Whewell’s Gazette

Your weekly digest of all the best of

Internet history of science, technology and medicine

Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell

Volume #9

Monday 18 August 2014

Whewell’s Gazette: Vol. 9

EDITORIAL:

Well the holiday season is finally over and our editorial staff are back chained to their computers scouring cyberspace for the weeks best history of science, technology and medicine bloggage and reporting.
As already announced last week this weeks edition in addition to being posted one day too late is also somewhat curtailed due to the fact that the staff were taking a short holiday break. If as a result we failed to include your history of STEM masterwork then sorry, better luck next time.
Tomorrow we are off to interview a new managing editor more of which in due course. In the meantime read and enjoy, there is much to get your teeth into.

ON THE WEB BLOGS AND WEBSITES:

PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY:
Atomic Heritage Foundation: Profiles
Atomic Heritage Foundation: Women and the Bomb
Physics Today: The Dayside: A quiet revolution
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Galileo, Foscarini, The Catholic Church, and heliocentricity in 1615 Part 1 – the occurrences: A Rough Guide.

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Halley’s Log: Halley and Longitude

MEDICINE:
Perceptions of Pregnancy: Sarah Siddons and the Performance of Pregnancy
Library of Congress: Ring Around the Rosie: Metafolklore, Rhyme and Reason
The Chirugeon’s Apprentice: Disturbing Disorders: A Brief History of Harlequin Ichthyosis
History of Medicine in Oregon: Video: Videos index
Forbidden Histories: “Hypnosis in Spain (1888–1905): From Spectacle to Medical Treatment of Mediumship”. Second Online-First Article from Special Issue on Psychical Research
The Boston Globe: 19th century advances paved way for today’s Ebola treatment
NPR: The Secret History Behind The Science of Stress
Royal College of Physicians: Health and long life
Early Modern Medicine: The Mistaken Midwife

Caricature of a man-midwife as a split figure
Credit: Wellcome Library, London

Psychology Today: A Long, Mad Century: Why did the (long) nineteenth century see the rise of the psychiatric asylum?
Museum of Health Care: Snakes, Mistakes, and Mythology! The Use of the Rod of Asclepius and the Caduceus in Modern Medicine
The Chirugeon’s Apprentice: The Anaesthetized Queen & the Path to Painless Childbirth
Ptak Books: Affairs of the Heart: Blood and Clouds, 1664

Image source National Library of Medicine

CHEMISTRY:
Conciatore: Neri’s Cabinet, Part 1
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Forbes: The Cautious Pope and the Evolution Encyclical
The Conversation: Exhibit B puts people on display for Edinburgh International Festival
SciTech Connect: Celebrate ESA’s 99th Year by Learning the History of Ecology
The Return of Native Nordic Fauna: Treating humans as unnatural
Fossil History: George Busk: Scenes in History
Yovisto: Meet Sue, the Dinosaur
BHL: The Sea Dog: Exploring Man’s Discovery & Classification of the Shark
Society of Biology: The most admirable man in all science?
British Library: The Crystal Palace Game

Crystal Palace Game

American Museum of Natural History: Frozen Urine

Frozen Urine: Robert Hooke Micrographia

The Beagle: Missives from John Murray Publishers: ‘My dear Hooker’: Charles Darwin’s friendship with Joseph Hooker, and how The Origin of Species couldn’t have been written without Kew Gardens
Environmental History Resources: Podcast: The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress
The Primate Diaries: Fire Over Ahwahnee: John Muir and the Decline of Yosemite

April 1963 (!) issue of “Scientific American” on Controversial Continental Drift h/t David Bressan

TECHNOLOGY:

The New York Times: At Bletchley Park, a Reminder About the History of Cracking Codes

Othmeralia: The Art of Advertising: Dr Seuss advertised ball bearings!

Atlas Obscura: Warheads & Reactor Cores: Cuba’s Nuclear Legacy

Echoes From The Vault: Drawing With a Camera Lucida

Brass Camera Lucida in carrying case, ca. 1860’s

Yovisto: John Logie Baird and the Television
Inside the Science Museum: The Historic Heart of our Information Age Gallery
Georgian Gentleman: Pimp my carriage Mister Coachbuilder!
Inside the Science Museum: Sending messages across the Atlantic: 156 years on from the first transatlantic cable

Specimens of the first transatlantic cable. Credit Science Museum

META:- HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

Guardian: Podcast: Did Aristotle invent science?
Genotopia: On city life, the history of science, and the genetics of race
Mother Nature Network: 7 scientists killed by their own experiments
Strange Behaviors: The Wall of the Dead: A Memorial to Fallen Naturalists
Active History: Digital Approaches to 19th Century Globalisation
Youtube: Video: John Wilkins: Philosophy of Science – An Introduction
Youtube: Video: John Wilkins: The Demarcation Problem – Science & Pseudoscience
Darin Hayton: Historian of Science: 20-Sided Reviewer’s Die for History of Science
From the Hands of Quacks: Exhibition review: Photo Essay: Vesalius at 500
Wellcome Library: The Well-travelled Archive
ESOTERIC:

Prospect: Science gives power to the supernatural

Notches: The Bishop’s New Stockings, or The Dangers of Love Magic
Conciatore: Alchemy School Reprise
Conciatore: Filippo Sassetti
History of Alchemy: Podcast: Rosicrucianism

BOOK REVIEWS:

Fiction Reboot Daily Dose: MedHum Monday Presents: A Review of Skeleton Crew
Word & Film: After “The Knick”: 7 Fascinating Books on the History of Medicine
TELEVISION:

Slate: How Accurate Is The Kick’s Take on Medical History?

New York Academy of Medicine: Beard Dipping: New York Medicine 1900 Style
BBC: The Beauty of Anatomy
RADIO:
BBC: Plants: From Roots to Riches: Dynamic Rainforest
Guardian: Play Preview: Margaret Thatcher’s surprising relationship with Dorothy Hodgkin
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The Friends of Charles Darwin: It’s easy to become a Friend of Charles Darwin ‘FCD’ and it doesn’t cost anything!

ChoM News: Casper Morley Epsteen Papers Now Open

Alcohol and Drugs History Society: ADHS conference, 18-21 June 2015 (call for papers)
History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences Program August-December 2014
The Royal Society Print Shop now selling history of STEM prints!
National Maritime Museum: Expert talk: The Art of Longitude – the Famous Quest from Print to Film 4 Sept.
School of Advanced Studies University of London: Institute of English Studies: Biennial London Chaucer Conference: Science, Magic and Technology 10-12 July 2015 Call for Paper
New York Academy of Medicine: Festival of Medical History and the Arts, “Art, Anatomy, and the Body: Vesalius 500″ 18 October 2014
BSHS: Announcement: The Francis Bacon Award in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Publishers Weekly: New Book: Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine
NYAM: Festival of Medical History and the Arts, “Art, Anatomy, and the Body: Vesalius 500” 18 Oct 2015: Registration
National Maritime Museum: Longitude in London Walking Tour with @beckyfh 30 August 2014

Blue plaque marking the workshop of Thomas Tompion and George Graham, Fleet Street (Rebekah Higgitt)

Smithsonian.com: The Smithsonian Wants You! (To Help Transcribe Its Collections)
CRASSH: Conference: Does the Museum Just Preserve the Museum? 12-13 Dec 2014
Caro C: Ada Lovelace Day 2014 – A celebration of Women in STEM at the Royal Institute of Great Britain, London
Historiens de la santé: CfP Asylum Geographies: International Conference for Historical Geographers 5-10th July 2015, London.
LOOKING FOR WORK?

National Science Foundation: Antarctic Artists and Writers Program

Washington University in St. Louis: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor – History of Medicine
University of Bristol: Wellcome Trust PhD Studentship: ‘The Life of Breath’ Philosophy of Medicine
Wellcome Trust: Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowships

Whewell’s Gazette

Your weekly digest of all the best of

Internet history of science, technology and medicine

Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell

Volume #10

Monday 25 August 2014

EDITORIAL:

We can hardly believe it ourselves but this is the tenth edition of Whewell’s Gazette your weekly digest of the best in the histories of science, technology and medicine, so we are dedicating this edition to Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans. You may ask yourself why we are doing this.

The Pythagoreans who are considered to be one of the founders of Western science were great believers in numerology, who considered the natural numbers to be the building blocks of the cosmos and for them the number ten was the most special number in their metaphysical beliefs.

Ten was known as the Tetraktys (meaning four) by the Pythagorean, being the sum of the first four natural numbers 1+2+3+4 = 10 and displayed as a triangular number.

It had many interpretations. One is a point or zero dimensions, two is two points forming a straight line or one dimension, three is three points forming a triangle or two dimensions and four is four points forming a tetrahedron or three dimensions. For the Pythagoreans there were ten celestial bodies: the fixed stars, the seven planets (Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn), the Earth and Antichthon (the counter-earth). The Earth and Anthichthon revolve around the Central Fire, a theory that led Copernicus to erroneously attribute heliocentricity to the Pythagoreans, which in turn led Copernican being referred to as Pythagoreans in the Early Modern Period.

Following a lively discussion on Twitter the editorial team of Whewell’s Gazette have decided to replace the hash tag tape worm #histsci, #histtech & #histmed with the single hash tag #histSTM and we hope that all historians of science, medicine and technology will follow our example and adopt this space and character saving device in future.

 ON THE WEB BLOGS AND WEBSITES:

Birthdays of the Week: H. P. Lovecraft! (20 August 1890)

Letters from Gondwana: Halloween Special: Lovecraft and the Mountains of Madness

The Dynamic Earth: At the Orogen of Madness

Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur (1904), plate 90: Cystoidea. From Wikimedia Commons

The Devil’s Exercise Yard: “Don’t mention the war.” – some thoughts on H.P. Lovecraft and race

Georges Cuvier 23 August 1769

The Embryo Project: Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)

Stratotype of Basin of Paris (1808)

PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY:

Voices of the Manhattan Project: Podcast: Glen Seaborg’s Interview

Wiener Zeitung: Wiener Physiker Walter Thirring verstorben

The four Nobel laureates of NBI. Niels Bohr is on the right. Who can name the others? Via @telescoper

Pat’s Blog: Why there are seven colours in the rainbow

Voices of the Manhattan Project: Podcast: Robert Hayes’s Interview

Science Notes: Today in Science History – August 23 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

Halley’s Log: Halley and Longitude

MEDICINE:

The New Yorker: The Real “Knick”

BBC Travel: New York City’s most morbid museum

The Prague Revue: The Plague in Rhyme (Or Not)

Philly.com: Historical antecedents to experimental Ebola treatments

NYAM: The Practical Druggist 1917

New York Academy of Medicine: The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius: Object of the Month

Vesalius Fabrica Frontispiece 1543

New York Academy of Medicine: Electrification

Notches: (re)marks on the history of sexuality: ‘A Tempory Member’: ‘Hermaphrodites’ and Sexual Identity in Early Modern Russia

CHEMISTRY:

About.com: Chemistry: Who Invented the Periodic Table?

Yovisto: Jöns Jacob Berzelius – One of the founders of modern chemistry

Conciatore: Neri’s Cabinet #2

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Public Domain Review: The Bestarium of Aloys Zötl (1831–1887)

Public Domain Review: Birds from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands (1754)

Public Domain Review: Redressing the Balance: Levinus Vincent’s Wonder Theatre of Nature

Detail from a print featured in the first part of Vincent’s Wondertooneel der Nature

Making Science Public: Fermenting thought: A new look at synthetic biology

History Matters: Old Leaves and New: From Gloucestershire Tobacco to Albanian Pot

Geological Society of London Blog: A new version of Sopwith’s Buckland portrait

Embryo Project: Hwang Woo-suk’s Use of Human Eggs for Research 2002-2005

The Copenhagen Post: Danish museum finds lost Charles Darwin treasure

Houghton Library Blog: The Poet as Naturalist: Thomas Grey’s copy of Linnaeus’ Systema Naturae

History of Geology: Pompeii – a Geological Movie-Review: Introducing the Main Character

TECHNOLOGY:

The Daguerreian Society: The Daguerreian Process: A Description

The Recipes Project: Illuminating the ‘elusive’: reconstructing mediaeval recipes for anthocyanin pigments

The Recipes Project: Old-Fashioned Recipes, New-Fashioned Kitchens: Technology and Women’s Recipe Collecting in the Nineteenth Century

Frontispiece showing two women working in a kitchen. Mrs. E.A. Howland, The American Economical Housekeeper and Family Receipt Book (Cincinnati: H.W. Derby & Co., 1845). Library of Congress.

Computer History Museum: Who Invented the IC?

Yovisto: William Murdock ‘enlights’ the 19^th Century

Atlas Obscura: Horologium Mirabile Lundense

META:- HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

AEON: Small things: The discovery of a microscopic world shook the foundations of theology and created modern demons

Guardian: Podcast: The science of the invisible

Evolving Thoughts: Some more videos: John Wilkins shorts on philosophy of science

The Public Domain Review: Highlights from Folger Shakespeare Library’s Release of almost 80 000 Images

Nautilus: Public, Pointed Scientific Spats – Feature, Not Bug

The Times of India: IIEST plans to marry arts and science

The Royal Society: The Repository: A proverb in the hand…

London Historians’ Blog: Gresham, the Great Golden Grasshopper

The Gresham family badge: a grasshopper.

The Sloane Letters Blog: How to Build a Universal Collection, or Nicknackatory:

Open Culture: Sigmund Freud Appears in Rare Surviving Video & Audio Recorded During the 1930s

Compass Wallah: The Astronomer & the Chessboard: Reading List

The Creativity Post: Science Is Not About Certainty

ESOTERIC:

Conciatore: Don Giovanni

New Republic: Houdini Loved to Use His Magic to Expose Real Con Artists Edmund Wilson 1925

BOOK REVIEWS:

The Atlantic: Who has the right to pain relief?

James Ungureanu: Victorian Scientific Naturalism

James Ungureanu: The Age of Scientific Naturalism

Joanne Bailey Muses on History: Meditating on Materiality – a 3-part book review: Part1, Part 2, Part 3

TELEVISION:

The Denver Post: TV finds heroes in science: Physicists, sexologists, surgeons and more

RADIO:

Guardian: Review: Thatcher and Hodgkin: A personal and political chemistry?

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The Hakluyt Society Essay Prize

Rachel Carson Center: Turku Book Award #histenv

UCL: First London Philosophy of Science Graduate Workshop – Approaches Within Philosophy of Science Date: 2-3 September 2014

The Royal Institution: Join the Ri

Cambridge University Press: New Book: Daryn Lehoux, What Did the Romans Know? : An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking

Queen Mary University of London: CfP: Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20thcentury Institute of Historical Research, London 22-24 April 2015

National Maritime Museum: The Whale: an exploration 20 September

Bloomsbury History: New Book: A History of Environmentalism

CRASSH: Things that Matter 1400-1900 Alternate Wednesdays 12.00-2.00pm during term time

Cleveland.com: Author Kate Manning to hold book launch party at Dittrick Museum for tale of ‘Notorious’ midwife

ChoM News: Marian Cabot Putnam Papers Open for Research

Leeds University –Faculty of Arts: Shaping the Trading Zone: Bringing Aesthetics and Philosophy of Science Together 5–6 September 2014

Irish History Podcasts: Book Project Blog: 1348 A Medieval Apocalypse The Black Death in Ireland

Scientific Instrument Society Research Grants

LOOKING FOR WORK?

Rochester Institute of Technology: Assistant Professor – Sociocultural Context of Science and Technology

UCL: STS Vacancies

Science Europe: Vacancy Notice: Senior Scientific Officer (Humanities) pdf

Whewell’s Gazette

Your weekly digest of all the best of

Internet history of science, technology and medicine

Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell

Volume #11

Monday 01 September 2014

EDITORIAL:

“… mere training in one or more of the exact sciences…is no guarantee of a humane or sceptical outlook …“ – George Orwell – What is Science?

Like the proverbial bad penny Whewell’s Gazette keeps turning up, today for the eleventh time. This week our editorial staff were very jealous because many of our Internet friends were at the XXXIII Scientific Instrument Symposium at the University of Tartu in Estonia enjoying some fantastic talks. You can watch them here on the website where they have been filmed by UT TV

In the history of astronomy Tartu is famous as being the workplace of Friedrich George Wilhelm Struve (1793-1864)

one of the Struve dynasty of telescopic astronomers, who measured the stellar parallax of Vega in 1843.

The great archetypal Fraunhofer refractor, 1824. Struve used it to measure the parallax of Vega

ON THE WEB BLOGS AND WEBSITES:

Birthday of the Week: Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier born 26 August 1743

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Collection Online: Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and His Wife (Marie-Anne-Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Chemical Heritage Foundation: Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier

h/t Ben Gross

Science Notes: Today In Science History – August 26 – Antoine Lavoisier

The Renaissance Mathematicus: The father of …

Ernest Rutherford born 30 August 1871

Martha Rutherford with Eva and (left to right) Charles, Ernest, Jim, and Herbert, 1885.
Ernest was 14. Credit: Tyree, Rutherford family.

AIP: Rutherford’s Nuclear World

Science Notes: Today In Science History – August 30 – Ernest Rutherford

Herman von Helmholtz born 31 August 1821

Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) in 1876

Science Notes: Today In Science History – August 31 – Hermann von Helmholtz

Mary Shelly born 30 August 1797

Mary Shelley, by Richard Rothwell, 1840

History of Geology: Mary Shelley born Aug 30, 1797, was she inspired to write “Frankenstein” by the Tambora eruption?

Shelly’s Ghost: Mary Shelly (1797-1851)

Yovisto: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly, the Mother of the Monster

History Today: Science & Shelly: What Mary Knew

Science 2.0: Happy Birthday Mary Shelly

PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY:

Science Notes: Today in Science History – August 25 – Frerick William Herschel

PreservationNation Blog: Road Trip to the Secret City: Atomic History in Oak Ridge, Tennessee

University of California Museum of Paleontology: Paleontological field work and nuclear testing

The Renaissance Mathematicus Galileo, Foscarini, The Catholic Church, and heliocentricity in 1615 Part 2 the consequences: A Rough Guide

The Royal Institution: John Tyndall: written back into the history of magnetism

Science Notes: Today in Science History – August 27 – Ernest Lawrence

Skulls in the Stars: Physics Demonstrations: Faraday Disc

io9: 12 Diagrams That Changed How We Understand Out Solar System

Tusi Couple

The Crux: Like GPS? Thank Relativity

Science Notes: Today In Science History – August 30 – Ernest Rutherford

Friendly Atheist: Obituary: Victor Stenger, Physicist and Prolific Atheist Author, is Dead at 79

Yovisto: Fred Whipple and the Dirty Snowballs

Yovisto: Sir Bernard Lovell and the Radioastronomy

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

MEDICINE:

Perceptions of Pregnancy: Midwives Behaving Badly?: Complaints against Lying-In Charity Staff c.1800-1834

Circulating Now: Medicine, Morality, Faith, and Film

The Recipes Project: Exploring CPP 10a214: Wingfield Family Lines

Victorian Dotage: Why was someone with dementia called a ‘lunatic’?

Shakespeare’s England: School of Physick

NYAM: “The Pest at the Gate”: Typhoid, Sanitation, and Fear in NYC

Somatosphere: The Recent History of “Contagious Shooting” (1982-2006) and more recent events in Ferguson, Missouri

Wellcome Collection Blog: Object of the Month: Cowrie Snuff Box

Science Notes: Today in Science History – August 29 – Werner Forssmann

Yovisto: Werner Forssmann and the dangerous Self Experiment in Cardiac Catheterization

The H-Word: Hospital food standards: did medieval hospitals do it better?

A nurse brings polte de orzo (possibly barley broth) to a patient. 15th century illustration courtesy of the Wellcome Library, London. Photograph: Wellcomeimages

Simons Foundation Autism Research Institute: Uta and Chris Frith: A partnership of the mind

Uta & Chris Frith

The Chirugeon’s Apprentice: The Saddest Place in London: A Story of Self-Sacrifice

NYAM: Global Celebration of Vesalius’s 500^th Birthday

NYAM: The Merits of Cocaine

CHEMISTRY:

Smithsonian.com: From Gunpowder to Teeth Whitener: The Science Behind Historic Uses of Urine

William O’Shaughnessy (1809-1889)

Conciatore: Neri’s Cabinet #3

Crystals of Copper Sulfate Pentahydrate
(Vitriol of Venus)

Vimeo: Video: “If It’s Fun on TV … “ 65 years in Mass Spectrometry Fred McLafferty

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Ockham’s Razor: The power of plants in science, culture and medicine

Science Direct: Friedrich Miescher and the discovery of DNA

The Embryo Project: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

Wired: Fantastically Wrong: The Legend of the Homicidal Fire-Proof Salamander

A salamander relaxing in a fire, just minding its own business, is rudely prodded by a shirtless man. “A salamander lives in the fire, which imparts to it a most glorious hue,” reads the caption. Welcome to the wonderful world of alchemy. Wikimedia

io9: A Historic Experiment Shows Why We Might Not Want to Debate Fanatics

VICE: Why are Historians so Afraid of Fucking?

The Appendix: Space Cadets and Rat Utopias

Yale Alumni Magazine: The man who saved the dinosaurs

TROWEL BLAZERS: Zofia Lielan-Jaworowska

The #EnvHist Weekly

Letters from Gondwana: Haeckel and the Legacy of Early Radiolarian Taxonomists

TECHNOLOGY:

Yovisto: Lee de Forest and the Audion

Thick Objects: The Micromanipulator Project: A Rabbit Hole

The Appendix: Technology and Apocalypse in America

Science Notes: Today in Science History – August 28 – Godfrey Hounsfield

Conciatore: Manganese from Piedmont Reprise

British Library: Taking the Train to America: The Royal Scot and a ‘Century of Progress’

‘The Royal Scot’, Triumph of the Royal Scot (1933) [10350.pp]. Image: public domain. – See more at: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/americas/2014/08/the-royal-scot-a-century-of-progress.html?utm_content=buffer660c6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer#sthash.Q8s08Qs0.dpuf

Medievalist.net: Ten Medieval Inventions that Changed the World

META:- HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

Fiction Reboot: Med-Hum Monday: The Medical Heritage Library’s “Never-Ending Work in Progress”

Yahoo News: Art, Science & Philosophy Behind Photos of Oldest Living Things

BSHS: Journal: Viewpoint 104 – Supernatural

Atomic Heritage Foundation: Books on the Manhattan Project

Guardian: Florence Nightingale Letters brought together online

George Orwell – What is Science?

Forbes: Peter Godfrey-Smith Takes On The Philosophy of Biology

Biblio Blog: Copernicus Book Thought Destroyed in Fire is Found Again

iai news: The End of Psychology?

The Journal.ie: Can you help identify these pioneering 1920s Irish science students?

Female science students at UCD

Double Refraction: How to save the symmetry principle in six easy steps

Wallification: the new martyrs of science

Forbes: Just How Much Did The Scientific Revolution Owe To The East?

Ether Wave Propaganda: Derek Price on Automata, Simulacra, and the rise of “Mechanism”

Sagansense: the manuscripts of the masters

BBC: Millions of historical images posted to Flickr

Manhattan District History: Manhattan Project’s history in 36 volumes written in 1940s declassified & available for download

Physics Today: The Dayside: Rutherford, Bohr, and the rise of Nature

Commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing Website

Zetatrek: The Freedom of Going Back

The National Archives: Accessions to Repositories h/t Nicky Reeves

ESOTERIC:

Conciatore: Alchemy in the Kitchen

Tesoro del Mondo, “Ars Preparatio Animalium”
Antonio Neri 1598-1600, f. 10r (MS Ferguson 67).

Forbidden Histories: Who was Dr. Karlo Marchesi? The Zagreb-Durham Transoceanic ESP Experiments. Guest Post by Boris Kožnjak, Zagreb

The Recipes Project: The (lack of) power of gemstones

Forbidden Histories: Clever Hans and the Origins of German Experimental Parapsychology: Sixth Pre-Print Article from SHPSC Special Issue

BOOK REVIEWS:

Some Beans: Degrees Kelvin by David Lindley

Some Beans: Greenwich Time and the Longitude by Derek Howse

Some Beans: Finding Longitude by Richard Dunn & Rebekah Higgitt

Early Modern Medicine: Old Age and Disease in Early Modern Medicine

THE: From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women’s Rights in Gilded Age America

Australian Journal of Philosophy: Philosophy of Biology by Peter Godfrey-Smith

NEW BOOKS:

Historiens de la santé: New Book: Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China

MIT Press: New Book: Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology and Society in Latin America

Astro Pixels.com: New Book: Thousand Year Canon of Solar Eclipses 1501 to 2500

Historiens de la santé: New Book: Histories of Health in Southeast Asia: Perspectives on the Long Twentieth Century

TELEVISION:

YOUTUBE:

The Chemical Heritage YouTube Chanel

The Royal Institution YouTube Chanel

RADIO:

Guardian: Author responds to Katherine Hodgkin’s criticism of his play The Chemistry Between Them

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Historiens de la santé: CfP The 2nd What is & How to Do LGBT History Conference Manchester 14-15 February 2015

New Blog: Faith and Wisdom in Science Discussion Blog: an invitation

University of Kent: School of English: Conference: Liminal Time and Space in Medieval and Early Modern Performance 5th-7th September 2014

University College London: Institute of Making: CfP Hidden histories of things: genealogies of the non-human 26 January 2015

Guardian: Exhibition: London maps: a unique view of the capital through classic cartography 4-14 September

Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg: Londinium Feracissmi Angliae Regni Metropolis. Published in Braun & Hogenberg’s book Civitates Orbis Terrarum, 1572

The Natural History Museum: Grand Opening September 13-October 4 The Queens Museum

New York Academy of Medicine: Calendar

Brewery History: The Geoffrey Ballard Essay Award

Science Museum: Conference: Interpreting the Information Age: New Avenues for Research and Display 3-5 November 2014

British Museum: Museum of the Future debate 11 September 2014

H-net: New books in medicine seeking podcast hosts

The Royal Society: Lecture: Longitude back and forth across the years Martin Rees and Rebekah Higgitt 25 September 2014

Royal Museums Greenwich: Expert talk: The Art of Longitude – the Famous Quest from Print to Film 4 September 2014

The Canadian Society for the History of Medicine and the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing CfP Congress for the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Ottawa 30 May – June 1st.

Science Museum: Science Museum to create new home for the Clockmakers’ Collection

LOOKING FOR WORK?

University of Kent: School of European Culture and Languages: Research Associate in Philosophy ‘Grading evidence of mechanisms in physics and biology’

University of Oxford: Sackler Keeper of Antiquities

University of Bristol: ‘The Life of Breath’ Philosophy of Medicine Wellcome Trust PhD Studentship

Whewell’s Gazette

Your weekly digest of all the best of

Internet history of science, technology and medicine

Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell

Volume #12

Monday 08 September 2014

EDITORIAL:

The dozen is full and you can now read the twelfth edition of the #histSTM weekly links list Whewell’s Gazette. It’s a bit early to be getting out the champagne but it would appear that our journal is in the process of becoming established.

Time to ask the reader(s) for a little feedback. Do you like what you see? Do you want it to continue? Do you have suggestions for improvements (that don’t involve too much work!). Do you have a #histSTM blog that we have consistently ignore? If so pipe up and demand attention! Your opinion is important to us (maybe!).

An important message to all, who use images in the Internet.

THINK OF THE BABY WOMBATS!

The 1 September saw a sad anniversary in the history of nature and the environment with one hundred years since the death of the last known passenger pigeon, Martha. Once one of the most numerous birds in North America it was no more. We start our journal this week with a round up of some, there were many more, of the articles remembering Martha and the fate of her once so numerous fellow pigeons.

ON THE WEB BLOGS AND WEBSITES:

A Martha Special:

Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) Catalog no. 461042
© AMNH/C. Chesek

American Museum of Natural History: Cautionary Anniversary: Last Passenger Pigeon Died 100 Years Ago

Scientific American: Observations: Black Skies No More: Passenger Pigeons Slaughtered

West Virginia Public Broadcasting: The Flight of the Passenger Pigeon, Now 100 Years Extinct

Slate: The Loney Life and Mysterious Death of the Lasat Passenger Pigeon

Wildlife Activities: How many of our birds are destined to go the way of the passenger pigeon?

Live Science: A Century for the Last Passenger Pigeon

Bird Watching: On a Monument to the Pigeon, by Aldo Leopold

National Geographic: Century After Extinction, Passenger Pigeons Remain Iconic—And Scientists Hope to Bring Them Back

Smithsonian.com: 100 Years After Her Death, Martha, the Last Passenger Pigeon, Still Resonates

environment 360: Fate of the Passenger Pigeon Looms as a Somber Warning

Financial Times: The extinction of the passenger pigeon

Natural History Museum: 100 passenger pigeon facts on the 100^th anniversary of its extinction

The Lawson Trek: Along the Path: The Passenger Pigeon – – Returning to the Original Observers

PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY:

Atomic Heritage: Marie Curie

Science Notes: Today In Science History – September 2 – Franz Xaver von Zach

Wired: Fantastically Wrong: The Imaginary Radiation That Shocked Science and Ruined Its ‘Discoverer’

Compass Wallah: The Auroras of Bombay (1872)

Space Watchtower: Astronomy and World War II

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

The Renaissance Mathematicus: The naming of America

Yovisto: The Travels of William Dampier

Map of the East Indies from Dampier’s “A New Voyage Round the World”, published in 1697

Halley’s Log: Halley writes from Long Reach

MEDICINE:

SFARI: London as a crucible for autism in the 1950s

Figaries: The case of five children: who were inoculated in Dublin, on the 26^th of August, 1725

Conciatore: Top Physician Reprise

From the Hands of Quacks: Refitting a Hospital during the Great War

Constructing Scientific Communities: ‘Sir: I am not a medical man…’: Laypeople and Medical Journals in the Nineteenth Century

NYAM: Patient Photographs and Medical Collecting

The Atlantic: How Racism Creeps Into Medicine

Notches: Where are the animals in the history of sexuality?

A Durok sow with her piglets (Wikimedia Commons)

Swansea University: Obituary: University pays tribute to Professor Anne Borsay

The Conversation: Four weird ideas people used to have about women’s periods

The Atlantic: The Dawn of Modern Anesthesia

History of Medicine in Oregon: Leslie Kent became the first woman in the country elected president of a state medical association.

CHEMISTRY:

Science Notes: Today In Science History – September 1 – Carl Auer von Welsbach

SciLogs: Dorothy Hodgkin: The Queen of Crystallography

Nature: Milestones in Crystallography

Jennifer Sherman Roberts: Great Globs of Glowing Urine

Joseph Wright The Alchemist (Wikimedia Commons)

Ptak Science Books: The Molecular World in Not-Quite 3-D

Conciatore: Neri’s Cabinet #4

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Yovisto: Sergei Winogradsky and the Science of Bacteriology

Guardian: Comment is Free: Limits to Growth was Right

The Embryo Project: The Pasteur Institute (1887- )

Yovisto: Ernst Curtius and the Excavation of Olympia

Kestrels and Cerevisiae: Mendelian-Mutationism (I): The Forgotten Synthesis

Mendelian-Mutationism (II): The Fluctuation-Mutationism Distinction

The Friends of Charles Darwin: The surprise punctuationist

Road to Paris: A very short history of climate change research

Letters from Gondwana: Ancient Greek Theater and the Past Mediterranean Climate

Trowel Blazers: Anne Phillips – The Curious Case of Miss Phillips’ Conglomerate

Anne and John Phillips’ grave in York. Photo by Liam Herringshaw, All Rights Reserved.

TECHNOLOGY:

Spitalfields Life: So Long, George Cossington the Steeplejack

Yovisto: Louis Henry Sullivan – the ‘Father’ of the Skyscraper

The National Museum of Computing: Computing in 1974 from Computer Weekly

Twister Sifter: 100 Years Ago this Telephone Tower in Stockholm Connected 5000 Telephone Lines

Stockholm telephone-tower 1887-1913 over 5000 telephone-lines connected
Photograph Courtesy of Tekniska Museet

Europeana: Early 20^th Century Water Cycles

New Scientist: Soviet-era hyperboloid tower saved from destruction

Thick Objects: An “Incomplete” Artefact: Part 1 – Missing Pieces

Conciatore: Stonework

The Journal of Music: Where Electronic Music Began

Tech Dirt: Why Is Huffington Post Running A Multi-Part Series To Promote The Lies Of A Guy Who Pretended To Invent Email?

Inside the Science Museum: Robert Watson-Watt and the Triumph of RADAR

Royal Museums Greenwich: John Harrison and the search for longitude

Ptak Science Books: An Harmonic Analyzer, 1916

The Physics Mill: Non-Digital Computers

META:- HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

The H-Word: Tattoos for Time Travellers at the British Science Festival 2014

In Newton’s Footsteps: fickr

The Nation: Science as Salvation?

Early Modern Experimental Philosophy: James Bradley’s Lectures on Experimental Philosophy

The Recipes Project: Teaching Recipes: A September Series

BSHS Travel Guide: Museum of Ethnography in Budapest

Scientia Salon: The return of radical empiricism

The H-Word: The big Australian science picnic of 1914

Map from The British Empire: its Geography, Resources, Commerce, Land-ways and Water-ways (1891). British Library Flickr

The Recipes Project: First Monday Library Chat: Wangensteen Library

Oregon State University: Dear Professor Einstein: The Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists in Post-War America

ITV: Bletchley code-breaking machine to be used in school history lessons

New York Times: So Bill Gates Has This Idea for a History Class …

Royal Society: The Repository: “Went to Sir JB’s”: Charles Blagden’s diary and scientific life in Georgian London

The Medievalist: Women Scientists of the Middle Ages and 1600s

ESOTERIC:

British Library: Medieval Manuscripts Blog: A physicians Folding Almanac

A page from a 15th century physician’s folding almanac: London, British Library, MS Harley 3812, f.

BOOK REVIEWS:

Fiction Reboot : Daily Dose: My Notorious Life

The Neuro Times: Piers J. Hale, Political Descent: Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England

Portal to the Universe: Two New Eclipse Publications

DailyHistory.org Top Ten Social History of American Medicine Booklist

Richard Carter: ‘The Making of the Fittest” by Sean B Carroll

NEW BOOKS:

Historiens de la santé: Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust

Historiens de la santé: Health and Wellness in 19^th-century America

The MIT Press: Recording Gender: Women’s Changing Participation in Computing

Springer: History of Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand (includes History and Philosophy of Science)

Historeins de la santé: Unseen Enemy: The English, Disease, and Medicine in Colonial Bengal, 1617-1847

THEATRE:

Hull Daily Mail: The story of Bletchley Park: That Is All You Need To Know arrives at Hull Truck Theatre in September

Progress Theatre: Darwin & Fitzroy Mon 8 Sept–Sat 13 Sept

TELEVISION:

BBC TWO: Castles in the Sky (The story of RADAR) Just three days left to watch!

VIDEOS:

YOUTUBE: Science and Islam, Jim Al-Khalili – BBC Documentary

VIMEO: Society for the History of Technology Dissertation Video Contest

VImeo: The Nature of Things – Martin Gardner

Vimeo: Under The Knife – Opening Sequence

RADIO:

BBC Radio 4: A Point of View: Lisa Jardine: When fiction comes to the historian’s rescue

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Ghent University: Concepts and methods in philosophy and history of science: Calendar, 2014-2015

Medical Museion: “Anatomy, art and the body” – Copenhagen symposium on Vesalius’ 500^th Anniversary

2015 BSHS Postgraduate Conference – Call for papers

The National Archives: All at Sea: international conference on Prize Papers 6 October 2014

All Souls College Oxford: CfP Mathematical readers in the early world 18–19 December 2014

University of Sheffield: CfP Social Networks 1450-1850

The Royal Institution: Ada Lovelace Day – Live! Tuesday 14 October

Wadham College: Symposium: John Wilkins and his Legacy

Public Domain (Wikimedia Commons) If somebody knows the artist tell me.

The British Museum: Exhibition: Witches and wicked bodies: 25 Sept 2014 – 11 Jan 2015

NYAM: Lecture: Author’s Night – Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine

H-NET: Call for submissions: European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH) book prize

Royal Museums Greenwich: Library Lates: Nevil Maskelyne, Longitude’s Champion 11 September

Manchester Science Festival 23 Oct – 2 Nov 2014

NIH: US National Library of Medicine: Exhibition: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection Pictures of Nursing

Royal College of Physicians: The anatomy of a building: Denys Lasdun and the Royal College of Physicians 8 Sept 2014 – 13 Feb 2015

American Association for the History of Medicine: George Rosen Prize Deadline 31 Oct 2014

Historiens de la santé: History of Iberian Science & Medicine

Art Daily: First major exhibition to explore the historical legacy of African cult astronomy opens at LACMA

The British Society for Literature and Science: CfP BSLS Syposium on Teaching Literature and Science

University of London: EMPHASIS programme 2014-15 (includes #histSTM)

Making Waves: Deadline extended! Science, Pure and Applied: Oliver Lodge, Physics, and Engineering, University of Liverpool, 31 October 2014

The Renaissance Diary: The Oxford-Globe Forum for Medicine and Drama in Practice 4 Oct 2014

The Renaissance Diary: CfP Towards a History of Errors Berlin 10-11 Dec 2014

Historiens de la santé: CfP Medical Humanities in Medieval England Deadline 15 Sept 2014

SHNH: Horniman Museum History of teaching natural history Oct 10-11 2014

Graham Farmelo: The life and Legacy of Sir John Cockcroft 18-19 Sept 2014

LOOKING FOR WORK?

The Museum of Science and Industry – Manchester: Curator of Science and Technology

Northwestern University: Postdoctoral Fellowships, Science in Human Culture

University of Notre Dame: Assistant Professor, History of Science

Two Faculty Positions in Science Studies at Michigan State University

Whewell’s Gazette

Your weekly digest of all the best of

Internet history of science, technology and medicine

Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell

Volume #13

Monday 15 September 2014

EDITORIAL:

If our editorial staff suffered from triskaidekaphobia we might have followed the example of some American architects and simply gone from our twelfth edition to the fourteenth one but we are not inclined to superstition and the number thirteen holds no fear for us and so you are now reading the thirteenth edition of the weekly history of science, technology and medicine (#histSTM) link list Whewell’s Gazette.

By far and away the biggest history of science related story was the purported discovery of one of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition 1845-48. This has stirred up much reaction and comment throughout the Internet so we have decided to make our thirteenth edition The Franklin Expedition edition.

Next weeks fourteenth edition will perforce be a very truncated edition as our editorial staff will be actively involved all of next weekend in two conferences to celebrate the achievements of the Franconian astronomer Simon Marius. Normal service will be assumed for the fifteenth edition.

ON THE WEB BLOGS AND WEBSITES:

The Franklin Expedition:

CBC News: Lost Franklin expedition ship found in the Arctic

Rice Education: Inuit Testimony About Franklin

Sir John Franklin and his crew were captured in this 1847 painting by W Turner Smith called The End In Sight

BBC: Sir John Franklin: Fabled Arctic ship found

Royal Museums Greenwich: Sir John Franklin and Lady Franklin

Royal Museums Greenwich: Marine Chronometer from Franklin’s expedition

Guardian: Horologists ponder mystery of how 19th-century chronometer survived fatal Arctic expedition

The Globe and Mail: The Franklin discovery’s not about what, but where

Guardian: Sir John Franklin: From the archive

JSTOR – Global Plants: Digitized letters from John Richardson who accompanied Franklin on 2 Arctic expeditions

Ottawa Citizen: Adriana Craciun: Franklin’s sobering true legacy

Geopolitics & Security: Missing, Submerged and Floating Objects: Franklin’s ship and the Northwest Passage

British Library – American Studies Blog: Finding Franklin

The Globe and Mail: Why is the Franklin expedition such a Canadian story?

Active History.ca: History Matters: Why Should We Care About the Erebus (or Terror)?

Birthdays of the Week:

Ulisse Aldrovandi 11 September 1522

Ulisse Aldrovandi Augostino Carracci

Letters from Gonwanda: The Legacy of Ulisse Aldrovandi

Letters from Gonwanda: The Early History of Ammonite Studies in Italy

History of Geology: In the beginning was the word

History of Geology: On the track of Ichnology

Harvey Fletcher 11 September 1884

Harvey Fletcher (1884-1981) American physicist and audio technology pioneer

Science Notes: Today In Science History – September 11 – Harvey Fletcher

Yovisto: Harvey Fletcher – the Father of Stereophonic Sound

Alexander von Humboldt 14 September 1769

Alexander von Humboldt Drawn by Rudolf Lehmann

History of Geology: Alexander von Humboldt and the Hand-Beast

PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY:

Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog: General Grove’s secret history

The Renaissance Mathematicus: I expected better of Tim Radford

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Another one bites the dust

Science Notes: Today In Science History – September 12 – Moon

Atomic Heritage Foundation: Leo Szilard

American Institute of Physics: Nobel Worlds in Physics, 1901-1965

Leaping Robot A 17^th Century Space Race

Cover of Godwin’s book

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

Ashley Kupferschmidt: Fragments of Paper found in Medical Kit: “Expedition”

CONTEXT 2: HATTERSLEY-SMITH: ARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1953

Board of Longitude Project: Navigation vacation

The Renaissance Mathematicus: The naming of America – Redux

MEDICINE:

The H-Word: Ashya King: An odd form of celebrity

The Cat’s Meat Shop: Sanitising History

From the Hands of Quacks: A Chamber of the Stillness of Death: Phyllis M.T. Kerridge’s Experiments in the Silence Room

Perceptions of Pregnancy: From Medieval to Modern: ‘Hopes of being with Child’: An Early Modern Guide to Knowing You Are Pregnant

History News Network: The Sad Reason We Don’t Know More About Ebola

Neurophilosophy Mo Costandi: A brief history of psychedelic psychiatry

Diseases of Modern Life: The Gent and the Ballet-Girl

NYAM: Aseptic Surgery: Innovation circa 1900

Houghton Library: Choice Receipts for the Prevention and Cure of the Plague

Medical Press: The history of medical studies of male infertility

Circulating Now: Rare Footage of FDR at NIH

http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2014/09/10/rare-footage-of-fdr-at-nih/

Shannon Selin: Félix Formento and medicine in 19th century New Orleans

Advertisement for Dr. de Laferrière’s sulphurous steam-baths, Louisiana Courier, May 1821

University of Glasgow Library: Syphilis – what’s in a name?

Dittrick Museum Blog: Blood Rises – Tension and Truth in The Knick

ChoM News: Staff Finds: IPPNW Anti-War Efforts Recognized by World Leaders

NYAM: Jonas Salk, The Polio Vaccine, and The Shot Felt ‘Round the World

Science Friday: Podcast: The Science of ‘Sameness’: Developing Generic Medication

Cleveland.com: Shaker Historical Museum features herbal medicines of 19^th century

A Covent Garden Gilflurt’s Guide to Life: A Gruesome Tale of Self-Surgery

Yovisto: William Budd and the Infectious Diseases

Encyclopaedia Britannica Blog: Walter J. freeman II and Lobotomy: Probing for Answers

CHEMISTRY:

Science Notes: Today In Science History – September 8 – Willard Frank Libby

Trowel Blazers: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Dorothy Hodgkin (then Crowfoot) ca. 1920s, as she was when she excavated at Jerash in her late teens (with thanks to the Crowfoot family for providing this image – All Rights Reserved)

Concocting History: Dragons live forever but not so little boys and girls

Conciatore: Neri’s Cabinet #5: Sulfur of Saturn

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Unmaking Things: The wonder of man – the wonder of nature: 
a seventeenth-century Nautilus cup

Nautilus cup, unknown maker, ca. 1620, Dutch. Engraved nautilus shell set in a silver gilt mount enamelled in white and blue, Museum no. M.179:1, 2-1978, Image © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

History of Geology: Happy Birthday Plate Tectonics!

Medievalist.net: Ten Strange Medieval Ideas about Animals

Inside the Science Museum: 30^th Anniversary of DNA Fingerprinting

Science Notes: Today In Science History – September 13 – Hans Christian Joachim Gram

The Public Domain Review: Tractatus de Herbis (ca. 1440)

The Irish Times: Writing that inspired a generation of scientists (Schrödinger, “What is Life?”)

TECHNOLOGY:

Retronaut: 1950s: The Perhapsatron

Patch of Puddles: Visiting Bletchley Park

Londonist: A Brief History of London Poo

Conciatore: Art and Science Reprise

Ptak Science Books: The Sky Above & Mud Below Department, 1890

Ptak Science Books: “Spirit Writing”: Electric, Script-Writing Telegraph, 1879 (!!)

New Scientist: Myth and reality of the Nazi space rocket

Airspace Blog: “Vengeance Weapon 2”: 70th Anniversary of the V-2 Campaign

VOX: We live in the future AT&T imagined in 1994

Thick Objects: An “Incomplete” Artefact: Part 2 – Knowing an object’s past

META:- HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

CRUX: Photos from inside the Vatican Secret Archives

Diseases of Modern Life: File it Under C…

Sideways Look at Science: 4S / ESOCITE JOINT MEETING: “SCIENCE IN CONTEXT(S): SOUTHS AND NORTHS”

Free Virtual Issue of Social History of Medicine

The Mod Squad: Steve Daniel’s Early Modern Philosophy Calendar

Science – AAAS: Public Science 2.0 – Back to the Future

Smithsonian.com: Lunar Bat-men, the Planet Vulcan and Martian Canals: Five of science history’s most bizarre cosmic delusions

Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab (1950-1951)

Wonders & Marvels: How I write History…with Chet van Duzer

ESOTERIC:

Conciatore: The Art of Preparing Plants

Antonio Neri, Tesoro del Mondo, f. 9r.
“Arts Preparatio frugu vel Piantar.”

100 Years New Republic: Albert Einstein Endorsed a Popular Psychic in 1932. This Is the Controversy that Ensued

Forbidden Histories: One Year of ‘Forbidden Histories’

BOOK REVIEWS:

NEW BOOKS:

Aptowicz.com: Dr Mütter’s Marvels

Bloomsbury Publishing: Dorothy Hodgkin A Life

Georgina Ferry: Dorothy Hodgkin and me

Historiens de la santé: Recycling the Disabled: Army, Medicine and Modernity in WWI Germany

Brown Walker Press: Idolatry & Infinity: Of Art, Math, & God

THEATRE:

FILM:

Aperiodical: An Alan Turing expert watches the “The Imitation Game” trailer

CP24: Filming at Bletchley Park ‘ghostly’ for stars of Turing biopic ‘Imitation Game’

TELEVISION:

Mental Floss: 5 Things We Learned from The Knick’s Medical Advisor

VIDEOS:

Youtube: Reflections of Einstein

Vimeo: Alan Turing, le code de la vie

RADIO:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Call for participation: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2015 Conference, Los Angeles: Round table discussion: How do we study Eighteenth-Century science?

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2015 Conference, Los Angeles Call for Papers

Gravity Fields Festival: Lecture: Newton and the Apothecary 25 Sept 2014

Institute of Historical Research: Seminars: History of Gardens and Landscapes (includes #histsci)

Medical Heritage Society: Call for guest bloggers

25 Chicago Humanities Festival; Baskes Lecture in History: Peter Galison: From Einstein’s Clocks to the Refusal of Time

Royal Museums Greenwich: Science, Voyaging, Art, Empire: Study Day 18 October 2014

York University: STS Seminar Series Schedule 2014-2015

ChoM News: Lecture: Sept 16: 500 Years of Human Dissection

ChoM News: Lecture: Sept 18: Colonial Governance and Medical Ethics in British India 1870-1910

8TH EUROPEAN SPRING SCHOOL ON HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND POPULARIZATION: CfP: LIVING IN A TOXIC WORLD  (1800-2000):  EXPERTS, ACTIVISM, INDUSTRY AND REGULATION

Oxford Sceptics in the Pub: Alice Bell Lecture: The Scientific Revolution that Wasn’t – Wednesday 5 Nov 7:30 pm

Swarthmore College: Exhibition Opening: Joseph Leidy and the foundation of Philadelphia biology 2 Oct 2014

Science Museum: Collider Exhibition Embarks on International Tour

CfP: 5th Biennial Conference of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) Aarhus 2015

Canadian Society for the History of Medicine: Hannah Summer Studentship

University of Oxford: St Cross College: One-Day Conference “Wittgenstein and Physics”

CBC News: Canada Science and Technology Museum remains closed due to mould

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: Research Project: Networks and Knowledge of Glass in the Dutch Republic, 1650-1795

Holland Museum: Lecture: Dr Lindsey Fitzharris & Adrian Teal: Skeletons in the Basement

The Jenks Society: CfP: Lost Museums Colloquium

LOOKING FOR WORK?

Call for Co-Editor Nominations: Canadian Bulletin of Medical History / Bulletin canadien d’histoire de la medicine

Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions: Call for Early Career International Research Fellowships

Royal Society: Research Grants for Early Career Scientist (includes history of science)

University of Strathclyde Glasgow: Lecturer in History of Health and Medicine

Histories de la santé: Call for Applications: Fellowship in the History of American Obstetrics and Gynecology

Harvard University: History of Technology Tenure Track

Historiens de la santé: Call for Applications: Molina Fellowship in the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

Historiens de la santé: University of Lewisburg: Call for Applications: Tenure-track assistant professor in history of Science, Medicine or Technology.

Whewell’s Gazette

Your weekly digest of all the best of

Internet history of science, technology and medicine

Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell

Volume #14

Monday 22 September 2014

Whewell’s Gazette: Vol. 14

EDITORIAL:

As already announced last week, due to the fact that our editorial staff are off gallivanting around Franconia celebrating the life and work of Renaissance mathematicus Simon Marius at diverse conferences the whole weekend, this is perforce a curtailed edition of your all time favourite #histSTM weekly links list, which only covers the first four and one half days of the last seven. If you were foolhardy enough to post that world shattering history of science, technology or medicine post at the weekend then it will have missed its chance to be included in Whewell’s Gazette, a cause for the gnashing of teeth, the ripping out of hair by the roots and the rending of garments. Not that that will change anything. Almost normal service will be resumed with the next scintillating, titillating, and invigorating edition next Monday.

A wonderful piece of news this week for the #histSTM community is that independent scholar Pamela O Long author of Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance (2001) and Artisan/Practitioners and the Rise of the New Sciences, 1400-1600 (2012), amongst others, has been awarded a MacArthur Fellows Award.

ON THE WEB BLOGS AND WEBSITES:

Birthdays of the Week:

Murry Gell-Mann 15 September 1929

James Tauber (14) meeting Murray Gell-Mann

Thought Streams: Murray Gell-Mann

AIP History: Oral History Transcript – Dr Murray Gell-Mann

John Goodricke 17 September 2014

John Goodricke: James Scouler
Royal Astronomical Society

Yovisto: John Goodricke and the Varible Star of Beta Persei

Teleskopos: Sights and sounds: darkness and silence

Edwin Mattison McMillan 18 September 1907

-Edwin McMillan (1907-1991) Credit Nobel Foundation

Science Notes: Today In Science History – September 18 – Edwin Mattison McMillan

AIP History: Oral History Transcript – Dr Edwin McMillan

PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY:

Voices of the Manhattan Project: Podcast: Rose Bethe’s Interview

Atomic Heritage Foundation: Joseph Rotblat

Science Note: Today In Science History – September 16 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

Greg Gbur: An image out of history! Dennis Gabor, the inventor of holography, standing next to his holographic portrait.

AIP History: Oral History Transcript – Dr Edwin McMillan

Retronaut: c.1975: Control Room of the Synchrophasotron

Red Orbit: Multiverse

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

Wired: Uncovering Hidden Texts on a 500-Year-Old Map That Guided Columbus

The Royal Society: The Repository: Longitude

Halley’ Log: Halley’s Atlantic Chart, part 1: fish or fowl revisited

Extract from Halley’s Atlantic Chart – notice the feet. (© Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), Image S0015919)

MEDICINE:

Miriam Posner: Frequently asked questions about lobotomy

Yovisto: The psychologist must study mankind from the historical or comparative standpoint – Moritz Lazarus

British Library: Untold Lives Blog: King Silence – the lives of Victorian deaf children

From the Hands of Quacks: Experiences of a Deaf Man

Dittrick Museum Blog: Blood Rises – Tension and Truth in The Knick

The Quack Doctor: A devil of a cure

Photo: Jonathon Brown

Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Heritage Centre Blog: Theories of the cases of fever in Dublin in the early 19^th century

Slate: 19^th-Century Infographic Shows American Morality as a Cluster of Cute Little Charts

Science Notes: Today In Science History – September 17 – Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne du Boulogne

The Chirugeon’s Apprentice: Ten Terrifying Knives from Medical History

Notches: Sexual Curiosities? Aphrodisiacs in early modern England

Remedia: Migraine Fears

Royal College of Physicians: The cure of old age and preservation of youth

CHEMISTRY:

Science Notes: Today In Science History – September 15 – Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Butlerov

The Paris Review: Extreme, extreme! The literature of laughing gas

“This is not the Laughing, but the Hippocrene or Poetic Gas, Sir.” Colored etching by R. Seymour, 1829, via the Wellcome Library.

Conciatore: Neri’s Cabinet #6: Saltpeter

The AAT project: The 150^th Anniversary of the Periodic Table

British Library: Untold Lives Blog: Arsenic, Cyanide and Strychnine – the Golden Age of Victorian Poisoners

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Daily Echo: Fossil hunters: uncover history and follow in the footsteps of Mary Anning at Lyme Regis

Embryology Project: Wilhelm Roux nineteenth-century experimental embryologist

Natural History Apostils: Three Facts about Darwin, Blyth, Loudon, and Matthew

New York Times: ‘Animated Life: Seeing the Invisible’

New York Times: Art Entangled in Nature

Naturally Fun Days: Charles Darwin’s life in Shrewsbury

Yovisto: How Ötzi became World Famous

TECHNOLOGY:

Conciatore: The Discovery of Glass Reprise

Guardian: Why the story of materials is really the story of civilisation

The Atlantic: Before Computers, People Programmed Looms

This portrait was woven using a Jacquard loom. ( Michel-Marie Carquillat/Wikimedia )

Guardian: Revolutionary diving suit to be used at site of ‘world’s oldest computer’ find

Yovisto: Squire Whipple – The Father of the Iron Bridge

Conciatore: The Art of Metals

Thick Objects: What is a complete object?

A control stand from an Victor “Snook Special” x-ray machine. It was purchased in 1926 for the University of Toronto physics laboratory run by John Cunningham McLennan (1867-1935). On the left is part of the schematic that was sent with the original unit. On the right is the unit as it appeared when it was finally decommissioned by the Department of Physics in the early 2000s. The colourful modifications to the original faux marble panel could represent damage to a classic instrument, or evidence of a remarkably rich provenance.

META:- HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

BBC: A Point of View: The long shadow of war

Newsworks: The art of explaining science… and why it’s so hard to do

From Past to Present: The Tolman/Bacher House

Ether Wave Propaganda: Schaffer on Machine Philosophy, Pt. 5a: Automata and the Proto-Industrial Ideology of the Enlightenment — History

Time Mapper: Medieval Philosophers – Timeliner

The Environmental History Weekly

The Royal Society: The Repository: Circus of science

Crane Court, from an engraving by C.J. Smith

ESOTERIC:

Forbidden Histories: One Year of ‘Forbidden Histories’

Scientific American: Tetrapod Zoology: Loxton and Prothero’s Abominable Science! Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids; the Tet Zoo review

NEXOS: Women Alchemists

Goddess Alchemy carries a flask containing the quintessence of the Earth
© NYPL/Science Source: Getty Images

BOOK REVIEWS:

Heavenfield: Holmes on Animals in Saxon & Scandinavian England

NEW BOOKS:

Cambridge University Press: Philosophy of Microbiology

THEATRE:

FILM:

BBC: Imitation Game wins Toronto top prize

TELEVISION:

Science Based Medicine: Medicine past, present, and future: Star Trek vesus Dr Kildare and The Knick

Dr Kildare

VIDEOS:

The Dispersal of Darwin: The Voyages of Darwin: The Complete Series on DVD (Region 2)

Youtube: The past, present and future of the bubonic plague – Sharon N. DeWitte

Youtube: Herbarium digitisation: 4M in 1.5 years for Naturalis Biodiversity Center

Live Stream: Cosmopolitanism and the Local in Science & Nature: Rewriting the History of Science and Philosophy in Late Colonial India by Dhruv Raina 2 October 2014

Youtube: John Hobbie Distinguished Scientist and Senior Scholar at the Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, John Hobbie, discusses his research and the history of the Ecosystems Center.

Youtube: Into the Vault: Darwin’s Orchid Book

RADIO:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Dissertation Reviews: Now accepting dissertations in Science Studies (broadly defined) for review in our 2014-15 season

The Society for the History of Natural History: History of Teaching Natural History Oct 10-11

Historiens de la santé: University of Pennsylvania: Conference: Professionalizing Nursing and Medicine September 27

Medical Library Association: Murray Gottlieb Prize: The Murray Gottlieb Prize is awarded annually for the best unpublished scholarly paper about a topic in the history of the health sciences.

University College London: Here is the programme for the UCL Science and Technology Studies seminars for Autumn 2014

University of Leiden: CfP: The Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Huygens ING, and Naturalis Biodiversity Centre invite abstracts for papers on the circulation of knowledge regarding non-European plants and plant components, to which therapeutic properties were attributed in the early modern period (1500-1800) for their conference, to be held in Leiden, the Netherlands, 15 April to 17 April 2015.

University of Liverpool: Making Waves: Oliver Lodge and the Cultures of Science, 1875-1940: Workshop 3: Science, Pure and Applied: Oliver Lodge, Physics and Engineering 31 October 2014

ESSWE: CfP: Magic and Intellectual History University of York 15 March 2015

Historiens de la santé: CfP: The Canadian Society for the History of Medicine and the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing annual meeting, 30 may – 1 June 2015

University of Glasgow: Conference: Gartnavel Royal Hospital and the History of Scottish Psychiatry 15 November 2014

SHAC: ‘The Royal Typographer and the Alchemist: Willem Sylvius and John Dee’, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Vrijdagmarkt 22, Antwerp, Belgium, 26 October 2014

LOOKING FOR WORK?

Science Museum Group: Associate Curator, Mathematics Gallery Project

Historiens de la santé: Call for applications: UCLA Position in History and Social Studies Medicine

University College Berkeley: Position: Assistant Professor in the History and Rhetoric of Science and Technology

University of Strathclyde: Lecturer in History of Health and Medicine

Caltech: Postdoctoral Instructor in History & Philosophy of Physics

Whewell’s Gazette

Your weekly digest of all the best of

Internet history of science, technology and medicine

Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell

Volume #15

Monday 29 September 2014

EDITORIAL:

Today we publish our fifteenth edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list. The last week has seen the autumn equinox. The spring equinox signalled in earlier times the beginning of the year and played a central role in determining the date of Easter. The Fifteenth day of the Jewish month of Nissan is the start of the Jewish festival of Pesach, English Passover, the anniversary of the Jewish Exodus from Egypt. This date has played a role in the history of European science because of the Church’s attempt to determine it, a date on the lunar calendar, on a solar calendar in order to celebrate Easter. These efforts culminated in the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, resulting in the calendar used throughout the world today. It should be pointed out used in parallel to other calendars in many cultures.

A couple of nice historical quotes about the history of science:

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth”

Evelyn Fox Keller, 1985 (h/t @CRostvik)

“The history of the science is a great fugue, in which the voices of the nations come one by one into notice.”

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (h/t @SciHistoryToday)

ON THE WEB BLOGS AND WEBSITES:

Birthdays of the Week:

William Playfair born 22 September 1759

Yovisto: William Playfair and the Beginnings of Infographics

Playfair’s trade-balance time-series chart, from The Commercial and Political Atlas and Statistical Breviary, 1786

Michael Faraday born 22 September 1791

Michael Faraday
Thomas Phillips oil 1842

Chemical Heritage Foundation: Michael Faraday

#CosmosChat: “The Electric Boy”

The Victorian Web: Percival Leigh and Charles Dickens: The Chemistry of the Candle

Perimeter Institute: From Faraday to Present Day

Uncertain Principles: The Electric Life of Michael Faraday by Alan Hirshfeld

Abraham Gottlob Werner born 25 September 1749

Abraham Gottlob Werner
Christian Leberecht Vogel

Yovisto: Abraham Werner and the School of Neptunism

History of Geology: Granite Wars – Episode I: Fire & Water

History of Geology: When Rock Classification is not hard anymore, thank Mohs’ Scale of Hardness

PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY:

Physics World: CERN Celebrates 60 years of science (see also videos!)

Science Notes: Today In Science History – September 20 – Luna 16

Science Notes: Today In Science History – September 21 – Donald Arthur Glaser

True Anomalies: MAVEN and the mystery of the Martian atmosphere

Voices of the Manhattan Project: Lawrence S Myers Jr.

Science Notes: Today In Science History – September 23 – Neptune

Before Newton: Tycho in China

Photo: Peter Barker

WOUB Public Media: Dr. Arthur Fine Tells The Real Story Behind Albert Einstein

The Public Domain Review: Flowers of the Sky

Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch, Folio 28, c. 1552

Science Notes: Today In Science History – September 26 – Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn

Ptak Science Books: On Einstein Not Being in the Popular Press Before the Great Eclipse of 1919

Restricted Data The Nuclear Secrecy Blog: The lost IAEA logo

Popperfont: The illustrations for “Professor Astro Cat’s Frontiers of Space” are gorgeous

Art by Ben Newman. From Professor Astro Cat’s Frontiers of Space

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

Yovisto: The Topographia of Matthäus Marian

Halley’s Log: Halley’s Atlantic Chart, part 2: his results

Halley’s Chart

Travellers’ Tails: A Tale of Two Cooks

MEDICINE:

NYAM: A Medical Symphony: Celebrating African Americans in New York Medicine

Guardian: Nerophilosophy: Mo Costandi: A brief history of psychedelic psychiatry

New York Times: Selling Prozac as the Life-Enhancing Cure for Mental Woes

REMEDIA: Ebola: Epidemics, Pandemics and the Mapping of Their Containment

Harvard Medical School: Back Story: The beauty and bane of attempts to market food and drugs

Jeffrey M Levine: Arion Triumphant

About Education: Typhoid Mary

The New York Times: Time Machine: Marvellous Cures of Cancer Attributed to Radium 28 Sept 1913

Early Modern Medicine: Feeling ‘Louzy’

Early Modern Practitioners: The Agony and the Ecstacy: Hunting for 17^th-century medics…with few sources

io9: The “Glass Delusion” Was The Most Popular Madness of the Middle Ages

The Embryo Project: Gordon Watkins Douglas (1921-2000)

http://embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/8198

Boston Globe: 19^th century advances paved way for today’s Ebola treatment

DORRS OPEN DAY: photoblog post: Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow

The Public Domain Review: The Anatomy of Drunkenness (1834)

Dittrick Museum Blog: Listening to the Body: Stethoscopes in 1900

From the Sharp & Sharp Catalog of Instruments, 1905, displaying the variety of Cammann Stethoscopes available.

History of Geology: Physician Paracelsus and early Medical Geology

BBC: Victorian keep-fit exercises and gym regimes revealed

Ernst’s manual has more than 20 different exercises for the whole family

CHEMISTRY:

Conciatore: Deadly Fumes Reprise

Chemical Heritage Foundation: Stories of the Great Chemists

A Vida Ilustres comic about Lavoisier depicts the scientist identifying constituents of air through experiments on combustion. At right, Lavoisier shares his discovery with an audience. (Othmer Library of Chemical History, CHF)

Yovisto: Joseph Proust and the Law of Constant Composition

Science Notes: Today In Science History – September 28 – Henri Moissan

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Atlas Obscura: A Garden That Can Kill

(photograph by Jo Jakeman/Flickr)

Embryo Project: Boris Ephrussi (1901-1979)

Ptak Science Books: Kingdoms of Dust and Street Dirt, and What People Breathed in 1878

Leaping Robot: DNA…From Blueprint to Brick

Science Notes: Today In Science History – September 25 – Thomas Hunt Morgan

Hyperallergic: The Romance of Science in Victorian Natural History Bookbindings

A. C. Chambers, “Beauty in Common Things” (1874) (via Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library)

The Embryo Project: Thomas Hunt Morgan’s Definition of Regeneration: Morphallaxis and Epimorphosis

Fossil History: Falconer’s Enthusiasm

The Huffington Post: Kew Gardens ‘Intoxication Season’ Invites You to Explore Mind-Altering Drugs

Chetham’s Library: The Theatre of Insects, or the tangled web of Elizabethan entomology

TECHNOLOGY:

The Plate: Tin-Can Titans and Bootle-Top Kings

Restricted Data The Nuclear Secrecy Blog: Tokyo vs. Hiroshima

Board of Longitude Project Blog: Longitude solutions

IEEE Global History Network: Fax Machines

The National Museum of Computing: Colossus veterans revisit virtual and real worlds

The Telegraph: Tampons: liberating women from impractical pads

Unmaking Things: A Gift for Life – Astronomy and Magic in a Sixteenth-Century Locket

Guardian: Victorian inventions that didn’t change the world – in pictures

Useful New Design for ‘A Portable Bath’, 1861

Popular Science: A Drive Through History

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: Renaissance Planetary Horology

Computer History Museum: Celebrating 35 Years!

Two Nerdy History Girls: Friday Video: An Extravagant Cabinet with Many Secrets

Retronaut: 1930s: 30 Ways to Die by Electrocution

History Com: 8 Things you may not know about the Guillotine

Yovisto: Seymour R. Cray – the Father of Supercomputing

META:- HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

APS Physics: Telling the History of Physics Through Historical Places

MacArthur Fellows Program: “History and Philosophy of Science”

Trinity College Cambridge: John Dee’s Library Catalogue

Culture Digitally: How to Give Up the I-Word, Pt. 2

City Desk: How to Live Like a Genius in D.C. (Pamela Long)

Guardian: The H-Word: Who are the martyrs of Science?

Conciatore: A Third Eye Toward History

Herald Net: Burke Museum exhibit showcases scientific illustration

Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni), colored pencil. By Marly Beyer.

Physics Today: Cosmology, physics, and science in general figure centrally in “Big History”

The Renaissance Mathematicus: If you’re going to pontificate about the history of science then at least get your facts right!

PACHS News & Notes: Thomas Wijck’s Painted Alchemists at the Intersection of Art, Science and Practice

The #EnvHist Weekly

ISIS: Focus: The Peculiar Persistence of the Naturalistic Fallacy (open access)

Wallifaction: Jesuit Science since the 16^th century

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Jesuit Day

Matteo Ricci dressed in traditional Chinese robes.
Artist unknown

Maggie Koerth: At the Houghton Library

Slate: The Mysterious Geometry of Swordsmanship Gorgeously Illustrated

“Human proportions established through mythological figures.” By Girard Thibault.

Genotopia: Cardboard Darwinism

Corpus Newtonicum: Adventures in Huntingtonland, Pt. 1

ESOTERIC:

Conciatore: A Network of Alchemists

“The Alchemist” 1558, Pieter Brugle the Elder.

History of Alchemy: Podcast: Heinrich Khunrath

BOOK REVIEWS:

BJHS: Books received for review

Rentetzi on Priestley, ‘Mad on Radium: New Zealand in the Atomic Age’

NEW BOOKS:

Reaktion Books: Peter Adey “Air: Nature and Culture”

THEATRE:

FILM:

TELEVISION:

Tech Times: Atomic bombs, female scientists and Los Alamos: An interview with ‘Manhattan creator Sam Shaw

VIDEOS:

Youtube: UNESCO–Cern 60 years

Youtube: Göttingen and the World of Physics: An Evening with Gustav Born

Youtube: Preserving Lonesome George

Youtube: From Past to Present Tolman/Bacher House

Youtube: Under the Knife, Episode 1 – The Clockwork Saw

Youtube: The Renaissance Mathematicus: Astronomy, Astrology & Medicine in the Early Modern Period

RADIO:

BBC: Lisa Jardine A Point of View: Keeping Time

Dosenförmige tragbare Uhr, Peter Henlein zugeschrieben
(Germanisches Nationalmuseum)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Royal Museums Greenwich: Science, Voyaging, Art, Empire: Study Day – 18 October 2014

Birkbeck History Research History Forum: Conference: CfP: Biological Discourses: The Language of Science and Literature around 1900 10-11 April 2015

Warwick University: Conference: (Re)Imagining the Insect: Natures and Cultures of Invertebrates, 1700-1900. Saturday 7 March 2015

University College London Union: UCL faces RACE: Eugenics at UCL Friday 10 October 2014 6-9pm

Yale University: Program in the History of Science and Medicine: Colloquia Fall Term 2014

Leeds University: HPS Centre Seminar Series

Wellcome Library: History of Pre-Modern Medicine Seminar Series 2014-15

University of Ulster: Conference: Explaining and Explaining Away in Science and Religion 8-9 January 2015

University of Manchester: Art History and Visual Studies: AHVS Events 2014-2015

RIA Novosti: Hungary to Host Conference on History of Computer Science

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: CfP: Knowledgeable Youngsters: Youth, Media and Early Modern Knowledge Societies Utrecht 26-27 June 2015

Beijing Renmin University: CFP: Manufacturing Landscapes: Nature and Technology in Environmental History

Historiens de la santé: CfP: Health History in Action

Dittrick Medical History Center: Upcoming Events

HSS Graduate & Early Career Caucus: Mentorship Program

Society for the History of Technology: Registration for THATCamp SHOT is now open!

Newly Expanded Wood Library-Museum (WLM) of Anesthesiology Opens in Breathtaking New Schaumburg, IL Headquarters

Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) University of Manchester Seminars first semester 2014

Historiens de la santé: L’expérience et ses mots à la Renaissance

The Royal Institution: Lecture: Science, society and the Royal Institution 12-12:45pm Tuesday 30 Sept 2014

Public lecture for World Mental Health Day 10 October 2014 – Royal College of Nursing, 20 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0RN

British Journal for the History of Science has a new editor: Dr Charlotte Sleigh (University of Kent)

LOOKING FOR WORK?

Cancer Research UK: Science Media Officer

University of Notre Dame: Assistant Professor, History of Science

Keeper of Medicine Science Museum

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin Department III, Artefacts, Action, and Knowledge, Director: Prof Dagmar Schäfer, announces One Postdoctoral Fellowship for up to two years.

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin Department III, Artefacts, Action, and Knowledge, Director: Prof Dagmar Schäfer, announces One Research Scholarship for up to three years

Whewell’s Gazette

Your weekly digest of all the best of

Internet history of science, technology and medicine

Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell

Volume #16

Monday 06 October 2014

EDITORIAL:

You are now reading the sixteenth edition of the #histSTM weekly inks list Whewell’s Gazette. In most American States and in the UK sixteen is the age of sexual consent. Whewell’s Gazette has been including links to articles on the history of sex and sexuality since its conception and has recently added the very stimulating Notches (re)marks on the history of sexuality to its sources for interesting posts if you aren’t already reading it you should be.

On the 27 September the #histSTM community lost one of its prominent members with the death of British historian of mathematics Jacqueline Stedall.

Jacqueline Stedall (Photographer unknown)

An expert on seventeenth-century algebra she is particular dear to our editorial staff for her pioneering work on Thomas Harriot’s contribution to this genre. She was also author of the excellent The History of Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction and Mathematics Emerging: A Sourcebook 1540 – 1900 as well as co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics.

Thomas Fuller: “History maketh a young man to be old, without either wrinkles or gray hairs; privileging him with the experience of age.” h/t Darrin Hayton (@dhayton)

“If your history does not admit the weird then it’s not good history” Colin Dickey (@colindickey)

“Worse by far than a straw man is a straw man dressed in the designer suit of your choosing.” Liam Heneghan (@DublinSoil)

“One’s mind is a place where the past becomes present – required for historians.” Kate Morant (@KateMorant)

ON THE WEB BLOGS AND WEBSITES:

A Technical and Astronomical Birthday:

On Oct 4 1957 the Russians launched the first artificial satellite Sputnik 1. On 4 October 1959 the Russian satellite Luna 3 gave humanity its first view of the far side of the moon.

Wired: Oct. 4. 1957: Soviets Put Man-Made Moon in Orbit!

Sputnik

GIZMODO: Humans first saw the far side of the moon 55 years ago today

NASA: Solar System Exploration: Mission to the Moon: LUNA 3

Yovisto: Willy Ley – Founder of the German Rocket Society

Yovisto: Robert Goddard – the Man who ushered in the Space Age

Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945)

History Physics: This year saw India’s 1st satellite. 50 years ago, Canada orbited ‘Alouette 1′ ‪

Science Notes: Today In Science History – October 1 – NASA

This Month’s Special:

Never heard of Dr Richard Mead (1673–1754)? Amongst other things he was Isaac Newton’s physician. The Foundling Museum have dedicated an exhibition to the “Generous Georgian” and launched a blog to accompany the exhibition. Want to know more then read Frances Spiegel’s post at Decoded Past.

Allan Ramsay, Dr Richard Mead, 1747, oil on canvas. Image courtesy of Coram in the care of the Foundling Museum

The Foundling Museum: Exhibition: The Generous Georgian: Dr Richard Mead

Exhibition Blog: The Generous Georgian: Dr Richard Mead

Decoded Past: The Generous Georgian: Dr Richard Mead –an Exhibition at the Foundling Museum

A collection of Posts to International Coffee Day

The Recipes Project: Coffee: A Remedy Against Plague

Early Modern Medicine: The Coffee Controversy

The Paris Review: Blinded by Coffee

PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY:

Tycho Girl: her head full of stars (a tribute to Henrietta Swan Leavitt)

Case Western Reserve University: Institute for the Study of the UniversIty in Society: “Failure” Leads to Breakthrough

National Geographic: In a Planet-or-Not Debate, Some Astronomers Say “Long Live Planet Pluto”

Demoss: Scholars Discover Early Astronomical Drawings

AIP History: Oral History Transcript – Otto R. Frisch

New York Times: The Difficulties of Nuclear Containment: Espionage Threatened the Manhattan Project, Declassified Report says

Stanford News: Stanford’s Martin L. Pearl, winner of 1995 Nobel Prize for discovery of tau lepton, dead at 87

Ptak Science Books: Anti-Gravity Anti-Gravitas

The London Punch via Ptak Science Books

Atomic Heritage Society: Britain

The Renaissance Mathematicus: The unfortunate backlash in the historiography of Islamic Science

BBC: Caesium: A brief history of timekeeping

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

Board of Longitude Project: Time to Solve Longitude: the timekeeper method

City Lab: My 5 Favorite Maps: Bill Rankin

Map of Yamashiro Province, Author Unknown (19th Century)

Fiction Reboot: Daily Dose: MedHum Monday: Stones, Clocks, and Stars at the National Maritime Museum

MEDICINE:

Two Nerdy History Girls: A physician reports in autumn 1810

Science Museum: Brought to Life: Thomas Sydenham (1624–89)

History of Medicine in Ireland: Cows, contagion and sanitation and Victorian Dublin

Panacea: Policing Medical Practice in the 17^th Century

From the Hands of Quacks: Wilson’s Common Sense Ear Drums

Ad Wilson’s Ear Drum 1900 Getty Images
The advertisements for Wilson’ Ear Drums indicated that with the device, a d/Deaf person would be happier as they were able to participate in hearing society and include themselves in ways previously denied to them.

Épistémocritique: Eighteenth-Century Archives of the Body (PDF)

Elektrotherapia

BBC: How blind Victorians campaigned for inclusive education

The History of Emotions Blog: The religious roots of cancerphobia

Early Modern Medicine: True English Bloodletting

NYAM: Revisiting the Fabrica Frontispiece

PACHS News and Notes: Remembering the Veteran: Disability, Trauma, and the American Civil War, 1861-1915

Science Notes: Today In Science History – October 3 – Frank Pantridge

Early Modern Medicine: Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine

Hagley Museum and Library: History of Patent Medicine

Huffington Post: Five Things From the Mary Rose That’ll Make You Go ‘Oooh’

Royal College of Physicians: Sir Francis Prujean, PRCP 1650-4

Dittrick Museum Blog: Body Snatching, You Say?

Museum of Health Care: Mandrakes, from Mythology to Museum Collectable

Yovisto: James Lind and a Cure for Scurvy

Science Daily: HIV pandemic’s origin located: Likely to have emerged in Kinshasa around 1920

CHEMISTRY:

Conciatore: Lixiviation Reprise

Tycho’s Nose: The Shiny Bits of Science: Chemical Notation from Ciphers to Calligraphy

Examples of ways to draw methionine.

Dscript.org: Artistic Science or Scientific Art – Chemical Calligraphy (PDF)

Science Notes: Today in Science History – October 5 – Dirk Coster

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Nautilus: The Sound So Loud That It Circled The Earth Four Times

Houghton Library: Hugh of Fouilly De bestiis et aliis rebus [ca. 1230-1250]

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature: Who is the type of Homo sapiens?

Academia Edu: Tortoises and the Exotic Animal Trade in Britain from Medieval to Modern

Science Daily: Unexpectedly speedy expansion of human, ape cerebellum

Huffington Post: 6 Things Aristotle Got Wrong

Mental Floss: 11 Images from the American Museum of Natural History’s Archives

Spitalfields Life: An Auricula For Thomas Fairchild

TECHNOLOGY:

Science Notes: Today In Science History – September 29 – Rudolf Diesel Mystery

Tameshigiri: The Art of Cutting: Comparing Medieval images of European and Japanese sword polishers

Georgian Gent: So you think you can sew, Mr Saint?

In The Dark: The Origin of CERN

Nautilus: A Vehicle of Wonder

Conciatore: The Blue Tower

Yovisto: The Unfortunate Inventions of Charles Cros

Fortune: Walter Isaacson on the women of ENIAC

Jean Jennings (left), Marlyn Wescoff (center), and Ruth Lichterman program ENIAC at the University of Pennsylvania, circa 1946.
Photo: Corbis

Ptak Science Books: In the Enigma Machine Family: the Hagelin Cryptographic Machine, 1942

But Does it Float: Photographs of nuclear slide-rules

Mental Floss: 11 of America’s Most Inspiring Cup Holder Patents

The Washington Post: Jerrie Mock, first female pilot to fly solo around the world, dies at 88

META:- HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

Royal Society: The Repository: Circus of science

The British Society for the History of Science: BSHS President Greg Radick

Yovisto: Fritz Kahn and the Mensch Maschine

The Original Poster of the Industrial Palace
From: Fritz Kahn. Das Leben des Menschen
Franckh’sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart

Notches: Historians are gossips who tease the dead

New Humanist: The city and the sublime

The Recipes Project: ‘One does not learn remedies through books’ (Aristotle)

Fiction Reboot: Daily Dose: Medical Humanities: Building a Community

Defence in Depth: The Instrumentalisation of History

Wellcome Trust: Reality behind research: 21 years of oral history with Wellcome Witnesses

Thick Objects: Recreating Science (or, “The amoeba gets it in the end”)

DYNAMIS Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam

VOLUMEN 34 (2)   2014

New Blog – JSTOR Daily also has #histSTM content

CERÆ: VOL 1 (2014) Emotions in History

Cambridge University Press: The History Manifesto

Corpus Newtonicum: Adventures in Huntingdonland, Pt. 2

Making Science Public: Philae: Where space science meets language science

The Burns Archive: The Anatomy & Education Collection

ESOTERIC:

Remedia: A Scientific Guide to Seeing Fairies: A fragment

BOOK REVIEWS:

Somatosphere: Book Forum – Introduction, Jeremy Greene’s “Generic”

Imperial & Global Forum: Exchanging Notes: Colonialism and Medicine in India and South Africa

NEW BOOKS:

Johns Hopkins University Press: More Than Hot: A Short History of Fever

Steven Johnson: How We Got To Now, The Book

THEATRE:

FILM:

Dan’s Papers: HIFF awards Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize to ‘The Imitation Game’

TELEVISION:

VIDEOS:

Youtube: Pierre Descilier’s World Map – The Beauty of Maps – BBC Four

Youtube: Disease! Crash Course World History 203

Arts & Humanities Research Council: ‘Dear Mr Darwin’: What can we learn from 19^th century science?

RADIO:

BBC: Germany Memories of a Nation: Strasbourg – Floating City featuring the cathedral clock

PODCASTS:

Royal Society: The private life of Isaac Newton

Royal Society: Longitude: back and forth across the years

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

University of Lincoln: Lecture: Dr Marika Keblusek: A Living Library for Learning: The book collection of Michael Honywood as an intellectual centre in the Dutch Republic (1640-1660) 16 Oct 2014

CHoM News: Lecture: The Birth of the Pill 21 Oct 2014

History of the Physical Sciences at History of Science Society 2014

The British Society for the History of Science Research Grants

University of Leeds History and Philosophy of Science Seminar 2014–15, Semester 1

Advances in the History of Psychology: Oct 6 Talk! BPS History of Psych Disciplines Seminar Series: Professor Roland Littlewood (UCL) “The Advent of the Adversary: Negative Power in Certain Religio-Therapeutic Systems?”

Bundeskunsthalle: Exhibition: Outer Space 3 October 2014 – 22 February 2015

Cheltenham Festival: Talk: A History of the 20^th Century in 100 Maps 7 Oct 2014

History of High-Technologies and Their Socio-Cultural Contexts The International Committee for the History of Technology’s 42nd Symposium in Tel Aviv, Israel, 16-21 August 2015

University of Sydney: Conference: Rethinking Intellectual History 7-9 April 2015

Scientiae: Conference: Disciplines of Knowledge in the Early Modern Period Toronto 2015 27-29 May

ChoM News: October–December Events Calendar

Museums Association: Royal Museums Greenwich consults on redundancies

Manchester Medieval Society: Events – Programme for 2014-15 includes #histSTM

National Center for Science Education: RNCSE 34:5 now on line (includes #histSTM book reviews)

Wellcom Library for the History of Medicine: Ada Lovelace – Wikipedia Ediathron – Tuesday 14 October

October 18: “Art, Anatomy, and the Body: Vesalius 500″ NYAM’s second annual Festival for Medical History and the Arts

Institute of Historical Research: One day colloquium 16 May 2015 The History of the Body: Approaches and Directions

British Society for the History of Science: Dingle Prize 2015

Michaelmas Term 2014 Seminar Series Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Seminar Room, 47 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PE

Battle of Ideas: Barbican Centre, London Oct 18-19

LSE Asia Research Centre: Lecture: An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles: The hero’s journey of Alfred Russel Wallace in Southeast Asia Wednesday 15 October

LOOKING FOR WORK?

CENTRE FOR THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN DISCOURSES, THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA

Postdoctoral Fellowships on Science and Secularization

Whewell’s Gazette

Your weekly digest of all the best of

Internet history of science, technology and medicine

Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell

Volume #17

Monday 13 October 2014

EDITORIAL:

History web links

Collated for sci lovers

Whewell’s seventeenth

Amateur astronomers do not get laid in 1950 romance comics

ON THE WEB BLOGS AND WEBSITES:

There was an eclipse of the moon last week:

Woodcut from 19th century Smith’s Illustrated Astronomy shows why eclipses don’t happen every month

Harvard student’s projection of LunarEclipse, 1783

Special of the Month: Antikythera

The Antikythera shipwreck is best known for an elaborate, geared contraption known as the Antikythera mechanism, which encoded positions of the planets, the moon and other celestial players and events — prompting scholars to call it the world’s oldest computer.

Scientific American: Return to the Antikythera Shipwreck: Technology Tackles Dangers of the Deep

Scientific American: Return to the Antikythera Shipwreck: The Exosuit’s First Mission

Guardian: Scientists hope to unravel mystery of the ‘Titanic of the ancient world’

Nature: Famed Antikythera wreck yields more treasures

PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY:

Science Notes: Today In Science History – October 6 – Ernest Walton

Yovisto: Richard Dedekind and the Real Numbers

Open SI: Hubble’s Legacy: Reflections by Those Who Dreamed It, Built It, and Observed the Universe with It.

Matthew Aid.Com: Complete Declassified History of the Manhattan Project Now Available Online

homunculus: Uncertain about uncertainty

homuculus: The moment of uncertainty

Twisted Sifter: In Sweden You’ll Find the World’s Largest Scale Model of the Solar System

Yovisto: Karl Schwarzschild and the Event Horizon

Yovisto: Henry Cavendish and the Weight of the Earth

Drawing of torsion balance device used by Henry Cavendish in the ‘Cavendish Experiment’

Video: AP Physics 1: Forces 29: Newton’s Law of Gravitation and Cavendish’s Experiment

Yovisto: Heinrich Olbers and the Olbers’ Paradox

Physics Today: The Dayside: Women in physics – a view from 1948

The New York Times: Transcripts Kept Secret for 60 Years Bolster Defense of Oppenheimer’s Loyalty

Science Notes: Today in Science History – October 7 – Niels Bohr

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

Hakluyt Society: Richard who? – Introducing the Hakluyt Society

Daily Mirror: Elizabethan Top Trumps game acquired by British Library

A map of England from one of the cards

The Geological Society: BGS maps portal – maps and sections 1832 to 2014

Royal Museums Greenwich: Halloween Late Death in the Archives: Trim the Cat

Compasswallah: The Perpetual Almanac of Vasco da Gama

The Appendix: The Peripatetic Life of Isabella Bird

A scene from Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1885), p. 48.
The British Library

British Library: American Studies Blog: Olaudah Rquiano and the draw of the Arctic

MEDICINE:

The Quack Doctor: A Patent-Medicine Song, 1892

Postcresent.com: Technology reveals asylum cemetery’s unmarked graves

Medievalist.net: What does your urine say about your health? (Medieval Version)

Dr Alun Withey: Overcrowded and Underfunded: 18^th-Century Hospitals and the NHS Crisis

Conciatore: The Duke’s Mouthwash Reprise

Skeptic: Who Invented Pasteurization?

Lesley A Hall, archivist and historian: Twitter is a limited forum for discussing 1920s contraception

The Generous Georgian: Dr Richard Mead: Inside Mead’s Library

Apollo Magazine: Physician, philanthropist, collector: ‘*The Generous Georgian’ in three objects

The Economist: Meadicine Man

Washington Post: A brief history of quarantines in the United States

The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice: Disturbing Disorders: Cotard’s Delusion (Walking Corpse Syndrome)

Open Culture: Download 100,00+ Images From the History of Medicine, All Free Courtesy of The Wellcome Library

Wellcome Library: Art, asylum and advocacy: histories of mental health

Wellcome Library: A Victorian lunatic asylum begins to reveal its secrets

Unmaking Things: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustrations: An Interview with Richard Barnett

Regional Medical Humanities: Practising by Numbers: Medical Provision in Early Modern Wales

The History of Emotions Blog: Melancholia and the Problem of Retrospective Diagnosis: Post Conference Thoughts

NYAM: The Talented Dr Knox

The Atlantic: The Team That Invented the Birth-Control Pill

The Recipes Project: “Although It Be St Anthony’s Face” what changes from recipe to recipe?

‪Dittrick Museum Blog: Madame du Coudray: A Midwife in a Man’s World

Royal College of Physicians: Harvey’s disciples

CHEMISTRY:

Science Notes: Today in Science History – October 8 – Henry-Louis Le Chatelier

Beautiful Chemistry.net Watch Beautiful Reactions in Amazing Detail

Conciatore: Neri’s Cabinet #7: Lime

Yovisto: Ascanio Sobrero and the Power of Nitroglycerine

Ascanio Sobrero (1812-1888)

BBC: The fatal attraction of lead

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Blink: Darwin and the mystical monkeys

The gills have it: Vishnu in an incarnation of Matsya, the fish by Offert Dapper (Amsterdam, 1672)

Kestrels and Cerevisiae: The American White Pelican

Royal Museums Greenwich: Jaws Revisited – Sharks in Greenwich

The Geological Society: William Smith Factsheet

Laelaps: Evolution in the Slow Lane

Environmental History: Using digital techniques to broaden participatory approaches in environmental history: the Snow Scenes Exhibition

Agile: Great Geophysicists #12: Gauss

Nursing Clio: The Myth of the Vajazzled Orgasm

Punch-Caricature (1882) by Linley Sambourne inspired by Darwin’s last book on earthworms

TECHNOLOGY:

IEEE Global History Network: George Westinghouse

The Atlantic: NASA Should Have Put a Ring on Orbit

Sue Wilkes: Calico Print Workers

WIRED: For Sale: a $400K Apple 1 Motherboard and 15 Other Treasures of Science History

Fine Books Magazine: Bonhams NY Presents Inaugural History of science Sale

Unmaking Things: Marking Design Part 2: Objects in the Sea of Time

Conciatore: Antonio Who ?

University of Toronto Scientific Instruments Collection: A Model of the Inner Ear

Ptak Science Books: A Fine Microscopical Innovation, 1873

A Covent Garden Gilflurt’s Guide to Life: A Musical Automaton Clock

A Musical Automaton Clock

META:- HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

Early Modern Experimental Philosophy: Newton the empiricist?

The New York Times: Can Wanting to Believe Make Us Believers?

History News Network: An Interview with MacArthur Genius Award Winner Pamela O. Long

Phys.Org: In defense of philosophers as scientists

Double Refraction: Barry Barn’s Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory, 40 years on

Early Modern Print: Text Mining Early Printed English

Culture of Knowledge: A pan-European network to reassemble the Republic of Letters

The Art and Science of Curation: Exploring what it means to be a curator

John Matthew Barlow: Historians Being Mean: A Glossary

The Ordered Universe Project: Grosseteste Goes Public: Disseminating Medieval and Modern Science

Leaping Robot: Scientists as Customers?

Medium.com: Shorter, better, faster, free: Blogging changes the nature of academic research, not just how it is communicated

Cultivating Innovation: Making the history and philosophy of science work for YOU!

Scientific American: Doing Good Science: Grappling with the angry-making history of human subject research, because we need to.

ESOTERIC:

SHAC: Programme/Call for Registrations: Geographies of Alchemy and Chemistry (5^th SHAC Postgraduate Workshop)

History of Alchemy: Podcast: Homunculus

Paracelsus is credited with the first mention of the homunculus in De homunculis (c. 1529-1532), and De natura rerum (1537). Wikipedia Commons

BOOK REVIEWS:

Peder Anker: Hanna Gay; The Silwood Circle: A History of Ecology and the Making of Scientific Careers in Late Twentieth-Century Britain

History Today: Inventing the Military-industrial Complex

Bloomberg View: A Genius That History Forgot (Robert Fitzroy)

FitzRoy later in life (probably mid-fifties). Wikipedia Commons

Science Museum Group Journal: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude

Environmental, History, Science: Reviewing a History of British Ecology

THE: The Newton Papers: The Strange and True Odyssey of Issac Newton’s Manuscripts by Sarah Dry

NEW BOOKS:

Edition Lammerhuber: The Face of The Earth – The Legacy of Eduard Suess

Historiens de la santé: A History of the Workplace: Environment and Health at Stake

City Lab: Building ‘Imaginary Cities’

Grant Hamilton’s illustration of a futuristic city called ‘What We Are Coming To’ appeared in Judge magazine in 1895. Anderson tweeted it out earlier this month.

British Library: Maps and views blog: A History of the 20^th Century in 100 Maps

Scribd: History and Philosophy of Science catalogue, 2015-16

THEATRE:

FILM:

TELEVISION:

VIDEOS:

Youtube: Nürnberg & Bamberg: The Behaim Globe, The Frauenkirche Clock, The Renaissance Mathematicus on Petreius and De revolutionibus (4.11–6.56)

Vimeo: East-India Company ship routes

The Atlantic: What Letter Should We Add to STEM?

Youtube: Wellcome Library: EYES: 30 videos

RADIO:

BBC Radio 4: An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy Hodgkin

Occam’s Corner: Colouring by letters: the life of Dorothy Hodgkin

British biochemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910 – 1994), who won the 1964 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images

PODCASTS:

PRI: How did English become the language of science

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Royal Museums Greenwich: Science, Voyaging, Art, Empire Study Day

Making Waves: Registration: Workshop 3: Science, Pure and Applied: Oliver Lodge, Physics and Engineering 31 Oct 2014 University of Liverpool

BJHS Themes: New British Society for the history of Science journal

Medical training, student experience and the transmission of knowledge, c.1800-2014: new foundations and global perspectives 17-18 Oct. University College Dublin

The Renaissance Dairy: CfP: Rethinking Intellectual History

Queen Mary University of London: Histories and Theories of the Unconscious

The British Society for the History of Science: Dingle Prize for the best book in the history of science, technology, and medicine, first published in English in 2013 or 2014, which is accessible to a wide audience of non-specialists.

University of Edinburgh STIS Seminar Series Oct-Dec 2014

CHoM News: Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine “Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust” Oct 14 4-5 pm

Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminars – Michaelmas Term 2014

NYAM: CfP. Who Becomes a Medical Doctor in New York City: Then and Now – a Century of Change 11 December 2014

NYAM: CfP: Fifth Annual History of Medicine Night 11 March 2015

PACHS: Lecture: Diagnosis, Madness: The Photographic Physiognomy of Hugh Welch Diamond

University of Warwick: Global History and Culture Centre: Lecture: Orangutans and Black Slaves in Global Perspective: Challenging the Boundaries of Humankind at the end of the Eighteenth Century 22 Oct 2014

HSS Online: 2014 HSS Annual Meeting Chicago, Illinois 6-9 November 2014

Science Museum Group Journal: 02 Issue 02

University of East Anglia: Workshop: Environment(s) in Public 3 Nov 2014

University of Cambridge: Festival of Ideas: Exhibition: Inside out: Dr Auzoux’s papier-mâché models of natural bodies

APS: Forum on the History of Physics: Student Travel Awards

Finding Ada: Ada Lovelace Day for Schools 2014 14 Oct

Interesting Talks London: Lecture: The Invention of Colour with Philip Ball 6 Nov 2014

Wellcome Collection: Exhibition: The Institute of Sexology: Undress Your Mind

The #EnvHist Weekly

Historiens de la santé: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

USC Visual Studies Research Institute: CfP: Material Evidence, Visual Knowledge 30 April-1 May 2015

LOOKING FOR WORK?

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals: The Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship in Nineteenth-Century Media

Norwegian University of Science and Technology: PhD Positions Faculty of Humanities

Higher Ed Jobs: Binghamton University NY: Assistant Professor of Premodern Medicine

University of Cambridge: Job Opportunities: University Lectureship in Global Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine

Whewell’s Gazette

Your weekly digest of all the best of

Internet history of science, technology and medicine

Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell

Volume #18

Monday 20 October 2014

Whewell’s Gazette: Vol. #18

EDITORIAL:

You now have Whewell’s Gazette #18 before your eyes brought to you at the end of a week that saw the annual celebration of Ada Lovelace Day on 14 October, a day to celebrate the presence of women in (the history of) science, medicine, technology, engineering and mathematics. So this edition of your favourite weekly #HistSTM links list is dedicated to all of the women past and present who have contributed to the development of science, technology, medicine engineering and mathematics.

Quote of the Week:

‘Mr. Boyle mentioned, that he had been informed, that the much drinking of Coffe did breed the Palsey’ h/t @JREverest

ON THE WEB BLOGS AND WEBSITES:

Tuesday 14 October was Ada Lovelace Day, what follows is a selection of #histSTM post and repost from that day.

Guardian: Ada Lovelace Day – tales of inspiring women

Letters from Gondwana: Mignon Talbot and the Forgotten Women of Paleontogy

Tilly Edinger (Photo,Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)

Inside the Science Museum: The First Woman in Space

Occam’s Corner: Seeking inspiration? Don’t forget the women!

The H-Word: Women in science: a difficult history

The H-Word: Finding women in the history of science

Letters from Gondwana: Women in the Golden Age of Geology in Britain

Women in computing: the 60s pioneers who lit up the world of computing

The National Archives: Nurses in the Crimea: Elizabeth Cadwaladyr

Photograph of Elizabeth Cadwaladyr. Used with permission from Betsy Cadwaladyr: A Balaclava Nurse edited by Jane Williams (Ysgafell), with a new introduction by Deirdre Beddoe. (Dinas Powys, HONNO, 1987). ISBN 1-870206-00-2. Engraving from a photograph, 1857, in National Library of Wales MS 12353D.

The Queen of Science – The woman who tamed Laplace

Mary Somerville
Thomas Phililips

Skulls in the Stars: Jane Marcet educates Michael Faraday

Portrait of Jane Marcet, from the Edgar Fahs Smith Collection, University of Pennsylvania Library.

Roots of Unity: Beyond Emmy and Sophie: Resources for Learning about Women in Math

Smithsonian,com: Five Historic Female Mathematicians You Should Know

Science 2.0: Mind the Gender Gap: Why Women Must Still Fight for Equality in Science

Georgian London: Ada Lovelace Day – Mrs Margaret Bryan, Astronomer of Blackheath

I Love Typography: The First Female Typographer

Buzzfeed: 11 Unsung Science Heroines You Really Should Have Heard Of

The Royal Institution: Spotlight on Louisa Tyndall

Louisa Tyndall
Credit: Royal Institution

Trowel Blazers: Yusra

NPR: Podcast: When Women Stopped Coding

Pat’s Blog: Those Amazing Boole Girls

From left to right, from top to bottom: Margaret Taylor, Ethel L. Voynich, Alicia Boole Stott, Lucy E. Boole, Mary E. Hinton, Julian Taylor, Mary Stott, Mary Everest Boole, George Hinton, Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Leonard Stott.

PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY:

IQOI Vienna: Science and Society: a two-way street

Yovisto: Evangeliste Torricelli and the Barometer

Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647)

Restricted Area: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog: The riddle of Julius Rosenberg

The Ordered Universe Project: Grosseteste and the Harp

Smithsonian.com: How a Physics Diagram Was Named After a Penguin

Image: Quilbert

Ptak Science Books: History of Lines: the Big Little Lines of Richard Feynman (1949)

AIP: Oral History Transcript – S Chandrasakhar

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

Royal Museums Greenwich: Solving Longitude: Jupiter’s Moons

Slate: The Vault: The Ottoman Empire’s First Map of the Newly Minted United States

The Telegraph: Christopher Columbus ‘stole credit for discovering America’

MEDICINE:

History of Medicine in Oregon: Timeline 1850-1900

Concocting History: Autumn Song

The Generous Georgian: Dr Richard Mead: The Speckled Monster: Smallpox

Early Modern Medicine: Itching and Scabbiness

An itch mite

The Public Domain Review: The Poet, the Physician and the Birth of the Modern Vampire

Yovisto: Albrecht von Haller – Father of Modern Physiology

Mass Moments: Boston Dentist Demonstrates Ether October 16, 1846

The New England Journal of Medicine: Insensibility during Surgical Operations Produced by Inhalation

Nursing Clio: The Body as Archive

Dr Alun Withey: 10 Seventeenth-century remedies you’d probably want to avoid!

Yovisto: Nicholas Culpeper and the Complete English Herbal

CHEMISTRY:

Wallifaction: “unbelieving chemists” : science, religion and politics in a tale of two cities

(This political cartoon from 1790 links Priestley’s ideas to “fanaticism” and radical religious ideas. Source)

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Nerdist: Harold Fisk’s Incredible Maps Track the Ghosts of the Mississippi

My Albion: The Secret Life of Beaver

The New York Times: When Racism Was a Science

The Conversation: There’s no such thing as reptiles any more – and here’s why

Royal Museums Greenwich: The Art and Science of Joseph Banks

Smithsonian Science: Five Amazing Fossil Finds That Will Make You Want To Be a Fossil Hunter

Thinking Like a Mountain: Seed Steeps & Poisoned Partridges, 1843-1848

Partridge from Morris’s British Game Birds and Wildfowl (1855).

Darwin Correspondence Project: Letters Course: Controversy – Darwin and Wallace

Evolving Thoughts: A nineteenth century view on classification

Environmental History: Wilderness Act Forum

The Alfred Russel Wallace Website: How Famous and Respected was Wallace?

TECHNOLOGY:

Medieval Books: Medieval Desktops

The National Archives: Inventions that didn’t change the world

A design for a flying or aerial machine adapted for the Arctic regions, registered by Arthur Kinsella, Kilkenny, Ireland, May 1855. BT 47/4/669

Guardian: The magic of rubber: irreverent, sexy, sporty, revolutionary … indispensible

The Verge: King of click: the story of the greatest keyboard ever made

Yovisto: Peter Barlow and the Barlow Lenses

The Appendix: Photographing the Guillotine

Today’s Engineer: Dials, Keypads and Smartphones

AT&T Tech Chanel: Introduction to the Dial Telephone

Pasta and Vinegar: iPhone numerical keypad organizations

Yovisto: Chuck Yeager – Breaking the Sound Barrier

Medium Cool: In the Pocket

University of Toronto Scientific Instrument Collection: Spectroscopy Beyond the Visible Spectrum: The Sodium Chloride Prism

Financial Times: The tech innovators of the Victorian Age

Conciatore: Solid Water

META:- HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

Smithsonian.com: Amazing Artifacts from the History of Science are Going Up for Auction (slide show)

The Vesalius Anatomy Card Game

History of Philosophy without any gaps: 9 Rules for the history of philosophy

Dr Alun Withey: 500 Years of the Model Man!

Scientific American: Dear Professor Einstein

BBC: Welcome to the BBC Genome Project

Nautilus: Top Ten Unsung Geniuses: For these scientists, success and fame did not come in equal measure

Remedia: New Blog: Archive Magpie: Our monthly update on recently-acquired, newly available or underused archival sources in the history of medicine.

Medieval Book: Meet the Medieval Manuscript

The Art and Science of Curation: Museum curators are (unfortunately) not Indiana Jones

London Evening Standard: Roger Highfield: Science is just as vital to London culture as the arts

Harvard Library: Myerson, Abraham, 1881-1948. Abraham Myerson Papers and Family Research Records, 1908-2013 (inclusive), 1921-1974 (bulk): Finding Aid.

Nautilus: What to Do When Genius Fails

The Sloane Letters Blog: Sloane the Chocolatier: A Tasty Myth

Trade-card ‘Sir Hans Sloane’s Milk Chocolate’. Image Credit: Wellcome Library, London.

ESOTERIC:

The Ritman Library: The alchemical manual of Ulrich Ruosch

Conciatore: The Purse of Envy Reprise

The Recipes Project: The Acceptance of Charms in the Fifteenth Century

Wellcome Library, London. Recipe for staunching blood with cockerel in MS 5262, early fifteenth century. Includes the Longinus miles charm.

Conciatore: A Gift for the Innocent

Heterodoxology: Rosicrucian Quadricentennial: 400 years of secret brotherhoods, universal reformations, and conspiracy theories

The Temple of the Rosy Cross, figure designed by Theophilus Schweighardt Constantiens (Speculum Sophicum Rhodostauroticum, 1618). This version courtesy of Ouroboros Press (2012).

History of Alchemy: Podcast: Richard and Isabella Ingalese

BBC: Radio 3 Essay: Podcast: Stories from the Cairo Genizah – Alchemy and Magic 13 June 14 (scroll down!)

BOOK REVIEWS:

Wired: The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

Techie.com Innovation and “How We Got to Now”

The New York Times: Cosmos as Masterpiece: In ‘Cosmigraphics’ Our Changing Pictures of Space Through Time

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/14/science/space/in-cosmigraphics-our-changing-pictures-of-space-through-time.html?ref=science&_r=2

University of Notre Dame: Peter Godfrey-Smith, Philosophy of Biology

John van Wyhe’s Charles Darwin in Cambridge

Medievalist.net: Vegetables in the Middle Ages

The Neuro Times: The Neurologists: A history of a medical speciality in modern Britain, 1789-2000

Science Book a Day: Science Book a Day Interviews Sarah Dry

New York Times: Christine Kenneally’s ‘Invisible History of the Human Race’

NEW BOOKS:

Historiens de la santé: Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States

Pickering Chatto: History and Philosophy of Technoscience

Cambridge University Press: Interpreting Proclus: From Antiquity to the Renaissance

THEATRE:

FILM:

TELEVISION:

1. A. Times.com: ‘Manhattan’ renewed for Season 2 by WGN America

Motherboard: Author Steven Johnson Talks ‘How We Got top Now,’ Starting With the Sewers

A.V. Club: Yeah, science! The new trend in TV drama

Masters Of Sex

VIDEOS:

Youtube: ARW Centenary at AMNH Nov. 12 2013: 10 Alfred R Wallace videos

RADIO:

PODCASTS:

The Art and Science of Curation: #ArtSCiCuration at the Museums Association Conference

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

University of Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art: CfP: Hybrid practices in the arts, sciences, and technology from the 1960s to today 10-13 March 2015

PHILOS-L: Philosophy in Europe: History of the Human Science: New Editorial Team

The Journal of Somaesthetics: CfP: Bodies of Belief: Somaesthetics of Faith and Protest

PACHS: Working Groups

The Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) 2015-16 Fellowships in the History of Science, Technology, Medicine, & Industry–Applications now available, Due Jan 15, 2015

UCL: BSHS Postgraduate Conference 2015 Abstract Submission

The Renaissance Diary: The Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Huygens ING, and Naturalis Biodiversity Centre: CfP: Circulation of knowledge regarding non-European plants and plant components

In(ter)ventions: object histories and the museum: CfP: 12 February 2015 British Museum

Institute of Historical Research, London: One day colloquium: The History of the Body: Approaches and Directions 16 May 2015

Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog: Public Lecture: ”The Secret Histories of Laser Fusion” Columbia University 29 October 2014 6-7:30 pm

Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena: Workshop „Die ‚nicht mehr neuen’ Medien. Herausforderungen für Universitätssammlungen“ 7-9 May 2015

“Female Bodies and Female Practitioners in the Medical Traditions of the Late Antique Mediterranean World” Berlin, 27-29 October 2014

CRASSH: Things that Matter, 1400-1900: Alternate Wednesdays 12-2 pm during term-time

Wellcome Trust: Wellcome Library funds a new partnership to digitise 800 000 pages of mental health archives

Manchester Medieval Society: CfP: Crossing Boarders in the Insular Middle Ages, c.999-1500 Philipps-Universität, Marburg 8-10 April 2015

LOOKING FOR WORK?

Science Museum Group: Digital Director

PHILOS-L: Philosophy in Europe: Two PhD studentships in HPS in Vienna

The Historical Collections unit of Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences: University of Alabama: Reynolds Associates Research Fellowships in the History of the Health Sciences for 2015

The Conservation Volunteers: Natural Network Trainees

Science Media Centre: Head of Operations

Chemical Heritage Foundation: Apply for a Fellowship

Whewell’s Gazette

Your weekly digest of all the best of

Internet history of science, technology and medicine

Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell

Volume #19

Monday 27 October 2014

EDITORIAL:

Your favourite #HistSTM weekly links digest this week reaches its nineteenth edition. Nineteen is a prime number, which played an important role in the history of calendric studies, the attempt to impose order on the march of time that is so important to the historian. The solar year and the lunar month are incommensurable, a fancy mathematical term that means you can’t measure the one with the other without ungainly bits left over. This quirk of nature caused major problems for the astronomers of ancient culture before the discovery of the so-called Metonic cycle. Named after the fifth-century BCE Greek astronomer Meton who introduced it into Greek calendric calculations, it was actually discovered earlier by an unknown Babylonian astronomer. The Metonic cycle relies on the fact that nineteen solar years are only about two hours shorter than 235 synodic (lunar) months. So in order to bring a lunar monthly calendar into line with a yearly solar calendar one just needs to add seven leap months into a nineteen-year cycle. In the traditional Hebrew lunar-solar calendar these are added in the years 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17 and 19. European Christian culture, of course, long ago adopted a purely solar calendar with totally arbitrary months divorced from the cycle of the lunar phases.

One of the most important English astronomers of the seventeenth-century was Sir Christopher Wren who today is mostly remembered for his architectural achievements, in particular St Paul’s Cathedral in London and the Sheldon Theatre in Oxford. The good Sir Christopher turned 382 on 20 October and was honoured with a Google Doodle.

He is this week’s birthday of the week and the nineteenth edition of Whewell’s Gazette is dedicated to his memory.

Quote of the Week:

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful (so said Flaubert, apparently)” h/t @beckyfh

ON THE WEB BLOGS AND WEBSITES:

Birthday of the Week: Sir Christopher Wren born 20 October 1632

Christopher Wren
by Godfrey Kneller 1711

British Museum: Christopher Wren, Design for the Dome of St Paul’s Cathedral, a drawing in brown ink over pencil

Youtube: St Paul’s returns to former glory

ODNB: Sir Christopher Wren

Christopher Wren
Edward Pearce 1673

The H-Word: Google Doodle forgot to celebrate Christopher Wren the man of science

Hartlib Circle: Christopher Wren’s three-story beehive

Yovisto: Christopher Wren and his Masterpiece – St Paul’s Cathedral

Maths in the City: St Paul’s Cathedral London

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Not just an architect

Cartoon by Moose Allain

PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY:

AIP History: Oral History Transcript – Sir James Chadwick

Ptak Science Books: History of Mattresses: the Suspended Sleep of the Atomic Bomb, 1945

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Little things matter – for want of a semicolon

AIP History: Oral History Transcript – Felix Bloch

Yovisto: Felix Bloch and the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Method

Felix Bloch
(1905 – 1983)
Image: Stanford University / Courtesy Stanford News Service

Echoes From The Vault: 52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 51: How To Discover a Planet

Yovisto: The Planetary Tables of Erasmus Reinhold

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

Citylab: Mapping the Age of Every Building in Manhattan

Royal Museums Greenwich: Solving Longitude: Magnetism

In propria persona: On the legal basis for English possession of North America

Portuguese map (1574) by Luís Teixeira

Medievalist.net: The Ebstorf Map: tradition and contents of a medieval picture of the world

Discovery News: Century-Old Notebook From Antarctic Expedition Found

MEDICINE:

FT Magazine: Marie Stopes: 100 years of sex advice

Marie Stopes in 1913

h-madness: New Issue of Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

Notches: Death by Celibacy: Sex, Semen and Male Health in the Middle Ages

The Recipes Project: Mrs. Corlyon’s Pimple Cream: A Toxic Topical

Salve for pimples on the face. Ms, 14th century, Vienna. Wellcome Library, London.

Philly.com – The Public’s Health: Yellow fever and Ebola: similar scourges, centuries apart

Advances in the History of Psychology: Alfred Binet: Naissance de la Psychologie Scientifique

The Generous Georgian: Dr Richard Mead: Inoculating ‘The Speckled Monster’

The Generous Georgian: Dr Richard Mead: A Duel over Smallpox

Diseases of Modern Life: The Dogs’ Bach

Remedia: Abilities first? Institutions for disabled children in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

CBC News: St. Mary’s Hospital in Kitchener celebrates 90 years

Panacea: Plus ça change: Infectious diseases Past & Present

CHoM News: 60 Years Ago This Week: Thomas Huckle Weller and the Nobel Prize

Royal College of Physicians: ‘The ornament of his age’

The Medicine Chest: Do(n’t) try this at home: Simon Witgeest’s New Theatre of Arts

NYAM: Reflections on “Art, Anatomy and the Body: Vesalius 500”

NYAM: Polio: A Fearful Disease Nears Its End

Medievalist.net: Surgery in the 14^th Century

Medical Rare Books from Washington University: External Remedies for Accidents

Yovisto: Giovanni Maria Lancisi and his Medical Discoveries

Science of Us: Ancient Brits Had Less Gum Disease Than Modern Ones

Concocting History: She-Wolf

CHEMISTRY:

Othmeralia: AROMATICS

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

The Linnean Vol. 30: (PDF) Homing In: Alfred Russel Wallace’s Homes in Britain (1852 to 1913)

The Embryo Project: Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Medievalist.net: ‘I know not what it is’: Illustrating Plants in Medieval Manuscripts

Tractatus de herbis
Simon de Genoa

The Embryo Project: Mary Warnock

The Return of Native Nordic Fauna: Otters then and now, north and south

Nature: The discovery of Homo floresiensis: Tales of the hobbit

Natural History Apostils: False alternatives in creationism and Darwin-conspiracy theories

The Tentacle: The Continuing Curious Case of Ali Wallace

Wall Street Journal: How ‘Genocide Was Coined’

Los Exploradores de Adviento: Alfred Russel Wallace

Thinking Like a Mountain: Reviving Frozen Fish in Manchester! Investigation Natural History, 1775-1851

The Embryo Project: Wilhelm August Oscar Hertwig

The Embryo Project: Victor Jollos (1887–1941)

TECHNOLOGY:

The Public Domain Review: The Mysteries of Nature and Art

Guardian: Information Age: the radio transmitter that changed our world

Inside the Science Museum: Revealing The Real Cooke and Wheatstone Telegraph Dial

Yovisto: Samuel W. Anderson and the Crash Test Dummies

Latinos Post: Apple Computer Made at Steve Job’s Garage in 1976 Sold For $905 000

Gizmodo: A Brief History of Buildings That Spin

Yovisto: Charles Joseph Minard and the Art of Infographics

Guardian: Coils and cables; Science Museum opens information age gallery

The Recipes Project: Reading How-To Workshop

History Today: The Origins of the Shroud of Turin

Yovisto: William Higinbotham and Tenis for Two

My medieval foundry: Introductory post

The Appendix: The Appearance of Being Earnest

META:- HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

Corpus Newtonicum: Adventures in Huntingdonland, Pt. 3

There’s A Spider In The Bath: A Fortnight at the Royal Institution

The Conversation: Interdisciplinary research must sit at the heart of universities

Cambridge Journals Blog: Dipping a toe into the water of open access – BJHS THEMES

Doctor or Doctress? Explore American history through the eyes of women physicians

Sideways Look at Science: One Year In Research, Part I: Giving Birth to a Research Project

Nursing Clio: Adventures in the Archives: Living in a Material World

Harvard University Library: Harvard Library Policy on Access to Digital Reproductions of Works in the Public Domain

Conciatore: San Giovanni

“Florence – Church of San Giovanni, the Baptistry”,
Photo: Giacomo Brogi (1822-1881).

Medical Heritage Library: “Seeing With a Better Eye” Through the MHL

Nature: In retrospect: On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences

Letters from Gondwana: Mary Somerville, Queen of Science

Royal Museums Greenwich: What your wig says about you

The Guardian: How 1,000 years of Arabic scholarship advanced scientific debate – in pictures

University of Newcastle: Gertrude Bell Archive

Guardian: MI5 spied on leading British historians for decades, secret files reveal

MIT Technology Reviews: Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas”

Royal Museums Greenwich: The Bitter Trade; Spices, Smugglers and State-Sponsored Killings

The #EnvHist Weekly

Res Obscura: A Compendium of Obscure Things #6

History of the Present: Paper: Ian Hesketh: The Story of Big History

Making Science Public: Making science picturesque

World Science Festival: 5 Great Scientists Who Never Won A Nobel Prize

THE: Object lessons: 100 examples of the stuff history was made on

ESOTERIC:

Jeanne de Montbaston: Witches and Wicked Bodies: Imagining the ‘Other’

Distillatio: Why are some medieval alchemical texts more popular than others?

Forbidden Histories: A Night of Mesmerism and Psychology at Barts Museum

Ritman Library: John Dee’s “Monas Hieroglyphica”

History of Alchemy: Podcast: Alchemists’ Halloween Special

BOOK REVIEWS:

NEW BOOKS:

Early Modern Medicine: Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine

Harvard University Press: Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn

Historiens de la santé: The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution

Science Book a Day: The Control of Nature

Academia.edu: Notes on Recent Publications: Histories of the Hidden God etc

Jezebel: No Love for Lovelace: A Closer Read of Walter Isaacson’s Innovators

The Dispersal of Darwin: Darwin’s Dice: the Idea of Chance in the Thoughts of Charles Darwin

Brill: The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse 1900-1939

The Dispersal of Darwin: Extinction and Evolution: What Fossils Reveal About the History of Life

Amazon: Commercial Visions, Trade and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age h/t @margocsy

OUP: Tangible Things: Making History Through Objects

THEATRE:

FILM:

Alive in the Age of Worry: Review “The Imitation Game”

TELEVISION:

VIDEOS:

Vimeo: De Herinacio – On The Hedgehog

Youtube: The Medieval University

National Science Foundation: Chance Discoveries: Artificial Sweeteners

Youtube: Science Museum: Information Age 8 videos

Youtube: Dr. Roger Smith’s 2014 American Psychological Association Society for the History of Psychology Mary Whiton Calkins Address Title: Science Encounters the Humanities: History of Kinaesthesia/Touch and Metaphors of Feeling

Meta Filter: Do you like vintage training/ educational films? Meet Jeff Quitney includes many #histSTM videos

RADIO:

BBC: Hidden Histories of the Information Age

PODCASTS:

Elizabeth M. Covart: Jeanne Abrams, Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health

NPR: The Slide Rule: A Computing Device That Put A Man On The Moon

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

CHSTM Manchester: The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) at the University of Manchester will be holding a Graduate Studies Open Day on Wednesday 26 November 2014.

CHSTM Manchester: CfP: Stories about science: exploring science communication and entertainment media 4-5 June 2015

Harvard STS: STS Fellows Program

Warwick University: CfP: Networks of Media and Print in the Age of Imperialism 23 April 2015

AHA Today: American Historical Association Announces the 2014 Prize Winners

Cambridge University Library: Exhibition: The use and abuse of books 1450-1550: Private lives of print

6^th Norwegian Conference on the History of Science: CfP: Oslo 11-13 February 2015

Society for the Social History of Medicine: CfP: The History of the Body: Approaches and Directions 16 May 2015

Society for the Social History of Medicine: Conference: Segregation and Integration in the History of the Hospital Dubrovnik 10-11 April 2015

Society for the Social History of Medicine: CfP: The Black Sea in the Socialist World Birkbeck College London 6-7 February 2015

Society for the Social History of Medicine: Conference: Bodies Beyond Borders: The Circulation of Anatomical Knowledge, 1750-1950 Leuven, Belgium 7-9 January 2015

Palace Green Library Durham: Exhibition: Book Bindings from the Middle Ages to the Modern Day 4 October 4014 to 4 January 2015

Royal Museums Greenwich: Lecture: The Knowledge: How to Rebuild our World from Scratch

Museums Association: Sharon Heal appointed director of the Museums Association

Wellcome Trust: Lecture: Men, Medicine and Masculinity: male sexual health in the Long 17^th Century 28 October 2014

Forbidden Histories: Free Access to Studies in History and Philosophy of Science C Special Section, “Psychical Research in the History of Science and Medicine”

University of York: CfP: Magic and Intellectual History 5 March 2015

Studies in travel writing: CfP: Women’s Writing: Special Issue on Journeys to Authority: Travel Writing and the Rise of the Woman of Letters Deadline: 1 May 2015

Canadian Society for the History of Medicine: CfP: 2015 Annual Conference

That Camp SHOT: Propose sessions

LOOKING FOR WORK?

CHSTM Manchester: The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) at the University of Manchester offers two fully funded studentships (including maintenance allowance) for graduate study in the history of the biological sciences and/or medicine after 1800.

University of Groningen: 7 Rosalind Franklin Fellowships at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

University of California – Berkeley: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor – Philosophy

ASU School of Life Sciences: The School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University invite applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of philosophy of biology.

University of Cambridge: Graduate funding opportunities in History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge for entry in October 2015

Science Museum Group: Keeper of Medicine

Michigan State University: Assistant Professor of History, Philosophy, and Sociology (HPS) of Computing, Networks, or Big Data

Whewell’s Gazette

Your weekly digest of all the best of

Internet history of science, technology and medicine

Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell

Volume #20

Monday 03 November 2014

EDITORIAL:

The editorial-team here at Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #HistSTM links digest tend towards the curmudgeonly end of the social spectrum so our attitude to Halloween is perfectly summed up by the following, in our opinion, wonderful photograph.

Photographer unknown

However the #HistSTM community appears to contain a large Halloween fan club and this barbaric custom having taken place in the last seven days our twentieth edition is perforce a Halloween special: A ghoulish collection of #HistSTM stories

NYAM: Creepy Historical Drawings of Skeletons Contemplating Mortality

BioDivLibrary: Monsters Are Real

Ghostly Physics: Why quantum entanglement spooked Einstein his entire life

Dittrick Museum Blog: A Grave Matter: Legislating Dissection

Strange Remains: How a Strange 19^th Century Coffin Lead to a Revolution in 20^th Century Forensic Science

Smithsonian.com: The Doctor Who Starved Her Patients to Death

Flickering Lamps: “the Anatomizer’s Ground” – Uncovering The History of St Olave’s Silver Street

Early Modern Medicine: A dose of witchcraft

The Atlantic: The Enduring Scariness of the Mad Scientist

telescoper: In the Dark

The Sloane Letters Blog: The Tale of Jane Wenham: an Eighteenth-century Hertfordshire Witch?

Royal College of Physicians: Witchcraft and wizardry in the library

Conciatore: Witch’s Brew of Glass

H-Word: Monstrous Science: how the Yeti gets research funded

http://www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2014/oct/31/halloween-monstrous-science-how-the-yeti-gets-research-funded?CMP=twt_gu

Forbidden Histories: Halloween Special: C. G. Jung’s Spine-Chilling Nights in a Haunted House

Collectors Weekly: Ghosts in the Machines: The Devices and Daring Mediums That Spoke for the Dead

Spirit rapping was so popular, by 1853, T. Ellwood Garrett and W.W. Rossington published a song about it, via sheet music. (From the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University)

NYAM: Help! I’m Buried Alive

Dittrick Museum Blog: Buried Alive: A Halloween Post

Circulating Now: Costume Conundrum?

Criminal Historian: Kill the Witch!: murder and superstition in a Victorian village

From Stone to Screen: Spells, Potions, and Curses of the Ancient World

The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice: Resurrecting the Body Snatchers: The Halloween Edition

Atlas Obscura: Sex, Drugs, and Broomsticks: The Origins of the Iconic Witch

Quotes of the Week:

“When the wind of change blows, some people build walls, others build windmills.” — Chinese proverb” h/t @JohnDCook

“There is no history of knowledge.” Peter Drucker, 1993.” h/t @LeapingRobot

“28 October 1492. Christopher Columbus ‘discovered’ Cuba on his first voyage to the ‘New World’. It had always been there, of course.“ Frank McDonough @FXMC1957

“How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service!“ C. Darwin h/t @interacciones

Birthday of the Week:

One of the real horrors of our world is or, thankfully, better said was the poliovirus. In my childhood still considered “one of the most frightening public health problems in the world”, to quote Wikipedia. Its full horror is perfectly summed up in its popular German name, Kinderlähmung, which literally translates as child paralysis, describing the effect of this disease of the nervous system. In this age where it is fashionable to be anti-vaccines it is perhaps good to pause and remember that this horror disease was largely stamped out by the polio vaccines developed in the 1950s by various researchers, most notably by Jonas Salk. Salk’s greatest deed was perhaps the fact that he didn’t apply for a patent for his vaccine stating when asked, “There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?” Jonas Salk would have turned one hundred years old on 28 October 2014, an anniversary honoured with a Google Doodle, and so he is this week’s birthday boy.

Headquarters hosted by the Guardian: Jonas Salk Google Doodle: a good reminder of the power of vaccines

Washington Post: JONAS SALK: Google says ‘thanks’ to the heroic polio-vaccine developer with birthday Doodle

Chemical Heritage Foundation: Jonas Salk and Albert Bruce Sabin

Scientific American: Remembering Polio Vaccine Developer Jonas Salk a Century after His Birth

History in the Headlines: 8 Things You May Not Know About Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine

Jonas Salk in his lab (Credit: Archive Photos/Getty Images)

News.Mic: The Best Way to Remember Jonas Salk, Polio Pioneer, on His 100^th Birthday

BuzzFeed: What Is Polio And What You Can Do About It In 10 Easy Steps

As I was still putting this edition of Whewells Gazette together I heard of the death of a good acquaintance, the German jazz saxophone player Klaus Kreuzeder at the age of 64 on 3 November 2014. Klaus played with many leading international musicians throughout the years including standing on the stage with Sting and Stevie Wonder. I say standing but in Klaus’ case it was sitting in a wheel chair as he caught polio at the age of one and a half, which stunted his growth and crippled him for life. A superb musician he was an inspiration to many handicapped people who flocked to his concerts to him him play. I humbly dedicate this edition of Whewell’s Gazette to the memory of Klaus Kreuzeder an excellent musician and a very fine human being.

Klaus Kreuzeder
(4.4.1950 – 3.11.2014)

PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY:

Leaping Robot: From Glass to Gigabytes

Halley’s Log: What manner of man was Halley? (Born 29 Oct)

Business Insider: Meet The Greatest Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Ever

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Financing Tycho’s little piece of heaven

Map of Hven from the Blaeu Atlas 1663, based on maps drawn by Tycho Brahe in the previous century

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

On display: Playing with Museum Representations of 18^th-Century American Encounters

David Barrie: Tupaia’s chart of Polynesia

Tupaia’s chart of Polynesia

The 1707 Isles of Scilly Disaster – Part I – Part II

BBC: Tales from the India Office

British Library: Maps and views blog: Maps relating to the Middle East now on line

British Library: Maps and views blog: Lines in the sea: underwater oil in the 20^th century

The Irish Times: Ireland’s ‘oldest known separate map’ expected to fetch €3 million

The map is contained in an atlas made in Venice in 1468. Irish Times: Photograph: Christie’s

MEDICINE:

Clinical Curiosities: Medical training, student experience and the transmission of Knowledge, c.1800-2014

Somatosphere: Tolerance

Concocting History: A pilgrimage to Asclepius

The Quack Doctor: Avoiding the trickcyclist and nutpicker: First World War home remedies and miracle cures

Cassell’s Air Raids Overseas June 1919 (Robart’s Library)

Notches: Orthodox Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Re-Making of Jewish Sexuality

The Generous Georgian: Dr Richard Mead: Smallpox at the Foundling Hospital

Panacea: “Death in the Pot” Part I

Georgian Gent: Cupped at the bagnio, three shillings and sixpence

The Recipes Project: You’ll thank me later

NYAM: Brains, Brawn, & Beauty: Andreas Vesalius and the Art of Anatomy

Boston Review: When Epidemic Hysteria Made Sense

The Embryo Project: The Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology (1984), by Mary Warnock and the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology

CHEMISTRY:

Chemical Heritage Foundation: Forensic Chemistry in Golden-Age Detective Fiction: Dorothy L. Sayers and the CSI Effect

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Animal Magic:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/animal-magic/2014/oct/23/okapi-skull-mystery-powell-cotton-museum

Trowel Blazers: Browse All Articles

The World of Genealogical Phylogenetic Networks: Predecessors of Charles Darwin

BHL: Monsters Are Real

Birding Asia: Pioneer of Asian Ornithology Alfred Russel Wallace (PDF)

Live Science: Super-volcano Cleared in Neanderthals’ Demise

The Embryo Project: Ontogeny and Phylogeny (1977), by Stephen Jay Gould

The Embryo Project: “Mitochondrial DNA and Human Evolution” (1987), by Rebecca Louise Cann, Mark Stoneking, and Allan Charles Wilson

Trowel Blazers: Margaret Benson: Mut Ado About Trowelblazing

Margaret Benson in 1893, aged 28 — one year before she embarked on her first trip to Egypt. Photo by J. Thompson, from ‘The Life and Letters of Maggie Benson’ by A.C. Benson (1917). Image source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Margaret_Benson.jpg

DW: Preserved specimens: inside a scientific storehouse of natural history treasures

JSTOR Daily: Animals in the Archives

The Embryo Project: Victor Jollos (1887–1941)

Natural History Apostils: Hoax anticipation of Darwinism and germ theory of disease (Sleeper 1849/1913)

Wallifaction: Snow

TECHNOLOGY:

The Atlantic: The Technical Constraints That Made Abbey Road So Good

Yovisto: Jean-Rondolphe Perronet and the Bridges of Paris

Spectrum IEEE: How the Ford Motor Co. Invented the SQUID

Conciatore: Alessandro Neri

Retronaut: 1900: “Visions of 2000”

Electronic education

Yovisto: Hans Grade – German Aviation Pioneer

Paleofuture: Broadacre City: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unbuilt Suburban Utopia

Histories of the Internet: (preprint draft) PDF

Yovisto: Oskar Barnack – the Father of 35mm Photography

Yovisto: Alexander Lippisch and the Delta Wing

META:- HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

Conciatore: The Inquisition Reprise

Newsletter of the History of Science Society

BackRe(Action): Einstein’s greatest legacy – How demons and angels advanced science

Qatar Digital Library: 1,000 years of Arabic science & scholarship now online

Lucretius: Embracing absurdity: Lucretius and Feynman on taking the world as we find it

PetaPixel: CERN is Asking Your Help in Figuring Out What These Archive Photos Show

So, what is it?
Image: CERN

Hakluyt Society: Hakluyt and Me: Using the Hakluyt Society Publications for my Doctoral Thesis

Project Muse: Bulletin History of Medicine Vol. 88 Num. 3

Images of Alfred Russel Wallace

CHoM News: Harvard Medical School Launches Submission and Archiving of Electronic Student Theses

Historical Atlas of Canada: Online Learning Project

AEON: Bonfire of the humanities: Public debate is afflicted by short-term thinking – how did history abdicate its role of inspiring the longer view?

The Telegraph: ‘The next generation of tech talent needs to be educated in history, classics and languages’

How We Got To Next: Robot Historians and the Heroic Idea

Brain Pickings: An Anatomy of Inspiration: A 1942 Guide to How Creativity Works

eä: Table of contents VOl. 5 No. 1

ISIS: Why Isn’t Exploration a Science?

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Having lots of letters after your name doesn’t protect you from spouting rubbish.

The Pitt News: Women and minority inclusion: What the sciences can learn from the humanities

Corpus Newtonicum: It’s all Greek to me

The Guardian: Has technology changed cultural taste?

ESOTERIC:

Academic.edu: Contemporary Ritual Magic (Chapter 39, The Occult World)

Genetic Literacy Project: Science as profane: What superstition of 1752 and 2014 share in common

BOOK REVIEWS:

Oxford Journals: The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine

The Geological Society: Lucky Planet

NEW BOOKS:

Amazon: Earth’s Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters h/t @David_Bressan

Historiens de la santé: Forensic Medicine and Death Investigations in Medieval England

THEATRE:

FILM:

The New York Times: The Leaky Science of Hollywood: Stephen Hawking’s Movie Life Story is Not Very Scientific

Royal Museums Greenwich: Mr Turner & Mrs Somerville

Mary Somerville (Lesley Manville) prepares to demonstrate her experiment on violet light to J.W.M. Turner (Timothy Spall) and his household (Paul Jesson & Dorothy Atkinson) in Mike Leigh’s 2014 film Mr Turner.

The Telegraph: Benedict Cumberbatch on Alan Turing: ‘he should be on banknotes’.

TELEVISION:

Popular Mechanics: AMC Tackles Rocket Science in Miniseries Produced by Ridley Scott – Jack Parsons

Jack Parsons

How We Get To Next: How We Made the “Light” Episode of How We Got To Now

VIDEOS:

Youtube: Japanology Calculators

Youtube: Brian Cox proves Galileo’s laws of fall (highly recommended!)

RADIO:

NYAM: The NYAM Lectures: Medical Lectures by Eminent Speakers: Some 40 radio broadcasts digitized and catalogued

BBC World Service: The Information Age

PODCASTS:

Chemical Heritage Foundation: Bones

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Literature and Medicine Special Edition: Call for contributions before 20 November

Unspoken Voices: So, after some deliberation we have decided what we are going to be researching. We will be focusing on institutions that were used to house those with disabilities- particularly asylums.

Royal Museums Greenwich: Clocking Off Late 13 November

Historiens de la santé: Mediterranean Under Quarantine 1^st International Conference of Quarantine Studies Network 7-8 November University of Malta

IHR: History of Sexuality Seminar Autumn Term 2014 University of London Senate House

The Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society Lecture: Alfred Russel Wallace And Natural Selection: The Real Story Monday 1 December

International Conference at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Germany: Knowing Things. Circulations and Transitions of Objects in Natural History March 23^rd – 24^th, 2015

Royal Museums Greenwich: Travellers’ Tails Seminar Series: Exploration 20 Nov, 4 Dec, 29 Jan

Steven Institute of Technology: CfP: Taylor’s World Conference 24-25 September 2015

University of Cambridge Museums: The Art & Science of Curation at the Museums Association Conference

History and Technology: An International Journal: CfP: History and Technology

ChoM News: Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine: “Boundary Disputes Between British Psychiatry and Neurology” December 18

ChoM News: Lecture: The True Story of a Government-Ordered Book-Burning in America: Wilhelm Reich’s Books and Journals, and What Was in Them? Dec 4

Workshop at the 5th World Congress on Universal Logic 25-30 June 2015 – Istanbul, Turkey: CfP: THE IDEA OF LOGIC: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

Scientiae Toronto 2015: CfP: Final reminder: Victoria College, University of Toronto, 27-29 May 2015

LOOKING FOR WORK?

University of Nottingham: A Global University: 2015 Visiting Fellowships

University of London: The Warburg Institute: Research Fellowships in Cultural and Intellectual History – long term

Durham University: Junior Research Fellow

Brown University: Brown University Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowships

The Royal Society: Public Affairs Officer

Oxford Brooke’s University: Research funding opportunities

J.B. Harley Research Fellowship in the History of Cartography

The Oregon State Hospital Museum of Mental Health has a position open for a Curator.

The University of Western Australia: Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions

Whewell’s Gazette

Your weekly digest of all the best of

Internet history of science, technology and medicine

Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell

Volume #21

Monday 10 November 2014

EDITORIAL:

Your favourite weekly #HistSTM links list Whewell’s Gazette has reached its twenty-first edition and would thus in the time of its Editor In Chief have reached maturity or adulthood. It had an easy childhood and although it displayed occasional tardiness in its adolescence has on the whole maintained a high standard of public presentation. We the editorial staff hope that it will continue to grow and mature for many editions to come and in doing so to reflect a healthy and thriving #HistSTM Internet community.

Quotes of the Week:

“Do not sentence me completely to the treadmill of mathematical calculations – leave me time for philosophical speculations” – Johannes Kepler

“Computers in the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh just 1.5 tons.” — Popular Mechanics, 1949 h/t @kasthomas

Birthdays of the Week:

Marie Curie born 7 November 1867

The last week saw the 147^th anniversary of the birth of the Polish–French physicist and chemist Marie Curie one of the dominant figures of early twentieth-century science whether male or female. The first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person up to now to win a Nobel Prize in two different scientific disciplines, physics in 1903

Nobel Prize in Physics photo (1903)

and chemistry in 1911.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry photo (1911)

She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris. The list of her scientific achievements and her honours are too long to be listed here but she remains a shining beacon for all women wishing to follow a career path in the sciences.

Yovisto: Marie Curie – Truly an Extraordinary Woman

Brain Pickings: Marie Curie on Curiosity, Wonder, and the Spirit of Adventure in Science

Hedy Lamarr born 9 November 1914: A famous film star hailed as the most beautiful woman in the world the Viennese actress more much more than a pretty face.

Hedy Lamarr (1913-2000)

Una Sinott: Happy 100^th Birthday Hedy Lamarr, inventor of the wireless network

Yovisto: Hedy Lamarr – a Hollywood Star Invents Secure Communications Technology

Nature born 4 November 1869

Fun Nature fact: the Wordsworth quote on the first masthead was altered. The Nature version reads “To the solid ground of Nature trusts the mind which builds for aye.” Wordsworth capitalized “Mind” and not “nature.” By Melinda Baldwin

Yovisto: The World’s most important Scientific Journal – Nature

Nature: First Issue of Nature

Nature Podcast: November 1869: Nature is born

PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY:

Blink: Celestial Astronomy

Compass Wallah: Reading List: The Celestial Cinema

AIP History: Oral History Transcript – Dr Nick Holonyak

Medievalist.net: Quadrant Constructions and Applications in Western Europe During the Early Renaissance

Space Watchtower: 160^th B-day: Transit of Venus Admirer John Philip Sousa

Discover: Beautiful Maps of Space Throughout the Ages

Planet Vulcan 1846 A.D.
Library of Congress

Great American Eclipse: Total solar eclipses of the 19^th century

American Science: Atomic Shells

The Daily Beast: The Other Side of Stephen Hawking: Strippers, Aliens, and Disturbing Abuse Claims

The Telegraph: Stephen Hawking: driven by a cosmic force of will

Hindu History: Erwin Schrödinger: Vedantist and Father of Quantum Mechanics

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

Guardian: Uncovering the secrets of John Franklin’s doomed voyage

British Library: Learning Mapping Minds: Ptolemy’s World Map 1482

Board of Longitude Project: Longitude Legends: Isaac Newton

Georgian Gent: Travel in the 18^th Century

Linear maps printed by Bowles and Co – this is one showing the journey between Banbury and Bristol.

Behind the scenes at the map museum

MEDICINE:

Perceptions of Pregnancy: How ‘Orals’ Altered the Contraceptive Marketplace in 1960s Britain

Panacea: “Death in the Pot!” Part II

Guardian: Murder at the museum: death and decay go on display

Early Modern Medicine: Comforting Cocoa

History of the Ancient World: Contraception and Abortion in the Ancient World

Medieval Abortion 13th century
Pseudo-Apuleius

FWSA: Being a Woman, Being a Mother: Infertility in early modern England

Slate Vault: How 19^th-Century Doctors Used Daguerreotypes For Consultation on Difficult Cases

Points: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society: Rethinking Patent Medicine

global-e: Viral Consumption

The Embryology Project: The Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology (1984), by Mary Warnock and the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology

Remedia: Locating Convalescence in Victorian England

Yovisto: Hermann ‘Klecks’ Rorschach and his Eponymous Test

Yovisto: Florence Sabin – Preparing the Ground for Women in Medical Science

Smithsonian.com: George Washington Didn’t Have Wooden Teeth – They Were Ivory

CHEMISTRY:

Yovisto: Daniel Rutherford and the Isolation of Nitrogen

Mail Online: Build Fireworks the 18^th Century Way

Public Domain Review: Picturing Pyrotechnics

Image showing fireworks at The Hague, June 14, 1713 on the occasion of the “Peace of Utrecht”, found in Klebeband 10 of the Fürstlich Waldecksche Hofbibliothek

Distillato: Gunpowder that doesn’t go bang:

Conciatore: Neri’s Cabinet #8: Sulfur

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Palaeoblog: Died This Day: Oliver Perry Hay

The Embryo Project: Lysogenic Bacteria as an Experimental Model at the Pasteur Institute (1915-1965) 

History of Geology: The Season of the Witch: Climate-Change and Witch-Hunt Through the Ages

Witches cause a hailstorm, illustration from the “De Laniss et phitonicis mulieribus” [Concerning Witches and Sorceresses], by the scholar Ulrich Molitoris, published in 1489.

The Macropod: A Trumpery Affair

Letters from Gondwana: The Poetry of the Ice Age:

Yovisto: Spyridon Marinatos and the Discovery of Akrotiri

The Artful Amoeba: Origin of Mysterious Portuguese Mathematical and Geographical Tiles Revealed

Thinking Like a Mountain: Environment(s) in Public: Histories of Climate, Landscape & Ecology at UEA

Raw Story: The myth of race: Why are we divided by race when there is no such thing?

The Embryo Project: “Evolution and Tinkering” (1977), by Francois Jacob

TECHNOLOGY:

Smithsonian Air and Space Museum: Spacecraft. Marina 10, Flight Spare

Thick Objects: Researchers as Craftspeople: Glass Microtools and Microscopy

Inside the Science Museum: Dogs in Space

Dog spacesuit and ejector seat used on suborbital rocket flights launched from Kapustin Yar, Soviet Union, c. 1955. Credit: Zvezda Research, Development and Production Enterprise, photo by Rosizo.

Scientific American: Remembering Laika the Dog’s Trip to Space, 57 Years Later

Conciatore: The Dance of Lead Crystal Reprise

Motherboard: The First Electronic Voting Machine

The Atlantic: The First Plastic Football Helmets Often Broke on Impact

The Telegraph: the barmy inventions that time forgot

Science Museum: Empire type world clock for indicating time around the globe, 1909

The Royal Institution: Hacking at the Royal Institution

My Medieval Foundry: How not to make a stone mould for pewter spoons

META:- HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

Frontispiece for the Penny magazine of the society for the diffusion of useful knowledge Source British Museum h/t @beckyfh

Leaping Robot: Golden Fleece 2.0

Judge Starling: Seven Citations of a Paper that Doesn’t Exist: Has Science Become a Game of Chinese Whispers

Royal Museums Greenwich: Letting off steam (punk) with Jeff VanderMeer

The Geek Pund: The Geek Pound VS Museums: Interview with curator Heloise Finch-Boyer, Royal Museums Greenwich

IEEE Spectrum: Nikola Tesla Slept Here

Guinevere Glasfurd: Descartes in Amsterdam

The Science and Entertainment Laboratory: Pulsars, Pills and Post-Punk: Designed for Unknown Pleasures

Conciatore: Bibliomaniac

Irish News: Bicentenary of mathematician George Boole to be celebrated

On Display: Playing with Museum Representations of 18^th-Century American Encounters

The Guardian: Leonore Davidoff Obituary

The Hindu: Mythology, science and society

JISC Digitisation and Content: Medical Insights

Hyperallergic: 800,000 Pages of Patient Art and Mental Health Archives Are Going Online

British Library: Asian and Africa studies blog: Arabic scientific manuscripts go live in Qatar Digital Library

Humanities: Scholar Stretches Truth: English Professor Bruce Holsinger on Writing Historical Fiction

A²HPS³: David Oldroyd (1936–2014) Obituary

Harvard University Library: Digital Library Collection: Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics

ESOTERIC:

Early Modern Experimental Philosophy: Astrology and the novatores, part 2

Academia.edu: The Problems of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse, 1900–1939 Introduction

BOOK REVIEWS:

Brian Pickings: Cosmigraphics: Picturing Space Through Time in 4000 Years of Mapping Space

Guardian: Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik

Guardian: Serving the Reich by Philip Ball

Physics Today: Churchill’s Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race

NEW BOOKS:

History News Network: He Was Scottish and He Changed the World: And Hardly Anyone Knows His Name

THEATRE:

FILM:

The Independent: Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game: Why scientists make tricky leading men

Scientific American: Science goes to the movies

Slate: How Accurate Is The Theory of Everything?

Inside the Science Museum: The Imitation Game at the Science Museum

The Pilot ACE computer, 1950. Image credit: Science Museum / SSPL

TELEVISION:

VIDEOS:

Princeton University Research: Beyond the bomb: Atomic research changed medicine, biology

Princeton University historian Angela Creager spent more than a decade researching early efforts to transform knowledge and technology developed for the Manhattan Project to peaceful uses.

Youtube: John Wilkins: What Is The Philosophy of Science All About?

Youtube: Why Studying the History of Science is Important – Lawrence Principe

Youtube: Lotions and Potions: Medical Books from the Middle Ages – Dr Erik Kwakkel

Vimeo: Chemical Heritage Foundation: Exhibition preview: Book of Secrets: Writing and Reading Alchemy

RADIO:

BBC Radio 3: New Generation Thinkers: Greg Tate: The Poetry of Science

PODCASTS:

New Books in Astronomy: What Galileo Saw: Imagining the Scientific Revolution

Lawrence Lipking

History of Philosophy: without any gaps: 196. Arts of Darkness: Introduction to Medieval Philosophy

The Royal Society: Visual Science

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The International Committee for the History of Technology, ICOHTEC, welcomes submissions for the Maurice Daumas Prize, which aims to encourage innovative scholarship in the history of technology.

Bodies Beyond Borders. The Circulation of Anatomical Knowledge, 1750-1950 7-9 January 2015, Leuven, Belgium

British Library: Exhibition: Lines in the Ice: Seeking the Northwest Passage opens 14 November

Business Wire: Siebel Chair in the History of Science at Illinois Named

The Royal Society: Conference: Publish or Perish? The past, present and future of the scientific journal 19-21 March 2015

Scientiae Toronto 2015: CfP: Victoria College, University of Toronto, 27-29 May 2015

Map History: ‘Maps and Society’ Lectures Programme for 2014–2015 Warburg Institute

UCL Events: Keep the Candle Burning: A re-enactment of Michael Faraday’s Christmas Lectures 11 December 2014

The British Society for the History of Mathematics (BSHM) will hold its annual “Research in Progress” meeting at The Queen’s College, Oxford on Saturday 21 February 2015.

University of Helsinki: CfP: Workshop “Investigating Interdisciplinary Practice: Methodological Challenges” (Univ. Helsinki, 15-17 June 2015)

University of Helsinki: CLMPS: 15^th Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosphy of Science Helsinki 3–8 August 2015

The Warburg Institute: Henry More (1614–1687) A conference to mark the fourth centenary of his birth 5 December 2014

University of Wisconsin: Department of the History of Science: CfP: 2015 Midwest Junto for the History of Science 17-19 April 2015

London PUS Seminar: From ‘Any Woman’ Thrush to Pitiful AIDS: The Construction of HIV-Positive Identities in Just Seventeen Magazine, 1983-1997 26 November 2014

Routledge: Call for proposals for a new Routledge series ‘Medicine and Healing of Antiquity’.

Universities of Washington and Saint Louis: Conference: Vesalius and the Modern Body February 26-28 2015

CFP Extended Deadline: Special Issue on Science, Technology and the Nation, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (SEN) Journal

The Science and Entertainment Laboratory: Stories About Science: Exploring Science Communication and Entertainment Media University of Manchester, 4-5 June 2015

CFP: Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference 2015 University of Exeter, 20-21 July 2015

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Whewell’s Gazette

Your weekly digest of all the best of

Internet history of science, technology and medicine

Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell

Volume #22

Monday 17 November 2014

EDITORIAL:

“when you build up false history and false claims for the nation…it is not serving the nation, it is ridiculing the nation – “ – ‪@irfhabib

Recent utterances by politicians have demonstrated the importance of a strong public understanding of the history of the sciences and related disciples (#histSTM). First we had the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a speech, as part of his extreme Hindu nationalist political programme, claiming that all sorts of modern science and medicine were known to the Hindus in Vedic times and are those not discoveries of the Western World. He was slapped down fast enough by Indian historians and historian of science but his speech will undoubtedly have influenced many less knowledgeable Indians convincing them that the West has stolen their heritage. India did indeed make important contributions to the evolution of science, a fact that is often not adequately acknowledged in Western accounts of STM history but not the rubbish that Modi spouted.

This weekend saw a second outbreak of the falsification of STM history, this time exploration, for religious nationalist propaganda purposes by Turkey’s recently elected President and ex-prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. In a speech delivered to South American Muslim leaders Erdoğan claimed that it wasn’t Columbus who discovered America but Muslims who sailed there in 1178. Erdoğan went on to claim, “Columbus mentions a mosque on a hill on the coast of Cuba”. This bizarre claim is not new but is based on an article from 1996 by the historian Youssef Mroueh. In fact the entry from Columbus’ journal merely describes a hill as having the form of a mosque.

Such attempts by politicians to interpret or even rewrite the history of science in the interest of their own religion or nationalist beliefs are nothing new. One only needs to think of the, in the meantime, more than two hundred year long dispute amongst nationalist as to whether Copernicus is German or Polish, a totally meaningless dispute with reference to the times in which he actually lived. One grotesque highpoint of this dispute was an imperial decree issued by the Nazi, unfortunately still in force in Germany, that the name Copernicus is to be spelt Kopernikus!

Nationalism has no place in STM history and all STM historians should feel obligated to fight against any attempts by politicians to rewrite STM history for propaganda purposes.

“Modern science is a conglomeration of different cultures and civilisations. All these contributions were marginalised due to politics.” @fadesingh

Let us reclaim STM history for the historians

PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY:

Conciatore: Galileo and Glass Reprise

Space: Here’s a Thirty-Year History of Getting Closer to Comets

Atomic Heritage Foundation: Remembering Veterans who worked on the Manhattan Project

AIP: The Centennial of Einstein’s 1915 Theory of General Relativity

Huff Post Business: What I Learned from Einstein: The Importance of Culture

Symmetry: The November Revolution

Burton Richter & Sam Ting
Courtesy of: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

Yovisto: Dr Livingstone, I presume?

Medievalist.net: Recovering the lost details of a medieval map

Yovisto: Louis Antoine de Bougainville and his Voyage Around the World

Bougainville reaching Tahiti

MEDICINE:

The Conversation: How a painful operation inspired the 18^th-century equivalent of a horror movie soundtrack

Royal College of Physicians: Not suitable for vegetarians

The Women’s Blog: No. no, no! Victorians didn’t invent the vibrator

Wonders & Marvels: The history of tampons – in ancient Greece?

Four Nations History: Unions and unions: science and medicine in and around Irland, England and Scotland, 1850-1900

The Generous Georgian: Dr Richard Mead: The Foundling Laboratory: inoculation and experimentation

Early Modern Practitioners: Researching Medical Practitioners in Early Modern Ireland

William Petty, c. 1650.
Image Wikipedia Commons

Wellcome Library: Researching medicine in recipe books

Medievalist.net: Healthy Eating in the Middle Ages: the Tacuinum Sanitatis

Yovisto: Dorothea Erxleben – Germany’s First Female Medical Doctor

Dorothea Christiane Erxleben
(1715 – 1762)

Centre for Medical Humanities: Hippocrates Electric: Invoking the ‘Father of Medicine’ in the 21^st Century

Slate: 19^th-Century Classified Ads for Abortifacients and Contraceptives

CHEMISTRY:

The Recipes Project: Topazes, Emeralds, and Crystal Rubies. The Faking and Making of Precious Stones

Fig. 3 The coloring of stones

The Artery: Science of Art Conservation in U. S. Began With One Man’s Collection of Colors at Harvard

Conciatore: Lake of Flowers

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

The Embryo Project: Roy John Britten (1919–2012)

National Museum of Natural History Unearthed: Colored Diamonds from Rio Tinto: The Rough Cut

Yovisto: Robert Morison and the Classification of Plants

The Embryo Project: Francis Maitland Balfour

JSTOR Daily: Animals in the Archive

Geschichte der Geologie: Geologie in Alten Ägypten

Pitt Rivers Museum: A Well-Documented Life: James Arthur Harley (1873-1943)

Nautilus: Cloudy With a Chance of War

Palaeoblog: Died This Day: William Lonsdale

Free Thought Blog: Darwin’s Geological Sense of Humour

The Public Domain Review: Nature Through Microscope and Camera (1909)

Spitalfields Life: A Garden for Thomas Fairchild

TECHNOLOGY:

BBC: Joan Clarke, woman who cracked Enigma cyphers with Alan Turing

The Pianola Institute: The Pleyela, Pleyel-Pleyela and Auto-Pleyela

Psychology Today: Hive Mind: Oh “Hedy” Days of Youth!

BBC: The story of the ‘most complicated’ watch in the world

Unmaking the Bomb: The Visible Atomic Bomb

Science Museum: Cometarium

Cometarium, by W and S Jones, London, a model designed to show the change in motion of a comet as it moves closer and then further away from the Sun according to Newton’s theory of gravity. Front 3/4 view of whole object (without lid) against graduated grey background.

British Library: English and Drama Blog: History at Stake! The Story Behind Vampire Slaying Kits

Internet Society: Brief History of the Internet

META:- HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

Leaping Robot: Science (and Science History) for the Public

The University of Glasgow Story: Sir William Thompson Baron Kelvin of Largs

The Nation: Apostles of Growth

BBC: Materials book wins Royal Society Winton Prize

Historyonics: Big Data, Small Data and Meaning

The Trickster Prince: Big histories, small minds

Scientific American: Google Scholar Pioneer Reflects on the Academic Search Engine’s Future

AIP: Center for History of Physics: History Center Welcomes New Historian

The Recipe Project: Exploring CPP 10a214: Overlapping Territories

The Dutch in Kerala (knowledge transfer)

American Science: HSS Recap Part 1: Visibility and Invisibility

American Science: HSS Recap Part 2: Humans, Pain, and Philosophy

American Science: SHOT Recap: Innovation, Risk, and Magic

Joanne Bailey Muses on History: The role of nostalgia in forging family life

Medical Heritage Library: Year One of “Expanding the Medical Heritage Library” Is Complete!

Emlio Segrè Visual Archive (History of Physics)

Arms and the Medical Man: What counted as knowledge before the First World War?

Guardian: Bible edges out Darwin as ‘most valuable to humanity’ in survey of influential books

The Physics arXiv Blog: The Extraordinary Growing Impact of the History of Science

University of Cambridge: Sachiko Kusukawa wins Pfizer Prize for “Picturing the Book of Nature”

The Current: A Visionary Accomplishment

W. Patrick McCray
Photo Credit:
Brian W. Robb

The History of Moden Biomedicine: The Recent History of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)

Martin Grandjean: [Twitter Studies] Re-writing history in 140 characters

Nautilus: Einstein Among the Daffodils

The Guardian: Jacqueline Stedall obituary

Back Channel: The Man Who Made The UK Say “I’m Sorry For What We Did To Turing”

Method Science in the Making: Issue 1 Boundaries

Literacy of the Present: The Autonomous Science Machine

SHOT: Plenary Lecture: How does one do the History of Technology? David E. Nye (PDF)

ESOTERIC:

Brian Regal: Richard Owen and the sea-serpent (PDF)

Conciatore: Benedetto Vanda

View of Badia Fiesolana – Gaspar Van Wittel called ‘Vanvitelli’ (1652/3-1736)

Heterodoxology: Rosicrucian quadricentennary at the BPH

BOOK REVIEWS:

Guardian: Seven Elements That Have Changed the World by John Browne

Popular Science: About Time – Adam Frank

NEW BOOKS:

D. Lamb: Pathologist of the Mind: Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry

OUP: Classical Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 1

Brill: The Making of Copernicus

Princeton University Press: Patrick McCray’s “The Visioneers” win HSS award.

Historiens de la santé: Gender and Class in English Asylums, 1890-1914

teleskopos: Maskelyne: Astronomer Royal – book now available

Historiens de la santé: Art of Vesalius

THEATRE:

FILM:

The Guardian: Alan Turing’s name restored with film about his work, life and identity

Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing with Keira Knightley as Joan Clarke in The Imitation Game. Photograph: Allstar/Black Bear Pictures

EQ View: The Imitation Game – Review

TELEVISION:

TVMOLE: Greenlit: Tomorrow’s Worlds: The Unearthly History of Science Fiction, BBC2

Medievalist.net: High-Tech Feudalism: Warrior Culture and Science Fiction TV

VIDEOS:

Youtube: Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik

Youtube: The Quantum Indians

Youtube: Accidental Discoveries That Changed the World – Reactions

RADIO:

PODCASTS:

NPR: Remembering Hedy Lamarr: Actress, Weapons Systems Developer

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Cambridge University Library: Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography 2014-2015

Historiens de la santé: Institut Pasteur Paris: Conference: Les Instituts Pasteur au Maghreb, des origins aux indépendances 27 November 2014

The Renaissance Diary: 2^nd CfP: 6^th Norwegian Conference on the history of Science Oslo 11-13 February 2015

ChoM News: Lecture: The True Story of a Government-Ordered Book-Burning in America: Wilhelm Reich’s Books and Journals, and What Was in Them? December 4 2014

Race and Ethnicity in the Global South: Warwick Awarded at history of Science Society

Educating Women: CfP: Women’s History in the Digital World 2015

CHoM News: Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine

“Making the Suicidal Object: Sympathy and Surveillance in the American Asylum” 20

November

British Library: Exhibition: Lines in the ice: Seeking the Northwest Passage

14 November–29 March

Lines in the Ice British Library Exhibition

University of Aveiro Portugal: CfP: Chemical Biography in the 21^st Century 9-12 September 2015

Royal Holloway University of London: CfP: 2015 Annual Conference of the Oral History Society

Royal Museums Greenwich: CfP: The Emergence of a Maritime Nation: Britain in the Tudor and Stuart Age, 1485–1714

Advances in the History of Psychology: Nov 24 Talk! BPS History of Psych Disciplines Seminar Series

BSHS: CfP: British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference, 2015

2-5 July 2015, Swansea University

H-Net: CfP: Gendering Science, Prague 4-6 June 2015 Abstracts due 15 December 2014

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami annual graduate student conference, CfP: “Born-Digital: Reformatting Humanities in the 21st Century” March 20-21, 2015.

Greenwich Maritime Institute: CfP. New Researchers in Maritime History Conference 10-11 April 2015 University of Greenwich

The Royal Institution: Lecture: The history of the Christmas Lectures Wednesday 19 November

UCL: First STS Haldane Lecture: Professor Simon Schaffer “Mutability, mobility and meteorites: on some material cultures of the sciences”20 November2014

Society for the Social History of Medicine: Roy Porter Student Essay Prize Competition

Manchester Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine: CfP: Stories about science: exploring science communication and entertainment media 4-5 June 2015

The Renaissance Diary: CfP: Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World, 1400–1800

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University of Leeds: The School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at the University of Leeds is pleased to inform potential applicants for postgraduate study that it is able to offer up to 18 fully-funded PhD scholarships for UK/EU students for 2015-16 entry, plus further scholarships for international students.

Horniman Museum & Gardens: Jobs

Oxford Brookes University Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of History, Philosophy and Religion To mark its 150^th Anniversary, Oxford Brookes University is pleased to offer a number of full-time PhD Studentships across a range of subject areas in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, starting in January 2015

Museum for Science and Industry in Manchester: Associate Curator of Science and Technology

Whewell’s Gazette

Your weekly digest of all the best of

Internet history of science, technology and medicine

Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell

Volume #23

Monday 24 November 2014

EDITORIAL:

The #histSTM story of the week on a popular level is without any doubt the start of the film biography of Alan Turing staring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightly, The Imitation Game. Previous editions of Whewell’s Gazette have featured several previews, trailers and whatever leading up to the premiere, all of which has left our editorial staff with the uneasy feeling that the film will only add to the hagiography that has overtaken the Turing biography since 2012 and the one hundredth anniversary of his birth. As most people are totally incapable of understanding his genuine ground-breaking contributions to meta-mathematics, for which he should justifiably be honoured, his contributions in other fields have been blown up out of all proportions turning him into a sort of boffin superman. Most recently we read the statement that he was “…the tormented outcast who gave us the modern world”, which we commented with Hyperbolic, hagiographic, bullshit! We haven’t had the chance to see the film yet but we thought our readers might be interested in what others who have thought of the film most hotly tipped to sweep the Oscars.

Dazed: Alan Turing expert dissects The Imitation Game

The Guardian: Hidden heroes of codebreaking history

The Telegraph: Imitation Game: how did the Enigma machine work?

Poet Freak: On 100^th Birthday of Alan Turing

UCL: STS Observatory: The Imitation Game

Endgadget: ‘The Imitation Game’ puts the spotlight on Alan Turing and his groundbreaking machine

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH stars in THE IMITATION GAME (Film still)

The Guardian: Benedict Cumberbatch wins genius status at Time magazine

Wall Street Journal: Benedict Cumberbatch and ‘The Imitation Game’

Business Insider: You Need To See ‘The Imitation Game’ If You Care At All About Technology

http://www.businessinsider.com/turing-film-the-imitation-game-is-great-2014-11

Reddit: ‘The Imitation Game’; or ‘How the breaking of the enigma code was kept secret from Winston Fucking Churchill’

ABC News: ‘The Imitation Game’: A Look at the Life and Legacy of Alan Turing

Flickering Myth com: Second Opinion – The Imitation Game (2014)

The Aperiodical: An Alan Turing expert watches the “The Imitation Game” trailer

I Know Today: Alexandre Desplat – Movie Score Composer For The Imitation Game

NY Daily News: Benedict Cumberbatch puts celebrity to use illuminating historical wrong in ‘The Imitation Game’

The Imitation Game Movie.com

Quotes of the Week:

I can’t wait for the new TV series “I’m A Celebrity, Land Me On A Comet And Leave Me There!” @telescoper

“I can forgive Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.” GB Shaw

Is there any academic discipline more misused, abused, and misunderstood than History? @Eganhistory

“History has to be observed. Otherwise it’s not history. It’s just . . . things happening one after another.” ― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY:

Yovisto: Eugene Wigner and the Structure of the Atomic Nucleus

Eugene Paul Wigner (1902-1995)

AIP: Oral History Transcript – Dr Eugene Wigner

The New York Times: Is Quantum Entanglement Real

Now Appearing: The most obscure physics laureate?

Royal Museums Greenwich: From sundials to caesium – a brief (140 characters) history of time

Image: National Maritime Museum

Atomic Heritage Foundation: The Soviet Hydrogen Bomb Program

Yovisto: Alfonso X from Spain and the Alfonsine Tables

John D. Cook: How medieval astronomers made trig tables

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

Londonist: The British Library Searches For A Northwest Passage

The Bookhunter on Safari: Lines in the Ice

The Guardian: Chilling History: the men who hunted the elusive Northwest Passage

Tetrapod Zoology: Chet van Duzer’s Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps

Compasswallah: The Compass of Kãlidãsa

British Library: Maps and views blog: These maps were made for walking

Ptak Science Books: A Bestiary of Maps

John Bull and His Friends. A Serio-Comic Map of Europe By Fred W. Rose…

Academia.edu: Map of Asia Minor with Greek Names

Ptak Science Books: Visionary Maps: the Earth Without Water, 1694

Compasswallah: The Double-Edged Map

MEDICINE:

The Atlantic: Why No One Can Design a Better Speculum

Perceptions of Pregnancy: Megetia’s jaw: a rare historical insight into hyperemesis gravidarum

The New Yorker: Drool: Ivan Pawlov’s real quest

British Red Cross: Dogs of War: The First Aiders on Four Legs

Gas mask hounds

The Generous Georgian; Dr Richard Mead: Venomous Exhalations

BBC: The self-publicist whose medical text books caused a stir

Notches: Clitoridectomies: Female Genital Mutilation c.1860-2014

The Quack Doctor: Detective Caminada and the quack doctors

The Embryo Project: Dennis Lo (1963- )

Early Modern Medicine: Puppy Water, Beauty’s Help

Image Credit: Wellcome Library London

Dr Alun Withey: Good and Bad Deaths in the Seventeenth Century

Warwick Knowledge Centre: Nigella Seeds: The Vicks Inhaler of Ancient Greece and Modern Day Marrakech

Advances in the History of Psychology: “Hermann von Helmholtz’s Empirico-Transcendentalism Reconsidered”

The New York Times: Willy Burgdorfer, Who Found Bacteria That Caused Lyme Disease , Is Dead at 89

The Chirugeon’s Apprentice: Death is All Around Us: The Plague Pits of London

Yovisto: William Beaumont and the human digestion

The Lancet: Perspectives: The art of medicine: Drugs, alchohol, and the First World War

CHEMISTRY:

The Recipes Project: The Pharmaca of Jozeph Coelho: A Family of Converso Apothecaries in Seventenh-Century Coimbra

Credit: Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, BNP 2259, Pharmaca de Jozeph Coelho (1668), fol. 1r.

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Letters From Gondwana: The Plant Fossil Record and the Extinction Events

The Guardian: Mammoths are a huge part of my life. But cloning them is wrong.

Palaeoblog: Died This Day: Carl Akeley

Wired: Fantastically Wrong: The Scientist Who Seriously Believed Criminals Were Part Ape

Medievalist.net: A Royal Beast and the Menagerie in the Tower

Slate: How One 17^th-Century Artist Produced a Good Painting of an Animal He’d Never Seen

Science in the Making: He Told Animal Stories

Trowelblazers: Katherine Woolley

Natural History Museum: Rare Stegosaurus skeleton to be unveiled at the museum

The Museum’s new Stegosaurus specimen

History of Geology: Earth’s Age and the Cosmic Calendar

Notches: Mau Mau, anti-colonialism and “female genital mutilation”

Slate: Beautiful, Terrible Watercolors of a 19^th-Century Whale Hunt, Found in a Ship’s Logbook

Natural History Museum: Evolution pioneer’s illegible notebook brought back to life

Thinking Like a Mountain: (Re)Introducing the Capercaillie to Scotland, 1837-1900

Taylor & Francis Online: Brass for Brains: Lord Kelvin and tide prediction

The Embryo Project: Edwin Grant Conklin

Wallifaction: Piltdown Man

Business Insider UK: Researchers Found Something Amazing When They Autopsied A 40, 00-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth

Nature: Lucy discoverer on the ancestor people relate to

The Guardian: Shelf Life: 33 Million Things

Terrain.org: The Library of Ice by Nancy Campbell

Kestrels and Cerevisiae: The Turkey

Pierre Belon du Mans, L’histoire de la nature des oyseaux, 1555:

TECHNOLOGY:

Internet Society: Brief History of the Internet

Conciatore: Cardinal del Monte Reprise

Active History.ca: History Matters: ‘It’s history, like it or not’: the Significance of Sudbury’s Superstack

Inside the Science Museum: How did tea and cake help start s computing revolution?

Leo I electronic computer, c 1960s (Image: Science Museum)

University of Toronto: Scientific Instrument Collection: For the Birds: The Bird Behaviour Recorder

The Atlantic: Old, Weird Tech: John Muir Mechanical GTD Desk Edition

Motherboard: The Evolution of Planetary Rovers in Pictures

Slate: The Golden Age of Telegraph Literature

My medieval foundry: The origin and use of bellows, especially in medieval Europe

NPR: How Kodak’s Shirley Cards Set Photography’s Skin-Tone Standard

How We Get To Next: The Big Cooking Geek Trend of 1911, Paper Bags

Science Museum: Automatic tea-making machine (1902-10)

Auttomatic Tea-Making Machine built by Albert E Richardson, a clockmaker from Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. (Image: Science Museum)

Yovisto: Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Suez Canal

Giacomo Parrinello: Aqueducts 1800-1940: An Animated Map

NYAM: A Different Kind of Flush

Christie’s: A British Typex Cipher Machine

Atlas Obscura: Barthman’s Sidewalk Clock

Brand Thinking: Do You Remember When Printing Was Still a New Technology?

META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

Eccentric Parabola: Peter Hopkirk – Historian of the Great Game

Fortune: Can we survive technology (Fortune 1955) John von Neumann

Remedia: Archive Magpie Vol. 2

Guardian: Exhibition review: Into the orgasmatron! The Institute of Sexology hits the spot

Thinking inside the box … Stephen Moss sits inside an ‘orgone accumulator’. Photograph: David Levene

Historiens de la santé: History of Psychiatry December 2014; 25 (4) Contents

Productive (adj) A lively look at work-life balance: How to attend a conference with a baby

The Royal Society: The Repository: An alternative philosophical supper

Corpus Newtonicum: SIN Meets LSA

THE: Wellcome Trust announces major funding scheme changes

Wellcome Trust: Wellcome Trust unveils new funding framework

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: Historicizing Big Data

Qatar Digital Library: Why were so many of the Greek-Arabic Translators Christians?

New APPS: In memoriam Patrick Suppes

Historiens de la santé: Social History of Medicine Vol. 27 (4) Contents

The Conversation: Sorry minister, but philistinism is not an educational policy

BBC: Imperial War Museum library closure petition launched

Science Book a Day: Interviews Philip Ball

Brain Pickings: A Visual Timeline of the Future Based on Famous Fiction

Royal Historical Society: Public History Prize

Doctor or Doctress: Exploring American history through the eyes of women physicians

University of Edinburgh: Paper (OA): Science and sociability: Women as audience at the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1831-1901 @beckyfh

SHOT 2014: Tweets Storified

ESOTERIC:

Medievalist.net: The Book of Felicity

Conciatore: The Dominican Connection

Mitteldeutsche Zeitung: 500 Jahre alte Alchemistenwerkstatt in Wittenberg

Restauratorin Vera Keil vom Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte begutachtet Hinterlassenschaften einer rund 500 Jahre alten Alchemistenwerkstatt. (BILD: DPA)

History of Alchemy: Elizabeth I and Alchemy (podcast)

BOOK REVIEWS:

Double Refraction: How to end the science wars: a review of Harry Collins and Jay Labinger, The One Culture? A Conversation About Science, part I/II

Forbes: A Magisterial Synthesis of Apes and Human Evolution

Professor Russell H. Tuttle, University of Chicago. Image courtesy of Phys.org.

NEW BOOKS:

Chicago Tribune: James Watson on ‘Father to Son’

The H-Word: History of science books: Pickstone Prize shortlist announced

h-madness: A new biography of Freud by Élisabeth Roudinesco

John Tyndall Correspondence Project: Vol. 1 of the Tyndall Correspondence is nearing publication!

Pickering & Chatto: Brewing Science, Technology and Print, 1700-1880 now available as eBook

Historiens de la santé: The Recent History of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)

Historiens de la santé: Medical Monopoly. Intellectual Property rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry Joseph M. Gabriel

THEATRE:

FILM:

The Huffington Post: Sir Isaac Newton and the Inadvertent Feminist

TELEVISION:

VIDEOS:

OSU: Special Collections & Archives: “The Live and Work of Linus Pauling (1901-1994): A Discourse of the Art of Biography”

Vimeo: The Earth is Round! The Image of the Earth in the Middle Ages

Vimeo: The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries

American Museum of Natural History: Shelf Life: Episode One: 33 Million Things

Youtube: Jocelyn Bell Burnell – Pulsar Discovery

Youtube: Trust in Science workshop in Toronto

Youtube: Museums and STEM Engagement: Objects of Invention

CBS News: Almanac: Vacuum Tubes

Youtube: Introduction to the Board of Longitude

RADIO:

PODCASTS:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

CHOMI: University of Ulster: History of Medicine Essay Prize 2015

Durham Medieval Philosophy Lab: The Medieval Mind Lecture Series 2014-2015 Preliminary Schedule

Umeå University: The Anthropocene – A History of the World (course)

University of Oxford: Faculty of English: CfP: Medicine of Words: Literature, Medicine, and Theology in the Middle Ages 11-12 September 2015

Aarhus University: Centre for Science Studies: CfP: Biannual meeting of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice 24-26 June 2015

Royal Historical Society: Public History Prize

Miami University: Kimberly Hamlin honored with Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize

Wellcome Collection: Exhibition: The Institute of Sexology 20 Nov 2014-20 Sept 2015

H-memory: CfP: “Material traces of Mass Death – the exhumed object” France Nov 2015

Chemical Heritage Foundation: Exhibition: Books of Secrets: reading & writing alchemy Opening Friday 5 December 2014

An Alchemist in His Laboratory, follower of Gerrit Dou, 17th century, oil on panel. Courtesy of Roy Eddleman.

Royal Historical Society: CfP: An Honourable Death Birkbeck, University of London 9 May 2015

EAHMH: CfP: Biennial conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health Cologne Germany 2-5 September 2015

Writing Fieldwork: CfP: Two-day symposium on fieldwork, its history, and the place of writing and texts within it. Princeton University 24-25 April 2015

Society for the History of Chemistry and Alchemy: Making Chemistry: History, Materials, and Practices: Royal Institution and Institute of Making, UCL, London 8 December 2014

University of Southampton: CfP: Cannibalism in the Early Modern Atlantic 15-16 June 2015

The Harvard Crimson: Professor Wins History of Science Award

Royal Museums Greenwich: Lecture: The Knowledge: How to Rebuild our World from Scratch 27 November

LOOKING FOR WORK:

Port Towns & Urban Culture: Come and work with us! Lecturer/ Research Fellows in Naval History

University of Manchester: Research Fellow in the History of Biology/Medicine

Science Museum Group: Current Vacancies

University of Oxford: Over 900 Scholarships for new graduate students at Oxford in 2015-16

Queen Mary University of London: Postgraduate Research Studentships

University of Portsmouth: Lecturer/Research Fellow in the History of the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail, circa 1660-1815

Wellcome Trust: Portfolio Development Manager: Medical Humanities

Wellcome Trust: Senior Project Manager

Whewell’s Gazette

Your weekly digest of all the best of

Internet history of science, technology and medicine

Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell

Volume #24

Monday 01 December 2014

EDITORIAL:

The 24^th edition of your weekly #histSTM links list Whewell’s Gazette is dominated for the second week in a row by the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game. This time the film reviews are collected under the film heading. Unfortunately many of the ill informed review writers claim, inaccurately, that Turing invented the computer. This led our chief sub-editor to write a post on his other blog, The Renaissance Mathematicus, “Mega inanity”, that you can find under the technology heading. This of course raises the general question how (historical) accurate #histSTM films should be. Our chief sub-editor, being somewhat of a #histSTM pedant, thinks there should be very accurate, others allow for a fair amount of poetic license in the interest of entertainment. We don’t quite understand why a #histSTM film can’t be both accurate and entertaining. What do the readers think?

Birthday of the week: Darwin’s Origin of Species published 24 November 1859

Celebrate the birthday of Origins by becoming A Friend of Charles Darwin

Yovisto: Charles Darwin and the Natural Selection

The Embryo Project: The Origin of Species: “Chapter Thirteen: Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs” (1859), by Charles R. Darwin

The Talk Origins Archive: Chapter 14: Recapitulation and Conclusion

University of Cambridge: The evolution of Darwin’s Origins: Cambridge releases 12, 000 papers online

Open Culture: 16,000 Pages of Charles Darwin’s Writings on Evolution Now Digitized and Available Online

Open Culture: Darwin: A 1993 Film by Peter Greenaway

Quotes of the Week:

Erwin Schrödinger’s daughter, as quoted by Jim Hartle: “I think my father just didn’t like cats.” h/t @seanmcarroll

The ‘great man’ theory of history is in trouble. Will a saviour emerge to preserve it? @historyscientis

Philosophy is a science where the lab bench is a blank page. @DublinSoil

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” – Douglas Adams” h/t @AcademicsSay

PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY:

Voices of the Manhattan Project: George Allen’s interview

Physics Central: physics buzz blog: Artifacts From the Archives

The New York Times: On the Trail of an Ancient Mystery

BBC: John Bell: Belfast street to be named after physicist

Yovisto: Peiresc and the Orion Nebula

Peiresc’s notes recording his first observation of the Orion Nebula

Nautilus: Your Brain Can’t Handle the Moon

Space Watchtower: Buhl Planetarium Scale-Model Joins Miniature Railroad and Village

Yovisto: Anders Celsius and the Celsius Scale of Temperature

The Guardian: The medieval bishop who helped to unweave the rainbow

Blink: Fearsome symmetry

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

Smithsonian.com: John Smith Coined the Term New England on This 1616 Map

University of Cambridge: Research: The lady of longitude

MEDICINE:

The Generous Georgian: Dr Richard Mead: Poisonous Experiments

19^th Century Disability: Day at the Archives

The Recipes Project: Two ‘Infallible’ Missionary Cures in Seventeenth-century Southeast Asia

Wellcome Collection blog: Henry Wellcome’s Anatomical Venus

The Women’s Blog: The history od feminine hygiene products is far from peachy

Panacea: What a Pain: Early Modern Migraine Treatments

A veritable “How to Trepan” guide from Scultetus (1674)

The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice: Holding a Book Bound in Human Skin

O Say Can You See?: How do you cure a historic hangover?

NCBI: Myths in medicine. Jenner did not discover vaccination

Slate: The Vault: A 17^th-Century Argument for the Many Virtues of Coffee, Chocolate, and Tea

CHEMISTRY:

Conciatore: More on Manganese

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Notches: Believe It: Finding Religion in the History of U.S. Sexuality.

Scientific American: Observations: The Fossil That Revolutionized the Search for Human Origins: A Q&A with Lucy Discoverer Donald Johanson

Donald Johanson and Tom Gray at Hadar in 1974. Image: Courtesy Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University

BBC: Earth; The “Lucy” fossil rewrote the story of humanity

The Embryo Project: Nikolai Ivanovic Vavilov (1887-1943)

Science News: Golden Fleece myth was based on real events, geologists contend

History of Geology: Geological Treasures in Ancient Egypt

Yovisto: Georg Forster – Naturalist and Revolutionary

Skeptoid: Griffins

Michael Roberts 4004: Peddling and Scaling God and Darwin

The Appendix: The Emperor’s Turkey

The Atlantic: Why Americans Call Turkey ‘Turkey’

The Embryo Project: Karl Ernst von Baer

Yovisto: John Lloyd Stephens and the Archaeology of Middle America

Palaeoblog: Born This Day: Dunkinfield Henry Scott

The Embryo Project: The Hayfink Limit

TECHNOLOGY:

Conciatore: A Matter of Plagiarism Reprise

The Telegraph: The 10 moments that changed science and engineering: in pictures

Wired: The Surprising Complexity of Old-School Calculators

Instrumenten Teylers Museum: Elektromotor Watkins & Hill 1843

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Mega inanity

Wired: How the World’s First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap

Antiquarian Horological Society: Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805–1871) From mechanical to electrical horology (PDF)

Science Museum: Online Science: BESM-6 supercomputer, 1968-1987

META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

Harvard Gazette: A lifetime of scholarship recognized

Philly.com: Peter H. Sellers, 84, scientist

The University of Chicago Press: Chicago to Publish New Journal: History of Humanities

Leaping Robot: Of Geese, Gravity, and Subjective Science

THE MOON GOOSE EXPERIMENT Island of the Sacred Scarab, launch pad, in the River Ob, near Novosibirsk, RU, 1st Aug. 2008, photograph @ Agnes Meyer-Brandis, VG-Bildkunst

Advocate.com: Op-ed: How Gay Genius Alan Turing Got Me Through Middle School

Christie’s: Auction: Dr. James D. Watson’s Nobel Medal and Related Papers

BBC: James Watson to auction Nobel Prize for DNA discovery

Open Culture: Download 110 Free Philosophy eBooks: From Aristotle to Nietzche & Wittgenstein

The Alfred Russel Wallace Website: Alfred Russel Wallace and Enthusiasts

Boingboing: The scientist who studies scientists – An interview with Harry Collins

Stanford News: Patrick Suppes, Stanford philosopher, scientist and Silicon Valley entrepreneur, dies at 92

Yovisto: Norbert Wiener and the Science of Cybernetics

BSHS: Great Exhibitions 2014 Winners

The Stroppy Editor: Physician, explain thyself: science English vs lay English

Science Book a Day: Interviews Michael Brooks

Wellcome Trust: Wellcome Library funds a new partnership to digitize 800,000 pages of mental health archives

I Think of Icarus: Who’s Talking?

Ambix.org: Chemical Intelligence No. 12 November 2014

The Grote Club: New history of science and history of philosophy blog (highly recommended)

The Telegraph: How Churchill gave us tanks, radar, DNA…and a velvet green air-raid suit

Churchill giving a broadcast during World War 2, wearing a siren suit

ESOTERIC:

Live Science: Ancient Egyptian Handbook of Spells Deciphered

Timeline Photos: The Easter Holidays: Maskelyne and Cooke’s Dark Séance at the Egyptian Hall

Distillatio: The place of bellows in alchemy

Breughel’s famous drawing of an alchemist and his family

Academic.edu: Casts of mind: the social life of Rammohun Roy’s skull

BOOK REVIEWS:

Rosetta Stones: Dana’s Super-Gargantuan Guide to Science Books Suitable for Gift-Giving

Penguin Classics: Alfred Russel Wallace by Dr. George Beccaloni

FIVE: Jonathan Israel on the Enlightenment

Book Power: Athene Donald on J.E. Gordon

Physics World.com: Top physics books for 2014

NEW BOOKS:

VRIN: La Philosophie Islamique

Swarthmore Phoenix: Science and history merge in alumni children’s book

The Dispersal of Darwin: Darwin’s Orchids: Then and Now

Psychedelic Press UK: Reimprinting Timothy Leary: An Interview with James Penner

Elsevier: Alan Turing: His Work and Impact

Historiens de la santé: Histoire de l’Hôpital Sainte-Anne de Baie-Saint-Paul. Dans Charlevoix, tout se berce – Margaret Porter Lucia Ferretti 

Historiens de la santé: La mise en scène du corps sous la direction de E. Chauvet et J. Rouassi

THEATRE:

UCL: Keep the Candle Burning: A re-enactment of Michael Faraday’s famous Christmas Lectures Thursday 11 December 2014

FILM:

The Guardian: Alan Turing was one of many heroes at Bletchley Park

Flavourwire: ‘The Imitation Game’ and the Intellectual Charisma of Benedict Cumberbatch

According to Benedict: The Imitation Game Exhibition at Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park Research: Dr Sue Black on ‘The Imitation Game Art Imitating Real Life’

Reuters: Benedict Cumberbatch hails unsung hero in “The Imitation Game”

New York Post: The shocking true story behind ‘The Imitation Game”

Panarmenian.net: Benedict Cumberbatch’s “Imitation Game” to open Italy’s Capri Fest

Washington Square News: ‘The Imitation Game’ boasts rich emotions

Engineering & Technology Magazine: The Imitation Game: the author of the book of the film

Greg in Hollywood: Dave Karger interviews Benedict Cumbebatch about “The Imitation Game” for Fandango

Roger Ebert.com: The Imitation Game

The Guardian: The Imitation Game: how Alan Turing played dumb to fool US intelligence

Slate: How Great Is The Imitation Game

Deadline: ‘The Imitation Game’ Review: Pete Hammond on Cumberbatch’s Enigma

Bing: The Imitation Game: Matthew Goode Exclusive TIFF Premiere Interview

Youtube: “The Imitation Game” Review

Deadline: ‘The Imitation Game’ For Real: Year’s 2^nd-Best Debut Per Theatre

Pri: Benedict Cumberbatch takes on another brilliantly awkward role as the man who brought computers to the world

USA Today: ‘Imitation Day’ breaks into box office in a big way

TELEVISION:

SLIDE SHARE:

The Celestial Cinema: a talk by Compasswallah

The History of Symmetry: a talk by Compasswallah

VIDEOS:

Youtube: The surprisingly old story of London’s first ever electric taxi on display at the Science Museum

Twisted Sifter: Tesla Portrait Made from Sparks of Electricity

Youtube: Albert Einstein – How I See the World

Ri Channel: Lawrence Bragg: The Nature of Things

RADIO:

PODCASTS:

Warwick Podcast Browser: Medieval Islamic Medicine (7 podcasts)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Environmental Studies Association of Canada: call for proposals: ESAC Conference 2015

University of Birmingham: Conferences

Museum: Portfolio: CfP: Museum Ideas: Innovations in Theory and Practice

BSHS: CfP: British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference 2015

2 – 5 July 2015, Swansea University

Chemical Heritage Foundation: Brown Bag Lecture: “The Optel Affair: The Curious Story of the First LCD Spin-off” 2 December 2014 12:00-1:00 pm

University of Groningen: CfP: Early Modern Women on Metaphysics, Religion, and Science 21-31 March 2016

BSHS: The British Society for the History of Science invites book nominations for the 2015 Dingle Prize.

University of Exeter: Call for papers: PJMH: The Postgraduate Journal of Medical Humanities

Social History Society: CfP: SHS Conference 2015 31 March-2 April 2015

Durham University Centre for Medical Humanities: Seminar: Men, masculinity and infertility – Alan Dolan 10 Dec 2014

University of Paris: Healthism & Self-Care Conference 12 December 2014

Historiens de la santé: Repenser l’histoire de l’hôpital: le centre et les marges (XIXe-XXIe siècles) IUHMSP 5 Décembre 2014

A Philosopher’s Take: CFP: University of Calgary’s 4th Annual Philosophy Graduate Student Conference “Philosophy of Science” 13-14 March 2015

The Huntington: Exhibition: Vesalius and His Worlds: Medical Illustration During the Renaissance 12-13 December 2014

University of Neuchâtel: Entre l’œil et le monde: dispositifs et expédients d’une nouvelle épistémologie visuelle dans les sciences de la nature (1740-1840) Appel à communications 4-7 Novembre 2015

LOOKING FOR WORK:

THE: Gresham Professor of Astronomy – a position with much history

Sir Christopher Wren The 9th Gresham Professor of Astronomy
Godfrey Kneller’s 1711 portrait

York University of Toronto: Science Faculty: Science and Technology Studies Tenure Track appointment

Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership

University of Oslo: Associate Professor of Philosophy – Two Positions

University of Leeds: 3-6 month postdoctoral fellowships in the history of medicine and other areas of the medical humanities, to be held at the Leeds Humanities Research Institute (LHRI)

MHS Oxford: Modern Collections Curator

University of St Andrews: ISHR Visiting Research Fellowship 2015-16

European University Institute: 160 fully-funded Ph.D. grants available

Operation Wallacea: Alfred Russel Wallace Grants for Outstanding Field Ecologists