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 #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 1st” – 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
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 19th 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
Popular Mechanics: When Kodak Accidentally Discovered A-Bomb Testing
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 2nd
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 18th and 19th 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 240th anniversary of Battle of Brooklyn 29 June–28 August 2016
The Mary Rose: Mary Rose Museum re-opening on 20th July 2016
Marc Garrett: Curating Monsters of the Machine: Frankenstein in the 21st Century
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th 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
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
Swan Theatre: Doctor Faustus 7 March–4 August 2016
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
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)
CHF: Brown Bag Lectures Spring 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
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
Eä: A workshop in Rio to debate about the challenges facing interdisciplinary journals
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
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 Freiburg: Accidents and the State in the 20th 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
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
HPDST: 2017 DHST Prize for Young Scholars
BSHS: Great Exhibitions Competition 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
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
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
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
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
