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 #40
Monday 16 May 2016
EDITORIAL:
It’s that time of the week once more for a new edition of Whewell’s Gazette your weekly #histSTM links list, which brings you all the histories of science, technology and medicine that washed up on the shores of cyberspace over the last seven days.
The scientific event of the week was without doubt the Transit of Mercury that took place on Monday 9 May and was followed live with telescopes with sun filters and indirectly through numerous Internet feeds by people all over the world. Whilst by no means as spectacular or as rare as a Transit of Venus, which can be followed with the packed-eye (protected of course with transit glasses) the Transit of Mercury remains a symbol of the seventeenth-century transition from a geocentric to a heliocentric world view.
Observations Mercury and of the Transits of Mercury did not begin in the twenty-first century so it is only natural that the historians of astronomy got in on the act last week, too. In the selection of posts and articles that follow we have, the historical background to the first transit observation by Pierre Gassed in 1631. We also have a post on the role that early observations of Mercury played in Copernicus’ De revolutionibus. There are also posts on historical transit observations by Edmond Halley and Captain James Cook.
If you missed out on the excitement on Monday then you will only have to wait until 11 November 2019 to make your own historical observations.
Mesopotamian cuneiform clay fragment regarding the visibility of Mercury, c. late 1st millennium BCE
The H-Word: Before the Transit of Mercury: forgotten forerunners of an astronomical revolution
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Tracking the Messenger of the Gods
Position of the planet Mercury in the 6th house at the moment of Prince Iskandar’s birth, 1411
New Zealand History: Captain Cook observes transit of Mercury 9 November 1769
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage: Transits of Venus and Mercury as Muses
Motions of Mercury in Georg Peuerbach’s, Theoricae novae planetarum (Venice, 1537)
The Catholic Astronomer: Priests, Deacons, and Religious of Science: Meet the Priest who First Recorded the Transit of Mercury – Pierre Gassendi
Personification of Mercury in Turkish version of the ‘Wonders of Creation’ by al-Qazwini, 1717
Youtube: Royal Society: Transit Telescope – Objectivity #69
All Mercury Illustrations Courtesy of @HistAstro
Quotes of the week:
“I like my pronouns like I like my restrooms: gender-neutral” – Shit Academics Say (@AcademicsSay)
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” – Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” – Douglas Adams
“Could God create a Wikipedia article so notable even He couldn’t delete it?” – John Overholt (@john_overholt)
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible” – Richard Feynman h/t @ferwen
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool” – Richard Feynman (1918-1988)
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” – Richard Feynman (1918-1988)
“The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language.” – Richard Feynman (1918-1988)
“Gods and angels do not come bearing perfectly formed theories to disembodied prophets who instantly write textbooks.” – Louisa Gilder h/t @fadesingh
“In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them” – John von Neumann
Science: “the only human activity that is truly democratic, truthful, apolitical, rational & self-regulation.” James Burke, 1985. Discuss. – Stephen Curry (@Stephen_Curry)
Birthdays of the Week:
Dorothy Hodgkin born 12 May
The Guardian: Dorothy Hodgkin: The only British woman to win a Nobel science prize gets a doodle
Royal Society of Chemistry: Professor Dorothy Hodgkin OM
The Guardian: Colouring by letters: the life of Dorothy Hodgkin
Nobelprize.org: Enhancing X-ray Vision
Science Life and Times: A blue plaque for Dorothy
Science Museum: Celebrating Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1964 for her studies using X-ray crystallography, with which she worked out the atomic structure of penicillin, vitamin B-12 and insulin. Image credit: Science Museum / SSPL
MHS Collection: Model of the Structure of Penicillin, by Dorothy Hodgkin, Oxford, c.1945
University of Oxford: Hodgkin gets stamp of approval
Royal Society: Women’s work: Dorothy Hodgkin and the culture and craft of X-ray crystallography
Facebook: Dorothy Hodgkin: A celebration of a pioneering biochemist
Florence Nightingale born 12 May 1820
Science Museum Group Journal: A statistical campaign: Florence Nightingale and Harriet Martineau’s ‘England and her Soldiers’
Yovisto: Florence Nightingale – The Lady with the Lamp
British History Online: Nos. 4–12 South Street
The Public Domain Review: The Voice of Florence Nightingale
NYAM: “A Passionate Statistician”: Florence Nightingale and the Numbers Game
Chart from NYAM’s copy of Florence Nightingale’s A contribution to the sanitary history of the British army during the late war with Russia (London, 1859).
The British Museum: Collection Online: “The Lady with the Lamp” (Florence Nightingale at Scutari A.D. 1856.)
The Economist: Worth a thousand words
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
APS: Physics: Viewpoint: Particles Move to the Beat of a Microfluid Drum
![Figure 1: (Top) When dark particles are placed on the back of a violin vibrating on resonance, the particles move to the vibrational nodes. The resulting patterns, known as Chladni figures, depend on the vibrational frequency and provide a visual manifestation of each resonance. (Bottom) Poulain and colleagues [1] observed Chladni patterns when they placed microparticles within a liquid above a thin oscillating plate in a microfluidics device. Because of the fluid dynamics in their device, the particles were, unlike the particles on the violins, transported away from the nodes (dashed white lines) and towards the vibrational antinodes.](https://whewellsghost.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/e46_2_medium.png)
Figure 1: (Top) When dark particles are placed on the back of a violin vibrating on resonance, the particles move to the vibrational nodes. The resulting patterns, known as Chladni figures, depend on the vibrational frequency and provide a visual manifestation of each resonance. (Bottom) Poulain and colleagues [1] observed Chladni patterns when they placed microparticles within a liquid above a thin oscillating plate in a microfluidics device. Because of the fluid dynamics in their device, the particles were, unlike the particles on the violins, transported away from the nodes (dashed white lines) and towards the vibrational antinodes.
Yovisto: Cecilia Payne-Gasposchkin and the Composition of Stars
Kongernes Samling Rosenborg: Astronomical Clock
Yovisto: Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Isaac and the apple – the story and the myth
The Woolsthorpe Manor apple tree
Source:Wikimedia Commons
Yovisto: Houston, we have a Problem
Yovisto: Please Don’t Ignite the Earth’s Atmosphere…
AHF: Stanislaus Ulam
OUP Blog: A brief history of corpuscular discoveries
AHF: Nicholas Kurti
Laboratory Equipment: Astronomy Specifically Dates 2,500-year-old Poem by Sappho
Astronotes: Skylab: Everything You Need to Know
An overhead view of the Skylab Orbital Workshop in Earth orbit as photographed from the Skylab 4 Command and Service Modules (CSM) during the final fly-around by the CSM before returning home.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Ptak Science Books: Neutrons, Positrons, & Hell–the Epic of the Fall of Man Suggested in the Physics of 1932
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Yovisto: Jules Dumont d’Urville and his South-Pacific Voyages
HNN: One Reason the Story of the Explorer Hernando de Soto is Memorable
National Geographic: If You Love Maps, This Blog is for You
Swann Auction Galleries: Dutch East India Company – Java Sea
Atlas Obscura: The Hidden History of America’s 19th-Century Mania for Panoramic Prints
Des Moines, Ia. (Image: A. Ruger/Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division)
Yovisto: Arthur Phillip – Commander of the First Fleet
The National Museum of American History: Lewis and Clark Expedition Pocket Compass
that’s: This WWII-era map of China just might change the way you view the country
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Hermann Historica Archiv: Geheimer Giftschrank in Buchform
Imperial Measures: New Blog: Alcohol, Health & Medicine in Colonial India
Nursing Clio: The Gendered Politics of Sweat
The Recipes Project: Workhouse Diets: Paucity or Plenty [Part I]
The Recipes Project: Workhouse Diets: Paucity or Plenty [Part II]
Thomas Morris: A rotten trick
Anita Guerini: History, animals, science, food: The Secret Horror of Dissection
Skeleton with rickets. Histoire naturelle, tome III, Pl. I. BNF
Smithsonian.com: How Tuberculosis Shaped Victorian Fashion
Harvard Medicine: Line Art: The work of Andreas Vesalius fascinated, and inspired neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing
Conversant: Hidden on the Horizon: A View of the New England Throat Distemper Epidemics from Salem
JRSM: ‘An innocent deception’: placebo controls in the St Petersburg homeopathy trial, 1829–1830
Thomas Morris: Boiling water and birch twigs
Fugitive Leaves: Bringing Out the Dead: Adventures in Cataloging, Part I
Nurcing Cio: “For Poor or Rich”: Handywomen and traditional Birth in Ireland
flickr: Wellcome Images: International Nurses Day
NYAM: Edward Jenner and the Development of the Smallpox Vaccine
Circulating Now: A Universal Code: Nurse Uniforms of all Nations
Peter McCandless, Author, Editor, Historian: Anatomy Illustrated (1543–2007)
Thomas Morris: The fire-proof man
The Victorian Web: Another Florence Nightingale? The Rediscovery of Mary Seacole
Pilgrimrose.com: Holding Their Breath
Thomas Morris: The hearing-aid chair
Smithsonian.com: Before Dr. Mutter, Surgery was a Dangerous and Horrifically Painful Ordeal
The New York Times: Unearthing the Secrets of New York’s Mass Graves
TECHNOLOGY:
Yovisto: Nikolaus Otto and the Four Stroke Engine
Otto-Langen gas engine 1867.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
JSTOR Daily: Cracking Enigma: The Polish Connection
Open Culture: How the Moog Synthesiser Changed the Sound of Music
Global Urban History: From Lancashire to the World: The Manchester Ship Canal and Globalization
The National Museum of Computing: Early Computer Showroom Chic
Creative Review: Historic computers look super sexy in this new photo series by Docubyte and Ink
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Z3 or not Z3 that is the question?
DW: Konrad Zuse and the digital revolution he started with the Z3 computer 75 years ago
History Computer: Konrad Zuse – the first relay computer
Yovisto: Theodore von Kármán and his Advances in Aerodynamics
Yovisto: Igor Sikorsky and the Helicopter
Ptak Science Books: Stem-Punk Tee-Shirt Rocket Ship Pilots (1932)
Damn Interesting: The Atomic Automobile
flickr: Binocular compound microscope, Carl Zeiss Jena, 1914
The New York Times: What Was the Greatest Era for Innovation? A Brief Guided Tour
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Michelle Marshall: A Duke Deceived
Yovisto: James Pollard Espy – the Storm King
Clerk of Oxford: ‘Summer, sun-brightest’: An Anglo-Saxon Summer
The Guardian: The foul reign of the biological clock
Notches: “A Poison More Deadly”: Defining Obscenity in the West
Yovisto: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and the Human Race
Blumenbach’s Five Races
The Embryo Project: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840)
Medievalists.net: Earthquakes in Medieval Sicily (A Historical Revision 7th–13th Century)
Natural History Museum: Diplodocus: this is your life
Science League of America: Who Was the Occupant? Part 2
Niche: Portal to the Pyrocene
CHF: Man Made: A History of Synthetic Life
Atlas Obscura: Meet the Fish that Made America Great
The New York Times: The Lost Gardens of Emily Dickinson
Smithsonian Collections Blog: The Tradescant Museum: A Proto-Smithsonian in London?
Academia: The Ethics of Animal Experimentation in Seventeenth-Century England
Science Friday: A Tale of Two Glassmakers and Their Marine Marvels
The New York Times: In Maritime Logbooks, a Trove of ‘extraordinary’ Imagery
OMNI Q&A: John Lilly on Dolphin Consciousness
CHEMISTRY:
Yovisto: Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and his Work on Gasses
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Chemistry World: Harry Kroto 1939–2016
Chemistry World: Timms’ reactor
The metal vapour reactor was invented by Peter Timms, British chemist (1937-2005)
Yovisto: Justus von Liebig and the Agricultural Revolution
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
NCSE: Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet awards for 2016
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History / Bulletin canadiene d’histoire de la medicine: Inaugural Edition now available
The Conversation: The philosophy of chemistry … and what it can tell us about life, the universe and everything
ABC: Why Einstein didn’t wear socks and the nature of scientific inquiry
Le Ruche: AVIS DE PARUTION. JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY. VOL. 1 – 2016
Associations Now: Beer Group Helping to Brew Up a History Lesson
The #EnvHist Weekly
Electrifying the Country House: Notes from an Intern: Stories from the Archives
Smithsonian Institution Archives: Joseph Henry 1797–1878
Joseph Henry Portrait, by Ulke, Henry, 1879, Smithsonian Archives – History Div, 10191or AI-10191.
Academia: The Role of the Author in Constructing the History of Science
J.F: Penn: Talking About Death and Morbid Anatomy with Joanna Ebenstein
AEON: Anthropocene fever
ESOTERIC:
Chronologia Universalis: Beware the Rheticus’s prophecy!
The most reliable witness to Rheticus’s horoscope – MS Wrocław, University Library, Akc. 1949/594, fol. 56v, fragment
distillatio: Why I’ve not been posting so much recently
BOOK REVIEWS:
The Guardian: The 100 best nonfiction books: No 15 – The Double Helix by James D Watson (1668)
Project Muse: 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed: Turning Points in Ancient History by Eric H. Cline
Nature: Genetics: On the heredity trail
The Irish Catholic: The universe and Katharine Kepler
The New York Times: ‘The Gene,’ by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Science Book a Day: Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
Chemical Heritage Magazine: Suiting Up
Smithsonian.com: The Science Behind Nature’s Patterns
Smithsonian.com: The Bizarre Tale of the Tunnels, Trysts and Taxa of a Smithsonian Entomologist
Contagions: Environment, Society and the Black Death in Sweden
NEW BOOKS:
University of Oklahoma Press: The Greatest Show in the Arctic: The American Exploration of Franz Josef Land, 1898–1905
Hodder & Stoughton: Rebecca Rideal – 1666 Plague, War and Hellfire
University of Chicago Press: Huxley’s Church and Maxwell’s Demon: From Theistic Science to Naturalistic Science
Cork University Press: The Booles & the Hintons
Routledge: Explorations in History and Globalization
Ithaque: Le Cas Paramord. Obsession et contrainte psychique, aujourd’hui
University of Chicago Press: Ex Voto. Votive Giving Across Cultures
ART & EXHIBITIONS
History Today: Maria Merian’s Butterflies
Science Museum: Robots
University of Oklahoma: University Libraries: Galileo’s World: Virtual Exhibit
Natural History Museum: Dippy on tour
The Royal Society of Medicine: Exhibition: Charcot, Hysteria & La Salpetiere 3 May–23 July 2016
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
CLOSING SOON: 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 ScienceCentre: 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
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016
Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December
Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph 14 April–11 September 2016
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
The Old Vic: Jekyll and Hyde 20-28 May 2016
Royal Opera House: Frankenstein, 4 – 27 MAY 2016
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:
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Talk: Buckets, Bollards and Bombs 23 May 2016
The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours
Café 1001, Brick Lane: Museum Showoff, May 24 2016
Royal Museums of Greenwich: Talk: In the Steps of Shackleton 1 June 2016
CHF: Cain Conference Public Lecture: Life in the Universe Past and Present 26 May 2016
Gresham College: Lecture: The Expanding Universe 26 October 2016
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 8 June 2016
Brompton Cemetery: London Alchemy: Socery, Gin and Spooky Music in a Cemetery Chapel 4-5 June 2016
Glasgow: Science on the Streets – City Centre Tour 11 June 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
V&A: Courses: Sensing Time: The Art and Science of Clocks and Watches 18 June 2016
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding
Boston Medical Library: Lecture: Prescription Drug Abuse in American History:
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
Royal Pharmaceutical Society: Henry Wellcome, Pharmacist 23 May
Royal Pharmaceutical Society: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Edward Jenner 17 May
The Royal College of Physicians: Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “Sex and The City”
Cambridge Science Centre: LATES: A HISTORY OF ROCKETRY 19 May 2016
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
Pavel Kaplun: Science
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Youtube: First Flight Over North Pole (1926)
Youtube: Royal College of Physicians: Exhibitions 18 Videos!
RADIO & PODCASTS:
L.I.S.A: Tobias Linden: Das ‘Verbogene’ in der Geisterfotographie des 19. Jahrhunderts
Distillations: The Ancient Chemistry Inside Your Taco
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Library and Archives: History of Medicine: Audio and Video
Distillations Podcast: Is Space the Place? Trying to Save Humanity by Mining Asteroids
University of Oxford: ‘Death Masks: Facing the Dead’
BBC RADIO 4: Florence Nightingale: Statistician
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science: Upcoming Events
University of Edinburgh: Workshop: Philosophy of biology meets social studies of biosciences 24 May 2016
University of Paderborn: Seminar: Women in the History of Philosophy: Diotima and Hannah Arendt 17-19 May 2016
Fórum Lisboa (Antigo Cinema Roma): CFP: Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science 14–16 December 2016
University of Cambridge: Symposium: Science and Culture in Theory and History: Latin America, France and the Anglophone World 2–3 July 2016
Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)
Wellcome Library: Workshop: Incunabula and medicine: a workshop 20 May 2016
Calenda: Le Calendrier des Lettres et Sciences Humains et Sociales: Appel à contribution « Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique »
Western Michigan University: Call for Abstracts: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference 15–16 September 2016
Society for the Social History of Medicine: Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October 2016
Kunsthistorisches Institut In Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut: CfP: Photo-Objects. On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo-Archives in the Humanities and Sciences 15–17 February 2017
University of Bordeaux: Seminar: Philosophy & Biology 27 May 2016
University of Leuven: CfA: The science of evolution and the evolution of the sciences 12–13 October 2016
Science Museum: Artefacts Meeting 2–4 October 2016: CfP: Understanding Use: Science and Technology Objects and Users
Cambridge: CfP extended: Science and Islands in the Indo-Pacific World 15–16 September 2016
Singapore: Society for the History of Technology: Annual Meeting 22–26 June 2016
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: 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
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!
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
Barts Pathology Museum: CfP: The “Heart” and “Science” of Wilkie Collins and his Contemporaries 24 September 2016
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
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
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
LOOKING FOR WORK:
University of Leeds: Fully funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Studentship: Making the Pulse: the Reception of the Stethoscope in nineteenth century Britain, 1817-1870.
The Royal Society: Archivist & Digital Resources Manager
University of Strathclyde Glasgow: Lecturer in the History of Health and Medicine since 1800
ODNB: Oxford DNB research bursaries in the humanities 2016–17
Academic Job Wiki: History of Science, Technology, and Medicine 2015–2016
University of Oxford: Research Associate – The History of Dyslexia
Leibniz Universität Hannover and Bielefeld University: 4 Doctoral Candidate Positions (65% TV-L 13) in Philosophy of Science and/or Ethics of Science
H-Sci-Med-Tech: Job: Assoc. Director/Oral Historian, Hagley Center
University of Liverpool: PhD studentship: ‘Changing Cultures in Health and Medicine’
University of Avignon: Contrat doctoral en histoire de la médecine médiévale: Histoire de la médecine médiévale; histoire de la santé (Occident médiéval, XIIe – XVe siècles)
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