Whewell’s Gazette
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Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell
Volume #4
Monday 14 July 2014
EDITORIAL:
Our fourth volume starts with a special collection of post celebrating the 158th birthday of the Serbia-American inventor engineer Nikola Tesla. In our Meta section you can find a post titled, “Beyond Tesla: History’s Most Overlooked Scientists”. This implies that Tesla has been overlooked and that others have suffered an even worse fate. Now, whilst it might be true that in an earlier age historians of science and/or technology have not paid enough attention to the life and work of this fascinating thinker but we feel the time is long past when this claim could or should be made. The last twenty to thirty years has seen a major boom in Tesla studies both popular and academic and one could now claim that he gets more attentions than he deserves at the cost of others. Put quite simply we think people should stop claiming that their hero Nikola Tesla has been overlooked, ignored, under researched or what ever and instead start addressing the myths that have been created by those pushing his historical claim to fame.
ON THE WEB BLOGS AND WEBSITES:
BIRTHDAY OF THE WEEK: Nikola Tesla
Motherboard: Nikola Tesla’s Pro-Eugenics, Anti-Coffee Portrait of the Future
Nikola Tesla’s Earthquake Machine
Atlas Obscura: Belgrade Tesla Museum
Atlas Obscura: New Yorker Hotel
Atlas Obscura: Nikola Tesla Street Corner
Niagara Gazette: Long Island Tesla museum gets a boost
PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY:
Modern Physics: An Historical Overview of the Development of Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Field Theory, Relativity and Cosmology
The H-Word: The private lives of Isaac Newton
Corpus Newtonicum: Newton’s Working Practices (1) – Catchy Stuff…
The Newton Papers: Dirty Laundry
Yovisto: Samuel Goudsmit and the Electron Spin
MEDICINE:
The H-Word: Saving the bacon dutrng the First World War
Guardian Political Science: Beds not Bombs: The history of anti-nuclear medical campaigning and protest
Diseases of Modern Life – Nineteenth Century Perspectives: The Nausea of Noise
Nursing Clio: A history of Neglect
Atlas Obscura: Morbid Monday: Hazardous Dr Hazard, Whose Cure was Starvation
Culture 24: Search for 16th and 17th century plague victims ahead of London skeleton excavation
Circulating Now: Illustrating De Fabrica
The Recipes Project: A Medieval Russian Hangover Cure
Wellcome Library: Spotlight: the story of a medieval chapel over time
Neurorhetoric: Brain Stimulation: Why Now, But Not Then?
The Recipes Project: Testing Drugs and Trying Cures Workshop Summary
Wellcome Library: The Great War on Disfiguring Injuries
Vox: The 19th-century health scare that told women to worry about “bicycle face”
DPLA: Wartime Mosquito Posters
Southern Cross University: An Australian history of the subordination of midwifery (eBook)
CHEMISTRY:
Chemical Heritage Foundation: Podcast: Intoxication & Civilisation: Beer’s Ancient Past
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Letters from Gondwanda: The Early History of Ammonite Studies in Italy
The New York Academy of Medicine: A Gallery of Gauzy Wings
Hill Rock Day Fly Watermark
Science: Ancient bird had wingspan longer than a stretch limo
DPLA: 14th century bugs!
Trowel Blazers: Charlotte Murchison
A Glonk’s HPS Blog: Download my thesis – ‘Genetics, Statistics, and Regulations at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany, 1919–1969’
The Friends of Charles Darwin: 11th July, 1836: Darwin visits Napoleon
Embryo Project: Mitochondria
TECHNOLOGY:
Bridgeman Images: The Evolution of the Bicycle
Teleskopos: Longitude in Lisbon
The Appendix: The Invention of Wireless Cryptography
Board of Longitude Project: Why longitude mattered in 1714
Guardian: Exhibition Review: Maritime museum finds time for celebration of HarrisonS sea clocks
H-Word: Pictorial Exhibition Review: Ships, Clocks & Stars
The first Longitude Act, given royal assent by Queen Anne on 9 July 1714.
Chemical Heritage Foundation: Video: Two Tales of Ballooning
Ptak Science Books: 200,000,000 Pounds of Buttocks–Or–Putting the Color Back in the Black-and-White
Conciatore: The Material of All Enamel
Yovisto: The Airplanes of Claude Dornier
History Extra: London bridges through time
Science Notes: Today in Science History: George Eastman
META:- HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY and OTHER:
Early Modern Experimental Philosophy: ‘Epistemic amplification’ and Newton’s laws
Medicine, ancient and modern: Thoughts on the first “Galen Day” at Warwick
ISIS: OA Article: History and Neuroscience: An Integrative Legacy
The Recipes Project: First Monday Library Chat: Royal College of Physicians
University of Cambridge Museums: Every Boy & Girl a Scientist
Yovisto: Alfred Binet and the Intelligence Test
Online Guide to Huntington Collections in the History of Science
ISIS: Focus: (OA) Knowing the Oceans: A Role for the History of Science
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Guest Post: The history of “scientist” by Melinda Baldwin
Live Science: Beyond Tesla: History’s Most Overlooked Scientists
Video: Alan Turing
Sound Cloud: Siren FM: Science: Robert Hooke
BBC: Podcast: Dr Alun Withey looks back at medical history
ESOTERIC:
Conciatore: Flexible Glass Reprise
KATEANTIQUITY: OF MISOGYNY, LUST AND VIOLENCE – THE DISTURBING WORLDVIEW OF ANCIENT LOVE MAGIC
Conciatore: Exhibition Review: Art and Alchemy
History of Alchemy: Podcast: Bernard Trevisan
THEATRE:
Broadway World: Mark H Dold to star in Barrington Stage’s BREAKING THE CODE; 7/17–8/2 (Alan Turing)
BOOK REVIEWS:
CHoM News: Paul M. Zoll: Father of Cardiac Electrotherapy
Fiction Reboot : Daily Dose: MedHum Mondays: New Books You Should Be Reading!
H-Net: From Pathology to Public Sphere: The German Deaf Movement 1848–1914
Brain Pickings: Free Radicals: How Anarchy and Serendipity Fueled Science, from Newton to Tesla to Steve Jobs
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
International Conference on the 900th Birth Anniversary of BHĀSKARĀCĀRYA
Royal Society Publishing: Free Trial
Forbidden Histories: Lecture: The Case of Glossolalia by Vincent Barras
New Book: Hysteria: The Rise of an Enigma
Gravity Fields: Lecture: Dr Anna Marie Roos: Newton and the Apothecary
Gravity Fields: Lecture: Dr Philip Brohan: New Uses for Old Weather
New Book: Geology: Frederic W Harmer: A Scientific Biography
Finding Ada: Sign up for ALD Newsletter
Technology’s Stories: Call for Participants in SHOT’S Three minute Dissitation Video Contest
Society for the Social History of Medicine: SSHM Undergraduate Prize Competition, 2014
New Book: Joseph Wright of Derby: Bath and Beyond
Royal Museums Greenwich:Longitudes Examined: Tercentenary Conference on the History of the Board of Longitude and the Determination of Longitude at Sea
http://www.rmg.co.uk/researchers/conferences-and-seminars/longitudes-examined
Call for Manuscripts: Journal of Trauma Nursing
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