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<p>See How Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ Inspired Centuries of Artists—From Caravaggio to René Magritte</p><p>A show at the Rijksmuseum brings together paintings, sculptures, film and other artworks that reinterpret the ancient Roman poet’s tales of transformation</p><p>by Christian Thorsberg</p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-how-ovids-metamorphoses-inspired-centuries-of-artists-from-caravaggio-to-rene-magritte-180988224/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-how-ovids-metamorphoses-inspired-centuries-of-artists-from-caravaggio-to-rene-magritte-180988224/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-n</span><span class="invisible">ews/see-how-ovids-metamorphoses-inspired-centuries-of-artists-from-caravaggio-to-rene-magritte-180988224/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550</span></a></p><p>Metamorphoses at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21765" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21765</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Metamorphoses (Italian). - Printed in Venice: for Zoane Rosso Vercellese at the request of the noble man Lucantonio Zonta of Florence, in the year 1487, on the 10th day of April. - 146 c.; [*]4, a-r⁸, s⁶; fol. - Typographical mark in the explicit.

A woodcut-illustrated opening page of a 15th-century printed book, framed by an ornate Renaissance border. The border features putti, birds, foliate scrollwork, vases, and grotesque masks arranged symmetrically on all four sides. A frieze of nude figures in a landscape runs along the bottom panel.

The central woodcut illustration depicts a bearded robed figure standing amid various animals — a lion, a rabbit, and a fox — in a landscape with a large rock or mountain, trees, and celestial bodies including a sun with a face and a crescent moon. Two winged birds fly above.

Below the woodcut, the text begins in Italian in two columns, with two decorative woodcut initial letters — a large ornamental I and a P — marking the start of paragraphs. The text opens with "Incomicia il primo libro methAmorphoseos de Ouidio in prosa vulgare traduto con le alegorie. Capitulo primo."

At the bottom centre is a circular library stamp.

Ovidius Naso, Publius - Available in the BEIC digital library and uploaded in partnership with BEIC Foundation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphoses#/media/File:Ovidius_Naso_-_Metamorphoses,_del_MCCCCLXXXXVII_Adi_X_del_mese_di_aprile_-_1583162_Carta_a1r.jpeg

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EBOOK SALE – Seeds of Solidarity Funding Drive for Sudanese & Palestinian Farmers

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EBOOK SALE – Seeds of Solidarity Funding Drive for Sudanese & Palestinian Farmers

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1901.</p><p>Publication of Maurice Maeterlinck's The Life of the Bee in Belgium.</p><p>He infuses his observations of bees with reflections on human society, mortality, and the universe, using the hive as a metaphor for human society. The book discusses various aspects of bee life, including the architecture of the hive, the life cycle of the bees, their social organization, and their production of honey. </p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38527" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38527</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4511" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4511</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Cover of Publication of Maurice Maeterlinck's The Life of the Bee in Belgium.

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1915.</p><p>The rondeau "In Flanders Fields" by the Canadian poet John McCrae is written; it is first published on December 8 in the London magazine Punch. He was inspired to write it, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres. According to legend, fellow soldiers retrieved the poem after McCrae, initially dissatisfied with his work, discarded it.</p><p>In Flanders Fields at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/353" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/353</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

An autographed copy of the poem from In Flanders Fields and Other Poems. Unlike the printed copy in the same book, McCrae's handwritten version ends the first line with "grow".

John McCrae - Scan of McCrea's In Flanders fields and other poems, obtained from archive.org.

Facsimile of handwritten version of McCrae's "In Flanders Fields", in a volume of his poetry where an acknowledgement is given "The reproduction of the autograph poem is from a copy belonging to Carleton Noyes, Esq., of Cambridge, Mass., who kindly permitted its use."

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<p>📚 An Immense World by: Ed Yong</p><p>The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world.</p><p>In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/an-immense-world" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/an-immense-world"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/an-immense</span><span class="invisible">-world</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#nature</a> <a href="/tags/animals/" rel="tag">#animals</a> <a href="/tags/generalscience/" rel="tag">#generalscience</a> <a href="/tags/lifesciences/" rel="tag">#lifesciences</a> <a href="/tags/zoology/" rel="tag">#zoology</a></p>

The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world.

In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and even humans who wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile’s scaly face is as sensitive as a lover’s fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision. We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead at the many mysteries that remain unsolved.

Funny, rigorous, and suffused with the joy of discovery, An Immense World takes us on what Marcel Proust called “the only true voyage . . . not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes.”

FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “thrilling” (The New York Times), “dazzling” (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the ra

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1897.</p><p>J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.</p><p>Thomson showed that cathode rays were composed of previously unknown negatively charged particles (now called electrons), which he calculated must have bodies much smaller than atoms and a very large charge-to-mass ratio.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/38322" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/38322"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/38322</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a></p>

English physicist J J Thomson.

Black and white photo featuring J J Thomson sporting glasses and a mustache.

The cathode ray tube by which J. J. Thomson demonstrated that cathode rays could be deflected by a magnetic field, and that their negative charge was not a separate phenomenon

JJ Thomson - Philosophical Magazine, 44, 293 (1897)

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1905. Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.</p><p>Titled "Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen", he calculated the size of sugar molecules in solution and from this a value for the Avogadro constant. It is related to his work on Brownian motion, published in the same year, and supported the atomic hypothesis, which was still controversial among leading physicists at the time. </p><p>Books by Albert Einstein at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1630" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1630"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1630</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a></p>

Cover image of the Ph.D. dissertation of Albert Einstein defended in 1905 at ETH Zürich.

Einstein's 1905 dissertation, Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensione ("A new determination of molecular dimensions")

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<p>American author E. E. Smith was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1890.</p><p>E. E. "Doc" Smith is considered a major figure in the history of science fiction literature, particularly for his development of the space opera genre. His first major work, "The Skylark of Space" (1928), is often considered one of the first space operas. Perhaps his most famous work, the Lensman series, began with "Triplanetary" in 1934.</p><p>Books by E. E. Smith at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9515" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9515"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/9515</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

E. E: Smith c. 1960

A man in his old age wearing a suit and tie while sitting at a table.

Amazing Stories, Volume 3 Number 5, August 1928. Cover illustration by Frank R. Paul. From the contents page: Our Cover this month depicts a scene from the first installment in this issue of the story entitled THE SKYLARK OF SPACE by Edward Elmer Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby, in which the scientist, who has discovered a chemical substance for the liberation of intra-atomic energy, is making his initial tests, preparatory to his interplanetary flight by means of this liberated energy, which makes possible his interstellar space-flyer. Also in this issue is en:Armageddon 2419 A.D. The main character and narrator is Anthony (Buck) Rogers.

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<p>English sociologist, economist, feminist and social reformer Beatrice Webb died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1943.</p><p>Some of her key works, often co-authored with her husband, include The History of Trade Unionism (1894) and Industrial Democracy (1897). One of her most significant research endeavors was her study of the British poor, which resulted in the seminal work The Poor Law Report of 1909. </p><p>Books by Beatrice Webb at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/42231" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/42231"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/42231</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Beatrice Webb (19th century photo) Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1894 June 23, p. 584. Uncropped original from en:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division found at TITLE: A group of English socialists

Cover of The History of Trade Unionism by Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb (Revised edition extended to 1920).

LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
FOURTH AVENUE & 30TH STREET, NEW YORK
BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, AND MADRAS
1920

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<p>"The burning soul, the burden'd mind,<br>In books alone companions find."</p><p>American writer and editor Sarah Josepha Hale died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1879.</p><p>She initially gained recognition with the publication of her novel "Northwood: Life North and South" (1827), which addressed the issue of slavery in America. Under her leadership, the magazine "Godey's Lady's Book" became one of the most influential women's magazines in America.</p><p>Books by Sarah Josepha Hale at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/43680" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/43680"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/43680</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Sarah Josepha Hale, 1831, by James Lambdin

Cover and frontispice of Frontispiece of the second edition of Northwood: Life North and South by Sarah Josepha Hale

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<p>American archeologist Esther Boise Van Deman died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1937.</p><p>She utilized detailed measurements and meticulous documentation of building materials and techniques, which enabled a more precise understanding of the chronological development of Roman construction practices. One of her most notable contributions was her work on the Roman concrete construction technique known as "opus caementicium."</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/archeology/" rel="tag">#archeology</a> <a href="/tags/womeninsciene/" rel="tag">#womeninsciene</a></p>

Sepia-toned portrait of Esther B. Van Deman (middle-aged) with her hair styled up, wearing a dark floral jacket over a white blouse with lace trim, posed against a plain backdrop.

Cover page of The Atrium Vestae by Esther Boise Van Deman 1909.

The Atrium Vestae was a three-story 50-room palace in the ancient Roman Forum built around an elegant elongated atrium or court with a double pool. To the very east is an open vaulted hall with a statue of Numa Pompilius, the mythological founder of the cult.

The complex lay at the foot of the Palatine Hill, where a sacred grove that was slowly encroached upon lingered into Imperial times, when all was swept away by the Fire of Rome in 64. The House of the Vestals was rebuilt several times in the course of the Empire. After the dissolution of the College of the Vestals in the late 4th century AD, the House of the Vestals continued to serve as a residence building. It now housed officials of the imperial court, and subsequently the papal court. Archaeological finds from this period include a hoard of 397 gold coins from the 5th century and another 830 Anglo-Saxon coins dating from the 9th and 10th centuries. The site was abandoned in the 11th/12th century.

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WorldCat has been enshittified

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<p>Danish novelist, poet, and scientist Jens Peter Jacobsen died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1885.</p><p>His literary career is highlighted by his two major novels: "Niels Lyhne" (1880) and "Fru Marie Grubbe" (1876). "Niels Lyhne" is an autobiographical novel that follows the life of its eponymous hero, who struggles with faith and existential doubt in a seemingly indifferent world.</p><p>Books by Jens Peter Jacobsen at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2193" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2193"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2193</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Danish writer Jens Peter Jacobsen.

An elderly man with glasses and a mustache in a vintage photograph.

Cover of Niels Lyhne by J. P. Jacobsen

Translator: Hanna Astrup Larsen

NEW YORK
THE AMERICAN-SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION
LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

1919

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<p>French writer Anna de Noailles died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1933.</p><p>Some of her notable poetic works include "Le Cœur innombrable" (The Uncountable Heart, 1901), "L'Ombre des jours" (The Shadow of Days, 1902), and "Les Éblouissements" (The Dazzlements, 1907). Her salon in Paris was a gathering place for many of the leading intellectual and artistic figures of her time, including Marcel Proust, Colette, and Jean Cocteau, among others. </p><p>Books by Anna de Noailles at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/25065" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/25065"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/25065</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Princess Anna-Élisabeth Bibesco Bassaraba de Brancovan, who became Comtesse de Noailles, (1876-1933), French poetess and novelist.

An elegant lady in a fashionable hat and fur coat.

Cover of the book

COMTESSE MATHIEU DE NOAILLES

La
Domination
— ROMAN —

Pyrrhus ne pouvait être heureux ni avant ni après avoir conquis le monde.
Pascal.

PARIS
CALMANN-LÉVY, ÉDITEURS
3, RUE AUBER, 3

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<p>American illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1935.</p><p>Smith’s career took off when she began working for the Ladies' Home Journal, for which she created many covers and interior illustrations. She illustrated over 60 books throughout her career, including classics such as Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies, Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses, and Clement Moore’s The Night Before Christmas.</p><p>Jessie Willcox Smith at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7158" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7158"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/7158</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Jessie Willcox Smith, estimate between 1880-1910.

Black and white photograph of a seated woman (Jessie Willcox Smith) in vintage clothing, wearing glasses and a dark high-collar dress, with her left arm resting on a chair.

Fairy Tales, Boston Public Library
Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1935 (artist); L. Prang & Co. (publisher).

An illustration of a woman and two children reading a book titled "Fairy Tales" in a garden, sitting on a hammock with lush greenery and flowers in the background.

Cover image from from The Princess and the Goblins - by George MacDonald, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith, 1920.

Jessie Willcox Smith, illustrator - http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34339

Vintage painting of a young girl in a white headscarf and blue cloak, reaching forward with a curious expression, with a dark, shadowy background and parts of a flower barely visible.

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1715.</p><p>A total solar eclipse is visible across northern Europe and northern Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within four minutes accuracy. He also drew a predictive map showing the path of totality across Great Britain. The original map was about 20 miles off the observed eclipse path, mainly due to his use of inaccurate lunar ephemeris. After the eclipse, he corrected the eclipse path, and added the path and description of the 1724 total solar eclipse.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a></p>

Halley's map of the path of the Solar eclipse of 3 May 1715 across England.

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<p>Classic Books I Would Reread: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-classic-books-i-would-reread/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-classic-books-i-would-reread/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-week</span><span class="invisible">ly-blogging-challenge-classic-books-i-would-reread/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/wednesdayweeklybloggingchallenge/" rel="tag">#WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/classic/" rel="tag">#Classic</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

A vintage brown leather bag sitting on a white rock carved into the shape of what appears to be a low fence.

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<p>Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1519.</p><p>He was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and paleontology.</p><p>Books by Leonardo Da Vinci at PG<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1629" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1629"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1629</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

STUDY FOR "THE LAST SUPPER" (ACADEMY, VENICE)
PHOTO, BRAUN, CLÉMENT

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STUDY FOR BACKGROUND OF "THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI" (UFFIZI, FLORENCE)
PHOTO, BRAUN, CLÉMENT

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STUDIES OF HANDS (WINDSOR)
PHOTO, BRAUN, CLÉMENT

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STUDY OF DRAPERY FOR A KNEELING FIGURE (WINDSOR)
PHOTO, BRAUN, CLÉMENT

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<p>Polish Physicist Albert A. Michelson died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1931</p><p>His most famous experiment - Michelson-Morley experiment, was conducted in 1887 in collaboration with Edward Morley. Their experiment for the expected motion of the Earth relative to the æther, the hypothetical medium in which light was supposed to travel, resulted in a null result. Their results leaded H. Lorentz to devise his Lorentz contraction equations as a means of explaining the null result.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4093" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4093"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/4093</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a></p>

Photograph of Nobel Laureate Albert A. Michelson.

Black and white photograph featuring A.A. Michelson with a well-groomed mustache.

This diagram illustrates the folded light path used in the Michelson–Morley interferometer that enabled a path length of 11 m. a is the light source, an oil lamp. b is a beam splitter. c is a compensating plate so that both the reflected and transmitted beams travel through the same amount of glass (important since experiments were run with white light which has an extremely short coherence length requiring precise matching of optical path lengths for fringes to be visible; monochromatic sodium light was used only for initial alignment). d, d' and e are mirrors. e' is a fine adjustment mirror. f is a telescope.
Albert Abraham Michelson (1852 – 1931) with Edward Morley (1838 - 1923) - aip.org
Fig. 4 from "On the Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous Ether".

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Newly unearthed Virginia Woolf stories to be published

a-cottage-of-ones-own-newly-unearthed-virginia-woolf-stories-to-be-published

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<p>📚 Enshittification by: Cory Doctorow</p><p>Enshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.</p><p>We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustra...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/enshittification" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/enshittification"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/enshittifi</span><span class="invisible">cation</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/businesseconomics/" rel="tag">#businesseconomics</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/popularculture/" rel="tag">#popularculture</a></p>

Enshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.

We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.

Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution.

When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way to say “things are getting worse.” He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better).

The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users—and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die.

Doctorow’s argument clearly resonated. Once named, it became obvious that enshittification is everywhere, so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.

Here, now, in Enshittification the book, Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the sp

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Newly unearthed Virginia Woolf stories to be published

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Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body And Primitive Accumulation - Silvia Federici (AK Press)

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1921.</p><p>The première of Luigi Pirandello's Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore at the Teatro Valle in Rome divides the audience.</p><p>An absurdist metatheatric play about the relationship among authors, their characters, and theatre practitioners, it premiered at the Teatro Valle in Rome to a mixed reception, with shouts from the audience of "Manicomio!" and "Incommensurabile!", a reaction to the play's illogical progression.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18457" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18457</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#theatre</a></p>

In April 1923 Luigi Pirandello traveled to Paris to attend the staging of "Six Characters in Search of an Author."

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