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Medieval Manuscript Featuring Legends Of Merlin And King Arthur Found Languishing In Pieces In A British Library

https://allthatsinteresting.com/cambridge-suite-vulgate-du-merlin

King Arthur at PG

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/2433

#books #science

The Only Illustrated Manuscript of Homer’s Iliad from Antiquity

https://www.openculture.com/2025/04/the-only-illustrated-manuscript-of-homers-iliad-from-antiquity.html

The Iliad at PG

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=iliad&submit_search=Search

#books #literature

Lost for 400 Years: Researcher Discover Hidden Copy of Shakespeare Sonnet

By University of Oxford

https://scitechdaily.com/lost-for-400-years-researcher-discover-hidden-copy-of-shakespeare-sonnet/

Full article by Leah S Veronese is available here:
https://academic.oup.com/res/advance-article/doi/10.1093/res/hgaf002/7997398?login=false

#books #literature #oldmanuscript

Edvard Munch Is Known as the Painter of ‘The Scream.’ His Many Haunting Portraits Show That He Was Much More Than His Masterpiece

Through 45 artworks made between the 1880s and the 1920s, a new exhibition spotlights the Norwegian artist’s sometimes divisive style of portraiture

By Sonja Anderson

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/edvard-munchs-is-known-as-the-painter-of-the-scream-his-many-haunting-portraits-show-that-he-was-much-more-than-his-masterpiece-180986388/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550

#art #culture #painting

A surprising number of medieval scribes were women

New research estimates around 8,000 of those manuscripts could still exist today.

By Andrew Paul

https://www.popsci.com/science/medieval-women-book-scribes/

#books #oldmanuscript

The Nation’s First Black Female Doctor Blazed a Path for Women in Medicine. But She Was Left Out of the Story for Decades

After earning a medical degree in 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler died in obscurity and was buried without a headstone

By Ella Jeffries

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-nations-first-black-female-doctor-blazed-a-path-for-women-in-medicine-but-she-was-left-out-of-the-story-for-decades-180986328/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550

Rebecca Lee Crumpler at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Rebecca+Lee+Crumpler&submit_search=Search

#books #medicine #womeninscience

Joseph Conrad’s Travel Stories Weren’t Black and White

Conrad’s celebration of imperial exploration is accompanied by an acknowledgment that such feats often go hand-in-hand with oppression and exploitation.

By: H.M.A. Leow

https://daily.jstor.org/joseph-conrads-travel-stories-werent-black-and-white/

#books #literature

18th-Century Portuguese Library Has Bats That Protect the Priceless Books Housed Inside

By Eva Baron

https://mymodernmet.com/biblioteca-joanina-bats-pest-control/

The Bat, a poem by D.H. Lawrence at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/60337/pg60337-images.html#BAT

#books #library

Researchers Unveil Lost Stories of Iceland’s Medieval History

https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-unveil-lost-stories-of-icelands-medieval-history/

#books #history #science

If your ideal vacation would be to stay in a library/bookstore, here are some places to go!

Gladstone’s Library - Hawarden, Wales
https://www.gladstoneslibrary.org/about/

Shakespeare and Company, Paris
https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/tumbleweeding

The Literary Man – Obidos Hotel - Óbidos, Portugal
https://www.theliteraryman.pt/en/

The Open Book, Wigtown, Scotland
https://www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/7908227?source_impression_id=p3_1743164534_P3qRhmL2yDOfsPSx

La Librairie, Paris
https://parisboutik.com/en/la-librairie-hotel-room-le-marais/

Book and Bed, Toyko, Japan
https://bookandbedtokyo.com/en/

#books

Amazing Stories, the American pulp magazine, launched in April 1926 and was the very first magazine devoted solely to science fiction. Enjoy the fast-paced storytelling, retro art and advertising of the 20’s. via @internetarchive

https://archive.org/details/amazingstoriesmagazine

#pulpfiction #magazine

"My methods are really methods of working and thinking; this is why they have crept in everywhere anonymously."

Happy Birthday Emmy Noether!!

She made many important contributions to abstract algebra. She proved Noether's 1st and 2nd theorems, which are fundamental in mathematical physics. She developed theories of rings, fields, & algebras. In physics, Noether's theorem explains the connection between symmetry & conservation laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether

#mathematics #physics #womeninStem

A new study traces the history of Black American literary groups.

By Brittany Allen

https://lithub.com/a-new-study-traces-the-history-of-black-american-literary-groups/

#books #history #africanamerican

The Public Domain and the Rise of the Hays Code

Films entering the public domain will soon face a significant shift. In 2030, films governed by the Hays Code will start to enter the public domain

By Sean Dudley via @internetarchive

https://blog.archive.org/2025/03/18/the-public-domain-and-the-rise-of-the-hays-code/

#publicdomain #movies

A Lab of Her Own

In her bedroom during WWII, she discovered how the nervous system is wired. On a cold, dry Tuesday in December, 1940, Rita Levi-Montalcini rode a train from the station near her home in Turin, Italy, for 80 miles to Milan to buy a microscope.

BY BOB GOLDSTEIN

https://nautil.us/a-lab-of-her-own-238363/?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nautilus-newsletter

#medicine #womeninStem

What Counts as a Planet?

by Patricia Fara

The scientific disagreement about whether Pluto is a planet is just the latest war in the classifications of planets.

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/great-debates/what-counts-planet

#science #astronomy

The Woman the Mercury Astronauts Couldn’t Do Without

Katherine Johnson negotiated the dynamics of both race and space.

By Margot Lee Shetterly, Illustrations by Richie Pope(from the archives)

https://nautil.us/the-woman-the-mercury-astronauts-couldnt-do-without-236255/?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nautilus-newsletter

#womeninStem

Unearthed notebooks shed light on Victorian genius who inspired Einstein

Michael Faraday’s illustrated notes that show how radical scientist began his theories at London’s Royal Institution to go online

by Donna Ferguson

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/15/notebooks-michael-faraday-victorian-scientist-einstein

#books #science

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

Viereck interview (1929)

~Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955)

Books about or by Einstein at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=albert+einstein&submit_search=Search

#books #science #physics

What Is the Story of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle?

by Alexander Roberts

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a history of the Anglo-Saxon kings, and its has an interesting history of its own.

https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-story-anglo-saxon-chronicle/

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle at PG

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/657

and

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75186

#books #literature #history