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Registration is OPEN for our Fall 2022 session and all are welcome to apply! Check out our offerings at: catherineproject.org/offerin…
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A plate by Piranesi from Giambattista Nolli's "Nuova pianta di Roma" (1748). For more than 150 years, the Nolli Map was for the most accurate map of Rome. From our Barbara Goldsmith Rare Book Room.
A rare book with a plate on the right-hand side

ALT A rare book with a plate on the right-hand side

detail of piranesi-designed plate

ALT detail of piranesi-designed plate

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Watch NASA’s Juno spacecraft fly closer to Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. In 1610, Galileo discovered and discussed what he observed to be 'satellites' around Jupiter, in his book Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger) youtube.com/watch?v=CC7OJ7gF… #Jupiter #Galileo #HistSci
A page from Galileo Galilei's Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger, 1610). Galileo reported what he saw, starting on 7 January 1610, in Latin, with diagrams illustrating the night sky (https://www.wdl.org/en/item/4170)

ALT A page from Galileo Galilei's Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger, 1610). Galileo reported what he saw, starting on 7 January 1610, in Latin, with diagrams illustrating the night sky (https://www.wdl.org/en/item/4170)

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The Royal Historical Society has today issued a statement on recent closures to UK History departments royalhistsoc.org/news/rhs-st… @histassoc @ihr_history @history_uk @IHRHistoryLab @socialhistsoc @EcHistSoc @PastPresentSoc @timeshighered #twitterstorians
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Get ready! @NEMAnet is organizing the first-ever “New England Museum Week” to rally the cultural, arts & heritage field, bring museums' impact and importance to mind during budgeting season, while celebrating the strength & resilience of New England museums.
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Humanities Watch retweeted
Maria Popova
@themarginalian31 Dec 2016
Schopenhauer on the essential difference between how art and science reveal the world brainpickings.org/2016/08/05…
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Humanities Watch retweeted
Peter Adamson@HistPhilosophy15 Dec 2016
Super excited about the upcoming #HoPWaG episode, on one of the authors I've been most amazed by while doing the podcast: Marguerite Porete.
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Full report on The State of the Languages in the U.S.: A Statistical Portrait, available at: bit.ly/2hoxFnn
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Humanities Watch retweeted
4Humanities@4Hum29 Nov 2016
Great @chronicle essay "Use Data to Make a Strong Case for the #Humanities." bit.ly/2gt11OE
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#Humanities programs "are under threat and new programs would not be approved" at Univ. of Montana: bit.ly/2efff86
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lithub.com/anton-chekhov-a-p…
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@HumanitiesWatch Our School of Languages and Cultures is getting cut in favour of STEMs. Please RT the petition change.org/p/retain-quality-…

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Retain quality of language education at Victoria University of Wellington

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High schools are the only possible supply lines to keep the liberal arts going. We ignore them at our peril." chroni.cl/2a5kaHE
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What can modern neuroscience reveal about the lives of people in the past and the events that affected them? ow.ly/obV8301LkGl
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DigitalHumanitiesNow@dhnow28 Jun 2016
Editors’ Choice: An Interview with Dr. Timothy Kircher of Humanities Watch digitalhumanitiesnow.org/201…
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