Hacker News: Petiver

Reinventing the Renaissance

Petiver — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:26:12 +0000

Article URL: https://drb.ie/article/reinventing-the-renaissance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563083

Points: 35

# Comments: 11

Pass the Cherries: Review of Twilight of the Dons

Petiver — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:02:09 +0000

Article URL: https://literaryreview.co.uk/pass-the-cherries

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48376940

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Voting Before the Secret Ballot

Petiver — Mon, 11 May 2026 05:43:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/voting-secret-ballot

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091403

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Cordouan Lighthouse

Petiver — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:40:20 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordouan_Lighthouse

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47948338

Points: 38

# Comments: 6

William Cecil's Succession Plan

Petiver — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:42:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/william-cecils-succession-plan

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47767975

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

Living Without My Self

Petiver — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:51:38 +0000

Article URL: https://aeon.co/essays/robert-musil-gives-confidence-to-the-no-self-minority-like-me

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699085

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

An Aroma Most Beguiling

Petiver — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:23:21 +0000

Article URL: https://orionmagazine.org/article/an-aroma-most-beguiling/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605340

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Many Roots of Our Suffering: Reflections on Robert Trivers (1943–2026)

Petiver — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:34:56 +0000

Article URL: https://quillette.com/2026/03/25/the-many-roots-of-our-suffering-reflections-on-robert-trivers-1943-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47535369

Points: 25

# Comments: 11

The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV

Petiver — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:12:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/last-testaments-richard-ii-and-henry-iv

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47472039

Points: 77

# Comments: 15

Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History

Petiver — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:14:10 +0000

Article URL: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/fear-and-fragility-the-glass-delusion-and-its-history

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443547

Points: 28

# Comments: 7

Heart, head, life, fate

Petiver — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:29:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n05/steven-shapin/heart-head-life-fate

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360359

Points: 19

# Comments: 6

A History of Haggis (2019)

Petiver — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 05:28:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/historians-cookbook/history-haggis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46775875

Points: 38

# Comments: 16

The Only Cure by Mark Solms review – has modern neuroscience proved Freud right?

Petiver — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:57:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/12/the-only-cure-by-mark-solms-review-a-bold-attempt-to-rehabilitate-freud

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46598350

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Horace Fletcher

Petiver — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 07:55:06 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Fletcher

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46363348

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Luke Howard’s essay on the modification of clouds (1865)

Petiver — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 12:38:25 +0000

Article URL: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/essay-on-the-modification-of-clouds/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46344412

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

A Man Who Wanted to Believe in Life on Mars

Petiver — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:35:09 +0000

Article URL: https://newrepublic.com/article/202815/martians-book-review-man-believe-life-mars

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46306525

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Cat Gap

Petiver — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 04:09:04 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_gap

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46213985

Points: 216

# Comments: 59

A new myth appeared during the presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson

Petiver — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:12:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/self-made

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46050861

Points: 42

# Comments: 121

The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun's Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

Petiver — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 04:46:59 +0000

Article URL: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/le-brun-human-animal-hybrids/

Hacker News: Petiver

Reinventing the Renaissance

Pass the Cherries: Review of Twilight of the Dons

Voting Before the Secret Ballot

Cordouan Lighthouse

William Cecil's Succession Plan

Living Without My Self

An Aroma Most Beguiling

The Many Roots of Our Suffering: Reflections on Robert Trivers (1943–2026)

The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV

Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History

Heart, head, life, fate

A History of Haggis (2019)

The Only Cure by Mark Solms review – has modern neuroscience proved Freud right?

Horace Fletcher

Luke Howard’s essay on the modification of clouds (1865)

A Man Who Wanted to Believe in Life on Mars

Cat Gap

A new myth appeared during the presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson

The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun's Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)