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 #48
Monday 11 July 2016
EDITORIAL:
The wheel of life turns, the beginning of the week comes round again and with it the latest edition of Whewell’s Gazette, the weekly #histSTM links list, bringing you all the histories of science, technology and medicine thrown up on the shores of cyberspace over the last seven days.
One of the posts listed this week under Earth and Life Sciences has the title Alfred Wallace Co-Discovered Evolution, But You’ve Never Heard of Him, now this is not an old post recycled here for your entertainment but one posted on 8 July 2016 on the website Curiosity an Internet presence of The New York Times. Why am I going into so much detail about when and where this article appeared? Quite simply because if you are in anyway interested in the history of biology or the theory of evolution and you have never heard of Alfred Russel Wallace then you have been living under a stone for the last ten years.
Unfortunately this phenomenon of publishing ‘you’ve never heard of him/her/them’ articles about figures who have figured extremely large in #histSTM over, shall we say, the last ten years is not restricted to Alfred Russel Wallace; Alan Turing, Lise Meitner, Rosalind Franklin are names that immediately spring to mind from a list that grows from year to year.
Even if the #histSTM figure you are writing about is veiled in the mists of obscurity and genuinely deserves to be better known, I personally think you should resist the desire to use the clichéd, click bait title ‘you’ve never heard of…’ and make the effort to think of an original and more appropriate title for your piece. If however you feel the necessity to write the thirty-seventh article this month about how Rosalind Franklin was cheated out of her rightful recognitions for the discovery of DNA or the twenty-fifth article since Easter about how Alan Turing invented the computer then please, please don’t think that you are saying anything that hasn’t been said all too many times already and don’t whatever you do title it ‘you’ve never heard of…’!
If you wish to write about these people then find a fresh new aspect of their life and work to write about, there are still some out there, and give your work an interesting original and fitting title. Having done so you will have made a genuine contribution to the pool of Internet #histSTM knowledge and saved the world from yet another hackneyed cliché.
I think it would be for the best if we all agreed to ban ‘you’ve never heard of…’ to some dark and distant impenetrable corner of cyberspace to wither, fester and die a highly deserved death.
Quotes of the week:
“Is it really “Newtonian science” that helps us to navigate around the solar system or just the bits we find useful?” – Peter Broks (@peterbroks)
“Short rant: “the Victorians” were not a homogeneous group with matching values, beliefs, and cultural attitudes” – Jennifer Wallis (@harbottlestores)
“Historian isn’t just a profession, it’s a life” – Kean History Dept. (@KeanHistory)
“Historians will always get the last word” – Kean History Dept. (@KeanHistory)
“The history of science records the discovery of things assumed the same being different, and of things assumed different being the same” – Liam Heneghan (@DublinSoil)
Juno: “Hey this is really great! So how long before I’m done science and I come home?”
NASA: “Um, well…”
Curiosity: “I TOLD YOU!” – Alex Parker (@Alex_Parker)
“Technology is the active human interface with the material world” – Ursula K Leguin h/t @dubroy
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced” ― James Baldwin h/t @berfrois
“I don’t understand how it’s undemocratic to challenge the result of a non-binding referendum that, if carried out, would destroy the country” – (@gimpyblog)
“I feel I sound unhinged and unprofessional reminding folks that history, not emotion, has cautioned us not to blindly trust our government” – Jamilah Lemieux (@JamilahLemieux)
JD Bernal anticipates Hasok Chang: “One of the advantages which we now gain by studying the life and work of past scientists is the number of unworked-out suggestions which they contain, pregnant for future development. This means a large part of their work was wasted in their own time, not because they could not have developed any of these points taken one by one, but because it was not physically possible to develop them all themselves, and they lacked sufficient schools of co-workers capable of taking them up.” h/t @GWilliamThomas
“Life: carbon acting erratically” – Liam Heneghan (@DublinSoil)
Birthdays of the Week:
Nettie Stevens born 7 July 1861
Nettie Maria Stevens (July 7, 1861 – May 4, 1912), early American geneticist
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Vox science & health: Nettie Stevens discovered XY sex chromosomes. She didn’t get credit because she had two X’s
The Embryo Project: Studies in Spermatogenesis (1905), by Nettie Maria Stevens
Google Nettie Stevens Doodle
The Embryo Project: The Y-Chromosome in Animals
Nettie Stevens’s microscope, Bryn Mawr College.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Dolly the sheep born 5 July 1996
The H-Word: Dolly the celebrity sheep: a short biography
Nature: Dolly at 20: The inside story on the world’s most famous sheep
New Scientist: The clone that changed my life: 20 years after Dolly the sheep
Henrietta Swan Leavitt born 4 July 1868
Henrietta Swan Leavitt working at her desk in the Harvard College Observatory
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Yovisto: Henrietta Swan Leavitt and the Light of the Cepheids
Joseph Marie Jacquard born 7 July 1752
This portrait of Jacquard was woven in silk on a Jacquard loom and required 24,000 punched cards to create (1839). It was only produced to order. One of these portraits in the possession of Charles Babbage inspired him in using perforated cards in his analytical engine. It is in the collection of the Science Museum in London, England.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Yovisto: Joseph Marie Jacquard and the Programmable Loom
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Weaving the computer age
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Yovisto: The Sky Disc of Nebra
Yovisto: The Supernova of 1054
Yovisto: Marie Curie – Truly an Extraordinary Woman
Yovisto: Giovanni Schiaparelli and the Martian Canals
History of Geology: The Earth-like Mars
The (in-)famous Martian canals/channels, according to Schiaparelli, from Flammarion (1892): “La Planéte Mars” (image in public domain).
Dannen.com: Groves Seeks Evidence against Szilard, July 4, 1945
Dannen.com: Szilard petition, cover letter, July 4, 1945
The New York Times: A Space Pioneer, 79, Is Ready to Track Juno for NASA
Bonhams: Space History
Yovisto: Macquorn Rankine and the Laws of Thermodynamics
maia.usno.navy.mil: The Contributions of Women to the United States Naval Observatory: The Early Years: Mrs Isabel Martin Lewis
Mrs. Isabel Martin Lewis
Academia: The cosmographer’s role in the sixteenth century: A preliminary study
Atlas Obscura: See Retro Space Mission Patches Worn by Cosmonauts
ESA: History of Europe in Space: ERSO’s First Sounding Rockets
Yovisto: Rudolf Wolf and the Sunspots
British Library: Asian and African studies blog: Jai Singh’s Observatories
Sky & Telescope: Old Radio Telescope Restored for New Uses
npr: A Fitting Tribute for a Stargazing Love: A Trip to the Moon
The Renaissance Mathematicus: The Goddess, her husband and his lovers
Montage of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, in a composite image depicting part of Jupiter and their relative sizes (positions are illustrative, not actual). From top to bottom: Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
National Trust for Historical Preservation: Secret Cities: Manhattan Project National Historical Park preserves the classified sites where the Atomic Age dawned
Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine: Orbital Decay: Space Junk and the Environmental History of Earth’s Borderlands 1957–1985
Early Modern Experimental Philosophy: Locke and the Newtonian Achievement
AHF: John Wheeler
Quanta Magazine: How Feynman Diagrams Almost Saved Space
AHF: Owen Chamberlain
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
The Map Room: Has the Ricci Map Been Altered
Part of Mateo Ricci’s 1602 World Map
Antique Prints Blog: George Pocock and his inflatable globes
The Paris Review: Three Geographers
Library of Congress: Maps: Charts of limits of seas and oceans
Yovisto: Vasco da Gama and the Route to India
Royal Museums Greenwich: William Edward Parry final North-West Passage expeditions 1821–25
Royal Museums of Greenwich: Anniversary of the Longitude Act – what was it?
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Diagram of the human brain. – Joe Heenan (@joeheenan)
Bulletin d’Histoire et d’Epistémologie des Sciences de la vie: 2016/ 1 (vol. 23) ToC
Social History of Medicine: A free virtual issue of Social History of Medicine Table of Contents
Ptak Science Books: The Daily Addict: Feeding Drug Addictions in 1937
Thomas Morris: Like an elastic ball
Teaching watercolor of bone and tissue: The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: New Digitisation project: the history of Scotland’s eighteenth century dispensary
AHF: Rosemary Lane: Head Nurse – Emergency Room Oak Ridge TN
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Risky Business for Treating Tuberculosis
Ptak Science Books: On Curing the Disability and Disease of Left-Handedness (1935)
The Recipes Project: Once It Proved Effective for Noble Men and Women
Notches: Resisting the Virus of Prejudice: Sex Workers Fight the AIDS Panic
Yovisto: Camillo Golgi and the Gogli Apparatus
Camillo Golgi
Nursing Clio: Blood and Tears in Orlando
Thomas Morris: A fork up the anus
Asclepius: International Journal of History and Philosophy of Medicine Vol. 5-6 2015–2016 Table of Contents
The Guardian: Toxic legacy: a brief history of poison remedies
Centre of Regenerative Medicine: Stem cells and regenerative medicine: A History of Stem Cells
The Recipes Project: Transmission of Drug Knowledge in Medieval China: A Case of Gelsemium
Thomas Morris: The port-wine enema
Yovisto: Alfred Binet and the Intelligence Test
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Medicine and Surgery at the Battle of Waterloo
Lithographic print of Jean Dominique Larrey by Grégoire et Deneux, Paris, early 19th cent.
NHPR: What Did Nearsighted Humans Do Before Glasses?
Social History of Medicine: May 2016: Focus on managing Mental Disorder
Big Picture: The History of Vaccination
Thomas Morris: Wrapped in a dead sheep
NYAM: Deafness as a Public Health Issue in the 1920s & 1930s (Part 2 of 2)
Thomas Morris: Centipedes in your bacon
Atlas Obscura: The Man-Made Gut Stones Once Used to Thwart Assassination Attempts
New Scientist: Antibiotic resistance discovered in the guts of ancient mummies
Thomas Morris: Death by cucumber
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Yovisto: Jean-Pierre Blanchard crossed the English Channel in a Balloon
Google Arts & Culture: Strasburg Clock model
Yovisto: The RMS Britannia and the Transatlantic Postal Service
Yovisto: Rube Goldberg’s complicated Machines
Thurgaton History: The largest clock in the county?
Ptak Science Books: Robot Roundup: Edenless Eve (1927) 6 the Great Texas Robot (1936)
Ptak Science Books: “A Most Delicate Monster” – the “alpha” Robot of 1932
David Buckley: A Steam Man
Conciatore: Vitrum Flexile
Electrifying the country house: Guest Post: Electrifying the Irish Country House – Cillian Lalor
Yovisto: The Birth of the Transistor
Forbes: The Physics of Ancient Roman Architecture
Royal Museums Greenwich: Tonkin’s Diving Machine and the wreck of the ‘Earl of Abergavenny’
AHF: Computing and the Manhattan Project
Yovisto: Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin and his Dirigible Airships
Smithsonian.com: Six of History’s Smartest, Weirdest and Most Interesting Inventions for Beating the Heat
Historical Firearms: John Browning’s Gas-Operated Pistol
Royal Collection Trust: Astronomical Clock 1683-90
Ptak Science Books: Pistol- and Rifle-Cameras, 1884
Journal of Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh: ‘…to whom it will be extremly Usefull.’ Dr William Cullen’s adoption of James Watt’s copying machine
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Forbes: How Geologists Determined the Way that Mountains Formed
University of Glasgow Library: Theophilus Johnson and the art of self publishing
esri: Alexander von Humboldt’s Whole Earth Vision
Museums Wales: Early herbals – The German fathers of botany
American Museum of Natural History: The Bald Eagle
Yovisto: Vincent Joseph Schaefer and the Cloud Seeding
Wikimedia Commons: East Han Seismograph
Notches: Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State – Part 2
Yovisto: A. E. Douglass and the Dendrochronology
JSTOR Daily: The Solar Origins of Dendrochronology
Yovisto: Robert Fitzroy – From Darwin’s famous voyage to Meteorology
Yovisto: Rudolf Albert von Kölliker and the Origins of Embriology
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Alexander Wilson
Geschichte der Geologie: Geschichte geologischer Begriffe: Geosynklinale
L.A. Times: The ‘Holy Grail’ for earthquake scientists has been accidentally destroyed
NOAA: Fence Offset Produced by 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Atlas Obscura: The 1913 ‘nature Man’ Whose Survivalist Stunts Were Not What They Seemed
The Huffington Post: Welcome to the Library Hiding in a Garden in New York City
Museums Heritage: Science Museum acquires Georgian clock used in world’s first urban climate studies
American Museum of Natural History: Fossil Reveals Ostrich Relatives Once Lived in North America
Curiosity: Alfred Wallace Co-Discovered Evolution, But You’ve Never Heard of Him
Poole High Street Project: Wallace – Collector and Scientist
Hydrarchos: Meeting Hydrarchos in Person(s)
LA Weekly: Why Study Extinct Animals? Two Paleontologists Explain Their “Sexy Medium”
Niche: Telling the Stories Staples Tell: Visualizing Data and a Call for Contributions
CHEMISTRY:
Brain Pickings: How Chemistry Works: Gorgeous Vintage Science Diagrams, 1854
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
Electrifying the country house: Downloads
The Society for the History of Natural History: SHNH announces its awards and welcomes new Council Members
BSHS: 10 Amazing Stories: BSHS June Edition
CHF: Independence Day Closure and New Museum Hours
Historiography of Science: Updated Website Link
Atlas Obscura: The World’s Oldest Library Has Reopened
Conciatore: Montpellier
Montpellier, France, in the seventeenth century.
(Attribution unknown)
Conciatore: San Giusto alle Mura
The New York Times: Why We Need to Pick Up Alvin Toffler’s Torch
Forbes: Yes, New York Times, There Is a Scientific Method
OUP Blog: Philosopher of the month: Hypathia
Early Modern Women: Lives, Texts, Objects: Cavendish and Deshoulières: Women and Philosophy
The White Horse Press: Articles forthcoming in future issues of Environment and History
Hyperallergic: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Modernist Data Visualisations of Black Life
JHI Blog: Fortune. Failure. Fetish. Fest: Aby Warburg’s Glorious Nachleben
Blink: Saint in the tiger’s shadow: A stillborn science during India’s war for Independence
Wellcome: New galleries open at National Museum of Scotland
ESOTERIC:
Forbidden Histories: William James and the American Society for Psychical Research, 1884–9
British Library: Medieval manuscripts blog: Masons and Manuscripts
The tower of Babel being built by masons, from the Egerton Genesis Picture Book, England, c. 1350-1375, Egerton MS 1894, f. 5v
MIT Libraries: News & Evens: The human touch: What a 17th century alchemy text can teach us about good medicine
BOOK REVIEWS:
LA Review of Books: Life as a Verb: Applying Buckminster Fuller to the 21st Century
Richard Carter: ‘Humanism’ by Stephen Law
Physics Today: The Human Side of Science: Edson and Tesla, Watson and Crick, and Other Personal Stories behind Science’s Big Ideas
Niche: Review of Kennedy, Something of a Peasant Paradise?
H-Environment: Dunaway, ‘seeing Green’, Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 6
Popular Science: Information Theory: a tutorial introduction
Chemistry World: The mysterious world of the human genome
Waterstones: The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
The Guardian: John Aubrey: My Own Life by Ruth Scurr
Forbes: Cosmology, God, and Why the Big Picture Needs to Be Bigger
NEW BOOKS:
Springer: Early Geological Maps of Europe: Central Europe 1750 to 1840 eBook
Septentrion: Le corps sans limites
Historiens de la santé: The General: A History of the Montreal General Hospital
Historiens de la santé: Angelo Mariani 1838-1914 : Le vin de coca et la naissance de la publicité moderne
SEUIL: L’Invention de la science La nouvelle religion de l’âge industriel
Pen & Sword Books: Bodysnatchers
Society for the History of Medicine: Book Series
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Hektoen International: The Gross Clinic as religious painting: Eakins, affect, and anatomy
The Walters Museum: Waste Not: The Art of Medieval Recycling 25 June–18 September 2016
The Holburne Museum: Stubbs and the Wild
George Stubbs A Lion and a Lioness 1778 Enamel on Wedgwood ceramic
The Daniel Katz Gallery London
Linda Hall Library: Drawn from Nature: Art, Science, and the Invention of the Bird Field Guide 12 March–10 September 2016
Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May–30 October 2016
La Jolla Light: ‘Art meets Maps’ at La Jolla Map Museum’s new exhibit
BBC News: Somme centenary: WWI ambulance trains exhibition opens
Warminster School: Cracking the Code at Bletchley
Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–1r January 2018
Prague Daily Monitor: Unique Malta Siege maps displayed at Prague Science Faculty
PRN Magazine: The Morbid Anatomy Museum
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 College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
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
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
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
Royal Society of Medicine: charcot, hysteria, & la salpetriere 3 May 2016–23 July 2016
CLOSING SOON: National Gallery Of Ireland Dublin: Ten Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci From the Royal Collections runs till 17 July 2016
Horsham Museum: Dinosaurs of Horsham – Art, Reality and Fun 9 July–5 September 2016
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
SFGate: Doc resurrects weird 20th century con man
New Line Theatre: Atomic 2-25 June 2016
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 07 January 2017
The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017
Swan Theatre: Doctor Faustus 7 March–4 August 2016
EVENTS:
Midtown Community Center in Oak Ridge: Presentation on Manhattan Project 14 July 2016
The National Museum of Computing: Summer Bytes 30 July–28 August 2016
Royal College of Nursing: The Krypton(ish) Factor: A history of nursing gameshow with a twist 28 July 2016
Down House: Meet the Darwins 26–30 July 2016
Museum of Science and Industry Manchester: Engine Demonstration
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
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)
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
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Medicine at War
London Fortean Society: A History of Life after Death 26 July 2016
Royal College of Physicians: Medicinal plant lecture: When Britain ruled the waves 18 July 2016
Discover Medical London: Tour: Who needs doctors anyway?
ARTWORK OF THE WEEK:
A folio from the Akhlaq-i Nasiri, a philosophical treatise written by the Iranian polymath Nasir al-Din Tusi (1201-1274)
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
Rohit Gupta aka CompassWalla @APOGEE 2016: Mathematics as Religion
VIDEOS:
Youtube: Rohit Gupta aka CompassWalla @APOGEE 2016: Mathematics as Religion
Youtube: Wellcome Collection: Tobacco resuscitation kit
Youtube: The British Museum: The Rolls-Royce of Renaissance clocks
Youtube: Cambridge University: Kepler’s Trial: An Opera
RADIO & PODCASTS:
Here & Now: Remembering Great Moments in Science History
New Books Network: On Hysteria: The Invention of a Medical Category between 1670 and 1820
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: The Invention of Photography
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Lowry, Salford Quays: Discovering Collections Discovering Communities 10–12 October 2016
Universidade de Évora (Portugal): Évora’s 7th Symposium on Philosophy and History of Science and Technology 4–5 November 2016
HUMANA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies: CfP: Issue 32, April 2017: Beyond Toleration? Inconsistency and Pluralism in the Empirical Sciences
Centre de Russie pour la Science et la Culture, Paris: Appel à communications: “L’Homme dans le monde de l’incertitude. Méthodologie de la cognition culturelle et historique”. Colloque international pour le 120e anniversaire de la naissance de Lev Vygotsky 13 octobre 2016
University of Glasgow: CfP: Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures 3–4 April 2017
Villa Vigoni (Italy): Pseudo-Paracelsus: Alchemy and Forgery in Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy 25-28 July 2016
IUHPST: Call for entries: IUHPST Essay Prize in History and Philosophy of Science “What is the value of philosophy of science for history of science?” Deadline 30 November 2016
Eä: A workshop in Rio to debate about the challenges facing interdisciplinary journals
Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin: Workshop: Sharing of Medical Ideas and Information Among Early Modern Practitioners 2 August 2016
Université François Rabelais, Tours: Appel à communications: Représentations et figures de la maternité dans le monde anglophone 3 au 5 avril 2017
JOURNÉES D’ÉTUDES: Appel à communicatio: « Petites mains » d’artistes dans les pratiques scientifiques
BSHS: Museum of the History of Science Upcoming Free Lecture Series
Université de Strasbourg: Appel à symposia: 6ème Congrès de la Société française d’histoire des sciences et des techniques (SFHST) 19-20-21 avril 2017
Birkbeck University of London: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–25 March 2017
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
Université de Caen: Colloque: Le corps humain saisi par le droit : entre liberté et propriété 14 Octobre 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
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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
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Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)
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Whewell's Ghost 
Yes, you are correct in saying “…if you are in anyway interested in the history of biology or the theory of evolution and you have never heard of Alfred Russel Wallace then you have been living under a stone for the last ten years.” However, it is almost certainly true that a much lower proportion of the ‘general public’ (i.e. most readers of “The New York Times”) have probably heard of Darwin, but not Wallace.
For which there is a very good reason, Darwin having, as even Wallace acknowledged, done far more to establish the theory of evolution by natural selection than Wallace had. However I think that anybody in the education system today discussing the theory mentions both Darwin and Wallace.
Hmmm – Darwin certainly did more, but Wallace comes a close second. Certainly no other biologist who has ever existed, apart from Darwin, did as much as Wallace in defending and elaborating the theory of natural selection. In some key areas (e.g. modes of speciation), Wallace came closer to the truth than Darwin. So, in my opinion there is no “very good reason” that Darwin is so much more lauded than Wallace. Actually, I supposed there IS a very good reason – and that is that historians and others have tended to focus on Darwin to the exclusion of everyone else – meaning that Darwin gets even more of the credit than he deserves!