Whewell’s Gazette
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Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell
Volume #18
Monday 20 October 2014
Whewell’s Gazette: Vol. #18
EDITORIAL:
You now have Whewell’s Gazette #18 before your eyes brought to you at the end of a week that saw the annual celebration of Ada Lovelace Day on 14 October, a day to celebrate the presence of women in (the history of) science, medicine, technology, engineering and mathematics. So this edition of your favourite weekly #HistSTM links list is dedicated to all of the women past and present who have contributed to the development of science, technology, medicine engineering and mathematics.
Quote of the Week:
‘Mr. Boyle mentioned, that he had been informed, that the much drinking of Coffe did breed the Palsey’ h/t @JREverest
ON THE WEB BLOGS AND WEBSITES:
Tuesday 14 October was Ada Lovelace Day, what follows is a selection of #histSTM post and repost from that day.
Guardian: Ada Lovelace Day – tales of inspiring women
Letters from Gondwana: Mignon Talbot and the Forgotten Women of Paleontogy
Tilly Edinger (Photo,Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)
Inside the Science Museum: The First Woman in Space
Occam’s Corner: Seeking inspiration? Don’t forget the women!
The H-Word: Women in science: a difficult history
The H-Word: Finding women in the history of science
Letters from Gondwana: Women in the Golden Age of Geology in Britain
Women in computing: the 60s pioneers who lit up the world of computing
The National Archives: Nurses in the Crimea: Elizabeth Cadwaladyr
Photograph of Elizabeth Cadwaladyr. Used with permission from Betsy Cadwaladyr: A Balaclava Nurse edited by Jane Williams (Ysgafell), with a new introduction by Deirdre Beddoe. (Dinas Powys, HONNO, 1987). ISBN 1-870206-00-2. Engraving from a photograph, 1857, in National Library of Wales MS 12353D.
The Queen of Science – The woman who tamed Laplace
Mary Somerville
Thomas Phililips
Skulls in the Stars: Jane Marcet educates Michael Faraday
Portrait of Jane Marcet, from the Edgar Fahs Smith Collection, University of Pennsylvania Library.
Roots of Unity: Beyond Emmy and Sophie: Resources for Learning about Women in Math
Smithsonian,com: Five Historic Female Mathematicians You Should Know
Science 2.0: Mind the Gender Gap: Why Women Must Still Fight for Equality in Science
Georgian London: Ada Lovelace Day – Mrs Margaret Bryan, Astronomer of Blackheath
I Love Typography: The First Female Typographer
Buzzfeed: 11 Unsung Science Heroines You Really Should Have Heard Of
The Royal Institution: Spotlight on Louisa Tyndall
Louisa Tyndall
Credit: Royal Institution
Trowel Blazers: Yusra
NPR: Podcast: When Women Stopped Coding
Pat’s Blog: Those Amazing Boole Girls
From left to right, from top to bottom: Margaret Taylor, Ethel L. Voynich, Alicia Boole Stott, Lucy E. Boole, Mary E. Hinton, Julian Taylor, Mary Stott, Mary Everest Boole, George Hinton, Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Leonard Stott.
PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY:
IQOI Vienna: Science and Society: a two-way street
Yovisto: Evangeliste Torricelli and the Barometer
Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647)
Restricted Area: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog: The riddle of Julius Rosenberg
The Ordered Universe Project: Grosseteste and the Harp
Smithsonian.com: How a Physics Diagram Was Named After a Penguin
Image: Quilbert
Ptak Science Books: History of Lines: the Big Little Lines of Richard Feynman (1949)
AIP: Oral History Transcript – S Chandrasakhar
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Royal Museums Greenwich: Solving Longitude: Jupiter’s Moons
Slate: The Vault: The Ottoman Empire’s First Map of the Newly Minted United States
The Telegraph: Christopher Columbus ‘stole credit for discovering America’
MEDICINE:
History of Medicine in Oregon: Timeline 1850-1900
Concocting History: Autumn Song
The Generous Georgian: Dr Richard Mead: The Speckled Monster: Smallpox
Early Modern Medicine: Itching and Scabbiness
An itch mite
The Public Domain Review: The Poet, the Physician and the Birth of the Modern Vampire
Yovisto: Albrecht von Haller – Father of Modern Physiology
Mass Moments: Boston Dentist Demonstrates Ether October 16, 1846
The New England Journal of Medicine: Insensibility during Surgical Operations Produced by Inhalation
Nursing Clio: The Body as Archive
Dr Alun Withey: 10 Seventeenth-century remedies you’d probably want to avoid!
Yovisto: Nicholas Culpeper and the Complete English Herbal
CHEMISTRY:
Wallifaction: “unbelieving chemists” : science, religion and politics in a tale of two cities
(This political cartoon from 1790 links Priestley’s ideas to “fanaticism” and radical religious ideas. Source)
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Nerdist: Harold Fisk’s Incredible Maps Track the Ghosts of the Mississippi
My Albion: The Secret Life of Beaver
The New York Times: When Racism Was a Science
The Conversation: There’s no such thing as reptiles any more – and here’s why
Royal Museums Greenwich: The Art and Science of Joseph Banks
Smithsonian Science: Five Amazing Fossil Finds That Will Make You Want To Be a Fossil Hunter
Thinking Like a Mountain: Seed Steeps & Poisoned Partridges, 1843-1848
Partridge from Morris’s British Game Birds and Wildfowl (1855).
Darwin Correspondence Project: Letters Course: Controversy – Darwin and Wallace
Evolving Thoughts: A nineteenth century view on classification
Environmental History: Wilderness Act Forum
The Alfred Russel Wallace Website: How Famous and Respected was Wallace?
TECHNOLOGY:
Medieval Books: Medieval Desktops
The National Archives: Inventions that didn’t change the world
A design for a flying or aerial machine adapted for the Arctic regions, registered by Arthur Kinsella, Kilkenny, Ireland, May 1855. BT 47/4/669
Guardian: The magic of rubber: irreverent, sexy, sporty, revolutionary … indispensible
The Verge: King of click: the story of the greatest keyboard ever made
Yovisto: Peter Barlow and the Barlow Lenses
The Appendix: Photographing the Guillotine
Today’s Engineer: Dials, Keypads and Smartphones
AT&T Tech Chanel: Introduction to the Dial Telephone
Pasta and Vinegar: iPhone numerical keypad organizations
Yovisto: Chuck Yeager – Breaking the Sound Barrier
Medium Cool: In the Pocket
University of Toronto Scientific Instrument Collection: Spectroscopy Beyond the Visible Spectrum: The Sodium Chloride Prism
Financial Times: The tech innovators of the Victorian Age
Conciatore: Solid Water
META:- HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
Smithsonian.com: Amazing Artifacts from the History of Science are Going Up for Auction (slide show)
The Vesalius Anatomy Card Game
History of Philosophy without any gaps: 9 Rules for the history of philosophy
Dr Alun Withey: 500 Years of the Model Man!
Scientific American: Dear Professor Einstein
BBC: Welcome to the BBC Genome Project
Nautilus: Top Ten Unsung Geniuses: For these scientists, success and fame did not come in equal measure
Remedia: New Blog: Archive Magpie: Our monthly update on recently-acquired, newly available or underused archival sources in the history of medicine.
Medieval Book: Meet the Medieval Manuscript
The Art and Science of Curation: Museum curators are (unfortunately) not Indiana Jones
London Evening Standard: Roger Highfield: Science is just as vital to London culture as the arts
Harvard Library: Myerson, Abraham, 1881-1948. Abraham Myerson Papers and Family Research Records, 1908-2013 (inclusive), 1921-1974 (bulk): Finding Aid.
Nautilus: What to Do When Genius Fails
The Sloane Letters Blog: Sloane the Chocolatier: A Tasty Myth
Trade-card ‘Sir Hans Sloane’s Milk Chocolate’. Image Credit: Wellcome Library, London.
ESOTERIC:
The Ritman Library: The alchemical manual of Ulrich Ruosch
Conciatore: The Purse of Envy Reprise
The Recipes Project: The Acceptance of Charms in the Fifteenth Century
Wellcome Library, London. Recipe for staunching blood with cockerel in MS 5262, early fifteenth century. Includes the Longinus miles charm.
Conciatore: A Gift for the Innocent
Heterodoxology: Rosicrucian Quadricentennial: 400 years of secret brotherhoods, universal reformations, and conspiracy theories
The Temple of the Rosy Cross, figure designed by Theophilus Schweighardt Constantiens (Speculum Sophicum Rhodostauroticum, 1618). This version courtesy of Ouroboros Press (2012).
History of Alchemy: Podcast: Richard and Isabella Ingalese
BBC: Radio 3 Essay: Podcast: Stories from the Cairo Genizah – Alchemy and Magic 13 June 14 (scroll down!)
BOOK REVIEWS:
Wired: The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book
Techie.com Innovation and “How We Got to Now”
The New York Times: Cosmos as Masterpiece: In ‘Cosmigraphics’ Our Changing Pictures of Space Through Time
University of Notre Dame: Peter Godfrey-Smith, Philosophy of Biology
John van Wyhe’s Charles Darwin in Cambridge
Medievalist.net: Vegetables in the Middle Ages
The Neuro Times: The Neurologists: A history of a medical speciality in modern Britain, 1789-2000
Science Book a Day: Science Book a Day Interviews Sarah Dry
New York Times: Christine Kenneally’s ‘Invisible History of the Human Race’
NEW BOOKS:
Historiens de la santé: Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States
Pickering Chatto: History and Philosophy of Technoscience
Cambridge University Press: Interpreting Proclus: From Antiquity to the Renaissance
THEATRE:
FILM:
TELEVISION:
- A. Times.com: ‘Manhattan’ renewed for Season 2 by WGN America
Motherboard: Author Steven Johnson Talks ‘How We Got top Now,’ Starting With the Sewers
A.V. Club: Yeah, science! The new trend in TV drama
Masters Of Sex
VIDEOS:
Youtube: ARW Centenary at AMNH Nov. 12 2013: 10 Alfred R Wallace videos
RADIO:
PODCASTS:
The Art and Science of Curation: #ArtSCiCuration at the Museums Association Conference
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
University of Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art: CfP: Hybrid practices in the arts, sciences, and technology from the 1960s to today 10-13 March 2015
PHILOS-L: Philosophy in Europe: History of the Human Science: New Editorial Team
The Journal of Somaesthetics: CfP: Bodies of Belief: Somaesthetics of Faith and Protest
PACHS: Working Groups
UCL: BSHS Postgraduate Conference 2015 Abstract Submission
In(ter)ventions: object histories and the museum: CfP: 12 February 2015 British Museum
Institute of Historical Research, London: One day colloquium: The History of the Body: Approaches and Directions 16 May 2015
Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog: Public Lecture: ”The Secret Histories of Laser Fusion” Columbia University 29 October 2014 6-7:30 pm
Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena: Workshop „Die ‚nicht mehr neuen’ Medien. Herausforderungen für Universitätssammlungen“ 7-9 May 2015
CRASSH: Things that Matter, 1400-1900: Alternate Wednesdays 12-2 pm during term-time
Wellcome Trust: Wellcome Library funds a new partnership to digitise 800 000 pages of mental health archives
Manchester Medieval Society: CfP: Crossing Boarders in the Insular Middle Ages, c.999-1500 Philipps-Universität, Marburg 8-10 April 2015
LOOKING FOR WORK?
Science Museum Group: Digital Director
PHILOS-L: Philosophy in Europe: Two PhD studentships in HPS in Vienna
The Historical Collections unit of Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences: University of Alabama: Reynolds Associates Research Fellowships in the History of the Health Sciences for 2015
The Conservation Volunteers: Natural Network Trainees
Science Media Centre: Head of Operations
Chemical Heritage Foundation: Apply for a Fellowship
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