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
Volume #17
Monday 13 October 2014
EDITORIAL:
History web links
Collated for sci lovers
Whewell’s seventeenth
Amateur astronomers do not get laid in 1950 romance comics
ON THE WEB BLOGS AND WEBSITES:
There was an eclipse of the moon last week:
Woodcut from 19th century Smith’s Illustrated Astronomy shows why eclipses don’t happen every month
Harvard student’s projection of LunarEclipse, 1783
Special of the Month: Antikythera
The Antikythera shipwreck is best known for an elaborate, geared contraption known as the Antikythera mechanism, which encoded positions of the planets, the moon and other celestial players and events — prompting scholars to call it the world’s oldest computer.
Scientific American: Return to the Antikythera Shipwreck: Technology Tackles Dangers of the Deep
Scientific American: Return to the Antikythera Shipwreck: The Exosuit’s First Mission
Guardian: Scientists hope to unravel mystery of the ‘Titanic of the ancient world’
Nature: Famed Antikythera wreck yields more treasures
PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY:
Science Notes: Today In Science History – October 6 – Ernest Walton
Yovisto: Richard Dedekind and the Real Numbers
Open SI: Hubble’s Legacy: Reflections by Those Who Dreamed It, Built It, and Observed the Universe with It.
Matthew Aid.Com: Complete Declassified History of the Manhattan Project Now Available Online
homunculus: Uncertain about uncertainty
homuculus: The moment of uncertainty
Twisted Sifter: In Sweden You’ll Find the World’s Largest Scale Model of the Solar System
Yovisto: Karl Schwarzschild and the Event Horizon
Yovisto: Henry Cavendish and the Weight of the Earth
Drawing of torsion balance device used by Henry Cavendish in the ‘Cavendish Experiment’
Video: AP Physics 1: Forces 29: Newton’s Law of Gravitation and Cavendish’s Experiment
Yovisto: Heinrich Olbers and the Olbers’ Paradox
Physics Today: The Dayside: Women in physics – a view from 1948
The New York Times: Transcripts Kept Secret for 60 Years Bolster Defense of Oppenheimer’s Loyalty
Science Notes: Today in Science History – October 7 – Niels Bohr
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Hakluyt Society: Richard who? – Introducing the Hakluyt Society
Daily Mirror: Elizabethan Top Trumps game acquired by British Library
A map of England from one of the cards
The Geological Society: BGS maps portal – maps and sections 1832 to 2014
Royal Museums Greenwich: Halloween Late Death in the Archives: Trim the Cat
Compasswallah: The Perpetual Almanac of Vasco da Gama
The Appendix: The Peripatetic Life of Isabella Bird
A scene from Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1885), p. 48.
The British Library
British Library: American Studies Blog: Olaudah Rquiano and the draw of the Arctic
MEDICINE:
The Quack Doctor: A Patent-Medicine Song, 1892
Postcresent.com: Technology reveals asylum cemetery’s unmarked graves
Medievalist.net: What does your urine say about your health? (Medieval Version)
Dr Alun Withey: Overcrowded and Underfunded: 18th-Century Hospitals and the NHS Crisis
Conciatore: The Duke’s Mouthwash Reprise
Skeptic: Who Invented Pasteurization?
Lesley A Hall, archivist and historian: Twitter is a limited forum for discussing 1920s contraception
The Generous Georgian: Dr Richard Mead: Inside Mead’s Library
Apollo Magazine: Physician, philanthropist, collector: ‘*The Generous Georgian’ in three objects
The Economist: Meadicine Man
Washington Post: A brief history of quarantines in the United States
The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice: Disturbing Disorders: Cotard’s Delusion (Walking Corpse Syndrome)
Open Culture: Download 100,00+ Images From the History of Medicine, All Free Courtesy of The Wellcome Library
Wellcome Library: Art, asylum and advocacy: histories of mental health
Wellcome Library: A Victorian lunatic asylum begins to reveal its secrets
Unmaking Things: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustrations: An Interview with Richard Barnett
Regional Medical Humanities: Practising by Numbers: Medical Provision in Early Modern Wales
The History of Emotions Blog: Melancholia and the Problem of Retrospective Diagnosis: Post Conference Thoughts
NYAM: The Talented Dr Knox
The Atlantic: The Team That Invented the Birth-Control Pill
The Recipes Project: “Although It Be St Anthony’s Face” what changes from recipe to recipe?
Dittrick Museum Blog: Madame du Coudray: A Midwife in a Man’s World
Royal College of Physicians: Harvey’s disciples
CHEMISTRY:
Science Notes: Today in Science History – October 8 – Henry-Louis Le Chatelier
Beautiful Chemistry.net Watch Beautiful Reactions in Amazing Detail
Conciatore: Neri’s Cabinet #7: Lime
Yovisto: Ascanio Sobrero and the Power of Nitroglycerine
Ascanio Sobrero (1812-1888)
BBC: The fatal attraction of lead
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Blink: Darwin and the mystical monkeys
The gills have it: Vishnu in an incarnation of Matsya, the fish by Offert Dapper (Amsterdam, 1672)
Kestrels and Cerevisiae: The American White Pelican
Royal Museums Greenwich: Jaws Revisited – Sharks in Greenwich
The Geological Society: William Smith Factsheet
Laelaps: Evolution in the Slow Lane
Environmental History: Using digital techniques to broaden participatory approaches in environmental history: the Snow Scenes Exhibition
Agile: Great Geophysicists #12: Gauss
Nursing Clio: The Myth of the Vajazzled Orgasm
Punch-Caricature (1882) by Linley Sambourne inspired by Darwin’s last book on earthworms
TECHNOLOGY:
IEEE Global History Network: George Westinghouse
The Atlantic: NASA Should Have Put a Ring on Orbit
Sue Wilkes: Calico Print Workers
WIRED: For Sale: a $400K Apple 1 Motherboard and 15 Other Treasures of Science History
Fine Books Magazine: Bonhams NY Presents Inaugural History of science Sale
Unmaking Things: Marking Design Part 2: Objects in the Sea of Time
Conciatore: Antonio Who ?
University of Toronto Scientific Instruments Collection: A Model of the Inner Ear
Ptak Science Books: A Fine Microscopical Innovation, 1873
A Covent Garden Gilflurt’s Guide to Life: A Musical Automaton Clock
A Musical Automaton Clock
META:- HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
Early Modern Experimental Philosophy: Newton the empiricist?
The New York Times: Can Wanting to Believe Make Us Believers?
History News Network: An Interview with MacArthur Genius Award Winner Pamela O. Long
Phys.Org: In defense of philosophers as scientists
Double Refraction: Barry Barn’s Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory, 40 years on
Early Modern Print: Text Mining Early Printed English
Culture of Knowledge: A pan-European network to reassemble the Republic of Letters
The Art and Science of Curation: Exploring what it means to be a curator
John Matthew Barlow: Historians Being Mean: A Glossary
The Ordered Universe Project: Grosseteste Goes Public: Disseminating Medieval and Modern Science
Leaping Robot: Scientists as Customers?
Cultivating Innovation: Making the history and philosophy of science work for YOU!
Scientific American: Doing Good Science: Grappling with the angry-making history of human subject research, because we need to.
ESOTERIC:
SHAC: Programme/Call for Registrations: Geographies of Alchemy and Chemistry (5th SHAC Postgraduate Workshop)
History of Alchemy: Podcast: Homunculus
Paracelsus is credited with the first mention of the homunculus in De homunculis (c. 1529-1532), and De natura rerum (1537). Wikipedia Commons
BOOK REVIEWS:
History Today: Inventing the Military-industrial Complex
Bloomberg View: A Genius That History Forgot (Robert Fitzroy)
FitzRoy later in life (probably mid-fifties). Wikipedia Commons
Science Museum Group Journal: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
Environmental, History, Science: Reviewing a History of British Ecology
THE: The Newton Papers: The Strange and True Odyssey of Issac Newton’s Manuscripts by Sarah Dry
NEW BOOKS:
Edition Lammerhuber: The Face of The Earth – The Legacy of Eduard Suess
Historiens de la santé: A History of the Workplace: Environment and Health at Stake
City Lab: Building ‘Imaginary Cities’
Grant Hamilton’s illustration of a futuristic city called ‘What We Are Coming To’ appeared in Judge magazine in 1895. Anderson tweeted it out earlier this month.
British Library: Maps and views blog: A History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps
Scribd: History and Philosophy of Science catalogue, 2015-16
THEATRE:
FILM:
TELEVISION:
VIDEOS:
Vimeo: East-India Company ship routes
The Atlantic: What Letter Should We Add to STEM?
Youtube: Wellcome Library: EYES: 30 videos
RADIO:
BBC Radio 4: An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy Hodgkin
Occam’s Corner: Colouring by letters: the life of Dorothy Hodgkin
British biochemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910 – 1994), who won the 1964 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
PODCASTS:
PRI: How did English become the language of science
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Royal Museums Greenwich: Science, Voyaging, Art, Empire Study Day
Making Waves: Registration: Workshop 3: Science, Pure and Applied: Oliver Lodge, Physics and Engineering 31 Oct 2014 University of Liverpool
BJHS Themes: New British Society for the history of Science journal
The Renaissance Dairy: CfP: Rethinking Intellectual History
Queen Mary University of London: Histories and Theories of the Unconscious
The British Society for the History of Science: Dingle Prize for the best book in the history of science, technology, and medicine, first published in English in 2013 or 2014, which is accessible to a wide audience of non-specialists.
University of Edinburgh STIS Seminar Series Oct-Dec 2014
CHoM News: Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine “Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust” Oct 14 4-5 pm
NYAM: CfP: Fifth Annual History of Medicine Night 11 March 2015
PACHS: Lecture: Diagnosis, Madness: The Photographic Physiognomy of Hugh Welch Diamond
University of Warwick: Global History and Culture Centre: Lecture: Orangutans and Black Slaves in Global Perspective: Challenging the Boundaries of Humankind at the end of the Eighteenth Century 22 Oct 2014
HSS Online: 2014 HSS Annual Meeting Chicago, Illinois 6-9 November 2014
Science Museum Group Journal: 02 Issue 02
University of East Anglia: Workshop: Environment(s) in Public 3 Nov 2014
University of Cambridge: Festival of Ideas: Exhibition: Inside out: Dr Auzoux’s papier-mâché models of natural bodies
APS: Forum on the History of Physics: Student Travel Awards
Finding Ada: Ada Lovelace Day for Schools 2014 14 Oct
Interesting Talks London: Lecture: The Invention of Colour with Philip Ball 6 Nov 2014
Wellcome Collection: Exhibition: The Institute of Sexology: Undress Your Mind
Historiens de la santé: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
USC Visual Studies Research Institute: CfP: Material Evidence, Visual Knowledge 30 April-1 May 2015
LOOKING FOR WORK?
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals: The Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship in Nineteenth-Century Media
Norwegian University of Science and Technology: PhD Positions Faculty of Humanities
Higher Ed Jobs: Binghamton University NY: Assistant Professor of Premodern Medicine
University of Cambridge: Job Opportunities: University Lectureship in Global Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine
