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 #49
Monday 18 July 2016
EDITORIAL:
The weeks role by and once a week it’s time for a new edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list to deliver the histories of science, technology and medicine scooped up out of the Internet over the previous seven days.
This last week saw the anniversaries of two milestones in the history of science based technology from the twentieth century, one negative and one positive. In the period in which the UK Parliament voted to spend a disgustingly vast sum of money renewing the UK’s so-called nuclear deterrent we acknowledged the anniversary of the first ever nuclear explosion, the Trinity Test which took place on 16 July 1945. I personally think that the UK needs a nuclear deterrent about as much as I need a hole in my head and if I had the god like power to cause humanity to collectively forget one technological development then the nuclear bomb would be a serious candidate for eradication.
The positive technological anniversary was the successful relaying of the world’s first TV pictures by the telecommunications satellite Telstar on the 11 July 1962. This anniversary awoke personal memories. I took my eleven plus exam in summer 1963 and the essay question I was required to answer was about Goonhilly Downs the satellite earth station in the UK. What seemed so sensational then appears so routine now so much progress in little more than fifty years.
These two anniversaries remind us than scientific knowledge may be neutral but the use to which humankind is anything but.
Quotes of the week:
“The Times, 27 Jan 1815, Mr Davies’ “Best Sperm Candles…such as have already given universal satisfaction”” – Alun Withey (@DrAlun)
“Wide ne biþ wel, cwæþ se þe gehyrde on helle hriman”.
“Things are bad everywhere, said the man who heard wailing in hell” – Old English Wisdom (@OEWisdom)
“This classic history of bio is full of mentions of E. B. Wilson, Jacques Loeb, Theodor Boveri. Zilch about Nettie Stevens, Marcella Boveri. Over and over, you see how the women drop out of the history of science. Years of work, crucial ideas, and then they’re just gone” – Natalia Cecire (@ncecire)
“Ontologies are like toothbrushes – we all agree they are useful, but no one will use someone else’s” – (heard in #DH2016) – Yael Netzer (@yaelnetzer)
“No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means”― Maimonides
“When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name” – Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923)
“We talk of letters till we fall asleep, our dreams are dreams of letters, and literature awakens us” – Erasmus and Thomas More, friends
“Humboldt said that imagination was like ‘a balm of miraculous healing properties’” – Andrea Wulf (@andrea_wulf)
“There is a misconception in America that women scientists are all dowdy spinsters. This is the fault of men” — Chien-Shieng Wu
“You know that if you don’t understand something, it’s totally okay to shut the fuck up about it, right? Choose not to comment” – Jessa Crispin (@thebookslut)
Tochter erklärt einer alten Frau (82) Pokemon Go.
“Des gabs früher au!”
“?”
“Hat Schnitzeljagd gheiße un mer hat noch a Schoklädle kriegt!”
Events of the Week:
Trinity Nuclear Test 16 July 1945
An aerial photograph of the Trinity Test crater.
AHF: Remembering the Trinity Test
AHF: Trinity Test – 1945
Oppenheimer and General Groves visiting the remains of the Trinity test tower in September 1945.
Dannen.com: Trinity Test, July 16, 1945, Eyewitness Accounts – Enrico Fermi
Dannen.com: A Petition to the President of the United States
About.com: Geology: Trinitite
Trinitite image (c) 2003 Andrew Alden, licensed to About.com, Inc.
Youtube: AHF: Trinity Test Preparations
Youtube: AHF: Trinity Test Color Footage
Youtube: AHF: Trinity Test Preparations (Extended)
Satellite Telstar 1 successfully relays the first TV pictures 11 July 1962:
Today in Ladybird 11 July 1962 Satellite Telstar 1 successfully relays the first TV pictures through space
Scientific America: How the U.S. Accidentally Nuked Its Own Communications Satellite
Birthdays of the Week:
Born 14 July 1862 Florence Bascom
Camera Craft Studios, Minneapolis – Creator/Photographer: Camera Craft Studios, Minneapolis Medium: Black and white photographic print Persistent URL: Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Rock Stars: A Life of Firsts: Florence Bascom
Josiah Wedgwood born 12 July 1730
Josiah Wedgwood
Source: Wikimedia Commons
A Covent Garden Gilfurt’s Guide to Life: Josiah Wedgewood, Queen’s Potter
The Renaissance Mathematicus: The scientific potter
Source: CHF
Yovisto: Josiah Wedgwood and his Pottery Company
John Dee born 13 July 1527
John Dee
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Yovisto: John Dee and his World of Science and Magic
The Renaissance Mathematicus: John Dee, the ‘Mathematcall Praeface’ and the English School of Mathematics
Google Art & Culture: Dr Dee’s mirror
John Dee by Quentin Blake
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – John Dee
Academia: John Dee, King Arthur, and the Conquest of the Arctic
Wellcome Library: John Dee’s crystal
Jocelyn Bell Burnell born 15 July 16
Susan Jocelyn Bell, June 1967
Source: Wikimedia Commons
BBC: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Yovisto: Nicole Oresme – Polymath of the Late Middle Ages
Yovisto: Samuel Goudsmit and the Electron Spin
The Hindu: The greatest comet discoverer
Jean-Louis Pons
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Financial Times: First edition of Copernicus’ heliocentric idea up for sale
Royal Museums Greenwich: Grand Orrery
arXiv: Dawes Reviw 5:Australian Aboriginal Astronomy and Navigation
Cern Courier: Ghosts in the machine
AHF: Marvin Davis, Sr.
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Verna Hobson’s Interview Part 1
Yovisto: Jérôme Lalande measuring the distance to the Moon
Futurism: History of the Universe
AHF: Nancy F. Wood
Nancy Wood
Source: AHF
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Ed Hammel’s Interview
Infinite Worlds: Exploring the Universe and Seeking Extraterrestrial Life
Yovisto: Pavel Cherenkov and the Blue Light
Yovisto: The Gran Telescopio Canarias
The Renaissance Mathematicus: If you are going to blazon out history of science ‘facts’ at least get them right
The Renaissance Mathematicus: He died fighting for his king
The Battle of Marston Moor, by J. Barker
Source: Wikimedia Commons
ars technica: A Cold War mystery: Why did Jimmy Carter save the space shuttle?
Shanghai Daily: ‘Confucian Christian’ a pillar of science, religion in his time
Engineering.com: Lowell Is Restoring the Pluto Discovery Telescope
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
The Globe and Mail: Asian nations seek historic items in bid to prove maritime rights
National Geographic: The Unlikely Story of the Map That Helped Create Our Nation
American statesman John Jay used this map in negotiating the Treaty of Paris, which established the United States as an independent country. COLLECTION OF THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Tech Insider: This guy used over 80,000 old photos to create a Google Street map of New York City in the 1800s
Digital Archaeology: Plotting the Past
Medievalists.net: The World in 1467
Yovisto: Salomon August Andrée’s Artic Expedition of 1897
S. A. Andrée and Knut Frænkel with the crashed balloon on the pack ice, photographed by the third expedition member, Nils Strindberg
Library of Congress: Geography & Maps Reading Room: Irish Maps
Fast Code Design: What Makes a Map Beautiful According to a Parks Ranger
Kent and Sussex Courier: Sevenoaks map company celebrates 80th anniversary with historical blog
National Geographic: Gorgeous Maps Reveal the History of America’s National Parks
Farming UK: Old tithe maps and documents reveal Welsh land use and farming practices from 1840s
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Teaching watercolor of a cross section of the abdomen The Francis A, Countway Library of Medicine
Yovisto: Paul Broca’s research in Aphasia
Thomas Morris: Rattlesnakes and brandy
History Workshop Online: Radical Objects: ‘Cancer Sucks’
NYAM: Dr. David Hosack, Physician to Hamilton and Burr
The New York Times: Lyme Disease Only Sounds Recent
Dr. Alun Withey: 10 Seventeenth-century remedies you’d probably want to avoid
Autism Society: Interview of Steven Silberman
O Say Can You See?: Pork, Politics and Public Health
Thomas Morris: A saw head
Social History of Medicine: ‘If experts differ, what are we to do in the matter?’ The Medico-legal Investigation of Gunshot Wounds in a 1927 Scottish Murder Trial
The Recipes Project: Masdevall’s ‘Antipyretic Opiate’, or: A Well-Travelled Recipe
Harvard AIDS Initiative: The Blood in the Freezer
Atlas Obscura: The Victorian Tool for Everything from Hernias to Sex – a Vibrating Electric Belt
![The electropathic belt was one of the most popular consumer medical products on the market during the 19th century. [Photo: Arallyn!/CC BY 2.0]](https://whewellsghost.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/image.jpg)
The electropathic belt was one of the most popular consumer medical products on the market during the 19th century. [Photo: Arallyn!/CC BY 2.0]
Medium: A Very Trump of Doom: How the Simple Stethoscope Transformed Medical Diagnosis
History Today: Louis Braille and the Night Writer
NYAM: Walt Whitman, ‘Manly Health,’ and the Democratization of Medicine
Société Binet-Simon: Binet et les fabricants d’instruments
Yovisto: June Etta Downey and the Individual Will-Temperament Test
The Atlantic: The Many Ways to Map the Brain
BuzzFeed: 10 Terrifying Psychotherapy Treatments of Yesteryear
Thomas Morris: John Keats: Ode to a Black Eye
Francis Cotes, The Young Cricketer, 1768
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Morris: The human pincushion
Nature: Jerome Bruner (1915–2016)
Thomas Morris: The sleepwalker
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
The Telegraph: ‘Berlin Wall’ erected at Bletchley Park as charities fall out
Yovisto: John Fowler and the steam-hauled Plough
Early Radio History: The Telharmonium: Electricity’s Alliance with Music
Telharmonium console by Thaddeus Cahill 1897.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Conciatore: Glass Headhunters
Conciatore: Turquoise Glass
Conciatore: The Neighbors
Atlas Obscura: The Niesenbahn
Ptak Science Books: An Imaginary Skyline: Comparative Chart of the World’s Tallest Structures, 1852
beatriceo.com: Speech Synthesis: An Experiment in Electronic Speech Production
Smithsonian.com: The Revolutionary Infographics of W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington
The Guardian: How the internet was invented
Vinton Cerf, left, and Robert Kahn, who devised the first internet protocol. Photograph: Louie Psihoyos/Corbis
Leaping Robot: Buckminster Fuller’s Geometric Futures
Synthtopia: New Poster Reveals What Goes on Inside A Minimoog Synthesizer
Smithsonian.com: Did Rembrandt Have Help With His Most Famous Paintings
Ptak Science Books: A Bicycle-Wheel-Framed Gyroscopic Experimental Aircraft, 1911
Ptak Science Books: The Steam Punk Clown Spoiler of Future Electro Punk Technology, 1866
Royal Museums Greenwich: ‘Above and beyond’ maritime history: airships
‘Spithead in Wartime’
William Lionel Wyllie
National Maritime Museum
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
xroads.virginia.edu: The Scopes ‘Monkey Trial’ – July 10, 1925 – July 25, 1925
History of Ecology: How the Geology of Mountains Made America Great
SHNH: Professor Tim Birkhead – awarded the SHNH Founders’ Medal
Forbes: The Origin of Geological Terms: Garnets
Science League of America: Dembski and the Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
Scientific American: The Stegosaurus Plate Controversy
Paige Fossil History: Neanderthal DNA: A Historical Fossil Resurfaces
Illustration from 1860s, in Huxley’s Man’s Place in Nature
Niche: #EnvHist Worth Reading: June 2016
James C Ungureanu: Draper and Darwin at Oxford 1860
The Washington Post: Here’s what seeing bears at National Parks looked like 90 years ago
flickr: BHL: Blue Flowers
Notches: Reverend Anna Garlin Spencer and the Rise of “family Life” in Early Sex Education
Smithsonian.com: These Paleo Pets Made Fossil Hunting Less Lonely
Embryo Project: Aristotle (384–322 BCE)
The Atlantic: The Woman Who Made Science Beautiful
Merian: plates 18, 20, 29
The Dispersal of Darwin: Article: Deceived by orchids: sex, science, fiction and Darwin
A History of Museum Victoria: The Discovery of Dinosaur Cove
Hakai: The Oil Spill Cleanup Illusion
Lexington Herald Leader: Ark doesn’t float your boat? Honor Kentucky’s greatest scientist on his 150th
NCSE: NCSE’s Branch on evolution in Kentucky
The San Diego Union-Tribune: ‘Somehow, Things Would Just Work Out: Walter Munk’s long, legendary oceanography career began by chance — and romance
Notches: The Catholic Church and Child Sexual Abuse in Twentieth-Century Ireland
Rachel Lauden: Why Do Some Plants Become Food Crops and Others Not? And What Does That Tell Us
The Public Domain Review: Adriaen Coenen’s Fish Book (1580)
Yovisto: Carl Woese and the Archaea
All Things Georgian: Legends of the sea
Origins of Science as Visual Pursuit: Scientific Illustrations in the Freshwater Biological Association Collections
Fig. 1. 1913 map of the shore of Windermere with detailed annotation by H.P. Moon, 1950s?
Twilight Beasts: On the origins of our species
Extinct: From Bonebeds to Paleoecology
Hyperallergic: Mapping the Fossils and Meteorite Impacts in London’s Architecture
FBI News: Darwin Letter Recovered
Atlas Obscura: What Was Wrong With 16th Century Europeans That They Didn’t Like Tomatoes?
University of Reading: New acquisition: a collection of rare agricultural pamphlets
CHEMISTRY:
Chemistry World: Laplace’s calorimeter
Yovisto: August Kekulé and the Carbon Ring Structure
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
storify: SSHM Conference 2016
Nature: Let’s make peer review scientific
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences: Counterfactuals and history: Contingency and convergence in histories of science and life (oa)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences: Introduction: Evolution and historical explanation (oa)
Leaping Robot: Buckminster Fuller’s Geometric Futures
Aleteia: What’s the oldest continuously operating library in the world? St. Catherine’s Monastry of Sinai
Making Visible: The Visual and Graphic Practices of the Early Royal Society: Figures in the Diary of Robert Hooke
The James Lind Library: Illustrating the development of fair tests of treatments in health care
Big Questions Online: Are Science and Religion in Conflict?
The Recipes Project: Creating and Integrating a Database – Work in Progress
SocPhilSciPract: Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum, vol 4 no 1 now online
lassp.cornell.edu: Writing Physics Knight Distinguished Lecture in Writing in the Disciplines
Lady Science No. 22: Disability, Gender, and the Constructed Enviroment
Atlas Obscura: Whipple Museum of the History of Science
IDTC – IUHPS: The July HPS&ST Note is on the web
storify: Science in Public 2016
morgenstern.jeffrykegler.com: Kurt Gödel: A Contradiction in the U:S. Constitution?
Electric Lit: Literature About Medicine May Be All That Can Save Us
storify: Religion and Medicine: Healing the Body & Soul from the Middle Ages to the Modern Day
ESOTERIC:
Scottish Museums Federation Blog: Phrenology
Phrenological Instuments
BOOK REVIEWS:
The Ney York Review of Books: Photographing the Psyche
Advances in the History of Psychology: Neurosceptic Review: Patient H.M.
History of the Human Sciences: The neurologists: A history of a medical specialty in modern Britain, c.1789–2000
Science Friday: Women in Science: An Illustrated Who’s Who
Reprinted with permission from “Women in Science.” Copyright © 2016 by Rachel Ignotofsky. Published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Forgotten Weapons: SOE Equipment Air Dropped in Europe 1940–1945
CHF: The Magic of it All
NEW BOOKS:
UCC Shop: George Boole Chronicles
The Public Domain Review: “Oh Excellent Air Bag” Under the Influence of Nitrous Oxide, 1799–1920
Palgrave: Pain and Emotion in Modern History
Octares Editions: Henri Piéron (1881-1964) Psychologie, orientation et éducation
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland: The Birth of Industrial Scotland
Springer: Emilie du Châtelet between Leibniz and Newton
ART & EXHIBITIONS
easternblot.net: A Strange Time to Visit the Herschel Museum
Christ Church Oxford: Hakluyt and Geography in Oxford 1550–1650 Opens 14 October 2016
Bodleian Library: The World in a Book: Hakluyt and Renaissance Discovery Opens 28 October 2016
Citizen–Times: Chimney Rock State Park honors Flood of 1916
This stacked stone wall of a well near Chimney Rock was completely exposed after the flood of 1916. (Photo: Courtesy Chimney Rock State Park)
Heriot Watt University: New exhibit unveiled at ICE museum
National Library of Scotland: You Are Here 22 July 2016–3 April 2017
The Australian: Ships, Clocks and Stars: The Quest for Longitude
The Walters Museum: Waste Not: The Art of Medieval Recycling 25 June–18 September 2016
The Holburne Museum: Stubbs and the Wild June 25–2 October 2016
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
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
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
‘Spithead in Wartime’
William Lionel Wyllie
National Maritime Museum
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
Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus
The Houston Museum of Natural Science: Cabinet of Curiosities Opens 6 May 2016
Broadway World.com: Met Museum Exhibition to Celebrate Artistic, Technological, Cultural Legacy of the Seljuqs
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
COMING SOON: Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September–16 December 2016
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
University of Nottingham: The Alchemist (RSC) @ The Swan Theatre
NIST: Public Affair Office: Funding Opportunity to Produce Science Documentary
National Geographic: The Bizarre History of a Bogus Doctor Who Prescribed Goat Gonads
SFGate: Doc resurrects weird 20th century con man
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:
Cafe, Thackery Medical Museum, Leeds: Panel Talk: What would a museum of the NHS look like? 21 July 2016
Royal College of Physicians: Walking Tour: The Making of Thoroughly Modern Medicine
Museum of the History of Science: Board Games and Medieval Medicine 21 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
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
Discover Medical London: Tour: Who needs doctors anyway?
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
Gregor Mendel by Charley Harper
TELEVISION:
The Guardian: Reverend Richard Coles on The Water Babies: how a vicar saved a chimney sweep
BBC Two: Full Steam Ahead
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Youtube: 1960s Elliot 803 computer playing music @tnmoc National Computer Museum
TED: The forgotten history of autism
Youtube: National Institute of Standards and Technology: Thrown for a Curve
Advances in the History of Psychology: 5 Minute History Lesson: Episode 5: A Love Story of Academic Proportions
RADIO & PODCASTS:
New Books Network: The Art of Medicine in Early China
New Books Network: The Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400–1800
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
ECHOPHYSICS Pöllau Austria: 2nd International Conference on the History of Physics 5–7 September 2016
The German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker- GDCh): PAUL BUNGE PRIZE 2017: HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS Deadline 30 September 2016
Birkbeck University of London: The Birkbeck Trauma Project: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–27 March 2017
Christ Church & Bodleian Library Oxford: Conference: Hakluyt and the Renaissance Discovery of the World 24–25 November 2016
CELFIS University of Bucharest: Call for Applications: Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science 24–26 October 2016
University of Sydney: CfP: Workshop: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18 April 2017
Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall: Workshop: Tools of Reason: The Practice of Scientific Diagramming from Antiquity to the Present 10–11 February 2017
American Association for the History of Medicine: Awards and Grants
Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries Oxford: Women in Science in the Archives 8 September 2016
University of Edmonton: CfP: Theology and the Philosophy of Science 14–15 October 2016
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
Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Paris: Colloque: Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique 20–21 Octobre 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
MedHum Fiction – Daily Dose: CfP: Medical Humanities
University of Birmingham: Social Studies in the History of Medicine – ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’
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
University of Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events
Society for the Social History of Medicine: 2016 Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October
H-Pennsylvania: Philip J. Pauly Book Prise Nominations Sought for Histories of Science in the Americas
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
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.
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
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:
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: Max Planck Research Group Leader position/ University professorship
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: 2 Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: Doctoral Candidate
Science Museum Group: Collaborative Doctoral Award proposals. The AHRC will fund six projects to start in Autumn 2017 Deadline 25 November 2016
ETH Zürich: 2 Doktorandenstellen zu vergeben
NYAM: Reference Services and Outreach Librarian
Norsk Teknisk Museum Oslo: One-year Opening Curator of Medicine
University of Strathclyde Glasgow: Wellcome Trust Doctoral Scholarship in the history of intoxicants and narcotics in the modern Philippines
Youtube: MSc Science Communication – Manchester Metropolitan University
Science Museum Group: Marketing Officer
NIST: Public Affair Office: Funding Opportunity to Produce Science Documentary
University of Oxford: Postdoctoral Researcher – Darwin’s Fuegian Lice
Royal Museums Greenwich: Family Programmes Producer
NIST: Public Affair Office: Funding Opportunity to Produce Science Documentary
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