Whewell’s Gazette
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Internet history of science, technology and medicine
Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell
Year 2, Volume #46
Monday 27 June 2016
EDITORIAL:
Somewhat late this week but we have finally overcome our Brexit lethargy to bring you Whewell’s Gazette the #histSTM links list without borders. The whole unlimited depths of cyberspace are where we search together all the histories of science, technology and medicine from the last seven days.
I’m not usually a fan of headlines that talk of scientists you’re never heard of, great or otherwise, but the article on the Forbes website by Whewell’ gazette friend science writer John Farrell with the title, The Greatest Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of, does contain a certain justification for its provocative claim.
Amongst fans of modern physics, astrophysics, astronomy and cosmology the concept expanding universe is a universally known, every day phrase. One of those things that one can, somewhat hyperbolically, say everybody has heard of. Even its supposed discoverer Edwin Hubble is one of the few scientists who can be considered a household name. The law governing the general relation between the distance of cosmic objects and the rate of recession from the earth is named after him, Hubble’s Law. However both attributions are actually examples of Stigler’s law of eponymy, which states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer; a law, which Stigler attributed to Robert K Merton thus fulfilling its own definition.
The concept of the expanding universe and the law defining it are both more correctly attributed the Belgian priest, physicist and astronomer, Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, who died fifty years ago on 20 June 1966 and who is the subject of John Farrell’s article. Whereas Hubble is a household name Lemaître remains largely unknown to the general public although he is the creator of the cosmological concept the Big Bang, a name that was however not coined by him but in a derogatory sense by cosmologist, astronomer Fred Hoyle.
Georges Lemaître c. 1933
Source: Wikimedia Commons
In fact an irony of the history of astronomy is that although Hubble produced the accurate measurements of the expansion that confirmed Lemaître’s theory he himself rejected the expansion concept believing there must some other explanation of the observed phenomenon that he had measured.
If after having read John’s article you want to know more about Lemaître I can warmly recommend John’s biography of Lamaître, The Day Without Yesterday: Lemaitre, Einstein, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology, Thunder’s Mouth Press, New York, 2005.
Yovisto: Georges Lemaître and the Big Bang Theory
Quotes of the week:
“Remember the good old days of 2016 when all we had to worry about was which celebrity had just died?” – Peter Broks (@peterbroks)
‘Daddy, what was 2016 like?’
‘All the cool people died. Everyone fell in behind assholes with bad hair and worse ideas. It rained a lot.’ – Damien Owens (@OwensDemien)
“Do you think Farage read Animal Farm at school and thought ‘Yes! Squealer – that’s who I want to be when I grow up!’” – Hannah Priest (@shewolfmanc)
“Country that thinks it can go it alone in Europe achieves magnificent 0–0 draw against Slovakia” – Friends of Darwin (@friendsofdarwin)
“England v. Iceland is on Monday. They’re a small country with shit weather & a self-inflicted financial crisis, but they should beat Iceland” – Chris Applegate (@chrisapplegate)
“Opportunity (n) – modern usage: management-speak for crisis or failure such as redundancy. eg.”Brexit is a great opportunity for UK”” – Peter Broks (@peterbroks)
“The good news is you’re pregnant. The bad news is, it’s going to be Nigel Farage”– A doctor, 1963 – Moose Allain (@MooseAllain)
“Aren’t bookshops strange, sitting there with quiet menace, as if they were just a shop and not an entry point to 30,000 different universes?” – Matt Haig (@matthaig1)
“If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company” – Jean-Paul Sartre h/t @wordnik
“Take me down to the Parallax City where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly” – Mark Brown (@britishgaming)
“Life is nothing but an electron looking for a place to rest.” – Albert Szent-Györgyi h/t @fadesingh
“A gender-neutral pronoun, the passive voice, and the Oxford comma walked into a non-academic bar and absolutely no one cared” – Shit Academics Say (@AcademicsSay)
“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.” – Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
Birthday of the Week:
This week we are celebrating only one birthday of the week, our own.
Whewell’s Gazette was born 23 June 2014
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Vassar College astronomy class with five students, instruments, and books, 1878
Yovisto: Alan Sandage and Quasars
AAS Committee on the Status of Women: Nobel Prize for a “Computer” named Henrietta Leavitt (1868–1921)
Astrolabes and Stuff: The start of summer?
Social History of Medicine: Volume 29 Issue 2 May 2016: Table of Contents
Now Appearing: The birth of Goldilocks
AHF: Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner 1946
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Corning Museum of Glass: Marvin Bolt’s Telescope Quest
Dioptrice: Historical telescope data base
Yovisto: Siméon Denis Poisson’s Contributions to Mathematics
Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall: Spaceship One
Yovisto: Hermann Minkowski and the four-dimensional Space-Time
Yovisto: Anders Ångström and the Science of Spectroscopy
AHF: Japanese Atomic Bomb Project
Life Beyond Our Planet?: Online Bibliography Extraterrestrial Life Debate
AHF: Klaus Fuchs
Astronomy Magazine: This Was How NASA Envisioned a Mars Trip in the 1950s
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Charles Messier
Yovisto: Martin Perl and the Tau
Yovisto: William Penny and the British Atomic Bomb
AHF: Otto Frisch
Fine Books & Collections: The Morgan Celebrates the 100th Anniversary of Einstein’s Publication of the General Theory of Relativity
The Physics of the Universe: Important Scientists: Fred Hoyle (1915–2001)
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
British Library: Collection guides: War Office Archive
British Library: Maps and views blog: War Office Archive goes live in Nairobi
British Art Studies: Looking for Longitude
Upworthy: These 5 bafflingly weird old maps of the Artic show why it’s worth preserving
Kent Online: As Ordnance Survey celebrates 225 years, we look at why Kent was the subject of the company’s first map
British Library: Medieval manuscripts blog: Maps, Monsters and Marvels
Library of Congress: Accurater Prospect und Grundris der Königl. Gros-Britan̄isch. Haupt- und Residentz-Stadt London
Humanities: Global Impact: The Osher Map Library invites the whole world in
Palestine, 1475 / courtesy Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education
Academia: Shipwreck, Maroons and Monsters: The Hazards of Ancient Red Sea Navigation
Conciatore: Old Post Road
Royal Museums Greenwich: An object lesson for Refugee Week
Dr Caitlin R. Green: Al-Idrisi’s twelfth-century map and description of eastern England
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Yovisto: James Braid – Gentleman Scientist
Curare: 39 (2016) 1: The Human Body in Asian Texts and Images Table of Contents
STAT: Questionable LSD experiments lurk in bioethics icon’s background
Social History of Medicine: ‘they are called Imperfect Men’: Male Infertility and Sexual Health in Early Modern England
The National Museum of American History: Insulin and Diabetes Management
Yovisto: Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins and the Discovery of Vitamins
CHF: Early Solutions
tandonline: ‘The Stupidest Tea-Party in All My Life’: Lewis Carroll and Victorian Psychiatric Praxis
John Tenniel, ‘A Mad Tea-Party’, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, p. 70.
Yovisto: Josef Breuer and the Cathartic Method
Atlas Obscura: I Tried a Medieval Diet, and I Didn’t Even Get That Drunk
AEON: A handy history
Thomas Morris: Amputating the bowels
Yale News: Medical library marks 75 years of supporting research and patient care
Early Modern Medicine: Surgical Spectators
The Guardian: Rubbishing Mary Seacole is another move to hide contributions of black people
Wellcome Library: Bawling babies and their baths in early modern England
Atlas Obscua: Some of History’s Most Beautiful Combs Were Made for Lice Removal
A French wooden comb from the 16th century. (Photo: Public Domain)
Atlas Obscura: I Found a Female Serial Killer in My Family Tree
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Macewen’s War Work
Embryo Project: Estrogen and the Menstrual Cycle in Humans
Medical History: Volume 60 Issue 03 July 2016: Table of Contents
Science Museum: Exposing the face of war
The Recipes Project: Dr. Sloane’s Advice in the Recipe Manuscripts of Henrietta Harley
CHF: “The Popular Dose with Doctors:” Quinine and the American Civil War
Pacific Standard: Zika and the Bubonic Plague: A Lesson from the Middle Ages
Harvard Medical School: A New View of Phineas Gage
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Yovisto: Jack Kilby – Inventor of the Integrated Circuit
Yovisto: Black Vinyl at 33⅓ RPM
Yovisto: Franz Kruckenberg’s Schienenzeppelin
The Guardian: 17th-century fire engine restored for Great Fire of London exhibition
The restoration was possible because a vintage photograph survived of the engine in the 19th century. Photograph: Museum of London
Ian Visits: Museum of London restores 17th-century fire engine for exhibition
Upworthy: The weird, secret history of the electric car and why it disappeared
The Guardian: Texas restores 333-year-old French ship that brought settlers to doomed colony
Gizmodo: The Life and Explosive Death of the World’s First Ferris Wheel
The Conversation: The Victorians had the same concerns about technology as we do
David Rumsey Map Collection: Post Office Wireless Stations
Academia: The Mästermyr Find: A Viking Tool Chest from Gotland
Writers vs the World: Exploring the History of Electricity: Galvani and Mary Shelley
Live Journal: Retro-Futurism: Harry Grant Dart (1869–1938)
UofT News: Celebrating Ursula Franklin: pioneer in material science and trailblazing feminist
Ptak Science Books: Tremendous Montage of Early Airships
History Computer: Article: The Integrated Circuit of Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce
Hackaday: J.C. Bose and the Invention of Radio
Smithsonian.com: Commemorate the Panama Canal’s Expansion With These Photos From Its Construction
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Forbes: How Charles Darwin Classified his Mineral Collection
BHL: The Beautiful Monster: Mermaids
Tritons, or Nereids, the merpeople of the Greeks and Romans. Ashton, John. Curious Creatures in Zoology. 1890.
Notches: More Than Loving: Race, Sexuality and Public Memory in the Movement for Marriage Equality
Notches: J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the “Sex Deviates” Program
flickr: BHL: Icones Farlowianae: Illustrations…
Medium: Passenger pigeon extinction: it’s complicated – @GrrlScientist
TrowelBlazers: Dianne Edwards
Yovisto: Deodat de Dolomieu and the Love for Rocks
Wellcome Library: Insects under the microscope
Amgueddfa Blog: Celebrating the tercentenary of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713–1792)
History Extra: Beasts of wonder: reading animals in the Middle Ages
The Conversation: Why so many Australian species are yet to be named
Letters from Gondwana: Once Upon a Time, There Was a Dodo
Painting of the Dodo by Roelandt Savery executed in ca. 1626 and held at the NHMUK, London.
American Museum of Natural History: Dragons – Creatures of Power
Yovisto: Nicholas Shackleton and Paleoclimatology
The New York Public Library: Digital Collections: Birds of America
CHEMISTRY:
EngineerGuy:Michael Faraday’s The Chemical History of a Candle
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
Skulls in the Stars: Twitter Weird Science Facts, Volume 9
PLOS ECR Community: Politics in academic publishing: past to present
Society Of Physics Students: Week 2: Meetings and Birthday Greetings
History of Anthropology Newsletter: Renewing the History of Anthropology Newsletter
Lady Science: No. 21: Women at the Intersection of Art and Science
Illustration of Paspalum scabriusculum, by Agnes Chase (1902). Image courtesy of Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
Huffpost Tech. A Wondrous New Gallery for the Next Generation of Great Science Minds
Marine Lives digital pop up lab: Collaborative experience for historians, coders and computer scientists
Spontaneous Generation: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science: Volume 8 No 1 (2016) Table of Contents
MedHumLab: Five Questions for…Cordelia Warr
CHF: Distillations Blog: Through the Lens: Interview with Andrea Tomlinson
University of California Press: Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences: Vol. 46 No. 3 June 2016: Table of Contents
The Royal Institution: Faraday’s notebooks inscribed on the UNESCO UK Memory of the World Register
E&T: Landmark Faraday notes win UNESCO heritage status
Academia: Edward Tyson’s Phocaena: a case study in the institutional context of scientific publishing
Futurism: A Brief History of Carl Sagan
The Public Domain Review: Max Brückner’s Collection of Polyhedral Models (1900)
Inside Higher Ed: Notable History
The Bigger Picture: Science Service, Up Close: George Sarton, Watson Davis, and “Panache”
Sunday Business Post: Fifth Robert Boyle Summer School teases out science and Irish Identity
CHF: Rebel without a chemistry set: Saving America’s youth with science clubs
U Chicago News: Alison Winter, historian of science, 1965–2016
Prof. Alison Winter at the award ceremony for the 2014 Gordon J. Laing Prize.
Photo byRobert Kozloff
History and Philosophy of Science Notes: The June HPS&ST Note is on the web
Herald Scotland: Uncovered: the ‘forgotten’ stories of Scotland’s trailblazing women scientists
Pinterest: Women using scientific instruments (updated)
A woman generates electricity with a friction machine, as Nollet charges a Leyden jar. From Jean Antoine Nollet’s Essai sur l’électricité des corps (1750)
ESOTERIC:
Yovisto: Gerald Hawkins and the Secret of Stonehenge
Conciatore: Galleria dei Lavori
Giovanni Stradano (Jan van der Straet)
Alchemy Studio, 1571
(Inside the Uffizi Galleria dei Lavori)
Manchester University Press: Summer Sale 50% off all books e.g.
Katherine Foxhall: Health, medicine, and the sea: Australian Voyages c.1815–60
BOOK REVIEWS:
The Guardian: The 100 best nonfiction books: No 21 – The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn (1962)
The Irish Times: The Irish Enlightenment by Michael Brown review: a controversial study
Deviant Maternity: Infanticide and Abortion in Early Modern Germany
H-Net Reviews: Valerie Rohy Lost Causes: Narrative, Etiology, and Queer Theory
British Journal for the History of Science: Book Reviews:
Brain Pickings: Alan Turing: Church, State, and the Tragedy of Gender-Defiant Genius
LA Review of Books: Life as a Verb: Applying Buckminster Fuller to the 21st Century
Linn’s Stamp News: New book chronicles ‘How The Post Office Created America’
NEW BOOKS:
OUP: Archaeologists and the Dead: Mortuary Archaeology in Contemporary Society
OUP: A Tale of Seven Scientists and a New Philosophy of Science
OUP: Prudentius and the Landscapes of Late Antiquity
University of Chicago Press: The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument Over What Makes Living Things Tick
University of Chicago Press: Localization and Its Discontents: A genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines
University of Chicago Press: Cartophilia: Maps and the Search for Identity in the French-German Borderlands
OUP: The Antiquary: John Aubrey’s Historical Scholarship
Columbia University Press: Exhaustion: A History
CUP: Death in Beijing: Murder and Forensic Science in Republican China
CUP: Toxic Histories: Poison and Pollution in Modern India
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Art Institute Chicago: The Shogun’s World: Japanese Maps from the 18th and 19th Centuries 25 June–6 November 2016
Museum of London: Fire! Fire! 23July 2016–17 April 2017
Royal Museums Greenwich: Above and Beyond: The ultimate interactive flight exhibition 27 May–29 August 2016
Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Brooklyn Historical Society to exhibit two rare Revolutionary War-era maps in honour of upcoming 240th anniversary of Battle of Brooklyn 29 June–28 August 2016
The Mary Rose: Mary Rose Museum re-opening on 20th July 2016
Marc Garrett: Curating Monsters of the Machine: Frankenstein in the 21st Century
The Guardian: Engineering the World review – Ove Arup, the man who built modernity
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Smithsonian.com: See Over 2,000 Wax Models of Skin Diseases at This Swiss Medical Moulage Museum
A skin affliction on display at the Moulage Museum. (Moulagenmuseum University and University Hospital of Zurich)
St. Louis Central Library: Fantasy Maps Exhibit 11 June–15 October 2016
Oxford Thinking: Cook-Voyage collection goes on display at the Pitt Rivers Museum
The Guardian: Totally cosmic science festival for blue-sky thinkers
Amritt Museum: Beatrix Potter – Image & Reality
Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph
Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library
Historiens de la santé: Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England: Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts
History Today: Maria Merian’s Butterflies
Science Museum: Robots
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
Harvard Magazine: Before Social Media: Radio was the medium that broke the silence
Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus
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:
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 January 29–31 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
Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday
Hunterian Museum: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 2016
Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017
Science Museum: Information Age
Wellcome Library: Vaccination: Medicine and the masses 19 April–17 September 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
Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy
COMING SOON: Bethel Museum of the Mind: The Weight of History 27 July – 18 November 2016
Royal Collection: Maria Merian’s Butterflies
https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/exhibitions/qgbp/maria-merians-butterflies
Royal Society of Medicine: charcot, hysteria, & la salpetriere 3 May 2016–23 July 2016
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
The Mary Sue: Nicole Kidman to Play Rosalind Franklin in Film Adaption, Gives Franklin Mainstream Attention She Deserves
BND: Belleville News–Democrat: How “Atomic” creators built a musical about nuclear physics
New Line Theatre: Atomic 2-25 June 2016
Detroit Free Press: ‘Atomic’ produces lots of noise, little heat
ashpags on tumblr: Great Lady Astronomers of History …Come to Life!
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:
Morbid Anatomy: Upcoming Morbid Anatomy Events
Victoria Baths – Hathersage Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock: Talk: “The Evils of Dirt and the Value of Cleanliness:” a history of Manchester’s early baths and wash-houses, 1840-1876 10 September 2016
NYAM: Lecture: Up!: Manhood, Democratic Medicine, and Walt Whitman’s Secret Health Writings 18 July 2016
LSE: Lecture: Why Physics Needs Philosophy 17 July 2016
Nature: Medical research: Citizen medicine: Vaccination: Medicine and the Masses Hunterian Museum till 17 September 2016
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Talk: Bad Medicine and Quackery in Edinburgh 9–13 August 2016
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: One for the Road
Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events
Royal College of Physicians: John Dee: art, science, magic 11 July 2016
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “London’s Plagues”
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding
University of Utrecht: Descartes-Huygens Lecture by J.B. Shank on ‘Newtonian’ Mechanics in France around 1700
University College Cork: Walking Tours: A second chance to solve the mystery of ‘Being Boole’!
The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours
Gresham College: Lecture: The Expanding Universe 26 October 2016
Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)
CHF: Brown Bag Lectures Spring 2016
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers
The Royal College of Physicians: Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “Sex and The City”
Norcroft Auditorium, Norcroft Centre, University of Bradford: The secret chemistry of art: unravelling an age-old textile mystery / September 2016
Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tours
Wellcome Collection: Friday Late Spectacular: In Pursuit of Pain 1 July 2016
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Medicine at War
London Fortean Society: A History of Life after Death 26 July 2016
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
Hokusai: observatory of the Calendar Bureau during the Edo period,
astronomers working on the roof, Mt. Fuji in the background
TELEVISION:
BBC Four: Inside Porton Down: Britain’s Secret Weapons Research FacilityBBC Four: Genius of the Modern World: Freud
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Youtube: Research Channel: Overlooked Achievement: The Life of Lise Meitner
BBC Radio 3: Free Thinking: Back to the Future? How to count to 9,999 early medieval-style
RADIO & PODCASTS:
VPR: Our National Parks: Indigenous Voices
iTunes: Things Seminar – Cambridge University
BBC Radio 3: Free Thinkers: Hands, Physiology and Art, the History of Science
BBC Radio 4: Shakespeare’s Restless World: New Science, Old Magic
Newsworks: How a moat shaped mental health care in the United States
KUMN: Telling the Story of the Manhattan Project
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Lexicon Philosophicum: CfP: Issue 5 (2017) Histories of Philosophy, Science and Ideas
Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds: CfP: Workshop: Exploring Histories and Futures of Innovation in Advanced Wound Care 20 September 2016
Leeds Trinity University: Victorian History Workshop 4 July 2016
University of Oxford: Workshop: Alchemy, Universal Medicine, and Prolongation of Life 4 July 2016
University of Cardiff: Programme: Bodily Fluids/Fluid Bodies in Greek and Roman Antiquity 11-13 July 2016
Université de Caen: Colloque: Le corps humain saisi par le droit : entre liberté et propriété 14 Octobre 2016
Augustinerkloster Erfurt: Conference: Towards a Global History of Ideas 7–9 July 2016
HSTM Network Ireland: International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Young Scholar Prize
ENVA, Amphithéâtre Blin: Appel à communications: Animalhumanité. Expérimentation et fiction : l’animalité au cœur du vivant 1er et 2 décembre 2016
New Bern NC: CfP: North Carolina Maritime History Council Conference 4–5 November 2016
Logis du Roy – Square Jules Bocquet – Amiens: Colloque: L’anatomie sans les arts ? Le corps en images à l’époque moderne 23 et 24 juin 2016
Christ’s College Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World (1400-1750) 3–4 April 2017
Villa Mirafiori, Rome: Conference: Building Theories, Hypothesis & Heuristics in Science
UCL: CfP. Second London Philosophy of Science Graduate Conference 1–2 September 2016 Deadline 4 July 2016
Society for U.S: Intellectual History: Conference: From the Mayflower to Silicon Valley: Tools and Traditions in American Intellectual History October 13-15, 2016
University of Lisbon: CfP: Third Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Issues 14–16 December 2016
San Sebastian: Physics in the XII International Ontology Congress 3-7 October 2016
Westminster Quaker Meeting House: ‘A MANY-SIDED CRYSTAL’: THE QUAKER PHYSICIST & ELECTRICAL ENGINEER, SILVANUS PHILLIPS THOMPSON (1851–1916) A Workshop to Mark the Centenary of his Death 16 September 2016
Notches: CfP: Histories of Disability and Sexuality
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science: CfP: Special Issue: Knowledge Transfer and Its Context
University of Freiburg: Accidents and the State in the 20th Century
The Victorianist: CfP Reminder: The “Heart” and “science” of Wilkie Collins and His Contemporaries 24 September 2016 London
ICOHTEC Conference Porto: CfP: Early Career Scholars Workshop: Tension of Europe 1 August 2016
Society for Renaissance Studies: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Texts and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science: CfP: “Ludwik Fleck’s Theory of Thought Styles and Thought Collectives – Translations and Receptions” Deadline 30 August 2016
HPDST: 2017 DHST Prize for Young Scholars
BSHS: Great Exhibitions Competition 2016
Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Paris: Colloque: Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique 20–21 Octobre 2016
St Anne’s College; University of Oxford: Scientiae: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World 5–7 July 2016
King’s College London: From Microbes to Matrons: The Past, Present and Future of Hospital Infection Control and Prevention 1-2 September 2016
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: CFP: Conference: HIV/AIDS Research: Its History and Future 13–16 October 2016
Australian Academy of Science: The Moran Award for History of Science Research
Florida Atlantic University: International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry Summer Symposium 1–4 August 2016
University Of Belgrade: CfP: Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation-5 22–23 September 2016
Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta, and the University of Warwick: CfP: Beauty and the Hospital in History 6–8 April 2017
Institution of Engineering and Technology, London: Conference: Telecommunications in the Aftermath of World War 1: Civilian and Military Perspectives 10 August 2016
University of Oxford: Summer School and Conference: Mind Value and Mental Health: Philosophy and Psychiatry 13–15 July 2017
MedHum Fiction – Daily Dose: CfP: Medical Humanities
University of Leeds: Round Table Discussion: “Victorians and History Writing Practices” Seminar: “Victorian Jesus: Imagining the Anonymous Author of Ecce Homo (1865)” 4 July 2016
University of Birmingham: Social Studies in the History of Medicine – ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’
University of Oxford: Draft Oxford Scientiae Conference Programme 5–7 July 2016
Radboud University Nijmegen: Conference Program: Space, Imagination, and the Cosmos, from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period 9–10 July 2016
The Nobel Museum Stockholm: Prizes and Awards in Science before Nobel. 5th Watson Seminar in the Material and Visual History of Science 5 September 2016
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Partington Prize
University of Glasgow: CfP: Discourse of Care: Care in Media, Medicine and Society 5-7 September 2016
Western Michigan University: CfP: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference
University of Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Envirment, and Health In the Easterm Mediterranean World, 1400–1750 3–4 April 2017
Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science: Upcoming Events
Fórum Lisboa (Antigo Cinema Roma): CFP: Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science 14–16 December 2016
Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)
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 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
University of Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events
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
Queen Mary University of London:Upcoming History of Emotions Work in Progress Seminars
University of Reading: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016
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
New York City: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 30 September–1 October 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
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
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
St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016
LOOKING FOR WORK:
Science Museum Group: Curator of Photography and Photographic Technology
University of Cambridge: Curator of Scientific Collections
Academia: Call for Peer Reviewers: the Wilkie Collins Journals
The HistoryMakers: Video Oral History Researcher/Processor
The HistoryMakers: The HistroyMakers Database & Technical Project Manager
Huygens ING: Postdoc Resarcher: The Art of Reasoning Techniques of Scientific Argumentation in the Medieval Latin West (400–1400)
Cambridge University Library: Curator of Scientific Collections
The Linnean Society: Archivist (Full-time, permanent post)
University of Cambridge: Research Associate: Philosophy of Biology (Fixed Term)
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