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 3, Volume #01
Monday 22 August 2016
EDITORIAL:
A new edition, the first of year three, of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list, bringing to your monitors all the histories of science, technology and medicine we could scoop up out of the far corners of the Internet.
In general two year of Whewell’s Gazette has convinced me that the Internet #histSTM scene is very much alive and well. There are times when I worry that some area is drying up, as in that week for a second time in a row some category manages only a meagre handful of links. Then a week later the same category will boast a solid collection of links, whilst another different one is showing signs of demise. So it goes, the ups and down of digital #histSTM.
I don’t see digital #histSTM as superseding other more traditional forms of #histSTM communication but rather as offering another channel, another possibility for historians of science, technology and medicine to communicate both with each other and with those interested in reading the products of their research. Digital communication can be fast, informal and direct but it can also be as solid and considered as the more traditional printed publications. Whewell’s Gazette aims to bring its readers the full spectrum of available digital #histSTM.
We hope that you we keep with us in this our third year of publication and that the #histSTM community will continue to supply us with enough material to keep our humble little journal sailing through cyberspace.
Quotes of the week:
“Writing a lecture on the humours, it never ceases to amaze me how easy it is to understand basically, but also how massively complex it is” – Alun Withey (@DrAlun)
“Lost out on a job to a less qualified candidate from a medieval French Protestant background.
It’s not what you know it’s Huguenot” – Colm O’Regan (@colmoregan)
“A guy got caught stealing an idol from our local museum in hopes of auctioning it off. Baal has been set at $50,000” – @ChrchCurmudgeon
Q: Anyone know any jokes about sodium?
A: Na – Science Channel (@ScienceChannel)
“What do you call a dinosaur that never gives up?”
“A try-try-try-ceraptops” – Specimen FMNH PR2081 (@SUEtheTrex)
“WIFE: You will stop obsessing over Boolean logic OR I’m getting a divorce.
HUSBAND: True” – Haran X (@Haran_X_Comedy)
“On Trump’s speech today, I’m reminded of something my grandmother used to say: “You can gild a turd, but you can’t make it smell no better”” – Charles Johnson (@Green_Footfalls)
“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive” – Blaise Pascal
“When a German dives into a sentence you won’t see him again until he emerges at the other end with a verb between his teeth” – Mark Twain h/t @telescoper
“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time” – Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
“Science is neat. But I’m afraid it’s not very forgiving.” — Stranger Things h/t
@JoshRosenau
“The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit” – W. Somerset Maugham
“History wasn’t built in a day.” – theidiomatic.com h/t @RussellDorman
Creatively-written Will by the uncle of Charles Wheatstone, an inventor of the telegraph
Birthdays of the Week:
Margaret Hamilton born 17 August 1936
Hamilton during her time as lead Apollo flight software designer.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: The “Rope Mother” Margaret Hamilton
Louis de Broglie born 15 August 1892
Louis de Broglie
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Yovisto: Louis de Broglie and wave nature of matter
Jöns Jacob Berzelius born 20 August 1779
Daguerreotype of Berzelius.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
CHF: Jöns Jacob Berzelius
John Flamsteed born 19 August 1646
Portrait of John Flamsteed, astronomer – born Denby Derbyshire. Painting by Thomas Gibson. Original with UK Royal Society
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – John Flamsteed
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Return of the stamp collector
Yovisto: John Flamsteed – Astronomer Royal
Royal Museums Greenwich: The Astronomer Royal: John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal
Linder Hall Library: Out of This World: The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas
The Royal Society: John Flamsteed: A celebration of the first Astronomer Royal
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Sadly, Copernicus’s early draft of the arachnocentric theory of the universe never really caught on –Karl Galle (@GalleKarl)
Voices of the Manhattan Project: William A. Fowler’s Interview
Yovisto: Pierre Mechain and the Meridian Survey Expedition
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Dorothy Ritter’s Interview
The Atlantic: The Constellations are Sexists
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Alice Kimball Smith’s Interview
Archaeology: Researchers Hope to Track Ancient Solar Storms
ABC News: A Mayan Copernicus: Venus Table may have been a major mathematical innovation
PHOTO: The Preface of the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex. (Supplied: UC Santa Barbara)
The Current: An Ancient Mayan Copernicus
University of Cambridge: Research: Study reveals Leonardo da Vinci’ “irrelevant” scribbles mark the spot where he first recorded the laws of friction
Wissenschaft & Fortschritt: A Birdsview to Babylonian Astronomy
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – James Nasmyth
OUP Blog: A Copernican eye-opener
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Robert Bacher’s Interview – Part 1
The New York Review of Books: Atomic Light
New York Public Library: 1800s Astronomical Drawings vs. NASA Images
Partial eclipse of the moon. Observed October 24, 1874.
A perigee full moon, or supermoon, is seen behind the Washington Monument during a total lunar eclipse on Sunday, September 27, 2015, in Washington, DC. The combination of a supermoon and total lunar eclipse last occurred in 1982 and will not happen again until 2033. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
AHF: Norris Bradbury
Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog: The Third Core’s Revenge
Medium: Desperately Seeking Einstein’s Assistant
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
quaritch.com: Australasia & The Pacific
Captain Cook Society: Welcome to the Captain Cook Society
The Guardian: Rare letter by Mary Wortley Montagu pioneering travel writer, up for sale
Mary Wortley Montagu with her son Edward, by Jean-Baptiste van Mour
Source: Wikimedia Commons
British Library: Online Gallery: A Coloured Map of Offalia, now forming King’s and Queen’s Counties
National Library of Scotland: The first population map of Great Britain
Smithsonian.com: The History of the American West Gets a Much-Needed Rewrite
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
The discovery of chloroform remembered in St Giles Cathedral Edinburgh.
Science Museum: Olympic Rings
The Recipes Project: Paper as Commodity in Medieval Magical and Medical Practices
HSL Special Collections: Preventative Medicine and Hygiene (1927)
The Devil’s Tale: Measuring the Children of the Corn
Yovisto: Thomas Hodgekin – a Pioneer of Preventative Medicine
Yovisto: Wilhelm Wundt – Father of Experimental Psychology
Rohampton University Research Repository: PhD Thesis: The Role of Domestic Knowledge in an Era of Professionalisation: Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Medical Recipe Collections – Sally Ann Osborn
The History of Emotions Blog: Lies, Damned Lies and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
Nursing Clio: Venus Revisited
Late-18th century Anatomical Venus (Josephinum Museum of the Medical University of Vienna)
Thomas Morris: The fractured penis
Yovisto: B.F. Skinner and Radical Behaviorism
Nursing Clio: Disproving Self-Indulgence: Congenital Addiction in the Early Twentieth Century
Wellcome Library: Wound man Part 2: afterlives
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Cause of Death?
The Recipes Project: To Break or not to Break (Part 2): From Cairo to Dordrecht
The Guardian: Bad to the bone: skeleton exhibition reveals dietry disease across social divide
Jelena Bekvalac, curator of human osteology at the Museum of London and Emily Sargent, curator at Wellcome Collection, check the skeleton of a female aged between 17-25 years old from Crossbones in Southwark who suffered the ravages of syphilis. Photograph: Callum Bennetts/MAVERICK PHOTO AGENCY
The Thinkers Garden: Odd Truths: Paracelsus the Rebel
Smithsonian.com: The Man Who Ran a Carnival Attraction That Saved Thousands of Premature Babies Wasn’t a Doctor at All
Thomas Morris: Centipedes in your bacon
CHF Distillations: Fast Times: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of Amphetamine
Discover: The Origins of Intravenous Fluids
Pour raisons de santé : Que sera l’Histoire de la médecine?
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Past is Present: The Acquisitions Table: Daguerreotype Apparatus
Conciatore: Sulfur of Saturn
JSTOR Daily: When Refrigeration was Controversial
BBC Radio 3: The Essay: The five photographs that (you didn’t know) changed everything
Hugh Le Caine: Electronic Sackbut (1945–1973)
Yovisto: The Man Who Invented Science Fiction– Hugo Gernsback
Yovisto: Gabriel Lipmann and the Colour Photography
ICE Virtual Library: Obituary John Clarke Hawkshaw Past-President 1841–1921
The National Museum of Computing: Resistance calling
Yovisto: Hans Grade – German Aviation Pioneer
Yovisto: Robert Fulton and the Steamship Company
Daily Camera News: Boulder County history: Women found math careers at the ‘Bureau’
Catherine Candelaria working as a mathematician and computer programmer at Boulder’s National Bureau of Standards in the 1960s. (National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Institute for Telecommunication Sciences / Courtesy Photo)
Apollo: Time regained: a lost rococo clock is found
The Guardian: From Marxism to McDonalds: 120 years of Russian photography – in picture
Whipple Library Books Blog: Q is for Quekett the Quekett Club and its journal
Yovisto: The Flight of the Double Eagle II
BBC News: How the UK’s first fatal car accident unfolded
Yovisto: How High/Low Can You Go? – The Explorer Auguste Piccard
Tech Insider: 7 world-changing inventions that were ridiculed when they came out
War History Online: A Look Inside The Most Feared Tank of WWII, The Panther
Marie Hicks: Only the Clothes Changed: Women Operators in British Computing and Advertising, 1950–1970
Powers-Samas electronic computers images. (a) The advertisement appeared in the Powers-Samas Magazine May/June 1958 issue (p. 5). (b) The photo of the real female employee operating the Electronic Multiplying Punch (Emp) at LaPorte Industries appeared in the Powers-Samas Magazine June/July 1957 issue (p. 11). (Courtesy of Powers-Samas)
Yovisto: Pierre Vernier and the Vernier Scale
Yovisto: Making Photography Really Operational – Louis Daguerre
Yovisto: Philo Taylor Farnsworth and the Electronic Television
Yovisto: Taming Hurricane Debbie
The Guardian: First world war wreck gets virtual restoration off coast of Yorkshire
Yovisto: The Wright Brothers Invented the Aviation Age
Atlas Obscura: Say Farewell to New York’s Original Apple Store
BBC iWonder: How did 16 photographs change the way we see the world?
Royal Museums Greenwich: John Harrison’s iconic marine timekeepers
Paleofuture: We’re Still Waiting on the Dishwasher Utopia
Gizmodo: In 1898, Nikola Tesla Predicted Drone Warfare
Naval History and Heritage Command: Hooper
London Reconnections: Empire of the Air: The Imperial Airship Service: Connecting London with the Empire
1902 picture of a private airship flown from Crystal Palace to Ealing. Jonathan Roberts’ collection.
IEEE Spectrum: The Man Who Invented Intelligent Traffic Control a Century Too Early
Distilations: Cool Food
Computer History Museum: Answers in Black and White (And Sometimes Right)
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Center for the History of Medicine: Capturing the History of Sustainability at the Harvard Chan School
Niche: Sliding down the Timber Chute: The 1901 Royal Tour of Canada
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Sir Edwin Ray Lankester
Letters from Godwana:Mignon Talbot and the Forgotten Women of Paleontology
Literary Hub: How Does a Skeleton Become Famous?
BHL: Instagram
Yovisto: Regnier de Graaf – Creator of Experimental Physiology
Parks & Gardens UK: Capability Brown Landscape of the Month: Navestock
William “Strata” Smith Blue Plaque
Ocean Explorers: 1785: Benjamin Franklin’s ‘Sundry Maritime Observations’
New Scientist: Bunnies helped a great civilisation in ancient Mexico thrive
SANBI: Celebrating Mary Gunn and 100 years of library excellence in South Africa
Science Focus: Solving the Piltdown Man crime: how we worked out there was only one forger
The Biologist: An evening with Sir Alec Jeffreys
Environment & Society Portal: The Nuclear Disaster of Kyshtym 1957 and the Politics of the Cold War
Evolving Thoughts: The History of Life: Before Aristotle 2: The Eleatics and the atomists
Science League of America: Garfield’s Evolution Debate
ozy.com: This Spinster Revealed Women Really Are Freaks In The Sheets
flickr: Biodiversity Heritage Library
Science: Ötzi the Iceman had some wild clothes
Smithsonian.com: DNA Analysis Reveals What Ötzi the Iceman Wore to His Grave
A reconstruction of Ötzi the Iceman at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology. (OetziTheIceman /Flickr CC)
Burgerbibliothek Bern: Das Herbarium des Felix Platter
Wildlife Articles: Celebrating the legacy of John Muir
Irish Philosophy: The Evolution of Evolution: Darwin’s philosophical forebears
GEOExPro: Geologists at War
New York Times: This Land Is My Land (And Yours, Too!)
npr: What Does It Take to Map a Walrus Hangout? 160 Years and a Lot of Help
History of Geology: Charles Darwin in Rio de Janeiro and the Geology of Sugarloaf Mountain
Science League of America: Pinning Down Piltdown
CHEMISTRY:
Discover: The Crux: How the Elements Got Their Names
Conciatore: Vitriol of Venus
Conciatore: Tartar Salt
Yovisto: Jules Janssen and the Discovery of Helium
OUP Blog: An egalitarian and organic history of the periodic table
Dimitri Mendeleev is one of the most well-known scientists credited for the discovery of chemical periodicity, though he is not the only to have made this discovery. Image uploaded by Serge Lachinov. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
Irish Philosophy: Sophie Bryant, (Irish) Renaissance Woman
Photograph of Sophie Bryant (1850–1922) by Robert Tucker (1832–1905)
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Conversation: Why science and engineering need to remind students of forgotten lessons from history
Advances in the History of Psychology: Reflecting on “Functionalism, Darwinism, and the Psychology of Women”
Academia: Introduction: Epicureanism at the Origin of Modernity: The Revival of Ancient Materialism
Annals of Science: Early Laboratories c.1600–c.1800 and the Location of Experimental Science
ISIS; Volume 107, Number 2 June 2016 ToC: Viewpoint: The History Manifesto and the History of Science (oa)
Social Epistemology: How Should Feyerabend have Defended Astrology? A Further Reply to Kidd, Massimo Pigliucci
Scott Polar Research Institute: Science at the Polar Museum
Social History of Medicine: Volume 29 Issue 3 August 2016 Table of Contents
The History Vault: Why Society Needs Historians
Cultures of Knowledge: Calculating Blaise Pascal
ESOTERIC:
The Public Domain Review: The Surreal Art of Alchemical Diagrams
Motherboard: These Surreal Ancient Alchemy Manuscripts Are Terrifyingly Cool
Annals of Science: Phrenological Knowledge and the Social Structure of Early Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh
Inner Lives: Magic and Humour in the Late Middle Ages
Scientific American: Is It Possible to Measure Supernatural or Paranormal Phenomena?
BOOK REVIEWS:
Medieval Histories: The Great Transition in the Late Medieval World
The Guardian: The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage review – a comic look at two Victorian prodigies
Lady Science: My Thrilling Adventures Reading About Ada and Charles
Lady Science: Romance and Radium: Emotional Histories of Science
Siam News: Nautical Numbers: The Influence of Nathaniel Bowditch
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Thomas Annan and the Documentary Photography
TED-Ed Blog: A Q&A about autism with Steve Siberman, author of NeuroTribes
Itinerario: Sebastian Conrad. What is Global History?
Boston Globe: Luke Dittrich recalls grandfather’s role in lobotomy that yielded key insights, tragedy
NEW BOOKS:
Historiens de la santé: La fondation secrète de l’homéopathie (Reseaux Francs-Macons et théories médicales de 1750 a 1810)
Historiens de la santé: Anatomophysiologie du cerveau et du cervelet chez Vincenzo Malacarne (1744-1816)
Historiens de la santé: The Eugenic Fortress: The Transylvanian Saxon Experiment in Interwar Romania
H-Midwest-Medieval: Islamic Literature and Intellectual Life in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-century Anatolia
Springer: Early Geological Maps of Europe: Central Europe 1750 to 1840
Historiens de la santé: The Autonomy of Pleasure: Libertines, License, and Sexual Revolution
ART & EXHIBITIONS
American Museum of Natural History: Opulent Oceans
Natural History Museum: Colour and Vision: Through the Eyes of Nature 15 July–6 November 2016
Poetic Botany: A Digital Exhibition: Art & Science of the Eighteenth-Century Vegetable World
Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September –16 December 2016
The Australian: Hadron Collider show reveals art of science at Sydney Powerhouse Museum
Royal Museums Greenwich: Do the Ultimate Time Trail
University of Nottingham: Manuscripts and Special Collections: Weston Gallery Exhibition: Francis Willughby (1635–1672) A Natural Historian and His Collections 19 August–4 December 2016
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 Runs till 2 October 2016
Various accounts suggest Brindley carved cheese to showcase his Barton Aqueduct design to a parliamentary committee
HERBERT DUNKLEY
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 2016–15 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
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: 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
The Star: Sea monsters, beavers and made-up lands dot Toronto Reference Library map exhibit
Science Museum: Journeys Through Medicine
Science Museum: Cosmos & Culture
Oxford University Museum of Natural History: How spiders linked the world together, and the man at the centre of it all 26 July–27 September 2016
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
Shine: Watch: “Hidden Figures” Tells the Untold Story of NASA’s Black Women Mathematicians
ars technica: New movie celebrates the true geniuses behind Apollo: NASA’s mathematicians
Youtube: Pathé: La glace et le ciel – Bande-annonce Officielle HD
Vanity Fair Hollywood: Kirsten Dunst Joins Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janellle Monae in Feminist Space Race: The actresses will tell the untold story of the mathematicians who helped make space travel possible.
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
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
COMING SOON: The Grand Theatre Blackpool: Jekyll and Hyde 6-10 September 2016
COMING SOON: Barbican: The Alchemist 2 September–1 October 2016
COMING SOON: Barbican: Doctor Faustus 7 September–1 October 2016
COMING SOON: Tailspin Theatre: Copenhagen by Michael Frayn 9 September 2016
COMING SOON: Hull Truck Theatre: Faustus 14 October 2016
COMING SOON: Salisbury Playhouse: Frankenstein 20 October–5 November 2016
COMING SOON: Dundee Rep Theatre: Frankenstein 28–29 October 2016
Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Superwomen of Science 26–28 August 2016
EVENTS:
University of Bristol: Cotham Hall: Talks: Eric Scerri ‘A Tale of Seven Scientists and a New Philosophy of Science’ Geoff Blumenthal `Some implications of a holistic and unificatory approach to the period 1770-1815 in chemistry’ 5 September 2016
Bklyn Public Library: James Gleick, National Book Award nominated science writer, on his new book, Time Travel 27 September 2016
History Collections: Next History Day 15 November 2016
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Art and Beauty in Medicine 5 October 2016
Linda Hall Library: The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language 8 September 2016
Royal College of Physicians: Museum Late: ‘By Permission of Heaven’: The Story of the Great Fire of London 5 September 2016
Royal College of Physicians: Study Tour: ‘Flight from the Flames’: Recovering London from The Great Fire 5 September & 5 October 2016
Royal College of Physicians: ‘Medicinal Plant Afternoon: A Chinese triumph and an American awakening’ 19 September 2016
IET London: Ada Lovelace Day Live! 2016 11 October
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
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 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?
Royal College of Physicians: Walking Tour: John Dee and The History of Understanding
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
Watchers of the stars
TELEVISION:
BBC TWO: Full Steam Ahead
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
L.I.S.A: Die Entstehung der deutschen Präzisionsuhrmacherei
RADIO & PODCASTS:
British Library Sounds: Early spoken word recordings: In aid of the Light Brigade Relief Fund Florence Nightingale
npr: The Lobotomy of Patient H.M: A Personal Tragedy and Scientific Breakthrough
To the Best of Our Knowledge: Jane Camerini on Alfred Russel Wallace
Business Insider: Listen to Albert Einstein talk – and get closer than ever before to the legendary genius
npr: The Supreme Court Ruling That Led to 70,000 Forced Sterilisations
Spare Min: Forbe’s John W Farrell on the legacy of Georges Lemaître
ABC Radio: National Science Week: Women in science through Australia’s history on RN Drive
University of Exeter: CfP: Conference: Medical Practice in Early Modern Britain in Comparative Perspective
Youtube: Royal Society: Guns and Rockets – Objectivity #80
Vimeo: Isambard Kingdom Brunel: A Victorian Frank Lloyd Wright
Youtube: Wellcome Collection: The Story of Henry Wellcome
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Hakluyt Society Blog: Hakluyt@400 Quartercenteneary programme Autumn 2016
University of Bristol: CfP: Writing Remains: In Interdisciplinary Symposium on Archaeology and Literature 20 January 2017
RSA: Call for Submissions: Picturing Death 1200–1600 (Edited Volume)
UCL: The Second London Philosophy of Science Graduate Conference 1-2 September 2016
Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo: ICMS: CfP: Before and After 1348: Prelude and Consequences of the Black Death 11–14 May 2017
Royal Historical Society: University of Chester: CfP: Putting History in its Place: Historical Landscapes and Environments 21 April 2017 Deadline: 28 October 2016
The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe: Conference: Where does it hurt? Ancient medicine in questions and answers 30–31 August 2016
University of York: CfP: Workshop: The Medieval Brain 10-11 March 2017
Birkbeck: University of London: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–25 March 2017
Westminster Quakers Meeting House: Workshop: A Many Sided Crystal: Celebrating Silvanus Phillips Thompson 16 September 2016
King’s College London: CHoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
York Medical Society: CfP: “First Impressions”: Faces, clothes, and bodies 1600–1800 10 November 2016
ICHST 2017 Rio: CfP: XXXVI Symposium of the Scientific Instruments Commission Deadline 25 November 2016
Royal Museums Greenwich: AHRC Funded Research Network Project: Joseph Banks, Science, Culture and the Remaking of the Indo-Pacific World
University of Pittsburgh: Center for Philosophy of Science 57th Annual Lecture Series 2016–17
King’s College London: Workshop: Popularising Palaeontology: Current & Historical Perspectives 14–15 September 2016
Medieval Institute Publications: Call for proposals: History and Cultures of Food 14th–18th Centuries New Series
ICM Leeds 2017: CfP: Health and Medicine in the Early Medieval West Deadline 9 September 2016
University of Sheffield: Interdisciplinary Workshop: Intoxication, Discourse and Practice 30 September–1 October 2016
ICHST “2017: Symposium Proposals Approved by IPC
APS Physics: CfP: April Meeting 2017 Include History of Physics Deadline 30 September 2016
The Ordered Universe Project: Space and Place: Ordered Universe Symposium Durham University 1-3 September 2016
BSHS: Annals of Science Student Essay Prize
University of York: International Workshop: Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past 14-16 September 2016
BSHS: The 2016 Big Draw Festival: STEAM Powered: From STEM to STEAM 1–31 October 2016
Hakluyt Society: Essay Prize 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
Gravity Fields Festival 2016: 21–25 September: Tickets are now on sale
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Conference: Reproductive politics in France and Britain 5–7 September 2016
Medieval Art Research: CFP: Of Man Eating Men: Medieval and Early Modern Cannibalism (edited volume)
University of York: Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past: International Workshop 14 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
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 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
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
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:
University College Dublin: Post Doctoral Research Fellow: ‘Reform, Welfare and Prisoner ‘Health Rights’
The Royal Institution: L’Oréal Young Scientist Centre Laboratory Workshop Facilitator
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: Project Officer: Mobile Museum
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