Currently Reading

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GRAVEDIG!!!

Since my YouTube channel where I focus on the game Victoria 3 is taking off, I'm now reading like I'm in grad school.

Just finished reading:

The Crimean War: 1853-1856 (Modern Wars)
Winfried Baumgart

Working my way through:

The Wars of German Unification (Modern Wars)
Dennis Showalter

An Economic History of Nineteenth-Century Europe: Diversity and Industrialization
Ivan Berend

On my to-read-soon list:

A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century (Histories of Economic Life Book 12)
David Todd

The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (America in the World Book 20)
Jürgen Osterhammel, Patrick Camiller

The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918 (Modern Wars)
Holger H. Herwig

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Added a Balkan history of the 19th Century to the list and am making good headway on the German Unification and Economic History tomes.

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Started on the Velvet Empire book and damn if it didn't connect me to a paper by Osterhammel.

[Vyn]

A few months ago I started reading Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. The copy I set about to read is Isaac Newton's personal copy of the first edition from 1687. If you have always dreamt of reading the Principia as it was published back in the day, in Latin, it can be found at the following link (it includes Newton's own handwritten notes, as well!):

https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-ADV-B-00039-00001/1

I've only made it through the first few pages of text (I'm currently on page 30 according to the facsimile reader's page numbering) and have only been able to deduce about half of his notes I've thus far encountered. My Latin is rusty, and I knew that the level of discourse in this book would require a lot of translating. Haha, yeah. One thing that helps is that I read an English translation years ago, and still have it on hand.

I figure I'll get through maybe half of the text before I get bored with it. I'm only doing it as a brain exercise - I already know what it's about , and I don't have a goal of being a Newton scholar, or publishing my own English translation lol. But do think it's cool as shit that I can sit in my home in middle America and peruse Newton's own copy of his magnum opus, at my leisure.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Oof! That sounds like torture!

[Vyn]

Oof! That sounds like torture!

Only if something by Carly Rae Jepsen inadvertently starts playing on the radio in the background while I'm trying to read it!

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Reading "Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American Hegemony" by Kori Schake. Goes very well with Sean Mirski's "We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus". Reading these for my YouTube channel work playing Victoria 3.

[Charger]

A few months ago I started reading Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. The copy I set about to read is Isaac Newton's personal copy of the first edition from 1687. If you have always dreamt of reading the Principia as it was published back in the day, in Latin, it can be found at the following link (it includes Newton's own handwritten notes, as well!):

https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-ADV-B-00039-00001/1

I've only made it through the first few pages of text (I'm currently on page 30 according to the facsimile reader's page numbering) and have only been able to deduce about half of his notes I've thus far encountered. My Latin is rusty, and I knew that the level of discourse in this book would require a lot of translating. Haha, yeah. One thing that helps is that I read an English translation years ago, and still have it on hand.

I figure I'll get through maybe half of the text before I get bored with it. I'm only doing it as a brain exercise - I already know what it's about , and I don't have a goal of being a Newton scholar, or publishing my own English translation lol. But do think it's cool as shit that I can sit in my home in middle America and peruse Newton's own copy of his magnum opus, at my leisure.

Now that is something truly special...and something quite commendable...not something I could ever vision myself doing...I know a word or two of latin but nothing even close enough to read a sentence of latin let alone a book in latin!

My hat's off to you sir!

[Vyn]

Now that is something truly special...and something quite commendable...not something I could ever vision myself doing...I know a word or two of latin but nothing even close enough to read a sentence of latin let alone a book in latin!

My hat's off to you sir!

Well crap, thanks Charger! I'm not sure I deserve all of that, but I'll take it haha!

[Charger]

I just finished Luis Elizondo's book IMMINENT!

Quite an interesting read coming from the former director of Pentagon's UAP investigation program AATIP.

Even if only 50% of the stuff he talks about actually happened and are real it's pretty crazy.

And he is 100% certain some of the UAP sightings are indeed of crafts not of this planet...and there's quite a bit of facts to back that up in the book.

Super interesting read for sure.