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 #39
Monday 09 May 2016
EDITORIAL:
Another week, another edition of the weekly #histSTM links list Whewell’s Gazette bringing you as much of the histories of science, Technology and medicine out of the depths of cyberspace as you could read in a month of Sundays.
For me one of the principle functions of #histSTM is #scicomm. That is using the histories of the various disciplines to try and communicate their function, importance, relevance or whatever. One of the greatest communicators of science who ever lived is without any doubt whatsoever David Attenborough, who turned ninety on Sunday 8 May 2016.
I very much doubt if there are many British* scientists, science communicators, science journalists, historians of science or just fans of science, for that matter, who were not touched, moved, motivated, fascinated, educated, inspired or sometimes even totally floored by one or other of the multitude of science programmes that Attenborough has made over the last almost seventy years. *(This is probably true of lots of other countries too, but I don’t know how much of Attenborough’s work has been broadcast in any other countries. I do know that there are Wikipedia article on him in lots of different languages!) Attenborough broadcasts mostly over the natural world but it is safe to say that he himself is a force of nature.
If that wasn’t enough in his role as a manager of the then relatively new BBC 2 television channel Attenborough was responsible for introducing the world to Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation, Jacob Bronowski’s The Ascent of Man, Pot Black (the Snooker World Championship) and The Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures. Being responsible for those series alone is enough to make him a living legend but this was merely a small side line in his extraordinary live.
Just by existing he last week rescued the British Government from a very sticky situation. Somebody came up with the (not so) bright idea of asking the Internet to choose a name for a new research ship. A journalist in a moment of childish irresponsibility suggested the name Boaty McBoatface! The Internet pounced and by a margin of a zillion to one Boaty McBoatface won the popular vote. Enter stern Conservative Government Minister, “We are NOT going to name a mega-million pound research vessel Boaty McBoatface!” The Internet fumed! Then came the Solomonic decision, the vessel will be named “Sir David Attenborough”. To protest against this decision would have been sacrilege.
The Internet is full of birthday tributes to the great man of which I have only included a small random selection below. If you read or look at nothing else you should look at the three BBC One web exclusive Youtube videos at the end of the list, they are made in co-operation with Aardman! However in honour of his ninetieth birthday I dedicate this edition of Whewell’s Gazette to:
David Attenborough
Sir David Attenborough BBC / Sophie Lanfear
“I suppose they would need a bigger ship if they had to paint “Attenborough McAttenboroughface” along the side” – Peter Broks (@peterbroks)
David Attenborough at 90
Huff Post: Happy 90th Birthday David Attenborough!
Independent: Sir David Attenborough interview: The one question about life that still baffles him
New Scientist: David Attenborough: We’re suffocating ourselves
The Guardian: Dinosaurs and David Attenborough at the Natural History Museum
In the Dark: Sir David Attenborough at 90, Boaty McBoatface, and the song of the Lyre Bird
BBC News: Sir David Attenborough: Tributes paid as he turns 90
The Conversation: Sir David Attenborough at 90: the mesmerising storyteller of the natural world
Ri Channel: Christmas Lectures 1973: The Language of Animals
The Guardian: So you think you know David Attenborough? – video
BBC iPlayer: Happy Birthday to Sir David Attenborough
The Atlantic: Every Episode of Davis Attenborough’s Life Series, Ranked
Youtube: Nature Video Part 1: David Attenborough on Darwin
Youtube: Nature Video Part 2: David Attenborough on Birds of Paradise
Youtube: Nature Video Part 3: David Attenborough: Scientist or Broadcaster?
Youtube: An evening with Sir David Attenborough
BBC One: Web exclusive: The day I met Attenborough – Penguins
BBC One: Web exclusive: The day I met Attenborough – Lyrebird
BBC One: Web exclusive: The Gorillas Meet Attenborough
Quotes of the week:
Here’s what Hillsborough taught me. It’s just a game. It should never be a death sentence. And football rivalry NEVER trumps humanity. Ever. – Stephen McGann (@StephenMcGann)
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important”. – Bertrand Russell h/t @HambuloN
Just read the line “I am not interested in a hermeneutics, or an erotics, or a metaphorics of my anus.” – Sarah Ditum (@sarahditum)
“History is written by the Victors. No one ever got their last names, though”. – Brian Switek (@Laelaps)
“Personally I think a quid is a reasonable price for a quo, as long as it’s a genuine quo”. – Peter Coles (@telescoper)
“I would rather have question that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned” – possibly Richard Feynman
“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” ― Oscar Wilde h/t @Libroantiguo
“Best C17 name seen today: Mr Polycarpus Wharton (for all your gunpowder requisites)” – Kate Morant (@KateMorant)
Giordano Bruno’s self-description in opening of application to Oxford for a teaching position (Rowland 2008)
Birthdays of the Week:
Athanasius Kircher born 2 May 1602
Portrait of Kircher at age 53
from Mundus Subterraneus (1664)
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Yovisto: Athanasius Kircher – A Man in Search of Universal Knowledge
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Athanasius Kircher
History of Geology: Damned Souls and Fiery Oceans – Early Views of Earth’s Core
Bircher Section of the Earth from “Mundus Subterraneus”, first edition published in 1664-1665. –
Sigmund Freud born 6 May 1856
Freud with his father Jakob in 1864. In The Freud centenary exhibit of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1956.
Yovisto: Freudian Slips and other Trifles
Haaretz: The Close Relationship Between Einstein and Freud, Relatively Speaking
NYAM: Young Man Freud
Open Culture: Download Great Works by Sigmund Freud
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Yovisto: Heinrich Gustav Magnus and the Magnus Effect
nasaonline: Robert Williams Wood 1868–1955 A Biographical Memoir
AHF: Philip Abelson
Pickle: Melbourne’s greatest telescope
1001 Inventions: The World of Ibn al-Haytham
Voices of the Manhattan Project: J. Samuel Walker’s Interview
OMNI Q&A: Ilya Prigogine on the Arrow of Time
Yovisto: Steven Weinberg and the Great Unifying Theory
Cosmos: Six physics equations that changed the course of history
APS News: This Month in Physics History: May 5 1933: The New York Times Covers Discovery of Cosmic Radio Waves
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201505/physicshistory.cfm
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Tracking the Messenger of the Gods
Pierre Gassendi
after Louis-Édouard Rioult.
Source: Wikimedia Common
Muslim Heritage: The Stellar and Lunar Keys to Medieval Muslim Agriculture
The Telegraph: How British scientist Hertha Marks Ayrton discovered the secrets of ripples
Atlas Obscura: Ancient Aboriginal Astronomy
Popular Science: NASA renames Building After ‘Human Computer’ Katherine Johnson
Mental_floss: Decimal Time: How the French Made a 10-Hour Day
Royal Museums Greenwich: History of the Royal Observatory
Royal Observatory, Greenwich c. 1902 as depicted on a postcard
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Ted Taylor’s Interview – Part 3
Perimeter Institute: Pioneering Women of Physics
O Say Can You See?: What emerging science got the public excited in the 1880s? Spectroscopy!
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Siegfried Hecker’s Interview – Part 3
The Ordered Universe Project: Grosseteste at Georgetown
Forgotten Faces of Science: The Women Who Classified the Stars
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Royal Museums Greenwich: John Cabot
British Library: Maps and views blog: Less of a Random Mapper: a new feature for Georeferencer
Atlas Obscura: Found: Captain Cook’s Ship
BBC News: Endeavour: Has the ship Captain Cook sailed to Australia been found?
The Telegraph: Archaeologists move a step closer to finding wreck of Captain Cook’s ship Endeavour
HNN: Legendary Explorer’s Long-Lost Ship May Have Been Found Off Rhode Island
Earl of Pembroke, later HMS Endeavour, leaving Whitby Harbour in 1768. By Thomas Luny, dated 1790.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Guardian: Captain Cook’s Endeavour: from the Great Barrier Reef to Rhode Island?
boingboing: Where is Captain Cook’s HMS Endeavour? Science can almost tell us!
Yovisto: How the Pope divided the New World among Spain and the Rest of the World
Conversant: “That Country is my Country” Loyalism and Maps of British America
Cynefin: The Tithe Maps of Wales: Cynefin Project
The Saleroom: American Civil War Era Manuscript Map
National Museum of Scotland: Portrait of Alexander Dalrymple
Live Sciences: 7 Extreme Female Explorers
Jackie Ronne and her husband Finn on skis in Antarctica during an expedition from 1946-1948.
Credit: Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition
Gizmodo: These Stunning Maps Show the Final Months of the First World War
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
eä: The first national tuberculosis congress in Portugal (1895)
Morbid Anatomy: Public Dissections, Frederik Ruysch and the Theatrum Anatomicum: Touring the Waag at Amsterdam Anatomy Weekend
Flickering Lamps: The Abandoned Temperance Hospital in Euston
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Fugitive Leaves: From ‘Bicephalic Monsters’ to ‘Brains of the Insane’: How Anatomists Built Evolutionary Hierarchies
storify: Nursing Medical Research Museum
Scientific American: Arsenic’s Afterlife: How Scientists Learned to Identify Poison Victims [Excerpt]
Wellcome Library: Views of Harbin (Fuchiatien) taken during the plague epidemic, December 1910 – March 1911
Thomas Morris: Champagne ad libitum
NYAM: Counterfeiting Bodies: Examining the Work of Walther Ryff
Circulating Now: A Mughal Era Manuscript Curiously Illustrated
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: International Day of the Midwife
Perceptions of Pregnancy: Midwives Behaving Badly? Complaints against Lying-In Charity Staff, c. 1800–1834
From the Hands of Quacks: The Pulsator: How a Portable artificial Respirator Saved the Lives of Children
The Iron Lung Ward at Rancho Los Amigos Hospital in California during the height of a polio epidemic, c.1953.
The Recipes Project: ‘Recipes for Relationships’: Food, Medicine, Families and Cultural Engagement
Milk: Dissecting the Morbid Beauty of 18th Century Anatomical Figures
Yovisto: Dorothea Erxleben – Germany’s First Female Medical Doctor
Thomas Morris: Mass delusions
The Establishment: Weird Beliefs About Women’s Bodies
Société Binet-Simon: Histoire du test de IQ
Wellcome Library Blog: The origins of the English almanac
h/t Thomas Morris
Dr Alun Withey: ‘Weird’ remedies and the problem of ‘folklore’
Remedia: ‘The Touch of a Man’: Gender and Male-Caregiving in the Royal Army Medical Corps in WW1
Histories of Emotion: Early Modern Mothers, in Their Own Words
Thomas Morris: Plum stone colick
Nursing Clio: Sunday Morning Medicine
TECHNOLOGY:
The Guardian: Who invented the cash machine? I did – and all I earned was £10
Conciatore: Pebbles from Pavia
Conciatore: Scraping the Barrel
Conciatore: Glass from Tinsel
IMechE Archive and Library: One Birdcage Walk
AMS Blogs: Happy Birthday, Claude Shannon
New Republic: How Literature Became Word Perfect
Independent.ie: To the 19th Century genius who began the digital revolution – Prof Boole, take a bow
London Reconnections: London’s First Highway
Original Canary Wharf Pier for RiverBus services. Courtesy Darryl Chamberlain,
Yovisto: The Sinking of the H.L. Hunley
The Met: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Piano: The Pianofortes of Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731)
Distillations Blog: The Art of Metal Filaments
Distillations Blog: The Transnational Light Bulb
distillatio: And another one bites the dust
Yovisto: Gustav Eiffel and his Famous Tower
The Devil’s Take: Daisy, Daisy…
Yovisto: You Press the Button and We do the Rest – George Eastman revolutionized Photography
The Maintainers: Creating a Factory-based Repair System in a Chinese Industrial Enterprise, 1961
The New York Times: Solving the Mystery of Ancient Ink Origins
Alembic Rare Books: Two Georgian Era Magnifying Glasses
Boston Globe: The qwerty history of the word processor
Scientific Instrument Society: Reverse Printed Paper Instruments [pdf]
Engineering Timeline: Thames Flood Barrier
The Huffington Post: London Would Have Been Submerged Without Thames Barrier Shocking Picture Reveals
Ancient Origins: The ancient invention of the steam engine by the Hero of Alexandria
The Public Domain Review: Frolicsome Engines: The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence
Illustration from an 1851 English edition of Hero’s Pneumatica, in which he describes machines working on air, steam or water pressure
Bristol Scout: 1 May 1916
Cambridge University Library Special Collections: Manuscript Image of the Month – The Maxim Airplane
Smithsonian.com: 26 Inventions Mothers Can Appreciate
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Atlas Obscura: Here Are the Medals Given to Eugenically Healthy Humans in the 1920s
BBC News: DNA secrets of Ice Age Europe unlocked
Scientific American: Laelaps: There’s Something Fishy about This Fossil Bird
Scientific American: Laelaps: Paleo Profile: The Light-Footed Lizard
The Guardian: John James Audubon and the natural history of a hoax
A page from Constantine Rafinesque’s field notebook, with a ‘big-eye jumping mouse’, a ‘lion-tail jumping mouse’, a ‘three-striped mole rat’ and a ‘brindled stamiter’. Photograph: Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image # SIA2012-6065.
Atlas Obscura: Audubon Made Up at Least 28 Fake Species to Prank a Rival
NYAM: “How Many Stamens Has Your Flower?” The Botanical Education of Emily Dickinson
From Shanklin: From Shanklin
Science League of America: Who Was the Occupant? Part 1
Atlas Obscura: Scientists Uncover a Huge Trove of Dinosaur Fossils in Antarctica
Yovisto: On the Road with Alexander von Humboldt
Matteo Farinella: Alexander von Humboldt
Wildlife Article: Celebrating the legacy of John Muir
TrowelBlazers: Lady Rachel Workman MacRobert
Lady MacRobert
Phys Org: Endangered venomous mammal predates dinosaurs’ extinction, study confirms
All Things Georgian: Reports of seismic activity in 18th century England
Smithsonian.com: The Story Behind Those Jaw-Dropping Photos of the Collections at the Natural History Museum
CHEMISTRY:
The Telegraph: Sir Harry Kroto – obituary
The Guardian: Sir Harry Kroto, Nobel prize-winning chemist, dies at 76
NCSE: Harry Kroto dies
University of Sussex: Tribute to Sir Harry Kroto
BBC News: Tributes for Nobel prize chemist Harry Kroto
The Guardian: Sir Harry Kroto obituary
The New York Times: Harold Kroto, Nobel Prize-Winning Chemist, Is Dead at 76
The Guardian: Letters: Harry Kroto: scientist with the common touch
Youtube: Chemistry World: Remembering Harry Kroto
UCR Today: UC Riverside Professor Robert Haddon Advocated for the Smallest of Particles
Science life and times: A blue plaque for Dorothy
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
Academia: The Scientific Education of a Renaissance Prince: Archduke Rudolf at the Spanish Court
Yovisto: The Great Exhibition and the Crystal Palace
The transept façade of the original Crystal Palace
Source: Wikimedia Commons
OUP Blog: What is really behind Descartes’ famous doubt?
Plato’s Footnote: Progress in Science – I
JHI Blog: We Have Never Been Presentist: On Regimes of Historicity
Physics Central: Physics Buzz Blog: Like Parent, Like Child
The Maintainers: A Conference
Creating a knowledge society in a globalizing world 1450–1800
The Way of Improvement Leads Home: What Should Historians be Thinking About – Part 5 (Link to other four parts)
JHI Blog: Shame, Memory, and the Politics of the Archive
Wellcome Library: Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Online Free Texts
Historiann: Wikipedia in the classroom: check out these new bios of early American women!
Slate: Is History Written About Men, by Men?
Niche: #EnvHist Daily
on display: Moving a Museum
ESOTERIC:
Drive.google.com: Depicting the Medieval Alchemical Cosmos: George Ripley’s Wheel of Inferior Astronomy
Social Epistemology: Was Feyerabend Right in Defending Astrology? A Commentary on Kidd, Massimo Pigliucci
Paul Feyerabend’s Horoscope
Yovisto: The Prophecies of Nostradamus
BOOK REVIEWS:
Scientific American: Constructing the Modern Mind
ISIS: Picture and Conversations: How to Study the Visual Cultures of Science
Medievalists.net: Medieval Medicine: Its Mysteries and Science by Toni Mount
MeHum Fiction – Daily Dose: Medieval Robots
Berfois: The Story of Napalm
Notches: The Religious Right and the Politics of Sexuality: An Interview with Neil J. Young
The Spectator: Steve Jones’s chaotic theory of history
Nature: Physics: Material to meaning
THE: The Experimenal Self: Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science, by Jan Golinski
The New York Times: ‘Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?’ and ‘The Genius of Birds’
NEW BOOKS:
Nouveautés Éditeurs: La Peur: Etude psychologique des effets et de la cause
puf: La mort et le soin
Princeton University Press: The Mushroom at the End of the World
University of Wales Press: Robert Recorde: Tudor Scholar and Mathematician
L’Harmattan: Les Médecines À Travers Les Réseaux Sociaux
L’Harmattan: Santé Riche et Médecine Pauvre
Historiens de la santé: Weill Cornell Medicine: A History of Cornell’s Medical School
ART & EXHIBITIONS
A Covent Garden Gilflurt’s Guide to Life: Captain Cook By Nathaniel Dance Holland
The Royal Society of Medicine: Exhibition: Charcot, Hysteria & La Salpetiere 3 May–23 July 2016
Journal of Art in Society: Science Becomes Art
Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May30 October 2016
Morbid Anatomy Museum, Brooklyn: House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, and Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum, Berlin, 1869–1922 Closes 30 May 2016
Harvard Magazine: Before Social Media: Radio was the medium that broke the silence
Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus
Bodleian: Marks of Genius
The Houston Museum of Natural Science: Cabinet of Curiosities Opens 6 May 2016
Reviews in History: Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee (Royal College of Physicians, 18 January – 29 July 2016)
Broadway World.com: Met Museum Exhibition to Celebrate Artistic, Technological, Cultural Legacy of the Seljuqs
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
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
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
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
Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm
Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game
The John Rylands Library: Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World 21 January–21 August 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
CLOSING SOON: National Library of Scotland: Plague! A cultural history of contagious diseases in Scotland Runs till 29 May 2016
Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016
Manchester Central Library: The Enduring Eye: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley 9 April–11 June 2016
Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017
Science Museum: Information Age
Cambridge Science Museum: Cosmic Runs still 30 Jun 2016
Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016
Manchester Central Library: The Enduring Eye: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley 9 April–11 June 2016
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: YOUTOPIA: VISIONS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
University of Cambridge: Understanding gravity – from Newton to Hawking
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
Swan Theatre: Doctor Faustus 7 March–4 August 2016
EVENTS:
NYAM: The Lilian Sauter Lecture: Twenty-Five Years into the Intersex Patients Rights Movement, Why Aren’t We Done? 18 May 2016
Gresham College: Lecture: The Expanding Universe 26 October 2016
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-expanding-universe
University of Greenwich: Seminar: ‘Mag. and Met.’: the origins and early years of the Magnetic and Meteorological Department at Greenwich Observatory 25 May 2016
Royal College of Nursing: Lecture: Joyous and deliberate motherhood: birth control nursing in the Marie Stopes Mothers Clinic, 1921-1931 26 May 2016
Royal College of Nursing: Lecture: The Northern Powerhouse: Cottontown Nurses who shaped the Profession
The Royal Institution: Family Fun Day: Imaginative Inventions 15 May 2016
http://www.rigb.org/whats-on/events-2016/may/public-family-fun-day–imaginative-inventions
Brompton Cemetery: London Alchemy: Socery, Gin and Spooky Music in a Cemetery Chapel 4-5 June 2016
Leonardo da Vinci Society Annual Lecture: Art and Anatomy in the 15th and 16th centuries Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, Courtauld Institute, Somerset House, Strand, London 13 May 2016
http://histoiresante.blogspot.de/2016/05/art-et-anatomie-aux-15e-et-16e-siecles.html
Flamsteed Astronomy Society: “Fame, fortune, misery, disaster – the lives and times of the Royal Observatory’s nineteenth century Assistants and Computers” 10 May 2016
Royal Institution: Lecture: No Need For Geniuses 11 May 2016
The Royal College of Surgeons of England: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Edward Jenner 17 May 2016
Glasgow: Science on the Streets – City Centre Tour 11 June 2016
Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh: We’re Not in Kirkcaldy Anymore: Scottish Adventures in Medicine 15 May 2016
Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh: Polar Adventure: Explorations in Geology 13 May 2016
Almond Valley Heritage Centre Millfield Livingston: Terrible Consequences 14 & 15 May 2016
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and The History of Understanding
BSHS: Upcoming Lecture: Henry Wellcome Pharmacist Royal Pharmaceutical Society 23 May 2016
London Fortean Society: Snake Oil! The Golden Age of Quackery in Britain and America 26 May 2016
Museum of History of Science, Technology and Medicine: Leeds University: History and Philosophy of Science in 20 Objects (Lecture 5) 10 May 2016
NYAM: Lecture: The Discovery of Insulin – A Miracle Drug, A Nobel Prize Controversy, and the Story of Elizabeth Hughes 10 May 2016
V&A: Courses: Sensing Time: The Art and Science of Clocks and Watches 18 June 2016
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Festival of Museums 2016 – Glasgow’s Marvellous Medicine 14 May 2016
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding
Boston Medical Library: Lecture: Prescription Drug Abuse in American History:
The Polar Museum: Lucky 13 Storytelling from the polar regions of the world 13 May 2016
Royal Society: Lecture: Hasok Chang: Who cares about the history of science? 10 May 2016
Birkbeck, University of London: The History of Number Theory 21 May 2016
Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)
Discover Medical London: “Dr Dee” & The Magic of Medicine A Special Half Day Tour 27 May 2016
CHF: Brown Bag Lectures Spring 2016
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
William Hunter lecturing, by Johan Zoffany, c.1770-2
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Vimeo: Linda Hall Library: Karl Galle: The Unknown Copernicus: Spies; Printers, Amazons, and Body-Snatchers in an Age of Astronomical Revolution
Youtube: Philosophy: Margaret Cavendish, Part 1
Youtube: Philosophy: Margaret Cavendish, Part 2
RADIO & PODCASTS:
CHF: Episode 143: Fairyland of Chemistry
Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know: Alchemy with Damien Patrick Williams
Newsworks: From pages to pixels, the invention of the eReader
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Columbia University: Exploring the Philosophy of Émile du Châtelet 1–3 June 2016
Conférence des étudiant.e.s du NHRU-URHN: Briser les silences de l’histoire du nursing et de la santé 19 Mai 2016
Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey: SPSP Pre-Conference Workshop: Empirical Methodology for Philosophy of Science in Practice 16 June 2016
University of Bristol: History and Philosophy of Chemistry Workshop 11-12 May 2016
University of Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events
University of Oxford: John Wallis (1616–1703) Mathematics, Music Theory, and Cryptography, 1n 17th Century 9 June 2016
Society for the Social History of Medicine: 2016 Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October
The deadline for abstract submission for the 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature, Poellau, Austria and the Workshop “Nature(s), Humans and God(s)” on Syros Island, Greece has been extended to 15th of May 2016.
St Michaels College, Cardiff University: Conference: Bodily Fluids/Fluid Bodies in Greek and Roman Antiquity 11–13 July 2016 Programme
H-Pennsylvania: Philip J. Pauly Book Prise Nominations Sought for Histories of Science in the Americas
British and European History of Medicine Conference: Registration: Medicine in Place: Situating Medicine in Historical Contexts University of Kent 7-10 July 2016
BSHS: Prizes
Three Societies Meeting: University of Alberta, Edmonton 22–25 June 2016 Only two weeks left for hotel conference rates!
Wikipedia: Meetup/DC/Early Modern Edit-a-Thron
New York University Library: Manuscript Cookbooks Conference 12–13 May 2016
Durham University: Workshop: Utilitarianism and Medicine: Past and Tresent Perspectives 11 May 2016
Staffordshire University: Workshop: Deleuze, Entropy and Thermodynamics 19 May 2016
Trinity College Cambridge: The Venues of Scholarly Output: Collections, Treatises, Textbooks, Archives 25 June 2016
Let’s Talk About Sex: CfP: History of Sexuality PGR/ECR Workshop University of Exeter 26–27 June 2016
Queen Mary University of London:Upcoming History of Emotions Work in Progress Seminars
University of Reading: CfP: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016 Deadline: 15 June 2016
BSHS: Registration Open: The Body and Pseudoscience in the Long Nineteenth Century Newcastle University 18 June 2016
University of St. Andrews: Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (SSEMP VII) 5–6 May 2016 Programme
MSH Lorraine, Nancy: “Mathématiques et mathématiciens à Metz (1750-1870): dynamiques de recherche et d’enseignement dans un espace local” 12 Mai 2016
Barts Pathology Museum: CfP: The “Heart” and “Science” of Wilkie Collins and his Contemporaries 24 September 2016
Wilkie Collins Portrait by Rudolph Lehmann, 1880
Source: Wikimedia Commons
University of Leicester: Centre for Medical Humanities: Seminars:
Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware: CfP: Making Modern Disability: Histories of Disability, Design, and Technology 28 October 2016
EHESS, Paris: Journée d’étude: Genre, humeurs et fluides corporels. Moyen Âge & Époque moderne 19 Mai 2016
New York City: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 30 September–1 October 2016
Columbia University: The Center for Science & Society: Exploring the Philosophy of Émilie du Châtelet 1–3 June 2016
Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (Rio de Janeiro, 23-29 July 2017): CfP: Blood, Food, and Climate: Historical Relationships Between Physiology, Race, Nation-Building, and Colonialism/Globalization
Organisé par Alexandre Klein (Université d’Ottawa): Histoire des relations de santé aux XIXe et XXe siècles 11 mai 2016
History at the Open University: Women and Gender in Early Modern Britain and Ireland: A Conference in Honour of Anne Laurence Institute of Historical Research London 4 June 2016
IHPST, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris: CfP: International Doctoral Conference in Philosophy of Science 29-30 September 2016
Ian Ramsey Centre Conference, University of Oxford: Workshop “Early Modern Laws of Nature: Secular and Divine” 7 July 2016 Call for Abstract: deadline 30 April 2016
History and Philosophy of Science Department, University of Cambridge: Workshop: Informal Aspects of Uncertainty Evaluation 20 May 2016
Annals of Science: Annals of Science Essay Prize for Young Scholars
H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology
2nd International Conference on the History of Physics: Invention, application and exploitation in the history of physics Pöllau, Austria 5–7 September 2016
University of Cambridge: Cabinet of Natural History: Seminars Easter Term 2016
University of Leeds: Northern Renaissance Seminar: Programme: Communication, Correspondence and Transmission in the Early Modern World 12-13 May 2016
The International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Division of History of Science and Technology (IUHPST/DHST): Invites submissions for the fourth DHST Prize for Young Scholars, to be presented in 2017.
Warburg Institute: ESSWE Thesis Workshop 7 July 2016
Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST: CfP: 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature
University of Greenwich: Society and the Sea Conference: 15–16 September 2016
University of Illinois, Chicago: CfP: STS Graduate Student Workshop: 16-17 September
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
irkbeck, 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:
University of Notre Dame: Assistant Director of Education: This position supports the Directors of the History and Philosophy of Science Graduate Program
Science Museum: The Science Museum is looking for post-grads and early-career researchers to work on short research projects.
University of Oxford: Departmental Lecturer in the History of Medicine
Science Museum Group: Keeper of Technologies & Engineering
Durham University: Applications are invited for an AHRC-funded PhD at Durham University on ‘British Newsreels at War, 1939–1945’
TU Munich: New Masters Program in STS
Whewell's Ghost 