Whewell’s Gazette
Your weekly digest of all the best of
Internet history of science, technology and medicine
Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell
Year 2, Volume #52
Monday 15 August 2016
EDITORIAL:
We have reached the end of our second publishing year with year two volume fifty-two of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list bringing you for the one hundredth and fourth time all we could find of the histories of science, technology and medicine throughout the vast spaces of cyberspace over the last seven days.
As noted above, this edition of Whewell’s Gazette closes out our second publication year. Given the artificiality of measuring things in years I’m never quite sure if one should mark these things with the last episode of the old year or the first one of the new year, but I’ve chosen to do so today by making a few comments about our editorial policy.
Editorial Policy: So what is the Whewell’s Gazette editorial policy? To be truthful we don’t actually have one, we just make it up as we go along.
WYSIWYG: Whewell’s Gazette claims to be a #histSTM links list and that is exactly what it is, nothing more and nothing less. It is just a weekly collection of links to articles, posts, illustrations, comments etc., etc. that are concerned with the histories of science, technology and medicine. The rest, quotes of the week, illustrations, birthdays of the week etc. are just there to offer some relief from the boredom.
Selection Criteria: Selection is inclusive rather than exclusive. The definitions of #histSTM applied are as wide as possible often going to the very fringes and beyond rather than trying for some sort of indefinable purity of discipline. In the category META we include quite a lot of stuff that is thought or comments on history in general because #histSTM is after all just history.
Presentation: The model is a slightly sloppy, somewhat jumbled small adds column from a newspaper. The entries are divided into rough categories taken from the different areas of science, technology, and medicine but within the categories no ordering principles are applied. Links are added at random in the order that they found. This was a deliberate decision, the thought being that if the reader is forced to go through a complete category looking for the links that primarily interest them, they might just stumble across something they might not have read otherwise. We are fans of the seductive Internet rabbit hole. If however a number of sources all cover the same story in one week then we will usually group them together.
The categories ART & EXHIBITIONS, EVENTS and ANNOUNCEMENTS are cumulative, entries remain on the list until the event or whatever they are advertising have taken place. For those who read these every week and who don’t get off on reading the whole list every time, the new entries are always added at the beginning or the end.
Source: How and where do we find all the entries? The vast majority of the entries are collected daily on the @rmathematicus twitter stream. This twitter stream follows as many people as it can find who are either #histSTM historians or who are interested in #histSTM posts, articles, etc. Their #histSTM related tweets get retweeted creating a repository of #histSTM links that are then distilled into the weekly edition of Whewell’s Gazette. If you follow @rmathematicus and read his twitter stream then you won’t need to read Whewell’s Gazette! If you are on Twitter and tweet about #histSTM and @rmathematicus doesn’t follow you then make him aware of the fact and he will start to. A small number of entries get sent directly to the Renaissance Mathematicus by email by people interested in getting their links added to Whewell’s Gazette. Such contributions are always welcome.
Editorial Staff: Who puts together the Whewell’s Gazette every week? The majority of the work is done by yours truly, the Renaissance Mathematicus, with regular contributions from Anna Gielas (@Anna_Gielas) and occasional input from Michael Barton (@darwinsbulldog). However as mentioned above the links are provided by the whole #histSTM Twitter community so our editorial staff number in the hundreds! Active contributions are always welcome!
Quality Control: We don’t actually read all of the links included every week but do skim them whilst collecting. No judgement as to quality of a given article or post is exercised, this is left to the readers of WG when they click on a link and peruse an article. Only obvious rubbish is excluded. A stricter editorial policy, given the Renaissance Mathematicus’ pedantic tendencies, would probably lead to a Whewell’s Gazette with five links. For a start any article with first, founder of, father of and other much loved clichés in their titles would be thrown out on principle.
Guiding Principle: Inclusion rather than Exclusion.
The Future: Come back next week for Year 3, Vol: #01!
Quotes of the week:
“History retweets itself” – Matt Thomas (@mattthomas)
“It was the basil of thyme
It was the wormwood of thyme” Cilantro Dickens – John Laurie (@laurie_john)
“In US wrote Alexis de Tocqueville (1840), events “can move from the impossible to the inevitable without stopping at the probable.”” h/t @TurnbullMalcolm
“These European “first to” things only matter if Indigenous experiences don’t. Indigenous people *guided* these “explorers” because they already knew the way” – Adam Gaudry (@adamgaudry)
“The universe has no circumference” – Nicolas of Cusa (1401-1464)
“All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach” –
Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)
“On this day in 1887, his mom checked and Erwin Schrödinger became alive” – @pourmecoffee
“God grant me the serenity
to delete the emails I can’t answer
courage to reply to what I can;
and wisdom to know the difference” – @sarahjeong
Birthdays of the Week:
The cornerstone of Uraniborg, Tycho Brahe’s observatory on Hven, was laid 8 August 1576
c-net: The observatory that changed astronomy forever
Wired: Aug. 8, 1576: Brahe’s Palatial Gateway to the Heavens
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Financing Tycho’s little piece of heaven
flickr: Richard Cohen: The Castle and Observatory of Uraniborg on the island of Hven
Sanderus Antiquariaat: Antique map of Denmark – Uraniborg by J. Blaeu
Tycho Brahe’s quadrant wall mural at Uraniborg used to measure star positions
Foundation Stone of the Royal Observatory was laid 10 August 1675´
Royal Observatory Greenwich
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Teleskopos: An auspicious day to found an observatory
Royal Museums Greenwich: History of the Royal Observatory
Royal Museums Greenwich: 336 Today
Smithsonian Institution founded 10 August 1846
The “Castle” (1847), the Institution’s first building and still its headquarters
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SpaceWatchtower: 170th Anniversary: Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution Archives: Legal History
Paul Dirac born 8 August 1902
Paul Dirac with his wife in Copenhagen, July 1963
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Yovisto: Paul Dirac and the Quantum Mechanic
Youtube: Dirac Lecture 1 (of 4) – Quantum Mechanics
Henry Fairfield Osborn born 8 August 1857
Osborn in 1890
Source: WikimediaCommons
Linda Hall Library: Henry Fairfield Osborn – Scientist of the Day
Linda Hall Library: Paper Dinosaurs 1824–1969: 33. The First Tyrannosaurus Skeleton, 1905
Paige Fossil History: The Weird History of Oviraptors
Erwin Schrödinger born 12 August 1887
“I insist upon the view that ‘all is waves’.” Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Yovisto: Ernest Lawrence and the Cyclotron
Yovisto: Sir Roger Penrose and the Singularity
Voices of the Manhattan Project: J. Samuel Walker’s Interview
AHF: Ernest O. Lawrence
arXiv: Lessons from Mayan Astronomy
The Caracol structure at Chichen Itza has been interpreted as an observatory
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Forbes: Comic: ‘Science Legends’ Sir Isaac Newton: Master of the Mint
AHF: Yoshito Matsushige
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Stanislaus Ulam’s Interview (1979)
Yovisto: Wolfgang Paul and the Ion Trap
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Not a theology student
AHF: In Memoriam: Monroe Messinger
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Kathleen Maxwell’s Interview
Atlas Obscura: A Traditional Globe Maker is Making 3-D Versions of Historic Martian Maps
Yovisto: Nikolaus of Cusa and the Learned Ignorance
Nikolaus von Cusa
Ptak Science Books: Found-Art in Electrical Discharge, 1880
Comètes: des mythes à la réalité: Les instruments
APS: Oersted and electromagnetism
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Yovisto: Ferdinand Magellan and the first Trip Around the World
Royal Museums Greenwich: Ferdinand Magellan
The Nao Victoria Replica in the Nao Victoria Museum, Punta Arenas, Chile
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Antiquariat: Daša Pahor: New Acquisitions
Academic Room: Representations of Self and the Other in Two Iraqi Travelogues of the Ottoman Period (pdf)
Medievalists.net: Hy-Brassil: Irish origins of Brazil
National Geographic: Historical Photos Mark 150th Birthday of Pioneering Black Explorer
Polar ExplorerAlthough historians haven’t been able to confirm the fact, Henson said, “I think I’m the first man to sit on top of the world.” This photo was made on Canada’s Ellesmere Island in 1908.
PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT E. PEARY, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Thomas Morris: The missing tobacco pipe
AEON: Bodies electric
cbc news: Quirky curiosities: medical instruments from our past
Einthoven string galvanometer
The H-Word: Medicine at the Olympics: a bluffer’s guide to 120 years of medical history
The H-Word: Olympians and the scientific quest to find out what makes an elite athlete
English History: The Life of John Keats (1795–1821)
Thomas Morris: Reattached with a sticking plaster
On View: Center for the History Of Medicine: Cupping set, 1837–1853
BIU Santé: Après 270 ans d’oubli, redécouverte de l’anatomie de Van Horne, trésor du 17e s.
American Radio History: Hospital Television
Yovisto: Richard Mead and the Understanding of Transmissible Diseases
Nursing Clio: Sex, Secrecy, and Abuse in a 19th-Century Workhouse
The Recipes Project: Writing Early Modern Medicine for Medical Readers
The Hairpin: Monstrous Births
Image: A G
Advances in the History of Psychology: Controversy Brewing over Suzanne Corkin and Patient H.M.
Yovisto: Dr. Joseph Lister and the use of Carbolic Acid as Disinfectant
Yovisto: James Bryan Herrick and the Sickle-Cell Disease
British Library: Science blog: “Like light shining in a dark place”: Florence Nightingale and William Farr
The Guardian: No, no, no! Victorians didn’t invent the vibrator
eugesta.recherche.univ-lille3.fr: Galen and the widow. Towards a history of therapeutic masturbation in ancient gynaecology (pdf)
Pen and Pension: Dealing with a Quack
Wellcome Library: Wound man Part 1: origins
The Guardian: ‘I willed him to wake up’: epilepsy in art – and in life
The master of San Severino’s Release of a Woman from Possession by the Devil (15th century). Photograph: Scala, Florence
Figure Drawings: The Human Skeleton and Muscles – John Georg Heck
The Washington Post: Broken pottery reveals the sheer devastation cause by the Black Death
Thomas Morris: The cure of Thomas Tipple
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Ptak Science Books: A Bit on the History of the Future of Sucking – Vacuum Trains (1945)
New York Times: How to Give Rural America Broadband? Look to the Early 1900s
Academia: The Mastermyr Find: A Viking Tool Chest from Gotland
Spotlight News: State Museum acquires 1947 Tavern Television
Unwritten Record Blog: Lighthouse Drawings in celebration of National Lighthouse Day
RG26: Lighthouse Drawings; MI, Spectacle Reef; #2. Section plan, vertical, 1874.
lastsatandonzobieisland: Charles N. Daly was not a man to be trifled with
BBC News: Clifton Suspension Bridge: Vast hidden vaults open to the public
Yovisto: The Salvage of the Vasa
The Guardian: ‘Discovery of the year’: sunken British ship found in Russian Artic
Yovisto: Tom Kilburn and the First Stored-Program Computer
Atlas Obscura: Fort Peck Dam
Anton Howes: The Relevance of Skills to Innovation during the British Industrial Revolution, 1651–1851 Working Paper (pdf)
Yovisto: IBM and the Personal Computer
Science Museum: 100 Years of Stainless Steel
The Sheffield-born son of a steel worker, Harry Brearley (1871-1948) pioneered the commercial development of stainless steels. Brearley was working in the laboratory of the steel works of Thomas Firth and Sons, Sheffield, when in 1913 he produced the first true stainless steel. Sheffield has a long-standing reputation for producing high quality cutlery, and the development of the first steel that did not rust was a significant moment in metallurgical history.
Harry Brearley, 1871–1948. Image © Science Museum/SSPL
Ian Visits: London’s Lost Suspension Railway at Kings Cross
MINNPOST: Obsolesced
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
An Ottoman Poster, Terrain Graphic (Arazi ve Sunuf-u Muhtelife-i Suhurun Cedvel-i Umumisi) The Ottoman History (@OttomanArchive)
National Geographic: Geological Evidence May Support Chinese Flood Legend
Paige Fossil History: Footprints, Sculpture, & Hobbit Ancestors: A Paleoanthropolgy Best of Summer Roundup
Colonizing Animals: Missing Links in Myanmar
The Public Domain Review: Photographs of a Falling Cat
Psychology Today: Labelling Non-Native Animals: The Psychology of Name Calling
English Historical Fiction Authors: The Queen’s Ass … or how the donkey earned its stripes!
Royal Society Open Science: New genetic and morphological evidence suggests a single hoaxer created ‘Piltdown man’
Gizmodo: Piltdown Man Hoax Was the Work of a Single Forger, Study Says
Forbes: Human Ancestor Hoax at Piltdown Finally Solved
Scientific America: Solving the Piltdown Man Scientific Fraud
Science: Study reveals culprit behind Piltdown Man, one of science’s most famous hoaxes
The Telegraph: Science: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle cleared of Piltdown Man Hoax
The Guardian: Gertrude Of Arabia: the great adventurer may finally get her museum
Bell in Baghdad, 1917. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo
Lyell Collection: Geomythology: geological origins of myths and legends
TrowelBlazers: Christian Maclagan: Sensation of Scotland
Royal Society Open Science: Oldest fossil remains of the enigmatic pig-footed bandicoot show rapid herbivorous evolution
Niche: #EnvHist Worth Reading July 2016
Pacific Institute: Assessing The Costs Of Adapting To Sea-Level Rise: A Case Study Of San Francisco Bay
JSTOR Daily: Women’s Fight for Scientific Fieldwork
Social Evolution Forum: Cannibalism and Human Evolution
BHL: Supporting Historical Paleontological Research
U.S. Forest Service History: Gifford Pinchot (1865–1946) 1st Chief of the Forest Service
Yovisto: Meet Sue, the Dinosaur
Rehistoring The Land: Environmental History in Action at Rocky Mountain National Park
Sniffing the Past: Dogs in the 19th Century Press
Atlas Obscura: Kinsey Institute Gallery
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Thomas Bewick
Stephan on Blogger: 1708, August 14th, the strongest of a series of quakes occurred on the active Moyenne-Durance Fault (Provence, France)
99% Invisible: A Sea Worth its Salt
The Atlantic: When Parks Were Radical
CHEMISTRY:
Geri Walton: Nitrous Oxide of Laughing Gas Exhibitions and Parties
Yovisto: Henry Moseley and the Atomic Numbers
Yovisto: Felix Hoffmann and Aspirin
Felix Hoffmann
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Yovisto: Amadeo Avogadro and Avogadro’s Law
Conciatore: Sal Ammoniac
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
the many-headed monster: Understanding Sources: Churchwardens’ Account
The Recipes Project: Looking at Paper and Recipes
Scientific American: Squabbling Over the End of Science on Charlie Rose
CHF: Distillations: Summer 2016
Philly.com: Commentary: Experiment with Philly’s legacy of science
In the Franklin Institute , the Benjamin Franklin Memorial Chamber. File
University of Oxford: MLGB3: Medieval Libraries of Great Britain
The Junto: What’s Livetweeting For, Anyway?
The Junto: Women and the History of Capitalism
Society for the Social History of Medicine: The Gazette
The Atlantic: The Tyranny of Simple Explanations
JHI: Blog: Announcing 2015 Forkosch Book Prize Winner
Springer: Journal of the History of Biology: Volume 49, Issue 3, August 2016 Table of Contents
Occult Minds: Building Blocks of Human Experience –website launched
ESOTERIC:
Conciatore: Alchemy School
Corpus Newtonicum: Summer thoughts…
Yovisto: Abu Ma’shar al-Balkhi – The Prince of Astrologers
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Anton Mesmer and his Animal Magnetism
Franz Anton Mesmer
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Occult Minds: Results
History of Alchemy Podcast: New History of Alchemy tshirt design!
BOOK REVIEWS:
The Momo: 6 stellar science books that ‘normal folks’ will love
Forbes: Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2016 Shortlist Announced
H-Net Reviews: Cristian Berco: From Body to Community: Veneral Disease and Society in Baroque Spain
Chemistry World: Women in science: 50 fearless pioneers who changed the world
The Economist: The master of them all
brainpickings: Mental Health, Free Will, and Your Microbiome
brainpickings: James Gleick on Our Anxiety About Time, the Origin of the Term “Type A”, and the Curious Psychology of Elevator Impatience
The Austin Chronicle: The Seven Skeletons of Lydia Pyne
University of California Press: Nova Religio: The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse 1900–1939 by Egil Asprem
Popular Science: Eyes on the Sky: A spectrum of telescopes
NEW BOOKS:
Enfilade: New Book – Fleshing out Surfaces
Peter Lang: The Colours of the Past in Victorian England
CUP: Academic: Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Poetic Botany: A Digital Exhibition: Art & Science of the Eighteenth-Century Vegetable World
Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September –16 December 2016
The Australian: Hadron Collider show reveals art of science at Sydney Powerhouse Museum
Royal Museums Greenwich: Do the Ultimate Time Trail
University of Nottingham: Manuscripts and Special Collections: Weston Gallery Exhibition: Francis Willughby (1635–1672) A Natural Historian and His Collections 19 August–4 December 2016
National Railway Museum: National Railway Museum marks historic First World War centenary with new exhibition
BBC News: James Brindley: The canal pioneer who changed England
Various accounts suggest Brindley carved cheese to showcase his Barton Aqueduct design to a parliamentary committee
HERBERT DUNKLEY
HSS: On Time: The Quest for Precision
Christ Church Oxford: Hakluyt and Geography in Oxford 1550–1650 Opens 14 October 2016
Bodleian Library: The World in a Book: Hakluyt and Renaissance Discovery Opens 28 October 2016
Heriot Watt University: New exhibit unveiled at ICE museum
National Library of Scotland: You Are Here 22 July 2016–3 April 2017
The Walters Museum: Waste Not: The Art of Medieval Recycling 25 June–18 September 2016
The Holburne Museum: Stubbs and the Wild June 25–2 October 2016
George Stubbs A Lion and a Lioness 1778 Enamel on Wedgwood ceramic
The Daniel Katz Gallery London
Linda Hall Library: Drawn from Nature: Art, Science, and the Invention of the Bird Field Guide 12 March–10 September 2016
Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May–30 October 2016
Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–1r January 2018
Art Institute Chicago: The Shogun’s World: Japanese Maps from the 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
CLOSING SOON: 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
CLOSING VERY SOON: The John Rylands Library: Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World 21 January–21 August 2016
Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility
Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday
Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016
Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017
Science Museum: Information Age
Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: YOUTOPIA: VISIONS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016
Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December
Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph 14 April–11 September 2016
Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy
Bethel Museum of the Mind: The Weight of History 27 July – 18 November 2016
Royal Collection: Maria Merian’s Butterflies
Royal Society of Medicine: charcot, hysteria, & la salpetriere 3 May 2016–23 July 2016
Horsham Museum: Dinosaurs of Horsham – Art, Reality and Fun 9 July–5 September 2016
COMING SOON: Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September–16 December 2016
Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–15 January 2018
COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE WEIGHT OF HISTORY 27 July–18 November 2016
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Shakespeare’s World View: Stars, Globes and Magic
Horsham Museum: Dinosaurs of Horsham – Art, Reality and Fun 9 July–5 September 2016
COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September–15 January
The Star: Sea monsters, beavers and made-up lands dot Toronto Reference Library map exhibit
National Railway Museum: National Railway Museum marks historic First World War centenary with new exhibition
BBC News: James Brindley: The canal pioneer who changed England
Various accounts suggest Brindley carved cheese to showcase his Barton Aqueduct design to a parliamentary committee
HERBERT DUNKLEY
The Map Room: MacDonal Gill Exhibition in San Diego
HSS: On Time: The Quest for Precision
Christ Church Oxford: Hakluyt and Geography in Oxford 1550–1650 Opens 14 October 2016
Bodleian Library: The World in a Book: Hakluyt and Renaissance Discovery Opens 28 October 2016
Heriot Watt University: New exhibit unveiled at ICE museum
National Library of Scotland: You Are Here 22 July 2016–3 April 2017
The Walters Museum: Waste Not: The Art of Medieval Recycling 25 June–18 September 2016
The Holburne Museum: Stubbs and the Wild June 25–2 October 2016
George Stubbs A Lion and a Lioness 1778 Enamel on Wedgwood ceramic
The Daniel Katz Gallery London
Linda Hall Library: Drawn from Nature: Art, Science, and the Invention of the Bird Field Guide 12 March–10 September 2016
Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May–30 October 2016
Art Institute Chicago: The Shogun’s World: Japanese Maps from the 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
CLOSING SOON: 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
CLOSING SOON: The John Rylands Library: Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World 21 January–21 August 2016
Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility
Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday
Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016
Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017
Science Museum: Information Age
Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: YOUTOPIA: VISIONS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016
Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December
Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph 14 April–11 September 2016
Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy
Bethel Museum of the Mind: The Weight of History 27 July – 18 November 2016
Royal Collection: Maria Merian’s Butterflies
Royal Society of Medicine: charcot, hysteria, & la salpetriere 3 May 2016–23 July 2016
Horsham Museum: Dinosaurs of Horsham – Art, Reality and Fun 9 July–5 September 2016
COMING SOON: Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September–16 December 2016
Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–15 January 2018
COMING SOON: Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September–16 December 2016
COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE WEIGHT OF HISTORY 27 July–18 November 2016
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Shakespeare’s World View: Stars, Globes and Magic
Horsham Museum: Dinosaurs of Horsham – Art, Reality and Fun 9 July–5 September 2016
COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September–15 January
The Star: Sea monsters, beavers and made-up lands dot Toronto Reference Library map exhibit
National Railway Museum: National Railway Museum marks historic First World War centenary with new exhibition
BBC News: James Brindley: The canal pioneer who changed England
Various accounts suggest Brindley carved cheese to showcase his Barton Aqueduct design to a parliamentary committee
HERBERT DUNKLEY
The Map Room: MacDonal Gill Exhibition in San Diego
HSS: On Time: The Quest for Precision
Christ Church Oxford: Hakluyt and Geography in Oxford 1550–1650 Opens 14 October 2016
Bodleian Library: The World in a Book: Hakluyt and Renaissance Discovery Opens 28 October 2016
Heriot Watt University: New exhibit unveiled at ICE museum
National Library of Scotland: You Are Here 22 July 2016–3 April 2017
The Walters Museum: Waste Not: The Art of Medieval Recycling 25 June–18 September 2016
The Holburne Museum: Stubbs and the Wild June 25–2 October 2016
George Stubbs A Lion and a Lioness 1778 Enamel on Wedgwood ceramic
The Daniel Katz Gallery London
Linda Hall Library: Drawn from Nature: Art, Science, and the Invention of the Bird Field Guide 12 March–10 September 2016
Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May–30 October 2016
Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–1r January 2018
Art Institute Chicago: The Shogun’s World: Japanese Maps from the 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
CLOSING SOON: 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
CLOSING SOON: The John Rylands Library: Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World 21 January–21 August 2016
Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility
Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday
Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016
Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017
Science Museum: Information Age
Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: YOUTOPIA: VISIONS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016
Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December
Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph 14 April–11 September 2016
Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy
Bethel Museum of the Mind: The Weight of History 27 July – 18 November 2016
Royal Collection: Maria Merian’s Butterflies
Royal Society of Medicine: charcot, hysteria, & la salpetriere 3 May 2016–23 July 2016
Horsham Museum: Dinosaurs of Horsham – Art, Reality and Fun 9 July–5 September 2016
COMING SOON: Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September–16 December 2016
COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Shakespeare’s World View: Stars, Globes and Magic
Science Museum: Journeys Through Medicine
Science Museum: Cosmos & Culture
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
Vanity Fair Hollywood: Kirsten Dunst Joins Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janellle Monae in Feminist Space Race: The actresses will tell the untold story of the mathematicians who helped make space travel possible.
Smithsonia.com: The Cosmos Sings in This Fusion of Astrophysics and Music: The Hubble Cantata
NIST: Public Affair Office: Funding Opportunity to Produce Science Documentary
SFGate: Doc resurrects weird 20th century con man
Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 07 January 2017
The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017
COMING SOON: The Grand Theatre Blackpool: Jekyll and Hyde
COMING SOON: Barbican: The Alchemist
COMING SOON: Barbican: Doctor Faustus
EVENTS:
Royal College of Physicians: Museum Late: ‘By Permission of Heaven’: The Story of the Great Fire of London 5 September 2016
Royal College of Physicians: Study Tour: ‘Flight from the Flames’: Recovering London from The Great Fire 5 September & 5 October 2016
Royal College of Physicians: ‘Medicinal Plant Afternoon: A Chinese triumph and an American awakening’ 19 September 2016
IET London: Ada Lovelace Day Live! 2016 11 October
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Time for Shakespeare 18 August 2016
Evenbrite: London 1708: a Walk into Library History 4 October 2016
The Warburg Institute: Maps and Society Lectures 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
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: One for the Road
Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “London’s Plagues”
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding
University College Cork: Walking Tours: A second chance to solve the mystery of ‘Being Boole’!
The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours
Gresham College: Lecture: The Expanding Universe 26 October 2016
Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers
The Royal College of Physicians: Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “Sex and The City”
Norcroft Auditorium, Norcroft Centre, University of Bradford: The secret chemistry of art: unravelling an age-old textile mystery / September 2016
Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tours
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Medicine at War
Discover Medical London: Tour: Who needs doctors anyway?
Royal College of Physicians: Walking Tour: John Dee and The History of Understanding
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
Haeckel, E. H. P. A. (1866).Generelle Morphologie der Organismen : allgemeine Grundzüge der organischen Formen-Wissenschaft, mechanisch begründet durch die von C. Darwin reformirte Decendenz-Theorie.
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Vox: What it took to discover bacteria in the 1670s
Torch: Too Valuable to Die?
Youtube: Wikimedia UK: Alice White at the Wellcome Library
Youtube: Ri: Cosmology: Galileo to Gravitational Waves – with Hiranya Peiris
Youtube: The Royal Society: The Boyle Diaries – Objectivity #78
Youtube: Essilor UK: Irreducible Complexity? – Evolution of the Eye Explained
RADIO & PODCASTS:
brainpickings: Iconic Psychiatrist Carl Jung on Human Personality in Rare BBC Interview
News Works: The history of Heinrich Hertz and the discovery of radio waves
New Books Network: The Art of Medicine in Early China
ALD Podcast: Episode 2, Fran Scott & Maia Weinstock
BBC Archive: H G Wells: Science and the Citizen (1943)
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
University of Sheffield: Interdisciplinary Workshop: Intoxication, Discourse and Practice 30 September–1 October 2016
ICHST “2017: Symposium Proposals Approved by IPC
APS Physics: CfP: April Meeting 2017 Include History of Physics Deadline 30 September 2016
The Ordered Universe Project: Space and Place: Ordered Universe Symposium Durham University 1-3 September 2016
BSHS: Annals of Science Student Essay Prize
University of York: International Workshop: Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past 14-16 September 2016
BSHS: The 2016 Big Draw Festival: STEAM Powered: From STEM to STEAM 1–31 October 2016
Hakluyt Society: Essay Prize 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
Gravity Fields Festival 2016: 21–25 September: Tickets are now on sale
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Conference: Reproductive politics in France and Britain 5–7 September 2016
Medieval Art Research: CFP: Of Man Eating Men: Medieval and Early Modern Cannibalism (edited volume)
University of York: Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past: International Workshop 14 September 2016
International Map Collectors Society: IMCoS 34th International Symposium, Chicago 24–29 September 2016
Royal Historical Society: University of Chester: CfP: Putting History in its Place: Historic Landscapes and Environments 21 April 2017 – deadline 28 October 2016
IWHA: CfP: Water History Conference 2017 Grand Rapids USA 15–17 June 2017
All Souls College Oxford: Second CfP: Teaching mathematics in the early modern period
University of York: Northern Network for Medical Humanities: Research Workshop: 22 September 2016
University of Kalamazoo: 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies: Body and Soul in Medieval Visual Culture 15 September 2016
University of Reading: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016 Registration now open
University of Mainz: Conference: Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? Construction and Transfer of Knowledge about Man and Nature in Antiquity and the Middle Ages 14–16 September 2016
University of Milan: Conference: Mathesis quaedam Divina seu Mechanismus Metaphysicus -Leibniz and the sciences 7–8 October 2016
The Medical School of Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez: 7th International Congress of the International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine (ISHIM) & 4th Congress of Fez on the History of Medicine 24–28 October 2016
University of St. Andrews: Conference: Mathematical Biography: A MacTutor Celebration
University of Durham: Conference: Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism? 5–7 August 2017
Salem Academy Charter School, Salem MA: New England Regional World History Association Fall Symposium: CfP: Navigation, Travel, and Exploration in World History 24 September 2016
Istanbul: XXXVth Scientific Instrument Symposium: Draft Programme 26–30 September 2016
Universidade de Évora: Conference: Évora’s 7th Symposium on Philosophy and History of Science and Technology: Structuralism: Roots, Plurality and Contemporary debates 4–5 November 2016
University of Valencia: Institute for the History of Medicine and Science “López Piñero”: Programme Fall 2016 Seminars, Conferences etc
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
University Of Belgrade: CfP: Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation-5 22–23 September 2016
Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta, and the University of Warwick: CfP: Beauty and the Hospital in History 6–8 April 2017
MedHum Fiction – Daily Dose: CfP: Medical Humanities
University of Birmingham: Social Studies in the History of Medicine – ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’
The Nobel Museum Stockholm: Prizes and Awards in Science before Nobel. 5th Watson Seminar in the Material and Visual History of Science 5 September 2016
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Partington Prize
University of Glasgow: CfP: Discourse of Care: Care in Media, Medicine and Society 5-7 September 2016
Western Michigan University: CfP: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference
University of Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Envirment, and Health In the Easterm Mediterranean World, 1400–1750 3–4 April 2017
Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science: Upcoming Events
Fórum Lisboa (Antigo Cinema Roma): CFP: Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science 14–16 December 2016
Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)
Calenda: Le Calendrier des Lettres et Sciences Humains et Sociales: Appel à contribution « Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique »
Western Michigan University: Call for Abstracts: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference 15–16 September 2016
Society for the Social History of Medicine: Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October 2016
Kunsthistorisches Institut In Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut: CfP: Photo-Objects. On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo-Archives in the Humanities and Sciences 15–17 February 2017
University of Leuven: CfA: The science of evolution and the evolution of the sciences 12–13 October 2016
Science Museum: Artefacts Meeting 2–4 October 2016: CfP: Understanding Use: Science and Technology Objects and Users
Cambridge: CfP extended: Science and Islands in the Indo-Pacific World 15–16 September 2016
University of Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events
Society for the Social History of Medicine: 2016 Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October
H-Pennsylvania: Philip J. Pauly Book Prise Nominations Sought for Histories of Science in the Americas
BSHS: Prizes
Queen Mary University of London:Upcoming History of Emotions Work in Progress Seminars
University of Reading: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016
Barts Pathology Museum: CfP: The “Heart” and “Science” of Wilkie Collins and his Contemporaries 24 September 2016
University of Leicester: Centre for Medical Humanities: Seminars:
Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware: CfP: Making Modern Disability: Histories of Disability, Design, and Technology 28 October 2016
New York City: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 30 September–1 October 2016
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
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:
APS Physics: Forum on the History of Physics: Student Travel Awards
BSHS: Time Measurement Research Funding
University of Cambridge: St John’s College: Research Fellowships in Historical & Philosophical Studies
Québec: Bourse de maîtrise/ doctorat en histoire du nursing psychiatrique au Québec
University of Paderborn: Post Doc: The Project “Center History of Women Philosophers and Scientists (HWPS)”
The Dudley Observatory: Applications for the 2017 Pollock Awards are now open! History of Astronomy
