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Break out the calculators: November 23 is Fibonacci Sequence Day
The cornerstone of modern math wouldn’t be possible without the Hindu-Arabic numerical system.
by Andrew Paul
https://www.popsci.com/science/fibonacci-sequence-day-2025/
Fibonacci at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=fibonacci
Scientists found the key to accurate Maya eclipse tables
Eclipse tables in the Dresden Codex were based on lunar tables and adjusted for slippage over time.
by Jennifer Ouellette
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/study-how-the-maya-created-such-accurate-eclipse-tables/
Original article:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt9039
Detail from a page of Dufour’s *Usage du Caphé, du Thé, et du Chocolate* (1688) by Philippe Sylvestre Dufour, from Usage du caphé, du thé, et du chocolate
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Source: Wellcome Collection
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b4cdb4cc-c07d-48db-8bfe-2aaba3677bfb
#chocolate #books #dufour #mesoamerica #mexico #cacao #colmenero #cocoa #wadsworth #colonialism #art #publicdomain
Some of the earliest written notes in western musical history discovered in Pennsylvania
Ninth-century manuscript for Easter services remained ‘out of sight’ for years in hands of private collector
by Richard Luscombe
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/28/pennsylvania-historic-latin-music
The Americas’ oldest book is an intricate work of Maya astronomy
Created in the 11th or 12th century, the Códice Maya de México (the Maya Codex of Mexico) is the oldest of these works and the only one to predate the arrival of the conquistadors in the 16th century.
https://aeon.co/videos/the-americas-oldest-book-is-an-intricate-work-of-maya-astronomy
The irony is not lost on me that I’m posting this to social media. 🤷🏻♂️
(Hat tip: @markchappelle)
Il cacciatore parlava spesso con la sua spada, era un modo per esorcizzare la solitudine o per calmare i nervi e nella sua mente, quell’arma gli rispondeva, aveva la voce di una persona che tanto gli era stata cara ma che aveva perduto (...)
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Public Domain Stories
Explore Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original Sherlock Holmes adventures — preserved and shared by https://www.gutenberg.org/.
Terry Pratchett’s on Tolkien’s influence on fantasy:
J.R.R. Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all subsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints. Sometimes it’s big and up close. Sometimes it’s a shape on the horizon. Sometimes it’s not there at all, which means that the artist either has made a deliberate decision against the mountain, which is interesting in itself, or is in fact standing on Mt. Fuji.
Hal Incandenza, la sua famiglia, Don Gately e tutti gli altri occupano queste millecentottanta pagine con la disinvoltura di chi ha tanto da raccontare, di vita, disagio, tennis, droghe, alcol e servizi segreti.
La lettura di Infinite jest è come un viaggio senza programma, in cui ti imbatti in luoghi da visitare o qualcuno da ascoltare e, fra disperazione, violenza e imprevedibile comicità, inciampi in una riflessione, in un pensiero che ti tocca, ti centra in pieno.
