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
ON THE WEB BLOGS AND WEBSITES:
There was an eclipse of the moon last week:
Special of the Month: Antikythera
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
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
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
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
BBC: The fatal attraction of lead
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Blink: Darwin and the mystical monkeys
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
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
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
BOOK REVIEWS:
History Today: Inventing the Military-industrial Complex
Bloomberg View: A Genius That History Forgot (Robert Fitzroy)
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’
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
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
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