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Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
Sep 19
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Benjamin Breen
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Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
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Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
Sep 12
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Benjamin Breen
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August 2023
Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
Aug 9
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Benjamin Breen
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Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
Three theories
Aug 3
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Benjamin Breen
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July 2023
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
Jul 25
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Benjamin Breen
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Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
Jul 18
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Benjamin Breen
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Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
Jul 11
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Benjamin Breen
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April 2023
Res Obscura is now on Substack
Three years late, but historians are always late
Apr 13
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Benjamin Breen
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December 2019
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer…
Dec 5, 2019
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Benjamin Breen
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