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 #2
Monday 30 June 2014
EDITORIAL:
Well our journal didn’t fold after one issue and we are back for a second round. Judging by the reception on Twitter we have found favour with some and this encourages us to continue. We return with bumper crop of history of science, medicine and technology harvested over the last seven days in cyberspace.
ON THE WEB BLOGS AND WEBSITES:
PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY:
Scientific research papers by native Bengali authors during the nineteenth century (PDF)
Los Angeles Review of Books: Faking Galileo by Massimo Mazzotti
London Street Views: Francesco Amadio, Optician
Yovisto: Lyman Spitzer and the Space Telescope
American Institute of Physics: New Valentine Telegdi Photo Collection
MEDICINE:
E.R. McKean’s Improved Ambulance 10/11/1864
Top of the heap: Elizabeth Watkins recommends books on #histmed
NYAM Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health: Female moveable manikin 1599
CNN belief blog: How an apocalyptic plague helped spread Christianity
Nursing Clio: Sunday Morning Medicine: A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history
Early Modern Medicine: An Overabundance of Advice
GIZMODO: 29 Anatomical Models that Will Haunt Your Dreams Tonight
armsandthemedicalman: ‘Men whose minds the dead have ravished’
BBC: Did disabled workers enjoy greater rights in centuries past?
Wellcome Library: A fresh perspective on the Great Stink?
The Recipes Project: Monastic Domestic Medicine in Italy
Erik Kwakkel: Pictures from a medieval surgery book
Wellcome Library: ‘Beds not Bombs’: the archive of the Medical Campaign against Nuclear Weapons
The Appendix: Fever to Tell: Interactive Storytelling Online and the History of Philadelphia’s Yellow Fever Outbreak, 1793
University College Dublin: The ‘hospital and cemetery of Ireland’: The Irish and Disease in Nineteenth-Century Liverpool by Stephen Bance
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Ichthyosaurs: a day in the life …
Fossil History: Busk and the Neandertals Intro
Ask the Past: How to Reanimate a Frog, 1906
The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1771 (PDF)
Kew Royal Botanic Garden: Floreat Kew. In remembrance of the fallen
Phenomena: The Loom: The Zoo In The Mouth
medpage today: Gross Anatomy: 19th C Gyno Tools Save Famous Italian Foot
Paris Review: a dream of toasted cheese
Johns Hopkins Magazine: The sex manual in the sock drawer
Trowelblazers: Amelia Edwards: The Godmother of Egyptology
What’s in John’s Freezer: Just-So Science: revisiting Kipling’s kangaroos and elephants
io9: The Ornithologist Who Created Our Color Names
The Embryo Project: Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)
TECHNOLOGY:
Swansea code breaker welcomes Bletchley Park restoration work
Board of Longitude project: Looking for a new John Harrison
The Bubble Chamber: Can Machines Think Yet? A Brief History of the Turing Test
Ptak Science Books: On the Continued Rediscovery of the Horizontal Pendulum
The Public Domain Review: Picturing Pyrotechnics
Conciatore: Galleria dei Lavori
Yovisto: Hermann Oberth’s Dream of Space Travel
Houghton Library: Illustration from the first book about calculating machines
META:- HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY and OTHER:
Aeon Magazine: The sun does not rise
School of Wisdom: Tagore and Einstein
Book announcement: Culture Histories of the Material World
The New Yorker: The Disruption Machine: What the gospel of innovation gets wrong
George Campbell Gosling: Teaching Medical History
TED: Video: Historian of science Naomi Oreskes: Why we should trust scientists
Inside the Science Museum: Nine Things You Didn’t Know About the Science Museum
Sound Cloud: Lisa Jardine on Jacob Bronowski (and why she wrote 3 ‘boring’ books)
THEATRE:
h-madnes: A Malady of Migration: a theatrical examination of diaspora, displacement and mental disorder in the 19th century.
ESOTERIC:
Forbidden Histories: Amateurs, Empiricism, and the Tedium of Psychical Research. Guest Post by Alicia Puglionesi
Mysterious Planchette: A survey of curious devices for speaking to the dead. London Artifacts, Part 1: The CPS Spirit Trumpet
BOOK REVIEWS:
New York Times: ‘The Remedy’: A 19th –Century Bid to Cure TB
Scientific American: DIY Alchemy: How to “Transmute” Copper into Brass [Excerpt]
The New York Review of Books: The Bleeding Founders: Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health
Science League of America: End Times: Orekes and Conway’s Collapse of Western Civilization
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Ada Lovelace Day for Schools 2014
Society for the History of Medicine AGM 12 July 2014
Radio 4 and Kew Gardens join forces to explore history of plant science
Academics, Darin Hayton wants to know why you blog.
CfP: The Marginalisation of Astrology (Utrecht, 19-20 March 2015)
NEW: Max Planck Institute for History and the Sciences
LOOKING FOR WORK?
Durham: Fully funded PhD studentship in integrated history and philosophy of science
Postdoc in the History of Emotion – University of Melbourne
Historiens de la santé: 3-year Doctoral Fellowship on “Globalizing schizophrenia”
Postdoctoral research fellow in the history of emotions (Europe, 1100-1800)
Doctoral Student for 12 months in Philosophy of History and Historiography (incl. #Histsci)
Science Museum: We’re looking for two brilliant Assistant Curators to help work on our new medical gallery.
Canada: Philosophy of Science PHIL / ASCI 2780H, Course Instructor
That’s all for this week posted just under the wire. Come back next week for Vol.3.
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