Whewell’s Gazette: Year 2, Vol. #36

ARTFIXdaily: “We Are One: Mapping America’s Road from Revolution to Independence” Will Examine Events Preceding, During and Following the Fight for Freedom from a Cartographic Perspective and Will Open at the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg in March 2016

Lady Science: PCA/ACA Conference Recap

Forbidden Histories: Can Psychotherapists Benefit from History of Science Scholarship? Open Access to my Article on the Psychology of Belief in Histories of Science and the Occult

The Guardian: Olive Anderson obituary

Olive Anderson

OUP: The invention of the information revolution

The Ragged School Museum: Just why does Victorian science rule?

VOX CEPR’s Policy Portal: Purpose-built versus serendipitous innovation links: New survey evidence

Forbidden Histories: Scientific Revolutions and the “Will to Believe”: The Birth of Heliocentrism.

TrowelBlazers: TrowelBlazers 2016 Big Project(s)! – Raising Horizons

bonæ litteræ: Confessions of a Manuscript Researcher

SocPhilSciPract: April History and Philosophy of Science and Science and Technology Notes

ESOTERIC:

Atlas Obscura: Found: Isaac Newton’s Recipe for the Philosopher’s Stone

The Washington Post: Isaac Newton spent a lot of time on junk ‘science’ and this manuscript proves it

Chemical Heritage Foundation

Atlas Obscura: Witch Hunting for Dummies: The 15^th-Century Witchcraft Manual

PBS: Benjamin Franklin: Inquiring Mind: Mesmer

BOOK REVIEWS:

The Guardian: The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind by A C Grayling

New Statesman: The revolutionary science of eighteenth century France

Science Book a Day: Spirals of Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells

Science Book a Day: The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg

History Extra: The astronomer and the witch: Johannes Kepler’s fight to save his mother from execution

Chemistry World: Failure: why science is so successful

Academia: David Beck ed. Knowing Nature in Early Modern Europe

The Argus: Mother of modern witchcraft revealed as Bletchley Park codebreaker

Science: Of humans and mathematical symbols

Scientific American: April Book Reviews Roundup

brainpickings: The Rise of Rocket Girls: The Untold Story of the Remarkable Women Who Powered Space Exploration

NEW BOOKS:

The Hakluyt Society: Sir Joseph Banks, Iceland and the North Atlantic 1772–1820: Journals, Letters and Documents

Historiens de la santé: Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds: Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic

Historiens de la santé: Immunity: How Elie Metchnikoff Changed the Course of Modern Medicine

CUP: The Smoke in London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City

Bloomsbury: The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1650–1850

Historiens de la santé: Cajal and de Castro’s Neurohistological Methods

The MIT Press: The Age of Electroacoustics: Transforming Science and Sound

L’Harmattan: Les Cuissons Alimentaires au Moyen Age

Springer: Early Geological Maps of Europe: Central Europe 1750 to 1840

ART & EXHIBITIONS

Grup d’estudis d’història de la cartografia: Exhibition about Renacentrist cartography in Bergamo 16 April–10 July 2016

Bonner Sterne: “Argelanders Erben” im Universitätsmuseum Bonn bis 31 Juli 2016

Daniels Dies & Das: Eröffnung von “Argelanders Erben”

Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:

Bridging the World: Benjamin Baker of Frome 5 March–21 May 2016

Dittrick Museum: Embracing Digital History: How Medicine Became Modern

Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marsella: “Made in Algeria, généalogie d’un territoire” runs till 2 May 2016

Fine Books & Collections: The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at BPL to Host Exhibit, “From the Sea to the Mountains” 2 April–28 August 2016

Bay Area Reporter: Wonderful worlds of 17th-century China: Asian Art Museum Runs till 8 May 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Scholar courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee 18 January29–July 2016

The National Air and Space Museum: A New Moon Rises: An Exhibition Where Science and Art Meet

Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017

AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016

Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017

Science Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius 10 February 2016–4 September 2016

Wellcome Collections: States of Mind 4 February–16 October 2016

CHF: The Art of Iatrochemistry

University of Oklahoma: Galileo’s World: National Weather Center: Exhibits

ZSL: London Zoo: Discover the fascinating wildlife of Nepal and Northern India

Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm

JHI Blog: Dissenting Voices: Positive/Negative: HIV/AIDS In NYU’s Fales Library

St John’s College: University of Cambridge: Fred Hoyle: An Online Exhibition

Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game

The John Rylands Library: Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World 21 January–21 August 2016

allAfrica: Algeria: Exhibition on Algeria (cartography) Marseille 20 January–2 May 2016

Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15^th and 16^th Centuries

Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility

New York Public Library: Printmaking Women: Three Centuries of Female Printmakers, 1570–1900 Runs till 27 May 2016

Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday

Royal Museums Greenwich: Samuel Pepys Season 20 November 2015–28 March 2016

National Library of Scotland: Plague! A cultural history of contagious diseases in Scotland Runs till 29 May 2016

THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:

Discover Medical London: Medicine at the Movies

Science Museum: Ramanujan: Divining the origins of genius

Independent: Charles Darwin Disney film: Adventure movie will give naturalist the Indiana Jones treatment

The young sea-faring Charles Darwin – seen here in an 1809 portrait – is to be portrayed as an Indiana Jones-style adventurer Alamy

The Rose Theatre: The Alchemist by Ben Jonson 7–30 June 2016

Royal Shakespeare Company: Doctor Faustus Swan Theatre Stratford-Upon-Avon 8 February–4 August 2016

Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 18 June 2016

The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017

Macrobert Arts Centre: The Trials of Galileo

Perth Concert Hall: The Trials of Galileo

Lessons from a Century of Failures and Occasional Successes 21 April 2016

EVENTS:

Warburg Institute: ‘Maps and Society’ Lectures: Dr Elodie Duché ‘Cartography and Captivity during the Napoleonic Conflicts, 1803-1815’ 28 April 2016

CHF: Medicine 1776 24 April 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding

Boston Medical Library: Lecture: Prescription Drug Abuse in American History:

The Polar Museum: Lucky 13 Storytelling from the polar regions of the world 13 May 2016

Frome Museum: Talk: Clash of the Walruses: Was Benjamin Baker Extravagant at his Forth Road Bridge? 27 April 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Dee late: inside Dee’s miraculous mind 9 May 2016

University of Leeds: Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine: Lecture: Object 4: Microscope 19 April 2016

Royal Society: Lecture: Hasok Chang: Who cares about the history of science? 10 May 2016

Restaurant & Weinbauernhaus “Im Sack”, Jena: Vorstellung der neuesten beiden Bücher über Erhard Weigel 23 April 2016

Museum of the History of Science: Marconi Day 23 April 2016

Birkbeck, University of London: The History of Number Theory 21 May 2016

UCL: STS Haldane Lecture: Maja Horst, University of Copenhagen: Reframing Science Communication – Culture, Identity and Organisations 5 May 2016

The Royal Society: Workshop: The Politics of Academic Publishing 1950–2016 22 April 2016 Science Museum: Women Engineers in the Great War and after 23 April 2016

Wren Library Lincoln Cathedral: Lecture: Anna Agnarsdóttir – Sir Joseph Banks and Iceland 28 April 2016

Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)

Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons: People Powered Medicine: A one day public symposium 7 May 2016

Discover Medical London: “Dr Dee” & The Magic of Medicine A Special Half Day Tour 27 May 2016

NYAM: Credits, Thanks and Blame in the Works of Conrad Gessner

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

PAINTING OF THE WEEK:

Huygens’ aerial telescope

TELEVISION:

SLIDE SHOW:

VIDEOS:

Youtube: Delay Lines

Youtube: Ada Lovelace Day 2015

Electric Beats: Browse the History of Electronic Music from 1880 to 2015

Youtube: The Medieval Mind

Youtube: Einstein’s Miracle Year: The Road to Relativity

The Ordered Universe Project: Order, The Universe and Everything: The World of Robert Grosseteste

RADIO & PODCASTS:

The Story: Story about Science: Margaret Geller: Mapping the Universe

BBC Radio 4 Drama: Beyond Endurance

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST: CfP: 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature

University of Illinois, Chicago: CfP: STS Graduate Student Workshop: 16-17 September

Swansea University: Inaugural Lecture 5 May 2016: David Turner: Locating Disability in Britain’s Industrial Revolution

University of Greenwich: Society and the Sea Conference: 15–16 September 2016

Notches: CfP. Histories of Music and Sexuality

University of London: Birkbeck: Thomas Harriot Seminar 2016: 11 July 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century 10–11 September 2016

Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science: Annual Conference Programme 28–30 May 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016

Birkbeck, University of London: CfP: Embarrassing Bodies: Feeling Self-Conscious in the Nineteenth Century 17 June 2016

University of Warwick: Workshop: Early Modern Experimental Philosophy, Metaphysics, and Religion 10–11 May 2016

LOOKING FOR WORK:

Science Friday: Job: Podcast Producer/Reporter

University of Cambridge: University Lecturer in the Sociology of Science and Technology

University of Exeter: AHRC-funded Collaborative PhD Studentship with the University of Exeter and BT Archives: The Cultures of Radio Research in India, circa. 1890-1947

ODNB: Research Bursaries in the Humanities 2016–17

University of Leeds: AHRC-Funded PhD: “The Working Life of Evolutionary Biologists: Exploring the Culture of Scientific Research Through the Personal Archive of John Maynard Smith (1920-2004)”

University of Minnesota: Call for Applications: Travel Fellowship in the History of the Academic Health Center & Health Sciences at the University of Minnesota, 2016-2017

Queen Mary, University of London: Applications Invited for AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Studentship with RNIB: Blindness, Disability, and Literacy in Britain

University of Minnesota: Assistant Professor, History of Science and Technology

University of California – Berkeley: Lecturer – History of Science, Technology, Medicine, Environment, or Quantitative/Computational History – Department of History

Yale University: The Historical Library of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University is pleased to announce its ninth annual Research Travel Award for use of the Historical Library.

University of Illinois at Chicago: Junior Fellowship in Philosophy of Quantum Gravity

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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

Year 2, Volume #37

Monday 25 April 2016

EDITORIAL:

Staying true to form your weekly #histSTM links list Whewell’s Gazette is already running late in only its second week back after its brief hiatus. But it is now here bringing you all that we could scoop up out of the Internet of the histories of science, technology and medicine over the last seven days.

Last week saw a possibly unique award ceremony, as the same house in London was graced not with one but two of those ubiquitous blue plaques signifying the presence in the past of some person of note. What made this particular double award so unique is that both of the notables were Nobel Laureates, however the one,

Caricature of Beckett by Edmund S. Veltman
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Samuel Beckett, for literature,

Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
Source: Nobel Prize org

and the other, Patrick Blackett, for physics.

BBC News: Rare double blue plaque award to home of Nobel Prize winners

Whewell’s Gazette friend, and one time Whewell’s Ghost co-founder, Rebekah Higgitt, who is since recent times a member of the blue plaque committee, as well as taking part in the unveiling ceremony wrote an interesting blog post on the always excellent H-Word #histsci blog at the Guardian, of which she in co-proprietor, London’s Blue Plaques: a ‘double blue’ for science and literature. In her post she analyses the prevalence of blue plaques for #histSTM people, rather low, and how many of those are for women, not surprisingly, even lower. She then goes on to briefly discuss what can or could be done to increase the number of #histSTM people so honoured.

I want to ask a heretical question, is honouring them in this way actually worthwhile? Do people actually go round towns and cities looking for the sites where famous #histSTM people once lived and worked? Is there really a demand to have these sites identified with blue plaques or whatever their equivalent is in your part of the world? I pose these questions as somebody who successfully conducts history of astronomy tours of the city of Nürnberg both for interested groups and individuals. I say successful because, firstly people want to take part in these tours and secondly I have received much positive feedback from those who have done so. However, and this is a very speculative however, I don’t have the feeling that there are many people who on holiday, or a business trip or whatever would, armed with a street map or smart phone, go out on their own to hunt down the house where some Nobel Laureate for chemistry lived whilst doing his doctoral studies at the local university.

These comments are of course designed to provoke and if you feel duly provoke please feel free to vent your spleen in the comments.

Another #histSTM blue plaque story Chemistry World: Flashback: 15 years ago

Quotes of the week:

“A witch said she couldn’t help find a silver spoon because the wind was wrong, the sun wasn’t shining and Jupiter wasn’t up” – Salisbury 1653 – h/t @witchcourt

“Women are evil, lecherous, vain & lustful. All witchcraft comes from carnal lust, which is, in women, insatiable” – Malleus Maleficarum 1486 h/t @WhoresofYore

A historian (who shall remain nameless) once told me: “Theory is like underwear. It should always be there & no one should ever see it.” – Nicole Hemmer (@pastpunditry)

“Whoever says Industrial Revolution says cotton, and whoever says cotton says Manchester” – Victoria Bateman (@vnbateman) quoting Hobsbawn h/t @joseph_lane

“I am a compost-ist, not a posthuman-ist: we are all compost, not posthuman.” – Donna Haraway h/t @profpeppard

On two occasions I have been asked “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?“. In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question.

I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864)

Charles Babbage (1791-1871) h/t @ProfTomCrick

“Can we please stop with the ‘Rockstar’ historian shit please?” – Dr Steven Gray (@Sjgray86)

My morning typo, with so much to say: “bureaucrazy.” – Shannon Supple (@mazarines)

“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after”. ― Gloria Steinem h/t @berfois

“Sometimes I even doubt whether I have impostor syndrome”. – Peter Broks (@peterbroks)

“The more I see of men the more I like dogs.” – Madame de Staël (1766-1817) h/t @yovisto

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician”. I often think in music. – Albert Einstein h/t @phalpern

“Al-Kindi and the Brethren of Purity” would be a great band name – Jeffrey Rubinoff (@JeffRubinoff)

“If you’re thinking of writing a book on genes, better read Siddhartha Mukherjee’s magisterial The Gene before you decide if it’s worth it”. – Philip Ball (@philipcball)

“WHAT ARE WE TO TELL THE CHILDREN ABOUT GAYS MARRYING?”

“Dunno. I’ll ask my 5-year-old, who just married her stuffed bear to a stuffed pony”. – John Kovalic (@muskrat_john)

https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2016/04/20/math-is-crazy-hard-to-define/

Death of the Week:

This week also saw the four hundredth anniversary of the death of one William Shakespeare, English Renaissance poet, actor and playwright. Not usually an occasion for a gazette dedicated to spreading the #histSTM gospel. However quite a few #histSTM historians wanted to get in on the act with new or recycled blog posts and articles about science, technology and medicine in the Bard’s times and in his works, so we have collected together those that we could find for your interdisciplinary delectation. A small word of caution upon entering and reading the material collected here, all that glitters is not necessarily gold, meaning that some authors tend to get a bit carried away with there #histSTM interpretations of Will’s dramatic works.

William Shakespeare died 23 April 1616

The Chandos portrait, artist and authenticity unconfirmed. Courtesy of National Portrait Gallery, London.
Source: Wikimedia Commons

“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.” – Shakespeare

“Scholars agree that many of Shakespeare’s plays weren’t written by Shakespeare but by someone else who had the same name”. – Peter Coles (@telescoper)

“I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.”— Charles Darwin

Royal College of Physicians: ‘Rapt in secret studies’: was Shakespeare’s Prospero inspired by John Dee?

Hyperallergic: The Poisons, Potions, and Charms of Shakespeare’s Plays

The Irish Astronomical Journal: The Astronomy of Shakespeare

Nature: Tudor technology: Shakespeare and science

Wellcome Collection Blog: The humours in Shakespeare

Faith and Wisdom in Science: Shakespeare and the Scientific Imagination

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Was Will a Copernican?

astro.ic.ac.uk: Shakespeare’s astronomy

Smithsonian.com: Was Shakespeare Aware of the Scientific Discoveries of His Time?

Youtube: Next – Aardman Animations (Lip Synch)

Birthdays of the Week:

Robert J. Oppenheimer was born 22 April 1904

J. Robert Oppenheimer, c. 1944
Source: Wikimedia Commons

AHF: Remembering Oppenheimer

Voices of the Manhattan Project: J Robert Oppenheimer Interview

Max Planck born 23 April 1858

Planck as a young man, 1878
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Max Planck

Hubble Space Telescope launched 24 April 1990

Exploded view of the Hubble Space Telescope
Source: Wikimedia Commons

The Wire: 10 Iconic Images to Recall 26 Years of the Hubble Space Telescope

spacetelescope.org: Hubble Space Telescope

PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:

AHF: Albert Einstein

Forbes: Galileo and the ‘Myth’ That Won’t Go Away

University of Tartu Museum: Focault’s Pendulum

AHF: Leslie R. Groves

AIP: Maurice Goldhaber

Voices of the Mahattan Project: Raymond Grills’s Interview

The Guardian: Blast off! Why has astronaut Helen Sherman been written out of history?

Yovisto: Pierre Curie and the Radioactivity

The Guardian: Gerald Hawkins

Space Flight Insider: Our Spaceflight Heritage: Descartes and the Voyage of Apollo 16

brainpickings: Don’t Heed the Haters: Albert Einstein’s Wonderful Letter of Support to Marie Curie in the Midst of Scandal

The Renaissance Mathematicus: DO IT!

Space.com: Obama to Shine Light on Unsung Hero of Astronomy

Henrietta Swan Leavitt working at her desk in the Harvard College Observatory.
Credit: Public domain

maia.usno.mil: The Contributions of Women to the United States Naval Observatory: The Early Years

Nautilus: This Philosopher Helped Ensure There Was No Nobel for Relativity

Ptak Science Books: A Good Astronomical Bull’s-Eye (ca. 1850)

arXiv: Early Pioneers of Telescopic Astronomy in India

Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Wilhelm Schickard

Houghton Library: Galileo’s Sunspots Gif

Source: Houghton Library

AHF: Emilio Segrè

Tamworth Herald: Tamworth scholar who fell out with Sir Isaac Newton

Journal of Art in Society: Comets in Art

Science News: Humans have pondered aliens since medieval times

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

New Scientist: 6 stunning maps uncover hidden details of the Earth and moon

Fine Books & Collection: Early 19^th-Century Embroidered Map of D.C.

Library of Congress: Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps: British Spy Map of Lexington and Concord: A Detective Story

Yovisto: Jacques Cartier and the Discovery of Canada

Yovisto: Royal Botanist Charles Plumier

Open Culture: Download 67,000 Maps (in High Resolution) from the Wonderful David Rumsey Map Collection

Smithsonian.com: Eight Awesome Maps From Stanford’s New David Rumsey Map Center

The Denver Post: Lifestyles: Map quest: Old cartography a route to the past for Denver collector

Dayton News: Rare maps acquired by Texas General Land Office

Royal College of Physicians: A work by John Dee in Cambridge

Greater Greater Washington: Check out this DC bike map from 1896

Image from the DC Public Library.

The Map Room: A Look at the Osher Map Library

William Savage: Pen and Pension: Eighteenth-Century Patent Medicines: Kill or Cure?

Wall Street Journal: The Vatican’s Gallery of Maps Comes Back to Life

MEDICINE & HEALTH:

Thomas Morris: Worms in the nose

Time, Trauma, History: So, Just What is the Point of the History of Medicine?

Yovisto: Happy Bicycle Day

Psychedelic-Library: LSD – My Problem Child

Yovisto: Gustav Fechner and Psychophysics

Regency Reader: Regency Health and Medicine: Herbs for Ague

h-madness: Dissertations – Hans Asperger and the Ward for Therapeutic Pedagogy of the Viennese University’s Children’s Clinic

The Recipes Project: Controlled Substances in Roman Law and Pharmacy?

The Heritage Consortium: Remploy: The Changing Face of Disability Employment in Britain 1944–2014

Nursing Clio: A Letter to the Lady in Pants: Dr. Mary Edwards Walker and the History of Women (Un)Worthies

Advances in the History of Psychology: New HoP: “Active Touch” Pre-Gibson, Health Psych & S. Africa, & Digital History

Medievalists.net: The Healing Power of a Garden – A Medieval View

A medieval garden – from British Library MS Royal 6 E IX f. 15v

Alabama Yesterdays: Cocaine Comes to Alabama in 1884

Newcastle University: University pays respects to eminent neurologist (John Walton)

Lord Walton of Detchant
1922–2016

TECHNOLOGY:

Fine Woodworking: The H.O. Studley Tool Chest

flickr: Construction of the Forth Road Bridge

My medieval foundry: Casting into powder, a method from Biringuccio

Pacific Standard: A History of Subtle Sexism of Home Technology

Yovisto: Marc Seguin and the Wire-Cable Suspension Bridge

Suspension Bridge over the river Seine connecting Saint-Denis and l’Île Saint-Denis, constructed in 1844 by Marc Seguin and his brothers

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Table Clock

Yovisto: Karl Ferdinand Braun – inventor of the famous Braun Tube

Conciatore: Don Antonio de’ Medici

Conciatore: Borgo Pinti

Open Culture: Behold the First Electric Guitar: The 1931 “Frying Pan”

Atlas Obscura: A 2,000-Year History of Alarm Clocks

HNN: Patent for Wright Brothers’ Flying Machine Rediscovered

Capitalism’s Cradle: How Innovation Accelerated in Britain 1651–1851

Ptak Science Books: An Imaginary Skyline: Comparative Chart of the World’s Tallest Structures, 1852

Damn Interesting: The Tragic Birth of FM Radio

BBC: Future: The Victorians who flew as high as a jumbo jet

When Glaisher released his pigeons from the basket, they “fell downwards as a stone” (Credit: Science Photo Library)

IMechE Archive and Library: Catch Me Who Can

The History Press: Brunel: The second greatest Brit of all time?

Ptak Science Books: A Great Work of Artistic Display of Quantitative Data–German Losses in the Battle of Britain (1940)

ICE: ICE Image Library

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Esoteric Bosch: Bosch’s Owls: An informal analysis

The National Museum of American History: Mudd’s Tax Calculator

Niche: “Stumps”: Jane Rule on Galiano

Yovisto: John Graunt and the Science of Demography

The Natural History Museum: History and architecture

The H-Word: The tree of life: with Darwin from Genesis to genomics

British Library: Medieval manuscripts blog: Sir Hans Sloane: Collector, Marmoset-Owner and Chocolate-Populariser

Atlas Obscura: Why Modern Meteorologists Use a 19^th-Century Crystal Ball

Palaeoblog: Born This Day: Sir William Logan

Lady Science no. 19: Science and Feminism in the Anthropocene

Science League of America: A Pseudo-Huxley Quotation, Part 2

Notches: Sexual Violence Against Children in the 1960s

PLOS Biology: Morton, Gould, and Bias: A Comment on “The Mismeasure of Science”

Sprinkler Valve Through Door: Bird Neighbors (1897)

Atlas Obscura: Why 19^th-Century Naturalists Didn’t Believe in the Platypus

More Insects: Without museums collections, there are no long-term natural history studies

TrowellBlazers: Tilly Edinger

BHL: Earth Day 2016!

New Scientist: Victorians experienced early climate change but missed the signs

OPB: What Do Long-Dead Whalers Have to do With Climate Change

Atlas Obscura: Audubon Made Up At Least 28 Fake Species to Prank a Rival

CHEMISTRY:

AHF: Glenn Seaborg

Voices of the Manhattan Project: Glenn Seaborg’s Interview

Chemistry World: Chemistry Nobel laureate Walter Kohn dies aged 93

Walter Kohn at the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on July 3, 2012

c&en: Notable chemists who should have won the Nobel

about education: Pierre Curie – Biography and Achievements

META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

Unsettling Scientific Stories: A History of the Future: Welcome to Unsettling Scientific Stories Blog

The Ordered Universe Project: Ordered Universe goes west

Ether Wave Propaganda: For My Zilsel Friends, The Dissenting Sciences

tandonline: Discovering Science from an Armchair: Popular Science in British Magazines of the Interwar Years

Islamic Manuscripts: Reference Library

The Guardian: Sir David Mackay obituary

David MacKay achieved cult status among climate and energy aficionados following the publication of Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot Air in 2008. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian

History Workshop Online: Making a home for women’s history in London’s East End

Advances in the History of Psychology: Help Kickstart the National Museum of Psychology!

the many-headed monster: On periodisation: an introduction

Nature: Peer review: Troubled from the start

Chronologia Universalis: On card catalogues

Nautilus: Why Physics is Not a Discipline

Science League of America: Well Said! Carl Zimmer on Theories

JHI Blog: Historicizing Failure

HNN: Alan Turing was one of many persecuted by Whitehall for their sexuality

ESOTERIC:

Conciatore: Archiater

Tor.com: All the planets are But Rays: Victorian-era Magical Societies, Telepathy, and Interplanetary Space Travel

The Recipes Project: In Search of Alchemy

Academia: Connecting Events: Experienced, Narrated, and Framed

BOOK REVIEWS:

brainpickings: Pioneering Astronomer Vera Rubin on Women in Science, Dark Matter, and Our Never-Ending Quest to Know the Universe

The Telegraph: Albert Einstein: he really was an egghead

Not Even Past: Global Indios: The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain, By Nancy van Deusen (2015)

The Nation: Hume’s Call to Action

MedHum Fiction – Daily Dose: Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy

Popular Science: The Tyrannosaur Chronicles

New Statesman: The joy of rex: why Tyrannosaurus rex casts a long shadow

Nature: Autobiography: A lab of one’s own

Dissertation Reviews: The Trabzon-Bayezid Road and Modernisation in the Late Ottoman Empire

Monoskop Log: Julia Kursell (ed.): Sounds of Science – Schall im Labor 1800–1930 [English, German]

NEW BOOKS:

Paradise Road: Up in Smoke: The Failed Dreams of Battersea Power Station

berghahn: Series: Environment in History: International Perspectives

Princeton University Press: Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute

IEA: Georges Politzer, le concret et sa signification

Dave Hone’s Archosaur Musings: The Tyrannosaur Chronicles is here!

CUP: The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism

Wiley: A Companion to the History of Science

ART & EXHIBITIONS

Broadway World.com: Met Museum Exhibition to Celebrate Artistic, Technological, Cultural Legacy of the Seljuqs

Harvard Magazine: Before Social Media: Radio was the medium that broke the silence May–June 2016

Leaping Robot Blog: From Laser Art to Laserium

Grup d’estudis d’història de la cartografia: Exhibition about Renacentrist cartography in Bergamo 16 April–10 July 2016

Bonner Sterne: “Argelanders Erben” im Universitätsmuseum Bonn bis 31 Juli 2016

Daniels Dies & Das: Eröffnung von “Argelanders Erben”

Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:

Bridging the World: Benjamin Baker of Frome 5 March–21 May 2016

Dittrick Museum: Embracing Digital History: How Medicine Became Modern

Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marsella: “Made in Algeria, généalogie d’un territoire” runs till 2 May 2016

Fine Books & Collections: The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at BPL to Host Exhibit, “From the Sea to the Mountains” 2 April–28 August 2016

Bay Area Reporter: Wonderful worlds of 17th-century China: Asian Art Museum Runs till 8 May 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Scholar courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee 18 January29–July 2016

The National Air and Space Museum: A New Moon Rises: An Exhibition Where Science and Art Meet

Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017

AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016

Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017

Science Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius 10 February 2016–4 September 2016

Wellcome Collections: States of Mind 4 February–16 October 2016

CHF: The Art of Iatrochemistry

University of Oklahoma: Galileo’s World: National Weather Center: Exhibits

ZSL: London Zoo: Discover the fascinating wildlife of Nepal and Northern India

Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm

JHI Blog: Dissenting Voices: Positive/Negative: HIV/AIDS In NYU’s Fales Library

St John’s College: University of Cambridge: Fred Hoyle: An Online Exhibition

Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game

The John Rylands Library: Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World 21 January–21 August 2016

allAfrica: Algeria: Exhibition on Algeria (cartography) Marseille 20 January–2 May 2016

Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15^th and 16^th Centuries

Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility

New York Public Library: Printmaking Women: Three Centuries of Female Printmakers, 1570–1900 Runs till 27 May 2016

Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday

National Library of Scotland: Plague! A cultural history of contagious diseases in Scotland Runs till 29 May 2016

Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Manchester Central Library: The Enduring Eye: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley 9 April–11 June 2016

Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017

Science Museum: Information Age

Cambridge Science Museum: Cosmic

THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:

The Rose Theatre: The Alchemist by Ben Jonson 7–30 June 2016

Royal Shakespeare Company: Doctor Faustus Swan Theatre Stratford-Upon-Avon 8 February–4 August 2016

Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 18 June 2016

The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017

Macrobert Arts Centre: The Trials of Galileo

Perth Concert Hall: The Trials of Galileo

EVENTS:

Institute of Historical Research, University of London: Maritime History and Culture Seminar on ‘‘The Great Mars Boom’ of 1892: International Telegraphy and the Making of the Martian Canals’ 26 April 2016

Warburg Institute: Maps and Society Lectures: ‘Cartography and Captivity during the Napoleonic Conflicts, 1803-1815’. 28 April 2016

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Public Health and Private Pain: A Night of Medical History and Drama 5 May 2016

Royal Museums Greenwich: Of Rare Marvels: Celebrating the Transit of Venus 28 April 2016

V&A: Courses: Sensing Time: The Art and Science of Clocks and Watches 18 June 2016

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Festival of Museums 2016 – Glasgow’s Marvellous Medicine 14 May 2016

Royal Institution: The extraordinary theorems of John Nash 29 April 2016

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MORE STRICTLY WE ARE WATCHED, THE BETTER WE BEHAVE: JEREMY BANTAM’S PANOPTICON 30 April 2016

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: BETHLEM AND THE BRAIN: MUZZLING WILLIAM LAWRENCE’S MEDICAL MATERIALISM 7 May 2016

Warburg Institute: ‘Maps and Society’ Lectures: Dr Elodie Duché ‘Cartography and Captivity during the Napoleonic Conflicts, 1803-1815’ 28 April 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding

Boston Medical Library: Lecture: Prescription Drug Abuse in American History:

The Polar Museum: Lucky 13 Storytelling from the polar regions of the world 13 May 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Dee late: inside Dee’s miraculous mind 9 May 2016

Royal Society: Lecture: Hasok Chang: Who cares about the history of science? 10 May 2016

Birkbeck, University of London: The History of Number Theory 21 May 2016

UCL: STS Haldane Lecture: Maja Horst, University of Copenhagen: Reframing Science Communication – Culture, Identity and Organisations 5 May 2016

Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)

Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons: People Powered Medicine: A one day public symposium 7 May 2016

Discover Medical London: “Dr Dee” & The Magic of Medicine A Special Half Day Tour 27 May 2016

NYAM: Credits, Thanks and Blame in the Works of Conrad Gessner

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

PAINTING OF THE WEEK:

Ken Currie: Portrait of Peter Higgs, 2008

TELEVISION:

The Guardian: David Attenborough’s early films to be shown in colour for first time

BBC Four: The Silk Road

SLIDE SHOW:

VIDEOS:

Youtube: Feynman: Mathematician versus Physicists

The Ordered Universe Project: Lecture: Wonders of the Universe

Los Angeles Times: Birthplace of atomic weaponry Manhattan Project National Historical Park, Hanford, Wash.

RADIO & PODCASTS:

The British Journal for the History of Science: J.G. Crowther’s War: Institutional strife at the BBC and British Council

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Library and Archives: The Bloody Fields of Waterloo: Medical Support for Wellington’s Greatest Victory

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Knowing and Selling Exotic Drugs in Paris c. 1700

Voices of the Manhattan Project: The Search for Atomic Power: 1954 Radio Program

ICI Radio-Canada: Le test de quotient intellectual, ou outil controversé

History of Philosophy: without any gaps: 252. Neverending Story: the Eternity of the World

Distillations: Power in the Blood: When Religion and Medicine Meet in Your Veins

BBC Radio 4: After Chernobyl

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Columbia University: The Center for Science & Society: Exploring the Philosophy of Émilie du Châtelet 1–3 June 2016

University of Reading: CfP: Object Lessons and Nature Tables 23 September 2016

Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (Rio de Janeiro, 23-29 July 2017): CfP: Blood, Food, and Climate: Historical Relationships Between Physiology, Race, Nation-Building, and Colonialism/Globalization

Organisé par Alexandre Klein (Université d’Ottawa): Histoire des relations de santé aux XIXe et XXe siècles 11 mai 2016

History at the Open University: Women and Gender in Early Modern Britain and Ireland: A Conference in Honour of Anne Laurence Institute of Historical Research London 4 June 2016

IHPST, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris: CfP: International Doctoral Conference in Philosophy of Science 29-30 September 2016

Ian Ramsey Centre Conference, University of Oxford: Workshop “Early Modern Laws of Nature: Secular and Divine” 7 July 2016 Call for Abstract: deadline 30 April 2016

History and Philosophy of Science Department, University of Cambridge: Workshop: Informal Aspects of Uncertainty Evaluation 20 May 2016

Annals of Science: Annals of Science Essay Prize for Young Scholars

H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology

2^nd International Conference on the History of Physics: Invention, application and exploitation in the history of physics Pöllau, Austria 5–7 September 2016

University of Cambridge: Cabinet of Natural History: Seminars Easter Term 2016

APS: Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics Deadline 2 May 2016

University of Leeds: Northern Renaissance Seminar: Programme: Communication, Correspondence and Transmission in the Early Modern World 12-13 May 2016

British Library: Conference: Transforming Topography 6 May 2016

The International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Division of History of Science and Technology (IUHPST/DHST): Invites submissions for the fourth DHST Prize for Young Scholars, to be presented in 2017.

Warburg Institute: ESSWE Thesis Workshop 7 July 2016

Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST: CfP: 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature

University of Illinois, Chicago: CfP: STS Graduate Student Workshop: 16-17 September

Swansea University: Inaugural Lecture 5 May 2016: David Turner: Locating Disability in Britain’s Industrial Revolution

University of Greenwich: Society and the Sea Conference: 15–16 September 2016

Notches: CfP. Histories of Music and Sexuality

University of London: Birkbeck: Thomas Harriot Seminar 2016: 11 July 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century 10–11 September 2016

Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science: Annual Conference Programme 28–30 May 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016

irkbeck, University of London: CfP: Embarrassing Bodies: Feeling Self-Conscious in the Nineteenth Century 17 June 2016

University of Warwick: Workshop: Early Modern Experimental Philosophy, Metaphysics, and Religion 10–11 May 2016

LOOKING FOR WORK:

European Commission: Research & Innovation: Marie Sklodowski-Curie Actions: European Fellowships

NYAM: Head of Preservation and Conservation

American Society for Environmental History: ASEH is offering two graduate student internships this summer – both in the Seattle area. Deadline for applications: May 31, 2016.

The Commission on Women and Gender Studies in History of Science, Technology and Medicine: Agnodike Research Travel Fellowship – 2016 Competition

University of York: MA in Medical History and Humanities

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Digitisation Project Intern with Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

School of History at the University of Leicester: Teaching Fellow in the Histories of Medicine and Welfare for one year from 1 October 2016

University of Leeds: Programmes in History and Philosophy of Science

University of Wuppertal: Junior Professor in the Philosophy of Physics

Smithsonian Institution: Museum Curator, in the National Air and Space Museum

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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

Year 2, Volume #38

Monday 02 May 2016

EDITORIAL:

Another week has flown by and it’s time once again for a new edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list to bring you all that we could track down of the histories of science, technology and medicine from the furthest corners of cyberspace.

Thirty years ago on 26 April 1986 reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in what is now Ukraine and was then part of the USSR caught fire and exploded causing the biggest nuclear disaster up to that time that the world had seen. It was by no means the first such disaster an experimental reactor in Switzerland having gone into meltdown in 1969 and reactor number two at the Three Mile Island having gone into meltdown in 1979. The latter incident produced one of my favourite jokes in my days as a reader of New Scientist. I paraphrase:

“Initially American authorities referred to what had happened as the Three Mile Island Disaster. After some time had passed, trying to quieten things down somewhat, they began to refer to the Three Mile Island Incident. After more time had passed it became in official references the Three Mile Island Experience. What did Jimi Hendrix know that we don’t?”

When reactor four at Chernobyl exploded it blew a massive cloud of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, which drifted southwards across central Europe. Due to a rain storm a large part of that cloud came down over the area of Southern Germany where I live. Even today, thirty years after the incident the wild mushrooms that grow in the forests of Bavaria are still too radioactive to eat according to official regulations. This, of course, doesn’t stop people collecting and eating them.

The Chernobyl disaster started an intense debate about the use of nuclear power that continues today, the flames being fanned further by the Fukushima disaster in 2011. Some like the German Government want to see the end of nuclear power as inherently too dangerous to be considered viable. Others wish to see an increase in the use of nuclear power to replace the climate damaging fossil fuel power.

These nuclear disasters, their aftermath and the debate on clean energy have already become a subject of historians of science, technology and medicine and at some distant, or maybe not so distant, point in the future a generation of historians will look back at the era and try to make some sense out of the conflicting and oft contradictory arguments put forward by the various participants on the debate, how to produce the clean, safe energy that humanity so desperately needs.

Event of the Week:

26 April 1986 the Chernobyl Meltdown Occurred

Aerial view of the damaged core on 3 May 1986. Roof of the turbine hall is damaged (image center). Roof of the adjacent reactor 3 (image lower left) shows minor fire damage.
Source: Wikimedia Commons

The New Yorker: The Battles of Chernobyl

Visual News: Haunting Graffiti in the Heart of Abandoned Chernobyl

Not Even Past: Remembering Chernobyl

New York Times: Chernobyl’s Silent Exclusion Zone (Except for the Logging)

Plate 1 from “The Atlas of Caesium-137 Contamination of Europe after the Chernobyl Accident.”

Quotes of the week:

“Those who can’t do legislate”. – Guy Longworth (@GuyLongworth)

“I don’t block people for disagreeing with me. I block them for being jerks”. – Katharine Hayhoe (@KHayhoe)

“Sir, more than kisses, let us mingle souls.” – John Donne to Sir Henry Wotton 1597 h/t @rayneinverted

“if it’s a murder of crows, an unkindness of ravens, a tiding of magpies… then it’s got to be a lifetime of egrets” – Margaret Killjoy (@magpiekilljoy)

“Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better”. – Arnold Sommerfeld h/t @OnThisDayinMath

“There’s only one method in social anthropology, the comparative method. And that’s impossible” – Evans-Pritchard h/t @ProfDanHicks

Don’t write what you know, write what you’re willing to discover. – Yusef Komunyakaa h/t @snoopydroopied

“We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.” – Edmund Husserl (1859-1938)

“It’s been said that the dreariness of the thought of having to get dressed every day once drove an Englishman to suicide”. – Emil du Bois-Reymond

“Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.” Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)

“Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.” – Henri Poincaré (1854-1912)

“Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.” – Henri Poincaré (1854-1912)

Jeremy Renner gave the truest version of what I have sometimes called the “onomatopology.” It’s not an apology, but it makes apology noises. – Linda Holmes (@nprmonkeysee)

“A homeopathic health service – you don’t have a hospital, you just have the memory of a hospital” – Andy Hamilton, News Quiz (@BBCRadio4)

“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.” ― Ray Bradbury.

“A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good”. – Dr Johnson h/t @welfordwrites

“In this universe, where the least things control the greatest…” – William Wordsworth h/t @telescoper

Birthday of the Week:

Claude Elwood Shannon born 30 April 1916

“Thus we may have knowledge of the past but cannot control it; we may control the future but have no knowledge of it.” – Claude Elwood Shannon

“I’ve always loved that word, ‘Boolean.’” – Claude Elwood Shannon

The tragedy of Claude Shannon’s life is that the “inventor” of information died of Alzheimer’s. – Patrick McCray (@LeapingRobot)

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Boole, Shannon and the Electronic Computer

The New Yorker: Claude Shannon, The Father of the Information Age, Turns 1100100

A hundred years after his birth, Claude Shannon’s fingerprints are on every electronic device we own.
CREDIT PHOTOGRAPH BY ALFRED EISENSTAEDT / THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION / GETTY

IEEE Spectrum: Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory

Engineering and Technology History Wiki: Oral-History: Claude E. Shannon

OMNI: Interview Claude Shannon

IEEEXplore: The Bandwagon Claude E. Shannon

The Guardian: Without Claude Shannon’s information theory there would be no internet

Gizmodo: If it Weren’t for This Equation, You Wouldn’t be Here

AMS Blogs: Happy Birthday Claude Shannon

Yovisto: Claude Shannon – Father of Information Theory

Youtube: Claude Shannon demonstrates machine learning

Youtube: Claude Shannon Juggling

Hertha Marks Ayrton born 28 April 1854

Independent: Hertha Marks Ayrton’s 162^nd birthday: 5 facts about the British mathematician, engineer and inventor

International Business Times: Google marks award-winning mathematician, inventor and physicist Hertha Marks Ayrton

The Royal Society: The Repository: Almost a Fellow: Hertha Ayrton and an embarrassing episode in the history of the Royal Society

cwp.library.ucla.edu: Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854–1923)

Diagram of arc lighting electrodes from 1902 paper by Hertha Ayrton

The Guardian: Hertha Marks Ayrton: Guardian obituary of pioneering scientist, published 1923

Time: Google Doodle Honors Scientist Hertha Marks Ayrton

Yotube: The Fight for Fellowship (Hertha Marks Ayrton) – Objectivity #56

John James Audubon born 26 April 1785

John James Audubon 1826
Source: Wikimedia Commons

British Library: Audubon’s The Birds of America

Facebook: American Museum of Natural History Audubon Video

Yale Alumni Magazine: Audubon’s works, off the endangered list

PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:

The Phnom Penh Post: Tech used to prove Angkor’s link to the sun

About Winfree Observatory: Some History

AHF: Mary Lou Curtis

io9: The Loneliness of the Long-Abandoned Space Observatory

Voices of the Manhattan Project: Bill and Louise Cease’s Interview

Yovisto: Jan Hendrik Oort and the Oort Cloud

Ordered Universe: Time and Time Reckoning: Ordered Universe at Tor Vergata

The Renaissance Mathematicus: The Astrolabe – an object of desire

Astrolabe Renners Arsenius 1569
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Linda Hall Library: ‘Astronomer’ Doesn’t Begin to Cover Copernicus

Yovisto: Henri Poincaré – the Last Universalist of Mathematics

Science Alert: An ancient astronomer’s observations of a 1,000-year-old supernova have just been unearthed

National Catholic Observer: Mapping with the stars: Nuns instrumental in Vatican celestial survey

Members of the Sisters of the Child Mary use microscopes to review glass plates as they measure star positions. (CNS/Vatican Observatory)

AHF: The Spy who Stole Urchin

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

Humanities: The Osher Map Library invites the whole world in

Texas Public Radio: Rare Maps Confirm Texas’ Size and Boundaries

Yovisto: Edward Whymper and the Matterhorn

CHICC Manchester: New Japanese Maps Added to Our Digital Collections

Japanese 211 – Tokaido bunken ezu: animated view of 26 folds, 88 images.

Yovisto: Ferdinand Magellan and the first Trip around the World

Royal Museums Greenwich: Ferdinand Magellan: How did the Pacific Ocean get its name and what did this Portuguese explorer have to do with it?

Canadian Mysteries: Interpretations of the Franklin mystery

JRSM: Sir John Franklin’s last arctic expedition: a medical disaster

Library of Congress: Computing Space 0: From Hypersurfaces to Algorithms: Saving Early Computer Cartography at the Library of Congress

History Today: Fantasy Worlds: A Gallery of Mythical Maps

The Asahi Shimbun: 17^th century map, color plates show how Japan viewed the world

MEDICINE & HEALTH:

NYAM: Medical Rhymes

Pulse: Fighting the Legend of the “Lobotomobile”

NYAM: Cupid Out of Sorts – Is Advised to Take a Turkish Bath

The Hammam. In: Urquhart, Manual of the Turkish Bath, 1865.

Thomas Morris: Dancing Testicles

Revue d’histoire de la protection sociale 2015/1 (N° 8): Handicap et dépendance. Perspectives historiennes

Embryo Project: Methymercury and Human Embryonic Development

Atlas Obscura. The Illegal Birth Control Handbook that Spread Across College Campuses in 1968

Big Picture: The history of vaccination

Thomas Morris: Eye eye

The Chirugeon’s Apprentice: The Mad Dogs of London: A Tale of Rabies

A mad dog on the run in a London street: citizens attack it as it approaches a woman who has fallen over. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1826
1826 By: Thomas Lord. BusbyPublished: 1826.
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images

The Atlantic: How the Poor Get Blamed for Disease

The Recipes Project: Women’s Health in the South Slavic Orthodox Tradition

Wellcome Trust: Image of the Week: Temple of Vaccinia

Atlas Obscura: The First Woman to put her Face on Packaging got Trolled Like Crazy

Upworthy: 19 fascinating pictures to remind us what polio used to look like

A young patient getting fit with a respirator in 1955. Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images.

Thomas Morris: The human pincushion

Thomas Morris: A head of wheat in the bladder

Empire de la Mort: Macabre New York: the charnel house that almost was

TECHNOLOGY:

Historic England: What’s New in the Archive? – New: The Shadbolt Collection

Yale University Art Gallery: Automaton Clock in the Form of Diana on Her Chariot

Historic England: What was Proclaimed the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’ on Completion in 1843, but ‘An Entire Failure’ Just a Decade Later?

The Thames Tunnel

Eternal Egypt: Water Clock

Slate: A Marvel of Victorian Engineering Reopens as a Concert Venue in London

We Make Money Not Art: Menace 2, An Artificial Intelligence Made of Wooden Drawers and Coloured Beads

Conciatore: Borgo Pinti (Part 2)

Conciatore: Rosichiero Glass

Ephemera Society: Strange Trains

Yovisto: Dit dit dit da dit – the first Morse Telegram

historywomble: Boaty McWhoseface? Or, some thoughts on ships’ names

storify: Technology, Environment and Modern Britain

Yovisto: Karl Drais and the Mechanical Horse

University of Glasgow Library: Building Foundations: Early Books on Architecture

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Royal College of Physicians: The Little Green Parrot

The Irish Times: Environmentalist. Conservationist. What’s the Difference?

Notches: Archives of Desire: Soft-Core Pornography and Activism in the 1960s

The Linnean Society: Alfred Russel Wallace

The Guardian: Fire guts Delhi’s natural history museum

Reuters: Blaze guts Delhi museum housing dinosaur fossil

Ptak Science Books: How Fast Stuff Is: Thought (1870)

Yovisto: Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki

Kon-Tiki, 1947

Yovisto: Herbert Spencer and Social Darwinism

CSI: 10 Astounding Moments in a Creationist Textbook: Revisiting Of Pandas and People

AEON: The medieval senses were transmitters as much as receivers

Nautilus: The Day the Mesozoic Died

Verso: Thomas Pennant’s Literary Appeal

Smithsonian.com: The Scientific Daredevils Who Made Yale’s Peabody Museum a National Treasure

Corkboard of Curiosities: Taphonomy

UCL: Underwhelming Fossil Fish of the Month April 2016

Forbes: The Origins of Geological Terms: Diamonds

Typical crystal of diamond on matrix

Wikiwand: John Lubbock, 1^st Baron Avebury

Penn Biographies: Joseph Leidy (1823–1881)

New Scientist: The story of Dolly is about us as much as cloning

History of Geology: The Volcano as Crematory – Paolo Gorini’s strange geological-anatomical experiments

The Conversation: Two decades after his death, Gerald Durrell is still making the world a better place

Smithsonian.com: Over 1,00 Years Later, Kennewick Man will be Given a Native American Burial

CHEMISTRY:

about education: Phlogiston Theory in Early Chemistry History

New York Times: Walter Kohn, Who Won Nobel in Chemistry, Dies at 93

Walter Kohn receiving an honor from Harvard in 2012. “Physics isn’t what I do,” Dr. Kohn once said. “It is what I am.” Credit Steven Senne/Associated Press

Yovisto: Wallace Hume Carothers and the Invention of Nylon

Othmeralia: Wallace Hume Carothers

Yovisto: Franz Archard and the Sugar Beet

In the Dark: R.I.P. Harry Koto (1939–2016)

META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

Wellcome Trust: Wellcome appoints new Head of Public Engagement

The Maintainers: A Conference: Introducing the Maintainers Blog

NYAM: Preservation Week Quiz

Lady Science: Midwest Junto for the History of Science Recap

AEON: A science without time

Capitalism’s Cradle: The Dutch Golden Age

The H-Word: People Power: how citizen science could change historical research

Frontispieces for the Midland Naturalist, 1878, and Science-Gossip, 1892. Photograph: Biodiversity Heritage Library/Public Domain

The Guardian: Let’s keep talking: why public dialogue on science and technology matters more than ever

Literacy of the Present: 3G Science Communication

eä: New Issues Online: Table of Contents: Vol. 6 N° 2 – November 2014 etc

LSE: Museums in the New Mediascape: Transmedia Participation, Ethics by Jenny Kidd

AAHM: Orals Bibliographies for Students

British Library: Victorian Britain: The Great Exhibition

‘General View of the Exterior of the Building’ of the Great Exhibition.
Dickinson’s Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851

ESOTERIC:

Atlas Obscura: A 19^th-Century Map of Our ‘Square and Stationary’ Earth

Royal College of Physicians: John Dee’s Books at Middle Temple Library

De pictura prae stantissima. Leon Battista Alberti, published Basel, 1540

BOOK REVIEWS:

James Snell: John Aubrey and Prose Style

John Gribbin Science: Strange but True

Chemistry World: The chemistry book: from gunpowder to grapheme – 250 milestones in the history of chemistry

Nature: Technology: Beyond the ‘InterNyet’

Good Reads: The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

NEW BOOKS:

The Guardian: Ruth Scurr: ‘I wanted to make John Aubrey present and vivid in our times’

Simon & Schuster: The Gene: An Intimate History

Verdier: Droiture et mélancolie: Sur les écrits de Marc Aurèle

University of Chicago Press: The Experimental Self: Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science

University of Ottawa Press: Récits inachevés: Réflexions sur la recherche qualitative en sciences humaines et sociales

Columbia University Press: Stem Cell Dialogues: A Philosophical and Scientific Enquiry Into Medical Frontiers

ART & EXHIBITIONS

Harvard Magazine: Before Social Media: Radio was the medium that broke the silence

Scenes from an exhibition: “Radio Contact” at Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
Photograph by Samantha van Gerbig/Courtesy of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments

Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus

Bodleian: Marks of Genius

The Houston Museum of Natural Science: Cabinet of Curiosities Opens 6 May 2016

Reviews in History: Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee (Royal College of Physicians, 18 January – 29 July 2016)

Broadway World.com: Met Museum Exhibition to Celebrate Artistic, Technological, Cultural Legacy of the Seljuqs

Leaping Robot Blog: From Laser Art to Laserium

Grup d’estudis d’història de la cartografia: Exhibition about Renacentrist cartography in Bergamo 16 April–10 July 2016

Bonner Sterne: “Argelanders Erben” im Universitätsmuseum Bonn bis 31 Juli 2016

Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:

Bridging the World: Benjamin Baker of Frome 5 March–21 May 2016

Fine Books & Collections: The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at BPL to Host Exhibit, “From the Sea to the Mountains” 2 April–28 August 2016

Bay Area Reporter: Wonderful worlds of 17th-century China: Asian Art Museum Runs till 8 May 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Scholar courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee 18 January29–July 2016

The National Air and Space Museum: A New Moon Rises: An Exhibition Where Science and Art Meet

Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017

AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016

Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017

Science Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius 10 February 2016–4 September 2016

Wellcome Collections: States of Mind 4 February–16 October 2016

Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm

Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game

The John Rylands Library: Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World 21 January–21 August 2016

Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15^th and 16^th Centuries

Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility

New York Public Library: Printmaking Women: Three Centuries of Female Printmakers, 1570–1900 Runs till 27 May 2016

Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday

CLOSING SOON: National Library of Scotland: Plague! A cultural history of contagious diseases in Scotland Runs till 29 May 2016

Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Manchester Central Library: The Enduring Eye: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley 9 April–11 June 2016

Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017

Science Museum: Information Age

Cambridge Science Museum: Cosmic Runs still 30 Jun 2016

Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Manchester Central Library: The Enduring Eye: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley 9 April–11 June 2016

THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:

The Rose Theatre: The Alchemist by Ben Jonson 7–30 June 2016

Royal Shakespeare Company: Doctor Faustus Swan Theatre Stratford-Upon-Avon 8 February–4 August 2016

Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 18 June 2016

The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017

Macrobert Arts Centre: The Trials of Galileo

Perth Concert Hall: The Trials of Galileo

BSHS: Upcoming Lecture: Henry Wellcome Pharmacist Royal Pharmaceutical Society 23 May 2016

EVENTS:

The Leakey Foundation: The Curious Case of Homo naledi The California Academy of Sciences San Francisco 3 May 2016

London Fortean Society: Snake Oil! The Golden Age of Quackery in Britain and America 26 May 2016

Museum of History of Science, Technology and Medicine: Leeds University: History and Philosophy of Science in 20 Objects (Lecture 5) 10 May 2016

NYAM: Lecture: The Discovery of Insulin – A Miracle Drug, A Nobel Prize Controversy, and the Story of Elizabeth Hughes 10 May 2016

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Public Health and Private Pain: A Night of Medical History and Drama 5 May 2016

V&A: Courses: Sensing Time: The Art and Science of Clocks and Watches 18 June 2016

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Festival of Museums 2016 – Glasgow’s Marvellous Medicine 14 May 2016

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: BETHLEM AND THE BRAIN: MUZZLING WILLIAM LAWRENCE’S MEDICAL MATERIALISM 7 May 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding

Boston Medical Library: Lecture: Prescription Drug Abuse in American History:

The Polar Museum: Lucky 13 Storytelling from the polar regions of the world 13 May 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Dee late: inside Dee’s miraculous mind 9 May 2016

Royal Society: Lecture: Hasok Chang: Who cares about the history of science? 10 May 2016

Birkbeck, University of London: The History of Number Theory 21 May 2016

UCL: STS Haldane Lecture: Maja Horst, University of Copenhagen: Reframing Science Communication – Culture, Identity and Organisations 5 May 2016

Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)

Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons: People Powered Medicine: A one day public symposium 7 May 2016

Discover Medical London: “Dr Dee” & The Magic of Medicine A Special Half Day Tour 27 May 2016

Kuwait Science Museum: We are currently developing content for a set of national museums in Kuwait and are looking for experts to review some of the galleries for us, to make sure we are conveying the correct messages for visitors.

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

Royal Society: Who cares about the history of science? 10 May 2016

Royal College of Physicians Museum: Dee Late: inside John Dee’s miraculous mind

PAINTING OF THE WEEK:

Leonardo da Vinci Gear Illustration

TELEVISION:

SLIDE SHOW:

DocSlide: The Role of Hallucinogenic Plants in European Witchcraft

VIDEOS:

Museo Galileo: Globes

Facebook: DNALC Watson Base Pairing

Youtube: COPERNICUS –Animation Short Film 2013 – GOBELINS

Youtube: Albert Einstein in his office at Princeton University

RADIO & PODCASTS:

The Guardian: The Science of Shakespeare – Science Weekly Podcast

Institute of Historical Research: Citizen History and its discontents

BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: Euclid’s Elements

The Guardian: Revolutionary! Why was 1700s France such a fertile time for science?

Ben Franklin’s World: Episode 049: Malcolm Gaskill, How the English Became American

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Trinity College Cambridge: The Venues of Scholarly Output: Collections, Treatises, Textbooks, Archives 25 June 2016

Let’s Talk About Sex: CfP: History of Sexuality PGR/ECR Workshop University of Exeter 26–27 June 2016

Queen Mary University of London:Upcoming History of Emotions Work in Progress Seminars

University of Reading: CfP: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016 Deadline: 15 June 2016

BSHS: Registration Open: The Body and Pseudoscience in the Long Nineteenth Century Newcastle University 18 June 2016

University of St. Andrews: Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (SSEMP VII) 5–6 May 2016 Programme

MSH Lorraine, Nancy: “Mathématiques et mathématiciens à Metz (1750-1870): dynamiques de recherche et d’enseignement dans un espace local” 12 Mai 2016

Barts Pathology Museum: CfP: The “Heart” and “Science” of Wilkie Collins and his Contemporaries 24 September 2016

Wilkie Collins Portrait by Rudolph Lehmann, 1880
Source: Wikimedia Commons

University of Leicester: Centre for Medical Humanities: Seminars:

Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware: CfP: Making Modern Disability: Histories of Disability, Design, and Technology 28 October 2016

EHESS, Paris: Journée d’étude: Genre, humeurs et fluides corporels. Moyen Âge & Époque moderne 19 Mai 2016

New York City: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 30 September–1 October 2016

Columbia University: The Center for Science & Society: Exploring the Philosophy of Émilie du Châtelet 1–3 June 2016

Organisé par Alexandre Klein (Université d’Ottawa): Histoire des relations de santé aux XIXe et XXe siècles 11 mai 2016

History at the Open University: Women and Gender in Early Modern Britain and Ireland: A Conference in Honour of Anne Laurence Institute of Historical Research London 4 June 2016

IHPST, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris: CfP: International Doctoral Conference in Philosophy of Science 29-30 September 2016

Ian Ramsey Centre Conference, University of Oxford: Workshop “Early Modern Laws of Nature: Secular and Divine” 7 July 2016 Call for Abstract: deadline 30 April 2016

History and Philosophy of Science Department, University of Cambridge: Workshop: Informal Aspects of Uncertainty Evaluation 20 May 2016

Annals of Science: Annals of Science Essay Prize for Young Scholars

H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology

2^nd International Conference on the History of Physics: Invention, application and exploitation in the history of physics Pöllau, Austria 5–7 September 2016

University of Cambridge: Cabinet of Natural History: Seminars Easter Term 2016

University of Leeds: Northern Renaissance Seminar: Programme: Communication, Correspondence and Transmission in the Early Modern World 12-13 May 2016

British Library: Conference: Transforming Topography 6 May 2016

he International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Division of History of Science and Technology (IUHPST/DHST): Invites submissions for the fourth DHST Prize for Young Scholars, to be presented in 2017.

Warburg Institute: ESSWE Thesis Workshop 7 July 2016

Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST: CfP: 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature

University of Greenwich: Society and the Sea Conference: 15–16 September 2016

University of Illinois, Chicago: CfP: STS Graduate Student Workshop: 16-17 September

Swansea University: Inaugural Lecture 5 May 2016: David Turner: Locating Disability in Britain’s Industrial Revolution

Notches: CfP. Histories of Music and Sexuality

University of London: Birkbeck: Thomas Harriot Seminar 2016: 11 July 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century 10–11 September 2016

Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science: Annual Conference Programme 28–30 May 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016

irkbeck, University of London: CfP: Embarrassing Bodies: Feeling Self-Conscious in the Nineteenth Century 17 June 2016

University of Warwick: Workshop: Early Modern Experimental Philosophy, Metaphysics, and Religion 10–11 May 2016

LOOKING FOR WORK:

University of Wuppertal: Junior Professor in Philosophy with a specialization in Philosophy of Physics

University of Edinburgh: Science, Technology and Innovation Studies: Senior Lecturer

National Media Museum: Bradford: Associate Curator of Science and Technology

University of Oxford: Departmental Lecturer in the History of Medicine

University of Leeds: History of Health, Medicine and Society MA

Sciences Po, Paris: Tenured Professorship in History

Kingston University London: Lecturer in Critical and Historical Studies Film-Making

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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

Year 2, Volume #39

Monday 09 May 2016

EDITORIAL:

Another week, another edition of the weekly #histSTM links list Whewell’s Gazette bringing you as much of the histories of science, Technology and medicine out of the depths of cyberspace as you could read in a month of Sundays.

For me one of the principle functions of #histSTM is #scicomm. That is using the histories of the various disciplines to try and communicate their function, importance, relevance or whatever. One of the greatest communicators of science who ever lived is without any doubt whatsoever David Attenborough, who turned ninety on Sunday 8 May 2016.

I very much doubt if there are many British* scientists, science communicators, science journalists, historians of science or just fans of science, for that matter, who were not touched, moved, motivated, fascinated, educated, inspired or sometimes even totally floored by one or other of the multitude of science programmes that Attenborough has made over the last almost seventy years. *(This is probably true of lots of other countries too, but I don’t know how much of Attenborough’s work has been broadcast in any other countries. I do know that there are Wikipedia article on him in lots of different languages!) Attenborough broadcasts mostly over the natural world but it is safe to say that he himself is a force of nature.

If that wasn’t enough in his role as a manager of the then relatively new BBC 2 television channel Attenborough was responsible for introducing the world to Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation, Jacob Bronowski’s The Ascent of Man, Pot Black (the Snooker World Championship) and The Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures. Being responsible for those series alone is enough to make him a living legend but this was merely a small side line in his extraordinary live.

Just by existing he last week rescued the British Government from a very sticky situation. Somebody came up with the (not so) bright idea of asking the Internet to choose a name for a new research ship. A journalist in a moment of childish irresponsibility suggested the name Boaty McBoatface! The Internet pounced and by a margin of a zillion to one Boaty McBoatface won the popular vote. Enter stern Conservative Government Minister, “We are NOT going to name a mega-million pound research vessel Boaty McBoatface!” The Internet fumed! Then came the Solomonic decision, the vessel will be named “Sir David Attenborough”. To protest against this decision would have been sacrilege.

The Internet is full of birthday tributes to the great man of which I have only included a small random selection below. If you read or look at nothing else you should look at the three BBC One web exclusive Youtube videos at the end of the list, they are made in co-operation with Aardman! However in honour of his ninetieth birthday I dedicate this edition of Whewell’s Gazette to:

David Attenborough

Sir David Attenborough BBC / Sophie Lanfear

“I suppose they would need a bigger ship if they had to paint “Attenborough McAttenboroughface” along the side” – Peter Broks (@peterbroks)

David Attenborough at 90

Huff Post: Happy 90^th Birthday David Attenborough!

Independent: Sir David Attenborough interview: The one question about life that still baffles him

New Scientist: David Attenborough: We’re suffocating ourselves

The Guardian: Dinosaurs and David Attenborough at the Natural History Museum

In the Dark: Sir David Attenborough at 90, Boaty McBoatface, and the song of the Lyre Bird

BBC News: Sir David Attenborough: Tributes paid as he turns 90

The Conversation: Sir David Attenborough at 90: the mesmerising storyteller of the natural world

Ri Channel: Christmas Lectures 1973: The Language of Animals

The Guardian: So you think you know David Attenborough? – video

BBC iPlayer: Happy Birthday to Sir David Attenborough

The Atlantic: Every Episode of Davis Attenborough’s Life Series, Ranked

Youtube: Nature Video Part 1: David Attenborough on Darwin

Youtube: Nature Video Part 2: David Attenborough on Birds of Paradise

Youtube: Nature Video Part 3: David Attenborough: Scientist or Broadcaster?

Youtube: An evening with Sir David Attenborough

BBC One: Web exclusive: The day I met Attenborough – Penguins

BBC One: Web exclusive: The day I met Attenborough – Lyrebird

BBC One: Web exclusive: The Gorillas Meet Attenborough

Quotes of the week:

Here’s what Hillsborough taught me. It’s just a game. It should never be a death sentence. And football rivalry NEVER trumps humanity. Ever. – Stephen McGann (@StephenMcGann)

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important”. – Bertrand Russell h/t @HambuloN

Just read the line “I am not interested in a hermeneutics, or an erotics, or a metaphorics of my anus.” – Sarah Ditum (@sarahditum)

“History is written by the Victors. No one ever got their last names, though”. – Brian Switek (@Laelaps)

“Personally I think a quid is a reasonable price for a quo, as long as it’s a genuine quo”. – Peter Coles (@telescoper)

“I would rather have question that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned” – possibly Richard Feynman

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” ― Oscar Wilde h/t @Libroantiguo

“Best C17 name seen today: Mr Polycarpus Wharton (for all your gunpowder requisites)” – Kate Morant (@KateMorant)

Giordano Bruno’s self-description in opening of application to Oxford for a teaching position (Rowland 2008)

Birthdays of the Week:

Athanasius Kircher born 2 May 1602

Portrait of Kircher at age 53
from Mundus Subterraneus (1664)
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Yovisto: Athanasius Kircher – A Man in Search of Universal Knowledge

Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Athanasius Kircher

History of Geology: Damned Souls and Fiery Oceans – Early Views of Earth’s Core

Bircher Section of the Earth from “Mundus Subterraneus”, first edition published in 1664-1665. –

Sigmund Freud born 6 May 1856

Freud with his father Jakob in 1864. In The Freud centenary exhibit of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1956.

Yovisto: Freudian Slips and other Trifles

Haaretz: The Close Relationship Between Einstein and Freud, Relatively Speaking

NYAM: Young Man Freud

Open Culture: Download Great Works by Sigmund Freud

PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:

Yovisto: Heinrich Gustav Magnus and the Magnus Effect

nasaonline: Robert Williams Wood 1868–1955 A Biographical Memoir

AHF: Philip Abelson

Pickle: Melbourne’s greatest telescope

1001 Inventions: The World of Ibn al-Haytham

Voices of the Manhattan Project: J. Samuel Walker’s Interview

OMNI Q&A: Ilya Prigogine on the Arrow of Time

Yovisto: Steven Weinberg and the Great Unifying Theory

Cosmos: Six physics equations that changed the course of history

APS News: This Month in Physics History: May 5 1933: The New York Times Covers Discovery of Cosmic Radio Waves

https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201505/physicshistory.cfm

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Tracking the Messenger of the Gods

Pierre Gassendi
after Louis-Édouard Rioult.
Source: Wikimedia Common

Muslim Heritage: The Stellar and Lunar Keys to Medieval Muslim Agriculture

The Telegraph: How British scientist Hertha Marks Ayrton discovered the secrets of ripples

Atlas Obscura: Ancient Aboriginal Astronomy

Mental_floss: Decimal Time: How the French Made a 10-Hour Day

Royal Museums Greenwich: History of the Royal Observatory

Royal Observatory, Greenwich c. 1902 as depicted on a postcard
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Voices of the Manhattan Project: Ted Taylor’s Interview – Part 3

Perimeter Institute: Pioneering Women of Physics

O Say Can You See?: What emerging science got the public excited in the 1880s? Spectroscopy!

Voices of the Manhattan Project: Siegfried Hecker’s Interview – Part 3

The Ordered Universe Project: Grosseteste at Georgetown

Forgotten Faces of Science: The Women Who Classified the Stars

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

Royal Museums Greenwich: John Cabot

British Library: Maps and views blog: Less of a Random Mapper: a new feature for Georeferencer

Atlas Obscura: Found: Captain Cook’s Ship

BBC News: Endeavour: Has the ship Captain Cook sailed to Australia been found?

The Telegraph: Archaeologists move a step closer to finding wreck of Captain Cook’s ship Endeavour

HNN: Legendary Explorer’s Long-Lost Ship May Have Been Found Off Rhode Island

Earl of Pembroke, later HMS Endeavour, leaving Whitby Harbour in 1768. By Thomas Luny, dated 1790.
Source: Wikimedia Commons

The Guardian: Captain Cook’s Endeavour: from the Great Barrier Reef to Rhode Island?

boingboing: Where is Captain Cook’s HMS Endeavour? Science can almost tell us!

Yovisto: How the Pope divided the New World among Spain and the Rest of the World

Conversant: “That Country is my Country” Loyalism and Maps of British America

Cynefin: The Tithe Maps of Wales: Cynefin Project

The Saleroom: American Civil War Era Manuscript Map

National Museum of Scotland: Portrait of Alexander Dalrymple

Live Sciences: 7 Extreme Female Explorers

Jackie Ronne and her husband Finn on skis in Antarctica during an expedition from 1946-1948.
Credit: Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition

Gizmodo: These Stunning Maps Show the Final Months of the First World War

MEDICINE & HEALTH:

eä: The first national tuberculosis congress in Portugal (1895)

Morbid Anatomy: Public Dissections, Frederik Ruysch and the Theatrum Anatomicum: Touring the Waag at Amsterdam Anatomy Weekend

Flickering Lamps: The Abandoned Temperance Hospital in Euston

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Fugitive Leaves: From ‘Bicephalic Monsters’ to ‘Brains of the Insane’: How Anatomists Built Evolutionary Hierarchies

storify: Nursing Medical Research Museum

Scientific American: Arsenic’s Afterlife: How Scientists Learned to Identify Poison Victims [Excerpt]

SHM Oxford: Medicine and Charity in Eighteenth-century Northumberland: The Early Years of the Bamburgh Castle Dispensary and Surgery c. 1772–1802

Wellcome Library: Views of Harbin (Fuchiatien) taken during the plague epidemic, December 1910 – March 1911

Thomas Morris: Champagne ad libitum

NYAM: Counterfeiting Bodies: Examining the Work of Walther Ryff

Circulating Now: A Mughal Era Manuscript Curiously Illustrated

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: International Day of the Midwife

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

From the Hands of Quacks: The Pulsator: How a Portable artificial Respirator Saved the Lives of Children

The Iron Lung Ward at Rancho Los Amigos Hospital in California during the height of a polio epidemic, c.1953.

The Recipes Project: ‘Recipes for Relationships’: Food, Medicine, Families and Cultural Engagement

Milk: Dissecting the Morbid Beauty of 18^th Century Anatomical Figures

Yovisto: Dorothea Erxleben – Germany’s First Female Medical Doctor

Thomas Morris: Mass delusions

The Establishment: Weird Beliefs About Women’s Bodies

Société Binet-Simon: Histoire du test de IQ

Wellcome Library Blog: The origins of the English almanac

h/t Thomas Morris

Dr Alun Withey: ‘Weird’ remedies and the problem of ‘folklore’

Remedia: ‘The Touch of a Man’: Gender and Male-Caregiving in the Royal Army Medical Corps in WW1

Histories of Emotion: Early Modern Mothers, in Their Own Words

Thomas Morris: Plum stone colick

Nursing Clio: Sunday Morning Medicine

TECHNOLOGY:

The Guardian: Who invented the cash machine? I did – and all I earned was £10

Conciatore: Pebbles from Pavia

Conciatore: Scraping the Barrel

Conciatore: Glass from Tinsel

IMechE Archive and Library: One Birdcage Walk

AMS Blogs: Happy Birthday, Claude Shannon

New Republic: How Literature Became Word Perfect

Independent.ie: To the 19^th Century genius who began the digital revolution – Prof Boole, take a bow

London Reconnections: London’s First Highway

Original Canary Wharf ‎Pier for RiverBus services. Courtesy Darryl Chamberlain,

Yovisto: The Sinking of the H.L. Hunley

The Met: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Piano: The Pianofortes of Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731)

Distillations Blog: The Art of Metal Filaments

Distillations Blog: The Transnational Light Bulb

distillatio: And another one bites the dust

Yovisto: Gustav Eiffel and his Famous Tower

The Devil’s Take: Daisy, Daisy…

Yovisto: You Press the Button and We do the Rest – George Eastman revolutionized Photography

The Maintainers: Creating a Factory-based Repair System in a Chinese Industrial Enterprise, 1961

The New York Times: Solving the Mystery of Ancient Ink Origins

Alembic Rare Books: Two Georgian Era Magnifying Glasses

Boston Globe: The qwerty history of the word processor

Scientific Instrument Society: Reverse Printed Paper Instruments [pdf]

Engineering Timeline: Thames Flood Barrier

The Huffington Post: London Would Have Been Submerged Without Thames Barrier Shocking Picture Reveals

Ancient Origins: The ancient invention of the steam engine by the Hero of Alexandria

The Public Domain Review: Frolicsome Engines: The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence

Illustration from an 1851 English edition of Hero’s Pneumatica, in which he describes machines working on air, steam or water pressure

Bristol Scout: 1 May 1916

Cambridge University Library Special Collections: Manuscript Image of the Month – The Maxim Airplane

Smithsonian.com: 26 Inventions Mothers Can Appreciate

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Atlas Obscura: Here Are the Medals Given to Eugenically Healthy Humans in the 1920s

BBC News: DNA secrets of Ice Age Europe unlocked

Natue: The quiet revolutionary: How the co-discovery of CRISPR explosively changed Emmanuelle Chapentier’s life

Scientific American: Laelaps: There’s Something Fishy about This Fossil Bird

Scientific American: Laelaps: Paleo Profile: The Light-Footed Lizard

The Guardian: John James Audubon and the natural history of a hoax

A page from Constantine Rafinesque’s field notebook, with a ‘big-eye jumping mouse’, a ‘lion-tail jumping mouse’, a ‘three-striped mole rat’ and a ‘brindled stamiter’. Photograph: Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image # SIA2012-6065.

Atlas Obscura: Audubon Made Up at Least 28 Fake Species to Prank a Rival

NYAM: “How Many Stamens Has Your Flower?” The Botanical Education of Emily Dickinson

From Shanklin: From Shanklin

Science League of America: Who Was the Occupant? Part 1

Atlas Obscura: Scientists Uncover a Huge Trove of Dinosaur Fossils in Antarctica

Yovisto: On the Road with Alexander von Humboldt

Matteo Farinella: Alexander von Humboldt

Wildlife Article: Celebrating the legacy of John Muir

TrowelBlazers: Lady Rachel Workman MacRobert

Lady MacRobert

Phys Org: Endangered venomous mammal predates dinosaurs’ extinction, study confirms

All Things Georgian: Reports of seismic activity in 18^th century England

Smithsonian.com: The Story Behind Those Jaw-Dropping Photos of the Collections at the Natural History Museum

CHEMISTRY:

The Telegraph: Sir Harry Kroto – obituary

The Guardian: Sir Harry Kroto, Nobel prize-winning chemist, dies at 76

NCSE: Harry Kroto dies

University of Sussex: Tribute to Sir Harry Kroto

BBC News: Tributes for Nobel prize chemist Harry Kroto

The Guardian: Sir Harry Kroto obituary

The New York Times: Harold Kroto, Nobel Prize-Winning Chemist, Is Dead at 76

The Guardian: Letters: Harry Kroto: scientist with the common touch

Youtube: Chemistry World: Remembering Harry Kroto

UCR Today: UC Riverside Professor Robert Haddon Advocated for the Smallest of Particles

Science life and times: A blue plaque for Dorothy

META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

Academia: The Scientific Education of a Renaissance Prince: Archduke Rudolf at the Spanish Court

Yovisto: The Great Exhibition and the Crystal Palace

The transept façade of the original Crystal Palace
Source: Wikimedia Commons

OUP Blog: What is really behind Descartes’ famous doubt?

Plato’s Footnote: Progress in Science – I

JHI Blog: We Have Never Been Presentist: On Regimes of Historicity

Physics Central: Physics Buzz Blog: Like Parent, Like Child

The Maintainers: A Conference

Creating a knowledge society in a globalizing world 1450–1800

The Way of Improvement Leads Home: What Should Historians be Thinking About – Part 5 (Link to other four parts)

JHI Blog: Shame, Memory, and the Politics of the Archive

Wellcome Library: Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Online Free Texts

Historiann: Wikipedia in the classroom: check out these new bios of early American women!

Slate: Is History Written About Men, by Men?

Niche: #EnvHist Daily

on display: Moving a Museum

ESOTERIC:

Drive.google.com: Depicting the Medieval Alchemical Cosmos: George Ripley’s Wheel of Inferior Astronomy

Social Epistemology: Was Feyerabend Right in Defending Astrology? A Commentary on Kidd, Massimo Pigliucci

Paul Feyerabend’s Horoscope

Yovisto: The Prophecies of Nostradamus

BOOK REVIEWS:

Scientific American: Constructing the Modern Mind

ISIS: Picture and Conversations: How to Study the Visual Cultures of Science

Medievalists.net: Medieval Medicine: Its Mysteries and Science by Toni Mount

MeHum Fiction – Daily Dose: Medieval Robots

Berfois: The Story of Napalm

Notches: The Religious Right and the Politics of Sexuality: An Interview with Neil J. Young

The Spectator: Steve Jones’s chaotic theory of history

Nature: Physics: Material to meaning

THE: The Experimenal Self: Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science, by Jan Golinski

The New York Times: ‘Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?’ and ‘The Genius of Birds’

NEW BOOKS:

Nouveautés Éditeurs: La Peur: Etude psychologique des effets et de la cause

puf: La mort et le soin

Princeton University Press: The Mushroom at the End of the World

University of Wales Press: Robert Recorde: Tudor Scholar and Mathematician

L’Harmattan: Les Médecines À Travers Les Réseaux Sociaux

L’Harmattan: Santé Riche et Médecine Pauvre

Historiens de la santé: Weill Cornell Medicine: A History of Cornell’s Medical School

ART & EXHIBITIONS

A Covent Garden Gilflurt’s Guide to Life: Captain Cook By Nathaniel Dance Holland

The Royal Society of Medicine: Exhibition: Charcot, Hysteria & La Salpetiere 3 May–23 July 2016

Journal of Art in Society: Science Becomes Art

Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May30 October 2016

Morbid Anatomy Museum, Brooklyn: House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, and Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum, Berlin, 1869–1922 Closes 30 May 2016

Harvard Magazine: Before Social Media: Radio was the medium that broke the silence

Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus

Bodleian: Marks of Genius

The Houston Museum of Natural Science: Cabinet of Curiosities Opens 6 May 2016

Reviews in History: Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee (Royal College of Physicians, 18 January – 29 July 2016)

Broadway World.com: Met Museum Exhibition to Celebrate Artistic, Technological, Cultural Legacy of the Seljuqs

Grup d’estudis d’història de la cartografia: Exhibition about Renacentrist cartography in Bergamo 16 April–10 July 2016

Bonner Sterne: “Argelanders Erben” im Universitätsmuseum Bonn bis 31 Juli 2016

Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:

Bridging the World: Benjamin Baker of Frome 5 March–21 May 2016

Fine Books & Collections: The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at BPL to Host Exhibit, “From the Sea to the Mountains” 2 April–28 August 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Scholar courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee 18 January29–July 2016

The National Air and Space Museum: A New Moon Rises: An Exhibition Where Science and Art Meet

Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017

AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016

Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017

Science Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius 10 February 2016–4 September 2016

Wellcome Collections: States of Mind 4 February–16 October 2016

Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm

Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game

The John Rylands Library: Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World 21 January–21 August 2016

Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15^th and 16^th Centuries

Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility

New York Public Library: Printmaking Women: Three Centuries of Female Printmakers, 1570–1900 Runs till 27 May 2016

Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday

CLOSING SOON: National Library of Scotland: Plague! A cultural history of contagious diseases in Scotland Runs till 29 May 2016

Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Manchester Central Library: The Enduring Eye: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley 9 April–11 June 2016

Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017

Science Museum: Information Age

Cambridge Science Museum: Cosmic Runs still 30 Jun 2016

Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Manchester Central Library: The Enduring Eye: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley 9 April–11 June 2016

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: YOUTOPIA: VISIONS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:

University of Cambridge: Understanding gravity – from Newton to Hawking

The Rose Theatre: The Alchemist by Ben Jonson 7–30 June 2016

Royal Shakespeare Company: Doctor Faustus Swan Theatre Stratford-Upon-Avon 8 February–4 August 2016

Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 18 June 2016

The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017

http://nyam.org/events/event/twenty-five-years-intersex-patient-rights-movement-why-arent-we-done/?utm_content=buffer4b65c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

EVENTS:

NYAM: The Lilian Sauter Lecture: Twenty-Five Years into the Intersex Patients Rights Movement, Why Aren’t We Done? 18 May 2016

Gresham College: Lecture: The Expanding Universe 26 October 2016

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-expanding-universe

University of Greenwich: Seminar: ‘Mag. and Met.’: the origins and early years of the Magnetic and Meteorological Department at Greenwich Observatory 25 May 2016

https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=mersenne;c476beef.1605&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Royal College of Nursing: Lecture: Joyous and deliberate motherhood: birth control nursing in the Marie Stopes Mothers Clinic, 1921-1931 26 May 2016

https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=mersenne;5ccd2669.1605&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Royal College of Nursing: Lecture: The Northern Powerhouse: Cottontown Nurses who shaped the Profession

https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=mersenne;5ccd2669.1605&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

The Royal Institution: Family Fun Day: Imaginative Inventions 15 May 2016

http://www.rigb.org/whats-on/events-2016/may/public-family-fun-day–imaginative-inventions

Brompton Cemetery: London Alchemy: Socery, Gin and Spooky Music in a Cemetery Chapel 4-5 June 2016

http://londonist.com/2016/05/london-alchemy-sorcery-gin-and-spooky-music-in-a-cemetery?utm_content=buffer5fcc0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Leonardo da Vinci Society Annual Lecture: Art and Anatomy in the 15^th and 16^th centuries Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, Courtauld Institute, Somerset House, Strand, London 13 May 2016

http://histoiresante.blogspot.de/2016/05/art-et-anatomie-aux-15e-et-16e-siecles.html

Flamsteed Astronomy Society: “Fame, fortune, misery, disaster – the lives and times of the Royal Observatory’s nineteenth century Assistants and Computers” 10 May 2016

Royal Institution: Lecture: No Need For Geniuses 11 May 2016

The Royal College of Surgeons of England: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Edward Jenner 17 May 2016

Glasgow: Science on the Streets – City Centre Tour 11 June 2016

Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh: We’re Not in Kirkcaldy Anymore: Scottish Adventures in Medicine 15 May 2016

Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh: Polar Adventure: Explorations in Geology 13 May 2016

Almond Valley Heritage Centre Millfield Livingston: Terrible Consequences 14 & 15 May 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and The History of Understanding

BSHS: Upcoming Lecture: Henry Wellcome Pharmacist Royal Pharmaceutical Society 23 May 2016

London Fortean Society: Snake Oil! The Golden Age of Quackery in Britain and America 26 May 2016

Museum of History of Science, Technology and Medicine: Leeds University: History and Philosophy of Science in 20 Objects (Lecture 5) 10 May 2016

NYAM: Lecture: The Discovery of Insulin – A Miracle Drug, A Nobel Prize Controversy, and the Story of Elizabeth Hughes 10 May 2016

V&A: Courses: Sensing Time: The Art and Science of Clocks and Watches 18 June 2016

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Festival of Museums 2016 – Glasgow’s Marvellous Medicine 14 May 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding

Boston Medical Library: Lecture: Prescription Drug Abuse in American History:

The Polar Museum: Lucky 13 Storytelling from the polar regions of the world 13 May 2016

Royal Society: Lecture: Hasok Chang: Who cares about the history of science? 10 May 2016

Birkbeck, University of London: The History of Number Theory 21 May 2016

Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)

Discover Medical London: “Dr Dee” & The Magic of Medicine A Special Half Day Tour 27 May 2016

BSHS: Singer Prize: The Singer Prize, of up to £300, is awarded by the British Society for the History of Science every two years to the writer of an unpublished essay, based on original research into any aspect of the history of science, technology or medicine.

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

PAINTING OF THE WEEK:

William Hunter lecturing, by Johan Zoffany, c.1770-2

TELEVISION:

SLIDE SHOW:

VIDEOS:

Vimeo: Linda Hall Library: Karl Galle: The Unknown Copernicus: Spies; Printers, Amazons, and Body-Snatchers in an Age of Astronomical Revolution

Youtube: Philosophy: Margaret Cavendish, Part 1

Youtube: Philosophy: Margaret Cavendish, Part 2

RADIO & PODCASTS:

CHF: Episode 143: Fairyland of Chemistry

Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know: Alchemy with Damien Patrick Williams

Newsworks: From pages to pixels, the invention of the eReader

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Columbia University: Exploring the Philosophy of Émile du Châtelet 1–3 June 2016

Conférence des étudiant.e.s du NHRU-URHN: Briser les silences de l’histoire du nursing et de la santé 19 Mai 2016

Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey: SPSP Pre-Conference Workshop: Empirical Methodology for Philosophy of Science in Practice 16 June 2016

University of Bristol: History and Philosophy of Chemistry Workshop 11-12 May 2016

University of Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events

University of Oxford: John Wallis (1616–1703) Mathematics, Music Theory, and Cryptography, 1n 17^th Century 9 June 2016

Society for the Social History of Medicine: 2016 Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October

BJHS Themes: We are calling for proposals for Issue 3 (2018) of BJHS Themes, the annual open-access journal that is a companion to the British Journal for the History of Science. Like the BJHS, BJHS Themes is published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the BSHS.

The deadline for abstract submission for the 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature, Poellau, Austria and the Workshop “Nature(s), Humans and God(s)” on Syros Island, Greece has been extended to 15th of May 2016.

St Michaels College, Cardiff University: Conference: Bodily Fluids/Fluid Bodies in Greek and Roman Antiquity 11–13 July 2016 Programme

H-Pennsylvania: Philip J. Pauly Book Prise Nominations Sought for Histories of Science in the Americas

British and European History of Medicine Conference: Registration: Medicine in Place: Situating Medicine in Historical Contexts University of Kent 7-10 July 2016

BSHS: Prizes

Three Societies Meeting: University of Alberta, Edmonton 22–25 June 2016 Only two weeks left for hotel conference rates!

Wikipedia: Meetup/DC/Early Modern Edit-a-Thron

New York University Library: Manuscript Cookbooks Conference 12–13 May 2016

Durham University: Workshop: Utilitarianism and Medicine: Past and Tresent Perspectives 11 May 2016

Staffordshire University: Workshop: Deleuze, Entropy and Thermodynamics 19 May 2016

Trinity College Cambridge: The Venues of Scholarly Output: Collections, Treatises, Textbooks, Archives 25 June 2016

Let’s Talk About Sex: CfP: History of Sexuality PGR/ECR Workshop University of Exeter 26–27 June 2016

Queen Mary University of London:Upcoming History of Emotions Work in Progress Seminars

University of Reading: CfP: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016 Deadline: 15 June 2016

BSHS: Registration Open: The Body and Pseudoscience in the Long Nineteenth Century Newcastle University 18 June 2016

University of St. Andrews: Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (SSEMP VII) 5–6 May 2016 Programme

MSH Lorraine, Nancy: “Mathématiques et mathématiciens à Metz (1750-1870): dynamiques de recherche et d’enseignement dans un espace local” 12 Mai 2016

Barts Pathology Museum: CfP: The “Heart” and “Science” of Wilkie Collins and his Contemporaries 24 September 2016

Wilkie Collins Portrait by Rudolph Lehmann, 1880
Source: Wikimedia Commons

University of Leicester: Centre for Medical Humanities: Seminars:

Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware: CfP: Making Modern Disability: Histories of Disability, Design, and Technology 28 October 2016

EHESS, Paris: Journée d’étude: Genre, humeurs et fluides corporels. Moyen Âge & Époque moderne 19 Mai 2016

New York City: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 30 September–1 October 2016

Columbia University: The Center for Science & Society: Exploring the Philosophy of Émilie du Châtelet 1–3 June 2016

Organisé par Alexandre Klein (Université d’Ottawa): Histoire des relations de santé aux XIXe et XXe siècles 11 mai 2016

History at the Open University: Women and Gender in Early Modern Britain and Ireland: A Conference in Honour of Anne Laurence Institute of Historical Research London 4 June 2016

IHPST, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris: CfP: International Doctoral Conference in Philosophy of Science 29-30 September 2016

Ian Ramsey Centre Conference, University of Oxford: Workshop “Early Modern Laws of Nature: Secular and Divine” 7 July 2016 Call for Abstract: deadline 30 April 2016

History and Philosophy of Science Department, University of Cambridge: Workshop: Informal Aspects of Uncertainty Evaluation 20 May 2016

Annals of Science: Annals of Science Essay Prize for Young Scholars

H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology

2^nd International Conference on the History of Physics: Invention, application and exploitation in the history of physics Pöllau, Austria 5–7 September 2016

University of Cambridge: Cabinet of Natural History: Seminars Easter Term 2016

University of Leeds: Northern Renaissance Seminar: Programme: Communication, Correspondence and Transmission in the Early Modern World 12-13 May 2016

Warburg Institute: ESSWE Thesis Workshop 7 July 2016

Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST: CfP: 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature

University of Greenwich: Society and the Sea Conference: 15–16 September 2016

University of Illinois, Chicago: CfP: STS Graduate Student Workshop: 16-17 September

University of London: Birkbeck: Thomas Harriot Seminar 2016: 11 July 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century 10–11 September 2016

Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science: Annual Conference Programme 28–30 May 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016

irkbeck, University of London: CfP: Embarrassing Bodies: Feeling Self-Conscious in the Nineteenth Century 17 June 2016

University of Warwick: Workshop: Early Modern Experimental Philosophy, Metaphysics, and Religion 10–11 May 2016

LOOKING FOR WORK:

University of Notre Dame: Assistant Director of Education: This position supports the Directors of the History and Philosophy of Science Graduate Program

Science Museum: The Science Museum is looking for post-grads and early-career researchers to work on short research projects.

University of Oxford: Departmental Lecturer in the History of Medicine

Science Museum Group: Keeper of Technologies & Engineering

Durham University: Applications are invited for an AHRC-funded PhD at Durham University on ‘British Newsreels at War, 1939–1945’

TU Munich: New Masters Program in STS

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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

Year 2, Volume #40

Monday 16 May 2016

EDITORIAL:

It’s that time of the week once more for a new edition of Whewell’s Gazette your weekly #histSTM links list, which brings you all the histories of science, technology and medicine that washed up on the shores of cyberspace over the last seven days.

The scientific event of the week was without doubt the Transit of Mercury that took place on Monday 9 May and was followed live with telescopes with sun filters and indirectly through numerous Internet feeds by people all over the world. Whilst by no means as spectacular or as rare as a Transit of Venus, which can be followed with the packed-eye (protected of course with transit glasses) the Transit of Mercury remains a symbol of the seventeenth-century transition from a geocentric to a heliocentric world view.

Observations Mercury and of the Transits of Mercury did not begin in the twenty-first century so it is only natural that the historians of astronomy got in on the act last week, too. In the selection of posts and articles that follow we have, the historical background to the first transit observation by Pierre Gassed in 1631. We also have a post on the role that early observations of Mercury played in Copernicus’ De revolutionibus. There are also posts on historical transit observations by Edmond Halley and Captain James Cook.

If you missed out on the excitement on Monday then you will only have to wait until 11 November 2019 to make your own historical observations.

Mesopotamian cuneiform clay fragment regarding the visibility of Mercury, c. late 1st millennium BCE

The H-Word: Before the Transit of Mercury: forgotten forerunners of an astronomical revolution

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Tracking the Messenger of the Gods

Position of the planet Mercury in the 6th house at the moment of Prince Iskandar’s birth, 1411

New Zealand History: Captain Cook observes transit of Mercury 9 November 1769

Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage: Transits of Venus and Mercury as Muses

Motions of Mercury in Georg Peuerbach’s, Theoricae novae planetarum (Venice, 1537)

The Catholic Astronomer: Priests, Deacons, and Religious of Science: Meet the Priest who First Recorded the Transit of Mercury – Pierre Gassendi

Personification of Mercury in Turkish version of the ‘Wonders of Creation’ by al-Qazwini, 1717

Youtube: Royal Society: Transit Telescope – Objectivity #69

All Mercury Illustrations Courtesy of @HistAstro

Quotes of the week:

“I like my pronouns like I like my restrooms: gender-neutral” – Shit Academics Say (@AcademicsSay)

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” – Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” – Douglas Adams

“Could God create a Wikipedia article so notable even He couldn’t delete it?” – John Overholt (@john_overholt)

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible” – Richard Feynman h/t @ferwen

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool” – Richard Feynman (1918-1988)

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” – Richard Feynman (1918-1988)

“The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language.” – Richard Feynman (1918-1988)

“Gods and angels do not come bearing perfectly formed theories to disembodied prophets who instantly write textbooks.” – Louisa Gilder h/t @fadesingh

“In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them” – John von Neumann

Science: “the only human activity that is truly democratic, truthful, apolitical, rational & self-regulation.” James Burke, 1985. Discuss. – Stephen Curry (@Stephen_Curry)

Birthdays of the Week:

Dorothy Hodgkin born 12 May

The Guardian: Dorothy Hodgkin: The only British woman to win a Nobel science prize gets a doodle

Royal Society of Chemistry: Professor Dorothy Hodgkin OM

The Guardian: Colouring by letters: the life of Dorothy Hodgkin

Nobelprize.org: Enhancing X-ray Vision

Science Life and Times: A blue plaque for Dorothy

Science Museum: Celebrating Dorothy Hodgkin

Dorothy Hodgkin was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1964 for her studies using X-ray crystallography, with which she worked out the atomic structure of penicillin, vitamin B-12 and insulin. Image credit: Science Museum / SSPL

MHS Collection: Model of the Structure of Penicillin, by Dorothy Hodgkin, Oxford, c.1945

University of Oxford: Hodgkin gets stamp of approval

Royal Society: Women’s work: Dorothy Hodgkin and the culture and craft of X-ray crystallography

Facebook: Dorothy Hodgkin: A celebration of a pioneering biochemist

Florence Nightingale born 12 May 1820

Science Museum Group Journal: A statistical campaign: Florence Nightingale and Harriet Martineau’s ‘England and her Soldiers’

Yovisto: Florence Nightingale – The Lady with the Lamp

British History Online: Nos. 4–12 South Street

The Public Domain Review: The Voice of Florence Nightingale

NYAM: “A Passionate Statistician”: Florence Nightingale and the Numbers Game

Chart from NYAM’s copy of Florence Nightingale’s A contribution to the sanitary history of the British army during the late war with Russia (London, 1859).

The British Museum: Collection Online: “The Lady with the Lamp” (Florence Nightingale at Scutari A.D. 1856.)

The Economist: Worth a thousand words

PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:

APS: Physics: Viewpoint: Particles Move to the Beat of a Microfluid Drum

Figure 1: (Top) When dark particles are placed on the back of a violin vibrating on resonance, the particles move to the vibrational nodes. The resulting patterns, known as Chladni figures, depend on the vibrational frequency and provide a visual manifestation of each resonance. (Bottom) Poulain and colleagues [1] observed Chladni patterns when they placed microparticles within a liquid above a thin oscillating plate in a microfluidics device. Because of the fluid dynamics in their device, the particles were, unlike the particles on the violins, transported away from the nodes (dashed white lines) and towards the vibrational antinodes.

The Guardian: Sir Denys Wilkinson obituary

Yovisto: Cecilia Payne-Gasposchkin and the Composition of Stars

Kongernes Samling Rosenborg: Astronomical Clock

Yovisto: Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Isaac and the apple – the story and the myth

The Woolsthorpe Manor apple tree
Source:Wikimedia Commons

Yovisto: Houston, we have a Problem

Yovisto: Please Don’t Ignite the Earth’s Atmosphere…

AHF: Stanislaus Ulam

OUP Blog: A brief history of corpuscular discoveries

AHF: Nicholas Kurti

Laboratory Equipment: Astronomy Specifically Dates 2,500-year-old Poem by Sappho

Astronotes: Skylab: Everything You Need to Know

An overhead view of the Skylab Orbital Workshop in Earth orbit as photographed from the Skylab 4 Command and Service Modules (CSM) during the final fly-around by the CSM before returning home.
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Ptak Science Books: Neutrons, Positrons, & Hell–the Epic of the Fall of Man Suggested in the Physics of 1932

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

Yovisto: Jules Dumont d’Urville and his South-Pacific Voyages

HNN: One Reason the Story of the Explorer Hernando de Soto is Memorable

National Geographic: If You Love Maps, This Blog is for You

Swann Auction Galleries: Dutch East India Company – Java Sea

Atlas Obscura: The Hidden History of America’s 19^th-Century Mania for Panoramic Prints

Des Moines, Ia. (Image: A. Ruger/Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division)

Yovisto: Arthur Phillip – Commander of the First Fleet

The National Museum of American History: Lewis and Clark Expedition Pocket Compass

that’s: This WWII-era map of China just might change the way you view the country

MEDICINE & HEALTH:

Hermann Historica Archiv: Geheimer Giftschrank in Buchform

Imperial Measures: New Blog: Alcohol, Health & Medicine in Colonial India

CHoM News: Processing of the Harvard School of Public Health Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development Records

Nursing Clio: The Gendered Politics of Sweat

The Recipes Project: Workhouse Diets: Paucity or Plenty [Part I]

The Recipes Project: Workhouse Diets: Paucity or Plenty [Part II]

Thomas Morris: A rotten trick

Anita Guerini: History, animals, science, food: The Secret Horror of Dissection

Skeleton with rickets. Histoire naturelle, tome III, Pl. I. BNF

Smithsonian.com: How Tuberculosis Shaped Victorian Fashion

Harvard Medicine: Line Art: The work of Andreas Vesalius fascinated, and inspired neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing

Conversant: Hidden on the Horizon: A View of the New England Throat Distemper Epidemics from Salem

JRSM: ‘An innocent deception’: placebo controls in the St Petersburg homeopathy trial, 1829–1830

Thomas Morris: Boiling water and birch twigs

Fugitive Leaves: Bringing Out the Dead: Adventures in Cataloging, Part I

Nurcing Cio: “For Poor or Rich”: Handywomen and traditional Birth in Ireland

flickr: Wellcome Images: International Nurses Day

NYAM: Edward Jenner and the Development of the Smallpox Vaccine

Circulating Now: A Universal Code: Nurse Uniforms of all Nations

Peter McCandless, Author, Editor, Historian: Anatomy Illustrated (1543–2007)

Thomas Morris: The fire-proof man

The Victorian Web: Another Florence Nightingale? The Rediscovery of Mary Seacole

Pilgrimrose.com: Holding Their Breath

Thomas Morris: The hearing-aid chair

Smithsonian.com: Before Dr. Mutter, Surgery was a Dangerous and Horrifically Painful Ordeal

The New York Times: Unearthing the Secrets of New York’s Mass Graves

TECHNOLOGY:

Yovisto: Nikolaus Otto and the Four Stroke Engine

Otto-Langen gas engine 1867.
Source: Wikimedia Commons

JSTOR Daily: Cracking Enigma: The Polish Connection

Open Culture: How the Moog Synthesiser Changed the Sound of Music

Global Urban History: From Lancashire to the World: The Manchester Ship Canal and Globalization

The National Museum of Computing: Early Computer Showroom Chic

Creative Review: Historic computers look super sexy in this new photo series by Docubyte and Ink

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Z3 or not Z3 that is the question?

DW: Konrad Zuse and the digital revolution he started with the Z3 computer 75 years ago

History Computer: Konrad Zuse – the first relay computer

Yovisto: Theodore von Kármán and his Advances in Aerodynamics

Yovisto: Igor Sikorsky and the Helicopter

Ptak Science Books: Stem-Punk Tee-Shirt Rocket Ship Pilots (1932)

Damn Interesting: The Atomic Automobile

flickr: Binocular compound microscope, Carl Zeiss Jena, 1914

The New York Times: What Was the Greatest Era for Innovation? A Brief Guided Tour

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Michelle Marshall: A Duke Deceived

Yovisto: James Pollard Espy – the Storm King

Clerk of Oxford: ‘Summer, sun-brightest’: An Anglo-Saxon Summer

The Guardian: The foul reign of the biological clock

Notches: “A Poison More Deadly”: Defining Obscenity in the West

Yovisto: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and the Human Race

Blumenbach’s Five Races

The Embryo Project: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840)

Medievalists.net: Earthquakes in Medieval Sicily (A Historical Revision 7^th–13^th Century)

Natural History Museum: Diplodocus: this is your life

Science League of America: Who Was the Occupant? Part 2

Niche: Portal to the Pyrocene

CHF: Man Made: A History of Synthetic Life

Climate Lab Book: Spiralling global temperatures

Atlas Obscura: Meet the Fish that Made America Great

The New York Times: The Lost Gardens of Emily Dickinson

Smithsonian Collections Blog: The Tradescant Museum: A Proto-Smithsonian in London?

Academia: The Ethics of Animal Experimentation in Seventeenth-Century England

Science Friday: A Tale of Two Glassmakers and Their Marine Marvels

The New York Times: In Maritime Logbooks, a Trove of ‘extraordinary’ Imagery

OMNI Q&A: John Lilly on Dolphin Consciousness

CHEMISTRY:

Yovisto: Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and his Work on Gasses

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

Chemistry World: Harry Kroto 1939–2016

Chemistry World: Timms’ reactor

The metal vapour reactor was invented by Peter Timms, British chemist (1937-2005)

Yovisto: Justus von Liebig and the Agricultural Revolution

META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

NCSE: Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet awards for 2016

Canadian Bulletin of Medical History / Bulletin canadiene d’histoire de la medicine: Inaugural Edition now available

The Conversation: The philosophy of chemistry … and what it can tell us about life, the universe and everything

ABC: Why Einstein didn’t wear socks and the nature of scientific inquiry

Le Ruche: AVIS DE PARUTION. JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY. VOL. 1 – 2016

Associations Now: Beer Group Helping to Brew Up a History Lesson

Electrifying the Country House: Notes from an Intern: Stories from the Archives

Smithsonian Institution Archives: Joseph Henry 1797–1878

Joseph Henry Portrait, by Ulke, Henry, 1879, Smithsonian Archives – History Div, 10191or AI-10191.

Academia: The Role of the Author in Constructing the History of Science

J.F: Penn: Talking About Death and Morbid Anatomy with Joanna Ebenstein

AEON: Anthropocene fever

ESOTERIC:

Chronologia Universalis: Beware the Rheticus’s prophecy!

The most reliable witness to Rheticus’s horoscope – MS Wrocław, University Library, Akc. 1949/594, fol. 56v, fragment

distillatio: Why I’ve not been posting so much recently

BOOK REVIEWS:

The Guardian: The 100 best nonfiction books: No 15 – The Double Helix by James D Watson (1668)

Project Muse: 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed: Turning Points in Ancient History by Eric H. Cline

Nature: Genetics: On the heredity trail

The Irish Catholic: The universe and Katharine Kepler

The New York Times: ‘The Gene,’ by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Science Book a Day: Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

Chemical Heritage Magazine: Suiting Up

Smithsonian.com: The Science Behind Nature’s Patterns

Smithsonian.com: The Bizarre Tale of the Tunnels, Trysts and Taxa of a Smithsonian Entomologist

Contagions: Environment, Society and the Black Death in Sweden

NEW BOOKS:

University of Oklahoma Press: The Greatest Show in the Arctic: The American Exploration of Franz Josef Land, 1898–1905

Hodder & Stoughton: Rebecca Rideal – 1666 Plague, War and Hellfire

University of Chicago Press: Huxley’s Church and Maxwell’s Demon: From Theistic Science to Naturalistic Science

Cork University Press: The Booles & the Hintons

Routledge: Explorations in History and Globalization

Ithaque: Le Cas Paramord. Obsession et contrainte psychique, aujourd’hui

University of Chicago Press: Ex Voto. Votive Giving Across Cultures

ART & EXHIBITIONS

History Today: Maria Merian’s Butterflies

Science Museum: Robots

University of Oklahoma: University Libraries: Galileo’s World: Virtual Exhibit

Natural History Museum: Dippy on tour

The Royal Society of Medicine: Exhibition: Charcot, Hysteria & La Salpetiere 3 May–23 July 2016

Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May30–October 2016

Morbid Anatomy Museum, Brooklyn: House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, and Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum, Berlin, 1869–1922 Closes 30 May 2016

Harvard Magazine: Before Social Media: Radio was the medium that broke the silence

Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus

Bodleian: Marks of Genius

The Houston Museum of Natural Science: Cabinet of Curiosities Opens 6 May 2016

Reviews in History: Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee (Royal College of Physicians, 18 January – 29 July 2016)

Broadway World.com: Met Museum Exhibition to Celebrate Artistic, Technological, Cultural Legacy of the Seljuqs

Grup d’estudis d’història de la cartografia: Exhibition about Renacentrist cartography in Bergamo 16 April–10 July 2016

Bonner Sterne: “Argelanders Erben” im Universitätsmuseum Bonn bis 31 Juli 2016

Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:

Bridging the World: Benjamin Baker of Frome 5 March–21 May 2016

Fine Books & Collections: The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at BPL to Host Exhibit, “From the Sea to the Mountains” 2 April–28 August 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Scholar courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee 18 January29–July 2016

The National Air and Space Museum: A New Moon Rises: An Exhibition Where Science and Art Meet

Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017

AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016

Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017

Science Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius 10 February 2016–4 September 2016

Wellcome Collections: States of Mind 4 February–16 October 2016

Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm

Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game

The John Rylands Library: Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World 21 January–21 August 2016

Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility

CLOSING SOON: New York Public Library: Printmaking Women: Three Centuries of Female Printmakers, 1570–1900 Runs till 27 May 2016

Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday

CLOSING SOON: National Library of Scotland: Plague! A cultural history of contagious diseases in Scotland Runs till 29 May 2016

Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Manchester Central Library: The Enduring Eye: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley 9 April–11 June 2016

Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017

Science Museum: Information Age

Cambridge ScienceCentre: Cosmic Runs still 30 Jun 2016

Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Manchester Central Library: The Enduring Eye: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley 9 April–11 June 2016

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: YOUTOPIA: VISIONS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016

Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph 14 April–11 September 2016

THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:

The Old Vic: Jekyll and Hyde 20-28 May 2016

Royal Opera House: Frankenstein, 4 – 27 MAY 2016

The Rose Theatre: The Alchemist by Ben Jonson 7–30 June 2016

Royal Shakespeare Company: Doctor Faustus Swan Theatre Stratford-Upon-Avon 8 February–4 August 2016

Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 18 June 2016

The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017

CHF: Cain Conference Public Lecture: Life in the Universe Past and Present 26 May 2016

EVENTS:

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Talk: Buckets, Bollards and Bombs 23 May 2016

The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours

Café 1001, Brick Lane: Museum Showoff, May 24 2016

Royal Museums of Greenwich: Talk: In the Steps of Shackleton 1 June 2016

Gresham College: Lecture: The Expanding Universe 26 October 2016

University of Greenwich: Seminar: ‘Mag. and Met.’: the origins and early years of the Magnetic and Meteorological Department at Greenwich Observatory 25 May 2016

Royal College of Nursing: Lecture: Joyous and deliberate motherhood: birth control nursing in the Marie Stopes Mothers Clinic, 1921-1931 26 May 2016

Royal College of Nursing: Lecture: The Northern Powerhouse: Cottontown Nurses who shaped the Profession 8 June 2016

Brompton Cemetery: London Alchemy: Socery, Gin and Spooky Music in a Cemetery Chapel 4-5 June 2016

Glasgow: Science on the Streets – City Centre Tour 11 June 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and The History of Understanding

BSHS: Upcoming Lecture: Henry Wellcome Pharmacist Royal Pharmaceutical Society 23 May 2016

London Fortean Society: Snake Oil! The Golden Age of Quackery in Britain and America 26 May 2016

V&A: Courses: Sensing Time: The Art and Science of Clocks and Watches 18 June 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding

Boston Medical Library: Lecture: Prescription Drug Abuse in American History:

Birkbeck, University of London: The History of Number Theory 21 May 2016

Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)

Discover Medical London: “Dr Dee” & The Magic of Medicine A Special Half Day Tour 27 May 2016

L.I.S.A: Tobias Linden: Das ‘Verbogene’ in der Geisterfotographie des 19. Jahrhunderts

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

Royal Pharmaceutical Society: Henry Wellcome, Pharmacist 23 May

Royal Pharmaceutical Society: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Edward Jenner 17 May

The Royal College of Physicians: Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “Sex and The City”

Cambridge Science Centre: LATES: A HISTORY OF ROCKETRY 19 May 2016

PAINTING OF THE WEEK:

Pavel Kaplun: Science

TELEVISION:

SLIDE SHOW:

VIDEOS:

Youtube: First Flight Over North Pole (1926)

Youtube: Royal College of Physicians: Exhibitions 18 Videos!

RADIO & PODCASTS:

Distillations: The Ancient Chemistry Inside Your Taco

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Library and Archives: History of Medicine: Audio and Video

Distillations Podcast: Is Space the Place? Trying to Save Humanity by Mining Asteroids

University of Oxford: ‘Death Masks: Facing the Dead’

BBC RADIO 4: Florence Nightingale: Statistician

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science: Upcoming Events

University of Edinburgh: Workshop: Philosophy of biology meets social studies of biosciences 24 May 2016

University of Paderborn: Seminar: Women in the History of Philosophy: Diotima and Hannah Arendt 17-19 May 2016

HSS: The Nathan Reingold Prize for an original graduate student essay on the history of science and its cultural influences. Deadline 1 June 2016

Fórum Lisboa (Antigo Cinema Roma): CFP: Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science 14–16 December 2016

University of Cambridge: Symposium: Science and Culture in Theory and History: Latin America, France and the Anglophone World 2–3 July 2016

Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)

Wellcome Library: Workshop: Incunabula and medicine: a workshop 20 May 2016

Calenda: Le Calendrier des Lettres et Sciences Humains et Sociales: Appel à contribution « Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique »

Western Michigan University: Call for Abstracts: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference 15–16 September 2016

Society for the Social History of Medicine: Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October 2016

Kunsthistorisches Institut In Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut: CfP: Photo-Objects. On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo-Archives in the Humanities and Sciences 15–17 February 2017

University of Bordeaux: Seminar: Philosophy & Biology 27 May 2016

University of Leuven: CfA: The science of evolution and the evolution of the sciences 12–13 October 2016

Science Museum: Artefacts Meeting 2–4 October 2016: CfP: Understanding Use: Science and Technology Objects and Users

Cambridge: CfP extended: Science and Islands in the Indo-Pacific World 15–16 September 2016

Singapore: Society for the History of Technology: Annual Meeting 22–26 June 2016

Columbia University: Exploring the Philosophy of Émile du Châtelet 1–3 June 2016

Conférence des étudiant.e.s du NHRU-URHN: Briser les silences de l’histoire du nursing et de la santé 19 Mai 2016

Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey: SPSP Pre-Conference Workshop: Empirical Methodology for Philosophy of Science in Practice 16 June 2016

University of Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events

University of Oxford: John Wallis (1616–1703) Mathematics, Music Theory, and Cryptography, 1n 17th Century 9 June 2016

Society for the Social History of Medicine: 2016 Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October

St Michaels College, Cardiff University: Conference: Bodily Fluids/Fluid Bodies in Greek and Roman Antiquity 11–13 July 2016 Programme

H-Pennsylvania: Philip J. Pauly Book Prise Nominations Sought for Histories of Science in the Americas

British and European History of Medicine Conference: Registration: Medicine in Place: Situating Medicine in Historical Contexts University of Kent 7-10 July 2016

BSHS: Prizes

Three Societies Meeting: University of Alberta, Edmonton 22–25 June 2016 Only two weeks left for hotel conference rates!

Staffordshire University: Workshop: Deleuze, Entropy and Thermodynamics 19 May 2016

Trinity College Cambridge: The Venues of Scholarly Output: Collections, Treatises, Textbooks, Archives 25 June 2016

Let’s Talk About Sex: CfP: History of Sexuality PGR/ECR Workshop University of Exeter 26–27 June 2016

Queen Mary University of London:Upcoming History of Emotions Work in Progress Seminars

University of Reading: CfP: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016 Deadline: 15 June 2016

BSHS: Registration Open: The Body and Pseudoscience in the Long Nineteenth Century Newcastle University 18 June 2016

University of St. Andrews: Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (SSEMP VII) 5–6 May 2016 Programme

Barts Pathology Museum: CfP: The “Heart” and “Science” of Wilkie Collins and his Contemporaries 24 September 2016

Wilkie Collins Portrait by Rudolph Lehmann, 1880
Source: Wikimedia Commons

University of Leicester: Centre for Medical Humanities: Seminars:

Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware: CfP: Making Modern Disability: Histories of Disability, Design, and Technology 28 October 2016

EHESS, Paris: Journée d’étude: Genre, humeurs et fluides corporels. Moyen Âge & Époque moderne 19 Mai 2016

New York City: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 30 September–1 October 2016

Columbia University: The Center for Science & Society: Exploring the Philosophy of Émilie du Châtelet 1–3 June 2016

History at the Open University: Women and Gender in Early Modern Britain and Ireland: A Conference in Honour of Anne Laurence Institute of Historical Research London 4 June 2016

IHPST, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris: CfP: International Doctoral Conference in Philosophy of Science 29-30 September 2016

Ian Ramsey Centre Conference, University of Oxford: Workshop “Early Modern Laws of Nature: Secular and Divine” 7 July 2016 Call for Abstract: deadline 30 April 2016

History and Philosophy of Science Department, University of Cambridge: Workshop: Informal Aspects of Uncertainty Evaluation 20 May 2016

Annals of Science: Annals of Science Essay Prize for Young Scholars

H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology

2nd International Conference on the History of Physics: Invention, application and exploitation in the history of physics Pöllau, Austria 5–7 September 2016

University of Cambridge: Cabinet of Natural History: Seminars Easter Term 2016

Warburg Institute: ESSWE Thesis Workshop 7 July 2016

Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST: CfP: 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature

University of Greenwich: Society and the Sea Conference: 15–16 September 2016

University of Illinois, Chicago: CfP: STS Graduate Student Workshop: 16-17 September

University of London: Birkbeck: Thomas Harriot Seminar 2016: 11 July 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century 10–11 September 2016

Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science: Annual Conference Programme 28–30 May 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016

irkbeck, University of London: CfP: Embarrassing Bodies: Feeling Self-Conscious in the Nineteenth Century 17 June 2016

LOOKING FOR WORK:

University of Leeds: Fully funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Studentship: Making the Pulse: the Reception of the Stethoscope in nineteenth century Britain, 1817-1870.

The Royal Society: Archivist & Digital Resources Manager

University of Strathclyde Glasgow: Lecturer in the History of Health and Medicine since 1800

ODNB: Oxford DNB research bursaries in the humanities 2016–17

Academic Job Wiki: History of Science, Technology, and Medicine 2015–2016

University of Oxford: Research Associate – The History of Dyslexia

Leibniz Universität Hannover and Bielefeld University: 4 Doctoral Candidate Positions (65% TV-L 13) in Philosophy of Science and/or Ethics of Science

H-Sci-Med-Tech: Job: Assoc. Director/Oral Historian, Hagley Center

University of Liverpool: PhD studentship: ‘Changing Cultures in Health and Medicine’

University of Avignon: Contrat doctoral en histoire de la médecine médiévale: Histoire de la médecine médiévale; histoire de la santé (Occident médiéval, XIIe – XVe siècles)

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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

Year 2, Volume #41

Monday 23 May 2016

EDITORIAL:

A mini parliament of owls from Willughby’s Ornithologiae (1676)

Another week has flown by and as you can see our editorial team have been very busy putting together the latest issues of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list, flying to the far depths of cyberspace to bring all the best in the histories of science, technology and medicine from the last seven days.

William Whewell Portrait by James Lonsdale
(c) Trinity College, University of Cambridge; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation

Today, 24 May, is the 222^nd birthday of our eponymous editor in chief, the nineteenth-century Cambridge polymath William Whewell. This journal was named in his honour because his career best epitomises the aims of this journal, to take the broadest sweep possible of the history of science in its widest sense.

Whewell was as this brief biography at the beginning of this blog states A Man of Many Talents. A scientist, who worked in a wide range of disciplines, philosopher of science and historian of science who played a major role in establishing the discipline in its own right. Also an educator and a coiner of scientific terms who most famously invented the term scientist, although it took some time to become established, something he did not live to see.

William Whewell, c. 1860s
Source: Wikimedia Commons

When you read the latest edition of his gazette raise a glass to Willy, our editor in chief and wish him a happy birthday and enjoy this, his birthday present to all of his readers.

Quotes of the week:

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts” – Bertrand Russell

“Freelancers: tell your landlord that instead of paying rent you’ll mention them on Twitter because ‘it will be good for their profile’” – Richard Wiseman (@RichardWiseman)

Steven Jay Gould

From NYAM archives: “the three great public health problems confronting the world are heart disease, cancer, and deafness” (1935) h/t @jaivirdi

“The biggest problem with Twitter isn’t fitting a thought into 140 chars. It’s that you get 140 characters whether or not you have a thought” – Chris Clarke (@canislatrans)

People confuse common sense with logic – “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18”– Einstein – John Richard (@a_New_U)

“If only we had a means of distributing scholarly papers and data in a decentralized, searchable fashion at very low cost” – Kieran Healy (@kjhealy)

“To whistle feebly is to ‘wheeple’ in Scottish and northern English dialects” – The OED (@OED)

Birthdays of the Week:

Maria Gaetana Agnesi born 16 May 1718

Linda Hall Library: Maria Gaetana Agnesi – Scientist of the Day

Linda Hall Library Digital Collections: Analytical institutions. Vol. 1

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Season of the Witch

Wolfram MathWorld: Witch of Agnesi

Mary Anning born 21 May 1799

Sketch of Mary Anning at work by Henry De la Beche
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Letters from Gondwana: Mary Anning and the Flying Dragon

Letters from Gondwana: Mary Anning, the Carpenter’s Daughter

Regency History: Mary Anning (1799–1847)

ucmp.berkeley.edu: Mary Anning (1799–1847)

Lady Science: No. 8: Women of the Earth Sciences

Lyme Regis Museum: The new Mary Anning Wing

Albrecht Dürer born 21 May 147

Self-portrait silverpoint drawing by the thirteen-year-old Dürer, 1484
Source: Wikimedia Commons

The H-Word: The triumph of melancholy: 500 years of Dürer’s most enigmatic print

The Renaissance Mathematicus: A maths book from a painter

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Reaching for the stars

ianridpath.com: Dürer’s hemispheres of 1515 – the first European star charts

Norman Lockyer born 17 May 1836

Norman Lockyer
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Nature: First Issue

Norman Lockyer Observatory: Website

Spectroscopy equipment used by Norman Lockyer

Arthur Conan Doyle born 22 May

Doyle in 1930, the year of his death, with his son Adrian
Source: Wikimedia Commons

PBS Newshour: How Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle cracked the case of the tuberculosis ‘remedy’

History of Geology: It’s sedimentary, my dear Watson

Letters from Gondwana: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Pterosaurs

PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:

The Royal Society: Notes and Records: Philomaths, Herschel, and the myth of the self-taught man

The Conversation: A brief history of telling time

AHF: James Chadwick

AHF: Harry D. Riley

Darin Hayton: Astronomers do not Date Sappho’s ‘Midnight’ Poem

NASA: Oral History Project: Nancy Grace Roman

Nancy Roman with a model of the Orbiting Solar Observatory
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Space.com: Father of SETI Honored 50 Years After First Search for Alien Life

Carnegie Science: Allan Sandage’s Last Paper Unravels 100-Year-Old Astronomical Mystery

Gizmodo: Posthumous Paper Resolves Century-Old Mystery of How Stars Evolve

Yovisto: Omar Khayyam – Mathematics and Poetry

Ptak Science Books: A Very Early Bibliography on the Theory of Special Relativity (1910)

Live Science: Antikythera Mechanism: Ancient Celestial Calculator

Bensozia: The Ancient Star Chart in the Kitora Tomb, Japan

DREW ex machina: Venera 1: The First Venus Mission Attempt

Motherboard: Why Do More People not Know About Helen Sharman. The First Brit in Space

Helen Sharman on the 25th anniversary of her spaceflight. Image: Thomas Angus/Imperial College London

Royal Museums Greenwich: 100 years of Daylight Saving

The New Yorker: The Demon Core and the Strange Death of Louis Slotin

Royal Museums Greenwich: Constellations: Follow the bear

AAS: Thomas Gold (1920–2004)

Ptak Science Books: The “Endless Immensity” of Thomas Wright, 1750

Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Nathaniel Everett Green

National Geographic: The Secret History of the Women Who Got Us Beyond the Moon

At NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, women were hired to be “computers,” the people responsible for doing all the math at the lab. “They touched just about every mission you can think of,” says Nathalia Holt.
PHOTOGRAPH BY NASA, JPL-CALTECH

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

The Matthew, recreation of John Cabot’s 1497 ship visiting Swansea

Atlas Obscura: Solving the Mystery of Early Polar Exploration Through Stamps

National Library of Scotland: Map Images: Compare a selection of historic maps to modern maps or satellite layers

Fox News Science: Experts plan effort to explore Captain Cook’s Endeavour in Newport Habor

Academia: Captain Cook’s Executors

Royal Museums Greenwich: John Franklin’s final North-West Passage expedition 1845

Statue of John Franklin in his home town of Spilsby
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Visions of the North: Franklin Searcher of the Month: Lachlan Taylor Burwash

Visions of the North: How many?

Ordnance Survey: A history of the trig pillar

Social Studies of Science: Higher and colder: The success and failure of boundaries in high altitude and Antarctic research stations

Process: Cartography and Empire in Northeastern America

Royal Museums Greenwich: Vasco da Gama circa 1460–1524

Diaspora Hypertext, the Blog: 1890 Map of Indigenous Languages of America

City Lab: This Old Map: Benjamin Franklin’s Gulf Stream, 1786

npr: Stolen Letter From Columbus Found in the Library of Congress and Returned to Italy

The History Blog: US returns stolen Columbus letter to Italy

The Public Domain Review: The Map That Changed the Middle East (1916)

The Sykes–Picot Agreement map

BBC News: Sykes-Picot: The map that spawned a century of resentment

Library of Congress: Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps: The Secret Treaty of London

The Fitzwilliam Museum: Collections Explorer: Map Sampler

The Fitzwilliam Museum: Collections Explorer: Map Sampler II

MEDICINE & HEALTH:

Yovisto: Edward Jenner’s Fight against Smallpox

The History of Vaccines: Edward Jenner

The History of Emotions Blog: Representing emotion in the doctor-patient encounter in Victorian medical writing

The Quack Doctor: Cigares de Joy

Nursing Clio: Sunday Morning Medicine

Royal College of Physicians: ‘Uncontrollable emotionality’: depression and diagnosis in the RCP library

Circulating Now: Where to find History of Medicine Collections

Blue Plaques: Wakley, Thomas (1795–1862)

Wellcome Collection Blog: Sleep Paralysis: A brief history of fear, treatment and artistic creativity

Vesuvio Live: Il Museo di Anatomia di Napoli apre al pubblico. E’ il più importante e antico al mondo

Thomas Morris: How to treat hay fever?

mental_floss: New App Lets You Virtually Visit a Famous Anatomy Museum

Wood Library Museum: History of Anesthesia

ars technica: English “plague village” may upend what we know about how the Black Death spread

Academia: Medicine and Charity in Eighteenth-century Northumberland: The Early Years of the Bamburgh Castle Dispensary and Surgery, c. 1772–1802

Wonders & Marvels: The Nazi Brain Removal Caper

NYAM: Sitadevi’s Sutra

Active History.ca: Heroin as treatment? The calculation of a new ‘junk’ equation

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Veedee Massager, c1903

Recipes Project: To Break or not to Break: Reading van Beverwijck’s Steen-Stuck (Part 1)

NYAM: Back to School! Conservation of the Academy’s 19^th– and 20^th-Century Medical Student Notebooks

The Conversation: How the British defeated Napoleon with citrus fruit

Wellcome Trust: Image of the Week: Female torso

Thomas Morris: The dreadful opening

The Chirugeon’s Apprentice: “Limbs Not Yet Rigid” – A History of Dissecting the Living

The Medici Archive Project: A French Practitioner in Bologna: New Recipes and the Authority of Experience During the 1630 Plague Epidemic

ChoM News: UMass Boston Visits Center for the History of Medicine

O Say Can You See?: Creating the Cadet Nurse Corps for World War II

The National Museum of American History: Clara Barton’s Red Cross Ambulance, 1898

The National Museum of American History: Cosmetic and Personal Care Products in the Medicine and Science Collections

Thomas Morris: The wandering musket ball

TECHNOLOGY:

Yovisto: Ivan Sutherland – Well, I Didn’t Know it was Hard

Yovisto: Theodore Maiman and the Laser

Atlas Obscua: Psychic Snail Sex Couldn’t Replace the Telegraph, but One Frenchman Sure Tried

Benoît’s experiments were known as the pasilalinic-sympathetic compass, or snail telegram. (Photo: Internet Archive/Public Domain)

Two Nerdy History Girls: What the Apprentice Tinsmith Wore, c1775

Yovisto: The Antikythera Mechanism – an Ancient Analog Computer

Atlas Obscura: The WWI Plan to Turn America’s Trees into Telephones

Chemistry World: Lead isotopes track Roman Empire’s water supplies

Newworks: Patent models trace history and highlights of 19^th century innovation

Yovisto: James Clerk Maxwell and the very first colour Photograph

The Register: Landmark computer hacking archive deposited at TNMOC

Your Local Guardian: UK’s first ‘girl-less’ telephones rolled out in Epsom 104 years ago today

A picture of a table telephone from 1912

Islington Gazette: ‘My great-great-great uncle helped create world as we know it from his Highbury home’

Atlas Obscura: A Short History of Rakes, and Why You Should Think Twice About Using Them

Wallace Resource Library: Who was Alfred Russel Wallace

Conciatore: A Deeper Accomplishment

Archives and Manuscripts at the Bodleian: Lizzie Bennett – Blacksmith

Poster for the 1898 National Exhibition of Women’s Labour, Netherlands (Gemeentemuseum, The Hague). Uploaded to wikicommons by Jan Toorop.

Quartz: This is what it sounds like when you turn antique telephone switchboards into musical instruments

Academia: A natural draught furnace for bronze casting

Vox: The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of “jaywalking”

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Encyclopaedia Britannica: Sir Edwin Ray Lankester

Wildlife Articles: The Curious Case of the St Kilda House Mouse

St Kilda House Mouse

3 Quarks Daily: Then and Now; Darwin, Agassiz, and Lakes That Vanish Overnight

The Friends of Charles Darwin: John Stevens Henslow

Jardin des Plantes: Sauvez La Gloriette de Buffon!

Niche: Early Canadian Environmental History Series

Yovisto: Ilya Mechnikov and the Macrophages

Yovisto: Amos Eaton and the Science of Education

Notches: Close Your Eyes and Think of Yorkshire? Working-class Women and Sexuality in Early Twentieth-Century Yorkshire

The New York Times: Eske Willerslev is Rewriting History with DNA

Natural History Museum Wales: Marine Bivalve Shells of the British Isles

Notches: Lesbian Histories and Futures: A Dispatch from “Gay American History @ 40”

Science League of America: Who Was the Occupant? Part 3

Public Domain Review: Copying Pictures, Evidencing Evolution

The notorious frontispiece comparing heads of human races and apes in the Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte (1868), Haeckel’s gospel of evolution

Academia: A Tale of Three Chameleons: The Animal Between Science and Literature in the Age of Louis XIV

Forbes: The Origin of Geological Terms: Geology

Atlas Obscura: Vintage Photos of Lumberjacks and the Giant Trees They Felled

Notches: “The Church Fathers Really Squirmed”: Contesting Heteronorms in motive Magazine, 1962–1972

Paige Fossil History: Teeth & Human Evolution: Scientist Spotlight on W.K. Gregory

Back to the sustainable future: Learning from Nowhere? Locating William Morris’ Eco-Fiction in Design History

National Museum of Natural History: 10 Botanical Treasures Exemplify Herbarium

Sean Kheraj: Canadian History and Environment: Environmental History and the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Proposal

Smithsonian.com: How an Obscure Photographer Saved Yosemite

The Sentinel, in a stereograph card in Watkins’ Pacific Coast series (Library of Congress)

The News & Observer: NC researcher: Civil War’s outcome affected by rock formations, terrain

The Livestock Conservancy: Brahma Chicken

Research Gate: Albert Davidson Michael (1836–1927) and his wife Anne, partners in acarology and microscopy

Atlas Obscura: The Scientific Squabble Over the Dodo Tree

Light Matters: Joost Rekveld: #47 background: Von Uexküll

AAS Committee on the Status of Women: My Mother, the Scientist

Herald Scotland: Maurice Smith on fracking: we’ve been here before with the 1850s shale oil boom

Forbes: Geology Scene Investigation: An Eruption In 1902 Revealed How Volcanic Firestorms Kill

CHEMISTRY:

The Guardian: Nobel medal sale highlights work of forgotten chemist who predicted the atom bomb

Francis Aston in his laboratory at Cambridge University. In 1922 he was awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry for his discovery of isotopes Photograph: Science & Society Picture Library/Getty Images

Graham Farmelo: Remembering Harry Kroto

META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

the many-headed monster: On periodization: two ‘early modern’ Englands?

histscifi.com: How Does Technoscience Dream?

New Natures Foundry: INTERSECTIONS: HISTORIES OF ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE ANTHROPOCENE A new book series from University of Pittsburgh Press

The Recipes Project: A Stich in Thyme?: Why Are There so Few Knitting Patterns in Recipe Books?

History of Psychiatry: Last issue: June 2016; 27 (2) Table of Contents

Nature: Teach students the biology of their time

Nature: Second Thoughts

The Curious Wavefunction: Mendel, Weldon and the uncertainty of counterfactuals

Journal of Medical Humanities: Volume 37, Issue 2, June 20916: Special Issue: Beckett, Medicine and the Brain Table of Contents

Smithsonoan.com: A Brief History of Taking Books Along for the Ride

A bookmobile visiting Blount County, Tennessee, in 1943. (Tennessee Valley Perspectives, vol. 3, no. 3 (Spring 1973) Public Domain)

OHMAR: Oral History: Where does it fit in museums?

Scientific American: A Manuscript 47 Years in the Making

The Royal Society: Copley winners that changed the world

Canadian Bulletin of Medical History: Volume 33, Issue 1, Spring 2016 Table of Contents

Forbes: Historians and Astronomers Share These Scientific Methods in Common

Lady Science: No. 20: Representations of Women Scientists in Literature

Hyperallergic: The Challenges of Showing the Artifacts of an Early European Wax Museum Today

Culture Unbound: The Patent and the Paper: A Few Thoughts on Late Modern Science and Intellectual Property

IUHPS: May HP&ST Note

South Coast Today: New Bedford Whaling Museum unveils new reading room

The Ordered Universe: From Difference to Understanding: Responses to Interdisciplinary Research

AHA Today: Quantitative Literacy for Historians: Who’s Afraid of Numbers?

ESOTERIC:

Siddhartha Mukherjee physician and Pulitzer Prize winning book author has written a new book on the history of the Gene that has provoked some controversial reviews so we have collected them together for comparison.

The Atlantic: Genes are Overrated

The Guardian: The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee review – ‘one of the most dangerous ideas in history’

Nature: Genetics: On the heredity trail

Prospect: The Gene: An Intimate History By Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Wire: Siddhartha Mukherjee Prepares Us for a Crucial Moment in the History of the Gene

The Curious Wavefunction: The future – not in our stars but in our genes: A review of Siddhartha Mukherjee’s “The Gene: An Intimate History”

Neuron Culture: Two Sharp Takes on Mukherjee’s The Gene

Nature: Researcher under fire for New Yorker epigenetics article

The New Yorker: Same But Different

Science Book a Day: The Gene: An Intimate History

BOOK REVIEWS:

Quillette: Giving Genes Their Due, But Not More

Time to Eat the Dogs: Exploration: A Very Short Introduction

The Guardian: Cadavers in pearls: meet the Anatomical Venus

Chemistry World: Lives and times of great pioneers in chemistry: Lavoisier to Sanger

Anita Guerrini: The Witches

The New York Times: ‘Paper,’ by Mark Kurlansky

An 18th-century Chinese paper mill. Credit De Agostini/Getty Images

The Atlantic: How Paper Shaped Civilization

Oxford Brookes University: Working-class mothers were not brutal or negligent but savious of infant life

Publishers Weekly: The Strangest Book of 1016 is ‘The Anatomical Venus’

LSE: Pragmatic Humanism: On the Nature and Value of Sociological Knowledge

The New York Review of Books: After Einstein: The Dark Mysteries

NEW BOOKS:

ebookw.com: The Life and Work of George Boole: A Prelude to the Digital Age (Free e-book)

4^th Estate: What We Cannot Know

Royal Museums Greenwich: Navigation Instruments

Historiens de la santé: Villes d’eaux d’Ile-de-France. Dictionnaire historique des sources d’Île-de-France utilisées à des fins thérapeutiques, hygiéniques ou salutaires

ART & EXHIBITIONS

The Guardian: Totally cosmic science festival for blue-sky thinkers

The Wall Street Journal: Turning Science into Art

Amritt Museum: Beatrix Potter – Image & Reality

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph

Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library

Historiens de la santé: Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England: Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts

History Today: Maria Merian’s Butterflies

Science Museum: Robots

Natural History Museum: Dippy on tour

The Royal Society of Medicine: Exhibition: Charcot, Hysteria & La Salpetiere 3 May–23 July 2016

Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May30–October 2016

Morbid Anatomy Museum, Brooklyn: House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, and Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum, Berlin, 1869–1922 Closes 30 May 2016

Harvard Magazine: Before Social Media: Radio was the medium that broke the silence

Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus

The Houston Museum of Natural Science: Cabinet of Curiosities Opens 6 May 2016

Reviews in History: Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee (Royal College of Physicians, 18 January – 29 July 2016)

Broadway World.com: Met Museum Exhibition to Celebrate Artistic, Technological, Cultural Legacy of the Seljuqs

Grup d’estudis d’història de la cartografia: Exhibition about Renacentrist cartography in Bergamo 16 April–10 July 2016

Bonner Sterne: “Argelanders Erben” im Universitätsmuseum Bonn bis 31 Juli 2016

Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:

Fine Books & Collections: The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at BPL to Host Exhibit, “From the Sea to the Mountains” 2 April–28 August 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Scholar courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee 18 January29–July 2016

The National Air and Space Museum: A New Moon Rises: An Exhibition Where Science and Art Meet

Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017

AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016

Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017

Science Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius 10 February 2016–4 September 2016

Wellcome Collections: States of Mind 4 February–16 October 2016

Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm

Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game

The John Rylands Library: Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World 21 January–21 August 2016

Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility

CLOSING SOON: New York Public Library: Printmaking Women: Three Centuries of Female Printmakers, 1570–1900 Runs till 27 May 2016

Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday

CLOSING SOON: National Library of Scotland: Plague! A cultural history of contagious diseases in Scotland Runs till 29 May 2016

Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Manchester Central Library: The Enduring Eye: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley 9 April–11 June 2016

Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017

Science Museum: Information Age

Cambridge ScienceCentre: Cosmic Runs still 30 Jun 2016

Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

CLOSING SOON: Manchester Central Library: The Enduring Eye: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley 9 April–11 June 2016

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: YOUTOPIA: VISIONS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016

Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph 14 April–11 September 2016

Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12 December 2016

COMING SOON: Centre for Contemporary Arts is Glasgow: Intermedia Beyond Epilepsy 9-19 June 2016

THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:

CHoM News: “The Advent of Anesthesia” Film 1933

The New York Times: Uncovering a Tale of Rocket Science, Race and the ‘60s

The Old Vic: Jekyll and Hyde 20-28 May 2016

Royal Opera House: Frankenstein, 4 – 27 MAY 2016

The Rose Theatre: The Alchemist by Ben Jonson 7–30 June 2016

Royal Shakespeare Company: Doctor Faustus Swan Theatre Stratford-Upon-Avon 8 February–4 August 2016

Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 18 June 2016

The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017

CHF: Cain Conference Public Lecture: “Life in the Universe: Past and Present” 26 May 2016

EVENTS:

Royal College of Physicians: Lecture: John Dee: art, science, magic 11 July 2016

Discover Medical London: Tour: Who needs doctors anyway? 26 May 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Exceptional & Extraordinary: unruly minds and bodies in the medical museum: two unique evenings of film, dance, performance and comedy inspired by museum collections exploring our attitudes towards difference: 13 & 20 June 2016

University College Cork: Walking Tours: A second chance to solve the mystery of ‘Being Boole’!

University of York: Seminar: “Connections between race, racism and health inequities shaping Sickle Cell Disease in Brazil” 25 May 2016

At Anne’s College, Oxford: Lecture: Fashionable Diseases of Georgian Life: Literature, Medicine and Culture in the Eighteenth Century and Beyond 2 June 2016

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Glasgow Science Festival: Goodall Lecture – 200^th Anniversary of Laennec’s First Stethoscope 16 June 2016

The Brain Box: Manchester Day: History: Memory Lane: A History of Brain Science 19 June Town Hall

UCL: Lecture: Psychiatrists, psychiatry and the colonial state in the firsthalf of 20^th century India 31 May 2016

The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours

Café 1001, Brick Lane: Museum Showoff, May 24 2016

Royal Museums of Greenwich: Talk: In the Steps of Shackleton 1 June 2016

CHF: Cain Conference Public Lecture: Life in the Universe Past and Present 26 May 2016

Gresham College: Lecture: The Expanding Universe 26 October 2016

University of Greenwich: Seminar: ‘Mag. and Met.’: the origins and early years of the Magnetic and Meteorological Department at Greenwich Observatory 25 May 2016

Royal College of Nursing: Lecture: Joyous and deliberate motherhood: birth control nursing in the Marie Stopes Mothers Clinic, 1921-1931 26 May 2016

Royal College of Nursing: Lecture: The Northern Powerhouse: Cottontown Nurses who shaped the Profession 8 June 2016

Brompton Cemetery: London Alchemy: Socery, Gin and Spooky Music in a Cemetery Chapel 4-5 June 2016

Glasgow: Science on the Streets – City Centre Tour 11 June 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and The History of Understanding

London Fortean Society: Snake Oil! The Golden Age of Quackery in Britain and America 26 May 2016

V&A: Courses: Sensing Time: The Art and Science of Clocks and Watches 18 June 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding

Boston Medical Library: Lecture: Prescription Drug Abuse in American History:

Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)

Discover Medical London: “Dr Dee” & The Magic of Medicine A Special Half Day Tour 27 May 2016

HSS: The Nathan Reingold Prize for an original graduate student essay on the history of science and its cultural influences. Deadline 1 June 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

Royal Pharmaceutical Society: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Edward Jenner 17 May

The Royal College of Physicians: Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “Sex and The City”

Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution: Dual Flame – Poetry’s Calling in Science and the Spiritual 24 May 2016

Norcroft Auditorium, Norcroft Centre, University of Bradford: The secret chemistry of art: unravelling an age-old textile mystery / September 2016

PAINTING OF THE WEEK:

Scholar in a Meadow, Chinese painting of the 11th century

TELEVISION:

BBC Four: Storm Troupers: The Fight to Forecast the Weather

SLIDE SHOW:

VIDEOS:

Youtube: Polar Research (1957)

The Kid Should See This: The Man Who Put the Pee in Phosphorus

Cummings Center for the History of Psychology: 5 Minute History Lesson: 4 Videos

Youtube: Royal Society: Mystery Markings – Objectivity #70

Ri Channel: Christmas Lectures 1980: Max Perutz – Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule

avhumboldt.de: Heart of the Andes: Humboldt’s Science in the Art of Frederic Edwin Church

RADIO & PODCASTS:

BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: Episodes A to Z

BBC Radio 4: Book of the Week: In the Bonesetter’s Waiting Room

BBC London: Marcus du Sautoy: What We Cannot Know

BBC Radio 4: Science Stories: Florence Nightingale: Statistician

BBC Radio 4: Science Stories: Chaucer’s Astrolabe – The Medieval GPS

WNYC: Abraham Lincoln’s Contact with the Doctors

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

University of Birmingham: Social Studies in the History of Medicine – ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’

Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford: Postgraduate Conference 2016: Modern Bodies, Modern Minds 10 June

University of Edinburgh: Philosophy of biology meets social studies of bioscience. Perspectives on living organisms 24 May 2016

University of Oxford: Draft Oxford Scientiae Conference Programme 5–7 July 2016

Radboud University Nijmegen: Conference Program: Space, Imagination, and the Cosmos, from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period 9–10 July 2016

Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Award Scheme 2016 Closing Date 31 May 2016

University of Kent: Conference: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Material Culture: 9 June 2016

The Nobel Museum Stockholm: Prizes and Awards in Science before Nobel. 5th Watson Seminar in the Material and Visual History of Science 5 September 2016

EHESS et Université Paris Descartes: Colloque international: Savoirs, pratiques, politiques. Les sciences sociales et les transformations contemporaines des mondes de la santé 25–27 Mai 2016

Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Partington Prize

Commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing: Third Symposium for the History and Philosophy of Programming 25 June 2016

University of Glasgow: CfP: Discourse of Care: Care in Media, Medicine and Society 5-7 September 2016 Deadline 3 June 2016

Western Michigan University: CfP: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference Deadline 1 June 2016

University of Lancaster: Conference: Does the philosophy of psychiatry need metaphysics? 3 June 2016

University of Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Envirment, and Health In the Easterm Mediterranean World, 1400–1750 3–4 April 2017

Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science: Upcoming Events

University of Paderborn: Seminar: Women in the History of Philosophy: Diotima and Hannah Arendt 17-19 May 2016

Fórum Lisboa (Antigo Cinema Roma): CFP: Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science 14–16 December 2016

University of Cambridge: Symposium: Science and Culture in Theory and History: Latin America, France and the Anglophone World 2–3 July 2016

Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)

Calenda: Le Calendrier des Lettres et Sciences Humains et Sociales: Appel à contribution « Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique »

Western Michigan University: Call for Abstracts: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference 15–16 September 2016

Society for the Social History of Medicine: Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October 2016

Kunsthistorisches Institut In Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut: CfP: Photo-Objects. On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo-Archives in the Humanities and Sciences 15–17 February 2017

University of Bordeaux: Seminar: Philosophy & Biology 27 May 2016

University of Leuven: CfA: The science of evolution and the evolution of the sciences 12–13 October 2016

Science Museum: Artefacts Meeting 2–4 October 2016: CfP: Understanding Use: Science and Technology Objects and Users

Cambridge: CfP extended: Science and Islands in the Indo-Pacific World 15–16 September 2016

Singapore: Society for the History of Technology: Annual Meeting 22–26 June 2016

Columbia University: Exploring the Philosophy of Émile du Châtelet 1–3 June 2016

Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey: SPSP Pre-Conference Workshop: Empirical Methodology for Philosophy of Science in Practice 16 June 2016

University of Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events

University of Oxford: John Wallis (1616–1703) Mathematics, Music Theory, and Cryptography, 1n 17th Century 9 June 2016

Society for the Social History of Medicine: 2016 Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October

St Michaels College, Cardiff University: Conference: Bodily Fluids/Fluid Bodies in Greek and Roman Antiquity 11–13 July 2016 Programme

H-Pennsylvania: Philip J. Pauly Book Prise Nominations Sought for Histories of Science in the Americas

British and European History of Medicine Conference: Registration: Medicine in Place: Situating Medicine in Historical Contexts University of Kent 7-10 July 2016

BSHS: Prizes

Three Societies Meeting: University of Alberta, Edmonton 22–25 June 2016 Only two weeks left for hotel conference rates!

Trinity College Cambridge: The Venues of Scholarly Output: Collections, Treatises, Textbooks, Archives 25 June 2016

Let’s Talk About Sex: CfP: History of Sexuality PGR/ECR Workshop University of Exeter 26–27 June 2016

Queen Mary University of London:Upcoming History of Emotions Work in Progress Seminars

University of Reading: CfP: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016 Deadline: 15 June 2016

BSHS: Registration Open: The Body and Pseudoscience in the Long Nineteenth Century Newcastle University 18 June 2016

University of St. Andrews: Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (SSEMP VII) 5–6 May 2016 Programme

Barts Pathology Museum: CfP: The “Heart” and “Science” of Wilkie Collins and his Contemporaries 24 September 2016

University of Leicester: Centre for Medical Humanities: Seminars:

Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware: CfP: Making Modern Disability: Histories of Disability, Design, and Technology 28 October 2016

New York City: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 30 September–1 October 2016

Columbia University: The Center for Science & Society: Exploring the Philosophy of Émilie du Châtelet 1–3 June 2016

History at the Open University: Women and Gender in Early Modern Britain and Ireland: A Conference in Honour of Anne Laurence Institute of Historical Research London 4 June 2016

IHPST, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris: CfP: International Doctoral Conference in Philosophy of Science 29-30 September 2016

Ian Ramsey Centre Conference, University of Oxford: Workshop “Early Modern Laws of Nature: Secular and Divine” 7 July 2016 Call for Abstract: deadline 30 April 2016

Annals of Science: Annals of Science Essay Prize for Young Scholars

H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology

2nd International Conference on the History of Physics: Invention, application and exploitation in the history of physics Pöllau, Austria 5–7 September 2016

University of Cambridge: Cabinet of Natural History: Seminars Easter Term 2016

Warburg Institute: ESSWE Thesis Workshop 7 July 2016

Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST: CfP: 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature

University of Greenwich: Society and the Sea Conference: 15–16 September 2016

University of Illinois, Chicago: CfP: STS Graduate Student Workshop: 16-17 September

University of London: Birkbeck: Thomas Harriot Seminar 2016: 11 July 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century 10–11 September 2016

Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science: Annual Conference Programme 28–30 May 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016

irkbeck, University of London: CfP: Embarrassing Bodies: Feeling Self-Conscious in the Nineteenth Century 17 June 2016

LOOKING FOR WORK:

University of Edinburgh: Two Postdoctoral Research Fellows are required for the ERC-funded project “Medical translation in the history of modern genomics”

University of Oxford: Research Associate – The History of Dyslexia

University of Basel: Full-Time PhD position in History of Science

University of Exeter: PhD studentship on the History of Sexual Science

University of Strathclyde: Lecturer in the History of Health and Medicine since 1800

University of Amsterdam: 2 PhD Candidates ‘History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents’

UCL: STS Vacancies: Teaching Fellow in Science and Society

Universities of Hannover & Bielefeld: 4 PhD positions in the Philosophy of Science/Ethics of Science

The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Library and Archive: Wellcome Trust Research Bursaries

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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

Year 2, Volume #42

Monday 30 May 2016

EDITORIAL:

Swooping in, somewhat delayed, out of the aether it’s the latest edition of the #histSTM links list Whewell’s Gazette bring to your attention all of the histories of science, technology and medicine that we could gather up over the last seven days from the far corners of the Internet.

This week saw the addition of the biography of Sarah Guppy (1770–1852) to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, not a fish but an eighteenth-century inventor and engineer. Unfortunately her well-deserved and long overdue inclusion in this essential data source for historians has already led to the creation of several instant historical myths.

The Bristol Post announced her inclusion with an article with the following headline: Recognition at last for the mum-of-six who designed Bristol’s Clifton Suspension Bridge – not Brunel. In other areas of the Internet some commentators took this myth building even further claiming that Sarah Guppy invented the suspension bridge, per se.

Interestingly Deborah Jaffé who researched and wrote about the life of Sarah Guppy and was invited onto BBC Radio 4’s flagship news magazine the Today programme to talk about her, the Beeb having picked up on the story, did her best to damp down the more sensational claims.

Sarah Guppy invented and patented a system of pilings for bridges making long span suspension bridges viable. This method was used with her knowledge and permission by Thomas Telford to construct the Menai Suspension Bridge. She was also involved in some capacity with Marc Brunel in the design of the Clifton Suspension Bridge. However the claim in the Bristol Post’s headline is vastly exaggerated and in fact way down the article they backpedal from their own headline writing instead: Though the precise impact of her ideas on his design is unknown…

I first learnt about the extraordinary Sarah Guppy through the good offices of Mike Rendell, The Georgian Gentleman, who wrote about her on his excellent blog more than three years ago. I found her story delightful then and thought that she certainly deserved to be more widely known.

Unfortunately the sensationalist, overblown reports that have circulated as a result of her inclusion in the ODNB will result in Internet memes that Sarah Guppy invented the suspension bridge and that Guppy and not Brunel designed the Clifton Suspension Bridge, both of which statements are very simply not true. I very much support bringing to public attention scientists, physicians, engineers and inventors whom time has forgotten, especially the women, but I find it deeply unfortunate when such actions are accompanied by the creation of, often ridiculous, myths.

In her interview on the Today Programme, Deborah Jaffé said that Sarah Guppy had not been written out of history, as some were claiming, but rather she had not been written in. #histSTM‪ is still a comparatively young group of disciplines and we are still dealing with the substantial fallout of the big names, big events versions of those histories that all too long passed as the norm. We need to write in lots of Sarah Guppys, both female and male, to finally get rid of the big names big events mythologies of science, technology and medicine

Quotes of the week:

Today’s advert of choice: “Ladies wanted to try new Lucifer Sanitary Towels”, Manchester Evening News, 7 Jul 1939 h/t @KingTekkers

“What idiot called Verdi a composer and not an operatunist?” – Moose Allain(@MooseAllain)

How to Impress People at Academic Conferences Kirsty Rolfe (@avoidingbears)

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn” – Benjamin Franklin

“What hath God wrought?” was the message of the 1st telegram ever, sent 24 May in 1844 by Samuel Morse h/t @TEYLERS

Bede’s summary of his life from Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation

“Early modern view on tobacco ‘the smoke of it is held to be a great antidote against venom and pestilential diseases’” h/t @RCPEHeritage

“Sure, the chickens are cheaper at Ikea, but you pay in the time you spend assembling them” – John Overholt (@john_overholt)

“A historian’s blessing: may the royalties on your book always recoup the cost of the image reproduction fees” – Will Thomas (@GWilliamThomas)

“If Donald Trump wins the U.S. presidential election, it will be the first time in history that a billionaire moves into public housing vacated by a black family” – Jim David (@ComicJimDavid)

“Must not go down rabbit hole of why mentally ill medieval people feared they were made of glass, but no one does now.” – Matthew Cobb (@matthewcobb)

“I think I’ll steal that Pepys line for my next bad review: ‘not worth a turd’”. – Matthew Cobb (@matthewcobb)

“The first rule of Renaissance Club is nobody is really sure when the meetings begin or end” – @historyscientis

If the history of life on Earth was condensed into 24 hrs, this is what it would look like… Science Alert {@ScienceAlert)

“everyone loves to use occam’s razor, but if you really want to see occam freak out, use his toothbrush” – Jeff Tiedrich (@jefftiedrich)

Birthdays of the Week:

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz born 28 May 1807

Jean Louis Agassiz in 1870
Source: Wikimedia Commons

The Life of Louis Agassiz (Real Life Comics, #30)

http://atomic-surgery.blogspot.de/2016/01/the-life-of-louis-agassiz-real-life.html

Letters from Gondwana: The Poetry of the Ice Age

https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/the-poetry-of-the-ice-age/

William Hunter born 23 May 1728

Royal College of Physicians: the best teacher of anatomy that ever lived

Inside William Hunter’s dissecting room in 1770s by Thomas Rowlandson.

William Whewell born 24 May 1794

(c) Trinity College, University of Cambridge; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation

Whewell’s Ghost: A man of many talents

The Renaissance Mathematicus: The history of “scientist”

Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography: Whewell, William

TED: The Philosophical Breakfast Club

William Whewell on Galileo

General Theory of Relativity confirmed 29 May 1919

Solar Eclipse 1919
From the report of Sir Arthur Eddington on the expedition to the island of Principe (off the west coast of Africa).
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Royal Society Publishing: A Determination of the Deflection of Light by the Sun’s Gravitational Field, from Observations made at the Total Eclipse of May 29, 1919

esa: space science: Relativity and the 1919 Eclipse

Youtube: HBO Signature Films: Einstein and Eddington Trailer (HBO)

The Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco opened 27 May 1937

A pedestrian poses at the old railing on opening day, 1937
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Smithsonian.com: What Do You Know About the Golden Gate Bridge

SF Gate: 17 fun facts about the Golden Gate Bridge on its 79^th birthday

Bancroft Library: Golden Gate Bridge – Construction Photographs 1933–1934

PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:

Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Nathaniel Everett Green

AIP: John Bardeen

Voices of the Manhattan Project: James B. Conant’s Interview

Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog: The blue flash

esa: magisstra: The Story Behind Paolo’s Space Station Photos

Dannen.com: Truman Revokes Bombing Order, August 10, 1945

PNAS: The Copernicus grave mystery

The Catholic Astronomer: Heliocentrism Condemned: 400 Years Ago on May 26

Arizona Public Media: Era of Solar Discovery on Kitt Peak Coming to an End

Air&Space: Who ‘Created’ Planetary Science?

Ptak Science Books: Artwork for Detecting Nuclear Explosions in Outer Space (1960)

The New York Times: 10 February 1881: The Beauty of the Evening Sky: Telescopic Contemplation of the Moon, Jupiter, Venus, and Mars

Skulls in the Stars: Optics by hot air balloon?

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Repeat after me! – They knew it was round, damn it!

Picture from a 1550 edition of De sphaera, showing the earth to be a sphere.
Source: Wikimedia Commons

The Guardian: Auguste Piccard: the physicist who went stratospheric

Scoop: Historic telescope will return stargazing to city

Pasadena Now: Last Paper of Influential Pasadena Astronomer Unravels 100-Year Old Stellar Mystery

AHF: Edwin McMillan

AHF: Luis Alvarez

AHF: Morris “Moe” Berg

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

Atlas Obscura: These Stunning Maps Highlight the Tricks in a Cartographer’s Toolkit

Medium: 400 Years of Cartography – The Holcomb Digital Map Collection

Humanities: Imagine Nation: How Pocket Maps helped Poets and Subjects Reenvision England

Atlas Obscura: Map Monday

Library of Congress: Collection: Discovery and Exploration

La Californie ou Nouvelle Caroline : teatro de los trabajos, Apostolicos de la Compa. e Jesus en la America Septe.

The New York Times: U.S. Returns a Stolen Christopher Columbus Letter, but Msytery Remains

Knau: Arizona Public Radio: Scott Thybony’s Canyon Commentary: The Map

Royal Museums of Greenwich: By Endurance We Conquer: An epic tale of bravery and endurance

Universiteitsbibliotheek Utrecht: A princely example of the world’s first nautical atlas

Wales Online: The History of Wales in 12 Maps

Cambriae Typus by Humphrey Llwyd (1573)

Jonathan Potter: A Map Dealer’s Reflections on the Last Forty-Five Years

MacDonald Gill: 1884–1947 Mapmaker, Graphic Designer, Letterer, Architect

MEDICINE & HEALTH:

Atlas Obscura: Why the First Cremation in the U.S. Was so Controversial

NYAM: Carte de Visite Collection

Journal of Victorian Culture Online: Kristin Hussey, Looking for the Victorian Eye in London’s Medical Museums

Smithsonian.com: How Forensic Scientists Once Tried to “See” a Dead Person’s Last Sight

The Guardian: ‘Eye-watering’ scale of Black Death’s impact on England revealed

Smithsonian.com: Research Reveals More Complete Picture of the Devastation Wrought by the Black Death

Wired: Black Death maps reveal how the plague devastated medieval Britain

NYAM: Many Anatomy Lessons at the New York Academy of Medicine

Mimi Mathews: The Solitary Vice: Victorian Views on Masturbation

The Secret Companion by R J Brodie, 1845.
(Image via Wellcome Library, CC By 4.0)

Academia: Camille Laurin, historien de la médecine? Retour sur un projet historiographique devenu outil de réforme scientifique et sociopolitique.

Whipple Library Books Blog: F is for Foster, Founder of the Cambridge School of Physiology

Thomas Morris: Sugar is good for your teeth

Nature: The secret history of ancient toilets

U Ottawa: Tabaret: L’assurance-maladie: un passé insolite, un avenir incertain

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: What led Laennec to invent the wooden stethoscope?

Illustration from De l’ auscultation mediate (1819) by Laennec showing his design for a wooden stethoscope.

Atlas Obscura: How the Medical Cadaver Finally Got the Respect it Deserves

Atlas Obscura: La Specola Anatomical Collection

Dr Alun Withey: Pig boys and boar bits: a seventeenth-century medical consultation

Thomas Morris: Honking like a goose

Aesthetic Surgery Journal: Joseph Constantine Carpue and the Bicentennial of the Birth of Modern Plastic Surgery

Le Huffington Post: Portrait de médecins: Maurice LeClair

BBC Culture: Why these anatomical models are not disgusting

kin deepCreated between 1780 and 1782, the original anatomical Venus by Clemente Susini (pictured) can still be seen at La Specola – the public science museum founded by Leopold II in Florence. Also known as ‘the Medici Venus’, the life-size wax figure has real human hair, and can be dissected into seven anatomically correct layers. She spawned numerous copies, referred to as Slashed Beauties or Dissected Graces and also displayed in medical museums. “Supine in their glass boxes, they beckon with a gentle smile or an ecstatic downcast gaze,” writes Ebenstein in The Anatomical Venus. “One idly toys with a plait of real golden human hair; another clutches at the plush, moth-eaten satin cushions of her case as her torso erupts in a spontaneous, bloodless auto-dissection; another is crowned with a golden tiara, while one further wears a silk ribbon tied in a bow around a dangling entrail.” (Credit: Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Firenze, Zoologica, ‘La Specola’, Italy/Photo Joanna Ebenstein)

Huffpost Arts & Culture: Inside the Bizarre ‘Venus’ Figures Once Used as Anatomical Models

The New York Times: Suzanne Corkin, Who Helped Pinpoint Nature of Memory, Dies at 79

Alabama Yesterdays: Alice McNeal, M.D.: Alabama’s Fist Female Anesthesiologist

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:

Atlas Obscura: The Invention that Tamed America, and the Town Obsessed with it

ice: Budapest Chain Bridge online archive – an ambition achieved

Colossal: An Historically Accurate 19^th Century Photo Studio Built in 1:12 Scale

Library of Congress: First telegraphic message – 24 May 1844

Collectors Weekly: Retail Therapy: What Mannequins Say About Us

TLS: On the trail of the Chinese typewriter

Conciatore: The Importance of Being Diligent

The Recipes Project: Fueling Beer Breweries in Early Modern London

The Guardian: 25 May 1914: The woman at the wheel

A woman at the wheel, circa 1913. Photograph: REX/Shutterstock

Stephan Wolfram Blog: Solomon Golomb (1932–2016)

Atlas Obscura: Netherlands Electricity and Radio Museum

Washington Center for Equitable Growth: Environmental Regulation and Technological Development in the U.S. Auto Industry

Apollo: Why the history of photography starts north of the border

Ptak Science Books: Industrial Depth: Unexpected Industrial Photographs (ca. 1910)

Universe Today: The Curious and Confounding Story of How Arcturus Electrified Chicago

British Library: flickr: Ships, found by the community fr…

Ptak Science Books: Cross-sections: U.S.-Built R.A.F. Fighter Aircraft, 1942

BBC News: Secret German WW2 code machine found on eBay

Ptak Science Books: Cars of the Future (1942)

The Guardian: Early computers as objets d’art

The Washington Post: Jane Fawcett, British code-breaker during World War II, dies at 95

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Geology is not only poetry, but also sometimes art … field notes by Italian geologist Sturani (1975) h/t @David_Bressan

New York Times: Edward N. Lorenz, a Meteorologist and a Father of Chaos Theory, Dies at 90

The Public Domain Review: Sex and Science in Robert Thornton’s Temple of Flora

New Scientist: 5000-year-old beer-brewing kit found in China

Simthsonian.com: Gan Bei! Chinese Brewed Beer 5,000 Years Ago

Forbes: Archaeologists Draft Ancient Chinese Beer Recipe

U-M Special Collections Library: The Chicken or the Egg?

BBC Earth: How humanity first killed the dodo, then lost it as well

Sailors supposedly killed dodos by beating them with sticks (Credit: Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy Stock Photo)

The New York Times: On the Trail of Nabaokov in the American West

we.prm.ox.ac.uk: The Invention of Museum Anthropology, 1850–1920

Guildhall Library Blog: The Wonders of George Loddiges Botanical Cabinet

Until Darwin: A Short Biography of John Bachman (1790–1874)

Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Leonard Jenyns

Slate: The Vault: Pretty Portraits of the Tiny, Lumpy, Sweet Strawberries of the Early 20^th Century

BBC Earth: There are only 35 kinds of animals and most are really weird

flickr: Biodiversity Heritage Library’s photos

sapiens.org: The Birth of the “Neanderthals”

When first found, “Neanderthal man” remains were thought by some scientists to be from a diseased modern human. However, upon examining the Gibraltar skull, George Busk argued that the Neanderthal skull represented a separate species. Paul Hudson/Flickr

Atlas Obscura: Malm Whale

Forbes: This Meteorite Has Been Preserved For Over 520 Years

Academia: Emil du Bois-Reymond, “Darwin and Copernicus,” Nature: A Weekly Journal of Science 27, no. 702 (12 April 1883): 557–558

Notches: Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights

HNN: Five Things You Didn’t Know About John James Audubon

Live Science: Q&A with a Dinosaur Hunter: How Jack Horner Changed Paleontology

Jstor: Global Plants: Botanische Staatssammlung München Artwork – Water Colours of Fungi by Fritz Wohlfarth

Niche: Natures Past Episode 53: The Social and Environmental History of Hamilton Harbour

Letters from Gondwana: Tilly Edinger and the Study of ‘Fossil Brains’

Earthly Musings: Flagstaff’s Arizona Daily Sun Newspaper Runs Article on “Grand Canyon: Monument to an Ancient Earth”

Bonhams: Great White Shark Attack. Ricciardi, Francesco

Banff museum

The Christian Science Monitor: Did weather defeat the Mongol Empire?

Echoes From The Vault: Birth of American Bee Culture: A Look at Advertisements in A.J. Cook’s The Bee Keepers’ Guide

Dr Caitlin R. Green: Camels in early medieval western Europe: beasts of burden & tools of ritual humiliation

TrowelBlazers: Happy Birthday Mary Anning – and Team TrowelBlazers!

The Thrifty Traveller: In Search of Wallace – Part 5: Simunjan, Borneo

CHEMISTRY:

Chemistry World: 1922 chemistry Nobel medal up for auction

Francis William Aston (1877–1945)

META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

Nautilus: Are We in the Anthropocene Yet?

Muslim Heritage: Women’s Contribution to Classical Islamic Civilisation: Science, Medicine and Politics

Smithsonian Libraries: Unbound: Fixing a Fold-Out Plate

The Kant Research Group: Women Intellectuals of 18^th Century Germany

Academe Blog: Reclaiming the Value of the Humanities

iPhylo: Thoughts on Wikipedia, Wikidata, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Nature: Source material: Geneticists and historians need to work together on using DNA to explore the past

LSE: The verdict: is blogging or tweeting about research papers worth it?

WikiEdu: The Roundup: Cold War Science

The Point: Can Liberal Education Save the Sciences?

Historiens de la santé: Journées d’études: L’histoire du suicide Table of Contents

Conciatore: 2016 Gold medal winner, Independent Publishers Book Awards for European Nonfiction

ESOTERIC:

Conciatore: Agnolo della Casa

JSTOR Daily: Inside the Alchemist’s Workshop

Conciatore: A Matter of Plagiarism

The Selfish Gene at 40:

BBC News: The gene’s still selfish: Dawkins’ famous idea turns 40

AEON: Die, selfish gene, die

AEON: Dead or Alive? Is it time to kill off the idea of the ‘Selfish Gene’?

homunculus: Still selfish after all these years?

BOOK REVIEWS:

Nature: Ecology: The sea-otter whisperer

Historiens de la santé: Sister Soldiers of the Great War: The Nurses of the Canadian Army Medical Corps

The Guardian: Work from 1616 is ‘the first ever science fiction novel’

Classroom Science: The Not-So-Intelligent Designer, by Abby Hafer

Science Book a Day: The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

TLS: Autistic expression

Hakai Magazine: Franklin’s Lost Ship: The Historic Discovery of HMS Erebus

The Guardian: Siddhartha Muherjee: ‘genes are personal. They ask the question: why are we like this?

The Washington Post: Is the printed word doomed? Not now or ever argues a glut of new books about paper

NEW BOOKS:

Routledge: Science in the Public Sphere: A history of lay knowledge and expertise

Historiens de la santé: Healthy Boundaries. Property, Law, and Public Health in England and Wales, 1815–1872

Stanford University Press: Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health After An Epidemic

Brepols Publishers: Childhood Disability and Social Integration in the Middle Ages

The Ordered Universe Project: New Publication: Grosseteste and Religious and Scientific Learning

CUP: The Once and Future Turing

ART & EXHIBITIONS

Garry’s Soapbox: John Dee at the Royal College of Physicians

Oxford Thinking: Cook-Voyage collection goes on display at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Uzeeum: House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, and Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum, Berlin, 1869–1922

The Guardian: Totally cosmic science festival for blue-sky thinkers

The Wall Street Journal: Turning Science into Art

Amritt Museum: Beatrix Potter – Image & Reality

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph

Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library

Historiens de la santé: Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England: Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts

History Today: Maria Merian’s Butterflies

Science Museum: Robots

Natural History Museum: Dippy on tour

The Royal Society of Medicine: Exhibition: Charcot, Hysteria & La Salpetiere 3 May–23 July 2016

Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May30–October 2016

Morbid Anatomy Museum, Brooklyn: House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, and Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum, Berlin, 1869–1922 Closes 30 May 2016

Harvard Magazine: Before Social Media: Radio was the medium that broke the silence

Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus

The Houston Museum of Natural Science: Cabinet of Curiosities Opens 6 May 2016

Reviews in History: Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee (Royal College of Physicians, 18 January – 29 July 2016)

Broadway World.com: Met Museum Exhibition to Celebrate Artistic, Technological, Cultural Legacy of the Seljuqs

Grup d’estudis d’història de la cartografia: Exhibition about Renacentrist cartography in Bergamo 16 April–10 July 2016

Bonner Sterne: “Argelanders Erben” im Universitätsmuseum Bonn bis 31 Juli 2016

Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:

Fine Books & Collections: The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at BPL to Host Exhibit, “From the Sea to the Mountains” 2 April–28 August 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Scholar courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee 18 January29–July 2016

The National Air and Space Museum: A New Moon Rises: An Exhibition Where Science and Art Meet

Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017

AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016

Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017

Science Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius 10 February 2016–4 September 2016

Wellcome Collections: States of Mind 4 February–16 October 2016

Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm

Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game

The John Rylands Library: Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World 21 January–21 August 2016

Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility

Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday

Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Manchester Central Library: The Enduring Eye: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley 9 April–11 June 2016

Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017

Science Museum: Information Age

Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

CLOSING SOON: Manchester Central Library: The Enduring Eye: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley 9 April–11 June 2016

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: YOUTOPIA: VISIONS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016

Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph 14 April–11 September 2016

Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12 December 2016

COMING SOON: Centre for Contemporary Arts is Glasgow: Intermedia Beyond Epilepsy 9-19 June 2016

COMING SOON: The Royal College of Surgeons of England: Reframing disability: Hidden histories from the Royal College of Physicians

THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:

Deadline Hollywood: Richard Goodwin’s ‘The Hinge of the World’ About Epic Clash Between Church and Galileo Being Developed as Feature

Discover Medical London: Medicine at the Movies 16 June 2016

The Old Vic: Jekyll and Hyde 20-28 May 2016

Royal Opera House: Frankenstein, 4 – 27 MAY 2016

The Rose Theatre: The Alchemist by Ben Jonson 7–30 June 2016

Royal Shakespeare Company: Doctor Faustus Swan Theatre Stratford-Upon-Avon 8 February–4 August 2016

Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 18 June 2016

The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017

EVENTS:

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Women And Medicine 9 June 2016

CHF: First Friday: Between Food and Medicine 3 June 2016

Royal College of Physicians: John Dee: art, science, magic 11 July 2016

TNMOC: Lecture: The Roots of Data Processing 9 June 2016

Science Museum: Frankenstein – From Literature to Myth to Bogeyman of Science

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “London’s Plagues”

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding

Royal College of Physicians: Medicinal plant lecture: The realty and the bizarre 13 June 2016

University of Utrecht: Descartes-Huygens Lecture by J.B. Shank on ‘Newtonian’ Mechanics in France around 1700

IET Savoy Place London: Lecture: Preparing to lay a transatlantic telegraph table; an historical comparison 16 June 2016

Science Museum: Lecture: Leonardo and the Military 9 June 2016

Morbid Anatomy Museum: Anatomical Venus Symposium & Book Party 4 June 2016

Manchester Histories Festival: From Coal Mining to Data Mining: An experimental approach to the history of illness and pain 6 June 2016

Wellcome Library: Reframing Disabilities: Hidden histories from the Royal College of Physicians 7 June 2016

Linnean Society of London: The Lord Treasurer of Botany: Sir James Edward Smith and the Linnaean Collections 7 June 2016

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: Object Handing at Beckenham Library 3 June 2016

Discover Medical London: Tour: Who needs doctors anyway? 26 May 2016

University College Cork: Walking Tours: A second chance to solve the mystery of ‘Being Boole’!

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Glasgow Science Festival: Goodall Lecture – 200^th Anniversary of Laennec’s First Stethoscope 16 June 2016

The Brain Box: Manchester Day: History: Memory Lane: A History of Brain Science 19 June Town Hall

UCL: Lecture: Psychiatrists, psychiatry and the colonial state in the firsthalf of 20^th century India 31 May 2016

The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours

Royal Museums of Greenwich: Talk: In the Steps of Shackleton 1 June 2016

Gresham College: Lecture: The Expanding Universe 26 October 2016

Royal College of Nursing: Lecture: The Northern Powerhouse: Cottontown Nurses who shaped the Profession 8 June 2016

Brompton Cemetery: London Alchemy: Socery, Gin and Spooky Music in a Cemetery Chapel 4-5 June 2016

Glasgow: Science on the Streets – City Centre Tour 11 June 2016

V&A: Courses: Sensing Time: The Art and Science of Clocks and Watches 18 June 2016

Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)

BSHS: The British Society for the History of Science Prize for Exhibits on the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

The Royal College of Physicians: Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “Sex and The City”

Norcroft Auditorium, Norcroft Centre, University of Bradford: The secret chemistry of art: unravelling an age-old textile mystery / September 2016

PAINTING OF THE WEEK:

Alchemist Heating a Pot, by David Teniers the Younger (1610 – 1690), oil on canvas.

TELEVISION:

SLIDE SHOW:

VIDEOS:

Youtube: A Marvellous Elephant – Waddesdon Manor

Youtube: In conversation with Helen Sharman and a galaxy of astronauts

Retro Report: The Shadow of Thalidomide

Youtube: Thomas Edison interviewed at the age of 84

The Ordered Universe Project: An Ordered Universe: Working with Medieval Scholars on Thirteenth Century Science Texts – A Scientist’s Tale

Museo Galileo: Historical Outline of Optics

Youtube: JHU Online Program in the History of Medicine

Youtube: Working for NASA: Space for Women – 1981 Educational Film – S88TV1

Youtube: Sally Ride on Dumb Questions

University of Cambridge: The John Forrester Case

Youtube: J. Robert Oppenheimer: “I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

Youtube: Scientist You Must Know: Arnold O. Beckman

Youtube: Historical Myths About Science by John L. Heilbron

Arts Hay Festival: Baillie Giffor Lecture: Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently.

RADIO & PODCASTS:

BBC Radio 4: Science Stories

BBC Radio 4: The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry

Professor Buzzkill: 1918 Flu Pandemic killed over 50 million people. Why was it called “The Spanish Flu?”

BBC Radio 4: Paul Ehrlich’s ‘Magic Bullet’ and the Cure for Syphilis

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

University Of Belgrade: CfP: Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation-5 22–23 September 2016

Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta, and the University of Warwick: CfP: Beauty and the Hospital in History 6–8 April 2017

Institution of Engineering and Technology, London: Conference: Telecommunications in the Aftermath of World War 1: Civilian and Military Perspectives 10 August 2016

University of Oxford: Summer School and Conference: Mind Value and Mental Health: Philosophy and Psychiatry 13–15 July 2017

University of Columbia: The Center for Science & Society: Exploring the Philosophy of Émily du Châtelet

University of Vienna: Conference: “Claiming authority producing standards: The IAEA and the History of Radiation Protection” 3-4 June 2016

MedHum Fiction – Daily Dose: CfP: Medical Humanities

University of Strathclyde: Preventing Mental Illness: Past, Present and Future 2–3 June 2016

University of Warsaw: Conference: Reassembling the Republic of Letters 11–15 June 2015

University of Bergen: Philosophy of Bergen Workshop 2016 14 June

University of Oxford: Registration for the HSMT Postgraduate Conference, Modern Bodies, Modern Minds, closes next Friday, 3 June.

University of Leeds: Round Table Discussion: “Victorians and History Writing Practices” Seminar: “Victorian Jesus: Imagining the Anonymous Author of Ecce Homo (1865)” 4 July 2016

Wellcome Library: Workshop: London Health Histories 17 June 2016

Royal Museums Greenwich: Conferences & study days: From Sea to Sky: The Evolution of Air Navigation from the Ocean and Beyond 9–10 June 2016

University of Oxford: John Wallis (1616-1703). Mathematics, Music Theory, and Cryptography in 17th Century Oxford.9 June 2016

University of Birmingham: Social Studies in the History of Medicine – ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’

Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford: Postgraduate Conference 2016: Modern Bodies, Modern Minds 10 June

University of Oxford: Draft Oxford Scientiae Conference Programme 5–7 July 2016

Radboud University Nijmegen: Conference Program: Space, Imagination, and the Cosmos, from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period 9–10 July 2016

University of Kent: Conference: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Material Culture: 9 June 2016

The Nobel Museum Stockholm: Prizes and Awards in Science before Nobel. 5th Watson Seminar in the Material and Visual History of Science 5 September 2016

Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Partington Prize

Commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing: Third Symposium for the History and Philosophy of Programming 25 June 2016

University of Glasgow: CfP: Discourse of Care: Care in Media, Medicine and Society 5-7 September 2016 Deadline 3 June 2016

Western Michigan University: CfP: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference Deadline 1 June 2016

University of Lancaster: Conference: Does the philosophy of psychiatry need metaphysics? 3 June 2016

University of Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Envirment, and Health In the Easterm Mediterranean World, 1400–1750 3–4 April 2017

Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science: Upcoming Events

Fórum Lisboa (Antigo Cinema Roma): CFP: Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science 14–16 December 2016

Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)

Calenda: Le Calendrier des Lettres et Sciences Humains et Sociales: Appel à contribution « Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique »

Western Michigan University: Call for Abstracts: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference 15–16 September 2016

Society for the Social History of Medicine: Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October 2016

Kunsthistorisches Institut In Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut: CfP: Photo-Objects. On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo-Archives in the Humanities and Sciences 15–17 February 2017

University of Leuven: CfA: The science of evolution and the evolution of the sciences 12–13 October 2016

Science Museum: Artefacts Meeting 2–4 October 2016: CfP: Understanding Use: Science and Technology Objects and Users

Cambridge: CfP extended: Science and Islands in the Indo-Pacific World 15–16 September 2016

Singapore: Society for the History of Technology: Annual Meeting 22–26 June 2016

Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey: SPSP Pre-Conference Workshop: Empirical Methodology for Philosophy of Science in Practice 16 June 2016

University of Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events

Society for the Social History of Medicine: 2016 Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October

St Michaels College, Cardiff University: Conference: Bodily Fluids/Fluid Bodies in Greek and Roman Antiquity 11–13 July 2016 Programme

H-Pennsylvania: Philip J. Pauly Book Prise Nominations Sought for Histories of Science in the Americas

British and European History of Medicine Conference: Registration: Medicine in Place: Situating Medicine in Historical Contexts University of Kent 7-10 July 2016

BSHS: Prizes

Three Societies Meeting: University of Alberta, Edmonton 22–25 June 2016 Only two weeks left for hotel conference rates!

Trinity College Cambridge: The Venues of Scholarly Output: Collections, Treatises, Textbooks, Archives 25 June 2016

Let’s Talk About Sex: CfP: History of Sexuality PGR/ECR Workshop University of Exeter 26–27 June 2016

Queen Mary University of London:Upcoming History of Emotions Work in Progress Seminars

University of Reading: CfP: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016 Deadline: 15 June 2016

BSHS: Registration Open: The Body and Pseudoscience in the Long Nineteenth Century Newcastle University 18 June 2016

Barts Pathology Museum: CfP: The “Heart” and “Science” of Wilkie Collins and his Contemporaries 24 September 2016

University of Leicester: Centre for Medical Humanities: Seminars:

Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware: CfP: Making Modern Disability: Histories of Disability, Design, and Technology 28 October 2016

New York City: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 30 September–1 October 2016

History at the Open University: Women and Gender in Early Modern Britain and Ireland: A Conference in Honour of Anne Laurence Institute of Historical Research London 4 June 2016

IHPST, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris: CfP: International Doctoral Conference in Philosophy of Science 29-30 September 2016

Ian Ramsey Centre Conference, University of Oxford: Workshop “Early Modern Laws of Nature: Secular and Divine” 7 July 2016

Annals of Science: Annals of Science Essay Prize for Young Scholars

H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology

2nd International Conference on the History of Physics: Invention, application and exploitation in the history of physics Pöllau, Austria 5–7 September 2016

University of Cambridge: Cabinet of Natural History: Seminars Easter Term 2016

Warburg Institute: ESSWE Thesis Workshop 7 July 2016

Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST: CfP: 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature

University of Greenwich: Society and the Sea Conference: 15–16 September 2016

University of Illinois, Chicago: CfP: STS Graduate Student Workshop: 16-17 September

University of London: Birkbeck: Thomas Harriot Seminar 2016: 11 July 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century 10–11 September 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016

irkbeck, University of London: CfP: Embarrassing Bodies: Feeling Self-Conscious in the Nineteenth Century 17 June 2016

LOOKING FOR WORK:

University of Leeds: Faculty of Arts: 2016 Cheney Fellowships in Culture (includes #histSTM)

Royal Historical Society: Research Expenses

Fermilab: Science Writing Internship – Fall 2016

Science Museum: Keeper of Technologies and Engineering

University of Twente: Short-term postdoc appointments (2 months, full-time) in ethics, with a focus on technology

University of Pennsylvania: Postdoc: History and Sociology of Science Nature between Science and Religion: Jewish Culture and the Natural World

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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

Year 2, Volume #43

Monday 07 June 2016

EDITORIAL:

We have moved on another seven days and it’s time once more for Whewell’s Gazette, your weekly #histSTM links list bringing all of the histories of science, technology and medicines found by our team of trusty owl in the highways and byways of the Internet.

The last week has seen various people (geneticists) trumpeting in the Internet that historians need to work with geneticists because that is the future. The tenor of these reports seemed to be that historians would never conceive of anything quite so revolutionary without being prodded by farsighted geneticists.

There are various things that I found rather strange about these claims. Firstly it is archaeologists, anthropologists and palaeontologists who should be working with geneticists rather than historians. The people pushing this agenda don’t appear to know the difference. Secondly the relevant people have already been working with geneticists in various areas of historical research for some time now.

I originally studied archaeology, an awfully long time ago, and indeed worked for several years as a field archaeologist and even back in the dim and distant days of the early 1970s archaeologists were well aware of the advantages of applying various methods of scientific analysis to broaden their knowledge of the cultures they were studying. Pollen analysis to determine the environment in which people lived and the crops that they planted. Bone analysis to determine peoples’ diets and their states of health. Snail analysis, another good determinant of historical environments. In fact my environmental archaeology teacher was John “Snails” Evans one of the people who developed this technique. Archaeologists use the full array of scientific dating methods, carbon dating, dendrochronology, thermoluminescence etc. I could go on but I think this is enough to make my point.

It is not the people working in the historical disciplines who are ignorant of scientific developments and their possible applications to their work but non-historians (geneticists) who appear to be ignorant of the working methods, including many scientific ones, employed by those working on the cutting edge of historical research.

Quotes of the week:

“The term ‘digital’ was coined at Bell Labs in 1942 to describe a high-speed method of calculation used in anti-aircraft devices” – Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman)

„Wenn jemand eine Schraube locker hat, liegt es ganz oft an der Mutter“ – @DerBuddler

“Few phrases can make my heart sink as low as the phrase ‘fashion icon’” – Stephen McGann (@StephenMcGann)

Asking, “Is light a wave or a particle?” is like asking, “Is an owlbear an owl or a bear?” – Greg Gbur

“The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see” – Alexandra K. Trenfor h/t @intmath

“New startup sends a doppelganger to live your life while you sleep. Reviews suggest most prefer your double to you” – Scott B. Weingart (@scott_bott)

From ‘A Cat-Hater’s Handbook’ by William Cole and Tomi Ungerer h/t @berfois

HISTORIAN’S TO-DO LIST

-Get ripped off by dramatists

-Embrace genetics

-Be irrelevant, thus justifying axing of sociology somehow

-Marking – James Umner (@JamesBSumner)

“Mark Twain, on learning a proofreader was improving his punctuation telegraphed orders to have him shot without giving him time to pray” – M Butler Hallett (@MButlerHallett)

“I fought the photocopier, and the photocopier won” – Steven Gray (@Sjgray88)

“Heading to Cambridge, a little English town best known as the place where the cam-shaft was invented” – Stephen Curry (@Stephen_Curry)

omg in an essay one of my students just confused “emulate” and “immolate.”

“Find the writers you admire and immolate them.” – Colin Dickey (@colindickey)

PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:

arXiv: Bell’s Universe: A Personal Recollection (pdf)

Ptak Science Books: Atom Bombs: the Game

Ptak Science Books: Antique Board Games for Astronomy

Pinterest: Atomic Age America

AHF: The Death of Louis Slotin

AHF: Leo Szilard

The New York Times: 31 May 1964: Leo Szilard Dies

Szilard testifying before Congress in the postwar. From the Emilio Segrè Visual Archives.

Dannen.com: Leo Szilard – A Biographical Chronology

phys.org: Copernicus’ revolution and Galileo’s vision: Our changing view of the universe in pictures

The Planetary Society: New work with 35-year-old data: Voyagers at Ganymede and Saturn

AHF: Chien-Shiung Wu

Motherboard: The 1919 Solar Eclipse That Proved Einstein Right

Ptak Science Books: A Half-Alphabet of Color by Isaac Newton, and What the Colors “Naked” and “Dead” Are (1659)

The Catholic Astronomer: A Most Strange Debate

Preposterous Universe: Einstein vs. Physical Review

Voices of the Manhattan Project: Ted Taylor’s Interview – Part 4

The Curious Waveform: “Understand what I love about America”: Physicist Hans Bethe’s moving letter to his teacher Arnold Sommerfeld

Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Fifty Years of Moon Dust: Surveyor 1 was a Pathfinder for Apollo

Post-Bulletin: Starwatch: Heavenly bears have classic tales

AHF: Ernest Rutherford

L.A. Times – Photography: Dr. Tolman and professor Einstein

Palomar Observatory: Historical and Vintage Media

Wired: Ancient Mayan observatory was used to track Venus and Mars

Credit iStock

AHF: In Memoriam: Irene LaViolette

History for Atheists: The New Atheist Bad History Great Myths 1: The Medieval Flat Earth

AHF: Edward Teller

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

Map of Rome 1602

Herald: Arts & Life: Shining new light on old maps of Nova Scotia

The Guardian: Captain Cook’s sip Endeavour claimed by Rhode Island as search goes on

The Guardian: Looking down on Britain – maps of the UK across time

Britain As It Was Devided in the tyme of the Englishe Saxons especially during their Heptarchy by John Speed

thestar.com: No doubt who owns Captain Cook’s ship Endeavour – Rhode Island

Royal Museums Greenwich: Martin Frobisher North-West Passage expedition 1576–78: Who was the first Englishman to go in search of the fabled Passage?

Verso: Maps that Scholars (and Goonies) Treasure

MEDICINE & HEALTH:

Thomas Morris: The largest tumor on record

PCPop w/Pablo: Captain Mary T. Klinker – Decorated Vietnam Veteran from Lafayette

Notches: Taking the Venereal Out of Venereal Disease: The 1930s Public Health Campaign against Syphilis and Gonorrhea

Imperial College London: News: Past, present and future autism research explored at Able@Imperial lecture

Circulating Now: Images from the History of Medicine is Moving to NLM Digital Collections

Nursing Clio: “The Torture Began”: Symphysiotomy and Obstetric Violence in Modern Ireland

A woman’s pelvis after a pubiotomy – to widen the birth canal
Credit: Wellcome Library, London.

Thomas Morris: The deserter

Circulating Now: Where to Find History of Medicine Collections

British Library: Asian and Africa studies blog: An 18^th Century North African Travelling Physician’s Handbook

Notches: The Pustulent Penis: Searching for STDs in the Centuries before Syphilis

Sunday Times: How aspirin turned hero

Royal College of Physicians: Harvey’s disciples: the Evan Bedford library of cardiology

Wellcome Library: How the fate of the rhino is tied to medicine

L0058375 Cup for detecting poison, Europe, 1551-1660
Credit: Science Museum, London. Wellcome Images
images@wellcome.ac.uk
http://wellcomeimages.org
Assay cups such as this one were used to taste wine. This cup is made from silver and rhinoceros horn. The rhinoceros horn was said to change colour and sweat if poison was placed in the cup.
maker: Unknown maker
Place made: Europe
made: 1551-1600 Published: –
Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

CHF: William J. Rutter

University of Edinburgh: New App for Anatomical Museum

Thomas Morris: Two spoonsful of brain on the pillow

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:

ODNB: Guppy, Sarah

IDG: Forgotten tech father: Bill Tutte vs. Alan Turing?

Bill Tutte

AEON: The invention of the paper bag was a triumph of feminism

New Scientist: Vintage computers take on fresh shine in retro photo project

Atlas Obscura: Found: A Rare Nazi Coding Machine, Hiding in a Garden Shed

AHF: Kenneth D. Nichols

The Conversation: The history of computing is both evolution and revolution

BBC News: Ipswich docks: Historical photographic archive put online

Conciatore: Artificial Gems

Journals Cambridge: Bringing Radio into America’s Homes: Marketing New Technology in the Great Depression

Paleofuture: The Defence Department Got Mad at Darpa for Creating Email

itv news: From Berlin to Bletchley: home of the codebreakers can finally tell the whole truth

Atlas Obscura: The First Woman Driver to Drive Around the World Wore Men’s Breeches and Had a Pet Monkey

The great Aloha Wanderwell. (All photos: © The Nile Baker Trust/Richard Diamond)

BBC News: ‘Oldest’ computer music unveiled

Herald Scotland: The rise of the robots

Engineering Timeline: Second Severn Crossing

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Albertus Seba, The Opossum, Didelphimorphia, 1734

New-York Historical Society: Museum & Library: Natural History Jingles

The Guardian: Robert McNeill Alexander obituary

Forbes: Volcanic Eruptions Triggered Crises Throughout European History

History of Geology: The (possible) Geological Origin of the Minotaur Myth

Kew: Incredible Insects: the life and work of Maria Sibylla Merian

Academia: A focus on the history of light microscopy for cell culture

The Hurd Library: Dead as the Dodo

Science News: Australian Aboriginal Stories of Ancient Sea-Level Rise Preserved for 13,000 Years

Science & Religion Exploring the Spectrum: What is the History of “Antievolution”?

History Today: London Zoo: ‘Handsome Gifts’ to a Young Society

Science League of America: In Praise of Pickett, Part 1

The Atlantic: A New Origin Story for Dogs

Niche: Special Issue of Histoire sociale/Social History on “The History of Tourism in Canada” Table of Contents

The Guardian: Charles Darwin letter returned to Smithsonian over 30 years after theft

Washington Post: Darwin letter stolen from Smithsonian 30 years ago has been found

CHF: It’s Alive!

The Skil Craft Biology Lab, sold around 1960. (CHF Collections)

Connections.Mic: A History of Oral Sex, From Fellatio’s Ancient Roots to the Modern Blow Job

The New York Times: Studies of Moth and Butterfly Color In a Scientific Classic

Wonders & Marvels: An Asbestos Purse at the British Museum

Geschichte der Geologie: Kunst & Geologie: Die Kunst im Bergbau

Blade and Bone: The Discovery of Human Antiquity: A Conjectured Pithecanthropus, 1887

History of Geology: Bone and blood is the price of coal – Animals in Mines

CHEMISTRY:

AHF: Joseph W. Kennedy

Royal Society of Chemistry: Classic kit: Petri Dish

Somerville Oxford: Blue plaque unveiled honouring Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994)

CHF: Critical Mass: A History of Mass Spectrometry

Glyn R. Taylor, operator, prepares a sample for introduction into the heated inlet system of Consolidated Engineering Corporation Model 21-103 Mass Spectrometer, May 1974. CHF Collections.

Darin Hayton: A Letter from James Ferguson

JSTOR Daily: The Sticky History of Adhesives

OHS Student Newspaper: On the Periodic Law with Dr. Eric Scerri

META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

Dialog: Theologie & Naturwissenschaft: Peter Harrison: The Myth of a Perennial Battle between Science and Religion

Research: Peer review: a familiar history

New Scientist: The Lost Women of Enlightenment Science

Anne Conway (1631-79)

Clio@King’s: The History Department Blog: Including Women

History Matters: In Defence of the ‘Dark Ages’

Los Angeles Times: History isn’t a ‘useless’ major. It teaches critical thinking, something America needs plenty more of

The Recipes Project: Exploring CPP 10A214: A New Candidate for the Layfield Hand, Part 1

Paige Fossil History: What Does a Historian of Science Actually Do?

The Mean Time: The first Greenwich Maritime Centre newsletter is out!

The Guardian: A Geek’s Guide to the UK’s best science and technology attractions

The Atlantic: The Women Behind the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The women of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory helped launch the first American satellites, lunar missions and planetary explorations. Those “human computers,” as they were called, are seen here in 1953.

Early Modern Experimental Philosophy: A response to ‘Anstey’s Experimental Philosophy before the Restoration’

Historyonics: Privatising the Digital Past

ISIS: A journal of the History of Science Society: Volume 107, Number 2 June 2016 Table of Content – Viewpoint: The History Manifesto and the History of Science (oa)

Royal Society of Chemistry: Women in Science – a historical perspective

Skulls in the Stars: Twitter Weird Science Facts, Volume 8

Trans. Necomen Soc: Critical Reflections on the Science-Technology Relationship

ESOTERIC:

Conciatore: Dear Friends

The Public Domain Review: Francis van Helmont and the Alphabet of Nature

Frontispiece to Francis van Helmont’s Alphabeti vere Naturalis Hebraici (1667) — Source: Wellcome Library, London (CC-BY 4.0).

Conciatore: Neri’s Contribution

Blink: Dawn of the Vedas

BOOK REVIEWS:

The Daily Herald: Old Dutch Caribbean charts in one magnificent book

H-Sci-Med-Tech: Smith-Howard on Smith, ‘Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy

Smithsonian.com: Vladimir Nabokov’s Butterfly Drawings Take Flight in This New Book

A detailed wing schematic. (Vladimir Nabokov. Courtesy of the Vladimir Nabokov Archive at the Berg Collection, New York Public Library, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.)

H-Net: Valeria Finucci: The Prince’s Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine

American Scientists: On the Origin of Origin Stories

Nature: History: Peace, love and lab work

The Friends of Charles Darwin: The Ice Age: A very short introduction

Current Biology: Deepening the darkness? Alfred Russel Wallace in the Malay Archipelago

NEW BOOKS:

The MIT Press: Zones of Control: Perspectives on Wargaming

Historiens e la santé: Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism

University of Chicago Press: Groovy Science

AHF: New Books on Manhattan Project History

CUP: Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters

Niche: Publication of “Moving Nature: Mobility and Environment in Canadian History”

Routledge: An Alchemical Quest for Universal Knowledge: The ‘Christian Philosophy’ of Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644)

Historiens de la santé: Albert Calmette. « Jusqu’à ce que mes yeux se ferment »

Historiens de la santé: To Come to a Better Understanding: Medicine Men and Clergy Meetings on the Rosebud Reservation, 1973–1978

ART & EXHIBITIONS

Oxford Thinking: Cook-Voyage collection goes on display at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Uzeeum: House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, and Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum, Berlin, 1869–1922

The Guardian: Totally cosmic science festival for blue-sky thinkers

Amritt Museum: Beatrix Potter – Image & Reality

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph

Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library

Historiens de la santé: Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England: Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts

History Today: Maria Merian’s Butterflies

Science Museum: Robots

Natural History Museum: Dippy on tour

The Royal Society of Medicine: Exhibition: Charcot, Hysteria & La Salpetiere 3 May–23 July 2016

Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May30–October 2016

Harvard Magazine: Before Social Media: Radio was the medium that broke the silence

Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus

The Houston Museum of Natural Science: Cabinet of Curiosities Opens 6 May 2016

Reviews in History: Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee (Royal College of Physicians, 18 January – 29 July 2016)

Broadway World.com: Met Museum Exhibition to Celebrate Artistic, Technological, Cultural Legacy of the Seljuqs

Grup d’estudis d’història de la cartografia: Exhibition about Renacentrist cartography in Bergamo 16 April–10 July 2016

Bonner Sterne: “Argelanders Erben” im Universitätsmuseum Bonn bis 31 Juli 2016

Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:

Fine Books & Collections: The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at BPL to Host Exhibit, “From the Sea to the Mountains” 2 April–28 August 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Scholar courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee 18 January29–July 2016

The National Air and Space Museum: A New Moon Rises: An Exhibition Where Science and Art Meet

Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017

AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016

Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017

Science Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius 10 February 2016–4 September 2016

Wellcome Collections: States of Mind 4 February–16 October 2016

Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm

Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game

The John Rylands Library: Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World 21 January–21 August 2016

Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility

Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday

Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Manchester Central Library: The Enduring Eye: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley 9 April–11 June 2016

Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017

Science Museum: Information Age

Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Manchester Central Library: The Enduring Eye: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley 9 April–11 June 2016

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: YOUTOPIA: VISIONS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016

Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph 14 April–11 September 2016

Centre for Contemporary Arts is Glasgow: Intermedia Beyond Epilepsy 9-19 June 2016

Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy

THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:

Forbes: Sometimes, The Best Supporting Actor in a Movie is its Geology

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Galileo Super Star – Galileo Galilei to get Hollywood biopic

Deadline Hollywood: Richard Goodwin’s ‘The Hinge of the World’ About Epic Clash Between Church and Galileo Being Developed as Feature

Discover Medical London: Medicine at the Movies 16 June 2016

The Rose Theatre: The Alchemist by Ben Jonson 7–30 June 2016

Royal Shakespeare Company: Doctor Faustus Swan Theatre Stratford-Upon-Avon 8 February–4 August 2016

Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 18 June 2016

The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017

EVENTS:

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

University of Leeds: History and Philosophy of Science in 20 Objects (Lecture 6) 7 June 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: One for the Road

Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Women And Medicine 9 June 2016

Royal College of Physicians: John Dee: art, science, magic 11 July 2016

TNMOC: Lecture: The Roots of Data Processing 9 June 2016

Science Museum: Frankenstein – From Literature to Myth to Bogeyman of Science

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “London’s Plagues”

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding

Royal College of Physicians: Medicinal plant lecture: The realty and the bizarre 13 June 2016

University of Utrecht: Descartes-Huygens Lecture by J.B. Shank on ‘Newtonian’ Mechanics in France around 1700

IET Savoy Place London: Lecture: Preparing to lay a transatlantic telegraph table; an historical comparison 16 June 2016

Science Museum: Lecture: Leonardo and the Military 9 June 2016

University College Cork: Walking Tours: A second chance to solve the mystery of ‘Being Boole’!

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Glasgow Science Festival: Goodall Lecture – 200^th Anniversary of Laennec’s First Stethoscope 16 June 2016

The Brain Box: Manchester Day: History: Memory Lane: A History of Brain Science 19 June Town Hall

The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours

Gresham College: Lecture: The Expanding Universe 26 October 2016

Royal College of Nursing: Lecture: The Northern Powerhouse: Cottontown Nurses who shaped the Profession 8 June 2016

Glasgow: Science on the Streets – City Centre Tour 11 June 2016

V&A: Courses: Sensing Time: The Art and Science of Clocks and Watches 18 June 2016

Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

The Royal College of Physicians: Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “Sex and The City”

Norcroft Auditorium, Norcroft Centre, University of Bradford: The secret chemistry of art: unravelling an age-old textile mystery / September 2016

Wellcome Collection: Symposium: Out of Control 11 June

Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tours

PAINTING OF THE WEEK:

V0017769 Claude Bernard and his pupils. Oil painting after Léon-Augus
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
images@wellcome.ac.uk

TELEVISION:

SLIDE SHOW:

VIDEOS:

Youtube: Alexei Leonov visits Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age

Youtube: Mathematics vs astronomy in early medieval Ireland DIAS Lecture Series

Youtube: Marie Curie – Draw My Like

Youtube: Leo Theremin demonstrates the Thereminvox (1954)

Youtube: The Royal Society: Who cares about the history of science?

Forces TV: Codebreaking Equipment That Helped Win WW2 Goes On Display

Youtube: BBC 2: The Voyage of Charles Darwin, Part 1

Youtube: BBC 2: The Voyage of Charles Darwin, Part 2

Youtube: BBC 2: The Voyage of Charles Darwin, Part 3

Youtube: BBC 2: The Voyage of Charles Darwin, Part 4

Youtube: BBC 2: The Voyage of Charles Darwin, Part 5

Youtube: BBC 2: The Voyage of Charles Darwin, Parts 6&7

Youtube: The Common Language of Science – Albert Einstein

Youtube: The Origin of Vaccines

RADIO & PODCASTS:

BBC Radio 4: The Unseen – A History of the Invisible

University of Cambridge: Sandars Lectures 2016: Anthony Grafton

Ben Franklin’s World: Episode 084: Zara Anishanshin, How Historians Read Historical Sources

Ben Franklin’s World: Episode oo5: Jeanne Abrams, Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health

Radio 4: Natural Histories: Fly

BBC Radio 4: Science Stories

BBC Radio 4: The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

CRASSH: Taxonomy, Translatability and Intelligibility of Scientific Images 17–18 June 2016

Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Paris: Colloque: Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique 20–21 Octobre 2016

University of Oxford: Conference: Making and Rethinking Renaissance between Greek and Latin in 15^th–16^th Europe 14–16 June 2016

St Anne’s College; University of Oxford: Scientiae: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World 5–7 July 2016

King’s College London: From Microbes to Matrons: The Past, Present and Future of Hospital Infection Control and Prevention 1-2 September 2016

University of Groningen: CfP: Teaching the New Sciences, Scientific Revolution 14–16 June 2017

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: CFP: Conference: HIV/AIDS Research: Its History and Future 13–16 October 2016

Collège de France: Colloque : « Freud au Collège de France, 1885-2016 » 16–17 Juin 2016

Australian Academy of Science: The Moran Award for History of Science Research

Université de Lausane: La santé publique et ses enjeux: un lieu de pouvoirs 10 Juin 2016

Wellcome Trust: Workshop: London Health Histories 17 June 2016

Florida Atlantic University: International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry Summer Symposium 1–4 August 2016

University Of Belgrade: CfP: Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation-5 22–23 September 2016

Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta, and the University of Warwick: CfP: Beauty and the Hospital in History 6–8 April 2017

Institution of Engineering and Technology, London: Conference: Telecommunications in the Aftermath of World War 1: Civilian and Military Perspectives 10 August 2016

University of Oxford: Summer School and Conference: Mind Value and Mental Health: Philosophy and Psychiatry 13–15 July 2017

MedHum Fiction – Daily Dose: CfP: Medical Humanities

BSHS: The British Society for the History of Science Prize for Exhibits on the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 2016

University of Warsaw: Conference: Reassembling the Republic of Letters 11–15 June 2015

University of Bergen: Philosophy of Bergen Workshop 2016 14 June

University of Leeds: Round Table Discussion: “Victorians and History Writing Practices” Seminar: “Victorian Jesus: Imagining the Anonymous Author of Ecce Homo (1865)” 4 July 2016

Wellcome Library: Workshop: London Health Histories 17 June 2016

Royal Museums Greenwich: Conferences & study days: From Sea to Sky: The Evolution of Air Navigation from the Ocean and Beyond 9–10 June 2016

University of Oxford: John Wallis (1616-1703). Mathematics, Music Theory, and Cryptography in 17th Century Oxford.9 June 2016

University of Birmingham: Social Studies in the History of Medicine – ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’

Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford: Postgraduate Conference 2016: Modern Bodies, Modern Minds 10 June

University of Oxford: Draft Oxford Scientiae Conference Programme 5–7 July 2016

Radboud University Nijmegen: Conference Program: Space, Imagination, and the Cosmos, from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period 9–10 July 2016

University of Kent: Conference: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Material Culture: 9 June 2016

The Nobel Museum Stockholm: Prizes and Awards in Science before Nobel. 5th Watson Seminar in the Material and Visual History of Science 5 September 2016

Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Partington Prize

Commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing: Third Symposium for the History and Philosophy of Programming 25 June 2016

University of Glasgow: CfP: Discourse of Care: Care in Media, Medicine and Society 5-7 September 2016 Deadline 3 June 2016

Western Michigan University: CfP: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference Deadline 1 June 2016

University of Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Envirment, and Health In the Easterm Mediterranean World, 1400–1750 3–4 April 2017

Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science: Upcoming Events

Fórum Lisboa (Antigo Cinema Roma): CFP: Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science 14–16 December 2016

Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)

Calenda: Le Calendrier des Lettres et Sciences Humains et Sociales: Appel à contribution « Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique »

Western Michigan University: Call for Abstracts: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference 15–16 September 2016

Society for the Social History of Medicine: Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October 2016

Kunsthistorisches Institut In Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut: CfP: Photo-Objects. On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo-Archives in the Humanities and Sciences 15–17 February 2017

University of Leuven: CfA: The science of evolution and the evolution of the sciences 12–13 October 2016

Science Museum: Artefacts Meeting 2–4 October 2016: CfP: Understanding Use: Science and Technology Objects and Users

Cambridge: CfP extended: Science and Islands in the Indo-Pacific World 15–16 September 2016

Singapore: Society for the History of Technology: Annual Meeting 22–26 June 2016

Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey: SPSP Pre-Conference Workshop: Empirical Methodology for Philosophy of Science in Practice 16 June 2016

University of Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events

Society for the Social History of Medicine: 2016 Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October

St Michaels College, Cardiff University: Conference: Bodily Fluids/Fluid Bodies in Greek and Roman Antiquity 11–13 July 2016 Programme

H-Pennsylvania: Philip J. Pauly Book Prise Nominations Sought for Histories of Science in the Americas

British and European History of Medicine Conference: Registration: Medicine in Place: Situating Medicine in Historical Contexts University of Kent 7-10 July 2016

BSHS: Prizes

Three Societies Meeting: University of Alberta, Edmonton 22–25 June 2016 Only two weeks left for hotel conference rates!

Trinity College Cambridge: The Venues of Scholarly Output: Collections, Treatises, Textbooks, Archives 25 June 2016

Let’s Talk About Sex: CfP: History of Sexuality PGR/ECR Workshop University of Exeter 26–27 June 2016

Queen Mary University of London:Upcoming History of Emotions Work in Progress Seminars

University of Reading: CfP: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016 Deadline: 15 June 2016

BSHS: Registration Open: The Body and Pseudoscience in the Long Nineteenth Century Newcastle University 18 June 2016

Barts Pathology Museum: CfP: The “Heart” and “Science” of Wilkie Collins and his Contemporaries 24 September 2016

University of Leicester: Centre for Medical Humanities: Seminars:

Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware: CfP: Making Modern Disability: Histories of Disability, Design, and Technology 28 October 2016

New York City: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 30 September–1 October 2016

History at the Open University: Women and Gender in Early Modern Britain and Ireland: A Conference in Honour of Anne Laurence Institute of Historical Research London 4 June 2016

IHPST, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris: CfP: International Doctoral Conference in Philosophy of Science 29-30 September 2016

Ian Ramsey Centre Conference, University of Oxford: Workshop “Early Modern Laws of Nature: Secular and Divine” 7 July 2016

Annals of Science: Annals of Science Essay Prize for Young Scholars

H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology

2nd International Conference on the History of Physics: Invention, application and exploitation in the history of physics Pöllau, Austria 5–7 September 2016

University of Cambridge: Cabinet of Natural History: Seminars Easter Term 2016

Warburg Institute: ESSWE Thesis Workshop 7 July 2016

Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST: CfP: 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature

University of Greenwich: Society and the Sea Conference: 15–16 September 2016

University of Illinois, Chicago: CfP: STS Graduate Student Workshop: 16-17 September

University of London: Birkbeck: Thomas Harriot Seminar 2016: 11 July 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century 10–11 September 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016

irkbeck, University of London: CfP: Embarrassing Bodies: Feeling Self-Conscious in the Nineteenth Century 17 June 2016

LOOKING FOR WORK:

University of Pompeu Fabra, Spain: Call for expressions of interest for the submission of Marie Sklodowska-Curie proposals – History of Nuclear Energy and Society

University of Antwerp: PhD Position in Philosophy of Science

Liverpool Hope University: Professional Tutor in Museum and Heritage Studies

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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 #44

Monday 13 June 2016

EDITORIAL:

We are rapidly approaching midsummers day and it is pissing with rain. To help you while away the time as you wait for summer to come here is the latest edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #hisSTM links list bringing you a rim full collection of the histories of science, technology and medicine that was made available on the Internet over the last seven days.

Owl Inspectorate Officer making annual editorial quality control

The Antikythera mechanism is with certainty one of the most fascinating artefacts in both the histories of science and technology. A badly corroded and initially almost unrecognisable collection of bronze gears or cog wheels in a wooden frame or box; it was initially recovered from a ship wreck off the Greek island of Antikythera in 1901. It’s purpose or function remained a complete mystery for several decades and no real attention was paid to it before 1951 when the British historian of astronomy Derek J. de Sola Price became the first person to seriously examine it and to realise that here was something quite extraordinary.

Since de Sola Price’s initial examination the device has been subjected to a great deal of scrutiny and examination with numerous academic papers and less formal reports being published on its structure, date of manufacture and functions. It is now fairly clear that it was produce roughly 200 years BCE and that it is some form of astronomical calculator or analogue computer.

The Antikythera mechanism (Fragment A – front)
Source: Wikimedia Commons

The Antikythera mechanism (Fragment A – back)
Source: Wikimedia Commons

On the 9 June The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project held a new public presentation of which there is a video on their website and which has been widely reported on, see the collection of links below. However I have followed this story with interest for a number of years and I can’t for the life of me see what new material of any real significance has been made public on this occasion or why it was done in such an overblown manner. Being of a cynical nature I can only conclude that the project is due for a funding review, an evil that all publically funded academic projects have to go through on a regular basis, and that this presentation was made to impress the money men. Be that as it may for those that were not previously aware of this extraordinary artefact or who wish to deepen they knowledge please help yourselves.

For over a century since its discovery in an ancient shipwreck, the exact function of the Antikythera Mechanism (pictured) – named after the southern Greek island off which it was found – was a tantalizing puzzle. University of Athens professor Xenophon Moussas points at a possible reconstruction
Source: The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project

The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project: Website

Smithsonian.com: The World’s First Computer May Have Been Used To Tell Fortunes

The Public Opinion: Decade of labor reveals philosopher’s guide to the galaxy

The Daily Mail: Is this the world’s oldest computer? 2,100 year-old mechanical relic acted as an astronomer’s ‘guide to the galaxy’

mental_floss: 15 Intriguing Facts About the Antikythera Mechanism

CBC News: Scientists decipher purpose of mysterious astronomy tool made by ancient Greeks

Universe Today: Mysterious Greek Device Found to Be Astronomical Computer

Gizmodo: The World’s Oldest Computer May Have Been Used to Predict the Future

Independent: World’s oldest computer from 60 BC used to read stars and tell future, study reveals

IFL Science: A Decade of Work Has Decode this Ancient Greek Astronomy “Computer”

Quotes of the week:

“Farage is to sound reasoning & evidence what Sweeney Todd was to healthy eating” – Martin Shovel (@MartinShovel)

“Critical Thinking (n): The ability to look at a complex situation, evaluate many lines of evidence, and reach a conclusion I find congenial” – Chad Orzel (@orzelc)

“Donald Trump really is just the non-animated version of Eric Cartman: “You guys are all hella losers”” – Catherine Q. (@CatherineQ)

“Today’s serious historical question- did bad handwriting in letters cause as much confusion as autocorrect does now?” – Backyard Alchemist (@guthrie_stewart)

“Teach someone a specific skill, & they’ll get a job. Teach someone to teach themselves skills, and they’ll get a lifetime of jobs”– Anon h/t @HPS_Vanessa

“The nature of the pneuma has always perplexed readers of Galenic theory, whose mystified ranks include Vesalius, Willis, Descartes” h/t Matthew Cobb

“The scientist explains the world by successive approximations” – E. Hubble h/t @AdamFrank4

“The brain is a muscle, and writing is like running – when you haven’t done it for a while it is difficult, painful and exhausting” – Matthew Cobb (@matthewcobb)

“If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?” – Mary Astell (1666–1731)

“It doesn’t matter how old you get, buying snacks for a road trip should always look like an unsupervised 9-year-old was given $100” – bananafanafofisa (@lisaxy424)

Birthdays of the Week:

Francis Crick born 8 June 1916

Why Evolution is True: Happy 100^th birthday, Francis Crick (1916–2004)

Scielo Brasil: On the centenary of the birth of Francis H.C. Crick – from physics to genetics and neuroscience

The Guardian: Francis Crick portrait unveiled to honour breakthrough DNA work

Francis Crick’s 100th birthday: see his new portrait in @The Crick’s building

Nobelprize.org: The Discovery of the Molecular Structure of DNA – The Double Helix

Letters of Note: A Most Important Discovery

Johannes Müller aka Regiomontanus born 6 June 1436

Johannes Regiomontanus, Woodcut Source: Wikimedia Commons

The Renaissance Mathematicus: The world’s first scientific press

Libraries: University of Wisconsin-Madison: Regiomontanus in the Nuremberg Chronicle

Giovanni Domenico Cassini born 8 June 1625

Giovanni Cassini (artist unknown)
Source: Wikimedia Commons

The Renaissance Mathematicus: The real founder of telescopic astronomy

History of Europe in Space: Jean-Dominique Cassini: Astrology to Astronomy

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson born 9 June 1836

A 1900 portrait of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917) John Singer Sargent
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Independent: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: 4 facts you should know about one of Britain’s most important feminists

Newsweek: Who Was Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Why Is She a Google Doodle

nhe: Celebrating the legacy of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Soundcloud: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–1917), first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson circa 1889
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Bulletin of the History of Medicine: Women Doctors and Lady Nurses: Class, Education, and the Professional Victorian Woman

Blue Plaques: Garrett Anderson, Elizabeth (1836–1917)

John Dollond born 10 June 1710

John Dollond by Benjamin Wilson *mid to late 18th century
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Yovisto: John Dollond and the Achromatic Lenses

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Taking the colour out of light

PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:

Forbes: No One, Not Even Newton or Einstein, Was The Muhammad Ali of Physics

AHF: Bernice Brode

America Pink: Zinaida Aksentyeva: Life

AHF: Robert S. Mulliken

S.R. Sarma: A Descriptive Catalogue of Indian Astronomical Instruments

The Royal Society: The Repository: War and planets

The Press: Historic telescope to be repaired

The Public Domain Review: Flowers in the Sky

Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch, Folio 52 (Comet mit einem grosen Schwantz, 1401)

Motherboard: Comets, Meteors, and Other Space Phenomena Depicted Over 1,000 Years

Voices of the Manhattan Project: Roslyn Robinson’s Interview

Voices of the Manhattan Project: David Hawkins’ Interview Part 1

The Catholic Astronomer: We Have Always Been Tiny

The Guardian: Sir Tom Kibble obituary

Dave’s Universe: Dr, John H. Eicher, 1921–2016

Nautilus: Why Physicists Make Up Stories in the Dark

University of Toronto Scientific Instruments Collection: In Praise of Small Instruments: J.S. Plaskett, the Physical Laboratory Workshop, and the Humble Resistance Box

AHF: William F. Lightfoot and the “Fat Man” Fireset

Yovisto: CERN and its Brilliant Minds

The Renaissance Mathematicus: How do we kill off myths of science zombies?

Portrait of Kepler by an unknown artist, 1610
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Astronomical Institute: Slovak Academy of Sciences: Dr. Antonin Becvar

Whipple Library Books Blog: G is for Galileo and the tacit ‘Dialogues’

Asian Art: Jambudvipa and its Continents

Finding Ada: Williamina Fleming: Star of Scotland

Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming (1857-1911), circa 1890s. (Courtesy Curator of Astronomical Photographs at Harvard College Observatory.)

AHF: The Frank Report

AHF: Nicholas Metropolis

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

Atlas Obscura: A 19^th-Century Cartography Crammed All of Human History into this Map

Colton’s full map from 1842.

Bloomberg: French Maps From 1781 That Helped Free America to Be Auctioned

Ptak Science Books: A Good Example of a Bad Map, 1867

The Scotsman: Map: The 18^th century territories of Scotland’s clans

David Stewart’s map depicts the territories of the Highland clans in 1746-147. Picture: National Library of Scotland.

Digital Commonwealth: Maritime Charts and Atlases (Collection of Distinction) Boston Public Library

MEDICINE & HEALTH:

Othmeralia: The Book of Health (1898)

Thomas Morris: The cod-liver oil binge

Beyond Chicken Soup: Medical Inventions: Morris Tischler’s Solid State Pacemaker

The Embryo Project: ABO Blood Type Identification and Forensic Science (1900–1960)

Google Patents: Face-mask for treating the skin

The H-Word: Human-pig chimeras and the history of transplanting from animals

Colour lithograph: “human vivisection”, published in Lustige Blatter. Berlin, c. 1910. The rabbit says “Now no phoney sentimentality! The principle of free research requires that I vivisect this human for the health of the entire animal world”. Illustration: Wellcome Library, London/Wellcome Images

CHF: A Sweet Invention

ncbi.nim.nih.gov: John Bostock’s first description of hayfever

Early Modern Medicine: Catching Cold

Thomas Morris: Saved for posterity

Wellcome Collection Blog: Inspired: Human evolution & obstetrics

The Francis A. Conway Library of Medicine: On View: Teaching watercolor of tumor at actual size

Wellcome Library: Health and well-being: Early Medicine’s new theme

BLDGBLOG: The Human Nervous System, Pressed Like a Flower

[Image: Smartphone shot in non-ideal lighting conditions]

The New York Times: Jerome S. Bruner, Who Shaped Understanding of the Young Mind, Dies at 100

The Recipes Project: Human Milk as Medicine in Imperial China: Practice or Fantasy?

NBC News: Plague Came to Europe Just Once and Stayed, Study Finds

Atlas Obscura: How An [sic] 1918 Author Introduced the World to the Concept of Female Pleasure

Thomas Morris: Killed by a corkscrew

Thomas Morris: The horn of a dilemma

Discover: How Railway Surgeons Advanced Medicine

The H-Word: Doping and the 1966 World Cup

Thomas Morris: The double monster

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:

Hackaday: Retrotechtacular: The Voder from Bell Labs

The National Museum of Computing: Veterans see Lorenz encrypt to decrypt

Gizmodo: Defeat AGAIN for Hitler as Bletchley Boffins Recreate WWII Code Breaks

Heritage Calling: A Bicycle Shed is a (Listed) Building

The H-Word: Uncovering the lives of women in science and technology: the case of Sarah Guppy

Royal Museums Greenwich: The Sinking of the Lusitania

Conciatore: Neri in Pisa

Conciatore: Travels to the East

Smithsonian.com: Hot Air Balloon Travel for the Luxury Traveler of the 1800s

A colored print of La Minerve (image: National Air and Space Museum)

Ptak Science Books: Ships in the Skyline, Part V: Cities INSIDE of Ships

Ptak Science Books: The pre-Google pre-Car –Google –Car (1892)

6sqft: Horn and Hardart Automats: Redefining Lunchtime, Diner on a Dime

Ptak Science Books: Fancy Walking Sticks and their Fancier Interior Lives (1892)

The Times: Ferguson’s timepiece sold to US bidder

IEEE: Annals of the History of Computing Download: History of Computing in East Asia

V&A: Sensing Time: a royal mantel clock

Gizmag: The stopwatch: 200 years old and still ticking

The stopwatch turns 200: When the compteur de tierces surfaced in 2012, it was like stumbling across an iPhone from 1975 in a junk shop (Credit: Louis Moinet Company)

Ciara Meehan: The Dangers of Washing Machines

Hyperallergic: The Incredible Electric Eric: Rebuilding a Lost 1920s British Robot

Atlas Obscura: How a Hotel in Chicago Convinced Drivers They Needed Parking Garages

Smithsonian.com: The Story of László Bíró, the Man Who Invented the Ballpoint Pen

Ptak Science Books: Finger-Tip Lights for Theater Ushers

The British Museum: Collection online: The new sucking worm fire engine – A new draught and description of the fire engine

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Abu’l-Fida on Britain from his E14thC Geography, based on 13thC work of Ibn Sa’id al-Maghribi (trans. Dunlop, 1957) h/t Dr Caitlin Green

Scientific American: The Geology of D-Day (June 6, 1944)

Flathead Beacon: A Brief History of Science in Glacier National Park

Niche: The Birthday of the Year Without a Summer

Niche: The Iinnii Initiative: Reintroducing Bison to Blackfoot Country

storify: Instruments Supercomputers Environmental change

ABC News: New DNA technology confirms Aboriginal people as first Australians

Encyclopedia.com: Weidenreich, Franz

The Guardian: Killer breakthrough – the day DNA evidence first nailed a murderer

Lynda Mann (left) and Dawn Ashworth, the 15-year-old victims of rapist and murderer Colin Pitchfork. Photographs: PA

The Washington Post: Watch these leaping eels validate one of science history’s wackiest stories

The Recipes Project: Blood, Controversy, and Puddings in the Early English Atlantic

Hoaxes: The Eruption of Mount Edgecumbe

Tiny Letter: Pie in the Sky

Inside Climate News: For Oil Industry, Clean Air Fight Was Dress Rehearsal for Climate Denial

The Atlantic: The Unsung Hero of Western Science

Verso: China Rose

Nature: Cetology: How science inspired Moby-Dick

The Guardian: Andrea Wulf on a scientific adventurer ‘chased by 10,000 pigs’

Science League of America: In Praise of Pickett, Part 2

BHL: World Oceans Day through Books: The Roots of Modern Ichthyology

Belon portrayed many dolphins, their embryos, and reproductive anatomy within De aquatilibus, marking the beginning of modern embryology. Belon, Pierre. De aquatilibus. 1553.

Forbes: Volcanic Eruptions Triggered Crises Throughout European History

The Atlantic: The Smart, Agile, and Completely Underrated Dodo

The Atlantic: Why Americans Call Turkey ‘Turkey’

The Last Word on Nothing: Guest Post: Bárðarbunga and the Winters of Winds, of the Sword, of the World

Yovisto: James Cook and the Great Barrier Reef

Smithsonian.com: Smithsonian’s Wildflower: The Illustrious Life of the Naturalist Who Chronicled America’s Native Flora

University of Birmingham: Lapworth Archive

Atlas Obscura: How Chewing Gave Humans Flat Faces, Little Teeth and Wimpy Jaws

BHL: The natural history of Carolina, Fl…

Geri Walton: Tales of Monkeys as Pets in the 18^th Century and 19^th Century

A Favorite Poodle And Monkey Belonging To Thomas Osborne, The 4th Duke of Leeds, By John Wootton, Public Domain

storify: Study Day 20 April 2016: Visiting the Hans Sloane Album Collection

The New York Times: Was There an Ice Age in the Southern Hemisphere?

History of Geology: Darwin’s first botanizing steps followed the geological ones

Borneo Post: Proposed Wallace Centre should also honour legacy of local assistant Ali – Historian

Ashmolean: Allen Ariel Photographs

CHEMISTRY:

The Renaissance Mathematicus: How Chemistry came to its first journal – and a small-town professor to lasting prominence

Lorenz Crell
Source: Wikimedia Commons

CHF: Visual Evidence

The Conversation: Four new elements named – here’s how the periodic table evolved

META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

Scholarly Commons: All back issues of the History of Anthropology Newsletter are now digitized, accessible, and searchable

The Social Historians: Why Society Needs Historians

CHF: Biotechnology Heritage Award

the many-headed monster: On periodization: unanswerable questions, questionable answers

al-kashkūl: An Allegorical Epistle By Abū Alī ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) Describing His Arrival at True Knowledge

Forbes: Are There Revolutions in Physics?

Nautilus: Einstein Among the Daffodils

MedHumLab: Five Questions for… Carsten Timmermann

Salon: Resurrecting the Anatomical Venus: Death, sex and ecstasy intersect in 18^th-century dissectible wax women

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Seven

ESOTERIC:

Conciatore: We Were Trojans

World Digital Library: A Compilation of Divinations from the Tianyuan Jade Calendar and the Big Dipper Scripture

distillatio: A practical alchemy mystery

distillatio: Health and safety in alchemy

BOOK REVIEWS:

The New York Times: ‘The Hour of Land,’ by Terry Tempest Williams

Time to Eat the Dogs: Interview on New Books Network

Reviews in History: Interview: Jordan Landes talks to Darin Hayton

Notches: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation: An Interview With Jim Downs

The Junto: Alejandra Dubcovsky, Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South

The View From Fez: The Orange Trees of Marrakesh: Ibn Khaldun and the Science of Man

TrowelBlazers: Agatha: The real life of Agatha Christie

Science Book a Day: Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life in the Universe

ars technica: How did all this science get here?

Academia: Emil du Bois-Reymond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany

NEW BOOKS:

Historiens de la santé: Beyond Melancholy. Sadness and Selfhood in Renaissance England

University of Wales Press: Robert Recorde

Historiens de la santé: The Great Transition. Climate, Disease and Society in the Late Medieval World

University of Pennsylvania Press: Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Historiens de la santé: Battlefield Surgeon: Life and Death on the Front Lines of World War II

The Royal Institution: Celebrating the bicentenary of the Davy lamp

Grove Atlantic: Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story

Palgrave: Creating Romanticism: Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s

Historiens de la santé: The Wordsworth-Coleridge Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability

ART & EXHIBITIONS

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15^th and 16^th Centuries

Smithsonian.com: See Over 2,000 Wax Models of Skin Diseases at This Swiss Medical Moulage Museum

A skin affliction on display at the Moulage Museum. (Moulagenmuseum University and University Hospital of Zurich)

The Warburg Institude: The Library of Aby Warburg 13–17 June 2016

St. Louis Central Library: Fantasy Maps Exhibit 11 June–15 October 2016

Oxford Thinking: Cook-Voyage collection goes on display at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Uzeeum: House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, and Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum, Berlin, 1869–1922

The Guardian: Totally cosmic science festival for blue-sky thinkers

Amritt Museum: Beatrix Potter – Image & Reality

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph

Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library

Historiens de la santé: Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England: Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts

History Today: Maria Merian’s Butterflies

Science Museum: Robots

The Royal Society of Medicine: Exhibition: Charcot, Hysteria & La Salpetiere 3 May–23 July 2016

Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May30–October 2016

Harvard Magazine: Before Social Media: Radio was the medium that broke the silence

Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus

The Houston Museum of Natural Science: Cabinet of Curiosities Opens 6 May 2016

Reviews in History: Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee (Royal College of Physicians, 18 January – 29 July 2016)

Broadway World.com: Met Museum Exhibition to Celebrate Artistic, Technological, Cultural Legacy of the Seljuqs

Grup d’estudis d’història de la cartografia: Exhibition about Renacentrist cartography in Bergamo 16 April–10 July 2016

Bonner Sterne: “Argelanders Erben” im Universitätsmuseum Bonn bis 31 Juli 2016

Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:

Fine Books & Collections: The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at BPL to Host Exhibit, “From the Sea to the Mountains” 2 April–28 August 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Scholar courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee 18 January 29–31 July 2016

The National Air and Space Museum: A New Moon Rises: An Exhibition Where Science and Art Meet

Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017

AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016

Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017

Science Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius 10 February 2016–4 September 2016

Wellcome Collections: States of Mind 4 February–16 October 2016

Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm

Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game

The John Rylands Library: Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World 21 January–21 August 2016

Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility

Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday

Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017

Science Museum: Information Age

Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Manchester Central Library: The Enduring Eye: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley 9 April–11 June 2016

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: YOUTOPIA: VISIONS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016

Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph 14 April–11 September 2016

Centre for Contemporary Arts is Glasgow: Intermedia Beyond Epilepsy 9-19 June 2016

Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy

COMING SOON: Bethel Museum of the Mind: The Weight of History 27 July – 18 November 2016

THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:

New Line Theatre: Atomic 2-25 June 2016

Discover Medical London: Medicine at the Movies: 16 June 2016

Detroit Free Press: ‘Atomic’ produces lots of noise, little heat

ashpags on tumblr: Great Lady Astronomers of History …Come to Life!

The Rose Theatre: The Alchemist by Ben Jonson 7–30 June 2016

Royal Shakespeare Company: Doctor Faustus Swan Theatre Stratford-Upon-Avon 8 February–4 August 2016

Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 18 June 2016

The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017

EVENTS:

Morbid Anatomy Museum: Rescheduled: What Are Medieval Robots? An Illustrated Lecture with Elly Truitt 16 June 2016

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Talk: Bad Medicine and Quackery in Edinburgh 9–13 August 2016

Center for the History of Medicine Harvard: Phineas Gage Event 23 June 2016

UCL: STS: Open Day 17 June 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: One for the Road

Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events

Royal College of Physicians: John Dee: art, science, magic 11 July 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “London’s Plagues”

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding

University of Utrecht: Descartes-Huygens Lecture by J.B. Shank on ‘Newtonian’ Mechanics in France around 1700

IET Savoy Place London: Lecture: Preparing to lay a transatlantic telegraph table; an historical comparison 16 June 2016

University College Cork: Walking Tours: A second chance to solve the mystery of ‘Being Boole’!

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Glasgow Science Festival: Goodall Lecture – 200^th Anniversary of Laennec’s First Stethoscope 16 June 2016

The Brain Box: Manchester Day: History: Memory Lane: A History of Brain Science 19 June Town Hall

The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours

Gresham College: Lecture: The Expanding Universe 26 October 2016

V&A: Courses: Sensing Time: The Art and Science of Clocks and Watches 18 June 2016

Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)

CHF: Episode 211: Babes of Science, a Guest Episode

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

The Royal College of Physicians: Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “Sex and The City”

Norcroft Auditorium, Norcroft Centre, University of Bradford: The secret chemistry of art: unravelling an age-old textile mystery / September 2016

Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tours

Surgeons’ Hall Museums: Exceptional and Extraordinary – Unruly bodies and minds in the medical museum 15 June 2016

Chepstow Museum: Talk: Iwan Rhys Morus ‘Will the Real Victor Frankenstein Please Stand Up?’ 20 June 2016

PAINTING OF THE WEEK:

Euclid (holding calipers), Greek mathematician, 3rd century BC, as imagined by Raphael in this detail from The School of Athens.

TELEVISION:

SLIDE SHOW:

VIDEOS:

Museo Galileo: The sundial of the Museo Galileo

Youtube: Fred Terman Interview, 1969

Youtube: Ultimate Restorations: Sierra 3 – PBS America

Youtube: Rebuilding Dinosaurs with the ‘Skeleton Crew’

Alom Shaha: Just a Theory

Youtube: Logic in Greek & Arabic Philosophy (Peter Adamson)

Youtube: Science Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius

Youtube: MIT: The History of Making Books: Build a Printing Press at MIT

RADIO & PODCASTS:

BBC Radio 4: Science Stories: Maxwell’s Demon

Futility Closet: Podcast Episode 108: The Greenwich Time Lady

kmuw: Marginalia: Carrie Brown

BBC Radio 4: Blood and Fire: The Segregation and Racialisation of Blood

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Notches: CfP: Histories of Disability and Sexuality

CIUHCT: Lisbon, Portugal: Universum Infinitum. From the German Philosopher Nicolaus Cusanus (1401–1464) to the Iberian Discoveries in the 15th Century: Ocean World in European Exploration 17–18 June 2016

Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science: CfP: Special Issue: Knowledge Transfer and Its Context

University of Chester: Symposium: Pilgrimage, Shrines and Healing in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe 24 June 2016

University of Freiburg: Accidents and the State in the 20^th Century

The Victorianist: CfP Reminder: The “Heart” and “science” of Wilkie Collins and His Contemporaries 24 September 2016 London

Science Museum: Study Day: Sensing Time: The Art and Science of Clocks & Watches 17–18 June 2016

ICOHTEC Conference Porto: CfP: Early Career Scholars Workshop: Tension of Europe 1 August 2016

Society for Renaissance Studies: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Texts and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s

Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science: CfP: “Ludwik Fleck’s Theory of Thought Styles and Thought Collectives – Translations and Receptions” Deadline 30 August 2016

University of Bergamo: Workshop: Early Modern Galenism and Botany 24 June 2016

University of Vienna: Ernst Mach Centenary Conference 16–18 June 2016

CRASSH: Taxonomy, Translatability and Intelligibility of Scientific Images 17–18 June 2016

Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Paris: Colloque: Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique 20–21 Octobre 2016

University of Oxford: Conference: Making and Rethinking Renaissance between Greek and Latin in 15^th–16^th Europe 14–16 June 2016

St Anne’s College; University of Oxford: Scientiae: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World 5–7 July 2016

King’s College London: From Microbes to Matrons: The Past, Present and Future of Hospital Infection Control and Prevention 1-2 September 2016

University of Groningen: CfP: Teaching the New Sciences, Scientific Revolution 14–16 June 2017

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: CFP: Conference: HIV/AIDS Research: Its History and Future 13–16 October 2016

Collège de France: Colloque : « Freud au Collège de France, 1885-2016 » 16–17 Juin 2016

Australian Academy of Science: The Moran Award for History of Science Research

Université de Lausane: La santé publique et ses enjeux: un lieu de pouvoirs 10 Juin 2016

Wellcome Trust: Workshop: London Health Histories 17 June 2016

Florida Atlantic University: International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry Summer Symposium 1–4 August 2016

University Of Belgrade: CfP: Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation-5 22–23 September 2016

Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta, and the University of Warwick: CfP: Beauty and the Hospital in History 6–8 April 2017

Institution of Engineering and Technology, London: Conference: Telecommunications in the Aftermath of World War 1: Civilian and Military Perspectives 10 August 2016

University of Oxford: Summer School and Conference: Mind Value and Mental Health: Philosophy and Psychiatry 13–15 July 2017

MedHum Fiction – Daily Dose: CfP: Medical Humanities

BSHS: The British Society for the History of Science Prize for Exhibits on the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 2016

University of Warsaw: Conference: Reassembling the Republic of Letters 11–15 June 2015

University of Bergen: Philosophy of Bergen Workshop 2016 14 June

University of Leeds: Round Table Discussion: “Victorians and History Writing Practices” Seminar: “Victorian Jesus: Imagining the Anonymous Author of Ecce Homo (1865)” 4 July 2016

Wellcome Library: Workshop: London Health Histories 17 June 2016

University of Birmingham: Social Studies in the History of Medicine – ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’

University of Oxford: Draft Oxford Scientiae Conference Programme 5–7 July 2016

Radboud University Nijmegen: Conference Program: Space, Imagination, and the Cosmos, from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period 9–10 July 2016

The Nobel Museum Stockholm: Prizes and Awards in Science before Nobel. 5th Watson Seminar in the Material and Visual History of Science 5 September 2016

Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Partington Prize

Commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing: Third Symposium for the History and Philosophy of Programming 25 June 2016

University of Glasgow: CfP: Discourse of Care: Care in Media, Medicine and Society 5-7 September 2016 Deadline 3 June 2016

Western Michigan University: CfP: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference Deadline 1 June 2016

University of Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Envirment, and Health In the Easterm Mediterranean World, 1400–1750 3–4 April 2017

Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science: Upcoming Events

Fórum Lisboa (Antigo Cinema Roma): CFP: Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science 14–16 December 2016

Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)

Calenda: Le Calendrier des Lettres et Sciences Humains et Sociales: Appel à contribution « Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique »

Western Michigan University: Call for Abstracts: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference 15–16 September 2016

Society for the Social History of Medicine: Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October 2016

Kunsthistorisches Institut In Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut: CfP: Photo-Objects. On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo-Archives in the Humanities and Sciences 15–17 February 2017

University of Leuven: CfA: The science of evolution and the evolution of the sciences 12–13 October 2016

Science Museum: Artefacts Meeting 2–4 October 2016: CfP: Understanding Use: Science and Technology Objects and Users

Cambridge: CfP extended: Science and Islands in the Indo-Pacific World 15–16 September 2016

Singapore: Society for the History of Technology: Annual Meeting 22–26 June 2016

Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey: SPSP Pre-Conference Workshop: Empirical Methodology for Philosophy of Science in Practice 16 June 2016

University of Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events

Society for the Social History of Medicine: 2016 Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October

St Michaels College, Cardiff University: Conference: Bodily Fluids/Fluid Bodies in Greek and Roman Antiquity 11–13 July 2016 Programme

H-Pennsylvania: Philip J. Pauly Book Prise Nominations Sought for Histories of Science in the Americas

British and European History of Medicine Conference: Registration: Medicine in Place: Situating Medicine in Historical Contexts University of Kent 7-10 July 2016

BSHS: Prizes

Three Societies Meeting: University of Alberta, Edmonton 22–25 June 2016 Only two weeks left for hotel conference rates!

Trinity College Cambridge: The Venues of Scholarly Output: Collections, Treatises, Textbooks, Archives 25 June 2016

Let’s Talk About Sex: CfP: History of Sexuality PGR/ECR Workshop University of Exeter 26–27 June 2016

Queen Mary University of London:Upcoming History of Emotions Work in Progress Seminars

University of Reading: CfP: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016 Deadline: 15 June 2016

BSHS: Registration Open: The Body and Pseudoscience in the Long Nineteenth Century Newcastle University 18 June 2016

Barts Pathology Museum: CfP: The “Heart” and “Science” of Wilkie Collins and his Contemporaries 24 September 2016

University of Leicester: Centre for Medical Humanities: Seminars:

Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware: CfP: Making Modern Disability: Histories of Disability, Design, and Technology 28 October 2016

New York City: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 30 September–1 October 2016

History at the Open University: Women and Gender in Early Modern Britain and Ireland: A Conference in Honour of Anne Laurence Institute of Historical Research London 4 June 2016

IHPST, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris: CfP: International Doctoral Conference in Philosophy of Science 29-30 September 2016

Ian Ramsey Centre Conference, University of Oxford: Workshop “Early Modern Laws of Nature: Secular and Divine” 7 July 2016

Annals of Science: Annals of Science Essay Prize for Young Scholars

H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology

2nd International Conference on the History of Physics: Invention, application and exploitation in the history of physics Pöllau, Austria 5–7 September 2016

University of Cambridge: Cabinet of Natural History: Seminars Easter Term 2016

Warburg Institute: ESSWE Thesis Workshop 7 July 2016

Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST: CfP: 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature

University of Greenwich: Society and the Sea Conference: 15–16 September 2016

University of Illinois, Chicago: CfP: STS Graduate Student Workshop: 16-17 September

University of London: Birkbeck: Thomas Harriot Seminar 2016: 11 July 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century 10–11 September 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016

irkbeck, University of London: CfP: Embarrassing Bodies: Feeling Self-Conscious in the Nineteenth Century 17 June 2016

LOOKING FOR WORK:

The University of Queensland: The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities PhD Scholarships

Science Museum Group: Collections Storage Project Manager

INFORMS: Part Time Intern Assistant History of Operational Research

Science Museum Group: Content Developer, Sun Exhibition

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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

Year 2, Volume #45

Monday 20 June 2016

EDITORIAL:

We have reached the summer solstice the middle point of the astronomical year and we have reached the forty-fifth edition in the Whewell’s Gazette #histSTM year bringing you a wide selection of the histories of science, technology and medicine gathered upp throughout cyberspace over the last seven days.

We live in a time where the utility of the humanities is being challenged on an almost daily basis; this was not always the case and is in fact a very recent development. In earlier times the interchange between the arts and the sciences was a commonplace and fully accepted phenomenon. On the British Art Studies web site there is an interesting combined history of art history of science study of just such a case from the eighteenth century under the title ‘Looking for “the Longitude”’.

Opening with an essay from Katy Barrett entitled, First Look, discussing a visual reference to the search for longitude in a Hogarth print the study is being extended and deepened everyday by a series of expert commentators amplifying different aspects of the topic.

British Art Studies: Looking for “the Longitude”:

First Look by Katy Barrett

Day 1: Response to figures 2 and 3 Katy Barrett

Day 2: Response to figure 4 Richard Dunn

Day 3: Response to figure 5 Rebekah Higgitt

Day 4: Response to figure 6 Katherine Parker

This is the latest development in what has been one of the best #histSTM research projects conducted in recent years, the Board of Longitude Research Project. The Board of Longitude was set up in the early eighteenth century and existed slightly more than one hundred years and was charged with task of supporting the search for a reliable method of determining longitude at sea. The board examined proposals, awarded research grants for promising efforts and monetary rewards for successful progress towards a reliable method. The Board’s records have been preserved and a research project was set up under the leadership of Simon Schaffer from Cambridge University and Rebekah Higgitt and Richard Dunn from the Maritime Museum in Greenwich. The other researchers were postdocs, Alexi Baker and Nicky Reeves, doctoral students, Katy Barrett, Eoin Phillips and Sophie Waring, and for the final year Katherine McAlpine as engagement officer. The project ran from May 2010 till June 2015 and produced some truly excellent results.

As far as the public is concerned at the top of the list is the major exhibition in Greenwich, Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude, which the last time I looked was still touring the world, and the accompanying large format, beautifully illustrated book by Dunn and Higgitt, Finding Longitude. You can find a full and very impressive list of all the other exhibitions, books, papers and articles, doctoral theses, digital and broadcasts, conferences and workshops, lifelong learning events and school projects here.

With a separate grant Cambridge University Library digitised the complete Board of Longitude archives, which are now available online here.

In my opinion this whole project and the people who worked in it set standards for #histSTM research that anybody embarking on a #histSTM research project would be well advised to emulate.

Quotes of the week:

“Never thought I’d say this but, I want my country back. My lovely, frustrating, tolerant, cynical, cultured, multicultural, funny country” – Tom Webb (@tomjwebb)

“Even idiots occasionally speak the truth accidentally” – Dorothy L. Sayers h/t @ferwen

“Murderous lunatics we may always have with us but murderous lunatics with AR-15 we really don’t have to tolerate” – Liam Heneghan (@DublinSoil)

“I’m sure Trump’s temper tantrums about the press will calm down once he’s elected Supreme Leader” – Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman)

“Dear young people. Please don’t let you’re future be stolen by mad old farts who want to return the country to an age that never existed” – Peter Davidson (@PeterDavidson5)

“In 1780, Ribright & Smith, Optical, Philosophical & Mathematical instrument makers in Bath, would ‘electrify’ persons for a shilling” – Alun Whithey (@DrAlun)

“I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability” – Oscar Wilde

“By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter” – Adam Smith (1723-1790)

Q: “How many philosophers does it take to ruin a dinner?”

A: “Well what do you mean by ‘ruin’?” – Ethicist for Hire (@ethicistforhire)

Would the Leave team settle for pulling out of Eurovision as a compromise? – History Scientist (@historyscientis)

“The quietness of his tone italicised the malice of his reply” – Truman Capote h/t @matthewcobb

“A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator h/t @KaraWSwanson

[Dawkins leans out window.] “You there, boy, what day is it?” “It’s Christmas Day, sir!” “No it’s not. It is just a day. Faith is insanity” – Avery Edison (@aedison)

“Lycranthropy – man turning into a wolf but wearing cycle shorts” – Peter Broks (@peterbroks)

“Entomology is often perceived as a sub-discipline of zoology; somewhat ironic as most animals are insects” – (@realscienists)

“An early calculator is like a dog’s walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all” (HT Mr J) – Brian Clegg (@brianclegg)

Reading an article that begins: “Much has been written on the Middle Ages; most of it has been negative” – Matthew Cobb (@matthewcobb)

Einstein’s advertisement for his private tutoring services in math and physics, including a free trial lesson h/t @phalpern

Birthdays of the Week:

The Birth of Frankenstein 16 June 1816

Title page of first edition of Frankenstein, Volume I.
Source: Wikimedia Common

The Last Word on Nothing: Dr. Frankenstein’s Climate

The Public Domain Review: Frankenstein, the Baroness, and the Climate Refugees of 1816

The Guardian: What Frankenstein means now

Science Museum: The Creation of Frankenstein

James Clerk Maxwell born 13 June 1831

A young Maxwell at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is holding one of his colour wheels.
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Royal Society of Chemistry: On this day in Chemistry June 13^th

Thomas Young born 13 June 1773

Portrait of Thomas Young (1773–1829)
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Len Fisher: History’s most boring scientist makes waves

Archive.org: A course of natural philosophy and the mechanical arts

PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:

Yerkes Observatory staff, August 1916, from left (back row, standing): Stanley H. Hughes, Everett I. Yowell, Julius Lemkowitz, John A. Parkhurst, John Mellish, Clifford Crump, Max Petersen, Oliver J. Lee, Lloyd R. Wylie, Edwin Hubble, Edward Emerson Barnard, Edwin Brant Frost (Director), Francis Easton Carr, Francis P. Leavenworth, Storrs B. Barrett; (front row, seated) Esther Wendell, Mary Ross Calvert, Evelyn W. Wickham, Vera Gushee, Frances Lowater, Elise Johns, Mrs. Mellish’s sister (unnamed). University of Chicago Photographic Archive

AHF: Luis Alvarez

Spaceflight Insider: Our Spaceflight Heritage: Pioneer 10, First to Achieve Escape Velocity from the Solar System

Undark: Unsung: Dr. Evelyn Boyd Granville

Evelyn Boyd Granville

Daily Star Albany: Hammurabi’s Astronomers Tracked Jupiter and Record Planet’s Motion, 4000 Years Ago

Voices of the Manhattan Project: Louis Hemplemann Interview – Part 1

Chemistry World: Nicol’s prism

Scientific American: Ancient Documents Reveal Sunspots, Auroras and Other Solar Activity before Galileo

Museum Victoria Collections: Eclipse Expeditions from Melbourne Observatory

Time: The Manhattan Project Physicist Who Fought for Equal Rights for Women

Corpus Newtonicum: How to recognise a Newton library book in 60 seconds (Scenes from the Library of Isaac Newton, Part 1)

Lost in the Footnotes: J.J. Thompson and the Public Conflagration

Voices of the Manhattan Project: Mack Newsom’s Interview

Yovisto: The First Woman in Space – Valentina Tereshkowa

Tereshkova, skiing, 1964
RIAN archive 16350
Source: Wikimedia Commons

SpaceWatchtower: 100 Years Ago: Connecticut Observatory Opens w/out Telescope!

Yesterday’s Island Today’s Nantucket: Invitation to Maria Mitchell from AAAS

The Atlantic: How Sexism Held Back Space Exploration

the scottbot irregular: [f-s d] Cetus

Dannen.com: Recommendations on the Immediate Use of Nuclear Weapons, June 16, 1945

World Digital Library: One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Moon of the Southern Sea

Yovisto: William Parsons and his Large Telescope

Yovisto: Alexander Friedmann and the Expanding Universe

atnf.csiro.au: Searching for the Astronomy of Aboriginal Australians

Brain Pickings: Ordering the Heavens: Hevelius’s Revolutionary 17^th-Century Star Catalog and the First Moon Map

AHF: James Marshall

mikeoats.org: William Lassell (1799-1880) and the discovery of Triton, 1846

AHF: Aage Niels Bohr

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

Ptak Science Books: Visulizing Data: the Texas Newspaper Frontier in 1880

The Hakluyt Society Blog: Essay Prize Series part 4: European Conceptualisation of Southeast Asian Sexual Diversity, c. 1590–1640

Wales Online: The trend for grown-up colouring-in has been going on for 400 years – and the used to use maps of Wales

The Guardian: A History of the 20^th century in maps – in pictures

Yovisto: Sir Francis Drake’s discovery of Nova Albion

Atlas Obscura: Tall Travel Tales from 17^th-Century Mexico, Mapped

MEDICINE & HEALTH:

Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine: On View:
Teaching watercolor of a leiomyoma in the uterus

Thomas Morris: The double monster

National Geographic: Phenomenon: The 19^th Century Doctor Who Mapped His Hallucinations

Nautilus: The True Story of Medical Books Bond in Human Skin

Readers Digest: The heart hero who discovered the heartbeat

Dr Alun Withey: Nendrick’s Pill: Selling Medicine in Rural Britain

(Image from Google Books)

Science of Us: Diarrhea Is the Wartime Enemy No One Mentions

NYAM: The Legacy of Aloysius “Alois” Alzheimer

The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice: Extraordinary Women: A Personal Look at Breast Cancer

Medical History: Volume 60 Numéro 03 July 2016: Soul Catchers: The Material Culture of the Mind Sciences: Table of Contents

Thomas Morris: Death from Peas

JHI Blog: Karl Philip Moritz and Oralism

Naomi Clifford: A broadside on Elizabeth Simmonds, who had a lucky escape from the dissecting table

Science of Us: The Tuskegee Experiment Kept Killing Black People Decades After It Ended

The New York Times: Did Infamous Tuskegee Study Cause Lasting Mistrust of Doctors Among Blacks?

Alice Dolan: Disability at the Foundling Hospital

STAT: 7 of the most gruesome medical devices in history

Graeco-Roman surgical instruments.
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images

Thomas Morris: A case for Dr Bell

Calenda: Confiance et légitimité en information et communication de santé

Royal College of Physicians: Clinical neurophysiology: historical highlights

Museum of HSTM Leeds: Lecture 6. Midwifery Forceps

DailyHistory.org: What was the dominant medical sect in the United States during the 19^th Century?

Thomas Morris: Occupation: glass and nail eater

Atlas Obscura: In the Early 1940s, the Red Cross Banned Black Blood Donors

A Surgical Demonstration (c.1700), oil on canvas by A. van der Groes

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:

Science Museum: Revealing the Real Cooke and Wheatstone Telegraph Dial

Ptak Science Books: Using Children and Shoes as Metaphors for Naval Strength the Display of Quantitative Information Series

Conciatore: Thévenot Continues East

Dial “S” For Science: Mystery of Ancient Greek Device Solved

New York Times: The Ancient Greek Philosopher’s Guide to the Galaxy

Smithsonian.com: How Singer Won the Sewing Machine War

The company’s early advertising claims boasted of many superlatives, including “always ready.” (Corbis)

Forbes: These Ancient Artifacts – Like King Tut’s Dagger – Are Made From Alien Metals

JSTOR Daily: Why King Tut Had a Meteorite Knife

Smithsonian.com: This Segregated Railway Car Offers a Visceral Reminder of the Jim Crow Era

Atlas Obscura: John Muir’s Alarm Clock Desk

Science Museum: The watch that helped change lives

The Aviation History Online Museum: Capt. John Alcock and Lt. Arthur Whitten Brown

Wired: Birth of the Microphone How Sound Became Signal

io9: This six-story highway through Manhattan is a great lunatic moment in urban planning

Ptak Science Books: DIY Tank Model, 1917 (Full Text)

[Popular Mechanics, August, 1917, pg 307]

Whipple Library Books Blog: I is for Instruments

Yovisto: Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company

Electrifying the country house: Guest Post: Eating Electricity and Delivering India – Animesh Chatterjee

Hello World!: K&R: Where It All Began

Conciatore: Weights and Measures

Ptak Science Books: Mobile Maginot: Moveable Land and Floating Forts, 1940

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Galapagos Finches Pretend You Know Me

Mimi Matthews: A Brief History of Victorian Goldfish Globes and Goldfish-Hawkers

the many-headed monster: Riches, Poverty and Pollution: Living with Coal Smoke in Early Modern London

Science Blogs: Annie Maunder, der Schmetterling in der Sonne und die Sache mit der kleinen Eiszeit

Niche: Exploring Fish Introductions using GIS

TrowelBlazers: Beatrice de Cardi, OBE

Bestiarium: The shoulder horn of Dürer’s marvellous Rhinocerus – revealing a 501 year old mystery beast

Dürer’s Rhinoceros
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Genetic Literacy Project: Scientists celebrate 100^th anniversary of DNA double helix discovery [sic]

The Public Domain Review: Richard Spruce and the Trials of Victorian Bryology

BLE: Louis A. Fuertes (Puerto Rican American Ornithologist & Artist)

Recipes Project: Picturing Seething Meat in the New World

Atlas Obscura: The Eccentric Father of Early American Taxidermy Practiced on Ben Franklins Cat

Science League of America: Even the Classics Can Surprise You

The Wire: A Brief History of the Earth: How it All Began

Yovisto: Barbara McClintock and Cytogenetics

Forbes: How Biology Pioneer Carl Linnaeus Once Tried to Classify Minerals

The Atlantic: RIP Bob Paine, A Keystone Among Ecologists

UW professor Robert T. Paine, 80, in his Kincaid Hall office, “has trained a thriving dynasty” of students.
ERIKA SCHULTZ / THE SEATTLE TIMES

History of Geology: Dante’s Inferno – The Geology of Hell

The Friends of Darwin: 18-Jun-1858: Wallace’s Bombshell

Scientific American: Laelaps: The Battle for the Bone War Beasts

Science: Rising temperatures and humans were a deadly combo for ancient South American megafauna

The Guardian: How Darwin’s view from his bedroom window ushered in a scientific revolution

Extinct Monsters: The Epistemological Challenge of Model Wales

Mimi Matthews: The Alligator in the Thames: Victorian Era Reports of Reptiles at Large

Chased by an Alligator, Reptiles and Birds, 1883.

Forbes: How Animal Freakshows Helped the Science of Biology to Develop

Strange Science: Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire

flickr: BHL: The naturalists’ miscellany v.1

CHEMISTRY:

C&EN: Groovy chemistry: The materials science behind records

A cylinder made from Edison’s brown wax, which is actually more of a metal soap.
Credit: Anna-Maria Manuel

CHF: Science, Protector of the Common Good

AHF: Jerome Karle

META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

The Royal Society: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Discussion meeting issue ‘Major transitions in human evolution’ Table of Contents

Science Museum: Frankenstein: From literature to myth to bogey-man of science

The Indian Express: ICHR approves first project to map ancient India’s scientific achievements

Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine: News of the Consortium June 2016

Oxford Brookes University: Student Profiles: Jane Freebody: MA History of Medicine

Now in the first year of her PhD specialising in the history of psychiatry, Jane reflects back on what made her first apply for an MA History of Medicine

University of Surrey: Media Centre: University of Surry Professor and BBC Presenter receives Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication

Society of Physics Students: Week 1: Hitch, Hack, Home –It’s Off to Work I Go!

Wired: The Pitfalls of Using Google Ngram to Study Language

BioLogos: God and Science in America after Darwin

Wire: New book surveys the early electronic music explorers of the UK

The Royal Society: Notes and Records: Fit for print: developing an institutional model of scientific periodical publishing in England, 1665–ca. 1714

The Guardian: ‘There’s no point being subtle about science. You have to bang them over the head with it’

ESOTERIC:

The Case Book Project: Releases 10 and 11: Simon Forman’s guide to astrological medicine, Richard Napier’s casebooks 1610–1620 and 21 volumes of colour images

Academia: Establishing the Canon: George Ripley and his Alchemical Sources

BOOK REVIEWS:

Brain Pickings: Einstein’s Brilliant and Unusual Life, in a Graphic Novel

Reviews in History: Witchcraft and Magic in Ireland

Popular Science: The Gene – Siddhartha Mukherjee

soundcloud: Guinevere Glasford – The Words in My Hand interview

Harpenden History: Cholera in Victorian England

Reviews in History: Rational Action: The Sciences of Policy in Britain and America, 1940–1960

The Guardian: Dry Store Room No 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum

NEW BOOKS:

The Orion Publishing Group: A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Story of Our Genes

Historiens de la santé: A Forgotten Freudian: The Passion of Karl Stern

Smithsonian Books: Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved

OUP: The Silk Road: A New History Valerie Hansen

Routledge: Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene

CUP: Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World: An Alternative History of the Reformation

Historiens de la santé: Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome: Giulio Mancini and the Efficacy of Art

ART & EXHIBITIONS

The Mary Rose: Mary Rose Museum re-opening on 20^th July 2016

Marc Garrett: Curating Monsters of the Machine: Frankenstein in the 21^st Century

The Guardian: Engineering the World review – Ove Arup, the man who built modernity

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15^th and 16^th Centuries

Smithsonian.com: See Over 2,000 Wax Models of Skin Diseases at This Swiss Medical Moulage Museum

A skin affliction on display at the Moulage Museum. (Moulagenmuseum University and University Hospital of Zurich)

St. Louis Central Library: Fantasy Maps Exhibit 11 June–15 October 2016

Oxford Thinking: Cook-Voyage collection goes on display at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Uzeeum: House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, and Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum, Berlin, 1869–1922

The Guardian: Totally cosmic science festival for blue-sky thinkers

Amritt Museum: Beatrix Potter – Image & Reality

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph

Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library

Historiens de la santé: Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England: Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts

History Today: Maria Merian’s Butterflies

Science Museum: Robots

The Royal Society of Medicine: Exhibition: Charcot, Hysteria & La Salpetiere 3 May–23 July 2016

Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May30–October 2016

Harvard Magazine: Before Social Media: Radio was the medium that broke the silence

Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus

The Houston Museum of Natural Science: Cabinet of Curiosities Opens 6 May 2016

Reviews in History: Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee (Royal College of Physicians, 18 January – 29 July 2016)

Broadway World.com: Met Museum Exhibition to Celebrate Artistic, Technological, Cultural Legacy of the Seljuqs

Grup d’estudis d’història de la cartografia: Exhibition about Renacentrist cartography in Bergamo 16 April–10 July 2016

Bonner Sterne: “Argelanders Erben” im Universitätsmuseum Bonn bis 31 Juli 2016

Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:

Fine Books & Collections: The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at BPL to Host Exhibit, “From the Sea to the Mountains” 2 April–28 August 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Scholar courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee 18 January 29–31 July 2016

The National Air and Space Museum: A New Moon Rises: An Exhibition Where Science and Art Meet

Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017

AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016

Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017

Science Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius 10 February 2016–4 September 2016

Wellcome Collections: States of Mind 4 February–16 October 2016

Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm

Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game

The John Rylands Library: Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World 21 January–21 August 2016

Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility

Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday

Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017

Science Museum: Information Age

Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: YOUTOPIA: VISIONS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016

Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph 14 April–11 September 2016

Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy

COMING SOON: Bethel Museum of the Mind: The Weight of History 27 July – 18 November 2016

THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:

New Line Theatre: Atomic 2-25 June 2016

Discover Medical London: Medicine at the Movies: 16 June 2016

Detroit Free Press: ‘Atomic’ produces lots of noise, little heat

ashpags on tumblr: Great Lady Astronomers of History …Come to Life!

The Rose Theatre: The Alchemist by Ben Jonson 7–30 June 2016

Royal Shakespeare Company: Doctor Faustus Swan Theatre Stratford-Upon-Avon 8 February–4 August 2016

Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 18 June 2016

The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017

EVENTS:

NYAM: Lecture: Up!: Manhood, Democratic Medicine, and Walt Whitman’s Secret Health Writings 18 July 2016

Morbid Anatomy Museum: JSTOR presents: First Blood Transfusions: An Illustrated History 29 June

LSE: Lecture: Why Physics Needs Philosophy 17 July 2016

Nature: Medical research: Citizen medicine: Vaccination: Medicine and the Masses Hunterian Museum till 17 September 2016

The Guardian: Mothers of Invention: the women who pioneered electronic music London Southbank Centre 24–26 June

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Talk: Bad Medicine and Quackery in Edinburgh 9–13 August 2016

Center for the History of Medicine Harvard: Phineas Gage Event 23 June 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: One for the Road

Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events

Royal College of Physicians: John Dee: art, science, magic 11 July 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “London’s Plagues”

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding

University of Utrecht: Descartes-Huygens Lecture by J.B. Shank on ‘Newtonian’ Mechanics in France around 1700

University College Cork: Walking Tours: A second chance to solve the mystery of ‘Being Boole’!

The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours

Gresham College: Lecture: The Expanding Universe 26 October 2016

Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)

Open Culture: Soviet Inventor Léon Theremin Shows Off the Theremin, the Early Electronic Instrument That Could Be Played Without Being Touched (1954)

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

The Royal College of Physicians: Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “Sex and The City”

Norcroft Auditorium, Norcroft Centre, University of Bradford: The secret chemistry of art: unravelling an age-old textile mystery / September 2016

Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tours

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: IMPERFECT KNOWLEDGE: MEDICAL STUDENTS AND MENTAL HEALTHCARE IN THE 1840S 25 June 2016

Museum of the History of Science: Observing the Observers 28 June 2016

Wellcome Collection: BSL Discussion: Ancient ills, ancient cures 23 June 2016

Coming soon: Wellcome Collection: Friday Late Spectacular: In Pursuit of Pain 1 July 2016

PAINTING OF THE WEEK:

Domenico Fetti: Archimedes

TELEVISION:

SLIDE SHOW:

VIDEOS:

WLRN: Miami – South Florida: The History of Science & Future of Technology

Youtube: Mechanical Computing: How the Pascaline Works

RADIO & PODCASTS:

soundcloud: The Royal Irish Academy: Science: The Scientific Collections of the Edward Worth Library – Elizabethanne Boran

Here & Now: Chad Orzel: Do Americans Know Enough About Science?

BBC Radio 4: The Unseen – A History of the Invisible

Ben Franklin’s World: Episode 086: George Goodwin, Benjamin Franklin in London

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

HSTM Network Ireland: International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Young Scholar Prize

ENVA, Amphithéâtre Blin: Appel à communications: Animalhumanité. Expérimentation et fiction : l’animalité au cœur du vivant 1er et 2 décembre 2016

New Bern NC: CfP: North Carolina Maritime History Council Conference 4–5 November 2016

Logis du Roy – Square Jules Bocquet – Amiens: Colloque: L’anatomie sans les arts ? Le corps en images à l’époque moderne 23 et 24 juin 2016

Christ’s College Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World (1400-1750) 3–4 April 2017

Irish Philosophy: Robert Boyle Summer School, Lismore Co. Waterford 23–26 June 2016

Villa Mirafiori, Rome: Conference: Building Theories, Hypothesis & Heuristics in Science

UCL: CfP. Second London Philosophy of Science Graduate Conference 1–2 September 2016 Deadline 4 July 2016

University of Durham: Conference: Evidence and Representation – Keeping Watch in Babylon: the astronomical diaries between science and history 24 June 2016

Society for U.S: Intellectual History: Conference: From the Mayflower to Silicon Valley: Tools and Traditions in American Intellectual History October 13-15, 2016

University of Lisbon: CfP: Third Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Issues 14–16 December 2016

Eä: CfP: for upcoming issues of Eä – Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology is currently open Deadline 30 June Manuscripts accepted in Spanish, English and Portuguese

San Sebastian: Physics in the XII International Ontology Congress 3-7 October 2016

Westminster Quaker Meeting House: ‘A MANY-SIDED CRYSTAL’: THE QUAKER PHYSICIST & ELECTRICAL ENGINEER, SILVANUS PHILLIPS THOMPSON (1851–1916) A Workshop to Mark the Centenary of his Death 16 September 2016

Notches: CfP: Histories of Disability and Sexuality

Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science: CfP: Special Issue: Knowledge Transfer and Its Context

University of Chester: Symposium: Pilgrimage, Shrines and Healing in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe 24 June 2016

University of Freiburg: Accidents and the State in the 20^th Century

The Victorianist: CfP Reminder: The “Heart” and “science” of Wilkie Collins and His Contemporaries 24 September 2016 London

ICOHTEC Conference Porto: CfP: Early Career Scholars Workshop: Tension of Europe 1 August 2016

Society for Renaissance Studies: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Texts and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s

University of Bergamo: Workshop: Early Modern Galenism and Botany 24 June 2016

BSHS: The British Society for the History of Science Prize for Exhibits on the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 2016

Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Paris: Colloque: Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique 20–21 Octobre 2016

St Anne’s College; University of Oxford: Scientiae: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World 5–7 July 2016

King’s College London: From Microbes to Matrons: The Past, Present and Future of Hospital Infection Control and Prevention 1-2 September 2016

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: CFP: Conference: HIV/AIDS Research: Its History and Future 13–16 October 2016

Australian Academy of Science: The Moran Award for History of Science Research

Florida Atlantic University: International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry Summer Symposium 1–4 August 2016

University Of Belgrade: CfP: Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation-5 22–23 September 2016

Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta, and the University of Warwick: CfP: Beauty and the Hospital in History 6–8 April 2017

Institution of Engineering and Technology, London: Conference: Telecommunications in the Aftermath of World War 1: Civilian and Military Perspectives 10 August 2016

University of Oxford: Summer School and Conference: Mind Value and Mental Health: Philosophy and Psychiatry 13–15 July 2017

MedHum Fiction – Daily Dose: CfP: Medical Humanities

University of Leeds: Round Table Discussion: “Victorians and History Writing Practices” Seminar: “Victorian Jesus: Imagining the Anonymous Author of Ecce Homo (1865)” 4 July 2016

University of Birmingham: Social Studies in the History of Medicine – ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’

University of Oxford: Draft Oxford Scientiae Conference Programme 5–7 July 2016

Radboud University Nijmegen: Conference Program: Space, Imagination, and the Cosmos, from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period 9–10 July 2016

The Nobel Museum Stockholm: Prizes and Awards in Science before Nobel. 5th Watson Seminar in the Material and Visual History of Science 5 September 2016

Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Partington Prize

Commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing: Third Symposium for the History and Philosophy of Programming 25 June 2016

University of Glasgow: CfP: Discourse of Care: Care in Media, Medicine and Society 5-7 September 2016

Western Michigan University: CfP: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference

University of Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Envirment, and Health In the Easterm Mediterranean World, 1400–1750 3–4 April 2017

Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science: Upcoming Events

Fórum Lisboa (Antigo Cinema Roma): CFP: Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science 14–16 December 2016

Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)

Calenda: Le Calendrier des Lettres et Sciences Humains et Sociales: Appel à contribution « Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique »

Western Michigan University: Call for Abstracts: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference 15–16 September 2016

Society for the Social History of Medicine: Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October 2016

Kunsthistorisches Institut In Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut: CfP: Photo-Objects. On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo-Archives in the Humanities and Sciences 15–17 February 2017

University of Leuven: CfA: The science of evolution and the evolution of the sciences 12–13 October 2016

Science Museum: Artefacts Meeting 2–4 October 2016: CfP: Understanding Use: Science and Technology Objects and Users

Cambridge: CfP extended: Science and Islands in the Indo-Pacific World 15–16 September 2016

Singapore: Society for the History of Technology: Annual Meeting 22–26 June 2016

University of Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events

Society for the Social History of Medicine: 2016 Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October

St Michaels College, Cardiff University: Conference: Bodily Fluids/Fluid Bodies in Greek and Roman Antiquity 11–13 July 2016 Programme

H-Pennsylvania: Philip J. Pauly Book Prise Nominations Sought for Histories of Science in the Americas

British and European History of Medicine Conference: Registration: Medicine in Place: Situating Medicine in Historical Contexts University of Kent 7-10 July 2016

BSHS: Prizes

Three Societies Meeting: University of Alberta, Edmonton 22–25 June 2016 Only two weeks left for hotel conference rates!

Trinity College Cambridge: The Venues of Scholarly Output: Collections, Treatises, Textbooks, Archives 25 June 2016

Let’s Talk About Sex: CfP: History of Sexuality PGR/ECR Workshop University of Exeter 26–27 June 2016

Queen Mary University of London:Upcoming History of Emotions Work in Progress Seminars

University of Reading: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016

Barts Pathology Museum: CfP: The “Heart” and “Science” of Wilkie Collins and his Contemporaries 24 September 2016

University of Leicester: Centre for Medical Humanities: Seminars:

Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware: CfP: Making Modern Disability: Histories of Disability, Design, and Technology 28 October 2016

New York City: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 30 September–1 October 2016

IHPST, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris: CfP: International Doctoral Conference in Philosophy of Science 29-30 September 2016

Ian Ramsey Centre Conference, University of Oxford: Workshop “Early Modern Laws of Nature: Secular and Divine” 7 July 2016

Annals of Science: Annals of Science Essay Prize for Young Scholars

H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology

2nd International Conference on the History of Physics: Invention, application and exploitation in the history of physics Pöllau, Austria 5–7 September 2016

University of Cambridge: Cabinet of Natural History: Seminars Easter Term 2016

Warburg Institute: ESSWE Thesis Workshop 7 July 2016

Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST: CfP: 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature

University of Greenwich: Society and the Sea Conference: 15–16 September 2016

University of Illinois, Chicago: CfP: STS Graduate Student Workshop: 16-17 September

University of London: Birkbeck: Thomas Harriot Seminar 2016: 11 July 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century 10–11 September 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016

irkbeck, University of London: CfP: Embarrassing Bodies: Feeling Self-Conscious in the Nineteenth Century 17 June 2016

LOOKING FOR WORK:

Queen Mary University of London: Applications Invited for AHRC CDP with British Library: Hans Sloane’s Books Deadline 6 July 2016

University of Liverpool: Three postdoctoral job opportunities on ERC-funded project “Travel, Transculturality and Identity in England, c. 1550-1700”

The Royal Institution: Freelance Science Presenter

British Library: Medieval manuscripts blog: Internship in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts

Lausanne: Appel à candidatures: Poste 50% histoire de la médecine à Lausanne

Queen Mary University of London: Lisa Jardine Doctoral Studentship

National Media Museum Bradford: Curator of Photography and Photographic Technology

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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 #46

Monday 27 June 2016

EDITORIAL:

Somewhat late this week but we have finally overcome our Brexit lethargy to bring you Whewell’s Gazette the #histSTM links list without borders. The whole unlimited depths of cyberspace are where we search together all the histories of science, technology and medicine from the last seven days.

I’m not usually a fan of headlines that talk of scientists you’re never heard of, great or otherwise, but the article on the Forbes website by Whewell’ gazette friend science writer John Farrell with the title, The Greatest Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of, does contain a certain justification for its provocative claim.

Amongst fans of modern physics, astrophysics, astronomy and cosmology the concept expanding universe is a universally known, every day phrase. One of those things that one can, somewhat hyperbolically, say everybody has heard of. Even its supposed discoverer Edwin Hubble is one of the few scientists who can be considered a household name. The law governing the general relation between the distance of cosmic objects and the rate of recession from the earth is named after him, Hubble’s Law. However both attributions are actually examples of Stigler’s law of eponymy, which states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer; a law, which Stigler attributed to Robert K Merton thus fulfilling its own definition.

The concept of the expanding universe and the law defining it are both more correctly attributed the Belgian priest, physicist and astronomer, Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, who died fifty years ago on 20 June 1966 and who is the subject of John Farrell’s article. Whereas Hubble is a household name Lemaître remains largely unknown to the general public although he is the creator of the cosmological concept the Big Bang, a name that was however not coined by him but in a derogatory sense by cosmologist, astronomer Fred Hoyle.

Georges Lemaître c. 1933
Source: Wikimedia Commons

In fact an irony of the history of astronomy is that although Hubble produced the accurate measurements of the expansion that confirmed Lemaître’s theory he himself rejected the expansion concept believing there must some other explanation of the observed phenomenon that he had measured.

If after having read John’s article you want to know more about Lemaître I can warmly recommend John’s biography of Lamaître, The Day Without Yesterday: Lemaitre, Einstein, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology, Thunder’s Mouth Press, New York, 2005.

Yovisto: Georges Lemaître and the Big Bang Theory

Quotes of the week:

“Remember the good old days of 2016 when all we had to worry about was which celebrity had just died?” – Peter Broks (@peterbroks)

‘Daddy, what was 2016 like?’

‘All the cool people died. Everyone fell in behind assholes with bad hair and worse ideas. It rained a lot.’ – Damien Owens (@OwensDemien)

“Do you think Farage read Animal Farm at school and thought ‘Yes! Squealer – that’s who I want to be when I grow up!’” – Hannah Priest (@shewolfmanc)

“Country that thinks it can go it alone in Europe achieves magnificent 0–0 draw against Slovakia” – Friends of Darwin (@friendsofdarwin)

“England v. Iceland is on Monday. They’re a small country with shit weather & a self-inflicted financial crisis, but they should beat Iceland” – Chris Applegate (@chrisapplegate)

“Opportunity (n) – modern usage: management-speak for crisis or failure such as redundancy. eg.”Brexit is a great opportunity for UK”” – Peter Broks (@peterbroks)

“The good news is you’re pregnant. The bad news is, it’s going to be Nigel Farage”– A doctor, 1963 – Moose Allain (@MooseAllain)

“Aren’t bookshops strange, sitting there with quiet menace, as if they were just a shop and not an entry point to 30,000 different universes?” – Matt Haig (@matthaig1)

“If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company” – Jean-Paul Sartre h/t @wordnik

“Take me down to the Parallax City where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly” – Mark Brown (@britishgaming)

“Life is nothing but an electron looking for a place to rest.” – Albert Szent-Györgyi h/t @fadesingh

“A gender-neutral pronoun, the passive voice, and the Oxford comma walked into a non-academic bar and absolutely no one cared” – Shit Academics Say (@AcademicsSay)

“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.” – Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Birthday of the Week:

This week we are celebrating only one birthday of the week, our own.

Whewell’s Gazette was born 23 June 2014

PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:

Vassar College astronomy class with five students, instruments, and books, 1878

Yovisto: Alan Sandage and Quasars

AAS Committee on the Status of Women: Nobel Prize for a “Computer” named Henrietta Leavitt (1868–1921)

Astrolabes and Stuff: The start of summer?

Social History of Medicine: Volume 29 Issue 2 May 2016: Table of Contents

Now Appearing: The birth of Goldilocks

AHF: Lise Meitner

Lise Meitner 1946
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Corning Museum of Glass: Marvin Bolt’s Telescope Quest

Dioptrice: Historical telescope data base

Yovisto: Siméon Denis Poisson’s Contributions to Mathematics

Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall: Spaceship One

Yovisto: Hermann Minkowski and the four-dimensional Space-Time

Yovisto: Anders Ångström and the Science of Spectroscopy

AHF: Japanese Atomic Bomb Project

Life Beyond Our Planet?: Online Bibliography Extraterrestrial Life Debate

AHF: Klaus Fuchs

Astronomy Magazine: This Was How NASA Envisioned a Mars Trip in the 1950s

Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Charles Messier

Yovisto: Martin Perl and the Tau

Yovisto: William Penny and the British Atomic Bomb

AHF: Otto Frisch

Fine Books & Collections: The Morgan Celebrates the 100^th Anniversary of Einstein’s Publication of the General Theory of Relativity

The Physics of the Universe: Important Scientists: Fred Hoyle (1915–2001)

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

British Library: Collection guides: War Office Archive

British Library: Maps and views blog: War Office Archive goes live in Nairobi

British Art Studies: Looking for Longitude

Upworthy: These 5 bafflingly weird old maps of the Artic show why it’s worth preserving

Kent Online: As Ordnance Survey celebrates 225 years, we look at why Kent was the subject of the company’s first map

British Library: Medieval manuscripts blog: Maps, Monsters and Marvels

Library of Congress: Accurater Prospect und Grundris der Königl. Gros-Britan̄isch. Haupt- und Residentz-Stadt London

Humanities: Global Impact: The Osher Map Library invites the whole world in

Palestine, 1475 / courtesy Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education

Academia: Shipwreck, Maroons and Monsters: The Hazards of Ancient Red Sea Navigation

Conciatore: Old Post Road

Royal Museums Greenwich: An object lesson for Refugee Week

Dr Caitlin R. Green: Al-Idrisi’s twelfth-century map and description of eastern England

MEDICINE & HEALTH:

Yovisto: James Braid – Gentleman Scientist

Curare: 39 (2016) 1: The Human Body in Asian Texts and Images Table of Contents

STAT: Questionable LSD experiments lurk in bioethics icon’s background

Social History of Medicine: ‘they are called Imperfect Men’: Male Infertility and Sexual Health in Early Modern England

The National Museum of American History: Insulin and Diabetes Management

Yovisto: Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins and the Discovery of Vitamins

CHF: Early Solutions

tandonline: ‘The Stupidest Tea-Party in All My Life’: Lewis Carroll and Victorian Psychiatric Praxis

John Tenniel, ‘A Mad Tea-Party’, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, p. 70.

Yovisto: Josef Breuer and the Cathartic Method

Atlas Obscura: I Tried a Medieval Diet, and I Didn’t Even Get That Drunk

AEON: A handy history

Thomas Morris: Amputating the bowels

Yale News: Medical library marks 75 years of supporting research and patient care

Early Modern Medicine: Surgical Spectators

The Guardian: Rubbishing Mary Seacole is another move to hide contributions of black people

Wellcome Library: Bawling babies and their baths in early modern England

Atlas Obscua: Some of History’s Most Beautiful Combs Were Made for Lice Removal

A French wooden comb from the 16th century. (Photo: Public Domain)

Atlas Obscura: I Found a Female Serial Killer in My Family Tree

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Macewen’s War Work

Embryo Project: Estrogen and the Menstrual Cycle in Humans

Medical History: Volume 60 Issue 03 July 2016: Table of Contents

Science Museum: Exposing the face of war

The Recipes Project: Dr. Sloane’s Advice in the Recipe Manuscripts of Henrietta Harley

Pacific Standard: Zika and the Bubonic Plague: A Lesson from the Middle Ages

Harvard Medical School: A New View of Phineas Gage

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:

The intro to Gordon Moore’s famous 1965 paper: Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits

Yovisto: Jack Kilby – Inventor of the Integrated Circuit

Yovisto: Black Vinyl at 33⅓ RPM

Yovisto: Franz Kruckenberg’s Schienenzeppelin

The Guardian: 17^th-century fire engine restored for Great Fire of London exhibition

The restoration was possible because a vintage photograph survived of the engine in the 19th century. Photograph: Museum of London

Ian Visits: Museum of London restores 17^th-century fire engine for exhibition

Upworthy: The weird, secret history of the electric car and why it disappeared

The Guardian: Texas restores 333-year-old French ship that brought settlers to doomed colony

Gizmodo: The Life and Explosive Death of the World’s First Ferris Wheel

The Conversation: The Victorians had the same concerns about technology as we do

David Rumsey Map Collection: Post Office Wireless Stations

Academia: The Mästermyr Find: A Viking Tool Chest from Gotland

Writers vs the World: Exploring the History of Electricity: Galvani and Mary Shelley

Live Journal: Retro-Futurism: Harry Grant Dart (1869–1938)

UofT News: Celebrating Ursula Franklin: pioneer in material science and trailblazing feminist

Ptak Science Books: Tremendous Montage of Early Airships

History Computer: Article: The Integrated Circuit of Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce

Hackaday: J.C. Bose and the Invention of Radio

Smithsonian.com: Commemorate the Panama Canal’s Expansion With These Photos From Its Construction

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Forbes: How Charles Darwin Classified his Mineral Collection

BHL: The Beautiful Monster: Mermaids

Tritons, or Nereids, the merpeople of the Greeks and Romans. Ashton, John. Curious Creatures in Zoology. 1890.

Notches: More Than Loving: Race, Sexuality and Public Memory in the Movement for Marriage Equality

Notches: J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the “Sex Deviates” Program

flickr: BHL: Icones Farlowianae: Illustrations…

Medium: Passenger pigeon extinction: it’s complicated – @GrrlScientist

TrowelBlazers: Dianne Edwards

Yovisto: Deodat de Dolomieu and the Love for Rocks

Wellcome Library: Insects under the microscope

Amgueddfa Blog: Celebrating the tercentenary of John Stuart, 3^rd Earl of Bute (1713–1792)

History Extra: Beasts of wonder: reading animals in the Middle Ages

The Conversation: Why so many Australian species are yet to be named

Letters from Gondwana: Once Upon a Time, There Was a Dodo

Painting of the Dodo by Roelandt Savery executed in ca. 1626 and held at the NHMUK, London.

American Museum of Natural History: Dragons – Creatures of Power

Yovisto: Nicholas Shackleton and Paleoclimatology

The New York Public Library: Digital Collections: Birds of America

CHEMISTRY:

EngineerGuy:Michael Faraday’s The Chemical History of a Candle

META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

Skulls in the Stars: Twitter Weird Science Facts, Volume 9

Academia: The Temporality of the Landscape Revisited (with replies by Ingold, Olivier and Edgeworth) by Dan Hicks

PLOS ECR Community: Politics in academic publishing: past to present

Society Of Physics Students: Week 2: Meetings and Birthday Greetings

History of Anthropology Newsletter: Renewing the History of Anthropology Newsletter

Lady Science: No. 21: Women at the Intersection of Art and Science

Illustration of Paspalum scabriusculum, by Agnes Chase (1902). Image courtesy of Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation

Huffpost Tech. A Wondrous New Gallery for the Next Generation of Great Science Minds

Marine Lives digital pop up lab: Collaborative experience for historians, coders and computer scientists

Spontaneous Generation: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science: Volume 8 No 1 (2016) Table of Contents

MedHumLab: Five Questions for…Cordelia Warr

CHF: Distillations Blog: Through the Lens: Interview with Andrea Tomlinson

University of California Press: Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences: Vol. 46 No. 3 June 2016: Table of Contents

The Royal Institution: Faraday’s notebooks inscribed on the UNESCO UK Memory of the World Register

E&T: Landmark Faraday notes win UNESCO heritage status

Academia: Edward Tyson’s Phocaena: a case study in the institutional context of scientific publishing

Futurism: A Brief History of Carl Sagan

The Public Domain Review: Max Brückner’s Collection of Polyhedral Models (1900)

Inside Higher Ed: Notable History

The Bigger Picture: Science Service, Up Close: George Sarton, Watson Davis, and “Panache”

Sunday Business Post: Fifth Robert Boyle Summer School teases out science and Irish Identity

CHF: Rebel without a chemistry set: Saving America’s youth with science clubs

U Chicago News: Alison Winter, historian of science, 1965–2016

Prof. Alison Winter at the award ceremony for the 2014 Gordon J. Laing Prize.
Photo byRobert Kozloff

History and Philosophy of Science Notes: The June HPS&ST Note is on the web

http://www.idtc-iuhps.com

Herald Scotland: Uncovered: the ‘forgotten’ stories of Scotland’s trailblazing women scientists

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14580545.Uncovered__the___39_forgotten__39__stories_of_Scotland__39_s_trailblazing_women_scientists/?ref=twtrec

Pinterest: Women using scientific instruments (updated)

A woman generates electricity with a friction machine, as Nollet charges a Leyden jar. From Jean Antoine Nollet’s Essai sur l’électricité des corps (1750)

ESOTERIC:

Yovisto: Gerald Hawkins and the Secret of Stonehenge

Conciatore: Galleria dei Lavori

Giovanni Stradano (Jan van der Straet)
Alchemy Studio, 1571
(Inside the Uffizi Galleria dei Lavori)

Manchester University Press: Summer Sale 50% off all books e.g.

Katherine Foxhall: Health, medicine, and the sea: Australian Voyages c.1815–60

BOOK REVIEWS:

The Guardian: The 100 best nonfiction books: No 21 – The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn (1962)

The Irish Times: The Irish Enlightenment by Michael Brown review: a controversial study

Deviant Maternity: Infanticide and Abortion in Early Modern Germany

H-Net Reviews: Valerie Rohy Lost Causes: Narrative, Etiology, and Queer Theory

British Journal for the History of Science: Book Reviews:

Brain Pickings: Alan Turing: Church, State, and the Tragedy of Gender-Defiant Genius

LA Review of Books: Life as a Verb: Applying Buckminster Fuller to the 21^st Century

Linn’s Stamp News: New book chronicles ‘How The Post Office Created America’

NEW BOOKS:

OUP: Archaeologists and the Dead: Mortuary Archaeology in Contemporary Society

OUP: A Tale of Seven Scientists and a New Philosophy of Science

OUP: Prudentius and the Landscapes of Late Antiquity

University of Chicago Press: The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument Over What Makes Living Things Tick

University of Chicago Press: Localization and Its Discontents: A genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines

University of Chicago Press: Cartophilia: Maps and the Search for Identity in the French-German Borderlands

OUP: The Antiquary: John Aubrey’s Historical Scholarship

Columbia University Press: Exhaustion: A History

CUP: Death in Beijing: Murder and Forensic Science in Republican China

CUP: Toxic Histories: Poison and Pollution in Modern India

ART & EXHIBITIONS

Art Institute Chicago: The Shogun’s World: Japanese Maps from the 18^th and 19^th Centuries 25 June–6 November 2016

Museum of London: Fire! Fire! 23July 2016–17 April 2017

Royal Museums Greenwich: Above and Beyond: The ultimate interactive flight exhibition 27 May–29 August 2016

Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Brooklyn Historical Society to exhibit two rare Revolutionary War-era maps in honour of upcoming 240^th anniversary of Battle of Brooklyn 29 June–28 August 2016

The Mary Rose: Mary Rose Museum re-opening on 20^th July 2016

Marc Garrett: Curating Monsters of the Machine: Frankenstein in the 21^st Century

The Guardian: Engineering the World review – Ove Arup, the man who built modernity

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15^th and 16^th Centuries

Smithsonian.com: See Over 2,000 Wax Models of Skin Diseases at This Swiss Medical Moulage Museum

A skin affliction on display at the Moulage Museum. (Moulagenmuseum University and University Hospital of Zurich)

St. Louis Central Library: Fantasy Maps Exhibit 11 June–15 October 2016

Oxford Thinking: Cook-Voyage collection goes on display at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Uzeeum: House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, and Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum, Berlin, 1869–1922

The Guardian: Totally cosmic science festival for blue-sky thinkers

Amritt Museum: Beatrix Potter – Image & Reality

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph

Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library

Historiens de la santé: Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England: Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts

History Today: Maria Merian’s Butterflies

Science Museum: Robots

The Royal Society of Medicine: Exhibition: Charcot, Hysteria & La Salpetiere 3 May–23 July 2016

Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May30–October 2016

Harvard Magazine: Before Social Media: Radio was the medium that broke the silence

Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus

The Houston Museum of Natural Science: Cabinet of Curiosities Opens 6 May 2016

Reviews in History: Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee (Royal College of Physicians, 18 January – 29 July 2016)

Broadway World.com: Met Museum Exhibition to Celebrate Artistic, Technological, Cultural Legacy of the Seljuqs

Grup d’estudis d’història de la cartografia: Exhibition about Renacentrist cartography in Bergamo 16 April–10 July 2016

Bonner Sterne: “Argelanders Erben” im Universitätsmuseum Bonn bis 31 Juli 2016

Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:

Fine Books & Collections: The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at BPL to Host Exhibit, “From the Sea to the Mountains” 2 April–28 August 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Scholar courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee 18 January 29–31 July 2016

The National Air and Space Museum: A New Moon Rises: An Exhibition Where Science and Art Meet

Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017

AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016

Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017

Science Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius 10 February 2016–4 September 2016

Wellcome Collections: States of Mind 4 February–16 October 2016

Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm

Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game

The John Rylands Library: Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World 21 January–21 August 2016

Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility

Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday

Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017

Science Museum: Information Age

Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: YOUTOPIA: VISIONS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016

Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph 14 April–11 September 2016

Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy

COMING SOON: Bethel Museum of the Mind: The Weight of History 27 July – 18 November 2016

Royal Collection: Maria Merian’s Butterflies

https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/exhibitions/qgbp/maria-merians-butterflies

Royal Society of Medicine: charcot, hysteria, & la salpetriere 3 May 2016–23 July 2016

THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:

The Mary Sue: Nicole Kidman to Play Rosalind Franklin in Film Adaption, Gives Franklin Mainstream Attention She Deserves

BND: Belleville News–Democrat: How “Atomic” creators built a musical about nuclear physics

New Line Theatre: Atomic 2-25 June 2016

Detroit Free Press: ‘Atomic’ produces lots of noise, little heat

ashpags on tumblr: Great Lady Astronomers of History …Come to Life!

Royal Shakespeare Company: Doctor Faustus Swan Theatre Stratford-Upon-Avon 8 February–4 August 2016

Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 18 June 2016

The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017

EVENTS:

Morbid Anatomy: Upcoming Morbid Anatomy Events

Victoria Baths – Hathersage Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock: Talk: “The Evils of Dirt and the Value of Cleanliness:” a history of Manchester’s early baths and wash-houses, 1840-1876 10 September 2016

NYAM: Lecture: Up!: Manhood, Democratic Medicine, and Walt Whitman’s Secret Health Writings 18 July 2016

LSE: Lecture: Why Physics Needs Philosophy 17 July 2016

Nature: Medical research: Citizen medicine: Vaccination: Medicine and the Masses Hunterian Museum till 17 September 2016

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Talk: Bad Medicine and Quackery in Edinburgh 9–13 August 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: One for the Road

Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events

Royal College of Physicians: John Dee: art, science, magic 11 July 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “London’s Plagues”

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding

University of Utrecht: Descartes-Huygens Lecture by J.B. Shank on ‘Newtonian’ Mechanics in France around 1700

University College Cork: Walking Tours: A second chance to solve the mystery of ‘Being Boole’!

The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours

Gresham College: Lecture: The Expanding Universe 26 October 2016

Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)

UCL: CfP. Second London Philosophy of Science Graduate Conference 1–2 September 2016 Deadline 4 July 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

The Royal College of Physicians: Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “Sex and The City”

Norcroft Auditorium, Norcroft Centre, University of Bradford: The secret chemistry of art: unravelling an age-old textile mystery / September 2016

Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tours

Wellcome Collection: Friday Late Spectacular: In Pursuit of Pain 1 July 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Medicine at War

London Fortean Society: A History of Life after Death 26 July 2016

PAINTING OF THE WEEK:

Hokusai: observatory of the Calendar Bureau during the Edo period,
astronomers working on the roof, Mt. Fuji in the background

TELEVISION:

BBC Four: Inside Porton Down: Britain’s Secret Weapons Research FacilityBBC Four: Genius of the Modern World: Freud

SLIDE SHOW:

VIDEOS:

Youtube: Research Channel: Overlooked Achievement: The Life of Lise Meitner

BBC Radio 3: Free Thinking: Back to the Future? How to count to 9,999 early medieval-style

RADIO & PODCASTS:

VPR: Our National Parks: Indigenous Voices

iTunes: Things Seminar – Cambridge University

BBC Radio 3: Free Thinkers: Hands, Physiology and Art, the History of Science

BBC Radio 4: Shakespeare’s Restless World: New Science, Old Magic

Newsworks: How a moat shaped mental health care in the United States

KUMN: Telling the Story of the Manhattan Project

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Lexicon Philosophicum: CfP: Issue 5 (2017) Histories of Philosophy, Science and Ideas

Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds: CfP: Workshop: Exploring Histories and Futures of Innovation in Advanced Wound Care 20 September 2016

Leeds Trinity University: Victorian History Workshop 4 July 2016

University of Oxford: Workshop: Alchemy, Universal Medicine, and Prolongation of Life 4 July 2016

University of Cardiff: Programme: Bodily Fluids/Fluid Bodies in Greek and Roman Antiquity 11-13 July 2016

Université de Caen: Colloque: Le corps humain saisi par le droit : entre liberté et propriété 14 Octobre 2016

Augustinerkloster Erfurt: Conference: Towards a Global History of Ideas 7–9 July 2016

HSTM Network Ireland: International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Young Scholar Prize

ENVA, Amphithéâtre Blin: Appel à communications: Animalhumanité. Expérimentation et fiction : l’animalité au cœur du vivant 1er et 2 décembre 2016

New Bern NC: CfP: North Carolina Maritime History Council Conference 4–5 November 2016

Logis du Roy – Square Jules Bocquet – Amiens: Colloque: L’anatomie sans les arts ? Le corps en images à l’époque moderne 23 et 24 juin 2016

Christ’s College Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World (1400-1750) 3–4 April 2017

Villa Mirafiori, Rome: Conference: Building Theories, Hypothesis & Heuristics in Science

Society for U.S: Intellectual History: Conference: From the Mayflower to Silicon Valley: Tools and Traditions in American Intellectual History October 13-15, 2016

University of Lisbon: CfP: Third Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Issues 14–16 December 2016

San Sebastian: Physics in the XII International Ontology Congress 3-7 October 2016

Notches: CfP: Histories of Disability and Sexuality

Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science: CfP: Special Issue: Knowledge Transfer and Its Context

University of Freiburg: Accidents and the State in the 20^th Century

The Victorianist: CfP Reminder: The “Heart” and “science” of Wilkie Collins and His Contemporaries 24 September 2016 London

ICOHTEC Conference Porto: CfP: Early Career Scholars Workshop: Tension of Europe 1 August 2016

Society for Renaissance Studies: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Texts and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s

BSHS: The British Society for the History of Science Prize for Exhibits on the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 2016

Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Paris: Colloque: Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique 20–21 Octobre 2016

St Anne’s College; University of Oxford: Scientiae: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World 5–7 July 2016

King’s College London: From Microbes to Matrons: The Past, Present and Future of Hospital Infection Control and Prevention 1-2 September 2016

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: CFP: Conference: HIV/AIDS Research: Its History and Future 13–16 October 2016

Australian Academy of Science: The Moran Award for History of Science Research

Florida Atlantic University: International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry Summer Symposium 1–4 August 2016

University Of Belgrade: CfP: Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation-5 22–23 September 2016

Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta, and the University of Warwick: CfP: Beauty and the Hospital in History 6–8 April 2017

Institution of Engineering and Technology, London: Conference: Telecommunications in the Aftermath of World War 1: Civilian and Military Perspectives 10 August 2016

University of Oxford: Summer School and Conference: Mind Value and Mental Health: Philosophy and Psychiatry 13–15 July 2017

MedHum Fiction – Daily Dose: CfP: Medical Humanities

University of Leeds: Round Table Discussion: “Victorians and History Writing Practices” Seminar: “Victorian Jesus: Imagining the Anonymous Author of Ecce Homo (1865)” 4 July 2016

University of Birmingham: Social Studies in the History of Medicine – ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’

University of Oxford: Draft Oxford Scientiae Conference Programme 5–7 July 2016

Radboud University Nijmegen: Conference Program: Space, Imagination, and the Cosmos, from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period 9–10 July 2016

The Nobel Museum Stockholm: Prizes and Awards in Science before Nobel. 5th Watson Seminar in the Material and Visual History of Science 5 September 2016

Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Partington Prize

University of Glasgow: CfP: Discourse of Care: Care in Media, Medicine and Society 5-7 September 2016

Western Michigan University: CfP: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference

University of Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Envirment, and Health In the Easterm Mediterranean World, 1400–1750 3–4 April 2017

Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science: Upcoming Events

Fórum Lisboa (Antigo Cinema Roma): CFP: Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science 14–16 December 2016

Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)

Calenda: Le Calendrier des Lettres et Sciences Humains et Sociales: Appel à contribution « Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique »

Western Michigan University: Call for Abstracts: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference 15–16 September 2016

Society for the Social History of Medicine: Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October 2016

Kunsthistorisches Institut In Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut: CfP: Photo-Objects. On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo-Archives in the Humanities and Sciences 15–17 February 2017

University of Leuven: CfA: The science of evolution and the evolution of the sciences 12–13 October 2016

Science Museum: Artefacts Meeting 2–4 October 2016: CfP: Understanding Use: Science and Technology Objects and Users

Cambridge: CfP extended: Science and Islands in the Indo-Pacific World 15–16 September 2016

Singapore: Society for the History of Technology: Annual Meeting 22–26 June 2016

University of Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events

Society for the Social History of Medicine: 2016 Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October

St Michaels College, Cardiff University: Conference: Bodily Fluids/Fluid Bodies in Greek and Roman Antiquity 11–13 July 2016 Programme

H-Pennsylvania: Philip J. Pauly Book Prise Nominations Sought for Histories of Science in the Americas

British and European History of Medicine Conference: Registration: Medicine in Place: Situating Medicine in Historical Contexts University of Kent 7-10 July 2016

BSHS: Prizes

Queen Mary University of London:Upcoming History of Emotions Work in Progress Seminars

University of Reading: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016

Barts Pathology Museum: CfP: The “Heart” and “Science” of Wilkie Collins and his Contemporaries 24 September 2016

University of Leicester: Centre for Medical Humanities: Seminars:

Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware: CfP: Making Modern Disability: Histories of Disability, Design, and Technology 28 October 2016

New York City: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 30 September–1 October 2016

IHPST, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris: CfP: International Doctoral Conference in Philosophy of Science 29-30 September 2016

Ian Ramsey Centre Conference, University of Oxford: Workshop “Early Modern Laws of Nature: Secular and Divine” 7 July 2016

Annals of Science: Annals of Science Essay Prize for Young Scholars

H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology

2nd International Conference on the History of Physics: Invention, application and exploitation in the history of physics Pöllau, Austria 5–7 September 2016

University of Cambridge: Cabinet of Natural History: Seminars Easter Term 2016

Warburg Institute: ESSWE Thesis Workshop 7 July 2016

Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST: CfP: 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature

University of Greenwich: Society and the Sea Conference: 15–16 September 2016

University of Illinois, Chicago: CfP: STS Graduate Student Workshop: 16-17 September

University of London: Birkbeck: Thomas Harriot Seminar 2016: 11 July 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century 10–11 September 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016

LOOKING FOR WORK:

Science Museum Group: Curator of Photography and Photographic Technology

University of Cambridge: Curator of Scientific Collections

Academia: Call for Peer Reviewers: the Wilkie Collins Journals

The HistoryMakers: Video Oral History Researcher/Processor

The HistoryMakers: The HistroyMakers Database & Technical Project Manager

Huygens ING: Postdoc Resarcher: The Art of Reasoning Techniques of Scientific Argumentation in the Medieval Latin West (400–1400)

Cambridge University Library: Curator of Scientific Collections

The Linnean Society: Archivist (Full-time, permanent post)

University of Cambridge: Research Associate: Philosophy of Biology (Fixed Term)

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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 #47

Monday 04 July 2016

EDITORIAL:

It’s time once again for another edition of the weekly #histSTM links list Whewell’s Gazette to bring you all the histories of Science, technology and medicine that our doughty editorial team could gather together out of the Internet over the last seven days.

Great Britain in general and London in particular is plastered with what a German friend of mine calls Kranzabwurfstellen, (in English places to drop off wreaths) i.e. monuments and statues. The majority of these are statues of white men who made a living out of killing other, often non-white, men, often throwing in women and children for good measure. The number of women commemorated in this manner is comparatively negligible.

This week saw a novum, not only a statue erected in London to a women but what is, in all likelihood, the very first ever statue erected in Britain of a black woman, the Crimean War nurse Mary Seacole, who was voted the greatest black Briton of all time in 2004.

portrait of Mary Seacole (1805–1881), c.1869, by otherwise unknown London artist Albert Charles Challen (1847–1881). Original held by the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Source: Wikimedia Commons

One would have thought that the medical community and the historians of medicine would have universally welcomed this honour for Mary Seacole but some of the fans of Britain’s other great Crimean War nurse Florence Nightingale objected, apparently amongst other things on the grounds that the statue of Seacole was taller than that of Nightingale. The mind boggles!

Punch magazine pays tribute to Mary Seacole during the Crimean War in 1857
Getty Images

I think we should all welcome this monument to a woman and a black Briton and that we should all demand that more women and more non-whites who have made significant contributions to our society be honoured in this way.

A watercolour painting of Mary Seacole (c. 1850)
Source: Wikimedia Commons

southbank london.com: The Birth of a Statue: Mary Seacole Remembered

BBC News: Mary Seacole statue unveiled in London

The statue stands opposite the Houses of Parliament in the grounds of St Thomas’ Hospital
MILLER HARE

The Voice: Statue of ‘Great Black Briton Mary Seacole Unveiled Today

Quotes of the week:

My first quote of the week is something that I think all #histSTM historians would agree on

Reference librarians rock. Just had to say it. – Laura J. Snyder (@LauraJSnyder)

“Am retreating to the 17th century, when all they had was war, revolution, regicide, plague and fire” – Matthew Cobb (@matthewcobb)

“Juncker: “I would like the UK to clarify its position.” Happy to oblige: no one is in charge, there is no plan, we haven’t a fucking clue” – Philip Ball (@philipcball)

“So it’s business as usual” – Thony Christie (@rmathematicus)

Seems to good to be true? It is! It’s an Internet fake. h/t @HPS_Vanessa

“Perhaps this horror is at least making more Americans realize that voting is not some fucking undergraduate interpretative dance project” – Benjamin Dreyer (@BCDreyer)

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something” – T.H. Huxley

“We study history, I have maintained, in order to attain self-knowledge“ – Collingwood h/t @GuyLongworth

“The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning, but imagination.” – Augustus de Morgan (1806-1871)

“I’m happy to have no faith, unless an exultation in the ‘endless forms’ of creation counts as a faith” – Richard Mabey

“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” ― Shirley Chisholm

“Leibniz discovered calculus by accident, while trying to prove to a friend that his birthday was on July 1^st” – Jan Mieszkowski (@janmpdx)

“A machine learning researcher, a crypto-currency expert, and an Erlang programmer walk into a bar. Facebook buys the bar for $27 billion” – ML Hipster (@ML_Hipster)

“GOVE is a dialect word meaning “to stare idly/vacantly; to gaze, gape, gawp” (“wild beasts of the forest came…And goved around” —Hogg, 1813)” – Stan Carey (@StanCarey)

Birthdays of the Week:

Augustus De Morgan born 27 June 1806

Augustus De Morgan.
Source: Wikimedia Commons

The Renaissance Mathematicus: A lover of paradoxes

Yovisto: Augustus de Morgan and Formal Logic

Maria Goeppert Mayer born 28 June 1906

Maria Goeppert Mayer walking into the Nobel ceremony with King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden in 1963
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Yovisto: Maria Goeppert Mayer and the Nuclear Shell Model

AHF: Maria Goeppert-Mayer

Rembert Dodoens born 29 June 1516

Rembert Dodoens
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Yovisto: Rembert Dodoens and the Love for Botanical Science

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Of Herbs and Herbals

Amy Johnson born 1 June 1903

Amy Johnson and Jason in Jhansi, India in 1932
Source: Wikimedia Commons

IET: Archives biographies: Amy Johnson 1903–1941

Blue Plaques: Johnson, Amy (1903–1941)

Hans Bethe born 2 July 1906

Bethe’s Los Alamos Laboratory ID badge
Source: Wikimedia Commons

The Curious Wavefunction: Bethe’s Dictum: “Always work on problems for which you posses an unfair advantage”

AHF: Hans Bethe

PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:

Yovisto: Sophie Germain and the Chladni Experiment

Indian Country: Ancient Observatory Brings Old Knowledge to New Viewers

JSTOR Daily: Where in the Solar System Is Vulcan

Perth Observatory Newsletter: Ancient Observatories: Ulugh Beg 1394–1449

Ulugh Beg

Dannen.com: Bard Memorandum, June 27, 1945

JPL Infographics: History of Exploration: Jupiter

Culture and Cosmos: Seven Stars of Heaven Shrines on Earth: The Big Dipper and the Hie Shrine in the Medieval Period

AHF: Oppenheimer Security Hearing

Catcher: The History of Astrophotography Blog: Pietro Angelo Secchi God’s Astronomer

AHF: Bohr Letter to Churchill

Yovisto: The Annus Mirabilis in Physics – Albert Einstein and the Year 1905

Yovisto: George Ellery Hale and the Magnetic Fields in Sunspots

The Guardian: The prehistoric tombs that may have been used as ‘telescopes’

Smithsonian.com: These Ancient Tombs May Have Been Both Graves and Observatories

Forbes: Antikythera Mechanism May Have Been World’s First ‘STEM Project

Sky & Telescope: Seeing Sunspots as Early Astronomers Did

John Brigg built this solar telescope to observe and record sunspots. It’s pictured in front of the Stellafane clubhouse of the Springfield Telescope Makers in Vermont.
J. Briggs

The Irish Times: Georges Lemaître: the Belgian priest who preached the Big Band

Estrellas y Borrascas: Astronomía: Mujeres entre las estrellas

The New York Times: Jupiter and its Moons

ESA: Space Science: Giotto Overview

Ptak Science Books: Details in Electricity, 1814

World Digital Library: Illustrated Explanation of the Sphere and the Astrolabe: 2 Juan, 1 Introductory Juan

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

HERE 360: Telling stories with maps

Detail of 3D world map without water

Yovisto: Maria Mitchell and the Comets

Ordnance Survey: Top 10 mapping moments in OS history

flickr: The Mississippi Department of Archives and History: Historical Map Collection

Memory.loc.gove: The 1562 Map of America by Diego Gutiérrez

Library of Congress: Süd-Polar-Karte

Spoons on Trays: Longitude in London

National Geographic: The Unlikely Story of the Map That Helped Create Our Nation

MEDICINE & HEALTH:

Thomas Morris: The amputee obstacle course

Center for the History of Medicine at Countway Library: Staff Finds: The Art of Robert Latou Dickenson

Contagions: Plague Dialogues: Monica Green and Boris Schmid on Plague Phylogeny (I)

Contagions: Plague Dialogues: Monica Green and Boris Schmid on Plague Phylogeny (II)

BUI Santé: Après 270 ans d’oubli, redécouverte de l’anatomie de Van Horne, trésor du 17e s.

AHF: James F. Nolan Chief Medical Officer Los Alamos

Florence Nightingale Museum: Object of the month

This week’s mystery object from the museum’s collection store is Florence Nightingale’s foot warmer.

Forbes: How Castration and Opera Changed the Skeleton of 19^th Century Singer Pacchierotti

The Chirugeon’s Apprentice: Mangling the Dead: Dissection, Past & Present

Yovisto: Robert Ledley and the Computer Tomograph

Atlas Obscura: The Star is the Corpse

Thomas Morris: A diplomatic disaster

NYAM: Deafness as a Public Health Issue in the 1920s & 1930s (Part 1 of 2)

Ptak Science Books: Outsider Logic Department: the Fabulous Curative Necessity of Fatty Meats

Center for History of Medicine at Countway Library: BWH Unlocks Historic Hospital Reports, 1875–1979

Yovisto: Ignaz Semmelweis and the Importance of Washing Your Hands as a Doctor

Discover: Baby Cadavers Were Prized by Victorian Anatomists

A study of 54 dead babies was not all bad news.

Thomas Morris: The human piggy bank

Thomas Morris: The man with the wax face

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:

Conciatore: Neri & The Portland Vase

Paleofuture: Electrocuting People Was Basically America’s Pastime in the 1920s

Ptak Science Books: Visionary Architecture and City Planning of an Industrial/Scientific Community (1842)

AHF: Vannevar Bush

Kodak shop in the 1950s
Getty Picture Post

Daniels Dies & Das: Leonardo im Deutchen Museum (Bonn)

Yovisto: John Gorrie and the Wonders of Air Conditioning

Ptak Science Books: The Popular Plane: Aeroplane Sheet Music Covers, 1897–1911

Hyperallergic: World’s Oldest Operating Photo Studio Closes in India

Quill and Pen: Larcum Kendall and K1: The Greatest Watchmaker and Watch You Have (Probably) Never Heard Of

Paleofuture: Doubts About the Airplane in 1909: ‘Emotion Has Run Away With Reason’

Air & Space: Ten Great Moments in Aero space History

Bell XS-1/X-1
(Credit: Eric Long)

Smithsonian.com: The Pioneers of Video Game Technology Are About to Become the Stuff of History

Conciatore: The Material of All Enamels

Slate: Victorians’ Fears About the Ills of Modern Technology Sounded a Lot Like Ours

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Yovisto: Mikhail Tsvet – the Father of Chromatography

Berfrois: Birds of the Indian Plains

History of American Women: Elizabeth Cary Agassiz

The Field Museum: Bringing Neanderthals to Life: The Sculptures of Elisabeth Daynès

Copyright Photo: E. Daynès — Reconstructions: Elisabeth Daynès Paris

Notches: Thinking Medievally: The Sexualisation Debate and Medieval Advice Literature

TSS: Bricked In: Following the trail of Alexander von Humboldt on the outskirts of Berlin

Yovisto: Leo Frobenius and German Ethnography

The Guardian: Bedroom where Charles Darwin died to be opened to the public

Nature: Dolly at 20: The inside story on the world’s most famous sheep

Encyclopaedia Britannica: Thomas Henry Huxley

Science League of America: A Couple of Zingers from Darrow

Forbes: Roman Emperor, Monster Bones, and the Early History of Fossil Hunting

Notches: ‘Every time I see a cock I go funny’, or, what regional studies bring to the history of sexuality

Yovisto: The Mysterious Tunguska Event

Forbes: The Tunguska Event: Still a Mystery After 107 Years

Yovisto: Adolf Furtwängler and Photographic Archaeology

flickr: BHL: The naturalist’s library. Conducted…

Yovisto: Sir Ferdinand von Mueller – Government Botanist

Smithsonian.com: How Roundup Ready Soybeans Rocked the Food Economy

UCL: Specimen of the Week 246: King Scallop model

The Guardian: Origin story: what does Darwin’s taste in art tell us about the scientist?

Darwin Online: Insectivorous Plants

American Museum of Natural History: Get to Know a Dino: Gastornis gigantea

A model of Velociraptor on display in Dinosaurs Among Us.
© AMNH/R. Mickens

CHEMISTRY:

Yovisto: James Smithson’s Last Will

Voices of the Manhattan Project: Margaret Broderick’s Interview

Margaret Broderick

RSC: On This Day in Chemistry July 2^nd

META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

The Recipes Project: Recipes in Space (Domestically Speaking…)

Wynken de Worde: searching for a Blazing World

Smithsonian.com: Museum Director Calls for Increased Funding for Scientific Collections to Save Lives

Smithsonian.com: The Surprising History of the Infographic

L0041105 Diagram of the causes of mortality in the army
Credit: Wellcome Library, London.

The Public Domain Review: Black on Black

Atlas Obscura: The Scottish Scoundrel Who Changed How We See Data

The Guardian: Why bad ideas refuse to die

storify: Oral History at Chemical Heritage Foundation

Academia: Infrastructure – How a Humble French Engineering Term Shaped the Modern World

The Recipes Project: Introducing Artechne – Technique in the Arts 1500– 1950

Back Channel: A Women’s History of Silicon Valley

Judy Estrin

The New Atlantis: The Optimistic Science of Leibniz

Engaging Science, Technology, and Society: Volume 2 2016 Table of Contents

ESOTERIC:

AEON: Six centuries of secularism

An illuminated page from a book on alchemical processes and receipts Ymage de vie Raymundus Lullius, late 15th century. Photo courtesy Wellcome Images

BOOK REVIEWS:

The Atlantic: How to Write a History of Writing Software

The Guardian: Track Changes: A Literary History of Wordprocessing review –did tech change literary style?

University of Cambridge Museums: Curiosity is what museums are here to engender

Discover: Patient H.M.

NEW BOOKS:

Historiens de la santé: Languished Hopes: Tuberculosis, the State and International Assistance in Twentieth-century India

CRC Press: Phylogenetic Systematics: Haeckel to Henning

Cork University Press: The Booles & The Hintons: Two dynasties that helped shape the modern world

Routledge: Sir Joseph Banks, Iceland and the North Atlantic 1772–1820

Histories de la santé: Biologie et médecine en France et en Russie. Histoires croisées (fin XVIIIe-XXe siècle)

Historiens de la santé: Homo Criminalis. Cesare Lombroso et l’anthropologie criminelle en Italie

Harvard University Press: The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An Essay in Natural History

ART & EXHIBITIONS

Science Museum: Wounded From shell shock to PTSD

Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–1r January 2018

Prague Daily Monitor: Unique Malta Siege maps displayed at Prague Science Faculty

PRN Magazine: The Morbid Anatomy Museum

Art Institute Chicago: The Shogun’s World: Japanese Maps from the 18^th and 19^th Centuries 25 June–6 November 2016

Museum of London: Fire! Fire! 23July 2016–17 April 2017

Royal Museums Greenwich: Above and Beyond: The ultimate interactive flight exhibition 27 May–29 August 2016

Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Brooklyn Historical Society to exhibit two rare Revolutionary War-era maps in honour of upcoming 240^th anniversary of Battle of Brooklyn 29 June–28 August 2016

The Mary Rose: Mary Rose Museum re-opening on 20^th July 2016

Marc Garrett: Curating Monsters of the Machine: Frankenstein in the 21^st Century

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15^th and 16^th Centuries

Smithsonian.com: See Over 2,000 Wax Models of Skin Diseases at This Swiss Medical Moulage Museum

A skin affliction on display at the Moulage Museum. (Moulagenmuseum University and University Hospital of Zurich)

St. Louis Central Library: Fantasy Maps Exhibit 11 June–15 October 2016

Oxford Thinking: Cook-Voyage collection goes on display at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Uzeeum: House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, and Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum, Berlin, 1869–1922

The Guardian: Totally cosmic science festival for blue-sky thinkers

Amritt Museum: Beatrix Potter – Image & Reality

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph

Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library

Historiens de la santé: Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England: Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts

Science Museum: Robots

The Royal Society of Medicine: Exhibition: Charcot, Hysteria & La Salpetiere 3 May–23 July 2016

Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May30–October 2016

Harvard Magazine: Before Social Media: Radio was the medium that broke the silence

Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus

The Houston Museum of Natural Science: Cabinet of Curiosities Opens 6 May 2016

Reviews in History: Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee (Royal College of Physicians, 18 January – 29 July 2016)

Broadway World.com: Met Museum Exhibition to Celebrate Artistic, Technological, Cultural Legacy of the Seljuqs

Grup d’estudis d’història de la cartografia: Exhibition about Renacentrist cartography in Bergamo 16 April–10 July 2016

Bonner Sterne: “Argelanders Erben” im Universitätsmuseum Bonn bis 31 Juli 2016

Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:

Fine Books & Collections: The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at BPL to Host Exhibit, “From the Sea to the Mountains” 2 April–28 August 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Scholar courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee 18 January 29–31 July 2016

The National Air and Space Museum: A New Moon Rises: An Exhibition Where Science and Art Meet

Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017

AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016

Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017

Science Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius 10 February 2016–4 September 2016

Wellcome Collections: States of Mind 4 February–16 October 2016

Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm

Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game

The John Rylands Library: Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World 21 January–21 August 2016

Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility

Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday

Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017

Science Museum: Information Age

Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: YOUTOPIA: VISIONS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016

Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph 14 April–11 September 2016

Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy

COMING SOON: Bethel Museum of the Mind: The Weight of History 27 July – 18 November 2016

Royal Collection: Maria Merian’s Butterflies

Royal Society of Medicine: charcot, hysteria, & la salpetriere 3 May 2016–23 July 2016

CLOSING SOON: National Gallery Of Ireland Dublin: Ten Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci From the Royal Collections runs till 17 July 2016

THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:

Space.com: Terrence Malick’s ‘Voyage of Time’ Highlights History of the Cosmos

New Line Theatre: Atomic 2-25 June 2016

ashpags on tumblr: Great Lady Astronomers of History …Come to Life!

Royal Shakespeare Company: Doctor Faustus Swan Theatre Stratford-Upon-Avon 8 February–4 August 2016

Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 18 June 2016

The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017

EVENTS:

Down House: Meet the Darwins 26–30 July 2016

Museum of Science and Industry Manchester: Engine Demonstration

Museum of the History of Science: Globe-makers 9 July 2016

Morbid Anatomy: Upcoming Morbid Anatomy Events

NYAM: Lecture: Up!: Manhood, Democratic Medicine, and Walt Whitman’s Secret Health Writings 18 July 2016

LSE: Lecture: Why Physics Needs Philosophy 17 July 2016

Nature: Medical research: Citizen medicine: Vaccination: Medicine and the Masses Hunterian Museum till 17 September 2016

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Talk: Bad Medicine and Quackery in Edinburgh 9–13 August 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: One for the Road

Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events

Royal College of Physicians: John Dee: art, science, magic 11 July 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “London’s Plagues”

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding

University of Utrecht: Descartes-Huygens Lecture by J.B. Shank on ‘Newtonian’ Mechanics in France around 1700

University College Cork: Walking Tours: A second chance to solve the mystery of ‘Being Boole’!

The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours

Gresham College: Lecture: The Expanding Universe 26 October 2016

Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)

Eä: A workshop in Rio to debate about the challenges facing interdisciplinary journals

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

The Royal College of Physicians: Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “Sex and The City”

Norcroft Auditorium, Norcroft Centre, University of Bradford: The secret chemistry of art: unravelling an age-old textile mystery / September 2016

Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tours

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Medicine at War

London Fortean Society: A History of Life after Death 26 July 2016

PAINTING OF THE WEEK:

French tapestry from the early 16th century depicting muse Astronomia consulting with an astronomer, possibly Ptolemy.

TELEVISION:

SLIDE SHOW:

VIDEOS:

Youtube: AHF: Operation Hardtack I: Oak Shot

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences: The Scientist as Storyteller

Museo Galileo: Lens-Making

Youtube: Climate Change, Chaos, and the Little Ice Age

Youtube: Royal Society: Who Really Invented the Light Bulb? – Objectivity #75

RADIO & PODCASTS:

New Book Network: Greg Jenner: A Million Years in a Day

Philosophie et Biologie: Nietzche’s Notion of Health

Ben Franklin’s World: Episode 088: Michael McDonnell, The History of History Writing

Canada Science and Technology Museum: Science Alive Episode 10: Canada’s First Car

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Birkbeck University of London: Thomas Harriot Seminar 2016 11 July

Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin: Workshop: Sharing of Medical Ideas and Information Among Early Modern Practitioners 2 August 2016

Université François Rabelais, Tours: Appel à communications: Représentations et figures de la maternité dans le monde anglophone 3 au 5 avril 2017

JOURNÉES D’ÉTUDES: Appel à communicatio: « Petites mains » d’artistes dans les pratiques scientifiques

BSHS: IUHPST essay Prize in History and Philosophy of Science Deadline 30 September 2016

BSHS: Museum of the History of Science Upcoming Free Lecture Series

Université de Strasbourg: Appel à symposia: 6ème Congrès de la Société française d’histoire des sciences et des techniques (SFHST) 19-20-21 avril 2017

Birkbeck University of London: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–25 March 2017

Lexicon Philosophicum: CfP: Issue 5 (2017) Histories of Philosophy, Science and Ideas

Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds: CfP: Workshop: Exploring Histories and Futures of Innovation in Advanced Wound Care 20 September 2016

University of Cardiff: Programme: Bodily Fluids/Fluid Bodies in Greek and Roman Antiquity 11-13 July 2016

Université de Caen: Colloque: Le corps humain saisi par le droit : entre liberté et propriété 14 Octobre 2016

Augustinerkloster Erfurt: Conference: Towards a Global History of Ideas 7–9 July 2016

HSTM Network Ireland: International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Young Scholar Prize

ENVA, Amphithéâtre Blin: Appel à communications: Animalhumanité. Expérimentation et fiction : l’animalité au cœur du vivant 1er et 2 décembre 2016

New Bern NC: CfP: North Carolina Maritime History Council Conference 4–5 November 2016

Logis du Roy – Square Jules Bocquet – Amiens: Colloque: L’anatomie sans les arts ? Le corps en images à l’époque moderne 23 et 24 juin 2016

Christ’s College Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World (1400-1750) 3–4 April 2017

Villa Mirafiori, Rome: Conference: Building Theories, Hypothesis & Heuristics in Science

UCL: CfP. Second London Philosophy of Science Graduate Conference 1–2 September 2016 Deadline 4 July 2016

Society for U.S: Intellectual History: Conference: From the Mayflower to Silicon Valley: Tools and Traditions in American Intellectual History October 13-15, 2016

University of Lisbon: CfP: Third Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Issues 14–16 December 2016

San Sebastian: Physics in the XII International Ontology Congress 3-7 October 2016

Notches: CfP: Histories of Disability and Sexuality

Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science: CfP: Special Issue: Knowledge Transfer and Its Context

University of Freiburg: Accidents and the State in the 20^th Century

The Victorianist: CfP Reminder: The “Heart” and “science” of Wilkie Collins and His Contemporaries 24 September 2016 London

ICOHTEC Conference Porto: CfP: Early Career Scholars Workshop: Tension of Europe 1 August 2016

Society for Renaissance Studies: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Texts and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s

BSHS: The British Society for the History of Science Prize for Exhibits on the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 2016

Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Paris: Colloque: Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique 20–21 Octobre 2016

St Anne’s College; University of Oxford: Scientiae: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World 5–7 July 2016

King’s College London: From Microbes to Matrons: The Past, Present and Future of Hospital Infection Control and Prevention 1-2 September 2016

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: CFP: Conference: HIV/AIDS Research: Its History and Future 13–16 October 2016

Australian Academy of Science: The Moran Award for History of Science Research

Florida Atlantic University: International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry Summer Symposium 1–4 August 2016

University Of Belgrade: CfP: Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation-5 22–23 September 2016

Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta, and the University of Warwick: CfP: Beauty and the Hospital in History 6–8 April 2017

Institution of Engineering and Technology, London: Conference: Telecommunications in the Aftermath of World War 1: Civilian and Military Perspectives 10 August 2016

University of Oxford: Summer School and Conference: Mind Value and Mental Health: Philosophy and Psychiatry 13–15 July 2017

MedHum Fiction – Daily Dose: CfP: Medical Humanities

University of Birmingham: Social Studies in the History of Medicine – ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’

University of Oxford: Draft Oxford Scientiae Conference Programme 5–7 July 2016

Radboud University Nijmegen: Conference Program: Space, Imagination, and the Cosmos, from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period 9–10 July 2016

The Nobel Museum Stockholm: Prizes and Awards in Science before Nobel. 5th Watson Seminar in the Material and Visual History of Science 5 September 2016

Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Partington Prize

University of Glasgow: CfP: Discourse of Care: Care in Media, Medicine and Society 5-7 September 2016

Western Michigan University: CfP: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference

University of Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Envirment, and Health In the Easterm Mediterranean World, 1400–1750 3–4 April 2017

Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science: Upcoming Events

Fórum Lisboa (Antigo Cinema Roma): CFP: Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science 14–16 December 2016

Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)

Calenda: Le Calendrier des Lettres et Sciences Humains et Sociales: Appel à contribution « Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique »

Western Michigan University: Call for Abstracts: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference 15–16 September 2016

Society for the Social History of Medicine: Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October 2016

Kunsthistorisches Institut In Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut: CfP: Photo-Objects. On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo-Archives in the Humanities and Sciences 15–17 February 2017

University of Leuven: CfA: The science of evolution and the evolution of the sciences 12–13 October 2016

Science Museum: Artefacts Meeting 2–4 October 2016: CfP: Understanding Use: Science and Technology Objects and Users

Cambridge: CfP extended: Science and Islands in the Indo-Pacific World 15–16 September 2016

University of Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events

Society for the Social History of Medicine: 2016 Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October

St Michaels College, Cardiff University: Conference: Bodily Fluids/Fluid Bodies in Greek and Roman Antiquity 11–13 July 2016 Programme

H-Pennsylvania: Philip J. Pauly Book Prise Nominations Sought for Histories of Science in the Americas

British and European History of Medicine Conference: Registration: Medicine in Place: Situating Medicine in Historical Contexts University of Kent 7-10 July 2016

BSHS: Prizes

Queen Mary University of London:Upcoming History of Emotions Work in Progress Seminars

University of Reading: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016

Barts Pathology Museum: CfP: The “Heart” and “Science” of Wilkie Collins and his Contemporaries 24 September 2016

University of Leicester: Centre for Medical Humanities: Seminars:

Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware: CfP: Making Modern Disability: Histories of Disability, Design, and Technology 28 October 2016

New York City: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 30 September–1 October 2016

IHPST, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris: CfP: International Doctoral Conference in Philosophy of Science 29-30 September 2016

Ian Ramsey Centre Conference, University of Oxford: Workshop “Early Modern Laws of Nature: Secular and Divine” 7 July 2016

Annals of Science: Annals of Science Essay Prize for Young Scholars

H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology

2nd International Conference on the History of Physics: Invention, application and exploitation in the history of physics Pöllau, Austria 5–7 September 2016

University of Cambridge: Cabinet of Natural History: Seminars Easter Term 2016

Warburg Institute: ESSWE Thesis Workshop 7 July 2016

Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST: CfP: 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature

University of Greenwich: Society and the Sea Conference: 15–16 September 2016

University of Illinois, Chicago: CfP: STS Graduate Student Workshop: 16-17 September

University of London: Birkbeck: Thomas Harriot Seminar 2016: 11 July 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century 10–11 September 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016

LOOKING FOR WORK:

NYAM: 2017 Research Fellowships

UCL: STS: Vacancies

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science: Call for Book Reviewers

Max Planck Society/Technische Universität Berlin: Research Group Leader

UCL: Teaching Fellow in History of Medicine

King’s College London: Senior Postdoc Research Fellow / Postdoc Research Fellow: Renaissance Skin

Natural History Museum: Curator, Petrology

UCL: Teaching Fellow in Science Communication

BSHS: Master’s Degree Bursaries

Illinois Institute of Technology: Calamos Endowed Chair in Philosophy

Society for Applied Philosophy UK: Doctoral Scholarships 2016–2017 Deadline 18 July 2016

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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

Year 2, Volume #48

Monday 11 July 2016

EDITORIAL:

The wheel of life turns, the beginning of the week comes round again and with it the latest edition of Whewell’s Gazette, the weekly #histSTM links list, bringing you all the histories of science, technology and medicine thrown up on the shores of cyberspace over the last seven days.

One of the posts listed this week under Earth and Life Sciences has the title Alfred Wallace Co-Discovered Evolution, But You’ve Never Heard of Him, now this is not an old post recycled here for your entertainment but one posted on 8 July 2016 on the website Curiosity an Internet presence of The New York Times. Why am I going into so much detail about when and where this article appeared? Quite simply because if you are in anyway interested in the history of biology or the theory of evolution and you have never heard of Alfred Russel Wallace then you have been living under a stone for the last ten years.

Unfortunately this phenomenon of publishing ‘you’ve never heard of him/her/them’ articles about figures who have figured extremely large in #histSTM over, shall we say, the last ten years is not restricted to Alfred Russel Wallace; Alan Turing, Lise Meitner, Rosalind Franklin are names that immediately spring to mind from a list that grows from year to year.

Even if the #histSTM figure you are writing about is veiled in the mists of obscurity and genuinely deserves to be better known, I personally think you should resist the desire to use the clichéd, click bait title ‘you’ve never heard of…’ and make the effort to think of an original and more appropriate title for your piece. If however you feel the necessity to write the thirty-seventh article this month about how Rosalind Franklin was cheated out of her rightful recognitions for the discovery of DNA or the twenty-fifth article since Easter about how Alan Turing invented the computer then please, please don’t think that you are saying anything that hasn’t been said all too many times already and don’t whatever you do title it ‘you’ve never heard of…’!

If you wish to write about these people then find a fresh new aspect of their life and work to write about, there are still some out there, and give your work an interesting original and fitting title. Having done so you will have made a genuine contribution to the pool of Internet #histSTM knowledge and saved the world from yet another hackneyed cliché.

I think it would be for the best if we all agreed to ban ‘you’ve never heard of…’ to some dark and distant impenetrable corner of cyberspace to wither, fester and die a highly deserved death.

Quotes of the week:

“Is it really “Newtonian science” that helps us to navigate around the solar system or just the bits we find useful?” – Peter Broks (@peterbroks)

“Short rant: “the Victorians” were not a homogeneous group with matching values, beliefs, and cultural attitudes” – Jennifer Wallis (@harbottlestores)

“Historian isn’t just a profession, it’s a life” – Kean History Dept. (@KeanHistory)

“Historians will always get the last word” – Kean History Dept. (@KeanHistory)

“The history of science records the discovery of things assumed the same being different, and of things assumed different being the same” – Liam Heneghan (@DublinSoil)

Juno: “Hey this is really great! So how long before I’m done science and I come home?”

NASA: “Um, well…”

Curiosity: “I TOLD YOU!” – Alex Parker (@Alex_Parker)

“Technology is the active human interface with the material world” – Ursula K Leguin h/t @dubroy

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced” ― James Baldwin h/t @berfrois

“I don’t understand how it’s undemocratic to challenge the result of a non-binding referendum that, if carried out, would destroy the country” – (@gimpyblog)

“I feel I sound unhinged and unprofessional reminding folks that history, not emotion, has cautioned us not to blindly trust our government” – Jamilah Lemieux (@JamilahLemieux)

JD Bernal anticipates Hasok Chang: “One of the advantages which we now gain by studying the life and work of past scientists is the number of unworked-out suggestions which they contain, pregnant for future development. This means a large part of their work was wasted in their own time, not because they could not have developed any of these points taken one by one, but because it was not physically possible to develop them all themselves, and they lacked sufficient schools of co-workers capable of taking them up.” h/t @GWilliamThomas

“Life: carbon acting erratically” – Liam Heneghan (@DublinSoil)

Birthdays of the Week:

Nettie Stevens born 7 July 1861

Nettie Maria Stevens (July 7, 1861 – May 4, 1912), early American geneticist
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Vox science & health: Nettie Stevens discovered XY sex chromosomes. She didn’t get credit because she had two X’s

The Embryo Project: Studies in Spermatogenesis (1905), by Nettie Maria Stevens

Google Nettie Stevens Doodle

The Embryo Project: The Y-Chromosome in Animals

Nettie Stevens’s microscope, Bryn Mawr College.
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Dolly the sheep born 5 July 1996

The H-Word: Dolly the celebrity sheep: a short biography

Nature: Dolly at 20: The inside story on the world’s most famous sheep

New Scientist: The clone that changed my life: 20 years after Dolly the sheep

Henrietta Swan Leavitt born 4 July 1868

Henrietta Swan Leavitt working at her desk in the Harvard College Observatory
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Yovisto: Henrietta Swan Leavitt and the Light of the Cepheids

Joseph Marie Jacquard born 7 July 1752

This portrait of Jacquard was woven in silk on a Jacquard loom and required 24,000 punched cards to create (1839). It was only produced to order. One of these portraits in the possession of Charles Babbage inspired him in using perforated cards in his analytical engine. It is in the collection of the Science Museum in London, England.
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Yovisto: Joseph Marie Jacquard and the Programmable Loom

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Weaving the computer age

PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:

Yovisto: The Sky Disc of Nebra

Yovisto: The Supernova of 1054

Yovisto: Marie Curie – Truly an Extraordinary Woman

Yovisto: Giovanni Schiaparelli and the Martian Canals

History of Geology: The Earth-like Mars

The (in-)famous Martian canals/channels, according to Schiaparelli, from Flammarion (1892): “La Planéte Mars” (image in public domain).

Dannen.com: Groves Seeks Evidence against Szilard, July 4, 1945

Dannen.com: Szilard petition, cover letter, July 4, 1945

The New York Times: A Space Pioneer, 79, Is Ready to Track Juno for NASA

Bonhams: Space History

Yovisto: Macquorn Rankine and the Laws of Thermodynamics

maia.usno.navy.mil: The Contributions of Women to the United States Naval Observatory: The Early Years: Mrs Isabel Martin Lewis

Mrs. Isabel Martin Lewis

Academia: The cosmographer’s role in the sixteenth century: A preliminary study

Atlas Obscura: See Retro Space Mission Patches Worn by Cosmonauts

ESA: History of Europe in Space: ERSO’s First Sounding Rockets

Yovisto: Rudolf Wolf and the Sunspots

British Library: Asian and African studies blog: Jai Singh’s Observatories

Sky & Telescope: Old Radio Telescope Restored for New Uses

npr: A Fitting Tribute for a Stargazing Love: A Trip to the Moon

The Renaissance Mathematicus: The Goddess, her husband and his lovers

Montage of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, in a composite image depicting part of Jupiter and their relative sizes (positions are illustrative, not actual). From top to bottom: Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto.
Source: Wikimedia Commons

National Trust for Historical Preservation: Secret Cities: Manhattan Project National Historical Park preserves the classified sites where the Atomic Age dawned

Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine: Orbital Decay: Space Junk and the Environmental History of Earth’s Borderlands 1957–1985

Early Modern Experimental Philosophy: Locke and the Newtonian Achievement

AHF: John Wheeler

Quanta Magazine: How Feynman Diagrams Almost Saved Space

AHF: Owen Chamberlain

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

The Map Room: Has the Ricci Map Been Altered

Part of Mateo Ricci’s 1602 World Map

Antique Prints Blog: George Pocock and his inflatable globes

The Paris Review: Three Geographers

Library of Congress: Maps: Charts of limits of seas and oceans

Yovisto: Vasco da Gama and the Route to India

Royal Museums Greenwich: William Edward Parry final North-West Passage expeditions 1821–25

Royal Museums of Greenwich: Anniversary of the Longitude Act – what was it?

MEDICINE & HEALTH:

Diagram of the human brain. – Joe Heenan (@joeheenan)

Bulletin d’Histoire et d’Epistémologie des Sciences de la vie: 2016/ 1 (vol. 23) ToC

Social History of Medicine: A free virtual issue of Social History of Medicine Table of Contents

Ptak Science Books: The Daily Addict: Feeding Drug Addictions in 1937

Thomas Morris: Like an elastic ball

Teaching watercolor of bone and tissue: The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: New Digitisation project: the history of Scotland’s eighteenth century dispensary

AHF: Rosemary Lane: Head Nurse – Emergency Room Oak Ridge TN

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Risky Business for Treating Tuberculosis

Ptak Science Books: On Curing the Disability and Disease of Left-Handedness (1935)

The Recipes Project: Once It Proved Effective for Noble Men and Women

Notches: Resisting the Virus of Prejudice: Sex Workers Fight the AIDS Panic

Yovisto: Camillo Golgi and the Gogli Apparatus

Camillo Golgi

Nursing Clio: Blood and Tears in Orlando

Thomas Morris: A fork up the anus

Asclepius: International Journal of History and Philosophy of Medicine Vol. 5-6 2015–2016 Table of Contents

The Guardian: Toxic legacy: a brief history of poison remedies

Centre of Regenerative Medicine: Stem cells and regenerative medicine: A History of Stem Cells

The Recipes Project: Transmission of Drug Knowledge in Medieval China: A Case of Gelsemium

Thomas Morris: The port-wine enema

Yovisto: Alfred Binet and the Intelligence Test

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Medicine and Surgery at the Battle of Waterloo

Lithographic print of Jean Dominique Larrey by Grégoire et Deneux, Paris, early 19th cent.

NHPR: What Did Nearsighted Humans Do Before Glasses?

Social History of Medicine: May 2016: Focus on managing Mental Disorder

Big Picture: The History of Vaccination

Thomas Morris: Wrapped in a dead sheep

NYAM: Deafness as a Public Health Issue in the 1920s & 1930s (Part 2 of 2)

Thomas Morris: Centipedes in your bacon

Atlas Obscura: The Man-Made Gut Stones Once Used to Thwart Assassination Attempts

New Scientist: Antibiotic resistance discovered in the guts of ancient mummies

Thomas Morris: Death by cucumber

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:

Yovisto: Jean-Pierre Blanchard crossed the English Channel in a Balloon

Google Arts & Culture: Strasburg Clock model

Yovisto: The RMS Britannia and the Transatlantic Postal Service

Yovisto: Rube Goldberg’s complicated Machines

Thurgaton History: The largest clock in the county?

Ptak Science Books: Robot Roundup: Edenless Eve (1927) 6 the Great Texas Robot (1936)

Ptak Science Books: “A Most Delicate Monster” – the “alpha” Robot of 1932

David Buckley: A Steam Man

Conciatore: Vitrum Flexile

Electrifying the country house: Guest Post: Electrifying the Irish Country House – Cillian Lalor

Yovisto: The Birth of the Transistor

Forbes: The Physics of Ancient Roman Architecture

Royal Museums Greenwich: Tonkin’s Diving Machine and the wreck of the ‘Earl of Abergavenny’

AHF: Computing and the Manhattan Project

Yovisto: Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin and his Dirigible Airships

Smithsonian.com: Six of History’s Smartest, Weirdest and Most Interesting Inventions for Beating the Heat

Historical Firearms: John Browning’s Gas-Operated Pistol

Royal Collection Trust: Astronomical Clock 1683-90

Ptak Science Books: Pistol- and Rifle-Cameras, 1884

Journal of Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh: ‘…to whom it will be extremly Usefull.’ Dr William Cullen’s adoption of James Watt’s copying machine

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Forbes: How Geologists Determined the Way that Mountains Formed

University of Glasgow Library: Theophilus Johnson and the art of self publishing

esri: Alexander von Humboldt’s Whole Earth Vision

Museums Wales: Early herbals – The German fathers of botany

American Museum of Natural History: The Bald Eagle

Yovisto: Vincent Joseph Schaefer and the Cloud Seeding

Wikimedia Commons: East Han Seismograph

Notches: Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State – Part 2

Yovisto: A. E. Douglass and the Dendrochronology

JSTOR Daily: The Solar Origins of Dendrochronology

Yovisto: Robert Fitzroy – From Darwin’s famous voyage to Meteorology

Yovisto: Rudolf Albert von Kölliker and the Origins of Embriology

Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Alexander Wilson

Geschichte der Geologie: Geschichte geologischer Begriffe: Geosynklinale

L.A. Times: The ‘Holy Grail’ for earthquake scientists has been accidentally destroyed

NOAA: Fence Offset Produced by 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

Atlas Obscura: The 1913 ‘nature Man’ Whose Survivalist Stunts Were Not What They Seemed

The Huffington Post: Welcome to the Library Hiding in a Garden in New York City

Museums Heritage: Science Museum acquires Georgian clock used in world’s first urban climate studies

American Museum of Natural History: Fossil Reveals Ostrich Relatives Once Lived in North America

Curiosity: Alfred Wallace Co-Discovered Evolution, But You’ve Never Heard of Him

Poole High Street Project: Wallace – Collector and Scientist

Hydrarchos: Meeting Hydrarchos in Person(s)

LA Weekly: Why Study Extinct Animals? Two Paleontologists Explain Their “Sexy Medium”

Niche: Telling the Stories Staples Tell: Visualizing Data and a Call for Contributions

CHEMISTRY:

Brain Pickings: How Chemistry Works: Gorgeous Vintage Science Diagrams, 1854

META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

Electrifying the country house: Downloads

The Society for the History of Natural History: SHNH announces its awards and welcomes new Council Members

BSHS: 10 Amazing Stories: BSHS June Edition

CHF: Independence Day Closure and New Museum Hours

Historiography of Science: Updated Website Link

Atlas Obscura: The World’s Oldest Library Has Reopened

CHF: The Beckman Center, at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, is pleased to announce its 2016-2017 class of Fellows

Conciatore: Montpellier

Montpellier, France, in the seventeenth century.
(Attribution unknown)

Conciatore: San Giusto alle Mura

The New York Times: Why We Need to Pick Up Alvin Toffler’s Torch

Forbes: Yes, New York Times, There Is a Scientific Method

OUP Blog: Philosopher of the month: Hypathia

Early Modern Women: Lives, Texts, Objects: Cavendish and Deshoulières: Women and Philosophy

The White Horse Press: Articles forthcoming in future issues of Environment and History

Hyperallergic: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Modernist Data Visualisations of Black Life

JHI Blog: Fortune. Failure. Fetish. Fest: Aby Warburg’s Glorious Nachleben

Blink: Saint in the tiger’s shadow: A stillborn science during India’s war for Independence

Wellcome: New galleries open at National Museum of Scotland

ESOTERIC:

Forbidden Histories: William James and the American Society for Psychical Research, 1884–9

British Library: Medieval manuscripts blog: Masons and Manuscripts

The tower of Babel being built by masons, from the Egerton Genesis Picture Book, England, c. 1350-1375, Egerton MS 1894, f. 5v

MIT Libraries: News & Evens: The human touch: What a 17^th century alchemy text can teach us about good medicine

BOOK REVIEWS:

LA Review of Books: Life as a Verb: Applying Buckminster Fuller to the 21^st Century

Richard Carter: ‘Humanism’ by Stephen Law

Physics Today: The Human Side of Science: Edson and Tesla, Watson and Crick, and Other Personal Stories behind Science’s Big Ideas

Niche: Review of Kennedy, Something of a Peasant Paradise?

H-Environment: Dunaway, ‘seeing Green’, Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 6

Chemistry World: The mysterious world of the human genome

Academia: Recension « Anne Roekens (dir.), Des murs et des femmes. Cent ans de psychiatrie et d’espoir au Beau-Vallon, Presses universitaires de Namur, 2014 »

Waterstones: The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

The Guardian: John Aubrey: My Own Life by Ruth Scurr

Forbes: Cosmology, God, and Why the Big Picture Needs to Be Bigger

NEW BOOKS:

Springer: Early Geological Maps of Europe: Central Europe 1750 to 1840 eBook

Septentrion: Le corps sans limites

Historiens de la santé: The General: A History of the Montreal General Hospital

Historiens de la santé: Angelo Mariani 1838-1914 : Le vin de coca et la naissance de la publicité moderne

SEUIL: L’Invention de la science La nouvelle religion de l’âge industriel

Pen & Sword Books: Bodysnatchers

Society for the History of Medicine: Book Series

ART & EXHIBITIONS

Hektoen International: The Gross Clinic as religious painting: Eakins, affect, and anatomy

The Walters Museum: Waste Not: The Art of Medieval Recycling 25 June–18 September 2016

The Holburne Museum: Stubbs and the Wild

George Stubbs A Lion and a Lioness 1778 Enamel on Wedgwood ceramic
The Daniel Katz Gallery London

Linda Hall Library: Drawn from Nature: Art, Science, and the Invention of the Bird Field Guide 12 March–10 September 2016

Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May–30 October 2016

La Jolla Light: ‘Art meets Maps’ at La Jolla Map Museum’s new exhibit

BBC News: Somme centenary: WWI ambulance trains exhibition opens

Warminster School: Cracking the Code at Bletchley

Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–1r January 2018

Prague Daily Monitor: Unique Malta Siege maps displayed at Prague Science Faculty

PRN Magazine: The Morbid Anatomy Museum

Art Institute Chicago: The Shogun’s World: Japanese Maps from the 18^th and 19^th Centuries 25 June–6 November 2016

Museum of London: Fire! Fire! 23July 2016–17 April 2017

Royal Museums Greenwich: Above and Beyond: The ultimate interactive flight exhibition 27 May–29 August 2016

Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Brooklyn Historical Society to exhibit two rare Revolutionary War-era maps in honour of upcoming 240^th anniversary of Battle of Brooklyn 29 June–28 August 2016

The Mary Rose: Mary Rose Museum re-opening on 20^th July 2016

Marc Garrett: Curating Monsters of the Machine: Frankenstein in the 21^st Century

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15^th and 16^th Centuries

St. Louis Central Library: Fantasy Maps Exhibit 11 June–15 October 2016

Oxford Thinking: Cook-Voyage collection goes on display at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Uzeeum: House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, and Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum, Berlin, 1869–1922

Amritt Museum: Beatrix Potter – Image & Reality

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph

Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library

Historiens de la santé: Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England: Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts

Science Museum: Robots

The Royal Society of Medicine: Exhibition: Charcot, Hysteria & La Salpetiere 3 May–23 July 2016

Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May30–October 2016

Harvard Magazine: Before Social Media: Radio was the medium that broke the silence

Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus

The Houston Museum of Natural Science: Cabinet of Curiosities Opens 6 May 2016

Reviews in History: Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee (Royal College of Physicians, 18 January – 29 July 2016)

Broadway World.com: Met Museum Exhibition to Celebrate Artistic, Technological, Cultural Legacy of the Seljuqs

Grup d’estudis d’història de la cartografia: Exhibition about Renacentrist cartography in Bergamo 16 April–10 July 2016

Bonner Sterne: “Argelanders Erben” im Universitätsmuseum Bonn bis 31 Juli 2016

Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:

Fine Books & Collections: The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at BPL to Host Exhibit, “From the Sea to the Mountains” 2 April–28 August 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Scholar courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee 18 January 29–31 July 2016

The National Air and Space Museum: A New Moon Rises: An Exhibition Where Science and Art Meet

Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017

AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016

Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017

Science Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius 10 February 2016–4 September 2016

Wellcome Collections: States of Mind 4 February–16 October 2016

Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm

Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game

The John Rylands Library: Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World 21 January–21 August 2016

Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility

Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday

Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017

Science Museum: Information Age

Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: YOUTOPIA: VISIONS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016

Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph 14 April–11 September 2016

Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy

COMING SOON: Bethel Museum of the Mind: The Weight of History 27 July – 18 November 2016

Royal Collection: Maria Merian’s Butterflies

Royal Society of Medicine: charcot, hysteria, & la salpetriere 3 May 2016–23 July 2016

CLOSING SOON: National Gallery Of Ireland Dublin: Ten Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci From the Royal Collections runs till 17 July 2016

Horsham Museum: Dinosaurs of Horsham – Art, Reality and Fun 9 July–5 September 2016

THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:

New Line Theatre: Atomic 2-25 June 2016

ashpags on tumblr: Great Lady Astronomers of History …Come to Life!

Royal Shakespeare Company: Doctor Faustus Swan Theatre Stratford-Upon-Avon 8 February–4 August 2016

Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 07 January 2017

The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017

Eä: A workshop in Rio to debate about the challenges facing interdisciplinary journals

EVENTS:

Midtown Community Center in Oak Ridge: Presentation on Manhattan Project 14 July 2016

The National Museum of Computing: Summer Bytes 30 July–28 August 2016

Royal College of Nursing: The Krypton(ish) Factor: A history of nursing gameshow with a twist 28 July 2016

Down House: Meet the Darwins 26–30 July 2016

Museum of Science and Industry Manchester: Engine Demonstration

Morbid Anatomy: Upcoming Morbid Anatomy Events

NYAM: Lecture: Up!: Manhood, Democratic Medicine, and Walt Whitman’s Secret Health Writings 18 July 2016

LSE: Lecture: Why Physics Needs Philosophy 17 July 2016

Nature: Medical research: Citizen medicine: Vaccination: Medicine and the Masses Hunterian Museum till 17 September 2016

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Talk: Bad Medicine and Quackery in Edinburgh 9–13 August 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: One for the Road

Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “London’s Plagues”

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding

University of Utrecht: Descartes-Huygens Lecture by J.B. Shank on ‘Newtonian’ Mechanics in France around 1700

University College Cork: Walking Tours: A second chance to solve the mystery of ‘Being Boole’!

The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours

Gresham College: Lecture: The Expanding Universe 26 October 2016

Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

The Royal College of Physicians: Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “Sex and The City”

Norcroft Auditorium, Norcroft Centre, University of Bradford: The secret chemistry of art: unravelling an age-old textile mystery / September 2016

Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tours

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Medicine at War

London Fortean Society: A History of Life after Death 26 July 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Medicinal plant lecture: When Britain ruled the waves 18 July 2016

Discover Medical London: Tour: Who needs doctors anyway?

ARTWORK OF THE WEEK:

A folio from the Akhlaq-i Nasiri, a philosophical treatise written by the Iranian polymath Nasir al-Din Tusi (1201-1274)

TELEVISION:

SLIDE SHOW:

Rohit Gupta aka CompassWalla @APOGEE 2016: Mathematics as Religion

VIDEOS:

Youtube: Rohit Gupta aka CompassWalla @APOGEE 2016: Mathematics as Religion

Youtube: Wellcome Collection: Tobacco resuscitation kit

Youtube: The British Museum: The Rolls-Royce of Renaissance clocks

Youtube: Cambridge University: Kepler’s Trial: An Opera

RADIO & PODCASTS:

Here & Now: Remembering Great Moments in Science History

New Books Network: On Hysteria: The Invention of a Medical Category between 1670 and 1820

BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: The Invention of Photography

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The Lowry, Salford Quays: Discovering Collections Discovering Communities 10–12 October 2016

Universidade de Évora (Portugal): Évora’s 7th Symposium on Philosophy and History of Science and Technology 4–5 November 2016

HUMANA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies: CfP: Issue 32, April 2017: Beyond Toleration? Inconsistency and Pluralism in the Empirical Sciences

Centre de Russie pour la Science et la Culture, Paris: Appel à communications: “L’Homme dans le monde de l’incertitude. Méthodologie de la cognition culturelle et historique”. Colloque international pour le 120e anniversaire de la naissance de Lev Vygotsky 13 octobre 2016

University of Glasgow: CfP: Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures 3–4 April 2017

Villa Vigoni (Italy): Pseudo-Paracelsus: Alchemy and Forgery in Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy 25-28 July 2016

IUHPST: Call for entries: IUHPST Essay Prize in History and Philosophy of Science “What is the value of philosophy of science for history of science?” Deadline 30 November 2016

Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin: Workshop: Sharing of Medical Ideas and Information Among Early Modern Practitioners 2 August 2016

Université François Rabelais, Tours: Appel à communications: Représentations et figures de la maternité dans le monde anglophone 3 au 5 avril 2017

JOURNÉES D’ÉTUDES: Appel à communicatio: « Petites mains » d’artistes dans les pratiques scientifiques

BSHS: Museum of the History of Science Upcoming Free Lecture Series

Université de Strasbourg: Appel à symposia: 6ème Congrès de la Société française d’histoire des sciences et des techniques (SFHST) 19-20-21 avril 2017

Birkbeck University of London: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–25 March 2017

Lexicon Philosophicum: CfP: Issue 5 (2017) Histories of Philosophy, Science and Ideas

Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds: CfP: Workshop: Exploring Histories and Futures of Innovation in Advanced Wound Care 20 September 2016

Université de Caen: Colloque: Le corps humain saisi par le droit : entre liberté et propriété 14 Octobre 2016

HSTM Network Ireland: International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Young Scholar Prize

ENVA, Amphithéâtre Blin: Appel à communications: Animalhumanité. Expérimentation et fiction : l’animalité au cœur du vivant 1er et 2 décembre 2016

New Bern NC: CfP: North Carolina Maritime History Council Conference 4–5 November 2016

Logis du Roy – Square Jules Bocquet – Amiens: Colloque: L’anatomie sans les arts ? Le corps en images à l’époque moderne 23 et 24 juin 2016

Christ’s College Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World (1400-1750) 3–4 April 2017

Villa Mirafiori, Rome: Conference: Building Theories, Hypothesis & Heuristics in Science

UCL: CfP. Second London Philosophy of Science Graduate Conference 1–2 September 2016 Deadline 4 July 2016

Society for U.S: Intellectual History: Conference: From the Mayflower to Silicon Valley: Tools and Traditions in American Intellectual History October 13-15, 2016

University of Lisbon: CfP: Third Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Issues 14–16 December 2016

San Sebastian: Physics in the XII International Ontology Congress 3-7 October 2016

Notches: CfP: Histories of Disability and Sexuality

Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science: CfP: Special Issue: Knowledge Transfer and Its Context

University of Freiburg: Accidents and the State in the 20^th Century

The Victorianist: CfP Reminder: The “Heart” and “science” of Wilkie Collins and His Contemporaries 24 September 2016 London

ICOHTEC Conference Porto: CfP: Early Career Scholars Workshop: Tension of Europe 1 August 2016

Society for Renaissance Studies: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Texts and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s

BSHS: The British Society for the History of Science Prize for Exhibits on the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 2016

Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Paris: Colloque: Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique 20–21 Octobre 2016

King’s College London: From Microbes to Matrons: The Past, Present and Future of Hospital Infection Control and Prevention 1-2 September 2016

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: CFP: Conference: HIV/AIDS Research: Its History and Future 13–16 October 2016

Australian Academy of Science: The Moran Award for History of Science Research

Florida Atlantic University: International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry Summer Symposium 1–4 August 2016

University Of Belgrade: CfP: Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation-5 22–23 September 2016

Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta, and the University of Warwick: CfP: Beauty and the Hospital in History 6–8 April 2017

Institution of Engineering and Technology, London: Conference: Telecommunications in the Aftermath of World War 1: Civilian and Military Perspectives 10 August 2016

University of Oxford: Summer School and Conference: Mind Value and Mental Health: Philosophy and Psychiatry 13–15 July 2017

MedHum Fiction – Daily Dose: CfP: Medical Humanities

University of Birmingham: Social Studies in the History of Medicine – ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’

The Nobel Museum Stockholm: Prizes and Awards in Science before Nobel. 5th Watson Seminar in the Material and Visual History of Science 5 September 2016

Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Partington Prize

University of Glasgow: CfP: Discourse of Care: Care in Media, Medicine and Society 5-7 September 2016

Western Michigan University: CfP: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference

University of Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Envirment, and Health In the Easterm Mediterranean World, 1400–1750 3–4 April 2017

Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science: Upcoming Events

Fórum Lisboa (Antigo Cinema Roma): CFP: Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science 14–16 December 2016

Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)

Calenda: Le Calendrier des Lettres et Sciences Humains et Sociales: Appel à contribution « Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique »

Western Michigan University: Call for Abstracts: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference 15–16 September 2016

Society for the Social History of Medicine: Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October 2016

Kunsthistorisches Institut In Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut: CfP: Photo-Objects. On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo-Archives in the Humanities and Sciences 15–17 February 2017

University of Leuven: CfA: The science of evolution and the evolution of the sciences 12–13 October 2016

Science Museum: Artefacts Meeting 2–4 October 2016: CfP: Understanding Use: Science and Technology Objects and Users

Cambridge: CfP extended: Science and Islands in the Indo-Pacific World 15–16 September 2016

University of Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events

Society for the Social History of Medicine: 2016 Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October

H-Pennsylvania: Philip J. Pauly Book Prise Nominations Sought for Histories of Science in the Americas

BSHS: Prizes

Queen Mary University of London:Upcoming History of Emotions Work in Progress Seminars

University of Reading: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016

Barts Pathology Museum: CfP: The “Heart” and “Science” of Wilkie Collins and his Contemporaries 24 September 2016

University of Leicester: Centre for Medical Humanities: Seminars:

Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware: CfP: Making Modern Disability: Histories of Disability, Design, and Technology 28 October 2016

New York City: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 30 September–1 October 2016

IHPST, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris: CfP: International Doctoral Conference in Philosophy of Science 29-30 September 2016

Annals of Science: Annals of Science Essay Prize for Young Scholars

H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology

2nd International Conference on the History of Physics: Invention, application and exploitation in the history of physics Pöllau, Austria 5–7 September 2016

University of Cambridge: Cabinet of Natural History: Seminars Easter Term 2016

Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST: CfP: 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature

University of Greenwich: Society and the Sea Conference: 15–16 September 2016

University of Illinois, Chicago: CfP: STS Graduate Student Workshop: 16-17 September

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century 10–11 September 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016

LOOKING FOR WORK:

Bourse de maîtrise/ doctorat en histoire du nursing psychiatrique au Québec: Appel à candidatures

Deutsches Museum in Munich: Scholarships 2017 Deadline 14 October 2016

King’s College London: Renaissance Skin: Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow or Postdoctoral Research Fellow

The IET Archives Centre, Savoy Hill House, London: Assistant Archivist (maternity cover)

University of Luxembourg: PhD position – History of psychiatry and Digital history

Observatoire de Paris: History of ancient and medieval mathematical astronomy: A 1-year post doc position

University of Utrecht: Postdoc position in ancient medicine and philosophy: “The Unity of Galen’s Physiology”

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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 #49

Monday 18 July 2016

EDITORIAL:

The weeks role by and once a week it’s time for a new edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list to deliver the histories of science, technology and medicine scooped up out of the Internet over the previous seven days.

This last week saw the anniversaries of two milestones in the history of science based technology from the twentieth century, one negative and one positive. In the period in which the UK Parliament voted to spend a disgustingly vast sum of money renewing the UK’s so-called nuclear deterrent we acknowledged the anniversary of the first ever nuclear explosion, the Trinity Test which took place on 16 July 1945. I personally think that the UK needs a nuclear deterrent about as much as I need a hole in my head and if I had the god like power to cause humanity to collectively forget one technological development then the nuclear bomb would be a serious candidate for eradication.

The positive technological anniversary was the successful relaying of the world’s first TV pictures by the telecommunications satellite Telstar on the 11 July 1962. This anniversary awoke personal memories. I took my eleven plus exam in summer 1963 and the essay question I was required to answer was about Goonhilly Downs the satellite earth station in the UK. What seemed so sensational then appears so routine now so much progress in little more than fifty years.

These two anniversaries remind us than scientific knowledge may be neutral but the use to which humankind is anything but.

Quotes of the week:

“The Times, 27 Jan 1815, Mr Davies’ “Best Sperm Candles…such as have already given universal satisfaction”” – Alun Withey (@DrAlun)

“Wide ne biþ wel, cwæþ se þe gehyrde on helle hriman”.

“Things are bad everywhere, said the man who heard wailing in hell” – Old English Wisdom (@OEWisdom)

“This classic history of bio is full of mentions of E. B. Wilson, Jacques Loeb, Theodor Boveri. Zilch about Nettie Stevens, Marcella Boveri. Over and over, you see how the women drop out of the history of science. Years of work, crucial ideas, and then they’re just gone” – Natalia Cecire (@ncecire)

“Ontologies are like toothbrushes – we all agree they are useful, but no one will use someone else’s” – (heard in #DH2016) – Yael Netzer (@yaelnetzer)

“No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means”― Maimonides

“When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name” – Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923)

“We talk of letters till we fall asleep, our dreams are dreams of letters, and literature awakens us” – Erasmus and Thomas More, friends

“Humboldt said that imagination was like ‘a balm of miraculous healing properties’” – Andrea Wulf (@andrea_wulf)

“There is a misconception in America that women scientists are all dowdy spinsters. This is the fault of men” — Chien-Shieng Wu

“You know that if you don’t understand something, it’s totally okay to shut the fuck up about it, right? Choose not to comment” – Jessa Crispin (@thebookslut)

Tochter erklärt einer alten Frau (82) Pokemon Go.

“Des gabs früher au!”

“?”

“Hat Schnitzeljagd gheiße un mer hat noch a Schoklädle kriegt!”

Events of the Week:

Trinity Nuclear Test 16 July 1945

An aerial photograph of the Trinity Test crater.

AHF: Remembering the Trinity Test

AHF: Trinity Test – 1945

Oppenheimer and General Groves visiting the remains of the Trinity test tower in September 1945.

Dannen.com: Trinity Test, July 16, 1945, Eyewitness Accounts – Enrico Fermi

Dannen.com: A Petition to the President of the United States

About.com: Geology: Trinitite

Trinitite image (c) 2003 Andrew Alden, licensed to About.com, Inc.

Youtube: AHF: Trinity Test Preparations

Youtube: AHF: Trinity Test Color Footage

Youtube: AHF: Trinity Test Preparations (Extended)

Satellite Telstar 1 successfully relays the first TV pictures 11 July 1962:

Today in Ladybird 11 July 1962 Satellite Telstar 1 successfully relays the first TV pictures through space

Scientific America: How the U.S. Accidentally Nuked Its Own Communications Satellite

Birthdays of the Week:

Born 14 July 1862 Florence Bascom

Camera Craft Studios, Minneapolis – Creator/Photographer: Camera Craft Studios, Minneapolis Medium: Black and white photographic print Persistent URL: Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Rock Stars: A Life of Firsts: Florence Bascom

Josiah Wedgwood born 12 July 1730

Josiah Wedgwood
Source: Wikimedia Commons

A Covent Garden Gilfurt’s Guide to Life: Josiah Wedgewood, Queen’s Potter

The Renaissance Mathematicus: The scientific potter

Source: CHF

Yovisto: Josiah Wedgwood and his Pottery Company

John Dee born 13 July 1527

John Dee
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Yovisto: John Dee and his World of Science and Magic

The Renaissance Mathematicus: John Dee, the ‘Mathematcall Praeface’ and the English School of Mathematics

Google Art & Culture: Dr Dee’s mirror

John Dee by Quentin Blake

Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – John Dee

Academia: John Dee, King Arthur, and the Conquest of the Arctic

Wellcome Library: John Dee’s crystal

Jocelyn Bell Burnell born 15 July 16

Susan Jocelyn Bell, June 1967
Source: Wikimedia Commons

BBC: Jocelyn Bell Burnell

PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:

Yovisto: Nicole Oresme – Polymath of the Late Middle Ages

Yovisto: Samuel Goudsmit and the Electron Spin

The Hindu: The greatest comet discoverer

Jean-Louis Pons
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Financial Times: First edition of Copernicus’ heliocentric idea up for sale

Royal Museums Greenwich: Grand Orrery

arXiv: Dawes Reviw 5:Australian Aboriginal Astronomy and Navigation

Cern Courier: Ghosts in the machine

AHF: Marvin Davis, Sr.

Voices of the Manhattan Project: Verna Hobson’s Interview Part 1

Yovisto: Jérôme Lalande measuring the distance to the Moon

Futurism: History of the Universe

AHF: Nancy F. Wood

Nancy Wood
Source: AHF

Voices of the Manhattan Project: Ed Hammel’s Interview

Infinite Worlds: Exploring the Universe and Seeking Extraterrestrial Life

Yovisto: Pavel Cherenkov and the Blue Light

Yovisto: The Gran Telescopio Canarias

The Renaissance Mathematicus: If you are going to blazon out history of science ‘facts’ at least get them right

The Renaissance Mathematicus: He died fighting for his king

The Battle of Marston Moor, by J. Barker
Source: Wikimedia Commons

ars technica: A Cold War mystery: Why did Jimmy Carter save the space shuttle?

Shanghai Daily: ‘Confucian Christian’ a pillar of science, religion in his time

Engineering.com: Lowell Is Restoring the Pluto Discovery Telescope

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

The Globe and Mail: Asian nations seek historic items in bid to prove maritime rights

National Geographic: The Unlikely Story of the Map That Helped Create Our Nation

American statesman John Jay used this map in negotiating the Treaty of Paris, which established the United States as an independent country. COLLECTION OF THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Tech Insider: This guy used over 80,000 old photos to create a Google Street map of New York City in the 1800s

Digital Archaeology: Plotting the Past

Medievalists.net: The World in 1467

Yovisto: Salomon August Andrée’s Artic Expedition of 1897

S. A. Andrée and Knut Frænkel with the crashed balloon on the pack ice, photographed by the third expedition member, Nils Strindberg

Library of Congress: Geography & Maps Reading Room: Irish Maps

Fast Code Design: What Makes a Map Beautiful According to a Parks Ranger

Kent and Sussex Courier: Sevenoaks map company celebrates 80^th anniversary with historical blog

National Geographic: Gorgeous Maps Reveal the History of America’s National Parks

Farming UK: Old tithe maps and documents reveal Welsh land use and farming practices from 1840s

MEDICINE & HEALTH:

Teaching watercolor of a cross section of the abdomen The Francis A, Countway Library of Medicine

Yovisto: Paul Broca’s research in Aphasia

Thomas Morris: Rattlesnakes and brandy

History Workshop Online: Radical Objects: ‘Cancer Sucks’

NYAM: Dr. David Hosack, Physician to Hamilton and Burr

The New York Times: Lyme Disease Only Sounds Recent

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

Autism Society: Interview of Steven Silberman

O Say Can You See?: Pork, Politics and Public Health

Thomas Morris: A saw head

Social History of Medicine: ‘If experts differ, what are we to do in the matter?’ The Medico-legal Investigation of Gunshot Wounds in a 1927 Scottish Murder Trial

The Recipes Project: Masdevall’s ‘Antipyretic Opiate’, or: A Well-Travelled Recipe

Harvard AIDS Initiative: The Blood in the Freezer

Atlas Obscura: The Victorian Tool for Everything from Hernias to Sex – a Vibrating Electric Belt

The electropathic belt was one of the most popular consumer medical products on the market during the 19th century. [Photo: Arallyn!/CC BY 2.0]

RCPI Heritage Centre Blog: Napoleon’s Toothbrush

Medium: A Very Trump of Doom: How the Simple Stethoscope Transformed Medical Diagnosis

History Today: Louis Braille and the Night Writer

NYAM: Walt Whitman, ‘Manly Health,’ and the Democratization of Medicine

Société Binet-Simon: Binet et les fabricants d’instruments

Yovisto: June Etta Downey and the Individual Will-Temperament Test

The Atlantic: The Many Ways to Map the Brain

BuzzFeed: 10 Terrifying Psychotherapy Treatments of Yesteryear

Thomas Morris: John Keats: Ode to a Black Eye

Francis Cotes, The Young Cricketer, 1768
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Thomas Morris: The human pincushion

Nature: Jerome Bruner (1915–2016)

Thomas Morris: The sleepwalker

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:

The Telegraph: ‘Berlin Wall’ erected at Bletchley Park as charities fall out

Yovisto: John Fowler and the steam-hauled Plough

Early Radio History: The Telharmonium: Electricity’s Alliance with Music

Telharmonium console by Thaddeus Cahill 1897.
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Conciatore: Glass Headhunters

Conciatore: Turquoise Glass

Conciatore: The Neighbors

Atlas Obscura: The Niesenbahn

Ptak Science Books: An Imaginary Skyline: Comparative Chart of the World’s Tallest Structures, 1852

beatriceo.com: Speech Synthesis: An Experiment in Electronic Speech Production

Smithsonian.com: The Revolutionary Infographics of W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington

The Guardian: How the internet was invented

Vinton Cerf, left, and Robert Kahn, who devised the first internet protocol. Photograph: Louie Psihoyos/Corbis

Leaping Robot: Buckminster Fuller’s Geometric Futures

Synthtopia: New Poster Reveals What Goes on Inside A Minimoog Synthesizer

Smithsonian.com: Did Rembrandt Have Help With His Most Famous Paintings

Ptak Science Books: A Bicycle-Wheel-Framed Gyroscopic Experimental Aircraft, 1911

Ptak Science Books: The Steam Punk Clown Spoiler of Future Electro Punk Technology, 1866

Royal Museums Greenwich: ‘Above and beyond’ maritime history: airships

‘Spithead in Wartime’
William Lionel Wyllie
National Maritime Museum

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

xroads.virginia.edu: The Scopes ‘Monkey Trial’ – July 10, 1925 – July 25, 1925

History of Ecology: How the Geology of Mountains Made America Great

SHNH: Professor Tim Birkhead – awarded the SHNH Founders’ Medal

Forbes: The Origin of Geological Terms: Garnets

Science League of America: Dembski and the Scandal of the Evangelical Mind

Scientific American: The Stegosaurus Plate Controversy

Paige Fossil History: Neanderthal DNA: A Historical Fossil Resurfaces

Illustration from 1860s, in Huxley’s Man’s Place in Nature

Niche: #EnvHist Worth Reading: June 2016

James C Ungureanu: Draper and Darwin at Oxford 1860

The Washington Post: Here’s what seeing bears at National Parks looked like 90 years ago

flickr: BHL: Blue Flowers

Notches: Reverend Anna Garlin Spencer and the Rise of “family Life” in Early Sex Education

Smithsonian.com: These Paleo Pets Made Fossil Hunting Less Lonely

Embryo Project: Aristotle (384–322 BCE)

The Atlantic: The Woman Who Made Science Beautiful

Merian: plates 18, 20, 29

The Dispersal of Darwin: Article: Deceived by orchids: sex, science, fiction and Darwin

A History of Museum Victoria: The Discovery of Dinosaur Cove

Hakai: The Oil Spill Cleanup Illusion

Lexington Herald Leader: Ark doesn’t float your boat? Honor Kentucky’s greatest scientist on his 150^th

NCSE: NCSE’s Branch on evolution in Kentucky

The San Diego Union-Tribune: ‘Somehow, Things Would Just Work Out: Walter Munk’s long, legendary oceanography career began by chance — and romance

Notches: The Catholic Church and Child Sexual Abuse in Twentieth-Century Ireland

Rachel Lauden: Why Do Some Plants Become Food Crops and Others Not? And What Does That Tell Us

The Public Domain Review: Adriaen Coenen’s Fish Book (1580)

Yovisto: Carl Woese and the Archaea

All Things Georgian: Legends of the sea

Origins of Science as Visual Pursuit: Scientific Illustrations in the Freshwater Biological Association Collections

Fig. 1. 1913 map of the shore of Windermere with detailed annotation by H.P. Moon, 1950s?

Twilight Beasts: On the origins of our species

Extinct: From Bonebeds to Paleoecology

Hyperallergic: Mapping the Fossils and Meteorite Impacts in London’s Architecture

FBI News: Darwin Letter Recovered

Atlas Obscura: What Was Wrong With 16^th Century Europeans That They Didn’t Like Tomatoes?

University of Reading: New acquisition: a collection of rare agricultural pamphlets

CHEMISTRY:

Chemistry World: Laplace’s calorimeter

Yovisto: August Kekulé and the Carbon Ring Structure

META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

storify: SSHM Conference 2016

Nature: Let’s make peer review scientific

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences: Counterfactuals and history: Contingency and convergence in histories of science and life (oa)

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences: Introduction: Evolution and historical explanation (oa)

Leaping Robot: Buckminster Fuller’s Geometric Futures

Aleteia: What’s the oldest continuously operating library in the world? St. Catherine’s Monastry of Sinai

Making Visible: The Visual and Graphic Practices of the Early Royal Society: Figures in the Diary of Robert Hooke

The James Lind Library: Illustrating the development of fair tests of treatments in health care

Big Questions Online: Are Science and Religion in Conflict?

The Recipes Project: Creating and Integrating a Database – Work in Progress

SocPhilSciPract: Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum, vol 4 no 1 now online

lassp.cornell.edu: Writing Physics Knight Distinguished Lecture in Writing in the Disciplines

Lady Science No. 22: Disability, Gender, and the Constructed Enviroment

storify: Religion and Medicine: Healing the Body & Soul from the Middle Ages to the Modern Day

Atlas Obscura: Whipple Museum of the History of Science

IDTC – IUHPS: The July HPS&ST Note is on the web

storify: Science in Public 2016

morgenstern.jeffrykegler.com: Kurt Gödel: A Contradiction in the U:S. Constitution?

Electric Lit: Literature About Medicine May Be All That Can Save Us

ESOTERIC:

Scottish Museums Federation Blog: Phrenology

Phrenological Instuments

BOOK REVIEWS:

The Ney York Review of Books: Photographing the Psyche

Advances in the History of Psychology: Neurosceptic Review: Patient H.M.

History of the Human Sciences: The neurologists: A history of a medical specialty in modern Britain, c.1789–2000

Science Friday: Women in Science: An Illustrated Who’s Who

Reprinted with permission from "Women in Science." Copyright © 2016 by Rachel Ignotofsky. Published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC

Forgotten Weapons: SOE Equipment Air Dropped in Europe 1940–1945

CHF: The Magic of it All

NEW BOOKS:

UCC Shop: George Boole Chronicles

The Public Domain Review: “Oh Excellent Air Bag” Under the Influence of Nitrous Oxide, 1799–1920

Palgrave: Pain and Emotion in Modern History

Octares Editions: Henri Piéron (1881-1964) Psychologie, orientation et éducation

Society of Antiquaries of Scotland: The Birth of Industrial Scotland

Springer: Emilie du Châtelet between Leibniz and Newton

ART & EXHIBITIONS

easternblot.net: A Strange Time to Visit the Herschel Museum

Christ Church Oxford: Hakluyt and Geography in Oxford 1550–1650 Opens 14 October 2016

Bodleian Library: The World in a Book: Hakluyt and Renaissance Discovery Opens 28 October 2016

Citizen–Times: Chimney Rock State Park honors Flood of 1916

This stacked stone wall of a well near Chimney Rock was completely exposed after the flood of 1916. (Photo: Courtesy Chimney Rock State Park)

Heriot Watt University: New exhibit unveiled at ICE museum

National Library of Scotland: You Are Here 22 July 2016–3 April 2017

The Australian: Ships, Clocks and Stars: The Quest for Longitude

The Walters Museum: Waste Not: The Art of Medieval Recycling 25 June–18 September 2016

The Holburne Museum: Stubbs and the Wild June 25–2 October 2016

George Stubbs A Lion and a Lioness 1778 Enamel on Wedgwood ceramic
The Daniel Katz Gallery London

Linda Hall Library: Drawn from Nature: Art, Science, and the Invention of the Bird Field Guide 12 March–10 September 2016

Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May–30 October 2016

La Jolla Light: ‘Art meets Maps’ at La Jolla Map Museum’s new exhibit

Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–1r January 2018

Prague Daily Monitor: Unique Malta Siege maps displayed at Prague Science Faculty

Art Institute Chicago: The Shogun’s World: Japanese Maps from the 18^th and 19^th Centuries 25 June–6 November 2016

Museum of London: Fire! Fire! 23July 2016–17 April 2017

Royal Museums Greenwich: Above and Beyond: The ultimate interactive flight exhibition 27 May–29 August 2016

‘Spithead in Wartime’
William Lionel Wyllie
National Maritime Museum

Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Brooklyn Historical Society to exhibit two rare Revolutionary War-era maps in honour of upcoming 240^th anniversary of Battle of Brooklyn 29 June–28 August 2016

The Mary Rose: Mary Rose Museum re-opening on 20^th July 2016

Marc Garrett: Curating Monsters of the Machine: Frankenstein in the 21^st Century

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15^th and 16^th Centuries

St. Louis Central Library: Fantasy Maps Exhibit 11 June–15 October 2016

Oxford Thinking: Cook-Voyage collection goes on display at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Uzeeum: House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, and Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum, Berlin, 1869–1922

Amritt Museum: Beatrix Potter – Image & Reality

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph

Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library

Historiens de la santé: Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England: Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts

Science Museum: Robots

The Royal Society of Medicine: Exhibition: Charcot, Hysteria & La Salpetiere 3 May–23 July 2016

Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus

The Houston Museum of Natural Science: Cabinet of Curiosities Opens 6 May 2016

Broadway World.com: Met Museum Exhibition to Celebrate Artistic, Technological, Cultural Legacy of the Seljuqs

Bonner Sterne: “Argelanders Erben” im Universitätsmuseum Bonn bis 31 Juli 2016

Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:

Fine Books & Collections: The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at BPL to Host Exhibit, “From the Sea to the Mountains” 2 April–28 August 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Scholar courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee 18 January 29–31 July 2016

The National Air and Space Museum: A New Moon Rises: An Exhibition Where Science and Art Meet

Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017

AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016

Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017

Science Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius 10 February 2016–4 September 2016

Wellcome Collections: States of Mind 4 February–16 October 2016

Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm

Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game

The John Rylands Library: Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World 21 January–21 August 2016

Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility

Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday

Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017

Science Museum: Information Age

Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: YOUTOPIA: VISIONS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016

Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph 14 April–11 September 2016

Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy

COMING SOON: Bethel Museum of the Mind: The Weight of History 27 July – 18 November 2016

Royal Collection: Maria Merian’s Butterflies

Royal Society of Medicine: charcot, hysteria, & la salpetriere 3 May 2016–23 July 2016

CLOSING SOON: National Gallery Of Ireland Dublin: Ten Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci From the Royal Collections runs till 17 July 2016

Horsham Museum: Dinosaurs of Horsham – Art, Reality and Fun 9 July–5 September 2016

COMING SOON: Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September–16 December 2016

THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:

University of Nottingham: The Alchemist (RSC) @ The Swan Theatre

NIST: Public Affair Office: Funding Opportunity to Produce Science Documentary

National Geographic: The Bizarre History of a Bogus Doctor Who Prescribed Goat Gonads

Royal Shakespeare Company: Doctor Faustus Swan Theatre Stratford-Upon-Avon 8 February–4 August 2016

Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 07 January 2017

The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017

Eä: A workshop in Rio to debate about the challenges facing interdisciplinary journals

EVENTS:

Cafe, Thackery Medical Museum, Leeds: Panel Talk: What would a museum of the NHS look like? 21 July 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Walking Tour: The Making of Thoroughly Modern Medicine

Museum of the History of Science: Board Games and Medieval Medicine 21 July 2016

The National Museum of Computing: Summer Bytes 30 July–28 August 2016

Royal College of Nursing: The Krypton(ish) Factor: A history of nursing gameshow with a twist 28 July 2016

Down House: Meet the Darwins 26–30 July 2016

Museum of Science and Industry Manchester: Engine Demonstration

Morbid Anatomy: Upcoming Morbid Anatomy Events

Nature: Medical research: Citizen medicine: Vaccination: Medicine and the Masses Hunterian Museum till 17 September 2016

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Talk: Bad Medicine and Quackery in Edinburgh 9–13 August 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: One for the Road

Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “London’s Plagues”

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding

University of Utrecht: Descartes-Huygens Lecture by J.B. Shank on ‘Newtonian’ Mechanics in France around 1700

University College Cork: Walking Tours: A second chance to solve the mystery of ‘Being Boole’!

The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours

Gresham College: Lecture: The Expanding Universe 26 October 2016

Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

The Royal College of Physicians: Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “Sex and The City”

Norcroft Auditorium, Norcroft Centre, University of Bradford: The secret chemistry of art: unravelling an age-old textile mystery / September 2016

Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tours

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Medicine at War

London Fortean Society: A History of Life after Death 26 July 2016

Discover Medical London: Tour: Who needs doctors anyway?

PAINTING OF THE WEEK:

Gregor Mendel by Charley Harper

TELEVISION:

The Guardian: Reverend Richard Coles on The Water Babies: how a vicar saved a chimney sweep

BBC Two: Full Steam Ahead

SLIDE SHOW:

VIDEOS:

Youtube: 1960s Elliot 803 computer playing music @tnmoc National Computer Museum

TED: The forgotten history of autism

Youtube: National Institute of Standards and Technology: Thrown for a Curve

Advances in the History of Psychology: 5 Minute History Lesson: Episode 5: A Love Story of Academic Proportions

RADIO & PODCASTS:

New Books Network: The Art of Medicine in Early China

New Books Network: The Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400–1800

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

ECHOPHYSICS Pöllau Austria: 2^nd International Conference on the History of Physics 5–7 September 2016

The German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker- GDCh): PAUL BUNGE PRIZE 2017: HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS Deadline 30 September 2016

Birkbeck University of London: The Birkbeck Trauma Project: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–27 March 2017

Christ Church & Bodleian Library Oxford: Conference: Hakluyt and the Renaissance Discovery of the World 24–25 November 2016

CELFIS University of Bucharest: Call for Applications: Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science 24–26 October 2016

University of Sydney: CfP: Workshop: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18 April 2017

Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall: Workshop: Tools of Reason: The Practice of Scientific Diagramming from Antiquity to the Present 10–11 February 2017

American Association for the History of Medicine: Awards and Grants

Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries Oxford: Women in Science in the Archives 8 September 2016

University of Edmonton: CfP: Theology and the Philosophy of Science 14–15 October 2016

The Lowry, Salford Quays: Discovering Collections Discovering Communities 10–12 October 2016

Universidade de Évora (Portugal): Évora’s 7th Symposium on Philosophy and History of Science and Technology 4–5 November 2016

HUMANA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies: CfP: Issue 32, April 2017: Beyond Toleration? Inconsistency and Pluralism in the Empirical Sciences

University of Glasgow: CfP: Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures 3–4 April 2017

Villa Vigoni (Italy): Pseudo-Paracelsus: Alchemy and Forgery in Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy 25-28 July 2016

IUHPST: Call for entries: IUHPST Essay Prize in History and Philosophy of Science “What is the value of philosophy of science for history of science?” Deadline 30 November 2016

Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin: Workshop: Sharing of Medical Ideas and Information Among Early Modern Practitioners 2 August 2016

Université François Rabelais, Tours: Appel à communications: Représentations et figures de la maternité dans le monde anglophone 3 au 5 avril 2017

JOURNÉES D’ÉTUDES: Appel à communicatio: « Petites mains » d’artistes dans les pratiques scientifiques

BSHS: Museum of the History of Science Upcoming Free Lecture Series

Université de Strasbourg: Appel à symposia: 6ème Congrès de la Société française d’histoire des sciences et des techniques (SFHST) 19-20-21 avril 2017

Birkbeck University of London: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–25 March 2017

Lexicon Philosophicum: CfP: Issue 5 (2017) Histories of Philosophy, Science and Ideas

Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds: CfP: Workshop: Exploring Histories and Futures of Innovation in Advanced Wound Care 20 September 2016

Université de Caen: Colloque: Le corps humain saisi par le droit : entre liberté et propriété 14 Octobre 2016

HSTM Network Ireland: International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Young Scholar Prize

ENVA, Amphithéâtre Blin: Appel à communications: Animalhumanité. Expérimentation et fiction : l’animalité au cœur du vivant 1er et 2 décembre 2016

New Bern NC: CfP: North Carolina Maritime History Council Conference 4–5 November 2016

Logis du Roy – Square Jules Bocquet – Amiens: Colloque: L’anatomie sans les arts ? Le corps en images à l’époque moderne 23 et 24 juin 2016

Christ’s College Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World (1400-1750) 3–4 April 2017

Villa Mirafiori, Rome: Conference: Building Theories, Hypothesis & Heuristics in Science

UCL: CfP. Second London Philosophy of Science Graduate Conference 1–2 September 2016 Deadline 4 July 2016

Society for U.S: Intellectual History: Conference: From the Mayflower to Silicon Valley: Tools and Traditions in American Intellectual History October 13-15, 2016

University of Lisbon: CfP: Third Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Issues 14–16 December 2016

San Sebastian: Physics in the XII International Ontology Congress 3-7 October 2016

Notches: CfP: Histories of Disability and Sexuality

Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science: CfP: Special Issue: Knowledge Transfer and Its Context

University of Freiburg: Accidents and the State in the 20^th Century

The Victorianist: CfP Reminder: The “Heart” and “science” of Wilkie Collins and His Contemporaries 24 September 2016 London

ICOHTEC Conference Porto: CfP: Early Career Scholars Workshop: Tension of Europe 1 August 2016

Society for Renaissance Studies: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Texts and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s

BSHS: The British Society for the History of Science Prize for Exhibits on the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 2016

Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Paris: Colloque: Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique 20–21 Octobre 2016

King’s College London: From Microbes to Matrons: The Past, Present and Future of Hospital Infection Control and Prevention 1-2 September 2016

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: CFP: Conference: HIV/AIDS Research: Its History and Future 13–16 October 2016

Australian Academy of Science: The Moran Award for History of Science Research

Florida Atlantic University: International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry Summer Symposium 1–4 August 2016

University Of Belgrade: CfP: Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation-5 22–23 September 2016

Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta, and the University of Warwick: CfP: Beauty and the Hospital in History 6–8 April 2017

Institution of Engineering and Technology, London: Conference: Telecommunications in the Aftermath of World War 1: Civilian and Military Perspectives 10 August 2016

MedHum Fiction – Daily Dose: CfP: Medical Humanities

University of Birmingham: Social Studies in the History of Medicine – ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’

The Nobel Museum Stockholm: Prizes and Awards in Science before Nobel. 5th Watson Seminar in the Material and Visual History of Science 5 September 2016

Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Partington Prize

University of Glasgow: CfP: Discourse of Care: Care in Media, Medicine and Society 5-7 September 2016

Western Michigan University: CfP: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference

University of Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Envirment, and Health In the Easterm Mediterranean World, 1400–1750 3–4 April 2017

Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science: Upcoming Events

Fórum Lisboa (Antigo Cinema Roma): CFP: Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science 14–16 December 2016

Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)

Calenda: Le Calendrier des Lettres et Sciences Humains et Sociales: Appel à contribution « Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique »

Western Michigan University: Call for Abstracts: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference 15–16 September 2016

Society for the Social History of Medicine: Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October 2016

Kunsthistorisches Institut In Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut: CfP: Photo-Objects. On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo-Archives in the Humanities and Sciences 15–17 February 2017

University of Leuven: CfA: The science of evolution and the evolution of the sciences 12–13 October 2016

Science Museum: Artefacts Meeting 2–4 October 2016: CfP: Understanding Use: Science and Technology Objects and Users

Cambridge: CfP extended: Science and Islands in the Indo-Pacific World 15–16 September 2016

University of Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events

Society for the Social History of Medicine: 2016 Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October

H-Pennsylvania: Philip J. Pauly Book Prise Nominations Sought for Histories of Science in the Americas

BSHS: Prizes

Queen Mary University of London:Upcoming History of Emotions Work in Progress Seminars

University of Reading: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016

Barts Pathology Museum: CfP: The “Heart” and “Science” of Wilkie Collins and his Contemporaries 24 September 2016

University of Leicester: Centre for Medical Humanities: Seminars:

Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware: CfP: Making Modern Disability: Histories of Disability, Design, and Technology 28 October 2016

New York City: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 30 September–1 October 2016

IHPST, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris: CfP: International Doctoral Conference in Philosophy of Science 29-30 September 2016

Annals of Science: Annals of Science Essay Prize for Young Scholars

H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology

2nd International Conference on the History of Physics: Invention, application and exploitation in the history of physics Pöllau, Austria 5–7 September 2016

University of Cambridge: Cabinet of Natural History: Seminars Easter Term 2016

Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST: CfP: 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature

University of Greenwich: Society and the Sea Conference: 15–16 September 2016

University of Illinois, Chicago: CfP: STS Graduate Student Workshop: 16-17 September

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century 10–11 September 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016

LOOKING FOR WORK:

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: Max Planck Research Group Leader position/ University professorship

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: 2 Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: Doctoral Candidate

Science Museum Group: Collaborative Doctoral Award proposals. The AHRC will fund six projects to start in Autumn 2017 Deadline 25 November 2016

ETH Zürich: 2 Doktorandenstellen zu vergeben

NYAM: Reference Services and Outreach Librarian

Norsk Teknisk Museum Oslo: One-year Opening Curator of Medicine

University of Strathclyde Glasgow: Wellcome Trust Doctoral Scholarship in the history of intoxicants and narcotics in the modern Philippines

Youtube: MSc Science Communication – Manchester Metropolitan University

Science Museum Group: Marketing Officer

NIST: Public Affair Office: Funding Opportunity to Produce Science Documentary

University of Oxford: Postdoctoral Researcher – Darwin’s Fuegian Lice

Royal Museums Greenwich: Family Programmes Producer

NIST: Public Affair Office: Funding Opportunity to Produce Science Documentary

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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

Year 2, Volume #50

Monday 01 August 2016

EDITORIAL:

After our short enforced break it is once again time for a new edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list bringing you a full seven days worth of the histories of science, technology and medicine from the hidden depths of cyberspace.

A Whewell’s Gazette sub-editor interviewing a police officer

We all have some sort of clichéd image in our heads when we hear the word scientist and another completely different, but equally clichéd, image when we hear the phrase children’s book author and illustrator; we wouldn’t normally consider bringing the two images together and applying them to the same person but that is exactly what we are going to have to do today.

For many generations of, not just, British children the name Beatrix Potter immediately evokes the exciting tales and no less beautiful images of a world full of small animals, most notably Peter Rabbit. It would not be an exaggeration to claim that Beatrix Potter is one of the best-known English children’s book authors and illustrators of the last hundred years.

Illustration of Peter Rabbit eating radishes, from The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Source: Wikimedia Commons

However even a brief survey of Potter’s children’s book illustration reveals a keen and accurate observer of nature and in fact Potter was passionately interested in a broad spectrum of the sciences and in particular was a highly active naturalist. She even submitted a paper on mycology, a special interest, to the Linnean Society in 1897.

28 July was the 150^th anniversary of Beatrix Potter’s birth an occasion honoured with many articles recognising her dual personality, children’s book author and scientist, which you can access below.

Today’s edition of Whewell’s Gazette is dedicated with fondness to the memory of Beatrix Potter mycologist and creator of Peter Rabbit.

Beatrix Potter born 28 July 1866

Potter at fifteen years with her springer spaniel, Spot
Source: Wikimedia Commons

The Guardian: Let’s celebrate 150years of Beatrix Potter: author, scientist and fungus lover

A rarely seen very early Beatrix Potter drawing, A Dream of Toasted Cheese was drawn to celebrate the publication of Henry Roscoe’s chemistry textbook in 1899. Illustration: Beatrix Potter/reproduced courtesy of the Lord Clwyd collection

History Today: Birth of Beatrix Potter

British Museum: Beatrix Potter Drawings

British Library: Collection Items: Peter Rabbit

brainpickings: Beatrix Potter, Mycologist: The Beloved Children’s Book Author’s Little-Known Scientific Studies and Illustrations of Mushrooms

From Shanklin: Love your Lichen

The wonderously gorgeous sausage lichen, Usnea articulata. Here it is blissfully blowing in the gentle summer breeze. Wonderful to spot one on a branch in a tree, and the branch is also home to many more lichen species.

Victoria and Albert Museum: Beatrix Potter Nature’s Lessons

Lakes Culture: Image & Reality: Beatrix Potter’s Extraordinary Lake District Legacy

The Guardian: Happy birthday Beatrix Potter: the author’s legacy 150 years on

BBC Radio 4 Today: Could Beatrix Potter have been the next Charles Darwin?

The Armitt: Museum Gallery Library: Beatrix Potter

Smithsonian Libraries: Turning the Book Wheel: Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter

British Library: Medieval manuscripts blog: The Distinguished Pedigree of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle

The Public Domain Review: The Tale of Beatrix Potter

Samuel Whiskers from the Hunterian Museum Archives

Quotes of the week:

“My youngest daughter: “who’s that?” Me: “That’s Bill Clinton.”

Her: “Is he related to Hillary Clinton?”” – Science Mike (@mikemchargue)

“I can’t believe they rebooted the Clintons with a female lead. The presidencies of my childhood are ruined” – Stephan Byrne (@StephenByrne86)

“Knowledge is power” – Francis Bacon

“Ignorance is power” – Donald Trump – Existential Comics (@existentialcomics)

“you can’t teach an old dog new tricks so dogs probably aren’t turing complete” – Computer Facts (@computerfacts)

“The problem with the internet is that people just argue and argue.

No one hits anyone with sticks like they used to” – John Lurie (@lurie_john)

“The term ‘Plagiarism’ was coined by Ben Jonson. He took it from the Latin for body-snatcher” – Brian Regal (@tarbosaur)

“Women should not be looked upon as equals of men. They are, in fact, only machines for making babies” – Napoleon h/t @holland_tom

“The belief that one’s own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions” – Paul Watzlawik (1921-2007) h/t @yovisto

“The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students” – Henri Léon Lebesgue (1875-1941)

“I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours” — Hunter S. Thompson h/t @berfois

“Being a good historian is not about memorization. It’s about engagement- and tackling the difficult questions, pushing disciplinary lines” – Samuel McLean (@Canadian_Errant)

“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it” – Karl Popper (1902-1994)

“Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths” – Karl Popper

“Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself” – Charlie Chaplin

“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies” – Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

“I can’t stop thinking about how when people say “precise” but mean “accurate” they’re being precise but not accurate” – Vi Hart (@vihartvihart)

“Many people don’t know this, but it’s possible to read something you don’t agree with on the internet and simply move on with your life” – Rock (@TheMichaelRock)

“Physicists make bad philosophers, but then so do most philosophers.” – Bill Phillips h/t @orzelc

“I wonder how physicists would feel if a theologian wrote about what they “believed” without having read a single book by a physicist?” – Philip Ball (@philipcball)

Birthdays of the Week:

Isidor I. Rabi born 29 July 1898

Rabi with fellow Nobel Prize winners Ernest O. Lawrence (left) and Enrico Fermi (centre)
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Yovisto: Isidor Isaac Rabi and the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

AHF: Isidor I. Rabi

Christoph Scheiner born 25 July in either 1573 or 1575

Christoph Scheinet (artist unknown)

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Apelles hiding behind the painting

Edward Drinker Cope born 28 July 1840

Edward D. Cope, caricature by artist Matt Hammill

Yovisto: Edward Drinker Cope and the Neo-Lamarckian School of Thought

Encyclopaedia Britannica: Edward Drinker Cope

Primo Levi born 31 July 1919

Primo Levi
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Brainpickings: Primo Levi on the Spiritual Value of Science and How Space Exploration Brings Humanity Closer Together

BBC Radio 4: Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table

PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:

In 1913, Suffragettes tried to blow up the Royal Astronomical Observatory in Edinburgh h/t Fern Riddell (@FernRiddell)

ROE: Bomb Attack at the Royal Observators Edinburgh

Smithsonian.com: Researchers Discover First Written Evidence of Laws of Friction in Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks

JSTOR Daily: Émilie du Châtelet: Heroine of the Enlightenment

Idaho Statesman: How Sally Ride became America’s first woman in space

Culture and Cosmos: Stars and Planets in Chinese and Central Asian Buddhist Art in the Ninth to Fifteenth Centuries

World Digital Library: The Elucidation of the Memoir on Astronomy by Tūsi

British Library: Medieval manuscripts blog: Star Item: An Anglo-Saxon Sketch of the Solar System

The Sphere of Sacrobosco: The First Printed Spanish Sphere

CBC News: Ursula Franklin, renowned Canadian scientist, dead at 94

The Atlantic: Amazing Structure: A Conversation with Ursula Franklin

ESA: Space in Images: Double Star ‘TAN CE 2’ Satellite Successfully Launched

Dannen.com: Harry S. Truman, Diary, July 25, 1945

Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog: The Kyoto misconception

eoht.info: Paddle wheel experiment –Hmolpedia

Engraving of James Joule’s 1843 paddle wheel experiment for measuring the mechanical equivalent of heat.

Science Friday: The Women Who Brought Us Apollo 11

The New Yorker: America at the Atomic Crossroads

AHF: Raemer E. Schreiber

Yovisto: The Astronomical Achievements of Sir George Biddell Airy

World Digital Library: The Explanation on the ‘Anatomy of the Heavens’ by al-Āmilī

greg.org: the making of: The Berkowski Daguerrotype

AHF: Otto Hahn

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Let’s talk about science: Edwin Hubble

Wirral Globe: Fears for Wirral heritage as Bidston Observatory goes under the hammer

Yesterday’s Island Today’s Nantucket: What is This? Maria Mitchell’s Gold Medal

Shanghai Daily: The lingering legacy of a celestial almanac

Shanghai Daily: New museum: sky gazing never loses its appeal

The New York Times: Otto Hahn, the Nobel-Winning Chemist Whose Discovery Was Used in Hiroshima

Atlas Obscura: The Experimental Nuclear Reactor Secretly Built Under the University of Chicago

Wirral Globe: Fears for Wirral heritage as Bidston Observatory goes under the hammer

Ptak Science Books: James Clerk Maxwell’s Library

British Library: A Christian calendar in the Northern French Hebrew Miscellany

CNET: The Harvard Computers who changed astronomy

Dannen.com: Bomb Production Schedule, July 30, 1945

Medium: The House Where Spacetime Began

Motherboard: The First Lunar Road Trip

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

1843 map of the upper Mississippi drawn by astronomer turned explorer Joseph Nicollet h/t Ben Gross (@bhgross)

The 18^th-Century Common: “Looking for Longitude”

Paul Mellon Centre: A look back at the ‘looking for the Longitude’ journey

The Hakluyt Society Blog: How to read Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations (1598–1600)?

National Geographic: 19^th-Century Schoolgirls Were Incredibly Good at Drawing Maps

British Library: Online Gallery: Content of the Manors of Bayford and Goodmanston Kent

Transit Maps: Historical Map: Pneumatic Mail Tube Network, Paris, 1967

Yovisto: John Speed and his famous Maps

John Speed Wilshire, 1610 with a townplan of Salisbury and a view of Stonehenge
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Evening Standard: New interactive map of 100,000 photos and videos reveal ‘lost London’ in the Victorian London

British Library: Online Gallery: Portolan Chart of Northern Europe Showing the British Isles

Macro-Typography: Summer of Ptolemy

Royal Museums Greenwich: The Endeavour’s last resting place: The clue’s in the Caird!

Slate: Mapping the Archives

Creatio Universi, 1720. Engraving of the creation of the universe, the Earth surrounded by planetary orbits engraved by Fuesslinus who worked in Augsburg, Germany.

MEDICINE & HEALTH:

Center for History of Medicine: The Francis A Countway Library of Medicine: Teaching watercolour of phlebitis and sepsis

Medievalists.net: The Herbal Cures of Hildegard von Bingen – was she right?

Thomas Morris: Brolly painful

BSHM: Dr Isaac ‘Harry’ Gosset Collection

Notches: Syphilis Onstage: Eugène Brieux’s Damaged Goods

Academia: CMAJ: Humanities: Modelling the mind: the case of Warren S. McCulloch

Yovisto: The Undiscovered Self – C.G. Jung and the Psychology

The Recipes Project: Ambire: An Amerindian Antidote Against All Types of Poison. New Kingdom of Granada (Today Colombia) ca. 1628

Academia: Pharmacies as centres of communication in early modern Venice

Notches: Naming and Shaming Women: Reporting on VD Trials During the First World War

Thomas Morris: The mysterious bullet in the heart

Ptak Science Books: Blood Poison and its Non-Existent Mystery Cure, 1903

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Celtic Medical Treatments

Scroll.in: The ugly history of cosmetic surgery

The Chirugeon’s Apprentice: The Cutter’s Art: A Brief History of Bloodletting

V0011195 An ill man who is being bled by his doctor. Coloured etching
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
images@wellcome.ac.uk

Wellcome Library: Tales of medical students heading for Paris

Medievalists.net: Monastic medicine: medieval herbalism meets modern science

Social History of Medicine: Medicine and Charity in Eighteenth-century Northumberland: The Early Years of the Bamburgh Castle Dispensary and Surgery, c. 1772–1802 pdf (oa)

The Wood Library Museum: Magic Box

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:

Conciatore: Don Giovanni in Flanders

Conciatore: Francesco and Bianca

Conciatore: Decololorization of Glass

Conciatore: Purpurine

Ptak Science Books: Dr Stranglove’s Computer

Othermeralia: Die Schule des Elektrotechnikers: Lehrgang für die angewandte Elektricitätslehre: Blueprints for a Dynamo

AHF: Little Boy and Fat Man

My medieval foundry: What I did on my holiday this year – bronze casting

Yovisto: Louis Blériot’s famous Flight across the English Channel

Source: Wikimedia Commons

Yovisto: Thomas Tompion – the Father of English Clockmaking

Yovisto: Robert Cocking’s Parachuting Accident

Friends of the Union Chain Bridge: Celebrating 200 Years

Smithsonian.com: Why VHS and Five Other Formats May Live Forever

The Atlantic: Rest in Peace, VCR

Pen and Pension: Let There be Light! Indoor Lighting in Georgian England

History Today: The Atlantic Cable

Atlas Obscura: Over 400 Vintage Boomboxes Are Up for Sale

Atlas Obscura: Escape Plan SF: A Tour of Tech History

worrydream.com: Alan Key: User Interface: A Personal View (1989)

Creator unkown

Yovisto: Aviation Pioneer Sir Geoffrey De Havilland

Atlas Obscura: The Public Shaming of England’s First Umbrella User

Ptak Science Books: A Beautiful Naval Cross-Section of Superb Detail, 1851

BBC Future: Leonardo da Vinci’s lessons in design genius

Archaeology: Rome’s Imperial Port

E&T: Engineering’s most ingenious women

Yovisto: Vladimir Zworykin’s Television System

Day of Archaeology: Scrambled Messages: 150 Years of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable

Yovisto: New Zealand’s Aviation Pioneer Richard Pearse

Prepared Guitar: The Birth of Loop

Atlas Obscura: 10 Dark Towers That Once Made the World’s Bullets

ICE: Engineers at War

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Flickr: BHL: The moth book

Yovisto: Thomas Say and his Love for Beetles

The Guardian: Forget cut-throat competition: to survive try a little selflessness

Niche: Sustainable Farm Systems in Mallorca

University of Toronto: Archives and Records Management Services: New acquisition: Davidson Black Papers

New World Encyclopedia: Davidson Black

flickr: BHL: Catesby’s Natural History

National Geographic: World’s First Geological Map Was Far Ahead of Its Time

Pieced together from many fragments, the map shows a nine-mile (15-kilometer) stretch of Wadi Hammamat, a valley that included a stone quarry and gold mine.
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF JAMES HARRELL, UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO

Atlas Obscura: The Miseducation of John Muir

Burke Museum: Kennewick Man. The Ancient One

flickr: BHL: New Illustrations of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus

BBC News: Sunlight destroying natural history museum exhibits

BHL: Celebrating the Birds of South America

Lawn Chair Anthropology: Dietary divergence of robust australopithecines

Famous Scientists: The Art of Genius: Alfred Russel Wallace

Peddling and Scaling God and Darwin: The Origin of Darwin as a Naturalist 1809–1831

Part of Darwin’s Beetle Collection

Atlas Obscura: The 17^th-Century Language that Divided Everything in the Universe into 40 Categories

Sandwalk: What is “THE” theory of evolution?

Forbes: The Origin of Geological Terms: Agate

flickr: Elizabeth Blackwell’s Fern Illustrations

The Conversation: More than scenery: National parks preserve our history and culture

NYAM: Godman’s mammals: An Illustrated Natural History

Bats from Volume I of Godman’s American Natural History, 1826-1828.

Luanagames.com: Marie Tharp: the Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor

Forbes: Forensic Geology Provides Tantalizing Clues About the Fate of Skyjacker D.B. Cooper

History of Geology: Forensic Geology and the Murder-case of Aldo Moro

The Atlantic: How a Guy from a Montana Trailer Park Overturned 150 Years of Biology

The Cabinet of Curiosity: Survival of the Thesis, Writing Advice from Charles Darwin

CHEMISTRY:

cpp.edu: Rosalind Franklin and the Double Helix

CHF: James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Franklin in Paris.
Courtesy Vittorio Luzzati.

The Guardian: Sexism in science: did Watson and Crick really steal Rosalind Franklin’s data?

Teyler’s Museum: Devices for gas photometry

META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

Making Science Public: Camille Flammarion: Making Science Popular

$Solar halo in northern latitudes caused by ice crystal refraction. In: L’Atmosphère by Camille Flammarion, 1872. Library Call No. M0030 F581a 1872. NOAA Photo Library$

Solar halo in northern latitudes caused by ice crystal refraction. In: L’Atmosphère by Camille Flammarion, 1872. Library Call No. M0030 F581a 1872. NOAA Photo Library

AEON: Science fictions: Is the scientific endeavour always a bold and noble quest for truth? Not when it is writing its own history

Los-Angeles Times: History isn’t a ‘useless’ major. It teaches critical thinking, something America needs plenty more of

The Musical Museum at Kew Bridge

Philosophie.ch: Philosophie und Gesundheit: Pour une philosophie de la santé: la philosophie au service de la santé (et inversement)

npr: cosmos & culture: What Is a Paradigm Shift, Anyway?

World Economic Forum: Why do people resist new technologies? History might provide an answer

Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature is first Canadian partner of international biodiversity library network

Yovisto: Karl Popper and the Philosophy of Science

The Renaissance Mathematicus: A Rant Roundup!

The 1569 Mercator map of the world based on the Mercator projection
Source: Wikimedia Commons

big think: What’s Behind a Science vs. Philosophy Fight?

the many-headed monster: Understanding Source: diaries

Centre for the Future of Museums: What Museums Can Learn from Amanda Palmer

Medical History: Medical Archives and Digital Culture: From WWI to Bioshock

Slate: History, or Just Horror?

British Library: Untold lives blog: Words will eat themselves

History of the Human Sciences: July 2016 Issue Abstracts

Nature: Science fiction: The science that fed Frankenstein

Social History of Medicine: Volume 29 Issue 3 August 2016 Table of Contents

THE: Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, From Missiles to the Moon to Mars, by Nathalia Holt

Smithsonian.com: Oxford University is Older than the Aztecs

ESOTERIC:

Flickering Lamps: Winged Skulls and Hot Air Balloons: The Grave of Étienne-Gaspard Robert Pioneer of Phantasmagoria

Robertson’s Phantasmagoria at the abandoned Convent des Capucines, Paris (image via Wikimedia Commons)

University of Cambridge: Astronomical Images: Johann Engel, Astrolabium planum in tabulis ascendens (Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 1488)

Dittrick Museum Blog: By the Light of the Fever-, Gout- and Plague-Inducing Moon: Lunar Medicine

BOOK REVIEWS:

Brainpickings: Amelia Earhart on Marriage

Crane Reaction: The Invention of Science – Book Review

Somatospher: Book Forum–Sabine Arnaud’s On Hysteria

New Republic: How Exhaustion Became a Status Symbol

Notches: Bad Girls: A Student Interview with Amanda Littauer

Source: Nasa/JPL-Caltech
Women making history: the human computers at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, in 1953

Not Even Past: The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo Casale (2010)

The Third Pole: The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China

New York Times: The Bone Hunters Revenge

Medieval Histories: Mapping the Medieval Countryside

NEW BOOKS:

the many-headed monster: Understanding Sources: the source of it all

Havard University Press: Daughters of Alchemy

Varity: Michael Crichton’s Novel ‘Dragon Teeth’ Bought by Harper Collins

Leuven University Press: Between Text and Tradition

ART & EXHIBITIONS:

Caricature of Stokes, with his stethoscope by Spex (VM/1/2/S/35)

Museum of London: Fire! Fire! 23 July 2016–17 April 2017

HSS: On Time: The Quest for Precision

Christ Church Oxford: Hakluyt and Geography in Oxford 1550–1650 Opens 14 October 2016

Bodleian Library: The World in a Book: Hakluyt and Renaissance Discovery Opens 28 October 2016

Heriot Watt University: New exhibit unveiled at ICE museum

National Library of Scotland: You Are Here 22 July 2016–3 April 2017

The Walters Museum: Waste Not: The Art of Medieval Recycling 25 June–18 September 2016

The Holburne Museum: Stubbs and the Wild June 25–2 October 2016

George Stubbs A Lion and a Lioness 1778 Enamel on Wedgwood ceramic
The Daniel Katz Gallery London

Linda Hall Library: Drawn from Nature: Art, Science, and the Invention of the Bird Field Guide 12 March–10 September 2016

Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May–30 October 2016

Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–1r January 2018

Art Institute Chicago: The Shogun’s World: Japanese Maps from the 18^th and 19^th Centuries 25 June–6 November 2016

Museum of London: Fire! Fire! 23July 2016–17 April 2017

Royal Museums Greenwich: Above and Beyond: The ultimate interactive flight exhibition 27 May–29 August 2016

‘Spithead in Wartime’
William Lionel Wyllie
National Maritime Museum

Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Brooklyn Historical Society to exhibit two rare Revolutionary War-era maps in honour of upcoming 240^th anniversary of Battle of Brooklyn 29 June–28 August 2016

The Mary Rose: Mary Rose Museum re-opening on 20^th July 2016

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15^th and 16^th Centuries

St. Louis Central Library: Fantasy Maps Exhibit 11 June–15 October 2016

Uzeeum: House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, and Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum, Berlin, 1869–1922

Amritt Museum: Beatrix Potter – Image & Reality

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph

Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library

Historiens de la santé: Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England: Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts

Science Museum: Robots

Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus

Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:

Fine Books & Collections: The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at BPL to Host Exhibit, “From the Sea to the Mountains” 2 April–28 August 2016

Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017

AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016

Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017

Science Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius 10 February 2016–4 September 2016

Wellcome Collections: States of Mind 4 February–16 October 2016

Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm

Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game

The John Rylands Library: Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World 21 January–21 August 2016

Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility

Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday

Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017

Science Museum: Information Age

Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: YOUTOPIA: VISIONS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016

Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph 14 April–11 September 2016

Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy

COMING SOON: Bethel Museum of the Mind: The Weight of History 27 July – 18 November 2016

Royal Collection: Maria Merian’s Butterflies

Royal Society of Medicine: charcot, hysteria, & la salpetriere 3 May 2016–23 July 2016

Horsham Museum: Dinosaurs of Horsham – Art, Reality and Fun 9 July–5 September 2016

COMING SOON: Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September–16 December 2016

Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–15 January 2018

COMING SOON: Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September–16 December 2016

COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE WEIGHT OF HISTORY 27 July–18 November 2016

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Shakespeare’s World View: Stars, Globes and Magic

Horsham Museum: Dinosaurs of Horsham – Art, Reality and Fun 9 July–5 September 2016

COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September–15 January

THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:

Smithsonia.com: The Cosmos Sings in This Fusion of Astrophysics and Music: The Hubble Cantata

NIST: Public Affair Office: Funding Opportunity to Produce Science Documentary

EOI: Call for Expressions of Interest: Learned societies and the circulation of knowledge, 1750-2000 From Aileen Fyfe and Jenny Beckman

CLOSING SOON: Royal Shakespeare Company: Doctor Faustus Swan Theatre Stratford-Upon-Avon 8 February–4 August 2016

Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 07 January 2017

The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017

CLOSING SOON: Swan Theatre: Doctor Faustus 7 March–4 August 2016

COMING SOON: The Grand Theatre Blackpool: Jekyll and Hyde

COMING SOON: Barbican: The Alchemist

COMING SOON: Barbican: Doctor Faustus

EVENTS:

The Warburg Institute: Maps and Society Lectures 26^th Series Programme 2016–2017

Wellcome Collection London: Museums Computer Group: First Keynote 2016: Museums & Tech 19 October 2016

New Scientist: The life and work of Alan Turing 4_8 November 2016 (other dates available) £££

Martin Randall Travel: History of Medicine – Florence, Bologna & Padua in the Age of Humanism 12–18 September 2016 $$$

Royal College of Physicians: Walking Tour: The Making of Thoroughly Modern Medicine

The National Museum of Computing: Summer Bytes 30 July–28 August 2016

Museum of Science and Industry Manchester: Engine Demonstration

Morbid Anatomy: Upcoming Morbid Anatomy Events

Nature: Medical research: Citizen medicine: Vaccination: Medicine and the Masses Hunterian Museum till 17 September 2016

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Talk: Bad Medicine and Quackery in Edinburgh 9–13 August 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: One for the Road

Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “London’s Plagues”

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding

University of Utrecht: Descartes-Huygens Lecture by J.B. Shank on ‘Newtonian’ Mechanics in France around 1700

University College Cork: Walking Tours: A second chance to solve the mystery of ‘Being Boole’!

The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours

Gresham College: Lecture: The Expanding Universe 26 October 2016

Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

The Royal College of Physicians: Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “Sex and The City”

Norcroft Auditorium, Norcroft Centre, University of Bradford: The secret chemistry of art: unravelling an age-old textile mystery / September 2016

Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tours

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Medicine at War

Discover Medical London: Tour: Who needs doctors anyway?

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: The weight of History 6 August 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Walking Tour: John Dee and The History of Understanding

PAINTINGS OF THE WEEK:

Descartes Optics

Flammarion engraving
Page 163 of Camille Flammarion’s L’atmosphère: météorologie populaire (“The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology,” Paris, 1888)

TELEVISION:

SLIDE SHOW:

VIDEOS:

Youtube: Murry Gell-Man (Scientist) 200 Videos!

Youtube: Glaciers lost in time

Gizmodo: Get Your Math Geek On with This A Capella Hamilton Parody

Youtube: Solvay Physics Conference 1927

Getty Images: Albert Einstein with wife Elsa

RADIO & PODCASTS:

PBS: Newshour: Author explores life on the expanding autism spectrum

BBC Radio 4: Drama: The Vicar, the Automaton and the Talking Dog (The childhood of Alexander Graham Bell)

Ben Franklin’s World: Episode 092: Sharon Block, How to Research History Online

BBC Radio 4 Today: Oldest example of human cancer found

Milwaukee Public Radio: Celebrating 40 Years & 40 Missions to Mars

BBC Radio 3: The Essay: The Nebula of Orion

Soundcloud: amroos: History of science/medicine radio shows hosted Anna Marie Roos

BBC Radio 4: Voices from Our Industrial Past: Women

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The Edward Worth Library in association with the UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland: Project Meeting on ‘The Sharing of Medical Ideas and Information Among Early-Modern Practitioners.’ 2 August 2016

University of Durham: Conference: Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism? 5–7 August 2017

Salem Academy Charter School, Salem MA: New England Regional World History Association Fall Symposium: CfP: Navigation, Travel, and Exploration in World History 24 September 2016

Istanbul: XXXVth Scientific Instrument Symposium: Draft Programme 26–30 September 2016

Universidade de Évora: Conference: Évora’s 7th Symposium on Philosophy and History of Science and Technology: Structuralism: Roots, Plurality and Contemporary debates 4–5 November 2016

University of Valencia: Institute for the History of Medicine and Science “López Piñero”: Programme Fall 2016 Seminars, Conferences etc

Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA: Vintage Computer Festival West XI 6–7 August 2016

Urbino & Cesena: XIX Summer School in Philosophy of Physics 5-9 September 2016

Radboud University Nijmegen: Call for nominations: Hanneke Janssen Memorial Prize 2016: Essay in History and Philosophy of Physics Deadline 1 November 2016

Mahon/Maó (Menorca): 9^th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularisation: CFP: Living in Emergency: humanitarianism and medicine 18–20 May 2017

Berlin –Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaft: Project: Galen of Pergamum: The Transmission, Interpretation and Completion of Ancient Medicine

Wellcome Collection London: The Physiological Society: Physiology: An Historical Perspective 13 September 2016

Warwick: Humanities Research Centre: Conference: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Text and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s 4 March 2017

ECHOPHYSICS Pöllau Austria: 2^nd International Conference on the History of Physics 5–7 September 2016

The German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker- GDCh): PAUL BUNGE PRIZE 2017: HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS Deadline 30 September 2016

Birkbeck University of London: The Birkbeck Trauma Project: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–27 March 2017

Christ Church & Bodleian Library Oxford: Conference: Hakluyt and the Renaissance Discovery of the World 24–25 November 2016

CELFIS University of Bucharest: Call for Applications: Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science 24–26 October 2016

University of Sydney: CfP: Workshop: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18 April 2017

Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall: Workshop: Tools of Reason: The Practice of Scientific Diagramming from Antiquity to the Present 10–11 February 2017

American Association for the History of Medicine: Awards and Grants

Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries Oxford: Women in Science in the Archives 8 September 2016

University of Edmonton: CfP: Theology and the Philosophy of Science 14–15 October 2016

The Lowry, Salford Quays: Discovering Collections Discovering Communities 10–12 October 2016

Universidade de Évora (Portugal): Évora’s 7th Symposium on Philosophy and History of Science and Technology 4–5 November 2016

HUMANA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies: CfP: Issue 32, April 2017: Beyond Toleration? Inconsistency and Pluralism in the Empirical Sciences

University of Glasgow: CfP: Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures 3–4 April 2017

IUHPST: Call for entries: IUHPST Essay Prize in History and Philosophy of Science “What is the value of philosophy of science for history of science?” Deadline 30 November 2016

Eä: A workshop in Rio to debate about the challenges facing interdisciplinary journals

Université François Rabelais, Tours: Appel à communications: Représentations et figures de la maternité dans le monde anglophone 3 au 5 avril 2017

JOURNÉES D’ÉTUDES: Appel à communicatio: « Petites mains » d’artistes dans les pratiques scientifiques

BSHS: Museum of the History of Science Upcoming Free Lecture Series

Université de Strasbourg: Appel à symposia: 6ème Congrès de la Société française d’histoire des sciences et des techniques (SFHST) 19-20-21 avril 2017

Birkbeck University of London: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–25 March 2017

Lexicon Philosophicum: CfP: Issue 5 (2017) Histories of Philosophy, Science and Ideas

Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds: CfP: Workshop: Exploring Histories and Futures of Innovation in Advanced Wound Care 20 September 2016

Université de Caen: Colloque: Le corps humain saisi par le droit : entre liberté et propriété 14 Octobre 2016

HSTM Network Ireland: International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Young Scholar Prize

ENVA, Amphithéâtre Blin: Appel à communications: Animalhumanité. Expérimentation et fiction : l’animalité au cœur du vivant 1er et 2 décembre 2016

New Bern NC: CfP: North Carolina Maritime History Council Conference 4–5 November 2016

Christ’s College Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World (1400-1750) 3–4 April 2017

Villa Mirafiori, Rome: Conference: Building Theories, Hypothesis & Heuristics in Science

UCL: CfP. Second London Philosophy of Science Graduate Conference 1–2 September 2016 Deadline 4 July 2016

Society for U.S: Intellectual History: Conference: From the Mayflower to Silicon Valley: Tools and Traditions in American Intellectual History October 13-15, 2016

University of Lisbon: CfP: Third Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Issues 14–16 December 2016

San Sebastian: Physics in the XII International Ontology Congress 3-7 October 2016

Notches: CfP: Histories of Disability and Sexuality

Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science: CfP: Special Issue: Knowledge Transfer and Its Context

The Victorianist: CfP Reminder: The “Heart” and “science” of Wilkie Collins and His Contemporaries 24 September 2016 London

ICOHTEC Conference Porto: CfP: Early Career Scholars Workshop: Tension of Europe 1 August 2016

Society for Renaissance Studies: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Texts and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s

BSHS: The British Society for the History of Science Prize for Exhibits on the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 2016

Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Paris: Colloque: Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique 20–21 Octobre 2016

King’s College London: From Microbes to Matrons: The Past, Present and Future of Hospital Infection Control and Prevention 1-2 September 2016

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: CFP: Conference: HIV/AIDS Research: Its History and Future 13–16 October 2016

Australian Academy of Science: The Moran Award for History of Science Research

Florida Atlantic University: International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry Summer Symposium 1–4 August 2016

University Of Belgrade: CfP: Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation-5 22–23 September 2016

Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta, and the University of Warwick: CfP: Beauty and the Hospital in History 6–8 April 2017

Institution of Engineering and Technology, London: Conference: Telecommunications in the Aftermath of World War 1: Civilian and Military Perspectives 10 August 2016

MedHum Fiction – Daily Dose: CfP: Medical Humanities

University of Birmingham: Social Studies in the History of Medicine – ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’

The Nobel Museum Stockholm: Prizes and Awards in Science before Nobel. 5th Watson Seminar in the Material and Visual History of Science 5 September 2016

Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Partington Prize

University of Glasgow: CfP: Discourse of Care: Care in Media, Medicine and Society 5-7 September 2016

Western Michigan University: CfP: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference

University of Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Envirment, and Health In the Easterm Mediterranean World, 1400–1750 3–4 April 2017

Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science: Upcoming Events

Fórum Lisboa (Antigo Cinema Roma): CFP: Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science 14–16 December 2016

Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)

Calenda: Le Calendrier des Lettres et Sciences Humains et Sociales: Appel à contribution « Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique »

Western Michigan University: Call for Abstracts: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference 15–16 September 2016

Society for the Social History of Medicine: Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October 2016

Kunsthistorisches Institut In Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut: CfP: Photo-Objects. On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo-Archives in the Humanities and Sciences 15–17 February 2017

University of Leuven: CfA: The science of evolution and the evolution of the sciences 12–13 October 2016

Science Museum: Artefacts Meeting 2–4 October 2016: CfP: Understanding Use: Science and Technology Objects and Users

Cambridge: CfP extended: Science and Islands in the Indo-Pacific World 15–16 September 2016

University of Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events

Society for the Social History of Medicine: 2016 Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October

H-Pennsylvania: Philip J. Pauly Book Prise Nominations Sought for Histories of Science in the Americas

BSHS: Prizes

Queen Mary University of London:Upcoming History of Emotions Work in Progress Seminars

University of Reading: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016

Barts Pathology Museum: CfP: The “Heart” and “Science” of Wilkie Collins and his Contemporaries 24 September 2016

University of Leicester: Centre for Medical Humanities: Seminars:

Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware: CfP: Making Modern Disability: Histories of Disability, Design, and Technology 28 October 2016

New York City: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 30 September–1 October 2016

IHPST, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris: CfP: International Doctoral Conference in Philosophy of Science 29-30 September 2016

Annals of Science: Annals of Science Essay Prize for Young Scholars

H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology

2nd International Conference on the History of Physics: Invention, application and exploitation in the history of physics Pöllau, Austria 5–7 September 2016

University of Cambridge: Cabinet of Natural History: Seminars Easter Term 2016

Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST: CfP: 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature

University of Greenwich: Society and the Sea Conference: 15–16 September 2016

University of Illinois, Chicago: CfP: STS Graduate Student Workshop: 16-17 September

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century 10–11 September 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016

LOOKING FOR WORK:

University of Leeds: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy: Thinking Counterfactually

Rice University: Department of Earth Sciences: Science Writer/Communicator

Academic Jobs Wiki: History of Science Technology Medicine 2016–2017

Michigan State University: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Team Science

Newman University Birmingham: Qualitative Social Science Research Fellow: Establishing a framework for a multidisciplinary study of science in Muslim societies

NIH: U.S. National Library of Medicine: NLM Welcomes Applications to the Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine

Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts: Assistant Professor position in the political, social, and cultural history of technology in the modern era (nineteenth and twentieth centuries).

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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

Year 2, Volume #51

Monday 08 August 2016

EDITORIAL:

Summer advances, if only in my part of the world with deluges and flooding and it’s time once again to flood your computer screen with another edition of the weekly #histSTM links list Whewell’s Gazette bringing the deluge of history of science, technology and medicine text washed up on the shores of cyberspace over the last seven days.

It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that Whewell’s Gazette wouldn’t exist at all if not for John Wilkins, the Australian philosopher and historian of biology. When I first begun to surf the Internet John’s Evolving Thoughts blog was one of the very first blogs that I began to follow on a regular basis. As I began to clog up his comments column with my overlong cogitations on some his history of science posts, it was John who suggested that I might like to try my hand at blogging myself. So I did. At first as a guest blogger and then again at John’s urging on my own at The Renaissance Mathematicus. John and his regular readers provided much of the encouragement in that early phase that kept me going. Now entering my eighth year and still going strong.

Somehow my blogging on the history of science led to me becoming the manager of the monthly history of science blog carnival On Giants’ Shoulders. A task I carried out for several years. About two years ago I decided to end Giants Shoulders and replaces it with a weekly selection of history of science blogging, Whewell’s Gazette. On 1 September 2010 John Wilkins together with John Lynch had launched the collective blog for the history of science Whewell’s Ghost and I was invited by John Wilkins to be one of the contributors. An invitation I was happy to accept. Over the years Whewell’s Ghost faded into inactivity and as I started Whewell’s Gazette it was the obvious home for our weekly journal.

Sometime back John Wilkins, much to the disappointment of his fans, ceased blogging and Evolving Thoughts also entered a period of inactivity. Last week on social media John Wilkins asked if anybody would be interested if he started blogging the history of biology from its beginning up to the present. The response was immediate, positive and strong and so John did just that.

He took of at a run and the first three posts are already up at Evolving Thoughts. John is a knowledgeable scholar and an excellent blogger and I’m certain that his new endeavour will be a great read for all those interested in the history of science, so get in at the beginning and get reading John’s The History of Life!

Evolving Thought: The History of Life: Prelude

Evolving Thought: The History of Life: Nature versus Humanity

Evolving Thought: The History of Life: Before Aristotle 1; the Milesians and monism

Another of those bloggers on Whewell’s Ghost was the excellent Dr Rebekah “Becky” Higgitt, who at the beginning blogged exclusively on our collective blog. Later she spread her blogging wings and set up home at her own Teleskopos. In 2012, together with Dr Vanessa Heggie, Becky set up a history of science blog on The Guardian website, The H-Word, an excellent example of the genre powered by two professional historians. This wekk The H-Word celebrated its fourth birthday.

The H-Word Blog by at the Guardian was born 2 August 2012

Rebekah Higgitt at the University of Kent and Vanessa Heggie at the University of Birmingham write about the untold history of science.

If you aren’t already a regular reader it’s time to become one. A good starting point would be Becky’s latest offering: The real story of the Secret Agent and the Greenwich Observatory Bomb.

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in an early 20th-century postcard. Note the closed gates. Photograph: Wikipedia

Quotes of the week:

“The function of the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present” – E.H: Carr The Historian and the Facts (1961) h/t @historianess

Hoarding Drew McIntyre (@DrewMcIntyre)

“The emphasis on the role of the historian in the making of history tends, if pressed to its logical conclusion, to rule out any objective history at all: history is what the historian makes.” – E.H: Carr The Historian and the Facts (1961) h/t @historianess

“History is not a neutral subject that is written by disinterested robots. (…) Obviously a knowledge of history is valuable for a variety of reasons. But historians are not history, if that makes sense. Any policy advised by a historian is going to be just as politicised as a policy advised by anyone else” – Ian Hesketh ((@IanHesketh)

Nietzsche Moose Allain (@MooseAllain)

“Today’s weird piece of #histSTM/colonial America trivia: Hermann von Helmholtz was a descendant of William Penn!” – Ben Gross (@bhgross)

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be”

― Kurt Vonnegut, “Mother Night” (1961) h/t @elanmastai

“Bloody Foreigner, coming over here, wanting to know what love is” – Mat (@MatCro)

“I don’t think that I particularly like the term “scholar” nor do I particularly like “academic” (b/c elitism). I think I’m a storyteller. For me, storytelling is a relational, community-based practice of service. That’s what I’d like to achieve in my scholarly work” – Dr. Lucia Lorenzi (@empathywarrior)

“The life of the historian must be short and precarious” – Edward Gibbon

“Friend: Do dates make you nervous?

Me: omg yes especially when doing math across timezone boundaries” – vowel killer (@dcousineau)

“Teach a man to write and he can write an ill-informed comment today; teach him how to think critically and he might just hold off on that” – Liam Heneghan (@DublinSoil)

“As its stewards we need to think of our species as being in a race to save living environment” – E.O. Wilson in Half-Earth

“History, as nearly no one seems to know, is not merely something to be read. And it does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do. It could scarcely be otherwise, since it is to history that we owe our frames of reference, our identities, and our aspirations” – James Baldwin h/t AHA Today

“How many painstakingly detailed and beautiful craft and art pieces were made by people clenching their teeth with rage?” – Grumpy Historian (@grumpyhistorian)

“History doesn’t lie” – Geoff Boycott

“History at its best is a patchy collection of half-truths” – Thony Christie (@rmathematicus)

Birthdays of the Week:

Maria Mitchell born 1 August 1818

Brainpickings: Maria Mitchell and the Spider’s Web: A Touching Testament to Tenacity from America’s First Woman Astronomer

APS: Maria Mitchell Discovers a Comet

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck born 1 August 1744

Lamarck by Charles Thévenin (c. 1802)
Source: Wikimedia Commons

History of Geology: From the Contracting Earth to Supercontinents

Encyclopaedia Britannica: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Understanding Evolution: Early Concepts of Evolution: Jean Baptiste Lamarck

John Tyndall born 2 August 1820

“For those curious: Tyndall was almost certainly born August 2, but the year is somewhat in doubt” – Tyndall Letters (@JohnTyndallCP)

Yovisto: John Tyndall and the Physics of Air

Joseph Paxton born 3 August 1803

Sir Joseph Paxton
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Yovisto: Joseph Paxton – from Gardens to Architecture

British Library: Facsimile of Joseph Paxton’s original sketch of the Great Exhibition from ‘A Memorial of the Great Exhibition, 1851’

Google Arts & Crafts: Owen Jones, The Great Exhibition, a watercolour with pen and ink 1851

Chatsworth: The Case

AD Classics: The Crystal Palace / Joseph Paxton

PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:

AHF: Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombing Timeline

Voices of the Manhattan Project: Mildred Goldberger’s Interview

Yovisto: Helen Hogg and the Global Clusters

Plaque to Helen Sawyer Hogg at Canada Science and Technology Museum

Electronic Beats: This Digital Synthesizer Was Accidentally a Cosmic Beast

Physics Today: Meghnad Saha: Physicist and nationalist

AHF: Frederick Ashworth

Yovisto: William Hamilton and the Quaternions

Universe Today: The Constellation Camelopardalis

pitt.edu: How Einstein Did Not Discover

Voices of the Manhattan Project: David Bohm’s Interview

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

New Historian: Christopher Columbus Plants Spanish Flag in South American Soil

Atlas Obscura: This Map Proves Britain Loves Tea More Than Anyone Else

National Geographic: Gorgeous Maps Reveal the History of America’s National Parks

The position of every regiment of both the Union and Confederate armies during all three days of the battle of Gettysburg are depicted on this incredibly detailed map of the battlefield from 1863.
COURTESY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

United States Census Bureau: 1790 Population Map

Smithsonian.com: These Maps Reveal How Slavery Expanded Across the United States

British Library: Maps and views blog: Magnificent Manuscripts Online: Pelagos

berfois: Chair’d in the Adamant of Time: On “America” and Other Fictions

History Today: The Origins of Rio

Rail Map online

esri: The Cartography of the Uprooted

Balandalus: An Andalusi Mudéjar in 14th-c. Constantinople: The Travels of Ibn al-Sabbah

Mediterranean 1400

DVL: Vatican Mappa Mundi c. 780 CE

Osher Map Library: Gilbert Humphrey: A General Map, Made Onelye for the Particular Declaration of this Discovery

Hyperallergic: Maps Made to Influence and Deceive

Visions of the North: Utensils and the Franklin search

The Scotsman: Amazing 1800s map details length of Scotland’s rivers

The remarkable drawing lines all of Scotland’s rivers next to one another to make an easy comparison. Picture: NLS

MEDICINE & HEALTH:

The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine Teaching watercolor of a gangrenous ulcer on the thigh of a boy

Mashable: 1800s Victorian Vibrators

ncbi.nim.nih.gov: John Bostock’s first description of hayfever

Northumberland Archives: Life in the County Lunatic Asylum

Thomas Morris: Conceived by a bullet

The Jackson Laboratory: Women in Science: Remembering Henrietta Lacks

Henrietta Lacks.

Motherboard: La belle histoire du pêcheur bourré qui perdit un oeil sans s’en rendre compte

Notches: Understanding Zika and the Abortion Debate in Brazil: A View from 1940

Ptak Science Books: Blade Runner Retinal ID, 1936

History of Medical Sciences, Oxford: Website

National Geographic: Fennel: Multitasking Vegetable, Ancient Birth Control

Thomas Morris: The extra jaw

Conciatore: Filippo Sassetti

The Public Domain Review: Re-examining ‘the Elephant Man’

Early Modern Medicine: The Maladies of Midwives

A woman seated on a obstetrical chair giving birth aided by
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
images@wellcome.ac.uk

The New York Times Magazine: The Brain That Couldn’t Remember

The Wellcome Library: What did the Victorians make of spectacles

The Atlantic: The Hearing Aid’s Pursuit of Invisibility

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:

1 August 1831, the New London Bridge opened to traffic. Pic of John Rennie’s plan from Science Museum Archive

Plan of approaches to new London Bridge, signed J Rennie 1827 ICE Library

Open Culture: How the Moog Synthesizer Changed the Sound of Music

Smithsonian.com: What the Candidates (and Journalist) Can Learn from the 1948 Democratic Convention

Forbes: ‘Pass Me a Cold One’: A Short History of Refrigerating Wine and Beer

The BSA and Military Bicycle Museum: WW1 Military Bicycles

Yovisto: Timing is Everything – Elisha Gray and the Telephone Patent

Connected Earth: The Telephone

Strowger Automatic Exchange (& Automatic Electric Co.) (1891) : automating the phone

The New York Times: Not Forgotten: Alexander Graham Bell, Who Sparked a New Era of Communication

DIY Photography: The World’s First Digital Camera, Introduced by the Man Who Invented It

flickr: Tyne and Wear Archives: Mauretania sliding down the slipway

Atlas Obscura: The Strangely Perplexing Problem of Communicating Numbers Out Loud

Medium: Xerox Alto Is Rebuilt and Reconnected by the Living Computer Museum

Yovisto: Richard Arkwright – the Father of the Industrial Revolution

Atlas Obscura: The Alarming Aesthetics of Jazz Age Perm Machines

The Public Domain Review: “Unlimiting the Bounds”: the Panorama and the Balloon View

Atlas Obscura: Daugavpils Shot Tower

Yovisto: Nicolas-Jacques Conté and the Pencil

Atlas Obscura: The Sunsphere

Ancient Glass Blog of The Allaire Collection: Roman Pyxis with Lid

Creative Review: Restricted Areas – Danila Tkachenko’s photographs of Soviet ruins

Danila Tkachenko. The world’s largest diesel submarine

Computer History Museum: Happy 25^th Birthday to the Public Webb

Yovisto: Jon Postel – Editor in Chief of the Internet

Yovisto: The Tower Subway – the World’s First Tube Railway

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Talk Origins: Biographies: Louis Leakey

Penn State: Earth 520:Richard Dixon Oldham

Shells and Pebbles: Dissecting the ‘chain of Creation’: Edward Tyson and Anatomical Natural History

Justin Erik Halldór Smith: Edward Tyson’s Orang-Outang

BHL: Orang-Outang, sive homo sylvestris: or, The Anatomy of a Pygmie compared with that of a Monkey, an Ape , and a Man

journals.ametsco.org: World Meteological Organisation Assessment of the Purported World Record 58°C Temperature Extreme at El Azizia, Libya (13 September 1922)

The Public Domain Review: Olaus Magnus’s Sea Serpent

Clerk of Oxford: An Anglo-Saxon August

The New York Times: Seeking Climate Change Clues in Old Pollen and Mammoth Dung

Nature: 180,000 forgotten photos reveal the future of Greenland’s ice

Royal Society Open Science: First diagnosis of septic arthritis in a dinosaur

Smithsonian.com: Solving a Mystery of Mammoth Proportions

Cambridge blog: History & Classics: What Can Medieval History Tell Us About Environmental Change?

Letters from Gondwana: Forgotten Women of Paleontology: Erika von Hoyningen-Huene

Erika von Huene at the Tuebingen University.

Dr Johnson Reading Circle: Pilgrimage to Lichfield

The Washington Post: This Smithsonian scientist’s death was a mystery: 150 years later, his skeleton helped solve it

CBC News: Last mammoths on Alaska island likely died of thirst

Science League of America: A Justly Neglected Argument Redivivus

The Friends of Charles Darwin: The HMS Beagle Olympics

Blink: The metamorphosis of gods

Bulletin of the History of Archaeology: Boucher de Perthes and the Discovery of Human Antiquity

Historical Dewitticisms: Park Consciousness

flickr: BHL: Curtis’s botanical magazine v.80…

libweb5.princeton.edu: Hydrography

CHEMISTRY:

The Recipes Project: Palm Trees and Potions: On Portuguese Pharmacy Signs

c&en: Chemistry Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail dies at age 70

Zewail is pictured here on the Caltech campus in 2011.
Credit: Mitch Jacoby/C&EN

Nobelprize.org: Ahmed Zewail – Biographical

Yovisto: Leopold Gmelin and the Chemistry of Digestion

META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

the many-headed monster: Understanding Sources: doing history by numbers

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Words matter

HSS Online: Chinese Reader Project – A Note from HSS Past President Angela Creager

Arts & Humanities Research Council: Interview: Seb Falk

Johns Hopkins University Press: Testing Theories: Edison’s Scorecard

Places: Cloud and Field

Building Blocks of Human Experience: A Contribution to the Explanatory Humanities: Website launch

The Royal Society: Notes and Records Table of Contents

Niche: CHESS 2016 Reflections: Reconciliation and Environment

AHF: Monthly News Letter

Nature: Donald Trump’s appeal should be a call to arms

RBSC Manuscripts Division News: Commonplace Books and Uncommon Readers

Atlas Obscura: Marie Curie Got Her Start at a Secret University for Women

The Recipes Project: Recipes Round-Up: Research Presented at Scientiae and SSHM 2016

Chris Coltrane: Everyday Science: Scans from a Science Magazine, 1919-1921

The Scientific Method The Debate:

Stop arguing! There is indeed a real scientific method. Here you have! – Lautaro Vergara (@VergaraLautaro)

One of the (dis?)advantages of the digital age is the speed with which international debates on hot topics can develop. In the pre-Internet days somebody would publish a possibly contentious article in a journal. A week, a month or even several months later somebody else would respond in the same or a different journal provoking a further delayed response from the original author or possibly third or even a fourth party. And so the debate would grind on, sometimes over a period of several years. In this age of instant cyberspace communication the whole process can take place within the space of a few days, as was recently demonstrated by a hot debate on the existence or lack thereof of the scientific method.

The whole thing kicked was kicked off in the New York Times by philosopher James Blachowicz with a piece entitled, There Is No Scientific Method: This drew responses from Chad Orzel on his blog Uncertain Principles who explained, Why Physicists Disparage Philosophers, In Three Paragraphs and Ethan Siegel on Forbes, who angrily proclaimed, Yes, New York Times, There Is A Scientific Method. The Renaissance Mathematicus took Ethan to task for his misrepresentation of Kepler’s work in his, Getting Kepler wrong and William Storage at The Multidisciplinarian did the same for Ethan’s misrepresentations of Galileo in his The Myth of the Scientific Method On the big think, Jag Bhalla interviewed Rebecca Newberger on the topic asking the question, What’s Behind A Science vs. Philosophy Fight? Never one to miss out on a bun fight Jerry Coyne reacted sourly to the original article on his Why Evolution is True website asking Is this the worst popular philosophy piece ever? A philosopher argues that science is no more reliable than philosophy at finding truth. Psybertron reacted in turn to Coyne under Blachowicz’s original title, There Is No Scientific Method? And a second time under the title, More On The Myths of Science. And so the debate rumbles on…

ESOTERIC:

Conciatore: Reports from Parnassus

Conciatore: Crocus Martis

Whipple Library Books Blog: P is for…Phrenology

Handwritten phrenological measurements

BOOK REVIEWS:

Dave’s Book Blog: “The Strangest Man” by Graham Farmelo

Discover Society: Viewpoint: The Invention of Nature

The Penn Press Blog: Afternoon Coffee Break: Medieval Robots by E.R. Truitt

The New York Times: Maria Popova Reviews Janna Levin’s ‘Black Hole Blues’

Some Beans: The Company by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge

ABC: Late Line: Interview: Steve Silberman, author of Neurotribes

Financial Times: The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China by Philip Ball

Nature: China A Hydrological history

The Times: The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China by Philip Ball

NEW BOOKS:

Hermann: Écritures de soi, Écritures du corps

OUP: The Tale of Seven Scientists and a New Philosophy of Science

The Royal Society: Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2016 Short List

ART & EXHIBITIONS

The Star: Sea monsters, beavers and made-up lands dot Toronto Reference Library map exhibit

National Railway Museum: National Railway Museum marks historic First World War centenary with new exhibition

BBC News: James Brindley: The canal pioneer who changed England

Various accounts suggest Brindley carved cheese to showcase his Barton Aqueduct design to a parliamentary committee
HERBERT DUNKLEY

The Map Room: MacDonal Gill Exhibition in San Diego

HSS: On Time: The Quest for Precision

Christ Church Oxford: Hakluyt and Geography in Oxford 1550–1650 Opens 14 October 2016

Bodleian Library: The World in a Book: Hakluyt and Renaissance Discovery Opens 28 October 2016

Heriot Watt University: New exhibit unveiled at ICE museum

National Library of Scotland: You Are Here 22 July 2016–3 April 2017

The Walters Museum: Waste Not: The Art of Medieval Recycling 25 June–18 September 2016

The Holburne Museum: Stubbs and the Wild June 25–2 October 2016

George Stubbs A Lion and a Lioness 1778 Enamel on Wedgwood ceramic
The Daniel Katz Gallery London

Linda Hall Library: Drawn from Nature: Art, Science, and the Invention of the Bird Field Guide 12 March–10 September 2016

Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May–30 October 2016

Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–1r January 2018

Art Institute Chicago: The Shogun’s World: Japanese Maps from the 18^th and 19^th Centuries 25 June–6 November 2016

Museum of London: Fire! Fire! 23July 2016–17 April 2017

Royal Museums Greenwich: Above and Beyond: The ultimate interactive flight exhibition 27 May–29 August 2016

‘Spithead in Wartime’
William Lionel Wyllie
National Maritime Museum

CLOSING SOON: Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Brooklyn Historical Society to exhibit two rare Revolutionary War-era maps in honour of upcoming 240^th anniversary of Battle of Brooklyn 29 June–28 August 2016

The Mary Rose: Mary Rose Museum re-opening on 20^th July 2016

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15^th and 16^th Centuries

St. Louis Central Library: Fantasy Maps Exhibit 11 June–15 October 2016

Uzeeum: House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, and Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum, Berlin, 1869–1922

Amritt Museum: Beatrix Potter – Image & Reality

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph

Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library

Historiens de la santé: Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England: Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts

Science Museum: Robots

Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus

Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:

Fine Books & Collections: The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at BPL to Host Exhibit, “From the Sea to the Mountains” 2 April–28 August 2016

Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017

AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016

Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017

Science Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius 10 February 2016–4 September 2016

Wellcome Collections: States of Mind 4 February–16 October 2016

Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm

Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game

CLOSING SOON: The John Rylands Library: Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World 21 January–21 August 2016

Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility

Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday

Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017

Science Museum: Information Age

Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: YOUTOPIA: VISIONS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016

Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph 14 April–11 September 2016

Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy

Bethel Museum of the Mind: The Weight of History 27 July – 18 November 2016

Royal Collection: Maria Merian’s Butterflies

Royal Society of Medicine: charcot, hysteria, & la salpetriere 3 May 2016–23 July 2016

Horsham Museum: Dinosaurs of Horsham – Art, Reality and Fun 9 July–5 September 2016

COMING SOON: Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September–16 December 2016

Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–15 January 2018

COMING SOON: Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September–16 December 2016

COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE WEIGHT OF HISTORY 27 July–18 November 2016

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Shakespeare’s World View: Stars, Globes and Magic

Horsham Museum: Dinosaurs of Horsham – Art, Reality and Fun 9 July–5 September 2016

COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September–15 January

THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:

Smithsonia.com: The Cosmos Sings in This Fusion of Astrophysics and Music: The Hubble Cantata

NIST: Public Affair Office: Funding Opportunity to Produce Science Documentary

CRASSH: University of Cambridge: Techniques, Technologies and Materialities of Epidemic Control 16-17 September 2016

CLOSING SOON: Royal Shakespeare Company: Doctor Faustus Swan Theatre Stratford-Upon-Avon 8 February–4 August 2016

Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 07 January 2017

The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017

CLOSING SOON: Swan Theatre: Doctor Faustus 7 March–4 August 2016

COMING SOON: The Grand Theatre Blackpool: Jekyll and Hyde

COMING SOON: Barbican: The Alchemist

COMING SOON: Barbican: Doctor Faustus

EVENTS:

Evenbrite: London 1708: a Walk into Library History 4 October 2016

The Warburg Institute: Maps and Society Lectures 26^th Series Programme 2016–2017

Wellcome Collection London: Museums Computer Group: First Keynote 2016: Museums & Tech 19 October 2016

New Scientist: The life and work of Alan Turing 4_8 November 2016 (other dates available) £££

Martin Randall Travel: History of Medicine – Florence, Bologna & Padua in the Age of Humanism 12–18 September 2016 $$$

Royal College of Physicians: Walking Tour: The Making of Thoroughly Modern Medicine

The National Museum of Computing: Summer Bytes 30 July–28 August 2016

Museum of Science and Industry Manchester: Engine Demonstration

Morbid Anatomy: Upcoming Morbid Anatomy Events

Nature: Medical research: Citizen medicine: Vaccination: Medicine and the Masses Hunterian Museum till 17 September 2016

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Talk: Bad Medicine and Quackery in Edinburgh 9–13 August 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: One for the Road

Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “London’s Plagues”

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding

University of Utrecht: Descartes-Huygens Lecture by J.B. Shank on ‘Newtonian’ Mechanics in France around 1700

University College Cork: Walking Tours: A second chance to solve the mystery of ‘Being Boole’!

The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours

Gresham College: Lecture: The Expanding Universe 26 October 2016

Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

The Royal College of Physicians: Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “Sex and The City”

Norcroft Auditorium, Norcroft Centre, University of Bradford: The secret chemistry of art: unravelling an age-old textile mystery / September 2016

Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tours

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Medicine at War

Discover Medical London: Tour: Who needs doctors anyway?

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: The weight of History 6 August 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Walking Tour: John Dee and The History of Understanding

PAINTING OF THE WEEK:

Louis Pasteur pursuing a rabies vaccine in this etching by Léopold Flameng from CHF’s collection.
Gift of Fisher Scientific International, CHF Collections/Gregory Tobias

CHF: The Artist in the Laboratory

TELEVISION:

SLIDE SHOW:

VIDEOS:

Read Science! Microbiome Edition

Youtube: Homo Diluvii Testis EN

Youtube: The Sigma Club: Interview with Hasok Chang

Youtube: Thagomizers: Histories: Pteranodon

Hagley Oral History: Kevlar R&D: An Oral History

BBC Radio 4: A History of Ideas: Most Popular: A collection of the most watched History of Ideas animations

Vimeo: Graphic Means (Official Trailer)

RADIO & PODCASTS:

WNYC: Darwin’s Life in Verse

Dolly Jørgensen: Podcast with Lund University

STAT: The Chinese hamsters that helped birth biotech

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The Medical School of Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez: 7th International Congress of the International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine (ISHIM) & 4th Congress of Fez on the History of Medicine 24–28 October 2016

University of York: Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past: International Workshop 14 September 2016

BSHS: Annals of Science Student Essay Prize Deadline 30 September 2016

International Map Collectors Society: IMCoS 34th International Symposium, Chicago 24–29 September 2016

Royal Historical Society: University of Chester: CfP: Putting History in its Place: Historic Landscapes and Environments 21 April 2017 – deadline 28 October 2016

IWHA: CfP: Water History Conference 2017 Grand Rapids USA 15–17 June 2017

All Souls College Oxford: Second CfP: Teaching mathematics in the early modern period

University of York: Northern Network for Medical Humanities: Research Workshop: 22 September 2016

University of Kalamazoo: 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies: Body and Soul in Medieval Visual Culture 15 September 2016

University of Reading: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016 Registration now open

University of Mainz: Conference: Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? Construction and Transfer of Knowledge about Man and Nature in Antiquity and the Middle Ages 14–16 September 2016

University of Milan: Conference: Mathesis quaedam Divina seu Mechanismus Metaphysicus -Leibniz and the sciences 7–8 October 2016

University of St. Andrews: Conference: Mathematical Biography: A MacTutor Celebration

University of Durham: Conference: Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism? 5–7 August 2017

Salem Academy Charter School, Salem MA: New England Regional World History Association Fall Symposium: CfP: Navigation, Travel, and Exploration in World History 24 September 2016

Istanbul: XXXVth Scientific Instrument Symposium: Draft Programme 26–30 September 2016

Universidade de Évora: Conference: Évora’s 7th Symposium on Philosophy and History of Science and Technology: Structuralism: Roots, Plurality and Contemporary debates 4–5 November 2016

University of Valencia: Institute for the History of Medicine and Science “López Piñero”: Programme Fall 2016 Seminars, Conferences etc

EOI: Call for Expressions of Interest: Learned societies and the circulation of knowledge, 1750-2000 From Aileen Fyfe and Jenny Beckman

Urbino & Cesena: XIX Summer School in Philosophy of Physics 5-9 September 2016

Radboud University Nijmegen: Call for nominations: Hanneke Janssen Memorial Prize 2016: Essay in History and Philosophy of Physics Deadline 1 November 2016

Mahon/Maó (Menorca): 9^th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularisation: CFP: Living in Emergency: humanitarianism and medicine 18–20 May 2017

Berlin –Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaft: Project: Galen of Pergamum: The Transmission, Interpretation and Completion of Ancient Medicine

Wellcome Collection London: The Physiological Society: Physiology: An Historical Perspective 13 September 2016

Warwick: Humanities Research Centre: Conference: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Text and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s 4 March 2017

ECHOPHYSICS Pöllau Austria: 2^nd International Conference on the History of Physics 5–7 September 2016

The German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker- GDCh): PAUL BUNGE PRIZE 2017: HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS Deadline 30 September 2016

Birkbeck University of London: The Birkbeck Trauma Project: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–27 March 2017

Christ Church & Bodleian Library Oxford: Conference: Hakluyt and the Renaissance Discovery of the World 24–25 November 2016

CELFIS University of Bucharest: Call for Applications: Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science 24–26 October 2016

University of Sydney: CfP: Workshop: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18 April 2017

Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall: Workshop: Tools of Reason: The Practice of Scientific Diagramming from Antiquity to the Present 10–11 February 2017

American Association for the History of Medicine: Awards and Grants

Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries Oxford: Women in Science in the Archives 8 September 2016

University of Edmonton: CfP: Theology and the Philosophy of Science 14–15 October 2016

The Lowry, Salford Quays: Discovering Collections Discovering Communities 10–12 October 2016

Universidade de Évora (Portugal): Évora’s 7th Symposium on Philosophy and History of Science and Technology 4–5 November 2016

HUMANA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies: CfP: Issue 32, April 2017: Beyond Toleration? Inconsistency and Pluralism in the Empirical Sciences

University of Glasgow: CfP: Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures 3–4 April 2017

IUHPST: Call for entries: IUHPST Essay Prize in History and Philosophy of Science “What is the value of philosophy of science for history of science?” Deadline 30 November 2016

Eä: A workshop in Rio to debate about the challenges facing interdisciplinary journals

Université François Rabelais, Tours: Appel à communications: Représentations et figures de la maternité dans le monde anglophone 3 au 5 avril 2017

JOURNÉES D’ÉTUDES: Appel à communicatio: « Petites mains » d’artistes dans les pratiques scientifiques

BSHS: Museum of the History of Science Upcoming Free Lecture Series

Université de Strasbourg: Appel à symposia: 6ème Congrès de la Société française d’histoire des sciences et des techniques (SFHST) 19-20-21 avril 2017

Birkbeck University of London: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–25 March 2017

Lexicon Philosophicum: CfP: Issue 5 (2017) Histories of Philosophy, Science and Ideas

Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds: CfP: Workshop: Exploring Histories and Futures of Innovation in Advanced Wound Care 20 September 2016

Université de Caen: Colloque: Le corps humain saisi par le droit : entre liberté et propriété 14 Octobre 2016

HSTM Network Ireland: International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Young Scholar Prize

ENVA, Amphithéâtre Blin: Appel à communications: Animalhumanité. Expérimentation et fiction : l’animalité au cœur du vivant 1er et 2 décembre 2016

New Bern NC: CfP: North Carolina Maritime History Council Conference 4–5 November 2016

Christ’s College Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World (1400-1750) 3–4 April 2017

Villa Mirafiori, Rome: Conference: Building Theories, Hypothesis & Heuristics in Science

UCL: CfP. Second London Philosophy of Science Graduate Conference 1–2 September 2016 Deadline 4 July 2016

Society for U.S: Intellectual History: Conference: From the Mayflower to Silicon Valley: Tools and Traditions in American Intellectual History October 13-15, 2016

University of Lisbon: CfP: Third Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Issues 14–16 December 2016

San Sebastian: Physics in the XII International Ontology Congress 3-7 October 2016

Notches: CfP: Histories of Disability and Sexuality

Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science: CfP: Special Issue: Knowledge Transfer and Its Context

The Victorianist: CfP Reminder: The “Heart” and “science” of Wilkie Collins and His Contemporaries 24 September 2016 London

ICOHTEC Conference Porto: CfP: Early Career Scholars Workshop: Tension of Europe 1 August 2016

Society for Renaissance Studies: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Texts and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s

BSHS: The British Society for the History of Science Prize for Exhibits on the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 2016

Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Paris: Colloque: Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique 20–21 Octobre 2016

King’s College London: From Microbes to Matrons: The Past, Present and Future of Hospital Infection Control and Prevention 1-2 September 2016

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: CFP: Conference: HIV/AIDS Research: Its History and Future 13–16 October 2016

Australian Academy of Science: The Moran Award for History of Science Research

Florida Atlantic University: International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry Summer Symposium 1–4 August 2016

University Of Belgrade: CfP: Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation-5 22–23 September 2016

Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta, and the University of Warwick: CfP: Beauty and the Hospital in History 6–8 April 2017

Institution of Engineering and Technology, London: Conference: Telecommunications in the Aftermath of World War 1: Civilian and Military Perspectives 10 August 2016

MedHum Fiction – Daily Dose: CfP: Medical Humanities

University of Birmingham: Social Studies in the History of Medicine – ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’

The Nobel Museum Stockholm: Prizes and Awards in Science before Nobel. 5th Watson Seminar in the Material and Visual History of Science 5 September 2016

Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Partington Prize

University of Glasgow: CfP: Discourse of Care: Care in Media, Medicine and Society 5-7 September 2016

Western Michigan University: CfP: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference

University of Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Envirment, and Health In the Easterm Mediterranean World, 1400–1750 3–4 April 2017

Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science: Upcoming Events

Fórum Lisboa (Antigo Cinema Roma): CFP: Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science 14–16 December 2016

Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)

Calenda: Le Calendrier des Lettres et Sciences Humains et Sociales: Appel à contribution « Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique »

Western Michigan University: Call for Abstracts: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference 15–16 September 2016

Society for the Social History of Medicine: Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October 2016

Kunsthistorisches Institut In Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut: CfP: Photo-Objects. On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo-Archives in the Humanities and Sciences 15–17 February 2017

University of Leuven: CfA: The science of evolution and the evolution of the sciences 12–13 October 2016

Science Museum: Artefacts Meeting 2–4 October 2016: CfP: Understanding Use: Science and Technology Objects and Users

Cambridge: CfP extended: Science and Islands in the Indo-Pacific World 15–16 September 2016

University of Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events

Society for the Social History of Medicine: 2016 Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October

H-Pennsylvania: Philip J. Pauly Book Prise Nominations Sought for Histories of Science in the Americas

BSHS: Prizes

Queen Mary University of London:Upcoming History of Emotions Work in Progress Seminars

University of Reading: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016

Barts Pathology Museum: CfP: The “Heart” and “Science” of Wilkie Collins and his Contemporaries 24 September 2016

University of Leicester: Centre for Medical Humanities: Seminars:

Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware: CfP: Making Modern Disability: Histories of Disability, Design, and Technology 28 October 2016

New York City: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 30 September–1 October 2016

IHPST, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris: CfP: International Doctoral Conference in Philosophy of Science 29-30 September 2016

Annals of Science: Annals of Science Essay Prize for Young Scholars

H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology

2nd International Conference on the History of Physics: Invention, application and exploitation in the history of physics Pöllau, Austria 5–7 September 2016

Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST: CfP: 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature

University of Greenwich: Society and the Sea Conference: 15–16 September 2016

University of Illinois, Chicago: CfP: STS Graduate Student Workshop: 16-17 September

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century 10–11 September 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016

LOOKING FOR WORK:

Scientific Instrument Society: Research Grants Programme: Deadline 1 September 2016

BSHS: Time Measurement Research Funding: Deadline 2 September 2016

Toronto, St. George Campus: Philosophy of Science

Smithsonian Institution: Museum Curator: National Air and Space Museum

University of Paderborn: Department of Philosophy: Research Associate: Center History of Women Philosophers and Scientists

University of Miami: History Department: Phillip R. Shriver Professor of History

Freie Universität Berlin: 12 PhD & 1 Postdoc positions, Graduate School Global Intellectual History

Scientific Instrument Society: SIS Grants

University of Vienna: Post Doc: Applied Epistemology and Philosophy of Science

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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

Year 2, Volume #52

Monday 15 August 2016

EDITORIAL:

We have reached the end of our second publishing year with year two volume fifty-two of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list bringing you for the one hundredth and fourth time all we could find of the histories of science, technology and medicine throughout the vast spaces of cyberspace over the last seven days.

As noted above, this edition of Whewell’s Gazette closes out our second publication year. Given the artificiality of measuring things in years I’m never quite sure if one should mark these things with the last episode of the old year or the first one of the new year, but I’ve chosen to do so today by making a few comments about our editorial policy.

Editorial Policy: So what is the Whewell’s Gazette editorial policy? To be truthful we don’t actually have one, we just make it up as we go along.

WYSIWYG: Whewell’s Gazette claims to be a #histSTM links list and that is exactly what it is, nothing more and nothing less. It is just a weekly collection of links to articles, posts, illustrations, comments etc., etc. that are concerned with the histories of science, technology and medicine. The rest, quotes of the week, illustrations, birthdays of the week etc. are just there to offer some relief from the boredom.

Selection Criteria: Selection is inclusive rather than exclusive. The definitions of #histSTM applied are as wide as possible often going to the very fringes and beyond rather than trying for some sort of indefinable purity of discipline. In the category META we include quite a lot of stuff that is thought or comments on history in general because #histSTM is after all just history.

Presentation: The model is a slightly sloppy, somewhat jumbled small adds column from a newspaper. The entries are divided into rough categories taken from the different areas of science, technology, and medicine but within the categories no ordering principles are applied. Links are added at random in the order that they found. This was a deliberate decision, the thought being that if the reader is forced to go through a complete category looking for the links that primarily interest them, they might just stumble across something they might not have read otherwise. We are fans of the seductive Internet rabbit hole. If however a number of sources all cover the same story in one week then we will usually group them together.

The categories ART & EXHIBITIONS, EVENTS and ANNOUNCEMENTS are cumulative, entries remain on the list until the event or whatever they are advertising have taken place. For those who read these every week and who don’t get off on reading the whole list every time, the new entries are always added at the beginning or the end.

Source: How and where do we find all the entries? The vast majority of the entries are collected daily on the @rmathematicus twitter stream. This twitter stream follows as many people as it can find who are either #histSTM historians or who are interested in #histSTM posts, articles, etc. Their #histSTM related tweets get retweeted creating a repository of #histSTM links that are then distilled into the weekly edition of Whewell’s Gazette. If you follow @rmathematicus and read his twitter stream then you won’t need to read Whewell’s Gazette! If you are on Twitter and tweet about #histSTM and @rmathematicus doesn’t follow you then make him aware of the fact and he will start to. A small number of entries get sent directly to the Renaissance Mathematicus by email by people interested in getting their links added to Whewell’s Gazette. Such contributions are always welcome.

Editorial Staff: Who puts together the Whewell’s Gazette every week? The majority of the work is done by yours truly, the Renaissance Mathematicus, with regular contributions from Anna Gielas (@Anna_Gielas) and occasional input from Michael Barton (@darwinsbulldog). However as mentioned above the links are provided by the whole #histSTM Twitter community so our editorial staff number in the hundreds! Active contributions are always welcome!

Quality Control: We don’t actually read all of the links included every week but do skim them whilst collecting. No judgement as to quality of a given article or post is exercised, this is left to the readers of WG when they click on a link and peruse an article. Only obvious rubbish is excluded. A stricter editorial policy, given the Renaissance Mathematicus’ pedantic tendencies, would probably lead to a Whewell’s Gazette with five links. For a start any article with first, founder of, father of and other much loved clichés in their titles would be thrown out on principle.

Guiding Principle: Inclusion rather than Exclusion.

The Future: Come back next week for Year 3, Vol: #01!

Quotes of the week:

“History retweets itself” – Matt Thomas (@mattthomas)

“It was the basil of thyme

It was the wormwood of thyme” Cilantro Dickens – John Laurie (@laurie_john)

“In US wrote Alexis de Tocqueville (1840), events “can move from the impossible to the inevitable without stopping at the probable.”” h/t @TurnbullMalcolm

“These European “first to” things only matter if Indigenous experiences don’t. Indigenous people *guided* these “explorers” because they already knew the way” – Adam Gaudry (@adamgaudry)

“The universe has no circumference” – Nicolas of Cusa (1401-1464)

“All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach” –

Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)

“On this day in 1887, his mom checked and Erwin Schrödinger became alive” – @pourmecoffee

“God grant me the serenity

to delete the emails I can’t answer

courage to reply to what I can;

and wisdom to know the difference” – @sarahjeong

Comic: Denise Schmandt-Besserat

Birthdays of the Week:

The cornerstone of Uraniborg, Tycho Brahe’s observatory on Hven, was laid 8 August 1576

c-net: The observatory that changed astronomy forever

Wired: Aug. 8, 1576: Brahe’s Palatial Gateway to the Heavens

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Financing Tycho’s little piece of heaven

flickr: Richard Cohen: The Castle and Observatory of Uraniborg on the island of Hven

Sanderus Antiquariaat: Antique map of Denmark – Uraniborg by J. Blaeu

Tycho Brahe’s quadrant wall mural at Uraniborg used to measure star positions

Foundation Stone of the Royal Observatory was laid 10 August 1675´

Royal Observatory Greenwich
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Teleskopos: An auspicious day to found an observatory

Royal Museums Greenwich: History of the Royal Observatory

Royal Museums Greenwich: 336 Today

Smithsonian Institution founded 10 August 1846

The “Castle” (1847), the Institution’s first building and still its headquarters
Source: Wikimedia Commons

SpaceWatchtower: 170^th Anniversary: Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution Archives: Legal History

Paul Dirac born 8 August 1902

Paul Dirac with his wife in Copenhagen, July 1963
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Yovisto: Paul Dirac and the Quantum Mechanic

Youtube: Dirac Lecture 1 (of 4) – Quantum Mechanics

Henry Fairfield Osborn born 8 August 1857

Osborn in 1890
Source: WikimediaCommons

Linda Hall Library: Henry Fairfield Osborn – Scientist of the Day

Linda Hall Library: Paper Dinosaurs 1824–1969: 33. The First Tyrannosaurus Skeleton, 1905

Paige Fossil History: The Weird History of Oviraptors

Erwin Schrödinger born 12 August 1887

“I insist upon the view that ‘all is waves’.” Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)

PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:

Yovisto: Ernest Lawrence and the Cyclotron

Yovisto: Sir Roger Penrose and the Singularity

Voices of the Manhattan Project: J. Samuel Walker’s Interview

AHF: Ernest O. Lawrence

arXiv: Lessons from Mayan Astronomy

The Caracol structure at Chichen Itza has been interpreted as an observatory
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Forbes: Comic: ‘Science Legends’ Sir Isaac Newton: Master of the Mint

AHF: Yoshito Matsushige

Voices of the Manhattan Project: Stanislaus Ulam’s Interview (1979)

Yovisto: Wolfgang Paul and the Ion Trap

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Not a theology student

AHF: In Memoriam: Monroe Messinger

Voices of the Manhattan Project: Kathleen Maxwell’s Interview

Atlas Obscura: A Traditional Globe Maker is Making 3-D Versions of Historic Martian Maps

Yovisto: Nikolaus of Cusa and the Learned Ignorance

Nikolaus von Cusa

Ptak Science Books: Found-Art in Electrical Discharge, 1880

Comètes: des mythes à la réalité: Les instruments

APS: Oersted and electromagnetism

AHF: Frederic Joliot-Curie

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

Yovisto: Ferdinand Magellan and the first Trip Around the World

Royal Museums Greenwich: Ferdinand Magellan

The Nao Victoria Replica in the Nao Victoria Museum, Punta Arenas, Chile
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Antiquariat: Daša Pahor: New Acquisitions

Academic Room: Representations of Self and the Other in Two Iraqi Travelogues of the Ottoman Period (pdf)

Medievalists.net: Hy-Brassil: Irish origins of Brazil

National Geographic: Historical Photos Mark 150^th Birthday of Pioneering Black Explorer

Polar ExplorerAlthough historians haven’t been able to confirm the fact, Henson said, “I think I’m the first man to sit on top of the world.” This photo was made on Canada’s Ellesmere Island in 1908.
PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT E. PEARY, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

MEDICINE & HEALTH:

The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine: Teaching watercolor of enlarged stomach with offset kidneys and intestines

Thomas Morris: The missing tobacco pipe

AEON: Bodies electric

cbc news: Quirky curiosities: medical instruments from our past

Einthoven string galvanometer

The H-Word: Medicine at the Olympics: a bluffer’s guide to 120 years of medical history

The H-Word: Olympians and the scientific quest to find out what makes an elite athlete

English History: The Life of John Keats (1795–1821)

Thomas Morris: Reattached with a sticking plaster

On View: Center for the History Of Medicine: Cupping set, 1837–1853

BIU Santé: Après 270 ans d’oubli, redécouverte de l’anatomie de Van Horne, trésor du 17e s.

American Radio History: Hospital Television

Yovisto: Richard Mead and the Understanding of Transmissible Diseases

Nursing Clio: Sex, Secrecy, and Abuse in a 19^th-Century Workhouse

The Recipes Project: Writing Early Modern Medicine for Medical Readers

The Hairpin: Monstrous Births

Image: A G

Advances in the History of Psychology: Controversy Brewing over Suzanne Corkin and Patient H.M.

Yovisto: Dr. Joseph Lister and the use of Carbolic Acid as Disinfectant

Yovisto: James Bryan Herrick and the Sickle-Cell Disease

British Library: Science blog: “Like light shining in a dark place”: Florence Nightingale and William Farr

The Guardian: No, no, no! Victorians didn’t invent the vibrator

eugesta.recherche.univ-lille3.fr: Galen and the widow. Towards a history of therapeutic masturbation in ancient gynaecology (pdf)

Pen and Pension: Dealing with a Quack

Wellcome Library: Wound man Part 1: origins

The Guardian: ‘I willed him to wake up’: epilepsy in art – and in life

The master of San Severino’s Release of a Woman from Possession by the Devil (15th century). Photograph: Scala, Florence

Figure Drawings: The Human Skeleton and Muscles – John Georg Heck

The Washington Post: Broken pottery reveals the sheer devastation cause by the Black Death

Thomas Morris: The cure of Thomas Tipple

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:

Ptak Science Books: A Bit on the History of the Future of Sucking – Vacuum Trains (1945)

New York Times: How to Give Rural America Broadband? Look to the Early 1900s

Academia: The Mastermyr Find: A Viking Tool Chest from Gotland

Spotlight News: State Museum acquires 1947 Tavern Television

Unwritten Record Blog: Lighthouse Drawings in celebration of National Lighthouse Day

RG26: Lighthouse Drawings; MI, Spectacle Reef; #2. Section plan, vertical, 1874.

lastsatandonzobieisland: Charles N. Daly was not a man to be trifled with

BBC News: Clifton Suspension Bridge: Vast hidden vaults open to the public

Yovisto: The Salvage of the Vasa

The Guardian: ‘Discovery of the year’: sunken British ship found in Russian Artic

Yovisto: Tom Kilburn and the First Stored-Program Computer

Atlas Obscura: Fort Peck Dam

Anton Howes: The Relevance of Skills to Innovation during the British Industrial Revolution, 1651–1851 Working Paper (pdf)

Yovisto: IBM and the Personal Computer

Science Museum: 100 Years of Stainless Steel

The Sheffield-born son of a steel worker, Harry Brearley (1871-1948) pioneered the commercial development of stainless steels. Brearley was working in the laboratory of the steel works of Thomas Firth and Sons, Sheffield, when in 1913 he produced the first true stainless steel. Sheffield has a long-standing reputation for producing high quality cutlery, and the development of the first steel that did not rust was a significant moment in metallurgical history.
Harry Brearley, 1871–1948. Image © Science Museum/SSPL

Ian Visits: London’s Lost Suspension Railway at Kings Cross

MINNPOST: Obsolesced

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

An Ottoman Poster, Terrain Graphic (Arazi ve Sunuf-u Muhtelife-i Suhurun Cedvel-i Umumisi) The Ottoman History (@OttomanArchive)

National Geographic: Geological Evidence May Support Chinese Flood Legend

Paige Fossil History: Footprints, Sculpture, & Hobbit Ancestors: A Paleoanthropolgy Best of Summer Roundup

Colonizing Animals: Missing Links in Myanmar

The Public Domain Review: Photographs of a Falling Cat

Psychology Today: Labelling Non-Native Animals: The Psychology of Name Calling

English Historical Fiction Authors: The Queen’s Ass … or how the donkey earned its stripes!

Royal Society Open Science: New genetic and morphological evidence suggests a single hoaxer created ‘Piltdown man’

Gizmodo: Piltdown Man Hoax Was the Work of a Single Forger, Study Says

Forbes: Human Ancestor Hoax at Piltdown Finally Solved

Scientific America: Solving the Piltdown Man Scientific Fraud

Science: Study reveals culprit behind Piltdown Man, one of science’s most famous hoaxes

The Telegraph: Science: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle cleared of Piltdown Man Hoax

The Guardian: Gertrude Of Arabia: the great adventurer may finally get her museum

Bell in Baghdad, 1917. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

Lyell Collection: Geomythology: geological origins of myths and legends

TrowelBlazers: Christian Maclagan: Sensation of Scotland

Royal Society Open Science: Oldest fossil remains of the enigmatic pig-footed bandicoot show rapid herbivorous evolution

Niche: #EnvHist Worth Reading July 2016

Pacific Institute: Assessing The Costs Of Adapting To Sea-Level Rise: A Case Study Of San Francisco Bay

JSTOR Daily: Women’s Fight for Scientific Fieldwork

Social Evolution Forum: Cannibalism and Human Evolution

BHL: Supporting Historical Paleontological Research

U.S. Forest Service History: Gifford Pinchot (1865–1946) 1^st Chief of the Forest Service

Yovisto: Meet Sue, the Dinosaur

Rehistoring The Land: Environmental History in Action at Rocky Mountain National Park

Sniffing the Past: Dogs in the 19^th Century Press

Atlas Obscura: Kinsey Institute Gallery

Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Thomas Bewick

Stephan on Blogger: 1708, August 14^th, the strongest of a series of quakes occurred on the active Moyenne-Durance Fault (Provence, France)

99% Invisible: A Sea Worth its Salt

The Atlantic: When Parks Were Radical

CHEMISTRY:

Geri Walton: Nitrous Oxide of Laughing Gas Exhibitions and Parties

Yovisto: Henry Moseley and the Atomic Numbers

Yovisto: Felix Hoffmann and Aspirin

Felix Hoffmann
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Yovisto: Amadeo Avogadro and Avogadro’s Law

Conciatore: Sal Ammoniac

META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

the many-headed monster: Understanding Sources: Churchwardens’ Account

The Recipes Project: Looking at Paper and Recipes

Scientific American: Squabbling Over the End of Science on Charlie Rose

CHF: Distillations: Summer 2016

Philly.com: Commentary: Experiment with Philly’s legacy of science

In the Franklin Institute , the Benjamin Franklin Memorial Chamber. File

University of Oxford: MLGB3: Medieval Libraries of Great Britain

The Junto: What’s Livetweeting For, Anyway?

The Junto: Women and the History of Capitalism

Society for the Social History of Medicine: The Gazette

The Atlantic: The Tyranny of Simple Explanations

JHI: Blog: Announcing 2015 Forkosch Book Prize Winner

Springer: Journal of the History of Biology: Volume 49, Issue 3, August 2016 Table of Contents

Occult Minds: Building Blocks of Human Experience –website launched

ESOTERIC:

Conciatore: Alchemy School

Corpus Newtonicum: Summer thoughts…

Yovisto: Abu Ma’shar al-Balkhi – The Prince of Astrologers

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Anton Mesmer and his Animal Magnetism

Franz Anton Mesmer
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Occult Minds: Results

History of Alchemy Podcast: New History of Alchemy tshirt design!

BOOK REVIEWS:

The Momo: 6 stellar science books that ‘normal folks’ will love

Forbes: Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2016 Shortlist Announced

H-Net Reviews: Cristian Berco: From Body to Community: Veneral Disease and Society in Baroque Spain

Chemistry World: Women in science: 50 fearless pioneers who changed the world

The Economist: The master of them all

brainpickings: Mental Health, Free Will, and Your Microbiome

brainpickings: James Gleick on Our Anxiety About Time, the Origin of the Term “Type A”, and the Curious Psychology of Elevator Impatience

The Austin Chronicle: The Seven Skeletons of Lydia Pyne

University of California Press: Nova Religio: The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse 1900–1939 by Egil Asprem

NEW BOOKS:

Enfilade: New Book – Fleshing out Surfaces

Peter Lang: The Colours of the Past in Victorian England

CUP: Academic: Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human

ART & EXHIBITIONS

Poetic Botany: A Digital Exhibition: Art & Science of the Eighteenth-Century Vegetable World

Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September –16 December 2016

The Australian: Hadron Collider show reveals art of science at Sydney Powerhouse Museum

Royal Museums Greenwich: Do the Ultimate Time Trail

University of Nottingham: Manuscripts and Special Collections: Weston Gallery Exhibition: Francis Willughby (1635–1672) A Natural Historian and His Collections 19 August–4 December 2016

National Railway Museum: National Railway Museum marks historic First World War centenary with new exhibition

BBC News: James Brindley: The canal pioneer who changed England

Various accounts suggest Brindley carved cheese to showcase his Barton Aqueduct design to a parliamentary committee
HERBERT DUNKLEY

HSS: On Time: The Quest for Precision

Christ Church Oxford: Hakluyt and Geography in Oxford 1550–1650 Opens 14 October 2016

Bodleian Library: The World in a Book: Hakluyt and Renaissance Discovery Opens 28 October 2016

Heriot Watt University: New exhibit unveiled at ICE museum

National Library of Scotland: You Are Here 22 July 2016–3 April 2017

The Walters Museum: Waste Not: The Art of Medieval Recycling 25 June–18 September 2016

The Holburne Museum: Stubbs and the Wild June 25–2 October 2016

George Stubbs A Lion and a Lioness 1778 Enamel on Wedgwood ceramic
The Daniel Katz Gallery London

Linda Hall Library: Drawn from Nature: Art, Science, and the Invention of the Bird Field Guide 12 March–10 September 2016

Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May–30 October 2016

Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–1r January 2018

Art Institute Chicago: The Shogun’s World: Japanese Maps from the 18^th and 19^th Centuries 25 June–6 November 2016

Museum of London: Fire! Fire! 23July 2016–17 April 2017

Royal Museums Greenwich: Above and Beyond: The ultimate interactive flight exhibition 27 May–29 August 2016

‘Spithead in Wartime’
William Lionel Wyllie
National Maritime Museum

CLOSING SOON: Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Brooklyn Historical Society to exhibit two rare Revolutionary War-era maps in honour of upcoming 240^th anniversary of Battle of Brooklyn 29 June–28 August 2016

The Mary Rose: Mary Rose Museum re-opening on 20^th July 2016

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15^th and 16^th Centuries

St. Louis Central Library: Fantasy Maps Exhibit 11 June–15 October 2016

Uzeeum: House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, and Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum, Berlin, 1869–1922

Amritt Museum: Beatrix Potter – Image & Reality

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph

Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library

Historiens de la santé: Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England: Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts

Science Museum: Robots

Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus

Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:

Fine Books & Collections: The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at BPL to Host Exhibit, “From the Sea to the Mountains” 2 April–28 August 2016

Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017

AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016

Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017

Science Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius 10 February 2016–4 September 2016

Wellcome Collections: States of Mind 4 February–16 October 2016

Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm

Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game

CLOSING VERY SOON: The John Rylands Library: Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World 21 January–21 August 2016

Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility

Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday

Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017

Science Museum: Information Age

Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: YOUTOPIA: VISIONS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016

Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph 14 April–11 September 2016

Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy

Bethel Museum of the Mind: The Weight of History 27 July – 18 November 2016

Royal Collection: Maria Merian’s Butterflies

Royal Society of Medicine: charcot, hysteria, & la salpetriere 3 May 2016–23 July 2016

Horsham Museum: Dinosaurs of Horsham – Art, Reality and Fun 9 July–5 September 2016

COMING SOON: Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September–16 December 2016

Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–15 January 2018

COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE WEIGHT OF HISTORY 27 July–18 November 2016

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Shakespeare’s World View: Stars, Globes and Magic

Horsham Museum: Dinosaurs of Horsham – Art, Reality and Fun 9 July–5 September 2016

COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September–15 January

The Star: Sea monsters, beavers and made-up lands dot Toronto Reference Library map exhibit

National Railway Museum: National Railway Museum marks historic First World War centenary with new exhibition

BBC News: James Brindley: The canal pioneer who changed England

Various accounts suggest Brindley carved cheese to showcase his Barton Aqueduct design to a parliamentary committee
HERBERT DUNKLEY

The Map Room: MacDonal Gill Exhibition in San Diego

HSS: On Time: The Quest for Precision

Christ Church Oxford: Hakluyt and Geography in Oxford 1550–1650 Opens 14 October 2016

Bodleian Library: The World in a Book: Hakluyt and Renaissance Discovery Opens 28 October 2016

Heriot Watt University: New exhibit unveiled at ICE museum

National Library of Scotland: You Are Here 22 July 2016–3 April 2017

The Walters Museum: Waste Not: The Art of Medieval Recycling 25 June–18 September 2016

The Holburne Museum: Stubbs and the Wild June 25–2 October 2016

George Stubbs A Lion and a Lioness 1778 Enamel on Wedgwood ceramic
The Daniel Katz Gallery London

Linda Hall Library: Drawn from Nature: Art, Science, and the Invention of the Bird Field Guide 12 March–10 September 2016

Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May–30 October 2016

Art Institute Chicago: The Shogun’s World: Japanese Maps from the 18^th and 19^th Centuries 25 June–6 November 2016

Museum of London: Fire! Fire! 23July 2016–17 April 2017

Royal Museums Greenwich: Above and Beyond: The ultimate interactive flight exhibition 27 May–29 August 2016

‘Spithead in Wartime’
William Lionel Wyllie
National Maritime Museum

CLOSING SOON: Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Brooklyn Historical Society to exhibit two rare Revolutionary War-era maps in honour of upcoming 240^th anniversary of Battle of Brooklyn 29 June–28 August 2016

The Mary Rose: Mary Rose Museum re-opening on 20^th July 2016

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15^th and 16^th Centuries

St. Louis Central Library: Fantasy Maps Exhibit 11 June–15 October 2016

Uzeeum: House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, and Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum, Berlin, 1869–1922

Amritt Museum: Beatrix Potter – Image & Reality

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph

Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library

Historiens de la santé: Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England: Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts

Science Museum: Robots

Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus

Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:

Fine Books & Collections: The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at BPL to Host Exhibit, “From the Sea to the Mountains” 2 April–28 August 2016

Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017

AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016

Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017

Science Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius 10 February 2016–4 September 2016

Wellcome Collections: States of Mind 4 February–16 October 2016

Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm

Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game

CLOSING SOON: The John Rylands Library: Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World 21 January–21 August 2016

Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility

Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday

Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017

Science Museum: Information Age

Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: YOUTOPIA: VISIONS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016

Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph 14 April–11 September 2016

Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy

Bethel Museum of the Mind: The Weight of History 27 July – 18 November 2016

Royal Collection: Maria Merian’s Butterflies

Royal Society of Medicine: charcot, hysteria, & la salpetriere 3 May 2016–23 July 2016

Horsham Museum: Dinosaurs of Horsham – Art, Reality and Fun 9 July–5 September 2016

COMING SOON: Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September–16 December 2016

Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–15 January 2018

COMING SOON: Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September–16 December 2016

COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE WEIGHT OF HISTORY 27 July–18 November 2016

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Shakespeare’s World View: Stars, Globes and Magic

Horsham Museum: Dinosaurs of Horsham – Art, Reality and Fun 9 July–5 September 2016

COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September–15 January

The Star: Sea monsters, beavers and made-up lands dot Toronto Reference Library map exhibit

National Railway Museum: National Railway Museum marks historic First World War centenary with new exhibition

BBC News: James Brindley: The canal pioneer who changed England

Various accounts suggest Brindley carved cheese to showcase his Barton Aqueduct design to a parliamentary committee
HERBERT DUNKLEY

The Map Room: MacDonal Gill Exhibition in San Diego

HSS: On Time: The Quest for Precision

Christ Church Oxford: Hakluyt and Geography in Oxford 1550–1650 Opens 14 October 2016

Bodleian Library: The World in a Book: Hakluyt and Renaissance Discovery Opens 28 October 2016

Heriot Watt University: New exhibit unveiled at ICE museum

National Library of Scotland: You Are Here 22 July 2016–3 April 2017

The Walters Museum: Waste Not: The Art of Medieval Recycling 25 June–18 September 2016

The Holburne Museum: Stubbs and the Wild June 25–2 October 2016

George Stubbs A Lion and a Lioness 1778 Enamel on Wedgwood ceramic
The Daniel Katz Gallery London

Linda Hall Library: Drawn from Nature: Art, Science, and the Invention of the Bird Field Guide 12 March–10 September 2016

Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May–30 October 2016

Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–1r January 2018

Art Institute Chicago: The Shogun’s World: Japanese Maps from the 18^th and 19^th Centuries 25 June–6 November 2016

Museum of London: Fire! Fire! 23July 2016–17 April 2017

Royal Museums Greenwich: Above and Beyond: The ultimate interactive flight exhibition 27 May–29 August 2016

‘Spithead in Wartime’
William Lionel Wyllie
National Maritime Museum

CLOSING SOON: Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Brooklyn Historical Society to exhibit two rare Revolutionary War-era maps in honour of upcoming 240^th anniversary of Battle of Brooklyn 29 June–28 August 2016

The Mary Rose: Mary Rose Museum re-opening on 20^th July 2016

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15^th and 16^th Centuries

St. Louis Central Library: Fantasy Maps Exhibit 11 June–15 October 2016

Uzeeum: House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, and Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum, Berlin, 1869–1922

Amritt Museum: Beatrix Potter – Image & Reality

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph

Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library

Historiens de la santé: Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England: Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts

Science Museum: Robots

Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus

Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:

Fine Books & Collections: The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at BPL to Host Exhibit, “From the Sea to the Mountains” 2 April–28 August 2016

Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017

AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016

Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017

Science Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius 10 February 2016–4 September 2016

Wellcome Collections: States of Mind 4 February–16 October 2016

Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm

Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game

CLOSING SOON: The John Rylands Library: Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World 21 January–21 August 2016

Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility

Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday

Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017

Science Museum: Information Age

Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: YOUTOPIA: VISIONS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016

Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph 14 April–11 September 2016

Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy

Bethel Museum of the Mind: The Weight of History 27 July – 18 November 2016

Royal Collection: Maria Merian’s Butterflies

Royal Society of Medicine: charcot, hysteria, & la salpetriere 3 May 2016–23 July 2016

Horsham Museum: Dinosaurs of Horsham – Art, Reality and Fun 9 July–5 September 2016

COMING SOON: Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September–16 December 2016

COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Shakespeare’s World View: Stars, Globes and Magic

Science Museum: Journeys Through Medicine

Science Museum: Cosmos & Culture

THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:

Vanity Fair Hollywood: Kirsten Dunst Joins Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janellle Monae in Feminist Space Race: The actresses will tell the untold story of the mathematicians who helped make space travel possible.

Smithsonia.com: The Cosmos Sings in This Fusion of Astrophysics and Music: The Hubble Cantata

NIST: Public Affair Office: Funding Opportunity to Produce Science Documentary

Vox: What it took to discover bacteria in the 1670s

Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 07 January 2017

The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017

COMING SOON: The Grand Theatre Blackpool: Jekyll and Hyde

COMING SOON: Barbican: The Alchemist

COMING SOON: Barbican: Doctor Faustus

EVENTS:

Royal College of Physicians: Museum Late: ‘By Permission of Heaven’: The Story of the Great Fire of London 5 September 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Study Tour: ‘Flight from the Flames’: Recovering London from The Great Fire 5 September & 5 October 2016

Royal College of Physicians: ‘Medicinal Plant Afternoon: A Chinese triumph and an American awakening’ 19 September 2016

IET London: Ada Lovelace Day Live! 2016 11 October

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Time for Shakespeare 18 August 2016

Evenbrite: London 1708: a Walk into Library History 4 October 2016

The Warburg Institute: Maps and Society Lectures 26^th Series Programme 2016–2017

Wellcome Collection London: Museums Computer Group: First Keynote 2016: Museums & Tech 19 October 2016

New Scientist: The life and work of Alan Turing 4_8 November 2016 (other dates available) £££

Martin Randall Travel: History of Medicine – Florence, Bologna & Padua in the Age of Humanism 12–18 September 2016 $$$

Royal College of Physicians: Walking Tour: The Making of Thoroughly Modern Medicine

The National Museum of Computing: Summer Bytes 30 July–28 August 2016

Museum of Science and Industry Manchester: Engine Demonstration

Morbid Anatomy: Upcoming Morbid Anatomy Events

Nature: Medical research: Citizen medicine: Vaccination: Medicine and the Masses Hunterian Museum till 17 September 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: One for the Road

Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “London’s Plagues”

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding

University College Cork: Walking Tours: A second chance to solve the mystery of ‘Being Boole’!

The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours

Gresham College: Lecture: The Expanding Universe 26 October 2016

Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

The Royal College of Physicians: Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “Sex and The City”

Norcroft Auditorium, Norcroft Centre, University of Bradford: The secret chemistry of art: unravelling an age-old textile mystery / September 2016

Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tours

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Medicine at War

Discover Medical London: Tour: Who needs doctors anyway?

Royal College of Physicians: Walking Tour: John Dee and The History of Understanding

PAINTING OF THE WEEK:

Haeckel, E. H. P. A. (1866).Generelle Morphologie der Organismen : allgemeine Grundzüge der organischen Formen-Wissenschaft, mechanisch begründet durch die von C. Darwin reformirte Decendenz-Theorie.

TELEVISION:

SLIDE SHOW:

VIDEOS:

Torch: Too Valuable to Die?

Youtube: Wikimedia UK: Alice White at the Wellcome Library

Youtube: Ri: Cosmology: Galileo to Gravitational Waves – with Hiranya Peiris

Youtube: The Royal Society: The Boyle Diaries – Objectivity #78

Youtube: Essilor UK: Irreducible Complexity? – Evolution of the Eye Explained

RADIO & PODCASTS:

brainpickings: Iconic Psychiatrist Carl Jung on Human Personality in Rare BBC Interview

News Works: The history of Heinrich Hertz and the discovery of radio waves

New Books Network: The Art of Medicine in Early China

ALD Podcast: Episode 2, Fran Scott & Maia Weinstock

BBC Archive: H G Wells: Science and the Citizen (1943)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

University of Sheffield: Interdisciplinary Workshop: Intoxication, Discourse and Practice 30 September–1 October 2016

ICHST “2017: Symposium Proposals Approved by IPC

APS Physics: CfP: April Meeting 2017 Include History of Physics Deadline 30 September 2016

The Ordered Universe Project: Space and Place: Ordered Universe Symposium Durham University 1-3 September 2016

BSHS: Annals of Science Student Essay Prize

University of York: International Workshop: Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past 14-16 September 2016

BSHS: The 2016 Big Draw Festival: STEAM Powered: From STEM to STEAM 1–31 October 2016

Hakluyt Society: Essay Prize 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016

Gravity Fields Festival 2016: 21–25 September: Tickets are now on sale

University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Conference: Reproductive politics in France and Britain 5–7 September 2016

Medieval Art Research: CFP: Of Man Eating Men: Medieval and Early Modern Cannibalism (edited volume)

CRASSH: University of Cambridge: Techniques, Technologies and Materialities of Epidemic Control 16-17 September 2016

University of York: Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past: International Workshop 14 September 2016

International Map Collectors Society: IMCoS 34th International Symposium, Chicago 24–29 September 2016

Royal Historical Society: University of Chester: CfP: Putting History in its Place: Historic Landscapes and Environments 21 April 2017 – deadline 28 October 2016

IWHA: CfP: Water History Conference 2017 Grand Rapids USA 15–17 June 2017

All Souls College Oxford: Second CfP: Teaching mathematics in the early modern period

University of York: Northern Network for Medical Humanities: Research Workshop: 22 September 2016

University of Kalamazoo: 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies: Body and Soul in Medieval Visual Culture 15 September 2016

University of Reading: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016 Registration now open

University of Mainz: Conference: Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? Construction and Transfer of Knowledge about Man and Nature in Antiquity and the Middle Ages 14–16 September 2016

University of Milan: Conference: Mathesis quaedam Divina seu Mechanismus Metaphysicus -Leibniz and the sciences 7–8 October 2016

University of St. Andrews: Conference: Mathematical Biography: A MacTutor Celebration

University of Durham: Conference: Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism? 5–7 August 2017

Salem Academy Charter School, Salem MA: New England Regional World History Association Fall Symposium: CfP: Navigation, Travel, and Exploration in World History 24 September 2016

Istanbul: XXXVth Scientific Instrument Symposium: Draft Programme 26–30 September 2016

Universidade de Évora: Conference: Évora’s 7th Symposium on Philosophy and History of Science and Technology: Structuralism: Roots, Plurality and Contemporary debates 4–5 November 2016

University of Valencia: Institute for the History of Medicine and Science “López Piñero”: Programme Fall 2016 Seminars, Conferences etc

EOI: Call for Expressions of Interest: Learned societies and the circulation of knowledge, 1750-2000 From Aileen Fyfe and Jenny Beckman

Urbino & Cesena: XIX Summer School in Philosophy of Physics 5-9 September 2016

Radboud University Nijmegen: Call for nominations: Hanneke Janssen Memorial Prize 2016: Essay in History and Philosophy of Physics Deadline 1 November 2016

Mahon/Maó (Menorca): 9^th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularisation: CFP: Living in Emergency: humanitarianism and medicine 18–20 May 2017

Berlin –Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaft: Project: Galen of Pergamum: The Transmission, Interpretation and Completion of Ancient Medicine

Wellcome Collection London: The Physiological Society: Physiology: An Historical Perspective 13 September 2016

Warwick: Humanities Research Centre: Conference: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Text and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s 4 March 2017

ECHOPHYSICS Pöllau Austria: 2^nd International Conference on the History of Physics 5–7 September 2016

The German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker- GDCh): PAUL BUNGE PRIZE 2017: HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS Deadline 30 September 2016

Birkbeck University of London: The Birkbeck Trauma Project: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–27 March 2017

Christ Church & Bodleian Library Oxford: Conference: Hakluyt and the Renaissance Discovery of the World 24–25 November 2016

CELFIS University of Bucharest: Call for Applications: Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science 24–26 October 2016

University of Sydney: CfP: Workshop: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18 April 2017

Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall: Workshop: Tools of Reason: The Practice of Scientific Diagramming from Antiquity to the Present 10–11 February 2017

American Association for the History of Medicine: Awards and Grants

Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries Oxford: Women in Science in the Archives 8 September 2016

University of Edmonton: CfP: Theology and the Philosophy of Science 14–15 October 2016

The Lowry, Salford Quays: Discovering Collections Discovering Communities 10–12 October 2016

Universidade de Évora (Portugal): Évora’s 7th Symposium on Philosophy and History of Science and Technology 4–5 November 2016

HUMANA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies: CfP: Issue 32, April 2017: Beyond Toleration? Inconsistency and Pluralism in the Empirical Sciences

University of Glasgow: CfP: Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures 3–4 April 2017

IUHPST: Call for entries: IUHPST Essay Prize in History and Philosophy of Science “What is the value of philosophy of science for history of science?” Deadline 30 November 2016

Eä: A workshop in Rio to debate about the challenges facing interdisciplinary journals

Université François Rabelais, Tours: Appel à communications: Représentations et figures de la maternité dans le monde anglophone 3 au 5 avril 2017

JOURNÉES D’ÉTUDES: Appel à communicatio: « Petites mains » d’artistes dans les pratiques scientifiques

BSHS: Museum of the History of Science Upcoming Free Lecture Series

Université de Strasbourg: Appel à symposia: 6ème Congrès de la Société française d’histoire des sciences et des techniques (SFHST) 19-20-21 avril 2017

Birkbeck University of London: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–25 March 2017

Lexicon Philosophicum: CfP: Issue 5 (2017) Histories of Philosophy, Science and Ideas

Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds: CfP: Workshop: Exploring Histories and Futures of Innovation in Advanced Wound Care 20 September 2016

Université de Caen: Colloque: Le corps humain saisi par le droit : entre liberté et propriété 14 Octobre 2016

HSTM Network Ireland: International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Young Scholar Prize

ENVA, Amphithéâtre Blin: Appel à communications: Animalhumanité. Expérimentation et fiction : l’animalité au cœur du vivant 1er et 2 décembre 2016

New Bern NC: CfP: North Carolina Maritime History Council Conference 4–5 November 2016

Christ’s College Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World (1400-1750) 3–4 April 2017

Villa Mirafiori, Rome: Conference: Building Theories, Hypothesis & Heuristics in Science

UCL: CfP. Second London Philosophy of Science Graduate Conference 1–2 September 2016 Deadline 4 July 2016

Society for U.S: Intellectual History: Conference: From the Mayflower to Silicon Valley: Tools and Traditions in American Intellectual History October 13-15, 2016

University of Lisbon: CfP: Third Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Issues 14–16 December 2016

San Sebastian: Physics in the XII International Ontology Congress 3-7 October 2016

Notches: CfP: Histories of Disability and Sexuality

Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science: CfP: Special Issue: Knowledge Transfer and Its Context

The Victorianist: CfP Reminder: The “Heart” and “science” of Wilkie Collins and His Contemporaries 24 September 2016 London

ICOHTEC Conference Porto: CfP: Early Career Scholars Workshop: Tension of Europe 1 August 2016

Society for Renaissance Studies: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Texts and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s

BSHS: The British Society for the History of Science Prize for Exhibits on the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 2016

Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Paris: Colloque: Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique 20–21 Octobre 2016

King’s College London: From Microbes to Matrons: The Past, Present and Future of Hospital Infection Control and Prevention 1-2 September 2016

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: CFP: Conference: HIV/AIDS Research: Its History and Future 13–16 October 2016

Australian Academy of Science: The Moran Award for History of Science Research

University Of Belgrade: CfP: Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation-5 22–23 September 2016

Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta, and the University of Warwick: CfP: Beauty and the Hospital in History 6–8 April 2017

MedHum Fiction – Daily Dose: CfP: Medical Humanities

University of Birmingham: Social Studies in the History of Medicine – ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’

The Nobel Museum Stockholm: Prizes and Awards in Science before Nobel. 5th Watson Seminar in the Material and Visual History of Science 5 September 2016

Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Partington Prize

University of Glasgow: CfP: Discourse of Care: Care in Media, Medicine and Society 5-7 September 2016

Western Michigan University: CfP: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference

University of Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Envirment, and Health In the Easterm Mediterranean World, 1400–1750 3–4 April 2017

Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science: Upcoming Events

Fórum Lisboa (Antigo Cinema Roma): CFP: Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science 14–16 December 2016

Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)

Calenda: Le Calendrier des Lettres et Sciences Humains et Sociales: Appel à contribution « Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique »

Western Michigan University: Call for Abstracts: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference 15–16 September 2016

Society for the Social History of Medicine: Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October 2016

Kunsthistorisches Institut In Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut: CfP: Photo-Objects. On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo-Archives in the Humanities and Sciences 15–17 February 2017

University of Leuven: CfA: The science of evolution and the evolution of the sciences 12–13 October 2016

Science Museum: Artefacts Meeting 2–4 October 2016: CfP: Understanding Use: Science and Technology Objects and Users

Cambridge: CfP extended: Science and Islands in the Indo-Pacific World 15–16 September 2016

University of Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events

Society for the Social History of Medicine: 2016 Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October

H-Pennsylvania: Philip J. Pauly Book Prise Nominations Sought for Histories of Science in the Americas

BSHS: Prizes

Queen Mary University of London:Upcoming History of Emotions Work in Progress Seminars

University of Reading: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016

Barts Pathology Museum: CfP: The “Heart” and “Science” of Wilkie Collins and his Contemporaries 24 September 2016

University of Leicester: Centre for Medical Humanities: Seminars:

Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware: CfP: Making Modern Disability: Histories of Disability, Design, and Technology 28 October 2016

New York City: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 30 September–1 October 2016

IHPST, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris: CfP: International Doctoral Conference in Philosophy of Science 29-30 September 2016

Annals of Science: Annals of Science Essay Prize for Young Scholars

H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology

2nd International Conference on the History of Physics: Invention, application and exploitation in the history of physics Pöllau, Austria 5–7 September 2016

Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST: CfP: 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature

University of Greenwich: Society and the Sea Conference: 15–16 September 2016

University of Illinois, Chicago: CfP: STS Graduate Student Workshop: 16-17 September

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century 10–11 September 2016

St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016

LOOKING FOR WORK:

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

BSHS: Time Measurement Research Funding

University of Cambridge: St John’s College: Research Fellowships in Historical & Philosophical Studies

Québec: Bourse de maîtrise/ doctorat en histoire du nursing psychiatrique au Québec

University of Paderborn: Post Doc: The Project “Center History of Women Philosophers and Scientists (HWPS)”

The Dudley Observatory: Applications for the 2017 Pollock Awards are now open! History of Astronomy

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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

Year 3, Volume #01

Monday 22 August 2016

EDITORIAL:

A new edition, the first of year three, of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list, bringing to your monitors all the histories of science, technology and medicine we could scoop up out of the far corners of the Internet.

In general two year of Whewell’s Gazette has convinced me that the Internet #histSTM scene is very much alive and well. There are times when I worry that some area is drying up, as in that week for a second time in a row some category manages only a meagre handful of links. Then a week later the same category will boast a solid collection of links, whilst another different one is showing signs of demise. So it goes, the ups and down of digital #histSTM.

I don’t see digital #histSTM as superseding other more traditional forms of #histSTM communication but rather as offering another channel, another possibility for historians of science, technology and medicine to communicate both with each other and with those interested in reading the products of their research. Digital communication can be fast, informal and direct but it can also be as solid and considered as the more traditional printed publications. Whewell’s Gazette aims to bring its readers the full spectrum of available digital #histSTM.

We hope that you we keep with us in this our third year of publication and that the #histSTM community will continue to supply us with enough material to keep our humble little journal sailing through cyberspace.

Quotes of the week:

“Writing a lecture on the humours, it never ceases to amaze me how easy it is to understand basically, but also how massively complex it is” – Alun Withey (@DrAlun)

“Lost out on a job to a less qualified candidate from a medieval French Protestant background.

It’s not what you know it’s Huguenot” – Colm O’Regan (@colmoregan)

“A guy got caught stealing an idol from our local museum in hopes of auctioning it off. Baal has been set at $50,000” – @ChrchCurmudgeon

Q: Anyone know any jokes about sodium?

A: Na – Science Channel (@ScienceChannel)

“What do you call a dinosaur that never gives up?”

“A try-try-try-ceraptops” – Specimen FMNH PR2081 (@SUEtheTrex)

“WIFE: You will stop obsessing over Boolean logic OR I’m getting a divorce.

HUSBAND: True” – Haran X (@Haran_X_Comedy)

“On Trump’s speech today, I’m reminded of something my grandmother used to say: “You can gild a turd, but you can’t make it smell no better”” – Charles Johnson (@Green_Footfalls)

“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive” – Blaise Pascal

“When a German dives into a sentence you won’t see him again until he emerges at the other end with a verb between his teeth” – Mark Twain h/t @telescoper

“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time” – Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

“Science is neat. But I’m afraid it’s not very forgiving.” — Stranger Things h/t

@JoshRosenau

“The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit” – W. Somerset Maugham

“History wasn’t built in a day.” – theidiomatic.com h/t @RussellDorman

Creatively-written Will by the uncle of Charles Wheatstone, an inventor of the telegraph

Birthdays of the Week:

Margaret Hamilton born 17 August 1936

Hamilton during her time as lead Apollo flight software designer.
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: The “Rope Mother” Margaret Hamilton

Louis de Broglie born 15 August 1892

Louis de Broglie
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Yovisto: Louis de Broglie and wave nature of matter

Jöns Jacob Berzelius born 20 August 1779

Daguerreotype of Berzelius.
Source: Wikimedia Commons

CHF: Jöns Jacob Berzelius

John Flamsteed born 19 August 1646

Portrait of John Flamsteed, astronomer – born Denby Derbyshire. Painting by Thomas Gibson. Original with UK Royal Society
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – John Flamsteed

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Return of the stamp collector

Yovisto: John Flamsteed – Astronomer Royal

Royal Museums Greenwich: The Astronomer Royal: John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal

Linder Hall Library: Out of This World: The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas

The Royal Society: John Flamsteed: A celebration of the first Astronomer Royal

PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:

Sadly, Copernicus’s early draft of the arachnocentric theory of the universe never really caught on –Karl Galle (@GalleKarl)

Voices of the Manhattan Project: William A. Fowler’s Interview

Yovisto: Pierre Mechain and the Meridian Survey Expedition

Voices of the Manhattan Project: Dorothy Ritter’s Interview

The Atlantic: The Constellations are Sexists

Voices of the Manhattan Project: Alice Kimball Smith’s Interview

Archaeology: Researchers Hope to Track Ancient Solar Storms

ABC News: A Mayan Copernicus: Venus Table may have been a major mathematical innovation

PHOTO: The Preface of the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex. (Supplied: UC Santa Barbara)

The Current: An Ancient Mayan Copernicus

University of Cambridge: Research: Study reveals Leonardo da Vinci’ “irrelevant” scribbles mark the spot where he first recorded the laws of friction

Wissenschaft & Fortschritt: A Birdsview to Babylonian Astronomy

Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – James Nasmyth

OUP Blog: A Copernican eye-opener

Voices of the Manhattan Project: Robert Bacher’s Interview – Part 1

The New York Review of Books: Atomic Light

New York Public Library: 1800s Astronomical Drawings vs. NASA Images

Partial eclipse of the moon. Observed October 24, 1874.

A perigee full moon, or supermoon, is seen behind the Washington Monument during a total lunar eclipse on Sunday, September 27, 2015, in Washington, DC. The combination of a supermoon and total lunar eclipse last occurred in 1982 and will not happen again until 2033. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

AHF: Norris Bradbury

Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog: The Third Core’s Revenge

Medium: Desperately Seeking Einstein’s Assistant

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

quaritch.com: Australasia & The Pacific

Captain Cook Society: Welcome to the Captain Cook Society

The Guardian: Rare letter by Mary Wortley Montagu pioneering travel writer, up for sale

Mary Wortley Montagu with her son Edward, by Jean-Baptiste van Mour
Source: Wikimedia Commons

British Library: Online Gallery: A Coloured Map of Offalia, now forming King’s and Queen’s Counties

National Library of Scotland: The first population map of Great Britain

Smithsonian.com: The History of the American West Gets a Much-Needed Rewrite

MEDICINE & HEALTH:

The discovery of chloroform remembered in St Giles Cathedral Edinburgh.

Science Museum: Olympic Rings

The Recipes Project: Paper as Commodity in Medieval Magical and Medical Practices

HSL Special Collections: Preventative Medicine and Hygiene (1927)

The Devil’s Tale: Measuring the Children of the Corn

Yovisto: Thomas Hodgekin – a Pioneer of Preventative Medicine

Yovisto: Wilhelm Wundt – Father of Experimental Psychology

Rohampton University Research Repository: PhD Thesis: The Role of Domestic Knowledge in an Era of Professionalisation: Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Medical Recipe Collections – Sally Ann Osborn

The History of Emotions Blog: Lies, Damned Lies and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy

Nursing Clio: Venus Revisited

Late-18th century Anatomical Venus (Josephinum Museum of the Medical University of Vienna)

Thomas Morris: The fractured penis

Yovisto: B.F. Skinner and Radical Behaviorism

Nursing Clio: Disproving Self-Indulgence: Congenital Addiction in the Early Twentieth Century

Wellcome Library: Wound man Part 2: afterlives

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Cause of Death?

The Recipes Project: To Break or not to Break (Part 2): From Cairo to Dordrecht

The Guardian: Bad to the bone: skeleton exhibition reveals dietry disease across social divide

Jelena Bekvalac, curator of human osteology at the Museum of London and Emily Sargent, curator at Wellcome Collection, check the skeleton of a female aged between 17-25 years old from Crossbones in Southwark who suffered the ravages of syphilis. Photograph: Callum Bennetts/MAVERICK PHOTO AGENCY

The Thinkers Garden: Odd Truths: Paracelsus the Rebel

Smithsonian.com: The Man Who Ran a Carnival Attraction That Saved Thousands of Premature Babies Wasn’t a Doctor at All

Thomas Morris: Centipedes in your bacon

CHF Distillations: Fast Times: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of Amphetamine

Discover: The Origins of Intravenous Fluids

Pour raisons de santé : Que sera l’Histoire de la médecine?

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:

Past is Present: The Acquisitions Table: Daguerreotype Apparatus

Conciatore: Sulfur of Saturn

JSTOR Daily: When Refrigeration was Controversial

BBC Radio 3: The Essay: The five photographs that (you didn’t know) changed everything

Hugh Le Caine: Electronic Sackbut (1945–1973)

Yovisto: The Man Who Invented Science Fiction– Hugo Gernsback

Yovisto: Gabriel Lipmann and the Colour Photography

ICE Virtual Library: Obituary John Clarke Hawkshaw Past-President 1841–1921

The National Museum of Computing: Resistance calling

Yovisto: Hans Grade – German Aviation Pioneer

Yovisto: Robert Fulton and the Steamship Company

Daily Camera News: Boulder County history: Women found math careers at the ‘Bureau’

Catherine Candelaria working as a mathematician and computer programmer at Boulder’s National Bureau of Standards in the 1960s. (National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Institute for Telecommunication Sciences / Courtesy Photo)

Apollo: Time regained: a lost rococo clock is found

The Guardian: From Marxism to McDonalds: 120 years of Russian photography – in picture

Whipple Library Books Blog: Q is for Quekett the Quekett Club and its journal

Yovisto: The Flight of the Double Eagle II

BBC News: How the UK’s first fatal car accident unfolded

Yovisto: How High/Low Can You Go? – The Explorer Auguste Piccard

Tech Insider: 7 world-changing inventions that were ridiculed when they came out

War History Online: A Look Inside The Most Feared Tank of WWII, The Panther

Marie Hicks: Only the Clothes Changed: Women Operators in British Computing and Advertising, 1950–1970

Powers-Samas electronic computers images. (a) The advertisement appeared in the Powers-Samas Magazine May/June 1958 issue (p. 5). (b) The photo of the real female employee operating the Electronic Multiplying Punch (Emp) at LaPorte Industries appeared in the Powers-Samas Magazine June/July 1957 issue (p. 11). (Courtesy of Powers-Samas)

Yovisto: Pierre Vernier and the Vernier Scale

Yovisto: Making Photography Really Operational – Louis Daguerre

Yovisto: Philo Taylor Farnsworth and the Electronic Television

Yovisto: Taming Hurricane Debbie

The Guardian: First world war wreck gets virtual restoration off coast of Yorkshire

Yovisto: The Wright Brothers Invented the Aviation Age

Atlas Obscura: Say Farewell to New York’s Original Apple Store

BBC iWonder: How did 16 photographs change the way we see the world?

Royal Museums Greenwich: John Harrison’s iconic marine timekeepers

Paleofuture: We’re Still Waiting on the Dishwasher Utopia

Gizmodo: In 1898, Nikola Tesla Predicted Drone Warfare

Naval History and Heritage Command: Hooper

London Reconnections: Empire of the Air: The Imperial Airship Service: Connecting London with the Empire

1902 picture of a private airship flown from Crystal Palace to Ealing. Jonathan Roberts’ collection.

IEEE Spectrum: The Man Who Invented Intelligent Traffic Control a Century Too Early

Distilations: Cool Food

Computer History Museum: Answers in Black and White (And Sometimes Right)

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

Der neuhöllandische Leiervogel (Menura superba). Bilder-atlas zur Wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Vögel in ihren sämmtlichen Hauptformen

Center for the History of Medicine: Capturing the History of Sustainability at the Harvard Chan School

Niche: Sliding down the Timber Chute: The 1901 Royal Tour of Canada

Encyclopaedia Britannica: Sir Edwin Ray Lankester

Letters from Godwana:Mignon Talbot and the Forgotten Women of Paleontology

Literary Hub: How Does a Skeleton Become Famous?

BHL: Instagram

Yovisto: Regnier de Graaf – Creator of Experimental Physiology

Parks & Gardens UK: Capability Brown Landscape of the Month: Navestock

William “Strata” Smith Blue Plaque

Ocean Explorers: 1785: Benjamin Franklin’s ‘Sundry Maritime Observations’

New Scientist: Bunnies helped a great civilisation in ancient Mexico thrive

SANBI: Celebrating Mary Gunn and 100 years of library excellence in South Africa

Science Focus: Solving the Piltdown Man crime: how we worked out there was only one forger

The Biologist: An evening with Sir Alec Jeffreys

Environment & Society Portal: The Nuclear Disaster of Kyshtym 1957 and the Politics of the Cold War

Evolving Thoughts: The History of Life: Before Aristotle 2: The Eleatics and the atomists

Science League of America: Garfield’s Evolution Debate

ozy.com: This Spinster Revealed Women Really Are Freaks In The Sheets

flickr: Biodiversity Heritage Library

Science: Ötzi the Iceman had some wild clothes

Smithsonian.com: DNA Analysis Reveals What Ötzi the Iceman Wore to His Grave

A reconstruction of Ötzi the Iceman at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology. (OetziTheIceman /Flickr CC)

Burgerbibliothek Bern: Das Herbarium des Felix Platter

Wildlife Articles: Celebrating the legacy of John Muir

Irish Philosophy: The Evolution of Evolution: Darwin’s philosophical forebears

GEOExPro: Geologists at War

New York Times: This Land Is My Land (And Yours, Too!)

npr: What Does It Take to Map a Walrus Hangout? 160 Years and a Lot of Help

History of Geology: Charles Darwin in Rio de Janeiro and the Geology of Sugarloaf Mountain

Science League of America: Pinning Down Piltdown

CHEMISTRY:

Discover: The Crux: How the Elements Got Their Names

Conciatore: Vitriol of Venus

Conciatore: Tartar Salt

Yovisto: Jules Janssen and the Discovery of Helium

OUP Blog: An egalitarian and organic history of the periodic table

Dimitri Mendeleev is one of the most well-known scientists credited for the discovery of chemical periodicity, though he is not the only to have made this discovery. Image uploaded by Serge Lachinov. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

Irish Philosophy: Sophie Bryant, (Irish) Renaissance Woman

Photograph of Sophie Bryant (1850–1922) by Robert Tucker (1832–1905)
Source: Wikimedia Commons

The Conversation: Why science and engineering need to remind students of forgotten lessons from history

Advances in the History of Psychology: Reflecting on “Functionalism, Darwinism, and the Psychology of Women”

Academia: Introduction: Epicureanism at the Origin of Modernity: The Revival of Ancient Materialism

Annals of Science: Early Laboratories c.1600–c.1800 and the Location of Experimental Science

ISIS; Volume 107, Number 2 June 2016 ToC: Viewpoint: The History Manifesto and the History of Science (oa)

Social Epistemology: How Should Feyerabend have Defended Astrology? A Further Reply to Kidd, Massimo Pigliucci

Scott Polar Research Institute: Science at the Polar Museum

Social History of Medicine: Volume 29 Issue 3 August 2016 Table of Contents

The History Vault: Why Society Needs Historians

Cultures of Knowledge: Calculating Blaise Pascal

ESOTERIC:

The Public Domain Review: The Surreal Art of Alchemical Diagrams

From the Manly Palmer Hall collection of alchemical manuscripts, 1500-1825

Motherboard: These Surreal Ancient Alchemy Manuscripts Are Terrifyingly Cool

Annals of Science: Phrenological Knowledge and the Social Structure of Early Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh

Inner Lives: Magic and Humour in the Late Middle Ages

Scientific American: Is It Possible to Measure Supernatural or Paranormal Phenomena?

BOOK REVIEWS:

Medieval Histories: The Great Transition in the Late Medieval World

The Guardian: The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage review – a comic look at two Victorian prodigies

Lady Science: My Thrilling Adventures Reading About Ada and Charles

Lady Science: Romance and Radium: Emotional Histories of Science

Siam News: Nautical Numbers: The Influence of Nathaniel Bowditch

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Thomas Annan and the Documentary Photography

TED-Ed Blog: A Q&A about autism with Steve Siberman, author of NeuroTribes

Itinerario: Sebastian Conrad. What is Global History?

Boston Globe: Luke Dittrich recalls grandfather’s role in lobotomy that yielded key insights, tragedy

NEW BOOKS:

Historiens de la santé: La fondation secrète de l’homéopathie (Reseaux Francs-Macons et théories médicales de 1750 a 1810)

Historiens de la santé: Anatomophysiologie du cerveau et du cervelet chez Vincenzo Malacarne (1744-1816)

Historiens de la santé: The Eugenic Fortress: The Transylvanian Saxon Experiment in Interwar Romania

H-Midwest-Medieval: Islamic Literature and Intellectual Life in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-century Anatolia

Springer: Early Geological Maps of Europe: Central Europe 1750 to 1840

Historiens de la santé: The Autonomy of Pleasure: Libertines, License, and Sexual Revolution

ART & EXHIBITIONS

American Museum of Natural History: Opulent Oceans

Natural History Museum: Colour and Vision: Through the Eyes of Nature 15 July–6 November 2016

Poetic Botany: A Digital Exhibition: Art & Science of the Eighteenth-Century Vegetable World

Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September –16 December 2016

The Australian: Hadron Collider show reveals art of science at Sydney Powerhouse Museum

Royal Museums Greenwich: Do the Ultimate Time Trail

University of Nottingham: Manuscripts and Special Collections: Weston Gallery Exhibition: Francis Willughby (1635–1672) A Natural Historian and His Collections 19 August–4 December 2016

National Railway Museum: National Railway Museum marks historic First World War centenary with new exhibition

BBC News: James Brindley: The canal pioneer who changed England Runs till 2 October 2016

Various accounts suggest Brindley carved cheese to showcase his Barton Aqueduct design to a parliamentary committee
HERBERT DUNKLEY

HSS: On Time: The Quest for Precision

Christ Church Oxford: Hakluyt and Geography in Oxford 1550–1650 Opens 14 October 2016

Bodleian Library: The World in a Book: Hakluyt and Renaissance Discovery Opens 28 October 2016

Heriot Watt University: New exhibit unveiled at ICE museum

National Library of Scotland: You Are Here 22 July 2016–3 April 2017

The Walters Museum: Waste Not: The Art of Medieval Recycling 25 June–18 September 2016

The Holburne Museum: Stubbs and the Wild June 25–2 October 2016

George Stubbs A Lion and a Lioness 1778 Enamel on Wedgwood ceramic
The Daniel Katz Gallery London

Linda Hall Library: Drawn from Nature: Art, Science, and the Invention of the Bird Field Guide 12 March–10 September 2016

Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May–30 October 2016

Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–15 January 2018

Art Institute Chicago: The Shogun’s World: Japanese Maps from the 18^th and 19^th Centuries 25 June–6 November 2016

Museum of London: Fire! Fire! 23July 2016–17 April 2017

Royal Museums Greenwich: Above and Beyond: The ultimate interactive flight exhibition 27 May–29 August 2016

‘Spithead in Wartime’
William Lionel Wyllie
National Maritime Museum

CLOSING SOON: Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Brooklyn Historical Society to exhibit two rare Revolutionary War-era maps in honour of upcoming 240^th anniversary of Battle of Brooklyn 29 June–28 August 2016

The Mary Rose: Mary Rose Museum re-opening on 20^th July 2016

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15^th and 16^th Centuries

St. Louis Central Library: Fantasy Maps Exhibit 11 June–15 October 2016

Uzeeum: House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, and Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum, Berlin, 1869–1922

Amritt Museum: Beatrix Potter – Image & Reality

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph

Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library

Historiens de la santé: Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England: Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts

Science Museum: Robots

Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus

Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:

Fine Books & Collections: The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at BPL to Host Exhibit, “From the Sea to the Mountains” 2 April–28 August 2016

Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017

AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016

Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017

Science Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius 10 February 2016–4 September 2016

Wellcome Collections: States of Mind 4 February–16 October 2016

Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm

Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game

Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility

Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday

Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017

Science Museum: Information Age

Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: YOUTOPIA: VISIONS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016

Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph 14 April–11 September 2016

Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy

Bethel Museum of the Mind: The Weight of History 27 July – 18 November 2016

Royal Collection: Maria Merian’s Butterflies

Royal Society of Medicine: charcot, hysteria, & la salpetriere 3 May 2016–23 July 2016

Horsham Museum: Dinosaurs of Horsham – Art, Reality and Fun 9 July–5 September 2016

COMING SOON: Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September–16 December 2016

Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–15 January 2018

COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE WEIGHT OF HISTORY 27 July–18 November 2016

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Shakespeare’s World View: Stars, Globes and Magic

Horsham Museum: Dinosaurs of Horsham – Art, Reality and Fun 9 July–5 September 2016

COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September–15 January

The Star: Sea monsters, beavers and made-up lands dot Toronto Reference Library map exhibit

Science Museum: Journeys Through Medicine

Science Museum: Cosmos & Culture

Oxford University Museum of Natural History: How spiders linked the world together, and the man at the centre of it all 26 July–27 September 2016

THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:

Shine: Watch: “Hidden Figures” Tells the Untold Story of NASA’s Black Women Mathematicians

ars technica: New movie celebrates the true geniuses behind Apollo: NASA’s mathematicians

Youtube: Pathé: La glace et le ciel – Bande-annonce Officielle HD

Smithsonia.com: The Cosmos Sings in This Fusion of Astrophysics and Music: The Hubble Cantata

NIST: Public Affair Office: Funding Opportunity to Produce Science Documentary

npr: The Lobotomy of Patient H.M: A Personal Tragedy and Scientific Breakthrough

Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 07 January 2017

The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017

COMING SOON: The Grand Theatre Blackpool: Jekyll and Hyde 6-10 September 2016

COMING SOON: Barbican: The Alchemist 2 September–1 October 2016

COMING SOON: Barbican: Doctor Faustus 7 September–1 October 2016

COMING SOON: Tailspin Theatre: Copenhagen by Michael Frayn 9 September 2016

COMING SOON: Hull Truck Theatre: Faustus 14 October 2016

COMING SOON: Salisbury Playhouse: Frankenstein 20 October–5 November 2016

COMING SOON: Dundee Rep Theatre: Frankenstein 28–29 October 2016

Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Superwomen of Science 26–28 August 2016

EVENTS:

University of Bristol: Cotham Hall: Talks: Eric Scerri ‘A Tale of Seven Scientists and a New Philosophy of Science’ Geoff Blumenthal `Some implications of a holistic and unificatory approach to the period 1770-1815 in chemistry’ 5 September 2016

Bklyn Public Library: James Gleick, National Book Award nominated science writer, on his new book, Time Travel 27 September 2016

History Collections: Next History Day 15 November 2016

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Art and Beauty in Medicine 5 October 2016

Linda Hall Library: The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language 8 September 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Museum Late: ‘By Permission of Heaven’: The Story of the Great Fire of London 5 September 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Study Tour: ‘Flight from the Flames’: Recovering London from The Great Fire 5 September & 5 October 2016

Royal College of Physicians: ‘Medicinal Plant Afternoon: A Chinese triumph and an American awakening’ 19 September 2016

IET London: Ada Lovelace Day Live! 2016 11 October

Evenbrite: London 1708: a Walk into Library History 4 October 2016

The Warburg Institute: Maps and Society Lectures 26^th Series Programme 2016–2017

Wellcome Collection London: Museums Computer Group: First Keynote 2016: Museums & Tech 19 October 2016

New Scientist: The life and work of Alan Turing 4_8 November 2016 (other dates available) £££

Martin Randall Travel: History of Medicine – Florence, Bologna & Padua in the Age of Humanism 12–18 September 2016 $$$

Royal College of Physicians: Walking Tour: The Making of Thoroughly Modern Medicine

The National Museum of Computing: Summer Bytes 30 July–28 August 2016

Museum of Science and Industry Manchester: Engine Demonstration

Morbid Anatomy: Upcoming Morbid Anatomy Events

Nature: Medical research: Citizen medicine: Vaccination: Medicine and the Masses Hunterian Museum till 17 September 2016

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: One for the Road

Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “London’s Plagues”

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding

University College Cork: Walking Tours: A second chance to solve the mystery of ‘Being Boole’!

The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours

Gresham College: Lecture: The Expanding Universe 26 October 2016

Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers

The Royal College of Physicians: Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “Sex and The City”

Norcroft Auditorium, Norcroft Centre, University of Bradford: The secret chemistry of art: unravelling an age-old textile mystery / September 2016

Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tours

Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Medicine at War

Discover Medical London: Tour: Who needs doctors anyway?

Royal College of Physicians: Walking Tour: John Dee and The History of Understanding

PAINTING OF THE WEEK:

Watchers of the stars

TELEVISION:

BBC TWO: Full Steam Ahead

SLIDE SHOW:

VIDEOS:

L.I.S.A: Die Entstehung der deutschen Präzisionsuhrmacherei

RADIO & PODCASTS:

British Library Sounds: Early spoken word recordings: In aid of the Light Brigade Relief Fund Florence Nightingale

To the Best of Our Knowledge: Jane Camerini on Alfred Russel Wallace

Business Insider: Listen to Albert Einstein talk – and get closer than ever before to the legendary genius

npr: The Supreme Court Ruling That Led to 70,000 Forced Sterilisations

Spare Min: Forbe’s John W Farrell on the legacy of Georges Lemaître

ABC Radio: National Science Week: Women in science through Australia’s history on RN Drive

University of Exeter: CfP: Conference: Medical Practice in Early Modern Britain in Comparative Perspective

Youtube: Royal Society: Guns and Rockets – Objectivity #80

Vimeo: Isambard Kingdom Brunel: A Victorian Frank Lloyd Wright

Youtube: Wellcome Collection: The Story of Henry Wellcome

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The Hakluyt Society Blog: Hakluyt@400 Quartercenteneary programme Autumn 2016

University of Bristol: CfP: Writing Remains: In Interdisciplinary Symposium on Archaeology and Literature 20 January 2017

RSA: Call for Submissions: Picturing Death 1200–1600 (Edited Volume)

UCL: The Second London Philosophy of Science Graduate Conference 1-2 September 2016

Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo: ICMS: CfP: Before and After 1348: Prelude and Consequences of the Black Death 11–14 May 2017

Royal Historical Society: University of Chester: CfP: Putting History in its Place: Historical Landscapes and Environments 21 April 2017 Deadline: 28 October 2016

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe: Conference: Where does it hurt? Ancient medicine in questions and answers 30–31 August 2016

University of York: CfP: Workshop: The Medieval Brain 10-11 March 2017

Birkbeck: University of London: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–25 March 2017

Westminster Quakers Meeting House: Workshop: A Many Sided Crystal: Celebrating Silvanus Phillips Thompson 16 September 2016

King’s College London: CHoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017

York Medical Society: CfP: “First Impressions”: Faces, clothes, and bodies 1600–1800 10 November 2016

ICHST 2017 Rio: CfP: XXXVI Symposium of the Scientific Instruments Commission Deadline 25 November 2016

Royal Museums Greenwich: AHRC Funded Research Network Project: Joseph Banks, Science, Culture and the Remaking of the Indo-Pacific World

University of Pittsburgh: Center for Philosophy of Science 57^th Annual Lecture Series 2016–17

King’s College London: Workshop: Popularising Palaeontology: Current & Historical Perspectives 14–15 September 2016

Medieval Institute Publications: Call for proposals: History and Cultures of Food 14^th–18^th Centuries New Series

ICM Leeds 2017: CfP: Health and Medicine in the Early Medieval West Deadline 9 September 2016

University of Sheffield: Interdisciplinary Workshop: Intoxication, Discourse and Practice 30 September–1 October 2016

ICHST “2017: Symposium Proposals Approved by IPC

APS Physics: CfP: April Meeting 2017 Include History of Physics Deadline 30 September 2016

The Ordered Universe Project: Space and Place: Ordered Universe Symposium Durham University 1-3 September 2016

BSHS: Annals of Science Student Essay Prize

University of York: International Workshop: Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past 14-16 September 2016

BSHS: The 2016 Big Draw Festival: STEAM Powered: From STEM to STEAM 1–31 October 2016

Hakluyt Society: Essay Prize 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016

Gravity Fields Festival 2016: 21–25 September: Tickets are now on sale

University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Conference: Reproductive politics in France and Britain 5–7 September 2016

Medieval Art Research: CFP: Of Man Eating Men: Medieval and Early Modern Cannibalism (edited volume)

CRASSH: University of Cambridge: Techniques, Technologies and Materialities of Epidemic Control 16-17 September 2016

University of York: Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past: International Workshop 14 September 2016

International Map Collectors Society: IMCoS 34th International Symposium, Chicago 24–29 September 2016

Royal Historical Society: University of Chester: CfP: Putting History in its Place: Historic Landscapes and Environments 21 April 2017 – deadline 28 October 2016

IWHA: CfP: Water History Conference 2017 Grand Rapids USA 15–17 June 2017

All Souls College Oxford: Second CfP: Teaching mathematics in the early modern period

University of York: Northern Network for Medical Humanities: Research Workshop: 22 September 2016

University of Kalamazoo: 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies: Body and Soul in Medieval Visual Culture 15 September 2016

University of Reading: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016 Registration now open

University of Mainz: Conference: Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? Construction and Transfer of Knowledge about Man and Nature in Antiquity and the Middle Ages 14–16 September 2016

University of Milan: Conference: Mathesis quaedam Divina seu Mechanismus Metaphysicus -Leibniz and the sciences 7–8 October 2016

University of St. Andrews: Conference: Mathematical Biography: A MacTutor Celebration

University of Durham: Conference: Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism? 5–7 August 2017

Salem Academy Charter School, Salem MA: New England Regional World History Association Fall Symposium: CfP: Navigation, Travel, and Exploration in World History 24 September 2016

Istanbul: XXXVth Scientific Instrument Symposium: Draft Programme 26–30 September 2016

Universidade de Évora: Conference: Évora’s 7th Symposium on Philosophy and History of Science and Technology: Structuralism: Roots, Plurality and Contemporary debates 4–5 November 2016

University of Valencia: Institute for the History of Medicine and Science “López Piñero”: Programme Fall 2016 Seminars, Conferences etc

EOI: Call for Expressions of Interest: Learned societies and the circulation of knowledge, 1750-2000 From Aileen Fyfe and Jenny Beckman

Urbino & Cesena: XIX Summer School in Philosophy of Physics 5-9 September 2016

Radboud University Nijmegen: Call for nominations: Hanneke Janssen Memorial Prize 2016: Essay in History and Philosophy of Physics Deadline 1 November 2016

Mahon/Maó (Menorca): 9^th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularisation: CFP: Living in Emergency: humanitarianism and medicine 18–20 May 2017

Berlin –Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaft: Project: Galen of Pergamum: The Transmission, Interpretation and Completion of Ancient Medicine

Wellcome Collection London: The Physiological Society: Physiology: An Historical Perspective 13 September 2016

Warwick: Humanities Research Centre: Conference: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Text and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s 4 March 2017

ECHOPHYSICS Pöllau Austria: 2^nd International Conference on the History of Physics 5–7 September 2016

The German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker- GDCh): PAUL BUNGE PRIZE 2017: HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS Deadline 30 September 2016

Birkbeck University of London: The Birkbeck Trauma Project: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–27 March 2017

Christ Church & Bodleian Library Oxford: Conference: Hakluyt and the Renaissance Discovery of the World 24–25 November 2016

CELFIS University of Bucharest: Call for Applications: Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science 24–26 October 2016

University of Sydney: CfP: Workshop: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18 April 2017

Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall: Workshop: Tools of Reason: The Practice of Scientific Diagramming from Antiquity to the Present 10–11 February 2017

American Association for the History of Medicine: Awards and Grants

Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries Oxford: Women in Science in the Archives 8 September 2016

University of Edmonton: CfP: Theology and the Philosophy of Science 14–15 October 2016

The Lowry, Salford Quays: Discovering Collections Discovering Communities 10–12 October 2016

Universidade de Évora (Portugal): Évora’s 7th Symposium on Philosophy and History of Science and Technology 4–5 November 2016

HUMANA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies: CfP: Issue 32, April 2017: Beyond Toleration? Inconsistency and Pluralism in the Empirical Sciences

University of Glasgow: CfP: Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures 3–4 April 2017

IUHPST: Call for entries: IUHPST Essay Prize in History and Philosophy of Science “What is the value of philosophy of science for history of science?” Deadline 30 November 2016

Eä: A workshop in Rio to debate about the challenges facing interdisciplinary journals

Université François Rabelais, Tours: Appel à communications: Représentations et figures de la maternité dans le monde anglophone 3 au 5 avril 2017

JOURNÉES D’ÉTUDES: Appel à communicatio: « Petites mains » d’artistes dans les pratiques scientifiques

BSHS: Museum of the History of Science Upcoming Free Lecture Series

Université de Strasbourg: Appel à symposia: 6ème Congrès de la Société française d’histoire des sciences et des techniques (SFHST) 19-20-21 avril 2017

Birkbeck University of London: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–25 March 2017

Lexicon Philosophicum: CfP: Issue 5 (2017) Histories of Philosophy, Science and Ideas

Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds: CfP: Workshop: Exploring Histories and Futures of Innovation in Advanced Wound Care 20 September 2016

Université de Caen: Colloque: Le corps humain saisi par le droit : entre liberté et propriété 14 Octobre 2016

HSTM Network Ireland: International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Young Scholar Prize

ENVA, Amphithéâtre Blin: Appel à communications: Animalhumanité. Expérimentation et fiction : l’animalité au cœur du vivant 1er et 2 décembre 2016

New Bern NC: CfP: North Carolina Maritime History Council Conference 4–5 November 2016

Christ’s College Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World (1400-1750) 3–4 April 2017

Villa Mirafiori, Rome: Conference: Building Theories, Hypothesis & Heuristics in Science

UCL: CfP. Second London Philosophy of Science Graduate Conference 1–2 September 2016 Deadline 4 July 2016

Society for U.S: Intellectual History: Conference: From the Mayflower to Silicon Valley: Tools and Traditions in American Intellectual History October 13-15, 2016

University of Lisbon: CfP: Third Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Issues 14–16 December 2016

San Sebastian: Physics in the XII International Ontology Congress 3-7 October 2016

Notches: CfP: Histories of Disability and Sexuality

Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science: CfP: Special Issue: Knowledge Transfer and Its Context

The Victorianist: CfP Reminder: The “Heart” and “science” of Wilkie Collins and His Contemporaries 24 September 2016 London

ICOHTEC Conference Porto: CfP: Early Career Scholars Workshop: Tension of Europe 1 August 2016

Society for Renaissance Studies: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Texts and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s