St Albans Cathedral #hertfordshire #england #photography #architecture #history

Über Meteor-Cultus der Alten,
vorzüglich in Bezug auf Steine, die vom Himmel gefallen.

About the Meteor Cults of the Ancients, especially in relation to Stones that Fell from the Sky.

German edition:
https://archive.org/details/dalberg_meteor_cultus_der_alten_german

#meteorite #history

A 1606 print of Pliny the Elder. Carefully boxed up of course.

#book #history #library

Carefully boxed up, a Survey of the cities of London and Wedtminster, Borough of Southwark. 1733-35

#maps #book #library #history

A 5d (5 pence) romance from the 1890’s. Very Victorian.

#book #library #history

Blatantly original binding on this collection of The Bulletin from the first half of 1931. Very Art Deco.

#newspapers #library #history

Here are some saucy tomes!

The Universal Magazine of Knowledge & Pleasure. 1766/7

#book #library #history

Inside this much more modern box is a book in Latin, published in 1553!

#book #history #library

A massive 10 volume set entitled The Birds of Australia, dated 1910.
#book #library #history

Ha! They’ll let anything get in here. Aleister Crowley: Confessions. 1929

#book #library #history

Hello fellow humans (+machines)!!! Here's an #Introduction

I'm not-new to Mastodon but am a new sprout in scholar.social.

I'm a Global Southerner currently writing a thesis on Indigenous Women's #History.

I consider myself a go-between. As a historian, I'm a cultural mediator in-between past/present. Plus, I'm a translator and wikimedian. I edit scientific knowledge in academia outer-space and love to tackle meanings across languages.

Here I'm engaged in knowledge sharing and other funsies.

"The Toronto Circus Riot of 1855 — the day the clowns picked the wrong Toronto brothel" http://spacing.ca/toronto/2012/10/02/the-toronto-circus-riot-of-1855-the-day-the-clowns-picked-the-wrong-toronto-brothel/

from 2012, but the great thing about history is that it never gets old

#toronto #history #clowns 🐘

Interesting.

"This article aims to summarize the background of well-known and not so well-known Soviet rocket engines, the history of their development, their main characteristics, and the rockets they flew on."

https://everydayastronaut.com/soviet-rocket-engines/

#History #SovietUnion #Rockets #Engineering #Technology

@tsturm
@readsteven

This is a picture of the first moments of a nuclear explosion taken in 1952. The blast radius at this moment is less than 20 meters wide.

There are so many extraordinary things about this photo. First off the fact that they had a camera in the 1950's capable of such insanely high speed frame rates (they created a movie from this) that it was capable of 1,000,000 frames per second. In many ways that is more impressive than the nuclear bomb itself.

Second the fact that you can see, in real time, a nuclear explosion as it happens. Those spikes at the bottom are called the "rope trick effect" which is caused by the support cables inside or holding up the bomb. The light radiation is so intense it vaporizes anything nearby causing things to explode just from the intensity of the light itself (before radiation has any effect at all). So those spikes are literally just the support cables exploding in the extraordinarily bright light from the bomb.

#Science #STEM #Physics #History @Science

Otto Hahn's final piece of writing about meteorites (1882) was concerning two witnessed falls of gelatinous meteorites. Sticky with appearance like frogspawn. Quite curious! We need to preserve them ASAP when they land.

Report on Two Gelatinous Meteorite Falls by Dr. Otto Hahn in Reutlingen: https://github.com/solaranamnesis/jahreshefte-des-vereins-fur-vaterlandische-naturkunde-in-wurttemberg/blob/master/38/full-text-english.md

#meteorite #history

TIL that there are different kinds of chickpeas *and* that there is a use for radish juice. Never thought of juicing radishes. Going to try to find the chickpeas but may take their word on the radish juice #foodhistory #history #cooking leobalecelad.wordpress.com/2021/10/20/sum…

Abandoned dual track train tunnel from 1907. Spotted along the West Penn rail trail.

#railtrails #railtrail #cycling #cyclingphotos #pa #pennsylvania #photography #tunnel #abandoned #train #rail #history

New editions of The Nummulosphere Part 3 and Part 4 have been published on Archive.org:

Part 3: https://archive.org/details/kirkpatrick_nummulosphere_part3_english

Part 4: https://archive.org/details/kirkpatrick_nummulosphere_part_4_english

#nummulosphere #meteorite #science #history #ocean