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
Year 2, Volume #17
Monday 09 November 2015
EDITORIAL:
Assuming you didn’t blow yourself up on Guy Fawkes Night you are now reading the latest edition of the weekly #histSTM links list, Whewell’s Gazette going off in all directions with all the histories of science, technology and medicine ignited in cyberspace over the last seven days.
The second of November saw a very noteworthy anniversary with the bicentenary of the birth of the mathematician and logician George Boole. Boole’s life is a real rags to mathematical riches story. Born the son of a shoemaker and a housemaid his formal education reached an end at the age of fourteen. A bright lad he became an assistant schoolmaster at the age of sixteen and set up his own small private school whilst only just nineteen. However his true passion was mathematics. Having learnt Latin and Greek as a child he taught himself modern French, Italian and German in order to be able to read the latest continental mathematics; England lagging far behind the continent in mathematics in the early nineteenth century. Already at the age of twenty-four he began publishing papers on cutting edge subjects with the active assistance Of the Cambridge University fellow, Duncan Gregory, a great-great-grandson of Newton’s contemporary James Gregory.
In the late 1840s the British Government decide to set up new universities in Ireland, the Queen’s Colleges of Belfast, Cork and Galway. Boole by now an acknowledged mathematician with a solid reputation decided, with the support of his friends, to apply for a teaching position. One must remember that he had no formal qualifications but with an application that was supported by testimonials from the elite of the then British scientific establishment he was appointed to the professorship of mathematics at Queen’s College Cork in 1849.
Boole was a successful and respected university teacher and would go on to write and publish important textbooks on differential equations and the calculus of finite differences as well as about fifty papers on diverse topic, winning several important awards. If he had never written anything on logic he would still be counted as one of the leading nineteenth-century British mathematicians but is for his work in logic that he mainly remembered today.
In two works, The Mathematical Analysis of Logic from 1847 and An Investigation of The Laws of Thought from 1854, Boole set out his logical algebra, a two-valued logic of classes. Receiving scant attention before his untimely death in 1864 Boolean logic or Boolean algebra, as it is now known went on, in the hands of others, such as C. S. Peirce and Ernst Schröder, to become a powerful analytical tool before being superceded in the 1920s by the mathematical logic of Whitehead and Russell’s Principia.
Just as it seem destined to fade into obscurity it was rediscovered as a perfect medium for the design of electric switching circuits thus going on to become the design tool for the circuitry of the electronic computer on which I’m typing this editorial. As the circuitry of the hardware was two valued it followed that the programmes that run on that circuitry should also contain Boole’s logic at their core.
The self educated son of a cobbler unknowingly delivered the heart of the computer age, as he turned his attention to symbolic logic almost 170 years ago and so it was that the bicentenary of his birth was acknowledge and celebrated last Monday not only in his birthplace Lincoln and in Cork but all over the world.
George Boole born 2 November 1815
Google: George Boole’s 200th Birthday
George Boole 200: Celebrating George Boole’s Bicentenary
Yovisto: George Boole – The Founder of Modern Logic
Time: New Google Doodle Honors Prolific Mathematician George Boole’s 200th Birthday
Sydney Padua: Happy 200th Birthday George Boole!
Irish Philosophy: Ones and Zeros
The River-side: George Boole blog posts
Scientific American: The Bicentennial of George Boole, the Man Who Laid the Foundations of the Digital Age
UCC Library: Boole Papers
Dan Cohen: George Boole at 200: The Emotion Behind the Logic
BBC: Magazine Monitor: George Boole and the AND OR NOT gates
BBC: World at One: Marcus on Boole
Silicon Republic: 6 Disciplines Georg Boole revolutionised
Open Plaques: George Boole (1815–1864)
facebook: Capturing George Boole Day at UCC
Stephen Wolfram Blog: George Boole: A 200-Year View
Nature: Smooth operator
RTE Player: Film: The Genius of George Boole
Irish Philosophy: George Boole Day – Bicentenary Links [an even longer links list than the one here!]
Quotes of the week:
Joseph Needham
“Thomas D’Urfey d.1723, poet, wit, author (e.g. of a book titled ‘The Fart’) who said that “the principle business of life is to enjoy it”!” – Alun Withey (@DrAlun)
“My computer is actually based on Babbage’s lesser known creation; “The Indifference Engine.”
Or maybe it isn’t. I don’t really care”. – Sarcastic Rover (@SarcasticRover)
“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” – Howard Aiken h/t @JohnDCook
Last letter of Capt Charles Clerke to Joseph Banks always gets to me. Clerke died in the Bering Sea while commanding the last Cook Exped. His concerns are duty to country, getting specimens to Banks, and asking that Banks take on patronage for Clerke’s men. ‘Now my dear & honoured friend I must bid you a final adieu; may you enjoy many happy years in this world, & in the end ‘attain that fame your indefatigable industry so richly deserves.’ *sheds a tear* – Cathryn Pearce (@CathrynPearce)
“Though I love chemistry much – very much, I love botany more!” – John Torrey h/t
@KewDC
“Botany I assure you, my dear Sir, is with me a far more pleasant subject to write on, than Cholera” – Charles Short h/t @KewDC
A telegraph company’s answer to Bell’s offer to sell them the telephone patent
“On this day in history, people who have since been forgotten created things that will never be found nor understood” – Night Vale Podcast
“The limits to my, and all historians’, knowledge and expertise. Lest we forget” – Tina Adcock (@TinaAdcock)
“Today I learned about chicken phrenology. This was a thing. It predicted chicken productivity. I don’t know what to do with this info”. – Michael Egan (@EganHistory)
“I said that the only thing to be learned from history is that there is nothing to learn”. – Emil du Bois-Reymond
“For the astronomer and the physicist may both prove the same conclusion — that the earth, for instance, is round.” – Thomas Aquinas h/t @JohnDCook
“There is TOO MUCH STUFF. Of all kinds. Please stop making/discovering it”. – Matthew Cobb (@matthewcobb)
“The outer circles of hell are slightly softer, while the centre remains quite firm to the bite” – Al Dente’s Inferno. – @NickMotown
Birthdays of the Week:
Lise Meitner born 7 November 1878
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Unsung! I hardly think so.
AHF: Lise Meitner
CHF: Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassmann
Marie Curie born 7 November 1867
CHF: We’re History: Marie Curie Led Science – and Women Scientists – to a New Age
AHF: Marie Curie
Brain Pickings: Radioactive: The Incredible Story of Marie Curie Told in Cyanotype
Pierre and Marie Curie
Source: Wikimedia Commons
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Yovisto: The Arecibo Radio Telescope – Looking for Extraterrestrial Signals
Cosmology: Carnegie Science: 1920: Harlow Shapley Finds Our Place in the Milky Way
Physics Today: Arch and scaffold: How Einstein found his field equations
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Robert Nobles and William Sturm’s Interview – Part 2
NASA: 15 Years of Station Told in 15 Gifs
Source: The Guardian
The Guardian: 15 years of the International Space Station – in pictures
Yovisto: Howard Shapley and the Milky Way
FQXi Blogs: Losing Neil Armstrong
AHF: Plutonium
AIP: Nick Holonyak
Motherboard: Why We Still Want Laika the Space Dog to Come Home
Laika in her final resting place. Image: National Space Science Data Center
NEWS! From the Naval Observatory: New Research Explains Moving Meridian Mystery
Voices of the Manhattan Project: General Leslie Groves’s Interview
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Paula and Ludwig Bruggemann’s Interview
Telegraph & Argos: Celebrating the life of Fred Hoyle, who coined the term Big Bang Theory
The New Yorker: Tangled Up In Entanglement
Quanta Magazine: Einstein’s Parable of Quantum Insanity
Institute of Advanced Studies: The Advent and Fallout of EPR
AHF: Norman Ramsey
Restricted Data. The Nuclear Secrecy Blog: The doubts of J. Robert Oppenheimer
The New York Times: How Politics Shaped General Relativity
Motherboard: The Online Afterlife of Manhattan Project Physicist Philip Morrison
AHF: Phillip Morrison
Phys Org: On the 120th anniversary of the X-ray, a look at how it changed our view of the world
Hand mit Ringen (Hand with Rings): print of Wilhelm Röntgen’s first “medical” X-ray, of his wife’s hand, taken on 22 December 1895 and presented to Ludwig Zehnder of the Physik Institut, University of Freiburg, on 1 January 1896
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Universe Today: Who Was Galileo Galilei?
Universe Today: Who Was Christiaan Huygens?
Popular Science: When We First Saw The Far Side of the Moon
Princeton University Press Blog: Feynman on the historic debate between Einstein & Bohr
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Herbert G. Ponting (British, 1870 – 1935)
“Vida”, one of the best of the dogs used by Capt. Smith on his South Pole Expedition (1910 – 1913)., about 1912,
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
British Library: Maps and views blog: Magnificent Maps of New York
Ptak Science Books: The End is Near for You: Germany, May, 1945
Slate Vault: These 18th– and 19th-Century “Dissected Maps” Were the First Jigsaw Puzzles
Worlds Revealed Geography and Maps at The Library of Congress: Of Maps and Data
BBC News: National Library shares 2nd Century Ptolemy map image
UVA Today: McGregor Library Offers Rare Digital History of the Americas
Christie’s The Art People: CAO, JUNYI (FL. 1644). TIANXIA JIUBIAN FENYIE RENJI LUCHENG QUANTU. [A COMPREHENSIVE MAP OF THE KINGDOM OF CHINA AND NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES.] NANJING: BEGINNING OF SUMMER IN THE 17TH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF EMPEROR CHONGZHEN [I.E. 1644].
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Hyperallergic: 15 Million Pages of Medical History Are Going Online
Dr Alun Withey: BBC Free Thinking Feature: Bamburgh Castle Surgery, c. 1770–1800
Remedia: Amateur Surgeon of Dutiful Citizen? The First Aid Movement in the Nineteenth Century
Cartoon from Punch , 1914. Doctor (at Ambulance Class) ‘My dear lady, do you realise that his lad’s ankle was supposed to be broken before you bandaged it?’ © Wellcome Images, Wellcome Library, London.
Fugitive Leaves: Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister, and the Mystery of the Smudged Date
Atlas Obscura: Object of Intrigue: The Prosthetic Iron Hand of a 16th-Century Knight
Historic UK: The Reputed Plague Pits of London
Medical Library: The Bamberg Surgery: An early European surgical text
A Covent Garden Gilflirt’s Guide to Life: For the Patient Who Has Everything…
Hopes & Fears: From lemon rinds to knitting needles: A visual history of abortion and birth control
MOTHER SHOWER SYRINGES
Medievalists.net: Nursing and Caring: An Historical Overview from Anciet Greek Tradition to Modern Times
Harvard School of Dental Medicine: History
Dangerous Minds: The Literal Origins of the Phrase ‘Don’t Blow Smoke Up My Ass’
Thomas Morris: The rocket man
BT: Ingenious: Remembering the Post Office’s role in creating the first NHS hearing aid
Royal Museums Greenwich: ‘God preserve us all!’: Samuel Pepys and the Great Plague
Technological Stories: What If Beddoes & Davy Had Attempted Surgical Anesthesia in 1799?
Wonders & Marvels: The Unmanly Art of Breastfeeding in the Eighteenth Century
Library Company: The Library Company of Philadelphia Consults Aristotle’s Masterpiece
Origins of Science as a Visual Pursuit: Networking with a Book, or How Vesalius Gave away his Complimentary Copies of the Fabrica
The Public Domain Review: Georg Bartisch’ Ophthalmodouleia (1583)
L0078612 Folio 218 recto, Bartisch, Ophthalmodouleia, 1583.
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
images@wellcome.ac.uk
http://wellcomeimages.org
Coloured woodcut of a woman with an enlarged and protruding eyeball.
Coloured Woodcut
1583 Ophthalmodouleia. Das ist Augendienst. Newer vnd wolgegr√ºndter Bericht von Ursachen vnd Erkentn√ºs aller Gebrechen, Sch√§den vnd M√§ngel der Augen vnd des Gesichtes, wie man solchen anfenglich mit geb√ºrlichen mitteln begegenen, vorkommen vnd wehren, auch wie man alle solche gebresten k√ºnstlich durch Artzney, Instrument vnd Handgrieffe curiren, wircken vnd vertreiben sol … /
George Bartisch
Published: 1583.
Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Mental Floss: 6 Ways Europe’s Best Doctors Tried to Cure Beethoven’s Deafness
BuzzFeed: Morbidly Beautiful Pictures Reveal the Horror of Surgery in the Victorian Era
O Say Can You See: The peace gun
Mental Floss: 11 Weird Old-School Plastic Surgery Techniques
TECHNOLOGY:
Anita Guerrini: The Moving Skeleton
Conciatore: Galileo and Glass
Open Culture: How Film Was Made in 1958: A Kodak Nostalgia Moment
Yovisto: The first Worm hit the Internet 24 Years ago
Yovisto: The Dream of the Largest Aircraft ever built
H-4 Hercules “Spruce Goose”
Yovisto: Alexander Lippisch and the Delta Wing
Letters of Note: New Fangled Writing Machine
The Creators Project: Rediscover Failed Eastern Utopias in Stark Winter Photographs
Diseases of Modern Life: Captivating respiration: the ‘Breathing Napoleon’
Yovisto: Alois Senefelder revolutionized Printing Technology
Yovisto: The Cornier Do X – the World’s Largest Seaplane
Conciatore: Lake of Flowers
University of Washington: University Libraries: Digital Collections: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collection
Design is Fine History is Mine: Joseph Edmonson Mechanical calculator
B1131-2 Calculator, mechanical, Edmondson’s
Patent, for addition and substraction, brass
and steel mechansim, in polished wooden
case with brass handles, W F Stanley,
London, England, 1880
Ptak Science Books: Measuring Things with Mountains & the German Big Gun of WWI (1918)
Ptak Science Books: Sound Landscapes of Lost Acoustics
New-York Historical Society: Silicon City: Computer History Made in New York
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Niche: When Blue Meets Green: The Intersection of Workers and Environmentalists
Niche: Seeing the Forest (Workers) for the Trees: Environment and Labour History in New Brunswick Forest
Science News: New fascination with Earth’s ‘Boring Billion’
Electronic Scholarly Publishing: Free Online Book: A History of Genetics by A. H. Sturtevent
AGU Blogosphere: Norman Bowen’s Papers
Letters from Gondwana: Darwin and the Flowering Plant Evolution in South America
Gizmodo: This Was the First Murder Solved Using Geology
Concocting History: The birth of roses
us10.campaign.com: Gertrude Bell: Archaeologist, Writer, Explorer
Science League of America: Evolution for John Doe, Part 2
Embryo Project: August Friedrich Leopold Weismann (1834–1914)
The Guardian: Scientists warned the US president about global warming 50 years ago today
Embryo Project: Oviraptor philoceratops Dinosaurs
York Dispatch News: Scientists discuss ‘What if?’ scenario in Dover intelligent-design case
Palaeoblog: Died This Day: Henry Fairfield Osborn
The Alfred Russel Wallace Website: Wallace’s megapode mystery…
Active History: What about the people? Place, memory, and Industrial Pollution in Sudbury
Paige Fossil History: Murdering Their Child: Wallace, Darwin, and Human Origins
History of Geology: A.R. Wallace on Geology, Great Glaciers and the Speed of Evolution
CHEMISTRY:
Yovisto: Antoine Lavoisier’s Theory of Combustion
Today in Science History: – November 2 – Thomas Midgely, Jr.
Label for Ethyl Gasoline Additive. Leaded gasoline was one of the major inventions of Thomas Midgley Jr.
Academia: The Hidden History of Phlogiston (pdf)
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
Early Modern Experimental Philosophy: Baconian Induction in the Principia
The People’s Daily Morning Star: World-Leading Mathematician and Activist Barry Cooper Dies
JISCM@il: New digital humanities tools
The Recipes Project: First Monday Library Chat: Newberry Library
Project Muse: Bulletin of the History of Medicine: Special Issue Communicating Reproduction Contents Page
The Recipes Project: Introducing… Graduate Student Posts!
BSHS: Reader Project in the History of Science – Survey
Medicine, ancient and modern: A post for the Day of the Dead (All Souls) and Remembrance Day: Galen, Classics and the First World War
Marburg, Issel’s native city, at the turn of the 20th c.
Conciatore: Bibliomaniac
American Science: Can Contributors Change Journals?
Medievalist.net: The Medieval Magazine: Medicine in the Middle Ages (Issue 40)
Chicago Journals: ISIS: Focus: Bounded Rationality and the History of Science
The Recipe Project: Historical Recipes as Sources: A Special Series
History Today: A German scholar living in 17th-century London revolutionised the way scientists shared news of their latest advances
Publishing pioneer: Henry Oldenburg by Jan van Cleve, 1668.
The H-Word: The best history of science fancy dress costumes
Royal College of Physicians: Wartime damage: evidence from the books
CHSTM: Science in the Jungle: The Missionary Mapping and National Imaging of Western Amazonia
Fistful of Cinctans: Subject Specialist Knowledge
Blink: Keepers of ancient peace
The National: Opinion: Recalling the science of Islam’s Golden Age is not enough
Alun Salt: Does history feel better when it has no connection to the past?
ESOTERIC:
Cambridge University Library Special Collections: A Book of Magic
Discover: The Crux: The Man Who Tried to Weigh The Soul
Robert Blair The Grave The Soul hovering over the Body reluctantly parting with Life
Penn Library: Penn in Hand: Selected Manuscripts: Alchemy
Steve Silberman has won the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize for his book NeuroTribes
Youtube: Samuel Johnson Prize Winner Announcement 2015
BBC Arts: Samuel Johnson Prize 2015: Steve Silberman
The Guardian: ‘Hopeful’ study of autism wins Samuel Johnson prize 2015
The Guardian: Steve Silberman on winning the Samuel Johnson prize: ‘I was broke, broke, broke’
‘Science is under attack’ … Silberman, whose book Neurotribes has won the 2015 Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian
The Independent: The publication of Steve Silberman’s Neurotribes will change how we understand autism
The Guardian: My hero: Allen Ginsberg by Steve Silberman
BBC News: Science author Steve Silberman on his book on autism
The Independent: Samuel Johnson Prize 2015: History of autism is first popular science winner of non-fiction book award
BOOK REVIEWS:
THE: Making Nature: The History of a Scientific Journal, by Melinda Baldwin
Science Book a Day: Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again
Brain Pickings: Nature Anatomy: A Glorious Illustrated Love Letter to Curiosity and the Magic of Our World
Science Book a Day: Genius at Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway
Centre for Medical Humanities: The Making of Modern Anthrax, 1875–1920 reviewed by Dr Anne Hanley
Science Book a Day: The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, From One to Infinity
NEW BOOKS:
Rubedo Press: William Lilly’s History of his Life and Times 300 Anniversary Edition
University of Chicago Press: Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform
Gizmodo: How Ta-Nehisis Coates Inspired a Book About the Hunt for Vulcan
MIT News: 3Q: Thomas Levenson on the hunt for Vulcan, the missing planet
Soundcloud: The Hunt for Vulcan by Thomas Levenson, Narrated by Kevin Pariseau
National Geographic: Book Talk: The Hunt for Vulcan, the Planet That Wasn’t There
Harvard University Press: Newton’s Apple and Other Myths about Science
Princeton University Press: An Einstein Encyclopedia
Wiley Online Library: A Companion to the History of American Science
Palgrave: Domesticity in the Making of Modern Science
Historiens de la santé: Les sources du funéraire en France à l’époque contemporaine
New Books in Science; Technology, and Society: The Courtiers’ Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Museum of the History of Science: Henry Moseley: A Scientist Lost to War Runs until 31 January 2016
University of Dundee: A History of Nearly Everything Runs until 28 November 2015
The Huntarian: The Kangaroo and the Moose Runs until 21 February 2016
CLOSING SOON: Royal Society: Seeing closer: 350 years of microscope
Hooke’s microscope, from an engraving in Micrographia.
Source Wikimedia Commons
Science Museum: Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age Runs until 13 March 2016
Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Saturday
Guiding Lights: 500 years of Trinity House and safety at sea Runs till 4 January 2016
THEATRE AND OPERA:
Noel Coward Theatre: Photograph51 Booking until 21 November 2015
Photo 51, showing x-ray diffraction pattern of DNA
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 18 June 2016
FILMS AND EVENTS:
Gresham College: Lecture: Hamilton, Boole and their Algebras 17 November 2015
HSS: Free Showing: Merchants of Doubt Colonial Ballroom, Westin St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, CA 21 November 2015
Social Media Knowledge Exchange: Event: Can social media work for me? Cambridge 19 November
medhumlabmanchester: Launch Event 19 November 2015
ChoM News: Lecture: Studying Traumatic Wounds and Infectious Diseases in the Civil War Hospital Harvard Medical School 19 November 2015
UCL: STS: Talk: Professor Psillos Induction and Natural Necessities Gordon House 17 November 2015
University of London: School of Advanced Studies: Debate: Opening the book: reading and the evolving technology(ies) of the book 10 November 2015
Bodleian Library & Radclife Camera: John Aubrey and the idea of fame 10 November 2015
John Aubrey
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linnean Society: Explore Your Archive: Natural History on Record 16–20 November 2015
CHF: Rohm and Haas Fellow in Focus Lecture: William Newman, “New Light on Isaac Newton’s Alchemy”
UCLA Department of History: Lecture: Lorraine Daston: The Immortal Archives: Nineteenth-Century Science Imagines the Future 17 November 2015
Wellcom Library: Seminar: Executing magic: the healing power of criminal corpses in European popular culture 10 November 2015
The Indian Express: Film on Ramanujan to open IFFI this year, Spain is focus country
The Geological Society: The William Smith Map Bicentenary (1815–2015) Events
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
Charles Lyell: Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former
Changes of the Earth’s Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation
London, 1830–1833
TELEVISION:
Forbes: The History Channel Delves Into Einstein’s Brain
BBC Arts: Samuel Johnson Prize 2015: Steve Silberman
io9: It’s a Fine Line Between Historical Fact and Fiction on Manhattan
AHF: “Manhattan” Series 2, Episode 4: The Indispensable Man
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Youtube: The Carbon Arc Lamp
Youtube: CRASSH: Simon Schaffer – Imitation Games: Conspiratorial Sciences and Intelligent Machines
Youtube: The Geological Society: Apollo and the Geology of the Moon
Youtube: Ralph Baer and Bill Harrison Play Ping-Pong Video Game, 1969
Bridgeman Footage: Clip of the Week: ‘[There is] nowhere I would rather be than in my lab, staining my clothes and getting paid to play’ – Marie Curie
Youtube: Einstein’s Miracle Year: The Road to Relativity
Youtube: Diary of a Snakebite Death
RADIO:
PODCASTS:
Missed in History: Isaac Newton
Comparative Media Studies: MIT: Tom Levenson, Einstein, Mercury, and the Hunt for Vulcan
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Society for the Social History of Medicine: Roy Porter Student Essay Prize
The Mindlin Foundation: Mindlin Science Communication Prize Deadline 15 November 2015
SocPhilSciPract: CfP: Graduate Journal in Hist/Phil/Soc of Science: Pulse
University of Leeds: Workshop 2016: Telecommunications expertise and technologies developed during the First World War
Johns Hopkins University: CfP: The Making of the Humanities V 5–7 October 2016
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: The Mater of Mimesis. Studies on mimesis and materials in nature, art and science 17–18 December 2015
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle/Saale Germany: CfP: Dispersion and Impact in the Indian Ocean World: 23–24 September 2016
BSHS: Call for Nominations: The BSHS John Pickstone Prize
John V Pickstone
Source: Wikimedia Commons
City University of New York: Earth and Environmental Scienvces: Fall 2015 Colloquium Schedule
ESRC: CfP: Dietary Innovation and Disease in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Venice 8–10 June 2016
University of Wuppertal: Workshop: Jesuit early modern science in a digital perspective 26–27 November 2016
Birkbeck College: CfP: After the End of Disease 26–27 May 2016
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: Workshop: History of Scientific Publication 3–4 December 2015
University of Winchester: CfP: Death, Art and Anatomy Conference 3–6 June 2016
Salle des Actes de la faculté de Pharmacie, Paris: Journée d’études: Nicolas Lémery (1645-1715), un savant en son siècle 18 Novembre 2015
L’Université de Sherbrooke: Appel à communications: L’histoire extra-muros : des frontières qui s’élargissent. Regards croisés sur les approches émergentes et l’interdisciplinarité dans la pratique historique 25–26 Février 2016
LOOKING FOR WORK:
University of Exeter: Associate Research Fellow The Medical World of Early Modern England, Ireland and Wales c. 1500–1750
Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia: Three-Year Post-doc fellowship on Vernacular Astronomy and Meteorology in Renaissance Italy
London School of Tropical Hygiene and Medicine: Research Fellow
The Bodleian Library: Visiting Fellowships
University of Leeds: New Postdoctoral Position: Cultures of the Book
University of London: Institute of Historical Research (IHR) Librarian
Wellcome Trust: Special Collections manager X2 Deadline 11 November
University of Leeds: Men, Women and Care: Applications open for 2 ERC funded PhD studentships
H-Sci-Med-Tech: Travel Grants: Duke University’s History of Medicine Collection
Historic Britain: Assistant Science Advisor
Open University: History of Medicine PhD programme 2016
Universal Short Tittle Catalogue: PhD Studentship History of the Book
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