Whewell’s Gazette
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Internet history of science, technology and medicine
Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell
Volume #51
Monday 15 June 2015
EDITORIAL:
Another seven days have rushed past leaving in their wake a plethora of article and blog posts on the histories of science, technology and medicine scattered across the width and breadth of cyberspace, which we have scooped up and present here for your perusal and delectation in the fifty-first edition of your weekly #histSTM links list Whewell’s Gazette. 
Historians in general and #histSTM historians in particular would be lost and unable to carry out their research work without the active assistance of a world wide army of archivists and librarians those never tiring workers at the coalface of written records. Archivists and librarians collect, collate, catalogue and make available for the historical researcher all forms of written documents and records and without their work the life of the historians would be immeasurably harder and more strewn with strife than it already is. This being the case this edition of Whewell’s Gazette is humbly dedicated to all the archivists and librarians past, present and future who serve the historian in so many ways. 
Quotes of the week:
Dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, Mark all as read. – Ed Yong (@edyong209)
“I always have a quotation for everything – it saves original thinking.” – Dorothy L. Sayers
“History of science makes scientific stories richer and more interesting” – Deborah Blum
“Science is nothing but perception”. – Plato
“The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.” – Jorge Luis Borges
“All my friends who weren’t at Bletchley think that The Imitation Game is wonderful, and all my friends who were think it’s rubbish” – Pamela Rose (Bletchley Girl)
“Leo Szilard never spelled his name Leó Szilárd after he left Hungary. Respect his choice. Avoid bad memes”. – Gene Dannen
“In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find.” – Terry Pratchett
“There is, however, one trifling point on which I differ; viz. that I believe the high value of well-bred males is due to their transmitting their good qualities to a far greater number of offspring than can the female.” – Charles Darwin h/t @KeesJanSchilt
“The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.”– Mark Twain
“Nobel Prizes don’t make one wise, but they’re a fine platform from wh. to reveal who you are” – Thomas Levenson (@TomLevenson)
“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead” – Thomas Paine
“It is useful to the busy mind of man to be cautious in arguing about things exceeding its comprehension”. – John Locke
“Definition of a college professor: someone who talks in other people’s sleep”. – W H Auden
“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. Meditations Divine and Moral” ― Anne Bradstreet h/t @roos_annamarie
“Solitude is a sublime mistress, but an intolerable wife.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson h/t Andrea Wulf (@andrea_wulf) Goethe described himself in old age as ‘I appear to myself more and more historical’. h/t Andrea Wulf (@andrea_wulf)
“CBT (Cognitive Beaverial Therapy) is…” (student spelling error in exam) h/t meta4RN 
PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY:
Science Notes: Today in Science History – June 8–Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Corpus Newtonicum: Folding Pages (Scenes from the Library of Isaac Newton, Part 2)
Once upon a dog-ear (now folded back, but still clearly visible on both sides of the page).
The Conversation: Our latest scientific research partner was a medieval bishop
Brain Pickings: The Beauty of Uncertainty: How Heisenberg Invented Quantum Mechanics, Told in Jazz
Mental Floss: The Life and Times of Isaac Newton’s Apple Tree 
ccat.sas.upenn.edu: Copernicus in China or, Good Intentions Gone Astray
Graham Farmelo: Talking Bohr and the Bomb in Copenhagen
Dannen.com: The Franck Report, June 11, 1945
The Independent: Albert Einstein’s private letters go up for sale at California auction
Restricted Data The Nuclear Secrecy Blog: What remains of the Manhattan Project
The Guardian: Five reasons we should celebrate Albert Einstein
Clerk Maxwell Foundation: James Clerk Maxwell: Maker of Waves
Science Notes: Today in Science History – June 13 – Thomas Young
Standard Daily: Albert Einstein’s Letter explaining the link between Relativity Theory and Japan’s Atomic Bombing sold for $62,500
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Londonist: Compare Detailed Historic Maps With Today’s London
British Library: Online Gallery: Anglo-saxon Mappa Mundi
Anglo Saxon Mappa Mundi
Cotton MS Tiberius B.V., 56v
Copyright © The British Library Board
British Library: Maps and views blog: A Bohemian rhapsody*?
Library of Congress: World War II Military Situation Maps
JAAVSO Volume 43, 2015: Margaret Harwood and the Maria Mitchell Observatory
Progressive Geographies: Notes towards a critical history of cartography, part 1
Progressive Geographies: #MAPS/// Manifesto for an Alternative Cartography
The Afternoon Map: The First Printed Ottoman Map of Palestine, 1804
The Public Domain Review: The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema (1863)
UKPN Social Science: Coming in from the cold: nineteenth-century exploration and science in the Canadian Arctic
Yovisto: Harry Johnston and the “Scramble for Africa”
Christie’s The Art People: Catalogue: Valuable Books and Manuscripts Including Cartography
Yale News: Hidden secrets of Yale’s 1491 world map revealed via multispectral imaging
Middle East Eye: The Chinese through Abbasid eyes
Halley’s Log: Able seaman wanted!
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Wonders & Marvels: Vesalius – The Ultimate Wedding Present?
Migraine Histories: On Migraines and the Eyes
Regional Medical Humanities: A Thirst for Knowledge
Circulating Now: Where to Find History of Medicine Collections
Atlas Obscura: Would You Like Some Heroin For Your Cough?
American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record, v.36, no. 6 March 25, 1900
Ptak Science Books: Newspapers and Music in Bedlamia, 1850’s
Nursing Clio: A Short History of Homeopathy: From Hahnemann to Whole Foods
Over Newser: Madness Stones to New Age Medicine: A History of Drilling Holes in our Heads
The Recipes Project: In vino sanitas
Lapham’s Quarterly: Rogue Wounds
Early Modern Medicine: Inconvenient Incontinence
Diseases of Modern Life: Workshop Report: Working with 19th-Century Medical and Health Reports
Magic and Medicine: The Casebook Project
The Public Domain Review: Practical Hydrotherapy (1909) 
The Public Domain Review: When Chocolate was Medicine: Colmenero, Wadsworth and Dufour
Notches: Astrological Birth Control: Fertility Awareness and the Politics of Non-Hormonal Contraception
Motherboard: A History of the Ice Pick Lobotomy
Medicine, ancient and modern: Thoughts on Galen and Pseudo-Galenic texts
storify: Medical Monopoly: Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry
Medievalist.net: Medieval Images of the Body
The 9th century scholar Hunayn ibn Ishaq wrote extensively about ophthalmology. This drawing of the eye is based on his works.
Science Notes: Today in Science History – 14 June – Karl Landsteiner
TECHNOLOGY:
Irish Examiner: UN marks impact of George Boole
Yovisto: John Smeaton – the Father of Civil Engineering
Smithsonian.com: How Pyrex Reinvented Glass For a New Age
NASA: Robert Goddard: A Man and His Rocket
History Today: Automata in Myth and Science
The mechanical duck, constructed by Jacques de Vaucanson (1709-1782), inventor of silk-weaving machinery. – See more at: http://www.historytoday.com/john-cohen/automata-myth-and-science#sthash.n0bM8N12.dpuf
Ptak Science Books: The Telephone-Wife (Lonely No More), 1925
The Guardian: The secret history of 19th century cyclists
The Wall Street Journal: The Enduring Genius of the Ballpoint Pen
Ptak Science Books: The Proposed Balloon Car of 1895
Conciatore: Neri in Pisa
Conciatore: Travels To The East
Wales On Line: Napoleon’s telescope found in cellar of Welsh country house
Daily Post: Napoleon’s spyglass found at Plas Neydd on Anglesey
Science Notes: Today in Science History – June 11 Carl von Linde
Ptak Science Books: A Remarkably- and Completely-Disappeared Invention from 1890
Gizmodo: How This Revolutionary Industrial Glass Made Its Way Into Your Kitchen
Scientific American: Inventions: 70 Years That Changed the World, 1845–1915
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Stir-fried Science: An evolutionary excursion
UCL: Museums and Collections Blog: Specimen of the Week 191: Rhaphorhynchus wing cast
Embryo Project: Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916–2004)
The Conversation: Revealed: the great geologist behind the Origin of Species
Embryo Project: Eric Wieschaus (1947– )
Sotheby’s: Darwin Charles Autograph Letter [1877]
Forbes: This 1783 Volcanic Eruption Changed The Course of History
Embryo Project: Patrick Christopher Steptoe (1913–1988)
European Geosciences Union: Floods as war weapons – Humans caused a third of floods in past 500 years in SW Netherlands
Data is Nature: ‘You Really Do Not See a Plant Until You Draw it’ – Botanical Wall Charts at the Academic Heritage Foundation
Bladstanden – A.A.Van Voorn
I am Safari: Life on the Forest Floor #1 – Wallace’s legacy
Quartz: To revolutionize biology, Charles Darwin got inspiration from the science of rocks
James C Ungureanu: Darwin and the Divine Programmer
Laelaps: A Dinosaur Reading List for Everyone
Yovisto: The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau
The Guardian: The unseen women scientists behind Tim Hunt’s Nobel Prize
Natural History Apostilles: A.P. De Candolle’s anticipation of natural selection (1820)
Niche: #EnvHist Worth Reading: May 2015
CHEMISTRY:
Homunculus: Set for chemistry: a longer view
A chemical manual from c.1894, in which the link to stage magic is clear. (Harry Price Library, UCL)
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: Research Resources
The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Attack on Truth
dataphys.org: List of Physical Visualizations
SciLogs: No, Writing Intelligibly Is Not ‘Dumbing It Down’
National Museums of Scotland: Delving into the past for International Archives Day 2015
The Grand Gallery of the National Museum of Scotland in 1932.
The Grand Gallery of the National Museum of Scotland today. Image © Andrew Lee.
James B Sumner: Sites and resources on history and science communications
The Science and Entertainment Lab: Stories About Science: Symposium Round-up
H-Sci-Med-Tech: Announcing the 2015–2016 Lemelson Center Fellows
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Creating a holy cow
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Now We Are Six
Pooh Sticks E. H. Shepard
academia.edu: Curiosity, Horror and Freedom in the Wunderkammer
The Irish News: Pioneer of science journalism Mary Mulvihill dies aged 55
William & Mary: Whodunit: What learned hand wrote all over Isaac Newton’s masterpiece?
Leaping Robot: Worldly Devils
History NASA: The Impact of Science on Society – James Burke – Jules Bergman – Isaac Asimov
British Society for the History of Mathematics: New Website
HNN: Why Historians Should Use Social Science Insights When Writing History
ESOTERIC:
Conciatore: We were Trojans
Ptak Science Books: Reading Symbolism in Raymond Lull’s Portrait
Source: Ptak Science Books
Independent.ie: Magic, myth and secrecy – WB Yeats and the occult
BOOK REVIEWS:
The Guardian: Life’s Greatest Secret: The Story of the Race to Crack the Genetic Code 
THE: Birds and Frogs: Selected Papers, 1990–2014, by Freeman Dyson
The Guardian: A Natural History of English Gardening by Mark Laird review – gorgeous and diverse
The Guardian: Agents of Empire by Noel Malcolm review – a dazzling history of the 16th-century Mediterranean
NEW BOOKS:
A Canadian Treasury of Medical History: Champagne and Strawberries to Celebrate New Books in Canuk HM and HN
Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine: Human Gene Mapping Workshops c.1973–c.1991 Free Download!
Amazon: The Cybernetic Moment: Or Why We Call Out Age The Information Age
Historiens de la santé: August Weismann: Development, Heredity, and Evolution 
University of Chicago Press: How Our Days Became Numbered
Harvard University Press: Newton’s Apple and Other Myths about Science
ART: The Paris Review: True Blue
Full title: The Virgin in Prayer
Artist: Sassoferrato
Date made: 1640-50
Source: http://www.nationalgalleryimages.co.uk/
Contact: picture.library@nationalgallery.co.uk
Copyright © The National Gallery, London
University of Durham: Workshop: ‘Visual Culture in Medical Humanities’ 18 June 2015
National Museum of Scotland: Photography: A Victorian Sensation 19 June–22 November 2015
THEATRE AND OPERA:
Arts Theatre: The Waiting Room Closes 19 June 2015
FILMS AND EVENTS:
THE: Science inspired by fiction
The Guardian: Rare footage surfaces of Amelia Earhart shortly before she vanished
Royal Society: Last Chance: Philosophical Transactions: 350 years of publishing Closes 23 June 2015
National Library of Scotland: Last Chance: The Forth Bridge: Building an icon Closes 21 June 2015
Royal Observatory Edinburgh: Astronomy Evenings
MHS Oxford: Family Friendly: Beam me up, Harry! Discover the story of Harry Moseley
Royal College of Physicians: ‘This calamitous year’: plague, doctors and death
John Baines Tours: Wallace in the Malay Archipelago 8-25 September 2015
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
BBC: Sir William Crookes (17 June 1832–4 April 1919) by Charles Albert Ludovici
(c) National Portrait Gallery, London; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation
TELEVISION:
ISSUU.com: Actes D’hisòria De La Ciència I De La Tècnica: Volume 7 2014: Science on Television
BBC: Catching History’s Criminals: The Forensics Story
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS: Youtube: National Geographic: From Patents to Profits – American Genius
Youtube: The Royal Institute Channel
HUMLab: HUMlab Seminars Video Archive
Strata Smith: The Man & The Map
V&A: Printing and Binding a Handmade Book
Museo Galileo: Galileo’s disciples
RADIO:
BBC Radio 4: Science Stories
PODCASTS:
ODNB: Roy Porter Historian
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
University of Manchester: Symposium: The university reimagined: past and Present 16 September 2015
LMU: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society: Workshop: Back to a Sustainable Future: Visions of Sustainability in the History of Design 19 June 2015
University of Aarhus: Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) Fifth Biennial Conference 24-26 June 2015
UCL: Seminar: History of the Psychological Disciplines Series 16 June 2015
Galileo Teacher Training Program: Eratosthenes Experiment 15-17 June 2015 
University of Manchester: How do we tell the history of science? 19 June 2015
Rijks Museum: Conference Art and Science in the Early Modern Low Countries 17-18 September 2015
HSTM Network Ireland: Conference: Food as Medicine 9-10 October 2015
University of Wuppertal: Workshop: Before Montucla: Historiography of Science in the Early Modern Era 3–4 March 2016
edtechteacher: Summer Workshop: Teaching History with Technology 23–24 July 2015
Ant Spider Bee: CfP: A Campfire Conversation About Small Data and Big Stories, ASEH 2016
Notches: CfP: Histories of Sexuality in Latin America
The Programming Historian: Training Programme: Programming Historian Live, British Library 19 October 2015
LOOKING FOR WORK:
National Science Foundation: NSF Historian
ETH Zurich: Professor of History of Exact Sciences
Universitat de València: Programa de Doctorado en Estudios Históricos y Sociales sobre Ciencia, Medicina y Comunicación Científica
Universitat de València: Máster Universitario en Historia de la Ciencia y Comunicación Cientifica
University of Sussex: Research Fellow in Digital Humanities/Digital History (Fixed Term)
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