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Whewell’s Gazette

Your weekly digest of all the best of

Internet history of science, technology and medicine

Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell

Cornelis Bloemaert

Year 3, Volume #13

Monday 14 November 2016

EDITORIAL:

To be perfectly honest, given the events of the last week I didn’t see any point in continuing with this. It seems rather futile to publish a weekly #histSTM links list when the most powerful country in the world have just elected a crypto-fascist as their next president. But like that mythical orchestra on the Titanic, Whewell’s Gazette will in the face of disaster continue to bring you all of the histories of science, technology and medicine produced in the Internet over the last seven days.

Only a very small number of the elements, the building blocks of all matter, are named after scientist but two of these are named after women Curium named after Marie Curie and Meitnerium named after Lise Meitner. By a strange twist of fate both of them were born on 7th November, Curie in 1867 and Meitner in 1878.

Both of these remarkable women carved out scientific careers in a time when it was still extremely difficult for women to get an advanced education let alone one in the sciences. Both of them fought against prejudices based on their sex and in Meitner’s case her religion, she was Jewish. However despite all of the problems they faced both succeeded in establishing themselves as major scientific figures in the twentieth century.

Interestingly both of them worked on the boundary between chemistry and physics and both made major contributions to the development of the atomic age in which we now find ourselves. Curie in that she isolated and identified previously unknown radioactive elements and she, in fact, coined the term radioactivity. Meitner explained the mechanism of nuclear fission. In another interesting parallel both women worked in X-ray units during the First World War.

Both women received much recognition and many honours for their work, although only Curie received the Nobel Prize, and is the only person to receive two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific disciplines, physics and chemistry.

Quotes of the week:

 “Ignoring a historian about history is like ignoring a mechanic about an engine fault. You can do it, but you aren’t gonna like the result” – Chris Kluwe (@ChrisWarcraft)

Brexiteer: We can go it alone! We are the country of Newton, Nightingale, Austen, Crick, Hawking, Brunel.

Also: we don’t like experts – Prof Patrick McGhee (@ProfMcGhee)

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“The dispute over the correct plural of “referendum” will tear our society apart.

This is why there *must never* be another referendum” – Law and Policy (@Law_and_policy)

“If I keep writing ‘shitstory’, does this mean that my fingers are tired or is someone trying to tell me something?” – Matt Smith (@mpcsmith)

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“..the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear” – Antonio Gramsci h/t @telescoper

“As Prince might have said: “…let’s party like it’s 1933…”” – Elliott Sharp (@_ElliottSharp)

“An old man once told me, “Son, if you ever want to REALLY know history, study the trade routes”” – Hugh MacLeod (@hughcards)

Birthdays of the Week:

Lise Meitner born 7 November 1878

Lise Meitner in 1906 Source: Wikimedia Commons

Lise Meitner in 1906
Source: Wikimedia Commons

The Renaissance Mathematicus: Unsung? I hardly think so.

brainpickings: How Pioneering Physicist Lise Meitner Discovered Nuclear Fission, Paved the Way for Women in Science, and was Denied the Nobel Prize

AIP: Lise Meitner

AHF: Lise Meitner

brainpickings: Happy Birthday, Lise Meitner: The Pioneering Physicist’s Only Direct Discussion of Gender in Science

Marie Curie born 7 November 1867

Marie Curie 1903 Nobel Prize portrait Source: Wikimedia Commons

Marie Curie 1903 Nobel Prize portrait
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Yovisto: Marie Curie – Truly an Extraordinary Woman

175 Faces of Chemistry: Marie Curie

Nobelprize.org: Marie Curie – Biographical

Nobelprize.org: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911

AHF: Marie Curie

History Extra: Life of the Week: Marie Curie

Youtube: Marie Curie – Mini Biography

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Benjamin Banneker born 10 November 1731

Woodcut portrait of Benjamin Bannaker (Banneker) in title page of a Baltimore edition of his 1795 Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Almanac Source: Wikimedia Commons

Woodcut portrait of Benjamin Bannaker (Banneker) in title page of a Baltimore edition of his 1795 Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Almanac
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Youtube: African American Mathematician Benjamin Banneker

biography.com: Benjamin Banneker

bnl.com: Benjamin Banneker (1731–1806)

encyclopedia.com: Benjamin Banneker

Yovisto: The Almanachs of Benjamin Banneker

PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:

Martianus Capella's geo-heliocentric astronomical model

Martianus Capella’s geo-heliocentric astronomical model

AHF: Philip Morrison

A Clerk of Oxford: ‘after that comes Winter’s Day’

Yovisto: Edmond Halley besides the Eponymous Comet

Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Edmond Halley

Yovisto: C.V. Raman and the Raman Effect

AHF: Vera Kistiakoesky

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Yovisto: Hermann Weyl – between Pure Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – John Bevis

AIP: Hugh Everett

Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Vesto Slipher

ESA: Tree Planting

Muslim Heritage: Glances on Calendars and Almanacs in the Islamic Civilization

The image shows the phases of the moon in a month. This is a page taken form a calendar prepared by Sayyid Ahmed b. Mustafa Al-La'li, who presented this calendar to the Sultan Selim II in 1566. Source: The courtesy of Sam Fogg - London.

The image shows the phases of the moon in a month. This is a page taken form a calendar prepared by Sayyid Ahmed b. Mustafa Al-La’li, who presented this calendar to the Sultan Selim II in 1566. Source: The courtesy of Sam Fogg – London.

Encyclopaedia Britannica: John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

AHF: Kenneth D. Nichols

EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:

Atlas Obscura: The 1915 Map That Helped All Women Get the Vote

Osher Map Library: Mapping the Iroquois and the Disputed Ohio Valley in 1755

Lewis Evans, Map of the Middle British Colonies (OS-1755-11)

Lewis Evans, Map of the Middle British Colonies (OS-1755-11)

CIA: The Mapmsaker’s Craft: A History of Cartography at CIA

Google Arts and Crafts: Cosmology to Cartography – Sacred Maps from the Indian Subcontinent

British Library: Maps and views blog: Colouring maps for adults

Royal Museums Greenwich: Captain Robert Falcon Scott

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MEDICINE & HEALTH:

Yovisto: Cesare Lombroso – The Father of Criminology

Past Medical History: Spanish Flu: The Deadliest Pandemic in History

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For the Wyn: Solidify us unto Thy charity: the medicinal and liturgical uses of cheese

Academia: Emil du Bois-Reymond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany

The Scientist: The Body Electric, 1840s

Diseases of Modern Life: Worked to the Point of Madness

The New York Times: Is the Plague Still Alive in Musty 14th-Century Tomes?

The Recipes Project: ‘take The Spigs of Oak Trees’: Medicinal Recipes and Tree Ingredients

Elizabeth Grey, A Choice Manuall. Frontispiece of 1671 edition.

Elizabeth Grey, A Choice Manuall. Frontispiece of 1671 edition.

Scientific American: Finding Her Nerve

CSTMC: Collection Online: X-ray machine

Pen and Pension: The Georgian and Regency Home Medicine Chest

Mosaic: The engineer who fixed his own heart

Thomas Morris: The spear and the eucalyptus tree

The University of Glasgow Story: Dame Anne Louise McIlroy

Anne Louise McIlroy

Anne Louise McIlroy

O Can You See?: Heart valves galore, to Tin Man’s delight

Yovisto: Ephraim McDowell – the Father of Abdominal Surgery

History of War: Somme 1916: How battlefield surgeons treated shellshock, shrapnel and gas

Thomas Morris: The soldier operated on himself

Yovisto: Sir James Young Simpson and the Chloroform

The Scotsman: The drug-induced Edinburgh dinner parties that revolutionised medicine

The effects of liquid chloroform on Simpson and his friends. PIC Wellcome Library, London/Creative Commons. Read more at: http://www.scotsman.com/news/the-drug-induced-edinburgh-dinner-parties-that-revolutionised-medicine-1-4280383

The effects of liquid chloroform on Simpson and his friends. PIC Wellcome Library, London/Creative Commons.
Read more at: http://www.scotsman.com/news/the-drug-induced-edinburgh-dinner-parties-that-revolutionised-medicine-1-4280383

All Things Georgian: 1775 Influenza Epidemic

Providenta: The San Quentin Sex Gland Experiments

BBC Radio 4: Home Front: 9 Astonishing Facts About Nursing in WWI

Quinine & More: Arsenic, Syphilis and Malaria

Thomas Morris: Cured by a lightning bolt

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:

Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Cornelis Drebble

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The Atlantic: The Lost Civilization of Dial-Up Bulletin Board System

Woodpeckings: The Dalziel Archive, Victorian Print Culture and Wood Engravings

Conciatore: Neri’s other Rubino Glass

mountvernon.org: Spyglass

Smithsonian.com: Diver Found Possible Inactive 1950 Nuke Off the Coast of British Columbia

ENIAC Programmers Project: Website

Top, from left to right: Kathy Kleiman, Jean Bartik, Marlyn Meltzer, Kay Antonelli Bottom: Betty Holberton

Top, from left to right: Kathy Kleiman, Jean Bartik, Marlyn Meltzer, Kay Antonelli Bottom: Betty Holberton

Yovisto: French Aviation Pioneer Robert Esnault-Pelterie

The Public Domain Review: “Let us Calculate!”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination

New Historian: Findings Tip the Scale to Earhart Surviving Plane Crash

The New York Times: ‘We Couldn’t Believe Our Eyes’: A Lost World of Shipwrecks Is Found

Yovisto: Jacques Charles and the Hydrogen Balloon

British Library: Medieval manuscripts blog: Automata for the Peopl: Greek Scientific Manuscripts Online

Hydraulic musical organ powered by a hand-pump from Hero’s Pneumatika. Burney MS 108, f. 60v. Italy, N. (Venice?), 1st quarter of the 16th century.

Hydraulic musical organ powered by a hand-pump from Hero’s Pneumatika. Burney MS 108, f. 60v. Italy, N. (Venice?), 1st quarter of the 16th century.

Wendy Carlos: The Eltro Mark II “Information Rate Changer”

EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:

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Yovisto: William Stukeley and the Mystery of Stonehenge

Tetrapod Zoology: The Natural History Museum at South Kensington

The Dispersal of Darwin: Biologist Edwin Grant Conkin and the idea of the religious direction of human evolution in the early 1920s

The Dispersal of Darwin: A Historical Taxonomy of Origin of Species and Its Relevance to the Historiography of Evolutionary Thought

TrowelBlazers: Raising Horizons: Bedrocks of Equality

Yovisto: Robert Morrison and the Classification of plants

Origins: Washed Ashore: Marine Mammals from Medieval Times to Today

In 1577, Flemish artist Jan Wierix engraved Three Beached Whales, which depicts three stranded sperm whales.

In 1577, Flemish artist Jan Wierix engraved Three Beached Whales, which depicts three stranded sperm whales.

Smithsonian.com: Fossilized Dinos Are Bones Turned to Stone – But Sometimes, Part of the Original Dino Survives

Niche: The Making of Pure Michigan

The Recipes Blog: The Bog Body Shop: A Prehistory of Personal Grooming

Yovisto: Salim Ali – the Birdman of India

CHEMISTRY:

The New York Times: John D. Roberts Dies at 98; He Revolutionized the Field of Organic Chemistry

John D. Roberts at M.I.T. in 1947. He played a crucial role in the explosive growth of physical organic chemistry, a field that studies the reactivity of biological compounds. Credit M.I.T.

John D. Roberts at M.I.T. in 1947. He played a crucial role in the explosive growth of physical organic chemistry, a field that studies the reactivity of biological compounds. Credit M.I.T.

META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:

The Guardian: My best science lesson: why history is essential to engage students

J D Davies: Noah’s Archive

The Scholarly Kitchen: Does Democracy Need Footnotes?

Anthropologie & Santé: 12 2016 : Incertitude médicale, prise de décision et accompagnement en fin de vie Table of Contents

Meta Science: Volume 25, Issue 3 Table of Contents

The Dispersal of Darwin: Kickstarter: Darwin’s On the Origin of Species: A Picture Book Adaption

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Auxiliary Hypothesis: Causation in Scientific Methods – Rani Lill Anjum

RSVP: Michael Wolff

Lady Science: Pitching Lady Science

Nursing Clio: If you have an interest in writing about the history of health/gender/race topics, please email us with a pitch – nursingclio@gmail.com.

John Stewart: Teaching Digital History Research Methods w/OU Create

The #EnvHist Weekly

Civil Service Quarterly Blog: The pictorial history of science and engineering in government

Female role models in science and engineering

Female role models in science and engineering

Nature: What scientists should focus on — and fear — under Trump

The New York Times: In London, Blue Plaques Mark the Noted and Notorious

ESOTERIC:

Conciatore: The Paracelsans

Wellcome Library: The horoscope of Iskandar Sultan

L0071319 Horoscope of Prince Iskandar. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org Horoscope of Prince Iskandar, grandson of Tamerlane, the Turkman Mongol conqueror. This horoscope shows the position of the heavens at the moment of Iskandar's birth on 25th April 1384. This is a fly leaf from the personal horoscope of Iskandar Sultan (died 1415), grandson of Timur, who ruled the province of Farsin, Iran. He is best known for his early military career and his patronage of the arts and sciences. Apart from being a horoscope, this manuscript is an exquisite work of art and an exemplary production of the royal kitabkhana 'publishing house' or 'workshop'. The manuscript of 1411 is lavishly illustrated and reflects the efforts of a whole range of specialists: astronomers (among them Imad ad-Din Mahmud al- Kashi), illuminators, gilders, calligraphers and craftsmen, and specialists in paper-making. The manuscript was bought in Iran in 1794 by John H. Harrington, who had started his career as a clerk in the East India Company. In 1932, it was auctioned at Sotheby's and bought for £6/15d by Sir Henry Wellcome who added it to his collection of Oriental books and manuscripts. 813/1411 Wellcome MS Persian 474 Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

L0071319 Horoscope of Prince Iskandar.
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
images@wellcome.ac.uk
http://wellcomeimages.org
Horoscope of Prince Iskandar, grandson of Tamerlane, the Turkman Mongol conqueror. This horoscope shows the position of the heavens at the moment of Iskandar’s birth on 25th April 1384.
This is a fly leaf from the personal horoscope of Iskandar Sultan (died 1415), grandson of Timur, who ruled the province of Farsin, Iran. He is best known for his early military career and his patronage of the arts and sciences.
Apart from being a horoscope, this manuscript is an exquisite work of art and an exemplary production of the royal kitabkhana ‘publishing house’ or ‘workshop’. The manuscript of 1411 is lavishly illustrated and reflects the efforts of a whole range of specialists: astronomers (among them Imad ad-Din Mahmud al- Kashi), illuminators, gilders, calligraphers and craftsmen, and specialists in paper-making.
The manuscript was bought in Iran in 1794 by John H. Harrington, who had started his career as a clerk in the East India Company. In 1932, it was auctioned at Sotheby’s and bought for £6/15d by Sir Henry Wellcome who added it to his collection of Oriental books and manuscripts.
813/1411 Wellcome MS Persian 474
Published: –
Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BOOK REVIEWS:

The Guardian: Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe by Roger Penrose

The Guardian: Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time – an exquisite story of scandalous subterfuge

Deception of breathtaking proportions … Dr James Barry. Photograph: Oneworld Publications

Deception of breathtaking proportions … Dr James Barry. Photograph: Oneworld Publications

The New York History Blog: New Book Traces History of NYC Traffic Signals

Borneo Post Online: Wallace’s perceptions of James Brooke

Popular Science: Why Icebergs Float ­ – Andrew Morris

NEW BOOKS:

Historiens de la santé: Contesting Medical Confidentiality: Origins of the Debate in the United States, Britain, and Germany

Historiens de la santé: The Science of Sympathy: Moralty, Evolution, and Victorian Civilisation

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Historiens de la santé: Scribonius Largus Compositions médicales

Harvard University Press: The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An Essay in Natural History

lessen.amazon.com: Behind Insulin: The Life and Legacy of Doctor Peter Joseph Moloney

Historiens de la santé: Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy: The Carrara Herbal in Padua

Historiens de la santé: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq on His Galen Translations

Historiens de la santé: Sir Charles Bell: His Life, Art, Neurological Concepts, and Controversial Legacy

ART & EXHIBITIONS:

brainpickings: Your Body Is a Space That Sees: Artist Lia Halloran’s Stunning Cyanotype Tribute to Women in Astronomy

Leavitt Crater

Leavitt Crater

The Guardian: Albrecht Dürer’s The Rhinoceros: the most influential animal picture ever?

Science Comma: We Have Never Been Silent

Princeton University Art Museum: Transcient Effects

Eleanor Cook: An Art Students Experience of an Anatomy Dissection Room

The Guardian: Animality review – a cacophonous gathering of art’s jungle VIPs

The National Museum of Computing: 1950’s celebrity robot goes on world tour

TLS: A century in maps

Teylers Museum: Bloemenpracht 25 July 2016–08 January 2017

H.J. Elwes, A monograph of the genus Lilium, z.p., 1880

H.J. Elwes, A monograph of the genus Lilium, z.p., 1880

British Library: Maps of the 20th Century: Drawing the Line 4 November 2016–1 March 2017

WAGM TV: Acadian Archives exhibit features more than 40 maps of Acadian Heritage

Causway Coast Community: County Antrim adventurer’s royal maps will graphically outline history

The New York Times: A Manhattan Exhibit With Antiquity on the Clock

Bradbury Science Museum: Fifty years of nuclear safeguards

Cambridge Digital Library: Browse our collections: Curious Objects

Leek Post & Times: Mary A Blagg the Cheadle Astronomer honoured at Cheadle Discovery Centre exhibition

Museum of the History of Science Oxford: Back from the Dead: Demystifying Antibiotics 4 November 2016–21 May 2017

BBC News: William Heath Robinson museum set to open

Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle Saale: Alchemie – Die Suche nach dem Weltgeheimnis 25 November 2016–5 Juni 2017

Dr Alum Withey: Announcing… ‘The Age of the Beard’

The Arctic Journal: Northwest Passages: Pre-factual cartography

University of Kent: Studio 3 Gallery: Curio: Sites of Wonder 30 September–2 December 2016

Royal College of Physicians: ‘a cabinet of rarities’: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne 30 January–27 July 2017

The Straits Times: M.C.Escher’s optical illusion art at ArtScience Museum

University of Bangor: The Art of Ernst Haeckel: Art Forms from the Abyss

The Foundling Museum: Feeding the 400 23 September 2016–08 January 2017

The Getty Research Institute: The Art of Alchemy 11 October 2016–12 February 2017

Alchemists Revealing Secrets from the Book of Seven Seals, The Ripley Scroll (detail), ca. 1700. 950053

Alchemists Revealing Secrets from the Book of Seven Seals, The Ripley Scroll (detail), ca. 1700. 950053

Osher Map Museum: The Northwest Passage: Navigating Old Beliefs and New Realities 29 September 2016–11 March 2017

The Huntingdon: Gardens, Art, & Commerce in Chinese Woodblock Prints 17 September 2016–9 January 2017

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Culture 24: These extraordinary maps show 50 years of war from both sides of early 20th century conflicts The Map House London 23 September–18 November 2016

Guildhall Art Gallery, London: Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy 20 September 2016–22 January 2017

Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art: Mapping Australia: Country to Cartography 4 October 2016–15 January 2017

past@present: Women in Science: The Stories Are All Around Us

Exhibition open 15 September 2016 through Summer 2017

Exhibition open 15 September 2016 through Summer 2017

Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: the asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017

Poetic Botany: Art & Science of the Eighteenth-Century Vegetable World

Gallica Rose

Gallica Rose

Yale News: Yale marks 175th anniversary of Arabic and Sanskrit studies with exhibit, public events

Université de Lausanne: Musée de physique de Lausanne : brève visite virtuelle

Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and Los Angeles Basin, 1940–1990

blog.umass.edu: Women in Science: The Stories Are All Around Us

The Hunterian: Tracking Animals 7 April–12 February 2017

University of Birmingham: Inspiring Knowledge: 13 October 2016–30 June 2017

COMING SOON: Guildhall Art Gallery: Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy 20 September–22 January 2017

American Museum of Natural History: Opulent Oceans

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

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National Railway Museum: National Railway Museum marks historic First World War centenary with new exhibition

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

Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–15 January 2018

Museum of London: Fire! Fire! 23July 2016–17 April 2017

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Uzeeum: House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, and Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum, Berlin, 1869–1922

Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library

Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus

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

AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016

Globe Exhibition

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

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

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

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

Science Museum: Information Age

Science Museum: Robots

Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph

Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy

Science Museum: Journeys Through Medicine

Science Museum: Cosmos & Culture

Science Museum: Challenge of Materials

Science Museum: The Clockmakers’ Museum

Science Museum: Making the Modern World

Science Museum: Flight

Science Museum: Exploring Space

Science Museum: Mathematics: The Winton Gallery

Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December

Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016 

Bethel Museum of the Mind: The Weight of History 27 July – 18 November 2016 

Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September–16 December 2016 

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Shakespeare’s World View: Stars, Globes and Magic 1 August–31 December 2016 

Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017

The Star: Sea monsters, beavers and made-up lands dot Toronto Reference Library map exhibit

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Maudsley Long Gallery: Before and After 15 September 2016–16 January 2017

COMING SOON: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Swansea: Royal Collection: Leonardo da Vinci 14 October 2016–6 January 2017

Maudsley Long Gallery: Before and After 15 September 2016–16 January 2017

Wellcome Collection: Electricity: The spark of life 23 February–2 July 2017 

COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Making Nature: How we see animals 1 December 2016–1 May 2017

University of Birmingham: Inspiring Knowledge 26 September 2016–30 June 2017

National Maritime Museum: Emma Hamilton: Seduction and Celebrity 3 November 2016–17 April 2017

Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle Saale: Alchemie – Die Suche nach dem Weltgeheimnis 25 November 2016–5 Juni 2017

Wellcome Collection: Making Nature: How we see animals 1 December 2016–21 May 2017

 THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:

Perisphere Theater: Copenhagen by Michael Frayn 30 November–11 December 2016

Perisphere Salon: Spotlight on Copenhagen 4 December 2016

The Royal Insitution: Resurrecting the Braggs: The newly digitised Bragg Film Archive

IMBd: The Current War in Pre-production

Variety: The Current War

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

Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre: Blackeyed Theatre: Frankenstein 15–16 November 2016

Eastbourne Theatres: Frankenstein 19 November 2016

Stantonbury Theatre: Dr Faustus 17 November 2016

Stantonbury Theatre: Frankenstein 22 November 2016

Mercury Theatre: Jekyll & Hyde 18–28 January 2017

Stockport Garrick Theatre: Copenhagenn 11–14 January 2017

EVENTS:

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Medical Tourism in Victorian Edinburgh 7 December 2016

Senate House, London: Lecture: Conceiving Histories 23 November 2016

Truman State University: The Story and Significance of the Periodic Table

The Linnean Society: Lecture: Founder’s Day – The Invention of Nature 2 December 2016

King’s College London: Animal History Research Group – Network Launch Event 16 November 2016

IAS: Lecture: Claude E. Shannon 16 November 2016

University of Manchester: CHSTM Open Days and Information Service 23 November 2016

Wellcome Library: History of Psychiatry & Mental Health: Beyond the Asylum Ediathon 15 November 2016

 

Society of Antiquaries of London: Lecture: Motherboards and Motherloads: The Evolving Excavation of the Digital Age 22 November 2016

Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events

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University of Manchester: Events at Central Library: Healing Histories – An Exhibition of Medical Marvels 12 December 2016

Society of Antiquities of London: Fourth Gerard Turner Memorial Lecture of the Scientific Instrument Society: Professor Emilie Savage-Smith “Of Making Globes There Seems No End” 25 November 2016

Soho House Birmingham: Talk: Lunatick Astronomy 17 November 2016

University of Leicester: Science and the Victorian Public 18 November 2016

 

V&A: The Gilbert Lecture 2016: Paula Findlen 30 November 2016

University of Oxford: Hakluyt Society: Lecture: Voyages, Traffiques, Discoveries: Three Stories from the Age of Exploration 25 November 2016

University of Leicester: Come and celebrate the launch of three new books by Professors Gowan Dawson and Joanne Shattock, and Dr. Geoffrey Belknap 23 November 2016

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge: H.G: Wells Lunchtime Readings 4, 11, 18, 25 November 2016

Museum for the History of Science, Oxford: Don’t panic! Promises and threats of science and technology 17 November 2016

University of Leicester: Attenborough Arts Centre: Science and the Victorian public 18 November 2016

 

The Royal Society of Medicine: Chris Renwick: William Bynum Lecture 2016: Social Biology and Progressive Politics in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain 30 November 2016

History Collections: Next History Day 15 November 2016

The Warburg Institute: Maps and Society Lectures 26th Series Programme 2016–2017

Museum of Science and Industry Manchester: Engine Demonstration

Morbid Anatomy: Upcoming Morbid Anatomy Events

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The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours

Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)

Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tours

Admundson Lecture

PAINTING OF THE WEEK:

Norman Rockwell Perpetual Motion 1920

Norman Rockwell Perpetual Motion 1920

TELEVISION:

BBC Four: Black Nurses: The Women Who Saved The NHS 24 November

SLIDE SHOW:

VIDEOS:

Youtube: Trabant 601 Original Produktions-Film DEFA

Youtube: Science of the Human Past: Kyle Harper: Nature Did It

RADIO & PODCASTS:

soundcloud: Mosaic Science Podcast: How the zebra got its stripes, with Alan Turing

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

University of Oxford: TORCH: CfP: Symposium: Doctor-Doctor: Global and Historical Perspectives on the Doctor Patient Relationship 24 March 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016 Deadline 17 March 2017

University of Ireland, Galway: CfP: Medicine and Mystery: The Dark Side of Science in Victorian Fiction 8 June 2017

University of North Caroline: CfP: Carolina Conference for Romance Studies: Dia.gnosis 30 March–1 April 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016

British Library: What’s on: Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line – Workshops 14 November 2016–1 March 2017

UCLA: CfP: Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies invites the submission of articles by graduate students and recent PhDs in any field of medieval and Renaissance studies

Septièmes journées internationales d’études médiévales des Jeunes Chercheurs Médiévistes de l’Université de Genève & de la Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale: Appel à communications: Vivre et mourir au Moyen Âge 9-10 mars 2017 avant le 1er décembre 2016

Università Delgi Studi di Udine: EmoBookTrade: Kick-off Conference 30 November 2016

University of Amsterdam: CfP: Changing the Nature of Art and Science: Intersections with Maria Sibylla Merian 7–9 June 2017 Deadline 31 December 2016

Cité de la Santé, Toulouse: Conférence: Histoire de la prévention du VIH 28 novembre 2016

Harvard University: CfP: Technical Landscapes: Aesthetics and the Environment in the History of Science and Art 6–8 April 2017 Deadline 14 December 2016

University of Kassel: Workshop: Representing scientific results: Forms of knowledge 18–19 November 2016

University of Southampton: CfP: Skeletons, Stories and Social Bodies Conference 24–26 March 2017 Deadline 16 December 2016

Amphithéâtre du Département – Bâtiment “Le 89”, Auxerre: Journée d’étude Histoire, archives et patrimoine hospitaliers 18 novembre 2016

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences: Call for Contribution: Histories of Human Regeneration Deadline 30 November 2016

University of Ghent: Program Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science 2016–2017

Toronto Ontario: CfP: Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science Annual Conference 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 20 January 2017

Transversal: CfP: Special Issue on Historiography of Medicine Deadline 31 July 2017 Publication December 2017

Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science: 57th Annual Program 2016–2017

The Robert S. Cohen Forum: Émilie du Châtelet: 310th Anniversary 18–19 November 2016

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CHF: Oral History Training Institute 2017 9-13 January

University of Leeds: The Past, Present and Future of Integrated HPS: An International Postgraduate Forum 13-14 January 2017

Victoria, British Columbia: CfP: Conference SHARP 2017: Technologies of the Book 9-12 June 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016

Durham University: Conference: CfP: Scale of Nature: Long Nineteenth-Century Culture and the Great Chain of Being 18 March 2017 Deadline 25 November 2016

University of Groningen: CfP. Histories of Healthy Ageing 21–23 June 2017 Deadline 1 December 2016

Kraków Poland: CfP. 6th Conference of the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences 20-22 September 2017

University of Utrecht: CfP: Workshop: Histories of Measurement and Self-Making 29–30 June 2017 Deadline 6 January 2017

TURRIANO: ICOHTEC BOOK PRIZE

‘Villa Dohrn’, Ischia, Italy: Call for applications: Fifteenth Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences Cycles of Life 24 June–1 July 2017

IHPS Leeds: CfP: The First International IHPS Postgraduate Forum 13–14 January 2017 Deadline 7 November 2016

Philadelphia, PA: RBS Mellon Conference: CfP: Resembling Science: The Unruly Object across the Disciplines 12–15 October 2017

University of Padua: CfP: Scientia 2017 19–22 April 2017

University of Ghent: Concepts and methods in philosophy and history of science: Calendar, 2016–2017

Friends of Birmingham Museums and Arts Gallery (BMAG): Looking for speakers for their Science Shorts series in March, June, September and December 2017

The History of Modern Biomedicine: CfP: Frontiers in Pharmacology: Pharmaceutical innovation after World War II: from rational drug discovery to biopharmaceuticals

BSHS: Dingle Prize 2017: The British Society for the History of Science invites book nominations for the 2017 Dingle Prize

Centre Alexandre-Koyré, Paris: Histoire des sciences humaines et sociales 4 novembre 2016 au 9 juin 2017

Ryerson University (Toronto): Appel à communications: Congrès annuel de la Société canadienne d’histoire de la médecine: L’épopée d’une histoire: 150 ans vers l’avenir 27–29 mai 2017

The Ordered Universe Project: Being Human Festival 2016 Medieval Time Reckoning and the Dating of Easter 18 November 2016 Heaven’s Above! – Interactive Exhibition 19 November 2016

University of Warwick: CfP: Cultures of Exclusion in the Early Modern World: Enemies and Strangers, 1600–1800

University of Leeds: CfP: The First International IHPS Postgraduate Forum

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Indianna University: CfP: Images, Copyright, and the Public Domain in the Long Nineteenth Century 29–30 March 2017

University of Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences: Conference: Leibniz and the Sciences 14–16 November 2016

University of Illinois: Graduate STS workshop: CfP: Interdisciplinary Encounters: Exploring Knowledge-Making Across Boundaries 10–11 March 2017

All Souls College Oxford: Oxford Naval History Conference: Economic Warfare and the Sea 1650–1950 13–15 July 2017

University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Conference: Diagrammatic: Beyond Inscription 2–3 December 2016

Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin: Conference: Working on Things: On the Social, Political, and Economic History of Collected Objects 2121 November 2016

Hakluyt Society: CfP: Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2017hakluyt-essayScience Museum: Research Seminar Series Autumn 2016

H-Material-Culture: CfP. Kitchen and Kitchen Gardens in Britain and Europe, 1500–1950

University of Bristol: CfP: The British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference 6–8 April 2017

University of Cambridge: Matter at the Crossroads: Literature and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England 26 November 2016

Center for Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware: CfP: Imagined Forms: Modeling and Material Culture 17–18 November 2017

King’s College London: ChoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: Workshop: Turkish Manuscript Studies: An Introduction 27 March–1 April 2017 Deadline 27 November 2017

University of Cambridge: Department of History and Philosophy of Science: History of Medicine Seminars Michaelmas Term 2016

Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik at Humboldt University, Berlin: Conference: On the epistemic Dimension of Color in the Sciences 17–18 November 2016

UCL: STS: Seminar Series Autumn 2016

Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars for Michaelmas Term 2016

University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Matter at the Crossroads: Literature and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England 25 November 2016

Erasmus University Rotterdam: CfP: Fourth Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science

University of Toronto: CfP: CSHPS–SCHPS Annual Conference 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 20 January 2017

BSHS: CfP: BSHS Postgraduate Conference 5–7 April 2017 Deadline 15 November 2016

Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, UK: CfP: Conference: BRIDGE: The Heritage of Connecting Places and Cultures 6–10 July 2017 Deadline: 1 November 2016

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Dublin City University: HSTM Network Ireland Annual Conference: Programme: 11–12 November 2016

Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI): The Past, Present and Future of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies 29 November 2016

Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities: Conference: Philosophy and History of Open Science 30 November–1 December 2016

St Anne’s College, Oxford: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars for Michaelmas Term 2016

UCL: STS: Work in Progress Seminars

SCHCT: 9th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularisation

University of Exeter: EPSA 17: CfP: The Sixth Biennial Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association 6-9 September 2017 Deadline 5 January 2017

Museums ETC Magazine: CfP: Feminism and Museums Deadline 21 November 2016

University of Kiel: CfP: 9th International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicines (ICTAM IX) 6–12 August 2017: Asian Medicines: Encounters, Translations and Transformations Deadline 1 November 2016

‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest: Biennial Conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH): CfP: The Body Politic: States in the History of Medicine and Health 30 August-2 September 2017 Deadline 1 January 2017

Ryerson University, Toronto, ON: Canadian Society for the History of Medicine: CfP: From Far and Wide: The Next 150 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 15 November 2016

Museo de América, Madrid: Symposium: CfP: Collect and Display: Subjects and Objects of New World Knowledge 5–7 April 2017

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Moot Court Room, Toronto, ON: ISHTIP 9th Annual Workshop: CfP: ‘Intellectual Property as Circulation and Control’

BSHS: University College London: 8th International Conference for the European Society for the History of Science: Unity and Disunity 15–17 September 2018

BSHS: The BSHS invites book nominations for the 2017 Dingle Prize

Edinburgh Napier University: American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Lecture: ‘What, if anything, makes knowledge an improvement over information?’ 30 November 2016

TU Darmstadt: 20th Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology: CfP: The Grammar of Things 14–17 June 2017 Deadline 5 December 2016

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University of Padua: CfP: Scientiae 2017 19–22 April 2017

edX: University of Newcastle Australia: Drawing Nature, Science and Culture: Natural History Illustration

Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS: CfP: 49th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences

BSHS: Conference: A History of the Moon St Cross College, Oxford 19 November 2016

Dublin City University: HSTM Network Ireland Annual Conference 11–12 November 2016

Eccles Centre for American Studies, The British Library: Symposium: CfP: Cold War Geographies 16 January 2017 Deadline 27 November 2016

University of Manchester: CHSTM Seminars Autumn/Winter 2016

University of St Andrews: CfP: Conference: Encountering the Material Medieval 19–20 January 2017

Wellcome Library: History of Pre-Modern Medicine Seminar Series 2016–17

Institute of Historical Research, University of London: Maritime History and Culture Seminar 2016–17

IHR: Library Exhibition Curation Competition (ECR)

FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia: Applications to Fernando Gil International Prize in Philosophy of Science 2017

Oxford Brookes University: Conference: Maritime Masculinities 1815–1940 19–20 December 2016

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University of Durham: CfP: Conference: Scale of Nature: Long Nineteenth-Century Culture and the Great Chain of Being 18 March 2017

Journal of Science Communication: CfP: Special Issue: History of Science Communication Deadline 12 December 2016

Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science: CfP. Pierre Duhem’s Philosophy and History of Science Deadline 30 March 2017

The Linnean Society: What should be in your Digital Toolbox?

Cornell University: The Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar Fall 2016

BSHS: The Francis Bacon Award in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London: The Forum for European Philosophy Women in Science Forthcoming Events

University of Swansea: CfP: Conference: Disability and Religion 2–4 December 2016 Deadline 1 October 2016

Royal Museums Greenwich: CfP: Conference: Joseph Banks, Science, Culture and Exploration 14–15 September 2017

Rice University, Houston: CfP: Southern Forum on Agriculture, Rural, and Environmental History (SFARE) 10–11 February 2017 Deadline 1 November 2016

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim: CFP: 11th International Conference on the History of Chemistry 29 August–2 September 2017

Penn Museum: Philadelphia: Animals in the Archives Symposium 27-28 October 2016

IEEE: International Early Engines Conference: Papers: May 2017

Digital History Seminar: Autumn & Winter Term 2016–2017

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National University: 13th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Environment, Space and Place: CfP: “Nightmare Spaces/Uncanny Places” 28–30 April 2017 Deadline 8 February 2017

Palgrave MacMillan: Call for chapter contributors: Scientific Studies of Dreams in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

University of York: CfP: The Medieval Brain 10–11 March 2017

University of Edinburgh: Science, Technology and Innovation Studies Seminar Series 2016/17

San Sebastian/Donostia (Spain): CfP: Workshop: Ether and Modernity: The Recalcitrance of an Agonising Object in Physics and Culture 30–31 March 2017

Trivium, Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern Studies: CfP: Religious and/or Medicinal definitions of Otherness Deadline 23 September 2016

The Maintainers: CfP: Maintainers II: Labor, Technology, and Social Order 6–8 April 2017

University of Sydney: CfP: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18 April 2017

University of Groningen: CfP: Histories of Healthy Ageing 21–23 June 2017

Institut Pasteur de Lille: Conférences d’histoire de la médecine de Lille Programme des conférences 2016 – 2017

University of Swansea: CFP: Disease, Disability & Medicine in Medieval Europe: 10th Anniversary Meeting: Disability and Religion 2–4 December 2016

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H-Empire: CfP: Empires of Knowledge” ESEH 2017 (Zagreb 28 June–2 July 2017)

University of Toronto Press: CfP: Edited Collection: Controlling Sexuality and Reproduction, Past and Present

Techne: CFP: Special Issue on Philosophy of Technology in the Age of the Anthropocene

GHI Washington: CfP: Workshop: Beyond Data: Knowledge Production in Bureaucracies 1–3 June 2017

Coastal Carolina University: CfP: SAHMS Nineteenth Annual Meeting 16–18 March 2017 Deadline 31 October 2016

l’Abbaye de Hambye (près d’Avranches): 15e réunion d’histoire de la santé 10 septembre 2016

Archives and Records: CfP: Special issue on ‘Archives and Museums’, spring 2018

The Hakluyt Society Blog: Hakluyt@400 Quartercenteneary programme Autumn 2016

University of Bristol: CfP: Writing Remains: In Interdisciplinary Symposium on Archaeology and Literature 20 January 2017

RSA: Call for Submissions: Picturing Death 1200–1600 (Edited Volume)

Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo: ICMS: CfP: Before and After 1348: Prelude and Consequences of the Black Death 11–14 May 2017

Royal Historical Society: University of Chester: CfP: Putting History in its Place: Historical Landscapes and Environments 21 April 2017 Deadline: 28 October 2016

University of York: CfP: Workshop: The Medieval Brain 10-11 March 2017

Birkbeck: University of London: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–25 March 2017

King’s College London: CHoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017

York Medical Society: CfP: “First Impressions”: Faces, clothes, and bodies 1600–1800 10 November 2016

ICHST 2017 Rio: CfP: XXXVI Symposium of the Scientific Instruments Commission Deadline 25 November 2016

Royal Museums Greenwich: AHRC Funded Research Network Project: Joseph Banks, Science, Culture and the Remaking of the Indo-Pacific World

University of Pittsburgh: Center for Philosophy of Science 57th Annual Lecture Series 2016–17

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Medieval Institute Publications: Call for proposals: History and Cultures of Food 14th–18th Centuries New Series

ICM Leeds 2017: CfP: Health and Medicine in the Early Medieval West Deadline 9 September 2016

ICHST “2017: Symposium Proposals Approved by IPC

APS Physics: CfP: April Meeting 2017 Include History of Physics Deadline 30 September 2016

BSHS: Annals of Science Student Essay Prize

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

Medieval Art Research: CFP: Of Man Eating Men: Medieval and Early Modern Cannibalism (edited volume)

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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 Durham: Conference: Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism? 5–7 August 2017

University of Valencia: Institute for the History of Medicine and Science “López Piñero”: Programme Fall 2016 Seminars, Conferences etc

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EOI: Call for Expressions of Interest: Learned societies and the circulation of knowledge, 1750-2000 From Aileen Fyfe and Jenny Beckman

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

Warwick: Humanities Research Centre: Conference: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Text and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s 4 March 2017

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

The Lowry, Salford Quays: Discovering Collections Discovering Communities 10–12 October 2016

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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

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

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

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

University of Lisbon: CfP: Third Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Issues 14–16 December 2016

Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science: CfP: Special Issue: Knowledge Transfer and Its Context

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

Australian Academy of Science: The Moran Award for History of Science Research

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

BSHS: The British Society for the History of Science Prize for Exhibits on the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 2016

University of Birmingham: Social Studies in the History of Medicine – ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’

Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Partington Prize

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 »

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 Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events

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

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

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 Leicester: Centre for Medical Humanities: Seminars:

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

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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

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

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

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LOOKING FOR WORK:

University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Research Project Administrator (Fixed Term)

Smithsonian Institution: Museum Curator (History of Modern Science)

Royal Armouries: Director of Collections

The Foundling Museum: Curator: Exhibitions & Displays

KU Leuven: Collectie–Expert Boekgeschiedenis

Science Museum Group: Robots Engagement Volunteer

 

 

 



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