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He is notable for changing the original logarithms invented by John Napier into common (base 10) logarithms, which are sometimes known as Briggsian logarithms in his honour. The specific algorithm for long division in modern use was introduced by Briggs c. 1600 AD. Historically', the "common logarithm" was known by its Latin name logarithmus decimalis or logarithmus decadis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Briggs_(mathematician)

#books #mathematics

Front page of Arithmetica Logaritmica by Henry Briggs, 1624.

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Roots of 10 from Arithmetica Logarithmica by Henry Briggs, 1624.

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Today is Nabokov’s birthday.

A serious butterfly specialist and a brilliant #literature professor in the US, famous for his lectures.

Speaking of Lolita: he did not write a #romance. He wrote a chilling masterclass in manipulation and self-justification.

Predators like #Epstein crave beautiful alibis. #Nabokov offers none. He gives us a liar so eloquent that the #readers has to struggle not to be deceived.

#books #bookstodon #today #writers #writer
@bookstodon #birthday

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“Multitudes” is a #haiku from Library on Fire, my 3rd volume of #poetry available at https://www.nihtgengapress.com/product/library-on-fire

#books #indie #poem

Multitudes
I must remember
Within my darkness resides
Multitudes of stars

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Book Review: Lessons in Magic and Disaster
A Russian nested doll of stories, characters and relationships, and yes, magic
My review of @charliejane 's book at the NOAF blog:

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book-review-lessons-in-magic-and.html

#books #sff #queer #lgbtq #review #bookstodon @bookstodon

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Reading Never Whistle At Night edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. I really have loved this book, I have a little over 100 pages left. The stories are amazing.

However, I do suggest not reading before going to sleep at night. I woke up this morning saying "what the motherfucking hell" after the dreams I had.

@bookstodon
#books #bookstodon

Cover of Never Whistle At Night. Cover has black background with colorful pictures around the edges- there is a butterfly with a skull, a mouse, a frog, a snake, an eyeball, and flowers and weeds.

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New 3”x 3” stickers available in the shop!The poem is “Become”, one of my favorites from Library on Fire. https://www.nihtgengapress.com/product/become-sticker. Free shipping in the US!

#poetry #books #sticker

WHAT
CHOICE DO I
HAVE IN THE
DEEPEST DARK,
BUT TO BECOME
THE STARS?

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Breakfast time: I am reading the book "The Last Goddess" by Kateřina Tučková.
(Translated from Czech by Andrew Oakland)
And it touches me because the book begins with themes that have also influenced my life - women, health care and intelligence service. I won't say any more so as not to spoil anything ;)

#TheLastGoddess #Books #IAmReading #Reading #Literature

@lesekreis
@boeken
@bookstodon

A paperback copy of "The Last Goddess" by Katerina Tuckova sits on a white plate next to a cup of coffee on a white wooden table.

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57th: The Hanging Garden Ian Rankin’s outstanding 9th book in John Rebus series where grapples with the hit and run on his grown daughter, a cold case linked to a possible Nazi war criminal, and gang violence breaking out on Edinburgh’s streets. #books #crimefiction #Scotland

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Today is Jack Kerouac birthday.

Before he became the voice of the Beat Generation, Kerouac was a promising college football player. A broken leg ended his sports career — but the long recovery gave him time to read obsessively and begin writing the stories that would change American literature.

He later wrote On the Road in a burst of energy that became legendary: typing day and night on a single 120-foot scroll of paper.

@bookstodon
#books #bookstodon #writers

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Smashwords End of Year Sale, promo for spicy SF&F romance and erotica

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Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World should be read in tandem to understand today’s troubled times

Is there any past work of fiction that can help us make sense of today’s troubling trends?

By Laura Hood

https://theconversation.com/nineteen-eighty-four-and-brave-new-world-should-be-read-in-tandem-to-understand-todays-troubled-times-253872

#books #literature

Picture of George Orwell which appears in an old accreditation for the BNUJ.

Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). - https://web.archive.org/web/20080608013945/http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/pics/orwell-unioncard.htm

The photo of George Orwell in the old BNUJ accreditation shows him with a serious, contemplative expression, wearing a suit and tie. His hair is neatly combed, and the image, likely monochrome, has a formal, passport-style quality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell#/media/File:George_Orwell_press_photo.jpg

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Huxley in 1954

Aldous Huxley - A Case For ESP, PK and PSI. Life Magazine. 11 January, 1954.

Aldous Huxley the English writer, novelist, philosopher was also a psychical researcher. He published an article in 1954 supporting extrasensory perception (ESP) and psychokinesis (PK) experiments.

The 1954 photo of Aldous Huxley, published in Life Magazine alongside his article on ESP and PK, depicts the writer in a reflective, intellectual pose. Huxley, tall and slender with a high forehead and distinctive glasses, appears deep in thought—his gaze calm yet piercing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley#/media/File:Aldous_Huxley_psychical_researcher.png

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Are we reading Machiavelli wrong?

What we’re missing in Machiavelli’s The Prince, explained by an expert.

by Sean Illing

https://www.vox.com/the-gray-area/414753/machiavelli-prince-authoritarian-critique-political-philosophy

Machiavelli at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1232

#books #literature

Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli by Santi di Tito.

In this classic Renaissance portrait by Santi di Tito, Niccolò Machiavelli is depicted in a half-length pose, turned slightly to his left but with his gaze directed outward, engaging the viewer with a calm and penetrating expression. His face is oval-shaped, with high cheekbones, a prominent nose, and tightly drawn lips.

He wears a dark, simple tunic with a high collar and red sleeves underneath

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli_by_Santi_di_Tito.jpg

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Knowledge is power. #grickledoodle #cats #reading #books #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

A cartoon illustration of a surprised cat reading a book titled "Pushing Crap Off Tables." Caption reads "There were techniques listed that she'd never even heard of before."

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Today at the NOAF blog,
@princejvstin.com
reviews BIRTH OF A DYNASTY: A Novel by Chinaza Bado

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/05/book-review-birth-of-dynasty-novel-by.html

#bookstodon #books #fantasy

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The remarkable, unsung women behind Charles Dickens’s stories

Behind every great man, there’s a great woman, so the saying goes. Behind Charles Dickens, however, there were many great women supporting and inspiring him.

https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-events/extra-ordinary-women?srsltid=AfmBOooj90nBCFiqaOK0RUhQmiGyZ7t3WeNj-IDMo4y7-uCa-kDQi-eW&utm_term=6991df7e3a06d68f5fddaf6e0eb53cf9&utm_campaign=Bookmarks&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=bookmarks_email

Dickens at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37

About Catherine Dickens:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Dickens

#books #literature

This is a portrait of Catherine Dickens (née Hogarth, 1815-1879), wife of Charles Dickens. Catherine married Charles in 1836 and bore him ten children over fifteen years. Despite being central to Dickens's domestic life during his most productive writing years, she has been largely written out of his story, particularly after their acrimonious separation in 1858.

Catherine is depicted in three-quarter view, seated and resting her arms on an ornate chair back with decorative ribbon or fabric draping. She wears an elegant off-shoulder with a fitted bodice, puffed sleeves, and flowing skirt. Her hair is arranged in the period's typical fashion—parted in the center and swept back into a braided bun with decorative elements.

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Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass

After encountering the worst life has to offer, including the death of his wife and child, destruction of his home world, an addiction forced on him by the one responsible and a third of the galaxy falling under the heel of that tyrant, Levi Jacobs, a wizard, seeks to unravel the secrets of time and fate.

@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books

(Left) The cover of The Inverted Glass, by Owen Tyme.

The Background is a pink and purple nebula in space.

The foreground is largely line art, in white, with a black shadow outline.

At the center is an hourglass. The bottom has black sand, with a white figure standing in it. The top has is an inverted mirror image of the bottom, with a black figure in white sand.

The hourglass serves as the balance point for a set of scales, which hold a heart and a feather. The heart is on the left and the feather on the right. The heart is lower than the feather.

(Right) Lying in blue sand is a heart made of the same sand, full of cracks. It glows from the inside in a warm, yellow color. Over that is the following quote:

Nicole felt an extreme kind of loss, realizing she’d been stolen away from the afterlife, just before finding out if she deserved punishment or not!

“How dare you do this to me? Why?”

“I’m always in need of strong spirits and I’ve seen none stronger. You have unique talents I refuse to see go to waste.”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass

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So, they say Abercrombie's The Devils is absolutely worth it?

https://joeabercrombie.com/books/the-devils/

#books #amreading #reading #kindle #literature #bookwyrm #booktoot #book #knihy #fantasy @bookstodon @fantasy @knihy

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Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TheNextHorizon

Amelia and The Book of Newts are in conflict. She wants to explore her feelings. It wants to explore space, taking back the gift for mathematics and piloting it gave her. She’s left unable to plot a direct course home. She’s desperate to see the man she loves, lest she lose him forever and The Book is in her way…

@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books

(Left) The cover of The Next Horizon, by Owen Tyme.

The black silhouette of a man and woman embracing. They stand atop the dark side of a planet or moon in space, which has a slim crescent along the right side. The background is the stars of space, but some have been highlighted with a heart shape that surrounds the couple. Everything is in shades of blue.

(Right) Deep space, displaying the edge of an orange and blue gaseous cloud from a nebula, while most of the stars appear golden in color. Floating in space is a square, red leather book with the image of a newt stamped on the cover. Over the top of everything is the following text:

“You can back down and cooperate, right now, or Marta will hit you so hard, you should reach a tenth the speed of light…”

“No one will ever find you again, but even if someone does, there’s no way they’ll have the capacity to safely slow you down, before you’re gone to them!”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TheNextHorizon

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JFK and the unspeakable : why he died and why it matters - Anna’s Archive

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This book club has been reading the same book for 12 years. They’re not even close to done.

The Finnegans Wake Reading Group of Austin, TX reads one page every other week.

By Sean Saldana

https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/finnegans-wake-reading-group-austin-tx-atx-texas-james-joyce-book-club/

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

James Joyce at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1039

#books #literature

The cover of the Faber and Faber edition of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce.

Faber and Faber - http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/adopt-a-book/pics/joyce_wake.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegans_Wake#/media/File:Joyce_wake.jpg

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L. Frank Baum’s Literary Vision of an American Century: The Wizard of Oz at 125 Years

Ed Simon on Grifters, the Chicago World Fair, and Oz as Symbol of a Modern USA

https://lithub.com/l-frank-baums-literary-vision-of-an-american-century-the-wizard-of-oz-at-125-years/

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/43936

#books #literature

"The Soldier with the green whiskers led them through the streets."

Title: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Author: L. Frank Baum

Illustrator: W. W. Denslow

https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/43936/pg43936-images.html

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“In 2019, I went on a tour of Chernobyl. The Ukrainian guide who explained what led to the nuclear accident said something that stuck in my mind. “Americans grow up with the idea that questions lead to answers,” he said. “But Soviet citizens grew up with the idea that questions lead to trouble.”

Excerpt From
Nexus
Yuval Noah Harari

#nexus #yuvalnoaharari #books #bookstodon