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
Year 2, Volume #36
Monday 18 April 2016
EDITORIAL:
Well we’re back and fighting fit well fighting not really fit but we are back.
As you can see our slaves staff are at their desks eager to bring you a new edition of your weekly #histSTM links list Whewell’s Gazette filled to the gunwales with all the histories of science, technology and medicine that we could trawl up out of the depths of cyberspace.
Quotes of the week:
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
“Edmond Halley described as a man who ‘warmed both hands before the fire of life’”. – Kate Morant (@HalleysLog)
Birthdays of the Week:
12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin first man in space
Gherman Titov, Nikita Khrushchev and Yuri Gagarin on the Red Square in Moscow 1961
Source: Wikimedia Commons
U.S. News: From the Archives: Russia’s 1961 Triumph in Space
Royal Museums Greenwich: Yuri Gagarin Statue
Youtube: Public Service Broadcasting – Gagarin
BBC News: Yuri Gagarin: Russia marks cosmonaut anniversary
Christiaan Huygens born 14 April 1629
Christiaan Huygens. Cut from the engraving following the painting of Caspar Netscher by G. Edelinck, between 1684 and 1687.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
History of European Space: Christiaan Huygens: Discoverer of Titan
The Renaissance Mathematicus: The Huygens Enigma
Abraham Ortelius born 14 April 1527
Ortelius World Map
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Abraham Ortelius and the 16th-Centuy information age
Annie Maunder born 14 April 1868
Annie with her solar camera at the Canadian Eclipse Station in Labrador, August 1905
BBC Radio Ulster: Annie Maunder – The Lady Computer of Strabane
Leonardo da Vinci born 15 April 1452
Francesco Melzi – Portrait of Leonardo
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Medievalists.net: The Fables of Leonardo da Vinci
Forbes: Leonardo da Vinci’s Geological Observations Revolutionized Renaissance Art
The Telegraph: Leonardo da Vinci: genius or humble draftsman
The Science Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius
British Library: The Leonardo Notebook
Smithsonian.com: Historians Identify 35 Descendants of Leonardo da Vinci
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Pissing on a Holy Cow
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Is Leonardo da Vinci a great artist or a great scientists? Neither Actually.
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Arizona Daily Sun: View from Mars Hill: Phoenix rising
Suhayl 14 (2015), pp.167-188: Bīrūnī’s Telescopic-Shape Instrument for Observing the Lunar Crescent
Daniel Crouch Rare Books: The most spectacular contribution of the book-maker’s art to sixteenth-century science: Hand Coloured Astronomicum Caesareum:
Yovisto: Houston, we have a Problem
Atlas Obscura: This 17th Century Map of the Skies is Bursting with Mythological Creatures
AIP: E. Margaret Burbidge
Gizmodo: Astronomers Found Evidence of Exoplanets 100 Years Ago and Didn’t Know It
Smithsonian.com: Scientists Discovered Exoplanets More Than 70 Years Earlier Than Thought
AHF: Otto Frisch
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Well no, actually he didn’t
Atlas Obscura: Victorians Wanted to Contact Aliens Using Giant Mirrors
AHF: Jumbo
National Geographic: The Forgotten Soviet Space Shuttle Could Fly Itself
Space:com: Lost in Space Race: Women Denied Proper Place in History
Unsung heroes of the Space Race: A historic photo of women scientists at JPL.
Credit: Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech
D News: Obama to Shine Light on Unsung Hero of Astronomy
The Atlantic: Astronomy’s Evolving Gender DynamicsThe Public Domain Review: Celestial Phenomenon Over Nuremberg, April 14th 1561
JSTOR Daily: The Star-Studded Life of Ms. Dorothy Bennett
Dorothy A. Bennett, Dr. Julio C. Tello, and Te Ata Fisher at Inka Wasi, Dr. Tello’s home, Lima, Peru, 1937
George Clyde Fisher, AMNH Digital Special Collections
History of Physics: Newsletter
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Bill Bailey’s Interview
AHF: Britain
Voices of the Manhattan Project: To Fermi – with Love – Part 2
Forbes: Galileo and the ‘Myth’ That Won’t Go Away
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Instagram: Cat on a map
British Art Studies: Looking for “the Longitude”
HNN: America’s Spanish origins confirmed
Jisc: Old Maps Online
Heritage Daily: The Roman World Interactive Map
Royal Museums Greenwich: Captain James Cook
James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance-Holland, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Yovisto: Gregory Pincus and the Contraceptive Pill
Recommended Dose: Electrocardiogram and Diphtheria in the early 20th Century
Yovisto: James Parkinson and Parkinson’s Disease
Garland Hospital: A Unique Institution: The Cumberland and Westmorland Joint Lunatic Asylum
Smithsonian.com: A Science Lecturer Accidentally Sparked a Global Craze for Yogurt
Wellcome Library: ‘Doctor’ Dee: John Dee and medical practice
Deaf History: an incomplete jigsaw: Curing deafness!
History of Medicine in Ireland: The Cost of Insanity
Early Modern Medicine: Have you got the Pox?
Yovisto: Sir James Mackenzie and the Study of Cardiac Arrhythmias
JAMA: A Harvey Anniversary: 1616–1916
medelita: 11 Ghastly Medical Instruments From the Past
Hyperallergic: Painstaking Portraits of 19th-Century Dermatology Patients
Impetigo, hand on book, from Thomas Bateman’s ‘Delineations of Cutaneous Diseases’ (1828)
Image courtesy Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham
The National Museum of American History: Surgical Instruments used at Lincoln’s Autopsy, 1865
CHoM News: Processing of the Harold Amos Papers Underway
Dr. Alun Withey: The Lost Children’s Drawings in a 19th-Century Medical Manuscript
Thomas Morris: A beetroot up the bottom
What’s Cooking @Special Collections?: A Tea, a Counter-top Ad, and a Dead President
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: The eighteenth century dispensary movement
TECHNOLOGY:
Conciatore: Salamander
Conciatore: Cross Pollination
Conciatore: Eyes of a Lynx
Conciatore: Washing Molten Glass
The Recipes Project: How to Avoid a Bad Buy and Anger Patrons: A Recipe for Pigment Testing
Royal Museums Greenwich: Shipbuilding: The earliest vessels
WayBack Machine: New York Times: ‘Spamming’ on the Internet
Ptak Science Books: A Note on the Future of the Future, 1911
This cross section illustration (“Rue Future”/Future Street) is from Eugene Alfred Henard’s1 (1849-1923) article, “The Cities of the Future”, from American City, Volume 4, January, 1911.
Strife: Attacks on Undersea Cables: a Victorian Legacy
The Transcontinental Railroad: It’s All About Steam
Smithsonian.com: 10 Bizarre, Vision-Enhancing Technologies From the Last 1,000 Years
Atlas Obscura: Inside the Spark-Filled Home of a Vintage Electrical Machine Collector
Gizmodo: London Just Opened the Entrance to This Underwater Tunnel for the First Time in 147 Years
Cutaway drawing of the tunnel-in-progress and the two entrance halls on either side of the Thames
Live Science: Lost Wright Brothers’ ‘Flying Machine’ Patent Resurfaces
Wired: From the Wurlitzer to the 808, Theses are the Greatest Drum Machines Ever Made
The Architects’ Journal: From the archive: 100 years of steel in architecture
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
The Atlantic: Most of the Tree of Life is a Complete Mystery
Development: Obituary: Hans Meinhardt (1938–2016)
Niche: #EnvHist Worth Reading March 2016
Academia: The History of Reindeer Herding on the Alaska Peninsula, 1905–1950
Figure 1. Frank Taller and his daughter sitting on a reindeer, Levelock area, circa 1930. Courtesy of Alex Tallekpalek and the National Park Service, Museum Management Program and Katmai National Park and Preserve; H-410
Archiving Early America: Thomas Jefferson: Paleontologist
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Edouard Lartet
Notches: Wolfenden, Paederasty and Paedophilia
Inventory: Vere Gordon Childe British Historian and Archaeologist 1892–1957
History of Geology: Clash of the Titans: The Science behind the Iceberg that sank the Titanic
Forbes: How Animal Freakshows Helped the Science of Biology Develop
A two-headed calf from an Austrian taxidermy collection.
The Recipes Project: How to Fatten a Carp
Science League of America: A Pseudo-Huxley Quotation Part 1
Circulating Now: Some of the Most Beautiful Herbals
CHEMISTRY:
Learn Chemistry: African American chemist Percy Julian born 11 April 1899
Chemistry World: Gahn’s blowpipe
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
The Atlantic: Innovation is Overrated
Yovisto: Henry Rawlinson and the Mesopotamian Cuneiform
The Behistun Inscriptions, Column 1 (DB I 1-15), sketch by Friedrich von Spiegel (1881)
Science Visions: Female-Authors-Only Philosophy of Science Syllabus
Platypus: The CASTAC Blog: Negotiating Expertise: The Case of Operational Research
Nautilus: It’s Time These Ancient Women Scientists Get Their Due
Historiens de la sante: Medical History Volume 60 Issue 2 April 2016 Table of Contents
HSS: Latest Issue of ISIS Volume 107 Number 1 March 2016
storify: The Future of the History of the Human Sciences
Lady Science: PCA/ACA Conference Recap
Forbidden Histories: Can Psychotherapists Benefit from History of Science Scholarship? Open Access to my Article on the Psychology of Belief in Histories of Science and the Occult
The Guardian: Olive Anderson obituary
Olive Anderson
OUP: The invention of the information revolution
The Ragged School Museum: Just why does Victorian science rule?
VOX CEPR’s Policy Portal: Purpose-built versus serendipitous innovation links: New survey evidence
Forbidden Histories: Scientific Revolutions and the “Will to Believe”: The Birth of Heliocentrism.
TrowelBlazers: TrowelBlazers 2016 Big Project(s)! – Raising Horizons
bonæ litteræ: Confessions of a Manuscript Researcher
SocPhilSciPract: April History and Philosophy of Science and Science and Technology Notes
ESOTERIC:
Atlas Obscura: Found: Isaac Newton’s Recipe for the Philosopher’s Stone
The Washington Post: Isaac Newton spent a lot of time on junk ‘science’ and this manuscript proves it
Chemical Heritage Foundation
Atlas Obscura: Witch Hunting for Dummies: The 15th-Century Witchcraft Manual
PBS: Benjamin Franklin: Inquiring Mind: Mesmer
BOOK REVIEWS:
The Guardian: The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind by A C Grayling
New Statesman: The revolutionary science of eighteenth century France
Science Book a Day: Spirals of Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells
Science Book a Day: The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg
History Extra: The astronomer and the witch: Johannes Kepler’s fight to save his mother from execution
Chemistry World: Failure: why science is so successful
Academia: David Beck ed. Knowing Nature in Early Modern Europe
The Argus: Mother of modern witchcraft revealed as Bletchley Park codebreaker
Science: Of humans and mathematical symbols
Scientific American: April Book Reviews Roundup
brainpickings: The Rise of Rocket Girls: The Untold Story of the Remarkable Women Who Powered Space Exploration
NEW BOOKS:
The Hakluyt Society: Sir Joseph Banks, Iceland and the North Atlantic 1772–1820: Journals, Letters and Documents
Historiens de la santé: Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds: Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic
Historiens de la santé: Immunity: How Elie Metchnikoff Changed the Course of Modern Medicine
CUP: The Smoke in London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City
Bloomsbury: The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1650–1850
Historiens de la santé: Cajal and de Castro’s Neurohistological Methods
The MIT Press: The Age of Electroacoustics: Transforming Science and Sound
L’Harmattan: Les Cuissons Alimentaires au Moyen Age
Springer: Early Geological Maps of Europe: Central Europe 1750 to 1840
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Grup d’estudis d’història de la cartografia: Exhibition about Renacentrist cartography in Bergamo 16 April–10 July 2016
Bonner Sterne: “Argelanders Erben” im Universitätsmuseum Bonn bis 31 Juli 2016
Daniels Dies & Das: Eröffnung von “Argelanders Erben”
Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:
Bridging the World: Benjamin Baker of Frome 5 March–21 May 2016
Dittrick Museum: Embracing Digital History: How Medicine Became Modern
Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marsella: “Made in Algeria, généalogie d’un territoire” runs till 2 May 2016
Fine Books & Collections: The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at BPL to Host Exhibit, “From the Sea to the Mountains” 2 April–28 August 2016
Bay Area Reporter: Wonderful worlds of 17th-century China: Asian Art Museum Runs till 8 May 2016
Royal College of Physicians: Scholar courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee 18 January29–July 2016
The National Air and Space Museum: A New Moon Rises: An Exhibition Where Science and Art Meet
Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017
AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016
Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017
Science Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius 10 February 2016–4 September 2016
Wellcome Collections: States of Mind 4 February–16 October 2016
CHF: The Art of Iatrochemistry
University of Oklahoma: Galileo’s World: National Weather Center: Exhibits
ZSL: London Zoo: Discover the fascinating wildlife of Nepal and Northern India
Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm
JHI Blog: Dissenting Voices: Positive/Negative: HIV/AIDS In NYU’s Fales Library
St John’s College: University of Cambridge: Fred Hoyle: An Online Exhibition
Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game
The John Rylands Library: Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World 21 January–21 August 2016
allAfrica: Algeria: Exhibition on Algeria (cartography) Marseille 20 January–2 May 2016
Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility
New York Public Library: Printmaking Women: Three Centuries of Female Printmakers, 1570–1900 Runs till 27 May 2016
Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday
Royal Museums Greenwich: Samuel Pepys Season 20 November 2015–28 March 2016
National Library of Scotland: Plague! A cultural history of contagious diseases in Scotland Runs till 29 May 2016
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
Discover Medical London: Medicine at the Movies
Science Museum: Ramanujan: Divining the origins of genius
Independent: Charles Darwin Disney film: Adventure movie will give naturalist the Indiana Jones treatment
The young sea-faring Charles Darwin – seen here in an 1809 portrait – is to be portrayed as an Indiana Jones-style adventurer Alamy
The Rose Theatre: The Alchemist by Ben Jonson 7–30 June 2016
Royal Shakespeare Company: Doctor Faustus Swan Theatre Stratford-Upon-Avon 8 February–4 August 2016
Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 18 June 2016
The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017
Macrobert Arts Centre: The Trials of Galileo
Perth Concert Hall: The Trials of Galileo
Swan Theatre: Doctor Faustus 7 March–4 August 2016
EVENTS:
Warburg Institute: ‘Maps and Society’ Lectures: Dr Elodie Duché ‘Cartography and Captivity during the Napoleonic Conflicts, 1803-1815’ 28 April 2016
CHF: Medicine 1776 24 April 2016
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding
Boston Medical Library: Lecture: Prescription Drug Abuse in American History:
Lessons from a Century of Failures and Occasional Successes 21 April 2016
The Polar Museum: Lucky 13 Storytelling from the polar regions of the world 13 May 2016
Frome Museum: Talk: Clash of the Walruses: Was Benjamin Baker Extravagant at his Forth Road Bridge? 27 April 2016
Royal College of Physicians: Dee late: inside Dee’s miraculous mind 9 May 2016
University of Leeds: Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine: Lecture: Object 4: Microscope 19 April 2016
Royal Society: Lecture: Hasok Chang: Who cares about the history of science? 10 May 2016
Restaurant & Weinbauernhaus “Im Sack”, Jena: Vorstellung der neuesten beiden Bücher über Erhard Weigel 23 April 2016
Museum of the History of Science: Marconi Day 23 April 2016
Birkbeck, University of London: The History of Number Theory 21 May 2016
UCL: STS Haldane Lecture: Maja Horst, University of Copenhagen: Reframing Science Communication – Culture, Identity and Organisations 5 May 2016
The Royal Society: Workshop: The Politics of Academic Publishing 1950–2016 22 April 2016
Science Museum: Women Engineers in the Great War and after 23 April 2016
Wren Library Lincoln Cathedral: Lecture: Anna Agnarsdóttir – Sir Joseph Banks and Iceland 28 April 2016
Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)
Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons: People Powered Medicine: A one day public symposium 7 May 2016
Discover Medical London: “Dr Dee” & The Magic of Medicine A Special Half Day Tour 27 May 2016
CHF: Brown Bag Lectures Spring 2016
NYAM: Credits, Thanks and Blame in the Works of Conrad Gessner
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Youtube: Delay Lines
Youtube: Ada Lovelace Day 2015
Electric Beats: Browse the History of Electronic Music from 1880 to 2015
Youtube: The Medieval Mind
Youtube: Einstein’s Miracle Year: The Road to Relativity
The Ordered Universe Project: Order, The Universe and Everything: The World of Robert Grosseteste
RADIO & PODCASTS:
The Story: Story about Science: Margaret Geller: Mapping the Universe
BBC Radio 4 Drama: Beyond Endurance
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST: CfP: 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature
University of Illinois, Chicago: CfP: STS Graduate Student Workshop: 16-17 September
Swansea University: Inaugural Lecture 5 May 2016: David Turner: Locating Disability in Britain’s Industrial Revolution
University of Greenwich: Society and the Sea Conference: 15–16 September 2016
Notches: CfP. Histories of Music and Sexuality
University of London: Birkbeck: Thomas Harriot Seminar 2016: 11 July 2016
St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century 10–11 September 2016
Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science: Annual Conference Programme 28–30 May 2016
St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016
Birkbeck, University of London: CfP: Embarrassing Bodies: Feeling Self-Conscious in the Nineteenth Century 17 June 2016
University of Warwick: Workshop: Early Modern Experimental Philosophy, Metaphysics, and Religion 10–11 May 2016
LOOKING FOR WORK:
Science Friday: Job: Podcast Producer/Reporter
University of Cambridge: University Lecturer in the Sociology of Science and Technology
University of Exeter: AHRC-funded Collaborative PhD Studentship with the University of Exeter and BT Archives: The Cultures of Radio Research in India, circa. 1890-1947
ODNB: Research Bursaries in the Humanities 2016–17
University of Leeds: AHRC-Funded PhD: “The Working Life of Evolutionary Biologists: Exploring the Culture of Scientific Research Through the Personal Archive of John Maynard Smith (1920-2004)”
University of Minnesota: Call for Applications: Travel Fellowship in the History of the Academic Health Center & Health Sciences at the University of Minnesota, 2016-2017
Queen Mary, University of London: Applications Invited for AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Studentship with RNIB: Blindness, Disability, and Literacy in Britain
University of Minnesota: Assistant Professor, History of Science and Technology
University of California – Berkeley: Lecturer – History of Science, Technology, Medicine, Environment, or Quantitative/Computational History – Department of History
University of Illinois at Chicago: Junior Fellowship in Philosophy of Quantum Gravity
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