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 #09
Monday 17 October 2016
EDITORIAL:
Another week, another edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list bringing to its readers all of the histories of science, technology and medicine that could be swept together out of the depths of cyberspace.
Last Tuesday saw the return of the yearly celebration of women in STEM, Ada Lovelace Day. It is a sad reflection that in the twenty-first century we still need to make people aware of the fact that women are not treated equally in the STEM disciplines, despite the many proofs delivered by numerous women in the twentieth century that they are in every way the equal to their male colleagues.
As usually the Internet #histSTM community was well represented on this day with some new posts and articles and the reposting of some old ones and as usual in what could almost said to be a tradition we have collected together as many of these posts and articles as we could find and present them here for your perusal.
It is to be hoped at some not all to distant point in the future that the necessity for an Ada Lovelace Day will have become superfluous, unfortunately it doesn’t look as though this will be the case anytime soon. Until it is Whewell’s Gazette will continue to support and encourage those who valiantly strive to raise the awareness of the role that women have played in #histSTM
The H-Word: On Ada Lovelace Day. Let’s also celebrate 19th-century renaissance woman Agnes Clerke
Portrait of Agnes Mary Clerke (1842-1907), astronomer, writer and historian Photograph: Bygone Collection/Alamy Stock Photo
Smithsonian.com: Ten Historic Female Scientists You Should Know
Irène Curie-Joliot (1897 – 1956)
(The Granger Collection, New York)
TrowelBlazers: Elizabeth Philpot
The Guardian: Palaeontology is full of dinosaurs – and not in a good way for women’s careers
BBC Radio 4: The Mother of the Sea
Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker (1901-1957)
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Jstor Daily: The Mother of Ocean Floor Cartography
Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen (via Wikimedia Commons)
Irish Philosophy: Sophie Bryant, (Irish) Renaissance Woman
Sophie Bryant
by W. & D. Downey, published by Cassell & Company, Ltd, carbon print, published 1894
KCUR 89.3: The Genius of Émilie du Châtelet
Émilie du Châtelet
Portrait by Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Source: Wikimedia Commons
TLS: Ada Lovelace and the abstract machine
175 Faces of Chemistry: Ida Freund
Ida Freund
© Newnham College Cambridge
Open Logic Project: For Ada Lovelace Day: Julia Bowman Robinson
Julia Robinson
EGU Blogs: Who do you think most deserves the title of the Mother of Geology?
Florence Bascom (1862–1945)
By Camera Craft Studios, Minneapolis – Creator/Photographer: Camera Craft Studios, Minneapolis. Persistent Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives Collection: Science Service Records, 1902-1965 (Record Unit 7091)
The Renaissance Mathematicus: The Queen of Science – The woman who tamed Laplace
Mary Somerville by Thomas Phillips
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Lady Science: Queens of Code
Lady Science: Science With A Capital “S”
Lady Science: Technological Food and Women’s Labour
Skulls in the Stars: Jane Marcet educates Michael Faraday
Portrait of Jane Marcet, from the Edgar Fahs Smith Collection, University of Pennsylvania Library.
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: From “Computer” to Astronomer: The Role of Women in Astronomy
Astronomer Phoebe Waterman Haas using a bucket lift to ascend the Mt. Wilson 46-meter (150-foot) Solar Tower, circa 1910. Image from page 15C of the Phoebe Waterman Haas Photo Album, 1909-1914. Image: The National Air and Space Museum Archives (NASM-9A12028-015C)
Scientific American: 15 Works of Art Depicting Women in Science
“Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale,” “Barbara McClintock,” “Agnes Pockels,” and “Maria Goeppert-Mayer” – Jennifer Mondfrans
(oil, acrylic, and wax pastel)
Smithsonian.com: NASA’s “Rocket Girls” Are No Longer Forgotten History
The women “computers” pose for a group photo in 1953. (Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Huff Post Young Voices: Michael Gove Is Wrong: Mary Seacole Belongs on the School Curriculum
Sketch of Mary Seacole by Crimean war artist William Simpson (1823–1899), c. 1855
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Letters from Gondwana: Marie Stopes and her Legacy as Paleobotanist
Marie Stopes (From Wikimedia Commons)
Nature: Barbara McClintock and the Discovery of Jumping Genes
Barbara McClintock giving her Nobel Lecture
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Quotes of the week:
“I love it when somebody says, “everybody know…” when what they means is, “It’s my unsubstantiated opinion…”” – Thony Christie (@rmathematicus)
“You say defenestrate. I say exsanguinate. Let’s call the whole thing off” – Thomas Logan (@Penman1961)
“All six American recipients of the Nobel Prize are immigrants” – Happenstance5 (@Happenstance5)
“Our knowledge of what happened in the past changes constantly. That’s what ‘doing history’ is” – Thony Christie (@rmathematicus)
“When my fridge rings to say we need more milk, tell it I’m in a meeting” (2000) – John Thackara (@johnthackara)
“Our government will be making a list of all foreign nationals who have a jar of Marmite, as that Marmite should go to a UK citizen” – Theresa May (@Theresa_Maybe)
“Guys, guys, it’s okay that dinosaurs had feathers and probably didn’t roar. Imagine a goose. Imagine a bus-sized, meat-eating goose” – Becky Chambers (@beckysaysrawr)
“Reality TV idea: We build a fake White House and put Trump in it and tell him he’s president. Film the whole thing” – Dan Kaszeta (@DanKaszeta)
“White Lies Matter” – David Dark (@DavidDark)
Best fundraising line ever: “Donors who are obsessed with getting their names on buildings have an edifice complex” – Scary Parcak (@indyfromspace)
“The difference between a philosopher and a crazy person is that the philosopher has good reasons for believing their crazy ideas” – Existential Comics (@existentialcoms)
Birthday of the Week:
Quaternions born 16 October 1843: i² = j² = k² = ijk = -1
Exif_JPEG_PICTURE
Slate: Celebrate Hamilton Day, a Better Mathematical Holiday
Sir William Rowan Hamilton.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – William Rowan Hamilton
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Cambridge Digital Library: Transit of Venus
Skymania: Earliest colour photo of an astronomical expedition
Astronomy Now: Green Bank Observatory: the making of an American astronomy icon
Arizona Daily Sun: Program to celebrate life of Percival Lowell
Yovisto: Heinrich Olbers and the Olbers’ Paradox
Yovisto: The Leyden Jar and the Age of Electricity
The H-Word: A 19th-century astronomy expedition brought to life
Drawings by Lieutenant E.J.W. Noble capture the annoyances of expeditionary astronomy, from mosquitoes to cleaning screws. Photograph: Cambridge Digital Library/Charlotte Tupman and Cambridge University Library
AIP: Robert Marshak – Session I
Dannen.com: Einstein to Roosevelt, August 2, 1939
Yovisto: Peter Barlow and the Barlow Lens
APS: Volta describes the Electric Battery
Mashable: Ancient site could rival Stonehenge as world’s oldest observatory
Muslim Heritage: The Observation Well
The miniature of the Istanbul Observatory well.
GazetteXtra: Historic Yerkes Observatory still giving public a glimpse at our galaxy
AHF: Britain
The Heights: ‘What Exactly Is the Crime?’ Paula Findlen Talks About the Life of Galileo
AIP: Jesse Greenstein
Space News Magazine: Quick Takes (04-11-16): Robotic Missions to Mars
To illustrate the challenges of sending robotic missions to Mars,Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA’s associate administrator for human exploration and operations, showed this chart of the history of Mars missions during a March 31 meeting of the NASA Advisory Council. The chart — part of a presentation Gerst gave on NASA’s plans to send humans to Mars in the 2030s — “shows how difficult Mars really is, if you look at the number of failures.” Credit: NASA
Forbes: Did Copernicus Invent the Solar System
tucso.com: Ewen Whitiker, University of Arizona moon-mapper, dies
Yovisto: Henry Cavendish and the Weight of the Earth
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Museo Galileo: Una Terra Oltre Le Stelle
Smithsonian.com: Discover One of History’s Most Ambitious Maps
University of Melbourne: Museums and Collections: Early maps digitation supported by Friends of the Baillieu Library
Yovisto: The Greenwich Prime Meridian
The Map Room: Maggiolo Planisphere of 1531 to be Auctioned
Vesconte Maggiolo Planiphere of 1531. Daniel Crouch Rare Books.
National Maritime Museum: Writing at sea: from log to blog (1)
National Maritime Museum: Writing at sea: from log to blog (2)
Downtown Express: Cultural group’s new historical map shows ‘Lower Manhattan Then & Now’
Scientific American: 80 Years Later, Polar Explorer’s Sunken Ship Floats Again
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Wonders & Marvels: Period pains – have women always suffered from menstrual cramps?
The Telegraph: Could this wallpaper kill you? Victorian Britain’s lethal obsession with the perfect shade of green
The Paris Review: Night Doctors
University of Cambridge: Digital Library: De humani corporis fabrica. Epitome
Thomas Morris: A beetle in the bladder
Thomas Morris: The man who coughed up a knife
Yovisto: Rudolph Virchow – the Father of Modern Pathology
Thomas Morris: Pipe dreams
The Guardian: Primodos was a revolutionary oral pregnancy test. But was it safe?
An advertisement for Primodos in The Practitioner from the early 1960s marketing campaign aimed at GPs that aggressively targeted the slower, more expensive toad test Photograph: Practitioner, vol 187 July 1961/The Practitioner, Practitioner Medical Publishing Ltd
Vox: How we got duped into believing milk is necessary for healthy bones
The Quack Doctor: A breath of maggoty air
Historiens de la santé: Mise en ligne du livre VII de la Fabrica de Vésale
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
A gem of a poem, ‘The Engineers’ by American poet Berton Braley, from the journal of the Society of Engineers, 1920 – IET Library Archives
Web Urbanist: The Power to Change: 12 Brilliantly Reclaimed Energy Stations
BBC News: Poland’s Enigma mathematicians honoured
The Telegraph: Polish codebreakers cracked Enigma before Alan Turing
A 1935 Enigma machine, used by Germans to encrypt messages during World War II CREDIT: TONY AVELAR
BBC News: Alan Turing’s nephew on how Poles helped crack Enigma code
AEON: It’s not all about lightbulbsThe Scientist: Microscopy’s Growth Through the Years
AEON: Guns, empires and Indians
O Can You See?: Post-World War 1 tales: A silk surplus, armistice fashion, and a philanthropic innovator
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Yovisto: Christophorus Buys Ballot and the Weather Systems
Notches: ‘The Stimulus of the Flesh’ and Margaret Singleton’s Broken Vow
Yovisto: Lewis Fry Richardson and the accurate Weather Forecast
Yovisto: The German Continental Deep Drilling Programme
The drill tower of the main borehole at the German Continental Deep Drilling Programme. Image: W.J.Pilsak
Nautilus: Why “Natural Selection” Became Darwin’s Fittest Metaphor
Notches: Postwar Sex Education and the Roots of White Male Sexual Entitlement
Geschichte der Geologie: Das Körnchen Wahrheit in der Argonautensage um das Goldenen Vlies
JSTOR Daily: Community Gardens Were All the Rage… In The – 1700s
CHEMISTRY:
Othmeralia: Gasogenes
Chemistry World: A nanocarbon revolution
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
Medical History: Volume 60 – Issue 4 – October 2016 Table of Contents
Hagströmerbiblioteket: Wunderkammer
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Edwin Abbott Abbott
Nature: Close but no Nobel: the scientist who never won
New Atlas: The most valuable scientific documents of all-time #20-11
BBC Culture: How Utopia shaped the world
Literary Hub: The Man Who Invented Bookselling as We Know It
Physics Today: What was it like to get a PhD in the 1840s?
ESOTERIC:
Conciatore: The Purse of Envy
Antonio Neri, “The Mineral Gold”
Tesoro del Mondo, Ferguson 67, f. 5r.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Occam’s Corner: ‘Culture’ means science as well as art we must look beyond narrow disciplines
Patheos: The Mythical Origins of Science
The Atlantic: When Poison Was Everywhere
Popular Science: Einstein’s Greatest Mistake – David Bodanis
The Guardian: A celebration of botanical art throughout history – in pictures
Opium poppies (Papaver somniferum), 18th-century album leaf, ink and colours on silk, National Palace Museum, Taipei
H-Environment: Andrews on Nance, “The Historical Animal”
Nature: Physics: Fallible pontiff of physics
Siam News: ENIAC: the First Electronic Computer’s Place in History
Popular Science: Ada’s Algorithm – James Essinger
India Today: Maps of a lost land
New Books Network: Wondrous Truths: The Improbable Triumph of Modern Science
NEW BOOKS:
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Marius Book Launch
Evolving Thoughts: A new (and apparently excellent) book on species concepts
Historiens de la santé: Pratique médicale, rationalisme et relâchement religieux
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Anesthesiology: A Tale of Two Paintings: Depictions of the First Public Demonstration of Ether Anesthesia
Fig. 1. (top ) Robert Cutler Hinckley, The First Operation with Ether , 1893. Oil on canvas, 8′× 10′. Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts. Reproduced with permission. (bottom ) Key for identifying individuals in the painting. (1) Unidentified newspaper reporter; (2) John Call Dalton (1825–1889), student, Harvard Medical School; (3) William Williamson Wellington, M.D. (1814–1896), referring physician for patient Edward Gilbert Abbott; (4) Abel Lawrence Peirson, M.D. (1794–1853), Consulting Surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital; (5) Charles Hosea Hildreth (1825–1884), student, Harvard Medical School; (6) William Thomas Green Morton (1819–1868), anesthesiologist; (7) Jonathan Mason Warren, M.D. (1811–1867), Visiting Surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital; (8) Edward Gilbert Abbott (1825–1855), the patient; (9) John Collins Warren, M.D. (1778–1856), Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Chief of Surgery and Founder of Massachusetts General Hospital, operating surgeon; (10) Ebenezer Hopkins Frost (1824–1866), music teacher, received general anesthesia for dental extraction on September 30, 1846; (11) Charles Frederick Heywood, M.D. (1823–1893), House Surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital; (12) Henry Jacob Bigelow, M.D. (1818–1890), Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Visiting Surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital; (13) Augustus Addison Gould, M.D. (1805–1866), physician, author, and conchologist, Secretary, Massachusetts Medical Society; (14) Solomon Davis Townsend, M.D. (1793–1869), Surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital.
Leek Post & Times: Mary A Blagg the Cheadle Astronomer honoured at Cheadle Discovery Centre exhibition
Museum of the History of Science Oxford: Back from the Dead: Demystifying Antibiotics 4 November 2016–21 May 2017
BBC News: William Heath Robinson museum set to open
Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle Saale: Alchemie – Die Suche nach dem Weltgeheimnis 25 November 2016–5 Juni 2017
British Library: What’s on: Maps and the 20 th Century: Drawing the Line 4 November 2016–1 March 2017
Dr Alum Withey: Announcing… ‘The Age of the Beard’
The Arctic Journal: Northwest Passages: Pre-factual cartography
University of Kent: Studio 3 Gallery: Curio: Sites of Wonder 30 September–2 December 2016
Tel Aviv Museum of Art: Alchemy of Words: Abraham Abulafia, DADA, Lettrism 16 June–5 November 2016
Royal College of Physicians: ‘a cabinet of rarities’: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne 30 January–27 July 2017
The Straits Times: M.C.Escher’s optical illusion art at ArtScience Museum
University of Bangor: The Art of Ernst Haeckel: Art Forms from the Abyss
The Foundling Museum: Feeding the 400 23 September 2016–08 January 2017
The Getty Research Institute: The Art of Alchemy 11 October 2016–12 February 2017
Alchemists Revealing Secrets from the Book of Seven Seals, The Ripley Scroll (detail), ca. 1700. 950053
Osher Map Museum: The Northwest Passage: Navigating Old Beliefs and New Realities 29 September 2016–11 March 2017
The Huntingdon: Gardens, Art, & Commerce in Chinese Woodblock Prints
Henry Moore Institute: The Body Extended: Sculpture and Prosthetics 21 July–23 October 2016
British Library: Maps and views blog: Map exhibition – the countdown begins
Guildhall Art Gallery, London: Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy 20 September 2016–22 January 2017
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies Harvard University: The Art of Discovery 13 September– 29 October 2016
Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art: Mapping Australia: Country to Cartography 4 October 2016–15 January 2017
past@present: Women in Science: The Stories Are All Around Us
Exhibition open 15 September 2016 through Summer 2017
Hodinkee: Historical Perspectives: New York’s Grolier Club to Exhibit a Collection of Rare Horological Books and Artifacts
Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: the asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017
Live Mint: Science, time, and Rohini Devasher’s art
Poetic Botany: Art & Science of the Eighteenth-Century Vegetable World
Gallica Rose
University of Leicester: New Website showcases migraine artwork digitally for the first time
Yale News: Yale marks 175th anniversary of Arabic and Sanskrit studies with exhibit, public events
Hyperallergic: The Morgan Marks the Centennial of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
Université de Lausanne: Musée de physique de Lausanne : brève visite virtuelle
Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and Los Angeles Basin, 1940–1990
blog.umass.edu: Women in Science: The Stories Are All Around Us
The Hunterian: Tracking Animals 7 April–12 February 2017
University of Birmingham: Inspiring Knowledge: 13 October 2016–30 June 2017
COMING SOON: Guildhall Art Gallery: Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy 20 September–22 January 2017
American Museum of Natural History: Opulent Oceans
Natural History Museum: Colour and Vision: Through the Eyes of Nature 15 July–6 November 2016
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
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
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
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
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
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
Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm
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
Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017
Science Museum: Information Age
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: Einstein’s Legacy
Bethel Museum of the Mind: The Weight of History 27 July – 18 November 2016
Royal Society of Medicine: charcot, hysteria, & la salpetriere 3 May 2016–23 July 2016
Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September–16 December 2016
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 1 August–31 December 2016
Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017
The Star: Sea monsters, beavers and made-up lands dot Toronto Reference Library map exhibit
Science Museum: Journeys Through Medicine
Science Museum: Cosmos & Culture
Science Museum: Challenge of Materials
Science Museum: The Clockmakers’ Museum
Maudsley Long Gallery: Before and After 15 September 2016–16 January 2017
COMING SOON: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Swansea: Royal Collection: Leonardo da Vinci 14 October 2016–6 January 2017
Maudsley Long Gallery: Before and After 15 September 2016–16 January 2017
Wellcome Collection: Electricity: The spark of life 23 February–2 July 2017
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
Aldeburgh Cinema: I am Ali Wallace 6 November 2016
IMBd: The Current War in Pre-production
Variety: The Current War
St John’s College Cambridge: Kepler’s Trial: An Opera Premieres 28–29 October 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
COMING SOON: Salisbury Playhouse: Frankenstein 20 October–5 November 2016
COMING SOON: Dundee Rep Theatre: Frankenstein 28–29 October 2016
COMING SOON: Dundee Rep Theatre: Frankenstein 28–29 October 2016
COMING SOON: The Watermill Theatre: Frankenstein 31 October–4 November 2016
COMING SOON: Theatrau SirGâr: STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE 28 October 2016
COMING SOON: Milton Rooms: Dr Faustus 10-11 November
COMING SOON: Roses Theatre: Dr Faustus 28–29 October 2016
COMING SOON: Young Everyman Playhouse: Frankenstein 28–29 October 2016
COMING SOON: Cornerstone Arts Centre:The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 27 October 2016
COMING SOON: Salisbury Playhouse: Frankenstein 20 October–5 November 2016
COMING SOON: Guildhall Arts Centre: Dr Faustus 20 October 2016
NOW: ARTS THEATRE: Dr Faustus 17–19 October 2016
COMING SOON: Alnwick Playhouse: Frankenstein 20 October 2016
COMING SOON: Arts at the Old Fire Station: Jekyll & Hyde and Nerve 21 October 2016
COMING SOON: Queenshall: Frankenstein 21 October 2016
EVENTS:
Manchester Science Festival: Animal kingdom: Stereoscopic images of natural history
Manchester Science Festival: Capturing science: Images past and present
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Ingenuity and Craft Culture in Early Modern London
Whipple Museum, Cambridge: Festival of Ideas: Space Oddities
Whipple Museum, Cambridge: Festival of Ideas: High Seas at the Whipple
Whipple Museum, Cambridge: Educating the Eyes: Geometrical Models and their Makers, 1860-1890
The Center for Science & Society at Columbia University: Nancy Tomes – From Black Plague to Zika: the Continuing Challenge of Epidemics and Our Efforts to Combat Them 18 October 2016
National Maritime Museum: Transit to Hawai’i: behind the sense with digital history & astronomy 29 October 2016
The Recipes Project: Announcing… Our 2nd Annual Transcribathon! 9 November 2016
Wellcome Collection: UK Medical Heritage Library Symposium 27 October 2016
UCL: CELL: Workshop & Drinks: The Archaeology of Reading in Early Modern Europe (AOR)
Churchill College Cambridge: Churchill and Nuclear Weapons: From the A-Bomb to the H-Bomb 15 November 2016
Smithsonian Libraries: It’s Alive!: The Science of Shelley’s Frankenstein 22 October 2016
University of Bradford: Lecture: A Bradford Community Pharmacy Prescription Book 7 November 2016
Bodleian Libraries: Eleanor Rathbone, refugee scholars and the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning 18 October 2016
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Shakespeare’s World View: Curator Tour 14 October 2016
Museum of Science and Industry/ Manchester Science Festival: Capturing science: Images past and present 20-30 October 2016
Museum of Science and Industry/ Manchester Science Festival: Animal kingdom: Stereoscopic images of natural history 20-30 October 2016
Museum of Science and Industry/ Manchester Science Festival: John Dalton: Father of science 20-30 October 2016
Museum of London: From Sail to Steam: London’s Role in a Shipbuilding Revolution
Museum for the History of Science, Oxford: Don’t panic! Promises and threats of science and technology 17 November 2016
Archives Month: Welcome to Archives Month Philly
University of Leicester: Attenborough Arts Centre: Science and the Victorian public 18 November 2016
Morbid Anatomy Museum: Art forms in Nature 19 October 2016
Center for the history of Medicine at Countway Library: Celebration: 70 Years of Women at HMS 21 October 2016
The Old Operating Theatre Museum: Chloroform and Cholera: The Life of John Snow 20 October 2016
University of London: Senate House Library and Institute of Historical Research Library: History Day 2016: history libraries, archives & research open day 15 November 2016
Discover Medical London: Our Walks and Tours
Scientific Instrument Society: Turner Memorial Lecture: Emilie Savage-Smith, FBA ‘Of Making Celestial Globes There Seems No End’ Society of Antiquaries of London Burlington House, London 25 November 2016
The Royal Society of Medicine: Chris Renwick: William Bynum Lecture 2016: Social Biology and Progressive Politics in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain 30 November 2016
University of Birmingham: Professor Alice White: The genius of Vesalius 13 October 2016
UCL: Spices and Medicine: Food and Medical Traditions from the Plant World: Exploring Herbal Uses 12 October 2016
History Collections: Next History Day 15 November 2016
IET London: Ada Lovelace Day Live! 2016 11 October
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) £££
Royal College of Physicians: Walking Tour: The Making of Thoroughly Modern Medicine
Museum of Science and Industry Manchester: Engine Demonstration
Morbid Anatomy: Upcoming Morbid Anatomy Events
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
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:
Koninck Salomon: An Old Scholar
TELEVISION:
Channel 4: Walking Through Time: Series 1 Episode 3
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Youtube: CHF: CHF acquires instrument that played a role in the development of carbon-14 dating
RADIO & PODCASTS:
BBC Radio 4: In Our Times: The 12th Century Renaissance
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Science Museum: Research Seminar Series Autumn 2016
H-Material-Culture: CfP. Kitchen and Kitchen Gardens in Britain and Europe, 1500–1950
University of Bristol: CfP: The British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference 6–8 April 2017
University of Cambridge: Matter at the Crossroads: Literature and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England 26 November 2016
Center for Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware: CfP: Imagined Forms: Modeling and Material Culture 17–18 November 2017
King’s College London: ChoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: Workshop: Turkish Manuscript Studies: An Introduction 27 March–1 April 2017 Deadline 27 November 2017
University of Cambridge: Department of History and Philosophy of Science: History of Medicine Seminars Michaelmas Term 2016
Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik at Humboldt University, Berlin: Conference: On the epistemic Dimension of Color in the Sciences 17–18 November 2016
UCL: STS: Seminar Series Autumn 2016
Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars for Michaelmas Term 2016
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Matter at the Crossroads: Literature and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England 25 November 2016
Erasmus University Rotterdam: CfP: Fourth Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science
University of Toronto: CfP: CSHPS–SCHPS Annual Conference 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 20 January 2017
BSHS: CfP: BSHS Postgraduate Conference 5–7 April 2017 Deadline 15 November 2016
Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, UK: CfP: Conference: BRIDGE: The Heritage of Connecting Places and Cultures 6–10 July 2017 Deadline: 1 November 2016
University of Pittsburgh: Speakers series in the Philosophy of Science and Descartes Day October 15 2016
Dublin City University: HSTM Network Ireland Annual Conference: Programme: 11–12 November 2016
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI): The Past, Present and Future of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies 29 November 2016
Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities: Conference: Philosophy and History of Open Science 30 November–1 December 2016
St Anne’s College, Oxford: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars for Michaelmas Term 2016
UCL Health Humanities Centre: Towards Transcultural Histories of Psychotherapies Conference 15 October 2016
UCL: STS: Work in Progress Seminars
SCHCT: 9th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularisation
Birkbeck, University of London: London Renaissance Seminar: Buried Things in Early Modern Culture: Poetics, Epistemology and Practice 22 October 2016
University of Exeter: EPSA 17: CfP: The Sixth Biennial Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association 6-9 September 2017 Deadline 5 January 2017
Museums ETC Magazine: CfP: Feminism and Museums Deadline 21 November 2016
University of Kiel: CfP: 9th International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicines (ICTAM IX) 6–12 August 2017: Asian Medicines: Encounters, Translations and Transformations Deadline 1 November 2016
‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest: Biennial Conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH): CfP: The Body Politic: States in the History of Medicine and Health 30 August-2 September 2017 Deadline 1 January 2017
Ryerson University, Toronto, ON: Canadian Society for the History of Medicine: CfP: From Far and Wide: The Next 150 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 15 November 2016
Museo de América, Madrid: Symposium: CfP: Collect and Display: Subjects and Objects of New World Knowledge 5–7 April 2017
The Democracy Center, Cambridge, MA: Ronin Institute Unconference: The Future of Careers in Scholarship 5 November 2016
Moot Court Room, Toronto, ON: ISHTIP 9th Annual Workshop: CfP: ‘Intellectual Property as Circulation and Control’
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: 1st Barcelona HPS Workshop: Scientific Misconduct and Scientific Expertise 11 November 2016
BSHS: University College London: 8th International Conference for the European Society for the History of Science: Unity and Disunity 15–17 September 2018
Rutgers University: Symposium: Aesthetics and the Life Sciences 21 October 2016
BSHS: The BSHS invites book nominations for the 2017 Dingle Prize
Edinburgh Napier University: American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Lecture: ‘What, if anything, makes knowledge an improvement over information?’ 30 November 2016
University of Padua: CfP: Scientiae 2017 19–22 April 2017
edX: University of Newcastle Australia: Drawing Nature, Science and Culture: Natural History Illustration
Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS: CfP: 49th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences
BSHS: Conference: A History of the Moon St Cross College, Oxford 19 November 2016
Dublin City University: HSTM Network Ireland Annual Conference 11–12 November 2016
National Maritime Museum: Workshop: Transit to Hawai’i: behind the scenes with digital history & astronomy 29 October 2016
Rèsidencia d’Investigadors; Barcelona: Conference: “Urban Peripheries?” Emerging Cities in Europe’s South and East, 1850–1945 26–27 September 2016
Eccles Centre for American Studies, The British Library: Symposium: CfP: Cold War Geographies 16 January 2017 Deadline 27 November 2016
University of Manchester: CHSTM Seminars Autumn/Winter 2016
University of St Andrews: CfP: Conference: Encountering the Material Medieval 19–20 January 2016
Wellcome Library: History of Pre-Modern Medicine Seminar Series 2016–17
Institute of Historical Research, University of London: Maritime History and Culture Seminar 2016–17
HSS: THATCAmpHSS 2016 in Atlanta 6 November 2016
IHR: Library Exhibition Curation Competition (ECR)
FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia: Applications to Fernando Gil International Prize in Philosophy of Science 2017
Oxford Brookes University: Conference: Maritime Masculinities 1815–1940 19–20 December 2016
International Map Collectors’ Society: IMCoS 34th International Symposium: ‘Private Map Collecting and Public Map Collections in the United States’ Chicago 24–29 October 2016
University of Durham: CfP: Conference: Scale of Nature: Long Nineteenth-Century Culture and the Great Chain of Being 18 March 2017
Journal of Science Communication: CfP: Special Issue: History of Science Communication Deadline 12 December 2016
University of Cambridge, CRASSH: Workshop: Epistemic Images in Early Modern Germany and its Neighbours 10–11 November 2016
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science: CfP. Pierre Duhem’s Philosophy and History of Science Deadline 30 March 2017
The Linnean Society: What should be in your Digital Toolbox?
Cornell University: The Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar Fall 2016
BSHS: The Francis Bacon Award in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Hakluyt Society: CfP: Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2017
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science: Part A – Special Issue: CfP: Knowledge Transfer and Its Context Deadline 30 October 2016
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London: The Forum for European Philosophy Women in Science Forthcoming Events
University of Swansea: CfP: Conference: Disability and Religion 2–4 December 2016 Deadline 1 October 2016
Royal Museums Greenwich: CfP: Conference: Joseph Banks, Science, Culture and Exploration 14–15 September 2017
Rice University, Houston: CfP: Southern Forum on Agriculture, Rural, and Environmental History (SFARE) 10–11 February 2017 Deadline 1 November 2016
Georgetown University, Washington: Conference: Humanity and Other Forms of Life: Environmental Histories of the World 5 November 2016
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim: CFP: 11th International Conference on the History of Chemistry 29 August–2 September 2017
Penn Museum: Philadelphia: Animals in the Archives Symposium 27-28 October 2016
University of Manchester: Workshop: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Water, Technology and the Nation-Sate 27–28 October 2016
University of Toronto: John Wallis at 400: A Workshop on Science, Mathematics, and Religion in 17th-C. England 1-2 November 2016-09-10
IEEE: International Early Engines Conference: Papers: May 2017
Digital History Seminar: Autumn & Winter Term 2016–2017
National University: 13th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Environment, Space and Place: CfP: “Nightmare Spaces/Uncanny Places” 28–30 April 2017 Deadline 8 February 2017
Geoffrey Kaye Museum: Medical history masterclass 15 October
Palgrave MacMillan: Call for chapter contributors: Scientific Studies of Dreams in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Salle de séminaire de l’hôtel Balance, Les Granges-sur-Salvan, Salvan, Confédération Suisse: Colloque: Toujours plus haut, plus vite, plus engagé ? Gravir les Alpes du XIXe siècle à nos jours. Pratiques, émotions, imaginaires 22-23-24 septembre 2016
University of York: CfP: The Medieval Brain 10–11 March 2017
University of Edinburgh: Science, Technology and Innovation Studies Seminar Series 2016/17
San Sebastian/Donostia (Spain): CfP: Workshop: Ether and Modernity: The Recalcitrance of an Agonising Object in Physics and Culture 30–31 March 2017
Trivium, Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern Studies: CfP: Religious and/or Medicinal definitions of Otherness Deadline 23 September 2016
The Maintainers: CfP: Maintainers II: Labor, Technology, and Social Order 6–8 April 2017
University of Sydney: CfP: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18 April 2017
University of Groningen: CfP: Histories of Healthy Ageing 21–23 June 2017
Institut Pasteur de Lille: Conférences d’histoire de la médecine de Lille Programme des conférences 2016 – 2017
University of Swansea: CFP: Disease, Disability & Medicine in Medieval Europe: 10th Anniversary Meeting: Disability and Religion 2–4 December 2016
Osiris: Proposals for next Osiris volume due 15 October 2016
H-Empire: CfP: Empires of Knowledge” ESEH 2017 (Zagreb 28 June–2 July 2017)
University of Toronto Press: CfP: Edited Collection: Controlling Sexuality and Reproduction, Past and Present
Techne: CFP: Special Issue on Philosophy of Technology in the Age of the Anthropocene
St Catherine’s College Oxford: Advanced Studies Seminar: The Montgomery Ruling: Impacts on Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics 9 November 2016
GHI Washington: CfP: Workshop: Beyond Data: Knowledge Production in Bureaucracies 1–3 June 2017
Coastal Carolina University: CfP: SAHMS Nineteenth Annual Meeting 16–18 March 2017 Deadline 31 October 2016
l’Abbaye de Hambye (près d’Avranches): 15e réunion d’histoire de la santé 10 septembre 2016
Archives and Records: CfP: Special issue on ‘Archives and Museums’, spring 2018
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
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
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
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
ICHST “2017: Symposium Proposals Approved by IPC
APS Physics: CfP: April Meeting 2017 Include History of Physics Deadline 30 September 2016
BSHS: Annals of Science Student Essay Prize
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
Medieval Art Research: CFP: Of Man Eating Men: Medieval and Early Modern Cannibalism (edited volume)
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
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 Durham: Conference: Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism? 5–7 August 2017
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
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
Warwick: Humanities Research Centre: Conference: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Text and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s 4 March 2017
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
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
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
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
University of Lisbon: CfP: Third Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Issues 14–16 December 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
Australian Academy of Science: The Moran Award for History of Science Research
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’
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Partington Prize
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 »
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
University of Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events
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 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
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
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
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
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 of Cambridge: Research Associateship in History of Biology
The British Museum: Postdoctoral Research Assistant: Enlightenment Architectures: Sir Hans Sloane’s catalogues of his collections (x 2)
University of Roehampton: L/SL in The History of Medicine, post 1800
The John Carter Brown Library: Research Fellowships at the JCB Deadline 1 December 2016
Linda Hall Library: Fellowships Deadline 16 January 2017
Whewell's Ghost 