century before the publication of Newton’s Principia, he had a pretty good grasp of gravitation, though it remained unnamed and its nature baffled him, and could picture well enough the behaviour of bodies in space. He explicitly stated that if there were a tunnel dug through the Earth that intersected its center and ended at its antipodes, an object thrown down it would come to rest, hovering, exactly at the center. Wilkins was a mathematician, and ten years after the Discovery of a New World, published a volume called Mathematical Magick, in which he explained the general principles of mechanics, speculated on possible technological advances in the future (including flight), and urged his readers to pursue scientific studies.
READING — DECEMBER 2022
25053. (Nushin Arbabzadah & Nile Green) Between Afghan “Idolography” and Kafir
. . . . . “Autoethnography”: A Muslim Convert Describes His Former Religion [article]
25054. (George Magnus) Red Flags ― Why Xi’s China Is in Jeopardy
25055. (Claudia Chang) Inner Asian Pastoralism in the Iron Age: The Talgar Case,
. . . . . South-Eastern Kazakhstan [article]
25056. (Dan Davis) The Wolf God
25057. (Oula Seitsonen) Change and Continuity in the Holocene Lithics Use in the
. . . . . Nyanza Province, Kenya: A General Overview [article]
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READING — NOVEMBER 2022
25034. (Nile Green) The Languages of Indian Ocean Studies: Models, Methods and
. . . . . Sources [article]
25035. (Jeremiah Curtain) Myths and Legends of Ireland
25036. (Sergei B. Klimenko, Maria V. Stanyukovich & Galian B. Sychenko) Poetic
. . . . . Language and Music of the hudhud ni nosi, a Yattuka Funeral Chant,
. . . . . the Philippines [article]
25037. (Christina Papoulia) Seaward Dispersals to the NE Mediterranean Islands
. . . . . in the Pleistocene. The Lithic Evidence in Retrospect [article]
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READING — OCTOBER 2022
25000. [2] (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) Le petit prince
25001. (Jorrit M. Kelder) An Argument for a Bronze Age Introduction of the Chicken
. . . . . in Greece [article]
25002. (Nigel Goring-Morris & Anna Belfer Cohen) “Far and Wide”: Social Networking
. . . . . in the Early Neolithic of the Levant [article]
25003. (Laurent Binet) Civilizations
25004. (André-Yves Bourgès) À propos d’une clé de l’œuvre de sir Walter Scott. L’origine
. . . . . angevine des Frazer d’Ecosse — naissance d’une tradition [article]
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READING — SEPTEMBER 2022
24977. (Jim Grimsley) How I Shed My Skin
24978. (Steve Muhlberger) [in blog Muhlberger’s World History] Two Books on Charny
. . . . . [review]
24979. (Steve Muhlberger) [in blog Muhlberger’s World History] My Reaction to
. . . . . The Last Duel [review]
24980. (Jeffrey M. Hurwit) The Athenian Acropolis ― History, Mythology, and Archaeology
. . . . . from the Neolithic Era to the Present
24981. (C. M. Clark, et al) The Malta Cistern Mapping Project: Expedition II [article]
24982. (David K. Wright) Climate Change: Lacustrine Zone [article] Read more »
READING — AUGUST 2022
24958. (Michael J. Crowe) The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750–1900
24959. (Mark Maguire & A. Jamie Saris) Enshrining Vietnamese-Irish Lives [article]
(David W. Anthony ‑ed.) The Lost World of Old Europe ― The Danube Valley,
. . 5000–3500 BC:
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READING — JULY 2022
24943. (Chris Loendorf, et al) Eastern Puebloans on the Middle Gila River: The Middle
. . . . . Rio Grande Diaspora and Periodic Changes in Cultural Traditions [article]
24944. (Steven A. Cook) False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New
. . . . . Middle East
24945. (Natalia Bichurina & James Costa) Nommer pour faire exister: l’épineuse
. . . . . question de l’oc [article]
24946. (Eleanor Brockett) Persian Fairy Tales [ill. Harry Toothill]
24947. (Adam B. Rohrlach, et al) Using Y‑chromosome Capture Enrichment to Resolve
. . . . . Haplogroup H2 Shows New Evidence for a Two-path Neolithic Expansion
. . . . . to Western Europe [article]
24948. (Nile Green) The Survival of Zoroastrianism in Yazd [article]
24949. (Elwin W. Midgett) An Accounting Primer
24950. (William Shurtleff & Akiko Aoyagi) The Book of Tofu ― Food for Mankind
24951. (Tommy Tse, Victor Shin & Ling Tung Tsang) From Shanzhai Chic to Gangnam
. . . . . Style: Seven Practices of Cultural-Economic Mediation in China and Korea
. . . . . [article]
24952. (Kevin G. Hatala, David A. Perry & Stephen M. Gatesy) A Biplanar X‑ray Approach
. . . . . for Studying the 3D Dynamics of Human Track Formation [article]
24953. (Randy Bachman) Randy Bachman’s Vinyl Tap Stories
24954. (Karen S. Rubinson) The Context{ualization} of Art in Non-Literate Societies:
. . . . . Armenian Middle Bronze Age Images and Animal Bones [article]
24955. (John Holt) Freedom & Beyond
24956. (P. M. N. Hitchings, et al) A Baysian Approach to Archaeological Survey in
. . . . . North-west Jordan [article]
24957. (Richard J. Needham) The Hypodermic Needham
READING — JUNE 2022
24927. (Christophe Picard) Sea of the Caliphs ― The Mediterranean in the Medieval
. . . . . Islamic World
24928. (Kolbjørn Engeland, et al) New Flood Frequency Estimates for the Largest
. . . . . River in Norway Based on a Novel Combination of Streamflow‑, Historical‑,
. . . . . and Paleo-data [article]
24929. (Alfredo Mederos Martín) El santuario fenicio de la calle Méndez Núnez-plaza
. . . . . de las Monjas y el inicio de los asentamientos fenicios en la península
. . . . . Ibérica [article]
24930. (María Rosa Menocal) The Ornament of the World ― How Muslims, Jews, and
. . . . . Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
24931. (Stephen O’Shea) Sea of Faith ― Islam and Christianity in the Medieval
. . . . . Mediterranean World
24932. (Torben Bjarke Ballin) Radiocarbon-dating ― Is the Humble Hazelnut Shell
. . . . . Archaeology’s “Silver Bullet” or Not? [article]
24933. (Somdeep Sen) Race, Racism, and the Teaching of International Relations
. . . . . [article]
24934. (Jeff Hearn, et al) Violence Regimes: A Useful Concept for Social Politics,
. . . . . Social Analyis, and Social Theory [article]
24935. (Christine Caldwell Ames) Medieval Heresies: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
24936. (Stevan Springer & Pascal Gagneux) De nouvelles variations génétiques
. . . . . préservent les facultés cognitives des personnes âgées [article]
24937. (Frederique Darragon) The Lang Xian Thousand Year Old Grooved Towers ―
. . . . . A Possible Connection with the Lang Xian Ancient Tombs and/or the Lhodra
. . . . . Grooved Towers [article]
24938. (Avishai Margalit) On Compromise and Rotten Compromises
24939. (Mark J. Kaswan) Cooperatives and the Question of Democracy [article]
24940. (Jacob Lassner) Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam
24941. (Élise Luneau) Effondement ou évolution de la civilisation de l’Oxus? Une
. . . . . révision de la transition de l’âge du Bronze à l’âge du Fer en Asie
. . . . . centrale méridionale [article]
24942. (Barry N. Malzberg) Herovit’s World
READING — MAY 2022
24889. (Shen Congwen) Border Town [边城]
24890. (Stefan Dreibrodt, et al) Earthworms, Darwin and Prehistoric Agriculture ―
. . . . . Chernozem Genesis Reconsidered [article]
24891. (Primitiva Bueno Ramírez & Rodrigo de Balbín Behrmann) The End of the Ice Age
. . . . . in Southern Europe: Iberian Images in the Paleolithic to Post-Palaeolithic
. . . . . Transition [article]
(William M. Breiding ‑ed.) Portable Storage Seven ― The Great Sercon Issue, Part Two
. . . . 24892. (William Breiding) The Editor Gets Jiggy [preface]
. . . . 24893. (Christina Lake) Uncanny Sleepers and Dreams of Utopias Past [article]
. . . . 24894. (D. S. Black) Flâneur in a Quantum State: Rome-Gnosis at the Mountains . . . . . . . . . of Machen-ness [article]
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