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 #5
Monday 21 July 2014
EDITORIAL:
We’re back for another week and a new edition of the best #histsci, #histtech and #histmed links list in the entire cosmos. This week saw the forth-fifth anniversary of the first moon landing. Although in reality, as a political propaganda exercise, this anniversary actually belongs to political history, however it also involved a lot of science and technology and is thus a suitable subject for our gazette. A comforting thought for a historian of science in the Early Modern Period, despite the twentieth century being the century of a new physics Apollo 11 was brought to the moon and back with the physics and mathematics of Isaac Newton.
ON THE WEB BLOGS AND WEBSITES:
BIRTHDAY OF THE WEEK: The Moon Landing
Leaping Robot: “Sir, That’s Not a Footprint…”
Othmeralia: Meet Gus
The Atlantic: 45 Years Ago We Landed Men on the Moon
Discover: The Silent Centennial of Space Exploration
Library of Congress: Envisioning Earth from Space Before We Went There
T J Owens: Envisioning Earth from Space More than 100 years ago
It’s a Sphere
Video: Apollo 11 TV Broadcast – Neil Armstrong First Step on Moon
Smithsonian Com: Video: Rare Apollo 11 Footage, Remixed and in HD
Smithsonian: Slide Rule used on Apollo 11
The Onion: The Onion reports on Moon Landing
PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY:
A map of Physics
Yovisto: A Wire to Connect the World – Stephen Gray’s Discovery
Atlas Obscura: The Last Original Standard Metre
Science Notes: Today in Science History July 15: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Royal Society: The Repository: Principia
EXPLORATION:
Matthew Flinder’s Cat Trim
Board of Longitude Project: Matthew Flinders – a celebration
Australian Times: Statue of Matthew Flinders, who put ‘Australia’ on the map, to be unveiled in London
The H-Word: Matthew Flinders bicentenary: statue unveiled to the most famous navigator you’ve probably never heard of.
MEDICINE:
Fiction Reboot: Daily Dose: MedHum Monday: The Becker Library and Increased Visibility
CHoM News: Peter Brent Brigham Hospital Records Open for Research
Popular Science: The Forgotten Women Who Made Microbiology Possible
The Recipes Project: How to Heal a Foreigner in Early Modern Russia:
Wellcome History: Boiled baby bees for tea
Panacea: Musings on the History of Medicine: Midwifery II: The Battle for Authority:
Wellcome Library: Welcome to Genomics History Week
Museum of Health Care: Mental Health: Tracing the history of stigma
Hyperallergic: What Did Disability Look Like in the 19th Century
The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice: The Horrors of Pre-Anaesthetic Surgery
Not Even Past: Individual Rights vs. Medical Responsibility: Human Experimentation in the Name of Science
New York Academy of Medicine: Guest curator Riva Lehrer on Vesalius 500
Guardian: The Institute of Sexology exhibition – in pictures
PLOS Blog: Public Health Perspectives: 1 weird tip to not die of smallpox
BBC: The virus detective who discovered Ebola in 1976
Joanne Bailey Muses on History: ‘Breeding’ a ‘little stranger’: managing uncertainty in pregnancy c. 1660-1830
Science Daily: Tooth plaque provides insights into our prehistoric ancestors diet
CHEMISTRY:
Home Before the Leaves Fall: The Chemist’s War
Medical Historical Library: The Periodic Table in the Twentieth Century On View!
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Brain Pickings: Video: A Miraculous “Accident of Physics”: Carl Zimmer Explains How Feathers Evolved, Animated.
Trowel Blazers: Florence Bascom: a true pioneer in geoscience
BibliOdyssey: Erucarum Ortus
Phenomena: The Loom: The Old Old Earth
New York Times: The Skeleton Garden of Paris
Fossil History: Mary Leaky and Zinjanthropus boisei
History of Geology: Geologist’s Nightmares
Patrick F. Clarkin Ph. D: Darwin, Oversimplified
Fossil History: Happy Birthday Richard Owen
TECHNOLOGY:
New York Times: Who Made the Super Soaker?
Medievalist Net: A Good Day for a Trebuchet
Conciatore: Glass Monks Reprise
The Appendix: The Case for Female Astronauts: Reproducing American in the Final Frontier:
Conciatore: The Portland Vase
Yovisto: Dan Bricklin and VisiCalc
Board of Longitude Project: Celebrating John Harrison
British Museum: Through time: the history behind your watch
Boing boing: Fanciful zeppelins and trains
META:- HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
Doing Good Science: Heroes, human “foibles”, and science outreach
Chronologia Universalis: Explicit computes: Notes on 5th Conference on the Science of Computus
Double Refraction: Should the history of science have relevance? Notes on the BSHS conference session
Voices of the Manhattan Project
Library of Congress: Understanding the Cosmos: Changing Models of the Solar System and the Universe
Yovisto: Cracking the Code – Champollion and the Rosetta Stone
Homunculus: A feeling for flow
The Appendix: Perchance to Dream: Science and the Future
The Point: Wonder and the Ends of Inquiry
Unquiet mind of a Transdisciplinary Scholar: Science Fiction as Science Studies on the History of Science
Conciatore: Hugger-mugger
Atlanta Arts: Q&A: Prof Deborah Harkness turned study of 16th-century science, magic into popular “All Souls Trilogy”
History of Love Blog: Why you shouldn’t marry a lady of learning, 1708
Smithsonian Com: The Cannibal Club: Racism and Rabble-Rousing in Victorian England
ESOTERIC:
Heterodoxology: Books from the Esoteric Brat Pack
Science Comma: Charles Fort, WWI and Science
BOOK REVIEWS:
Slate: Rebecca Onion: “Unclaimed Treasures of Science” Even during the Cold War, these women brought feminism to STEM
Robin’s Reviews: Finding Longitude by Richard Dunn and Rebekah Higgitt
Brain-pickings: The Book of Trees: 800 Years of Visualizing Science, Religion, and Knowledge in Symbolic Diagrams
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
BBC WWI: Debate: The Psychology of War chaired by Amanda Vickery
The Nuclear Secrecy Blog: John Wheeler and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: Talk 21 July at American Institute of Physics
CfP: 15th CONGRESS OF LOGIC, METHODOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (CLMPS 2015)
teleskopos: Rebekah “Becky” Higgitt’s public appearances for the Longitude Season:
CfP: Failure in the Archives CELL Conference 30 October 2014-07-20
History of Science Society: New HSS Website
New Book: The University of Chicago Press: Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity
BBC: Radio Series: Plants: From Roots to Riches
New Book: A new collection of writing on DARWIN only £1.25 ebook
Wellcome Trust: Director’s Update: Thinking about our grant schemes
Irish Network for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine: CfP: Science in the City 3 October 2014
Phys Org: New Book reveals student life of Charles Darwin
Far Beyond Reality: New Book: Lookin’ Good: Irregularity by Jared Shurin (Ed.)
The Royal Society: Lectures: Longitude: back and forth across the years Martin Rees and Rebekah Higgitt
LOOKING FOR WORK?
University of Exeter: History of Medicine doctoral studentship in collaboration with Hong Kong University
Royal College of Physicians: Project Officer, oral history project:
Academic Jobs Wiki: History of Science, Technology and Medicine 2014–2015
University of Liverpool: PhD Studentships – Longitudinal studies of the health of the poor
The Eagle has landed and so has Whewell’s Gazette for another week. Come back next Monday for another seven days of the best the Internet has to offer in #HistSTEM
