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 #51
Monday 08 August 2016
EDITORIAL:
Summer advances, if only in my part of the world with deluges and flooding and it’s time once again to flood your computer screen with another edition of the weekly #histSTM links list Whewell’s Gazette bringing the deluge of history of science, technology and medicine text washed up on the shores of cyberspace over the last seven days.
It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that Whewell’s Gazette wouldn’t exist at all if not for John Wilkins, the Australian philosopher and historian of biology. When I first begun to surf the Internet John’s Evolving Thoughts blog was one of the very first blogs that I began to follow on a regular basis. As I began to clog up his comments column with my overlong cogitations on some his history of science posts, it was John who suggested that I might like to try my hand at blogging myself. So I did. At first as a guest blogger and then again at John’s urging on my own at The Renaissance Mathematicus. John and his regular readers provided much of the encouragement in that early phase that kept me going. Now entering my eighth year and still going strong.
Somehow my blogging on the history of science led to me becoming the manager of the monthly history of science blog carnival On Giants’ Shoulders. A task I carried out for several years. About two years ago I decided to end Giants Shoulders and replaces it with a weekly selection of history of science blogging, Whewell’s Gazette. On 1 September 2010 John Wilkins together with John Lynch had launched the collective blog for the history of science Whewell’s Ghost and I was invited by John Wilkins to be one of the contributors. An invitation I was happy to accept. Over the years Whewell’s Ghost faded into inactivity and as I started Whewell’s Gazette it was the obvious home for our weekly journal.
Sometime back John Wilkins, much to the disappointment of his fans, ceased blogging and Evolving Thoughts also entered a period of inactivity. Last week on social media John Wilkins asked if anybody would be interested if he started blogging the history of biology from its beginning up to the present. The response was immediate, positive and strong and so John did just that.
He took of at a run and the first three posts are already up at Evolving Thoughts. John is a knowledgeable scholar and an excellent blogger and I’m certain that his new endeavour will be a great read for all those interested in the history of science, so get in at the beginning and get reading John’s The History of Life!
Evolving Thought: The History of Life: Prelude
Evolving Thought: The History of Life: Nature versus Humanity
Evolving Thought: The History of Life: Before Aristotle 1; the Milesians and monism
Another of those bloggers on Whewell’s Ghost was the excellent Dr Rebekah “Becky” Higgitt, who at the beginning blogged exclusively on our collective blog. Later she spread her blogging wings and set up home at her own Teleskopos. In 2012, together with Dr Vanessa Heggie, Becky set up a history of science blog on The Guardian website, The H-Word, an excellent example of the genre powered by two professional historians. This wekk The H-Word celebrated its fourth birthday.
The H-Word Blog by at the Guardian was born 2 August 2012
If you aren’t already a regular reader it’s time to become one. A good starting point would be Becky’s latest offering: The real story of the Secret Agent and the Greenwich Observatory Bomb.
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in an early 20th-century postcard. Note the closed gates. Photograph: Wikipedia
Quotes of the week:
“The function of the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present” – E.H: Carr The Historian and the Facts (1961) h/t @historianess
Hoarding Drew McIntyre (@DrewMcIntyre)
“The emphasis on the role of the historian in the making of history tends, if pressed to its logical conclusion, to rule out any objective history at all: history is what the historian makes.” – E.H: Carr The Historian and the Facts (1961) h/t @historianess
“History is not a neutral subject that is written by disinterested robots. (…) Obviously a knowledge of history is valuable for a variety of reasons. But historians are not history, if that makes sense. Any policy advised by a historian is going to be just as politicised as a policy advised by anyone else” – Ian Hesketh ((@IanHesketh)
Nietzsche Moose Allain (@MooseAllain)
“Today’s weird piece of #histSTM/colonial America trivia: Hermann von Helmholtz was a descendant of William Penn!” – Ben Gross (@bhgross)
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be”
― Kurt Vonnegut, “Mother Night” (1961) h/t @elanmastai
“Bloody Foreigner, coming over here, wanting to know what love is” – Mat (@MatCro)
“I don’t think that I particularly like the term “scholar” nor do I particularly like “academic” (b/c elitism). I think I’m a storyteller. For me, storytelling is a relational, community-based practice of service. That’s what I’d like to achieve in my scholarly work” – Dr. Lucia Lorenzi (@empathywarrior)
“The life of the historian must be short and precarious” – Edward Gibbon
“Friend: Do dates make you nervous?
Me: omg yes especially when doing math across timezone boundaries” – vowel killer (@dcousineau)
“Teach a man to write and he can write an ill-informed comment today; teach him how to think critically and he might just hold off on that” – Liam Heneghan (@DublinSoil)
“As its stewards we need to think of our species as being in a race to save living environment” – E.O. Wilson in Half-Earth
“History, as nearly no one seems to know, is not merely something to be read. And it does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do. It could scarcely be otherwise, since it is to history that we owe our frames of reference, our identities, and our aspirations” – James Baldwin h/t AHA Today
“How many painstakingly detailed and beautiful craft and art pieces were made by people clenching their teeth with rage?” – Grumpy Historian (@grumpyhistorian)
“History doesn’t lie” – Geoff Boycott
“History at its best is a patchy collection of half-truths” – Thony Christie (@rmathematicus)
Birthdays of the Week:
Maria Mitchell born 1 August 1818
Brainpickings: Maria Mitchell and the Spider’s Web: A Touching Testament to Tenacity from America’s First Woman Astronomer
APS: Maria Mitchell Discovers a Comet
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck born 1 August 1744
Lamarck by Charles Thévenin (c. 1802)
Source: Wikimedia Commons
History of Geology: From the Contracting Earth to Supercontinents
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Understanding Evolution: Early Concepts of Evolution: Jean Baptiste Lamarck
John Tyndall born 2 August 1820
“For those curious: Tyndall was almost certainly born August 2, but the year is somewhat in doubt” – Tyndall Letters (@JohnTyndallCP)
Yovisto: John Tyndall and the Physics of Air
Joseph Paxton born 3 August 1803
Sir Joseph Paxton
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Yovisto: Joseph Paxton – from Gardens to Architecture
British Library: Facsimile of Joseph Paxton’s original sketch of the Great Exhibition from ‘A Memorial of the Great Exhibition, 1851’
Google Arts & Crafts: Owen Jones, The Great Exhibition, a watercolour with pen and ink 1851
Chatsworth: The Case
AD Classics: The Crystal Palace / Joseph Paxton
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
AHF: Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombing Timeline
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Mildred Goldberger’s Interview
Yovisto: Helen Hogg and the Global Clusters
Plaque to Helen Sawyer Hogg at Canada Science and Technology Museum
Electronic Beats: This Digital Synthesizer Was Accidentally a Cosmic Beast
Physics Today: Meghnad Saha: Physicist and nationalist
AHF: Frederick Ashworth
Yovisto: William Hamilton and the Quaternions
Universe Today: The Constellation Camelopardalis
pitt.edu: How Einstein Did Not Discover
Voices of the Manhattan Project: David Bohm’s Interview
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
New Historian: Christopher Columbus Plants Spanish Flag in South American Soil
Atlas Obscura: This Map Proves Britain Loves Tea More Than Anyone Else
National Geographic: Gorgeous Maps Reveal the History of America’s National Parks
The position of every regiment of both the Union and Confederate armies during all three days of the battle of Gettysburg are depicted on this incredibly detailed map of the battlefield from 1863.
COURTESY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
United States Census Bureau: 1790 Population Map
Smithsonian.com: These Maps Reveal How Slavery Expanded Across the United States
British Library: Maps and views blog: Magnificent Manuscripts Online: Pelagos
berfois: Chair’d in the Adamant of Time: On “America” and Other Fictions
History Today: The Origins of Rio
esri: The Cartography of the Uprooted
Balandalus: An Andalusi Mudéjar in 14th-c. Constantinople: The Travels of Ibn al-Sabbah
Mediterranean 1400
DVL: Vatican Mappa Mundi c. 780 CE
Osher Map Library: Gilbert Humphrey: A General Map, Made Onelye for the Particular Declaration of this Discovery
Hyperallergic: Maps Made to Influence and Deceive
Visions of the North: Utensils and the Franklin search
The Scotsman: Amazing 1800s map details length of Scotland’s rivers
The remarkable drawing lines all of Scotland’s rivers next to one another to make an easy comparison. Picture: NLS
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine Teaching watercolor of a gangrenous ulcer on the thigh of a boy
Mashable: 1800s Victorian Vibrators
ncbi.nim.nih.gov: John Bostock’s first description of hayfever
Northumberland Archives: Life in the County Lunatic Asylum
Thomas Morris: Conceived by a bullet
The Jackson Laboratory: Women in Science: Remembering Henrietta Lacks
Henrietta Lacks.
Motherboard: La belle histoire du pêcheur bourré qui perdit un oeil sans s’en rendre compte
Notches: Understanding Zika and the Abortion Debate in Brazil: A View from 1940
Ptak Science Books: Blade Runner Retinal ID, 1936
History of Medical Sciences, Oxford: Website
National Geographic: Fennel: Multitasking Vegetable, Ancient Birth Control
Thomas Morris: The extra jaw
Conciatore: Filippo Sassetti
The Public Domain Review: Re-examining ‘the Elephant Man’
Early Modern Medicine: The Maladies of Midwives
A woman seated on a obstetrical chair giving birth aided by
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
images@wellcome.ac.uk
The New York Times Magazine: The Brain That Couldn’t Remember
The Wellcome Library: What did the Victorians make of spectacles
The Atlantic: The Hearing Aid’s Pursuit of Invisibility
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
1 August 1831, the New London Bridge opened to traffic. Pic of John Rennie’s plan from Science Museum Archive
Plan of approaches to new London Bridge, signed J Rennie 1827 ICE Library
Open Culture: How the Moog Synthesizer Changed the Sound of Music
Smithsonian.com: What the Candidates (and Journalist) Can Learn from the 1948 Democratic Convention
Forbes: ‘Pass Me a Cold One’: A Short History of Refrigerating Wine and Beer
The BSA and Military Bicycle Museum: WW1 Military Bicycles
Yovisto: Timing is Everything – Elisha Gray and the Telephone Patent
Connected Earth: The Telephone
Strowger Automatic Exchange (& Automatic Electric Co.) (1891) : automating the phone
The New York Times: Not Forgotten: Alexander Graham Bell, Who Sparked a New Era of Communication
DIY Photography: The World’s First Digital Camera, Introduced by the Man Who Invented It
flickr: Tyne and Wear Archives: Mauretania sliding down the slipway
Atlas Obscura: The Strangely Perplexing Problem of Communicating Numbers Out Loud
Medium: Xerox Alto Is Rebuilt and Reconnected by the Living Computer Museum
Yovisto: Richard Arkwright – the Father of the Industrial Revolution
Atlas Obscura: The Alarming Aesthetics of Jazz Age Perm Machines
The Public Domain Review: “Unlimiting the Bounds”: the Panorama and the Balloon View
Atlas Obscura: Daugavpils Shot Tower
Yovisto: Nicolas-Jacques Conté and the Pencil
Atlas Obscura: The Sunsphere
Ancient Glass Blog of The Allaire Collection: Roman Pyxis with Lid
Creative Review: Restricted Areas – Danila Tkachenko’s photographs of Soviet ruins
Danila Tkachenko. The world’s largest diesel submarine
Computer History Museum: Happy 25th Birthday to the Public Webb
Yovisto: Jon Postel – Editor in Chief of the Internet
Yovisto: The Tower Subway – the World’s First Tube Railway
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Talk Origins: Biographies: Louis Leakey
Penn State: Earth 520:Richard Dixon Oldham
Shells and Pebbles: Dissecting the ‘chain of Creation’: Edward Tyson and Anatomical Natural History
Justin Erik Halldór Smith: Edward Tyson’s Orang-Outang
journals.ametsco.org: World Meteological Organisation Assessment of the Purported World Record 58°C Temperature Extreme at El Azizia, Libya (13 September 1922)
The Public Domain Review: Olaus Magnus’s Sea Serpent
Clerk of Oxford: An Anglo-Saxon August
The New York Times: Seeking Climate Change Clues in Old Pollen and Mammoth Dung
Nature: 180,000 forgotten photos reveal the future of Greenland’s ice
Royal Society Open Science: First diagnosis of septic arthritis in a dinosaur
Smithsonian.com: Solving a Mystery of Mammoth Proportions
Cambridge blog: History & Classics: What Can Medieval History Tell Us About Environmental Change?
Letters from Gondwana: Forgotten Women of Paleontology: Erika von Hoyningen-Huene
Erika von Huene at the Tuebingen University.
Dr Johnson Reading Circle: Pilgrimage to Lichfield
The Washington Post: This Smithsonian scientist’s death was a mystery: 150 years later, his skeleton helped solve it
CBC News: Last mammoths on Alaska island likely died of thirst
Science League of America: A Justly Neglected Argument Redivivus
The Friends of Charles Darwin: The HMS Beagle Olympics
Blink: The metamorphosis of gods
Bulletin of the History of Archaeology: Boucher de Perthes and the Discovery of Human Antiquity
Historical Dewitticisms: Park Consciousness
flickr: BHL: Curtis’s botanical magazine v.80…
libweb5.princeton.edu: Hydrography
CHEMISTRY:
The Recipes Project: Palm Trees and Potions: On Portuguese Pharmacy Signs
c&en: Chemistry Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail dies at age 70
Zewail is pictured here on the Caltech campus in 2011.
Credit: Mitch Jacoby/C&EN
Nobelprize.org: Ahmed Zewail – Biographical
Yovisto: Leopold Gmelin and the Chemistry of Digestion
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
the many-headed monster: Understanding Sources: doing history by numbers
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Words matter
HSS Online: Chinese Reader Project – A Note from HSS Past President Angela Creager
Arts & Humanities Research Council: Interview: Seb Falk
Johns Hopkins University Press: Testing Theories: Edison’s Scorecard
Places: Cloud and Field
Building Blocks of Human Experience: A Contribution to the Explanatory Humanities: Website launch
The Royal Society: Notes and Records Table of Contents
Niche: CHESS 2016 Reflections: Reconciliation and Environment
AHF: Monthly News Letter
Nature: Donald Trump’s appeal should be a call to arms
RBSC Manuscripts Division News: Commonplace Books and Uncommon Readers
Atlas Obscura: Marie Curie Got Her Start at a Secret University for Women
The Recipes Project: Recipes Round-Up: Research Presented at Scientiae and SSHM 2016
Chris Coltrane: Everyday Science: Scans from a Science Magazine, 1919-1921
The Scientific Method The Debate:
Stop arguing! There is indeed a real scientific method. Here you have! – Lautaro Vergara (@VergaraLautaro)
One of the (dis?)advantages of the digital age is the speed with which international debates on hot topics can develop. In the pre-Internet days somebody would publish a possibly contentious article in a journal. A week, a month or even several months later somebody else would respond in the same or a different journal provoking a further delayed response from the original author or possibly third or even a fourth party. And so the debate would grind on, sometimes over a period of several years. In this age of instant cyberspace communication the whole process can take place within the space of a few days, as was recently demonstrated by a hot debate on the existence or lack thereof of the scientific method.
The whole thing kicked was kicked off in the New York Times by philosopher James Blachowicz with a piece entitled, There Is No Scientific Method: This drew responses from Chad Orzel on his blog Uncertain Principles who explained, Why Physicists Disparage Philosophers, In Three Paragraphs and Ethan Siegel on Forbes, who angrily proclaimed, Yes, New York Times, There Is A Scientific Method. The Renaissance Mathematicus took Ethan to task for his misrepresentation of Kepler’s work in his, Getting Kepler wrong and William Storage at The Multidisciplinarian did the same for Ethan’s misrepresentations of Galileo in his The Myth of the Scientific Method On the big think, Jag Bhalla interviewed Rebecca Newberger on the topic asking the question, What’s Behind A Science vs. Philosophy Fight? Never one to miss out on a bun fight Jerry Coyne reacted sourly to the original article on his Why Evolution is True website asking Is this the worst popular philosophy piece ever? A philosopher argues that science is no more reliable than philosophy at finding truth. Psybertron reacted in turn to Coyne under Blachowicz’s original title, There Is No Scientific Method? And a second time under the title, More On The Myths of Science. And so the debate rumbles on…
ESOTERIC:
Conciatore: Reports from Parnassus
Conciatore: Crocus Martis
Whipple Library Books Blog: P is for…Phrenology
Handwritten phrenological measurements
BOOK REVIEWS:
Dave’s Book Blog: “The Strangest Man” by Graham Farmelo
Discover Society: Viewpoint: The Invention of Nature
Popular Science: Cracking Mathematics: You, This Book and 4,000 Years of Theories
The Penn Press Blog: Afternoon Coffee Break: Medieval Robots by E.R. Truitt
The New York Times: Maria Popova Reviews Janna Levin’s ‘Black Hole Blues’
Some Beans: The Company by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
ABC: Late Line: Interview: Steve Silberman, author of Neurotribes
Financial Times: The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China by Philip Ball
Nature: China A Hydrological history
The Times: The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China by Philip Ball
NEW BOOKS:
Hermann: Écritures de soi, Écritures du corps
OUP: The Tale of Seven Scientists and a New Philosophy of Science
The Royal Society: Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2016 Short List
ART & EXHIBITIONS
The Star: Sea monsters, beavers and made-up lands dot Toronto Reference Library map exhibit
National Railway Museum: National Railway Museum marks historic First World War centenary with new exhibition
BBC News: James Brindley: The canal pioneer who changed England
Various accounts suggest Brindley carved cheese to showcase his Barton Aqueduct design to a parliamentary committee
HERBERT DUNKLEY
The Map Room: MacDonal Gill Exhibition in San Diego
HSS: On Time: The Quest for Precision
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
Heriot Watt University: New exhibit unveiled at ICE museum
National Library of Scotland: You Are Here 22 July 2016–3 April 2017
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
Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–1r January 2018
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
CLOSING SOON: 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
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
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
Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus
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
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
CLOSING SOON: 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
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
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
Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–15 January 2018
COMING SOON: Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September–16 December 2016
COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE WEIGHT OF HISTORY 27 July–18 November 2016
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Shakespeare’s World View: Stars, Globes and Magic
Horsham Museum: Dinosaurs of Horsham – Art, Reality and Fun 9 July–5 September 2016
COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September–15 January
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
Smithsonia.com: The Cosmos Sings in This Fusion of Astrophysics and Music: The Hubble Cantata
NIST: Public Affair Office: Funding Opportunity to Produce Science Documentary
SFGate: Doc resurrects weird 20th century con man
CLOSING SOON: 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
CLOSING SOON: Swan Theatre: Doctor Faustus 7 March–4 August 2016
COMING SOON: The Grand Theatre Blackpool: Jekyll and Hyde
COMING SOON: Barbican: The Alchemist
COMING SOON: Barbican: Doctor Faustus
EVENTS:
Evenbrite: London 1708: a Walk into Library History 4 October 2016
The Warburg Institute: Maps and Society Lectures 26th Series Programme 2016–2017
Wellcome Collection London: Museums Computer Group: First Keynote 2016: Museums & Tech 19 October 2016
New Scientist: The life and work of Alan Turing 4_8 November 2016 (other dates available) £££
Martin Randall Travel: History of Medicine – Florence, Bologna & Padua in the Age of Humanism 12–18 September 2016 $$$
Royal College of Physicians: Walking Tour: The Making of Thoroughly Modern Medicine
The National Museum of Computing: Summer Bytes 30 July–28 August 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
Discover Medical London: Tour: Who needs doctors anyway?
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: The weight of History 6 August 2016
Royal College of Physicians: Walking Tour: John Dee and The History of Understanding
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
Louis Pasteur pursuing a rabies vaccine in this etching by Léopold Flameng from CHF’s collection.
Gift of Fisher Scientific International, CHF Collections/Gregory Tobias
CHF: The Artist in the Laboratory
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Read Science! Microbiome Edition
Youtube: Homo Diluvii Testis EN
Youtube: The Sigma Club: Interview with Hasok Chang
Youtube: Thagomizers: Histories: Pteranodon
Hagley Oral History: Kevlar R&D: An Oral History
BBC Radio 4: A History of Ideas: Most Popular: A collection of the most watched History of Ideas animations
Vimeo: Graphic Means (Official Trailer)
RADIO & PODCASTS:
WNYC: Darwin’s Life in Verse
Dolly Jørgensen: Podcast with Lund University
STAT: The Chinese hamsters that helped birth biotech
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Medical School of Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez: 7th International Congress of the International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine (ISHIM) & 4th Congress of Fez on the History of Medicine 24–28 October 2016
University of York: Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past: International Workshop 14 September 2016
BSHS: Annals of Science Student Essay Prize Deadline 30 September 2016
International Map Collectors Society: IMCoS 34th International Symposium, Chicago 24–29 September 2016
Royal Historical Society: University of Chester: CfP: Putting History in its Place: Historic Landscapes and Environments 21 April 2017 – deadline 28 October 2016
IWHA: CfP: Water History Conference 2017 Grand Rapids USA 15–17 June 2017
All Souls College Oxford: Second CfP: Teaching mathematics in the early modern period
University of York: Northern Network for Medical Humanities: Research Workshop: 22 September 2016
University of Kalamazoo: 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies: Body and Soul in Medieval Visual Culture 15 September 2016
University of Reading: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016 Registration now open
University of Mainz: Conference: Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? Construction and Transfer of Knowledge about Man and Nature in Antiquity and the Middle Ages 14–16 September 2016
University of Milan: Conference: Mathesis quaedam Divina seu Mechanismus Metaphysicus -Leibniz and the sciences 7–8 October 2016
University of St. Andrews: Conference: Mathematical Biography: A MacTutor Celebration
University of Durham: Conference: Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism? 5–7 August 2017
Salem Academy Charter School, Salem MA: New England Regional World History Association Fall Symposium: CfP: Navigation, Travel, and Exploration in World History 24 September 2016
Istanbul: XXXVth Scientific Instrument Symposium: Draft Programme 26–30 September 2016
Universidade de Évora: Conference: Évora’s 7th Symposium on Philosophy and History of Science and Technology: Structuralism: Roots, Plurality and Contemporary debates 4–5 November 2016
University of Valencia: Institute for the History of Medicine and Science “López Piñero”: Programme Fall 2016 Seminars, Conferences etc
Urbino & Cesena: XIX Summer School in Philosophy of Physics 5-9 September 2016
Radboud University Nijmegen: Call for nominations: Hanneke Janssen Memorial Prize 2016: Essay in History and Philosophy of Physics Deadline 1 November 2016
Mahon/Maó (Menorca): 9th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularisation: CFP: Living in Emergency: humanitarianism and medicine 18–20 May 2017
Berlin –Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaft: Project: Galen of Pergamum: The Transmission, Interpretation and Completion of Ancient Medicine
Wellcome Collection London: The Physiological Society: Physiology: An Historical Perspective 13 September 2016
Warwick: Humanities Research Centre: Conference: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Text and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s 4 March 2017
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
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
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
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
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
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:
Scientific Instrument Society: Research Grants Programme: Deadline 1 September 2016
BSHS: Time Measurement Research Funding: Deadline 2 September 2016
Toronto, St. George Campus: Philosophy of Science
Smithsonian Institution: Museum Curator: National Air and Space Museum
University of Paderborn: Department of Philosophy: Research Associate: Center History of Women Philosophers and Scientists
University of Miami: History Department: Phillip R. Shriver Professor of History
Freie Universität Berlin: 12 PhD & 1 Postdoc positions, Graduate School Global Intellectual History
Scientific Instrument Society: SIS Grants
University of Vienna: Post Doc: Applied Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
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