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:
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 222nd 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
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
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
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 19th– and 20th-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 19th 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
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
Popular Mechanics: Mind-Blowing Photos of the Mount St. Helens Eruption Taken from a Plane
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)
4th 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
Swan Theatre: Doctor Faustus 7 March–4 August 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’!
CHF: Cain Conference Public Lecture: “Life in the Universe: Past and Present” 26 May 2016
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 – 200th 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 20th 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
CHF: Brown Bag Lectures Spring 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
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
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
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 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
