Scientists decipher Marie Antoinette's redacted love notes
"Not without you." "My dear friend." "You that I love."
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Oct 2, 2021
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News tagged with 18th century
How a farm boy from Wales gave the world pi
One of the most important numbers in maths might today be named after the Greek letter π or "pi", but the convention of representing it this way actually doesn't come from Greece at all. It comes from the pen of an 18th ...
Mathematics
Mar 14, 2016
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A short history of arson
We've been burning things for hundreds of thousands of years.
Earth Sciences
Dec 5, 2014
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Hundreds of copies of Newton's Principia found in new census
In a story of lost and stolen books and scrupulous detective work across continents, a Caltech historian and his former student have unearthed previously uncounted copies of Isaac Newton's groundbreaking science book Philosophiae ...
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Nov 10, 2020
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Implications of no-free-lunch theorems
In the 18th century, the philosopher David Hume observed that induction—inferring the future based on what's happened in the past—can never be reliable. In 1997, SFI Professor David Wolpert with his colleague Bill Macready ...
Mathematics
Jun 5, 2023
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The least sea ice in 800 years
New research, which reconstructs the extent of ice in the sea between Greenland and Svalbard from the 13th century to the present indicates that there has never been so little sea ice as there is now. The research results ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 1, 2009
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Tales from the crypt: Mummies reveal TB's Roman lineage
Samples from mummies in a Hungarian crypt have revealed that multiple tuberculosis strains derived from a single Roman ancestor that circulated in 18th-century Europe, scientists said Tuesday.
Archaeology
Apr 7, 2015
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Hidden pornographic poems explain 'bestseller' success of C18 poetical volumes
An Oxford University academic has explained the secret behind the success of two of the best selling volumes of poetic miscellanies in the 18th Century – a series of pornographic poems were hidden at the back of the ...
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Feb 4, 2011
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A century of newspaper ads shed light on Indigenous slavery in colonial America
Since the beginning of journalism in America, newspapers have been funded by advertising. In the 18th century, alongside advertisements for shoe repair, corduroys, and cutlery, colonial newspapers sold and ran ads for enslaved ...
Social Sciences
Apr 28, 2023
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Forbidden herbs? The effects of cannabis were a controversial topic 250 years ago
Should cannabis be legalized for medicinal purposes or will it remain an illegal drug? This has been discussed in many countries for years—and has been a point of contention for much longer than expected: Already in Mexico ...
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Jul 7, 2020
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