Whewell’s Gazette
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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 150th 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 18th-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: 19th-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
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 17th-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
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
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:
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 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
‘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 240th anniversary of Battle of Brooklyn 29 June–28 August 2016
The Mary Rose: Mary Rose Museum re-opening on 20th July 2016
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
St. Louis Central Library: Fantasy Maps Exhibit 11 June–15 October 2016
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
SFGate: Doc resurrects weird 20th century con man
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 26th 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
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
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): 9th 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: 2nd 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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).
