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 #10
Monday 24 October 2016
EDITORIAL:
The nights are closing in but there is nothing better than an evening spent with a warm jug of grog and the latest edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list serving up all of the histories of science, technology and medicine that we could bring out of the cold dark depths of cyberspace.
Two of the subjects considered in this week’s Birthday’s of the Week are often held up for ridicule by people, who hold some sort of triumphalist view of the history of science. In the opinion of such people only theories produced in the history of science, which are today considered to be more or less correct are worthy of our contemplation and our respect. All those theories, which turned out to be wrong are to be dumped into some sort of historical dustbin only to be taken out when an object of scorn or ridicule is required for a good laugh and or a good kicking.
A popular candidate for such behaviour is the phlogiston theory, most strongly propagated by Georg Ernst Stahl, who was born 22 October 1659. The usual comment of our triumphalist on hearing the word phlogiston is to snort derisively and to exclaim how could anybody believe such stupidity. James Ussher’s determination, as a Bible chronologist, of the beginning of the world is treated with even greater disdain.
Such losers in the history of science as the Greeks, who, would you credit it, thought that the earth is at the centre of the cosmos or Lamarck with his silly theories of adaptive evolution also come in for regular bouts of contempt and mockery. At the same time their supposed debunkers, respectively Copernicus and Darwin, are praised beyond measure and hero-worshipped.
This positivist, triumphalist, presentist view of #histSTM is not only stupid but also dangerous because it can and does effect the way we try to teach science to future generations. Theories that in the long run turn out to be false, and that is nearly all scientific theories that have ever been held, can and very often do make substantial contributions to the progress of science.
The phlogiston theory produced much of the evidence on which the later chemical theories that replaced it were built. The Bible chronologists, who included not only Ussher but also Kepler and Newton amongst their numbers, contributed through the methodologies that they developed to the evolution of the modern historical disciplines. Those Greek geocentrists, most notably Ptolemaeus, provided the instruments, methodologies and data with which Copernicus and other early heliocentrists constructed their theories. Likewise, Lamarck, a brilliant natural historian, delivered much of the material, including his ideas on evolution, out of which Darwin and other constructed their theories.
Don’t just acknowledge, study and celebrate the so-called #histSTM winners but devote at least as much time and effort to the so-called losers, who contributed at least as much to that structure that we call science.
Quotes of the week:
“It’s my project and I’ll cry if I want to” – Alun Withey (@DrAlun)
“1663, to make beard hair grow, ‘the ashes of tobacco boyled first in boys’ urine do cause hair to grow, & kill lice’” – Alun Withey (@DrAlun)
“In the spam filter from the Whewell’s Ghost blog site: Home Remedies For Constipation In Cats” – Thony Christie (@rmathematicus)
“1729 Things Only Fans of Ramanujan Will Understand” – Tim Hopper (@tdhopper)
“French mathematician Evariste Galois proved that there could be no rational solution to the question “Who was the Fifth Beatle?”” – Richard Ashcroft (@qmulbioethics)
Border guard: why are you here?
Me: A conference
BG: On?
M: Medieval medical history
BG: Isnt that the definition of a pointless conference? – Courtney (@cakrolik)
“What Britain needs now is a Decency Revolution where we ostracise the racists & bigots & embrace values of fairness, tolerance & compassion” – Marcus Chown (@marcuschown)
“Who owns history? Everyone & no one, which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery” –Foner h/t @ClintSmithIII
“Two years ago, “scientists” said 2014 was the warmest year on record. Last year they said it was 2015. This year, 2016. Make up your minds!” – John McKay (@archymck)
Birthdays of the Week:
The World was born 22 October!
The Renaissance Mathematicus: In defence of the indefensible
Science League of America: Seven Myths about Ussher
Nicholas Culpeper born 18 October 1618

“In Effigiam Nicholai Culpeper Equitis,” portrait of Nicholas Culpeper, etching, by printmaker Richard Gaywood. Courtesy of the British Museum, London.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Yovisto: Nicholas Culpeper and the Complete Herbs of England
History Today: The English Physician
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar born 19 October 1910
Yovisto: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and the Evolution of Stars
Christopher Wren born 20 October
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Not just an architect
Google Arts & Culture: Christopher Wren, Design for the Dome of St Paul’s Cathedral
Royal Museums Greenwich: Christopher Wren
Georg Ernst Stahl born 22 October 1659
The Renaissance Mathematicus: The Phlogiston Theory – Wonderfully wrong but fantastically fruitful
Yovisto: Georg Ernst Stahl and the Phlogiston Theory
Erasmus Reinhold born 22 October 1511
The Renaissance Mathematicus: The other professor of mathematics at Wittenberg
Yovisto: The Planetary Tables of Erasmus Reinhold
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Yovisto: Réaumur and the Réaumur Temperature Scale
Nautilus: How Einstein and Schrödinger Conspired to Kill a Cat
Corpus Newtonicum: Isaac Newton Library Online
AHF: Nicholas Metropolis
AHF: Gillespie Letter
Yovisto: Galileo and the Exploration of Jupiter
African American Women in Physics: The Physicists
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Roy Glauber’s Interview
Yovisto: Pascual Jordan and Quantum Mechanics
AHF: Vannevar Bush
AHF: James Chadwick
University of Cambridge: Digital Library: The Life & Adventures of Station B, Album 1 (Transit 1)
AHF: Lyman Briggs
New York University: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World: A checklist of objects in the “Time and Comos” exhibition, fall 2016
Ptak Science Books: An Early-ish Report on the V1, January 1945
AHF: Manhattan Project Spotlight: Enrico Fermi
Yovisto: Karl Jansky and the Discovery of Cosmic Radio Waves
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Halley’s Log: Halley Redux
Harvard Map Collection: An Introduction to The Mercator Globes
The Local: Danish archaeologists find 5,000-year-old map
The Learned Pig: Human Marks in the Ice
National Geographic: What Mars Got Right (and Wrong) Through Time
The National Museum of American History: Voigt Transit and Equal Altitude Instrument
Mapping Moments in American History: Variations of the Compass, Atlantic Ocean, 1732
Yovisto: The Fateful Journeys of Alexine Tinne
Canterbury Christ Church University: Cartography and the Kuznetzov
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Open Plaques: Mary Seacole
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: New digitisation project: the history of Scotland’s eighteenth century dispensary
Thomas Morris: Cured by a nightmare
Conciatore: Alessandro Neri
Science Museum: IVF icon goes on display
Nursing Clio: Ghosts are Scary, Disabled People are Not: The Troubling Rise of the Haunted Asylum
Nanogallery: Ether Day: October 16, 1846: William Morton demonstrates Anesthesia
Daily Sabah History: 700 bottles containing ancient antidepressants, heart medication found in Istanbul
Heritage Collections of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland: Intriguing Heritage Items: No. 3
Notches: “A Poison to the Race”: Women, Foreigners and VD in Modern Japan
AHA: Perspectives on History: Silence = Death: It’s Time to Teach AIDS History
Atlas Obscura: The 1800s Medical Device that Promised Cures by Repeatedly Stabbing Patients
Thomas Morris: The perils of being a writer
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Thomas Bartholin
Embryo Project: Margaret Higgins Sanger (1879–1966)
Wellcome Library: Making and marketing condoms
STAT: Scientists think the common cold may at last be beatable
Nursing Clio: Tea Kettles and Turpitudes: Abortion and Material Culture in Irish History
Nursing Clio: Abortion in Ireland: The More Things Change…
Nursing Clio: Agency and Abortion in Brazil
Nursing Clio: “She Did It to Herself”: Women Health on Television and Film
British Library: Science blog: Britain’s first nose job

Illustration by Charles Turner from Carpue’s book, digitised by the Wellcome Library and released under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licence.
Thomas Morris: The Port-wine enema
Thomas Morris: Sand, to be taken twice daily
Forbes: This New Field of Medicine Is Like ‘House’ – With a Time Machine
Broadly: The Racist and Sexist History of Keeping Birth Control Side Effects Secret
Technology’s Stories: What If Beddoes & Davy Had Attempted Surgical Anesthesia in 1799?
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:

Southern Electric – A Straight Line – the quickest way between two points. Poster designed by Pat Keely in 1931 h/t Flashback.com
Homunculus: Did the Qin emperor need Western help? I don’t think so
AEON: The Soviet InterNyet
NJ:Com: What happened to N.J.’s missile bases?
npr: Trace the Remarkable History of the Humble Pencil
Conciatore: Black is Beautiful
Conciatore: Solid Water
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Seeing the Invisible: Microscope Collection
The New York Times: Leo Beranek, Acoustics Designer and Internet Pioneer, Dies at 102
ODNB: Gooch, Sir Daniel
laststandonzobieisland: Italian Fascist Youth Carbine
Xerox: 35 Interface Innovations that Rocked Our World
JSTOR Daily: The Pneumatic Subway That Almost Was
Medium: Is Innovation in Human Nature?
Atlas Obscura: The 1942 Ghost Blimp That Bewildered a California Town
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
NICHE: #EnvHist Daily
Royal Meteorological Society: Professor Raymond Hide CBE
Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt: a forgotten man of science
Darwin Online: Darwin’s Geological Work in the Galápagos Island
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Thomas Browne
AEON: Does life have a purpose?
Huffpost Tech: The Natural History Museum and Google Just Released 300,000 Digital Specimens Online
Embryo Project: Fruit Fly Life Cycle
NICHE: International Timber Thieves of Northwestern Ontario
Science League of America: The Two Dixons
History of Geology: Of Love and Lava: A Geomythological Tale of Kilauea
CHEMISTRY:

Rose Stern was the first woman member of the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain & Ireland h/t CHF
Yovisto: Christian Friedrich Schönbein and the Ozone
c&en: The Nazi origins of deadly nerve gases
Royal Society of Chemistry: Welcome to 175 Faces of Chemistry
Smithsonian.com: Here’s What It Was Like to Discover Laughing Gas
AHF: Gilbert N. Lewis
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
Irish Examiner: Boole biographer receives award for maths dedication
INDIEGOGO: Raising Horizons: 200 years of Trowelblazing Women: Donate!
Recipes Project: Stone Soup: A New Project About Recipes and Communities
Science & Technology Studies: Volume 29 Issue 3 Table of Contents
Notches: Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories
The Recipes Project: Recipes in Manuscript Miscellanies
Early Modern France: Printing & Books in Early Modern Europe – a bibliography
Bowdoin: The Trial of Galileo: A First-Year History Seminar Re-enactment
JHIBLOG: Histories We Repeat
British Library: Win an out-of-hours curator-led tour of Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line Deadline 11 November 2016

‘L’Entente cordiale’, an anti-British propaganda poster produced in Germany for a French audience, 1915.
Scroll.in: How knowledge travelled from East to West (and back again) in the early modern world
Unwritten Histories: Managing Historical Research: Secondary Sources
Nautilus: Euclid as Founding Father
ESOTERIC:
Atlas Obscura: Dial-a-Ghost on Thomas Edison’s Least Successful Invention: the Spirit Phone
BOOK REVIEWS:
NEW BOOKS:
MIT Press: Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
Historiens de la santé: Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England
The New York History Blog: New Book Traces History of NYC Traffic Signals
Historiens de la santé: La construction de la médecine arabe médiévale
ART & EXHIBITIONS
The Spectator: Muslim magic – Islam has always dabbled in the occult
British Library: Maps of the 20th Century: Drawing the Line 4 November 2016–1 March 2017
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
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
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
Poetic Botany: Art & Science of the Eighteenth-Century Vegetable World
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 College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
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
EVENTS:
Royal Society: Revolutionary science in the age of the guillotine 8 November 2016
Bodleian Libraries: The World in a Book 28 October 2016
Bodleian Libraries: Illuminating spectacle on the operatic stage 2 November 2016
Royal Institution: 13 Journeys through space and time 3 November 2016
Wolfensohn Hall IAS: Lecture: The Institute of Advanced Study: The First Hundred Years 9 November 2016
Wellcome Library: Lecture: Disfiguring disease in medical and popular perceptions: ‘aspectus’ and ‘spectaculum’ 25 October 2016
Manchester Science Festival: Live performance of Jean-Philippe Calvin’s new score to the fascinating 1928 film ‘The Building and Operation of Industrial Museums’ 28 October 2016
American Museum of Natural History: The Remarkable Nature of Edward Lear 7 November 2016
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
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
University of Bradford: Lecture: A Bradford Community Pharmacy Prescription Book 7 November 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
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
History Collections: Next History Day 15 November 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) £££
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:
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Wired: Nikola Tesla and Wireless Charging
Youtube: Philosophie de la santé: la fonction soignante en partage – Cynthia Fleury
Vimeo: CHF: Death and Taxidermy
Youtube: Weekly Space Hangout: Dr Voula Saridakis of @histastro
RADIO & PODCASTS:
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: The Invention of Radio
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: The 12th Century Renaissance
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: John Dalton
BBC Radio 4: Start the Week: Discussion of Ed Yong’s I Contain Multitudes & Adam Rutherford’s A Brief History of Everyone Who Has Ever Lived with the authors
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Ryerson University (Toronto): Appel à communications: Congrès annuel de la Société canadienne d’histoire de la médecine: L’épopée d’une histoire: 150 ans vers l’avenir 27–29 mai 2017
The Ordered Universe Project: Being Human Festival 2016 Medieval Time Reckoning and the Dating of Easter 18 November 2016 Heaven’s Above! – Interactive Exhibition 19 November 2016
University of Warwick: CfP: Cultures of Exclusion in the Early Modern World: Enemies and Strangers, 1600–1800
University of Leeds: CfP: The First International IHPS Postgraduate Forum
Indianna University: CfP: Images, Copyright, and the Public Domain in the Long Nineteenth Century 29–30 March 2017
University of Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences: Conference: Leibniz and the Sciences 14–16 November 2016
University of Illinois: Graduate STS workshop: CfP: Interdisciplinary Encounters: Exploring Knowledge-Making Across Boundaries 10–11 March 2017
All Souls College Oxford: Oxford Naval History Conference: Economic Warfare and the Sea 1650–1950 13–15 July 2017
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Conference: Diagrammatic: Beyond Inscription 2–3 December 2016
Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin: Conference: Working on Things: On the Social, Political, and Economic History of Collected Objects 2121 November 2016
Hakluyt Society: CfP: Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2017
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
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
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
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 2017
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
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
Palgrave MacMillan: Call for chapter contributors: Scientific Studies of Dreams in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
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
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
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science: CfP: Special Issue: Knowledge Transfer and Its Context
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
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 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 Pittsburgh: Fellowships: Center for Philosophy of Science
History and Political Science at Missouri University of Science & Technology: Invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship for Fall 2017 in Science and Technology Policy with an emphasis on Public Policy
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: Department II: “Writing-Up” Predoctoral Scholarship
Linda Hall Library: Fellowships 2017/18
Universität Göttingen: stellt in der Zentralen Kustodie zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt für 24 Monate eine/einen wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin/wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter mit dem Schwerpunkt „Ausstellen“
ICHC Conference 2017 Belo Horizonte: Travel Grants Deadline 30 October 2016
University of Kent: Lecturer in Early Modern European History (1450–1700) – historians of science welcome to apply!
Adler Planetarium: Zooniverse GLAM/Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow
Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation: Applications for these three Lemelson Center fellowship/grant programs are due December 1, 2016
Science Museum Group: Want to project manage moving a museum collection?
University of Durham: Lecturer in Philosophy (2 Posts)