Whewell’s Gazette
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Internet history of science, technology and medicine
Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell
Year 3, Volume #32
Monday 27 March 2017
EDITORIAL:
Anther seven days have passed and it is time once more for a new edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list bringing its readers all of the histories of science, technology and medicine that could be rounded up from the outer reaches of cyberspace over the last week.
Last Thursday was the birthday of the mathematician Emmy Noether, for whom we have a soft spot, as we live in the town where she was born and grew up. Like many figures in #histSTM Emmy deserves to be better known than she is. However she received a boost in her public recognition in 2015 because as well as being the centenary of the General Theory of Relativity, it was also the centenary of Noether’s theorem, an important theorem in modern physics that is little known by non physicists.
Unfortunately this rise in awareness of Noether’s theorem has led to a more than somewhat paradox situation. On Thursday the physicists were out in force praising Emmy and her achievements for their discipline whilst completely ignoring her achievements as a mathematician. This is more than a little strange because, although it is a very important part of modern physics, Noether’s theorem is quite literally the only contribution that Emmy made to the discipline. She was however principally a mathematician and was a very central figure in the creation of modern abstract algebra and it is for this that she should really attract out admiration. Reducing her reputation to Noether’s theorem does her a disservice.
Perhaps the strangest comment on Thursday came from the world famous string theorist, Brian Greene who tweeted the following:
Emmy Noether’s theorem is so vital to physics that she deserves to be as well known as Einstein. Yet, many have never even heard of her.
Emmy certainly deserves to be well known both for Noether’s theorem and for her massive contributions to abstract algebra, but as well known as Einstein? She made one, albeit very important, contribution to theoretical physics, whereas Einstein was central to the creation of the two largest fields of twentieth century physics, relativity theory and quantum theory. More importantly should we making name recognition ratings for scientists at all? League tables of significance? Popularity contests?
Sunday was the 501st birthday of the Swiss polymath Conrad Gesner, which a group of people and institutions celebrated as #GesnerDay. Normally this would mean a long list of posts here at Whewell’s Gazette but these post were collected on Sunday in a rolling live blog on the Renaissance Mathematicus and so there is just one link blow under birthdays.
Quotes of the week:
Happy Mother’s Day to those celebrating it today. May your daughter grow up to be a Nobel laureate, as did Irene, daughter of Marie Curie! – Paul Halpern (@phalpern)
“My mother spoils me a lot” is a tongue twister in Spanish: “mi mamá me mima mucho” – Haggard Hawks (@HaggardHawks)
“Linguistic inflation is quite real, even though it’s unbelievably incredible” – Stan Carey (@StanCarey)
“Vegetables come from the ground. Oddly reassuring that even modern technology cannot get earth off leeks” – Rachel Laudan (@rachellaudan)
Mediaeval scribes invented this bizarre Latin sentence as a joke to show just how difficult Gothic text could be to read Haggard Hawks (@HaggardHawks)
“Think you are depressed about global warming? Bipolar bears have it much worse” – History Scientist (@historyscientis)
“All books are coloring books if you can outrun the librarian” – matt (@biorhythmist)
“Don’t say a blessing on a nut until you open it. It may be wormy or rotten inside and thus the blessing said in vain” – Seder Hasidim, 13thc h/t @PiersatPenn
“My old dad always used to say “the first rule of theatre is to always leave them wanting more.”
Good man, terrible anaesthetist” – Ginger Cat (@nigellacokey)
“History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past” – A. J. P. Taylor h/t @RayBoomhower
In the wild, the historian has but one natural enemy – Jacob Anbinder (@JakeAnbinder)
Birthday of the Week:
Conrad Gesner born 26 March 1516
The Internet community celebrated Gesner’s 501st birthday as #GesnerDay. The contributions are all collated in one blog post on The Renaissance Mathematicus
Happy Birthday Conrad – #GesnerDay 2017
Emmy Noether born 23 March 1882
Medium: Emmy Noether: The Struggles of a Mathematical Genius
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Emmy and the Habilitation
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Emmy the student and Emmy the communist!
The Renaissance Mathematicus: The House Where Emmy Lived
Mujeres con ciencia: Emmy Noether, matemática
The Physics Mill: International Women’s Day Spotlight: Emmy Noether
The Irish Times: Emmy Noether and the surprising significance of symmetry
Smithsonian.com: Mathematician Emmy Noether Should Be Your Hero
William Smith born 23 March 1769
William Smith
Artist unknown
Ucmp.berkeley.edu: William Smith (1769–1839)
William Smith’s Geological Map of England
Forbes: Who Drew The First Geological Map?
John Harrison born 24 March 1693
Portrait of John Harrison (1693-1776), English clockmaker by P. Tassaert
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – John Harrison
soundcloud: Royal Museums Greenwich: John Harrison and the Quest for Longitude
OUP Blog: The historian and the longitude
Christoph Clavius born 25 March 1538
Christoph Clavius
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Renaissance Mathematicus: A loser who was really a winner
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Christoph and the calendar
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
March 25, 1945. Einstein letter urged FDR to meet with Leo Szilard to discuss concerns about using atomic bombs – Gene Dannen (@GeneDannen)
Project Muse: Journal of Women’s History: Learned and Loving: Representing Women Astronomers in Enlightenment France
SciHi Blog: Alessandro Volta and the Electricity
APS: This Month in Physics History: March 20, 1800: Volta describes the Electric Battery
The Curious Astronomer: Einstein’s general relativity centenary
AHF: Rudolf Peierls
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Rose Bethe’s Interview
Rose Bethe
Source: AHF
AHF: Roger Hildebrand
APS: This Month in Physics History: March 21, 1768: Birth of Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier
The Catholic Astronomer: Strange Tales of Galileo and Proving: Omitted Data and the Tides
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Stanislaus Ulam’s Interview (1983)
Color System: Colour order systems in art and science
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī
The Astronomical Observatory of Nasir al-Dīn al-Tūsī
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Henry Frisch’s Interview
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Peter Vandervoort’s Interview
Tri-City Herald: Manhattan Project National Historical Park: Sharing an important piece of our history
NASA: Meteor 1 26 March 1969
Meteor I
FiveThirtyEight: A Mistranslated Word Led To Some of the Best Fake News of the 20th Century
AHF: Frisch-Peierls Memorandum
APS: This Month in Physics History: March 1880: The Curie Brother Discover Piezoelectricity
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Scott Polar Research Institute: Who was Robert Lawrie?
Royal Museums Greenwich: Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh by William Segar
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Map Mania: Mapping the History of Latin America
Lexington Herald Leader: Kentucky invasion? Rare spy map shows French plans for Frontier America
The Art Newspaper: Experts restore rare Dutch Golden Age map found stuffed up a chimney
npr: ‘Ghosts’ In The Arctic: How The Long-Lost Franklin Expedition Was Found
This sketch, by Commander May R.N., circa 1853, depicts one the missions to find the Franklin expedition, which vanished in 1845.
Hulton Archive/Getty Images
cbc: New maps to depict pre-colonial “Turtle Island” Canada
The Conversation: Five Maps that will change how you see the world
Barron Maps Blog: 20th Century female mapmakers: Cecily Peele [1892–1984]
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Hektoen International: Heinz Lehmann and the daw of psychopharmacology
Hektoen International: Alcmaeon of Croton, philosopher physician
Project Muse: Journal of Women’s History: Finding A Space In Schools: Female Doctors and the Reform of Girls’ Physical Education in Weimar Germany
Heart of the Civil War: Agent of Mercy: The Untold Story of Dr. Archibald S. Maxwell
Ptak Science Books: Giant Airship as a Floating Tuberculosis Hospital, 1930
Thomas Morris: The snuff-eating nose centipede
Dr Alun Withey: ‘He is gone from his service before his time’: Medical Apprenticeships in Early Modern Britain
NYAM: Syphilis, or the French Disease
Hektoen International: The 8067th: a hospital with marching orders
Thomas Morris: The dentist who made the blind see
Atlas Obscura: The Invisible Unmarried Mothers of Ireland
Nuns with children at Sean Ross abbey. MARI STEED
The Recipes Project: Exploring CPP 10A214: Close Textual Ties
JSTOR Daily: First Blood Transfusion: A History
The Guardian: Drug scandals and the media – the unresolved case of Primodos
Journal of the Civil War: Caring for Veterans: The Civil War and the Present
Australian Women’s History Network: Australia’s women doctors in the First World War
DR AGNES BENNETT, NEW SOUTH WALES, CIRCA 1929. IMAGE VIA NATIONAL LIBRARY AUSTRALIA.
Nature Medicine: Oldie but goodie: Repurposing penicillin for tuberculosis
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: A Manual for Medicine: The Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia
The Chirugeons Apprentice: House of Death: Walking the Wards of a Victorian Hospital
History Net: The Shock of War
Australian Women’s History Network: What did abortion look like in 1899?
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
SciHi Blog: Frederick W. Taylor – the first Management Consultant
Conciatore: Armina Vivarini
Conciatore: Aventurine
Conciatore: Glass: A poem by Henry Schoolcraft
Atlantic Cable: The French Atlantic Cable: Brest –Duxbury, 1869
Collectors Weekly: Royalty, Espionage, and Erotica: Secrets of the World’s Tiniest Photographs
The National Museum of American History: B.F. Skinners Nose Cone of a Pigeon-Guided Missile
Reverb: Repeat That? A Brief History of Tape Echo
NASA: Project ABLE – Apollo/Saturn goes to war
The Society for Nautical Research: Lusitania Telegraph Machine “Lost” During Unsupervised Recovery
The Society for Nautical Research: Early Yachts
Smithsonian.com: This Ace Aviatrix Learned to Fly Even Though Orville Wright Refused to Teach Her
Ruth Law, (circa 1915, at the controls of her Curtiss Model D Headless biplane) once said that wearing a seatbelt “was a bit cowardly.” (NASM, Archives Division)
BBC News: ‘Oldest photo studio’ shows rediscovered images
Scripts & Grooves: Content sharing in the ‘30s
Smithsonian.com: This Innovator Thought Elevators Should Be Round
The Black Vault: Nuclear Weapon Characteristics Handbook, September 1990
The Guardian: A room with a loo – a potted history of the British bathroom
The Franklin Institute: Maillardet’s Automaton
Popular Mechanics: When Robots Are Indistinguishable From Humans, Why Will Be Inside Them?
Ptak Science Books: A Beautiful Aviation Parts Supply Catalog (1946)
War is Boring: A Soviet Film Predicted Our Robot Apocalypse – In 1977
Science Museum: The watch that helped change lives
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
SciHi Blog: B.F. Skinner and Radical Behaviorism
ars technica: There was an outbreak of cannibalism 10,000 years ago in Spain
Smithsonian .com: From “T. Rex” to “Pantydraco”: How Dinosaurs Get Their Names
Forbes: The Origin of Geological Terms: Staurolite
flickr: BHL: Women Illustrators in Natural History
SciHi Blog: Entomologist and Myrmecologist William Morton Wheeler
William Morton Wheeler
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Andreas Wagner
Smithsonian.com: Scientists Delve Into Neanderthal Dental Plaque to Understand How They Lived and Ate
HillRag.com: Botanical Illustrator Alice Tangerini
Forbes: The Origin of Geological Terms: Agate
BBC Future: The invention of “heterosexuality”
Historical SciArt: SciArt Methodology: Mark Catesby
The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands (1729-1771) by Mark Catesby
Geschichte der Geologie: Kunst & Geologie: Der Kunst im Stein
The Guardian: Walking in the footsteps of giants – and gerbils
British Library: Science blog: Local Heroes: John Maynard Smith: (1920–2004): A good “puzzle-solver” with an “accidental career”
Scientific American: How Colors Revolutionized Geological Mapmaking
Sedgwick Museum: Brian Harland 100
Historical SciArt: Janet Harvey Kelman
The Atlantic: A 130-Year-Old Fact About Dinosaurs Might Be Wrong
flickr: BHL: The Animals of the Netherlands: Vertebrates, Volume I – Birds
Smithsonian.com: New Study Restructures the Dinosaur Family Tree
The Guardian: Radical shakeup of dinosaur family tree points to unexpected Scottish origins
SciHi Blog: Ernst Engel and Engel’s Law
Journal of the American Revolution: A Republican of Wool: Founding Era America’s Grand Plans for Sheep
Paleobiology Diversity Blog: Interactive map of all fossil collections (by age, location, type) is hardcore geek fun. Brilliant science, too.
CHEMISTRY:
Yorkshire Evening Post: How fizzy drinks were invented in Leeds on this day 250 years ago
SciHi Blog: Peter Debye – Physical Chemist
Hektoen International: The discovery of oxygen
Michael Sendivogius
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
The Washington Post: Whose scientific theories are permitted into the mainstream?
Reciprocal Space: Science, art and Art
Association francophone pour le savoir: L’image du dossier: visite du laboratoire
The Recipes Project: Early Modern Euro-Indigenous Culinary Connections: Chocolate
History of Humanities: Volume 2, Number 1– Spring 207 Table of Contents
BuzzFeed: 23 Black Female Scientists Who Changed the Damn World
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics: Cosmology and convention
Journal of Victorian Culture: The Victorian Railways: A Pop-Up Anthology
Faith and Wisdom in Science: The next scientific breakthrough could come from the history book
pbs: First-ever Rosie the Riveter Day honors women who broke WWII’s workplace gender barrier
Islamic Art & Architecture: Science in Al-Andalus
The American Presidency Project: Richard Nixon: Remarks on Presenting the National Medal of Scientific Awards for 1970
Timeline: Men always get credit for women’s inventions – and there’s a term for it
A Covent Garden Gilflurt’s Guide to Life: Rumford’s Soup
ESOTERIC:
storify: #MuseumMonday: Women in Early Modern Alchemical Art
Conciatore: Isaac Hollandus
CHF: Distillations: Isaac Newton and the American Alchemist
Indiana University, Bloomington: The Chymistry of Isaac Newton
BOOK REVIEWS:
Five Books: Simon Blackburn recommends the best books on David Hume
Progressive Geographies: Lorraine Daston ed. Science in the Archives
H-Net Reviews: Zeb Tortorici ed. Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America
Smithsonian.com: How Humans Invented Numbers – And How Numbers Reshaped Our World
The New York Times: ‘The Death of Expertise’ Explores How Ignorance Became a Virtue
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us About Evolution
Medievalists.net: New Medieval Books: From Anarchy to Archaeology
NEW BOOKS:
Scientific American: Evolution vs. Creationism: Inside the Controversy
The Quantum Labyrinth: A New Book by Paul Halpern
Clockwork Futures: The Science of Steampunk and the Reinvention of the Modern World
Palgrave: The Experience of Authority in Early Modern England
Springer: Climate Change and Human Responses: A Zooarchaeological Perspective
The Folio Society: The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise Alfred Russel Wallace
Historiens de la santé: Félix Vicq d’Azyr, créateur révolutionnaire de l’anatomie comparée
Historiens de la santé: Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey
ART & EXHIBITIONS
The British Museum: Where the Thunderbird lives: cultural resilience on the Northwest Coast of North America 23 February–27 August 2017
American Museum of Natural History: Mummies Opens Now
Biodiversity Library Exhibition: Early Women in Science
Maria Emma Gray (1787–1876), was an English conchologist and algologist
SD Times: Computer History Museum debuts Make Software exhibit
Harvard Map Collection: Exhibition Analysis 1: Commemorative and Humanitarian Disasters
University of Southern Maine: Osher Map Library to celebrate new exhibition “To Conquer or Submit? American views the Great War” 100 years after U.S. involvement in WWI
St John’s College: Under the Knife at St John’s: New exhibition showcases a medical history of disease and dissection
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: Joseph Hooker: Putting plants in their place 25 March–17 September 2017
Museum of Richmond: The Royal Star & Garter: 100 Years of Care till 29 April 2017
Boston Public Library: Exhibition: Regions and Seasons: Mapping Climate through History 4 March–27 August 2017
Osher Map Library: The Northwest Passage: Navigating Old Beliefs and New Realities
Ambika P3 University of Westminster: CASEBOOKS: Six contemporary artists and an extraordinary medical archive 17 March–23 April 2017
Adler Planetarium: Chasing Eclipses Opening 25 March 2017
Hyperallergic: When Dissection Was a Criminal Punishment Worse Than Death
Hyperallergic: Artistic Expressions of Math Over Seven Centuries Through 8 May 2017
Peter Flötner, “Perspectival Drawing with Three Cubes” (1528), pen and black ink, brush and grey wash (courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jean A. Bonna Gift)
Wellcome Collection: Electricity: The spark of life 23 February–25 June 2017
Feeling the buzz … 1910 advertisement for body lotion. Photograph: Wellcome Collection
Advances in the History of Psychology: New Book & Touring Exhibit on Ramón y Cajal: The Beautiful Brain
The Royal Society: Global arts and science unite in unique sponsorship for Lisa Reihana exhibition at Biennale Arte 2017 in Venice
The Sydney Morning Herald: Beauty in Science
Palaeo Manchester: Object Lessons exhibition: coming soon – Opens 20 May 2017
Brendel plant models.
Image courtesy of Rosamond Purcell
NYBG/125: What in the World is a Herbarium
Linda Hall Library: Connecting the Dots: The Science of CSI 16 March–1 September 2017
ekathimerini.com: Antikythera Mechanism – Athens – 10 February–28 May 2017
The Orange County Register: CSUF’s Pollak Library presents a special program and exhibit on the art of map making
Djournal.com: 200 years of statehood: Ole Miss puts history on display for bicentennial
American Museum of Natural History: Natural Histories: 400 Years of Scientific Illustration from the Museum’s Library
Daily Titan: New CSUF exhibit maps out California’s history
Stedelijk Studies: Vestiges of 125,660 Specimens of Natural History
heritage.utah.gov: Utah Drawn: An Exhibition of Rare Maps Opens: 27 January 2017
Colonizing Animals: Historical Pose-abilities of Colonial Photography
Royal Museums Greenwich: Endeavour galleries: Launches 2018
Hyperallergic: When Art Was the Scientist’s Eye: 400 Years of Natural History Illustrations
Frog dissection illustration from the book “Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium…(Natural history of the native frogs…)” from 1758 (© AMNH\D. Finnin)
Orpiment: Prehistoric Animals: A series of illustrations by David Roland
Centrum für Naturkunde, Universität Hamburg: 19 Oktober 2017 – 28 Februar 2018: Tieranatomisches Theater, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Frühling/Sommer 2018: Verschwindende Vermächtnisse: Die Welt als Wald
ICE: ICE Bridge Engineering exhibition
Evening Standard: Forgotten women of science are remembered in a new exhibition at Burlington house
AHF: Los Alomos History Museum Reopens
Linda Hall Library: Online Exhibition: Ice Victorian Romance
Yale Center for British Art: Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the shaping of the Modern World 2 February–30 April 2017
Quarry Bank: A Woman’s Work is Never Done 21 January–17 April 2017
Utah Capitol Building: Utah Dawn: An Exhibition of Rare Maps 27 January–Late Summer 2017
BHL: Poetic Botany: A Digital Exhibition Celebrating the History of Botany
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: Bilderwelten: Aufbruch zu Neuen Ufern: Mitteleuropäische Buchmalerei 1400–1540
Science Museum: Mathematics – The Winton Gallery
Royal College of Physicians: ‘a cabinet of rarities’: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne 30 January–27 July 2017
COMING SOON: The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 17 March–23 July 2017
Harvard Gazette: The story of Edwin Land
ICE: ICE Bridge Engineering exhibition
Hagley Museum: Driving Desire: Automobile Advertising and the American Dream Through March 2017
Florence Nightingale Museum: The Age of the Beard: Putting on a Brave Face in Victorian Britain 18 November 2016–30 April 2017
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World: Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity October 19 2016–April 23 2017
The National Museum of Computing: 1950’s celebrity robot goes on world tour
Causway Coast Community: County Antrim adventurer’s royal maps will graphically outline history
Bradbury Science Museum: Fifty years of nuclear safeguards
Cambridge Digital Library: Browse our collections: Curious Objects
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
Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle Saale: Alchemie – Die Suche nach dem Weltgeheimnis 25 November 2016–5 Juni 2017
The Arctic Journal: Northwest Passages: Pre-factual cartography
Royal College of Physicians: ‘a cabinet of rarities’: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne 30 January–27 July 2017
past@present: Women in Science: The Stories Are All Around Us
Exhibition open 15 September 2016 through Summer 2017
Poetic Botany: Art & Science of the Eighteenth-Century Vegetable World
Gallica Rose
University of Birmingham: Inspiring Knowledge: 13 October 2016–30 June 2017
American Museum of Natural History: Opulent Oceans
The Australian: Hadron Collider show reveals art of science at Sydney Powerhouse Museum
Royal Museums Greenwich: Do the Ultimate Time Trail
National Railway Museum: National Railway Museum marks historic First World War centenary with new exhibition
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
National Library of Scotland: You Are Here 22 July 2016–3 April 2017
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
Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library
Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus
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
Science Museum: Robots
Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph
Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy
Science Museum: Journeys Through Medicine
Science Museum: Cosmos & Culture
Science Museum: Challenge of Materials
Science Museum: The Clockmakers’ Museum
Science Museum: Making the Modern World
Science Museum: Flight
Science Museum: Exploring Space
Science Museum: Mathematics: The Winton Gallery
Wellcome Collection: Making Nature: How we see animals 1 December 2016–1 May 2017
University of Birmingham: Inspiring Knowledge 26 September 2016–30 June 2017
National Maritime Museum: Emma Hamilton: Seduction and Celebrity 3 November 2016–17 April 2017
Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle Saale: Alchemie – Die Suche nach dem Weltgeheimnis 25 November 2016–5 Juni 2017
Wellcome Collection: Making Nature: How we see animals 1 December 2016–21 May 2017
Royal College of Physicians: ‘a cabinet of rarities’: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne 30 January–27 July 2017
Museum of the History of Science Oxford: Back from the Dead: Demystifying Antibiotics 4 November 2016–21 May 2017
COMING SOON: Bodleian Libraries: Volcanoes 10 February–21 May 2017
Ottawa Insider: Improved Science & Tech Museum Opening November 2017
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
Paleofuture: Rare Nuclear Test Films Saved, Declassified, and Uploaded to Youtube
Atlas Obscura: Dozens of Previously Hidden Nuclear Test Videos Declassified, Uploaded to Youtube
The Mary Sue: Radioactive, a Biopic Based on a Marie Curie Graphic Novel Finds Its Director
NICHE: Guardians of Eternity: Confronting Giant Mine’s Toxic Legacy
The Verge: Watch the first trailer for HBO’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
OUDaily: OU to host world premiere of play about Galileo’s trial
PBS: American Experience: Rachel Carson: She set out to save a species…us.
Youtube: Kepler’s Trial
Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 03 June 2017
The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017
EVENTS:
Senate, House, University of London: Maps and Society Lectures: ‘Privateering and Navigational Practice: Edward Wright and the First Mercator Chart, 1599’ 27 April 2017
Royal College of Physicians: The Library of John Dee 20 April 2017
University of Chicago: Religious Origins of Modern Science? 6 April 2017
JIC Conference Centre, Norwich: Lecture: Dr. Patricia Fara – Botanical Boudicas and Scientific Soldiers: Struggles past and Present
National Library of Ireland, Dublin: ICHS Relaunch Symposium: ‘Past, Present and Future: Reflections on Modern Historiography’ 29 March 2017
West End Baptist Church, Halifax: Lecture: Science, Religion & the New Atheism 1 April 2017
The Center for Science & Society Columbia University: Neil Safier – Where Entangled Empires and Early Modern Science Intertwine: An Iberoamerican Perspective 29 March 2017
Whitechapel Gallery: Maps to the Stars 6 April 2017
The Royal Society: Prize lecture: The curious history of curiosity-driven research 4 April 2017
History of Libraries Research Seminar: London 1708: a Walk into Library History 8 April 2017
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Events January –June 2017
Truman State University: Lecture: The Story and Significance of the Periodic Table 3 April 2017
National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours: January through March 2017
New Scientist Discovery: The Science of the Renaissance: 8 Day Tour Departures: 9 March 2017 & 2 November 2017 £££
Morbid Anatomy Museum: Events
Truman State University: The Story and Significance of the Periodic Table 3 April 2017
Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events
The Warburg Institute: Maps and Society Lectures 26th Series Programme 2016–2017
Museum of Science and Industry Manchester: Engine Demonstration
The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours
Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)
Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tours
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
L0047061 Benjamin Jesty.
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
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http://wellcomeimages.org
Jesty is the first person recorded as having inoculated a person with cowpox matter in order to protect against smallpox–the procedure subsequently known as vaccination. He carried out this procedure on his wife and sons in Dorset in 1774, some twenty years before Edward Jenner carried out the same operation independently in Gloucestershire.
1805 By: Michael William SharpPublished: [1805]
Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
SLIDE SHOW:
APS Physics: Thinking in Pictures: John Wheeler, Richard Feynman and the Diagrammatic Approach to Problem Solving
VIDEOS:
Youtube: Who Really Invented the Light Bulb? – Objectivity #75
Vimeo: Polar Museum: Eating in Antarctica
Youtube: The History of Women Philosophers (several videos)
Youtube: Nature’s Past: #EnvHist Worth Reading February 2017
AEON: Scientific instruments of yore
Vimeo: Richard Feynman’s Sense of Patterns
RADIO & PODCASTS:
BBC Radio 3: The Essay: Monks, Models and Medieval Time
CHF: Distillations: The Smell of Shame: How Deodorant Became Omnipresent in America
newsworks: Badass Ladies in Labs
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: Ingenuity in the Making: Materials and Technique in Early Modern Europe
University of Kent: CfP: Hakluyt Society Symposium 2017: Trading Companies and Travel Literature 11–12 September 2017
Society for the History of Technology: The Dibner Award 2017 Deadline 1 May 2017
University of Cambridge, Christ’s College: Conference: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World 1400-1750 3–4 April 2017
The Recipes Project: What is a Recipe?: A Recipes Project Virtual Conversation 2 June–5July 2017
APS: 2017 History of Physics Essay Contest Deadline 1 September 2017
The Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew: Joseph Dalton Hooker Bicentenary Meeting: The Making of Modern Botany 30 June 2017
SHMCNG, Archives départementales Nîmes: Appel à communications: Hygiène et santé en Bas-Languedoc oriental du XVIIIe siècle aux lendemains du premier conflit mondial la fin septembre 2017
Madison Wisconsin: Conference: CfP: Book History and Digital Humanities 22–24 September 2017 Deadline 15 April 2017
EUI – History of Science: #BSHSPG2017 programme is out
Historiens de la santé: Appel à candidatures: Prix Henry-E. Sigerist pour la promotion de la relève en histoire de la médecine et des sciences naturelles avant le 15 Avril 2017
Royal Air Force Museum: Conference: Air Power in an Age of Uncertainty 29 September 2017
Manchester Medieval Society: New Seminar Series: Connecting ‘Medieval’ Worlds
University of Birmingham: Symposium: Science & Religion 24 April 2017
Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague: Conference: Scientists and “Third World Countries” in the 1960s to 1980s 23–24 November 2017
Libori Summer School: Émilie Du Châtelet: Matter, Bodies, Forces, Motion 23–28 July 2017
Somatosphere: CfP: Speculative Health Deadline 1 June 2017
Hamburg Museum of Medical History: CfP: XVI.th Conference of the German-Polish Society for the History of Medicine (DPGGM): Historical Aspects of Preventive Healthcare in Germany and Poland 12–14 July 2017 Deadline 1 April 2017
Warburg Institute: Resources and Techniques for the Study of Renaissance and Early Modern Culture 22–25 May 2017
London Metropolitan Archives: Symposium: Exploring Hospital Records and Archives 28 April 2017
Hôpital Militaire Reine Astrid, Bruxelles: Symposium d’ASKLEPIOS: Transmission de l’information en radiologie hier et aujourd’hui 25 mars 2017
Université de Genève: Appel à communication: Produire du nouveau ? Arts – Techniques – Sciences en Europe (1400-1900) 23–25 novembre 2017 avant le 15 mars 2017
Christ’s College, Cambridge: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World 1400–1750
Université de Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée: Appel à contribution: Corps au travail. Performance, discipline et fatigue à l’épreuve du métier (XVIIe-XXe siècle) 30 juin-1er juillet 2017 avant le 10 avril 2017
University of Bern: Conference: Thinking about Space and Time: 100 Years of Applying and Interpreting General Relativity 13–15 September 2017
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: SHAC Award Scheme open for applications Deadline 31 May 2017
University of Colorado in Boulder: CfP: 33rd Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science 13–15 October 2017 Deadline 1 June 2017
Jagiellonian University Krakow: CfP. Traumatic Modernities: From Comparative Literature to Medical Humanities 19–21 April 2017 Deadline 14 March 2017
Journée d’étude pluridisciplinaire: Appel à communications: Corps et dépendances Date limite : 30 avril 2017
Philosophia Scientiae: Journal CfP
Durban, KZN, South Africa: CfP: Philosophy of Technology Symposium 22–23 July 2017 Deadline 31 March 2017
Surgeons’ Hall, Edinburgh: CfP: British Society for the History of Medicine Congress 13–16 September 2017 Deadline 31 May 2017
Sheraton City Centre, Toronto: CfP: History of Science Society (HSS) 2017 Conference 19–121 November 2017 Deadline 3 April 2017
Stevens Institute of Technology: 2017 Program Maintainers II 6–9 April 2017
NYAM: Public Programs
Vanderbilt University, Nashville: 11th Annual Southern History of Science and Technology (SoHoST) Meeting 7–8 April 2017
H-Sci-Med-Tech: Call for Submissions, Glenn Sonnedecker Prize
University of Notre Dame: Biennial History of Astronomy Workshop – ND XIII 5–9 July 2017
Max Planck Institute for Human Development: Center for the History of Emotions: CfP: Evidence of Feeling: Law, Science and Emotions in Modern Europe 10–11 April 2017
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich: CfP: Mapping the Past, Exploiting the Future 21–22 July 2017 Deadline 1 March 2017
St Anne’s College, Oxford: CfP: International Research Symposium: Alcohol, Psychiatry and Society 29–30 June 2017 Deadline 31 March 2017
New College, Oxford: CfP: Patient Voices: Historical and Ethical Engagement with Patient Experiences of Healthcare, 1850–1948 18–19 September 2017 Deadline 1 April 2017
University of Sydney: Workshop: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18–19 April 2017
Notches: CfP: Histories of “Smut,” “Porn” and “Obscenity”
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens: Conference: Borders and Technology 7–10 September 2017
NACBS Denver: CfP: Workshops on Early Modern Bodies and Cultures of Imperialism November 2017 Deadline 30 March 2017
New College, University of Oxford: CfP: Patient Voices: Historical and Ethical Engagement with Patient Experiences of Healthcare, 1850–1948 18–19 September 2017 Deadline 1 April 2017
Leibniz University Hannover: CfP: PROGRESS IN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY – Workshop with Philip Kitcher 14 June 2017 Deadline 12 March 2017
Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile: Conference: KNOWLEDGE/CULTURE/ECOLOGIES – KCE2017 15–18 November 2017
Princeton University: Vulnerability in the Middle Ages 28 April 2017
Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Ankara, Turkey: IHPST Biennial Conference 4–7 July 2017
Liverpool Medical Institution: CfP: The Governance of Health Conference 2017: Historical & Contemporary Perspectives on Medical, Managerial and Economic Influence on Health Policy-Making 10–12 July 2017 Deadline 24 February 2017
Nursing Clio: Call for Bloggers: Nutrition and Diet
University of Glasgow: Conference: Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures 3-4 April 2017
University of Glasgow: CfP: First International Conference on Historical Medical Discourse 14–16 June 2017 Deadline 28 February 2017
Notches: CfP: Histories of Sex and Sexuality in Central and Eastern Europe
University of Göttingen: Summer School: The Material Culture of Exploration and Academic Travel 1700–1900 24–29 July 2017
Royal College of Nursing: Workshop: Nightingale & Rathbone: Contributions to Public Health 30 March 2017
Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation: Summer School on “Science and Religion” Crete 5–10 June 2017
Royal Historical Society: New Historical Perspectives: Accepting Proposals from Early Career Historian
University of Sydney: Workshop: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South c.1800-200 18–19 April 2017
CHF: The Decay Project: Call for Entries
Society for Renaissance Studies: London Rare Books School 26 June–14 July 2017
Woudschoten Hotel & Conference Centre, Zeist: Call for Applications: TransPositions Summer School 2017: Sensible Objects, Material Engagement, Skilled Expertise 21–25 August 2017
Université McGill, Montréal: 85e congrès de l’ACFAS: Appel à communications: Les infirmières de la folie. Histoire et évolution des soins infirmiers en psychiatrie au sein de l’espace francophone
Tunis National Library: Summer School: The Arabic Manuscript: Codicology, Palaeography, and History 10-15 July 2017
University of Manchester: CHSTM seminar series
University of Glasgow: Conference: CfP: Medical Machines in Antiquity 19–20 May 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf: Vortrags- und Sektionsanmeldungen für die erste Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft in Münster vom 22.-24. September 2017: Wissenschafts-, Medizin- und Technikreflexion auf dem Prüfstand: Historische und aktuelle Herausforderungen
IUHMSP, Lausanne: Séminaire de recherche en histoire et études sociales de la médecine, de la santé, et des sciences du vivant: Semestre de printemps 2017
University of Münster, Germany: CfP: Contemplating Science, Medicine, and Technology: Past and Present Challenges 22–24 September 2017 Deadline 1 March 2017
American Academy of Religion: Annual Meeting Boston MA 18-21 November 2017 CfP: Western Esotericism Unit
Université McGill, Montréal: Appel à contribution: Les infirmières de la folie: Histoire et évolution des soins infirmiers en psychiatrie au sein de l’espace francophone 8 et 9 mai 2017 avant le 20 février 2017
BSHS: Themes: Call for Proposals
IRSPUM, Montréal: La santé en débat: Programme de l’Hiver 2017
Dartmouth History Institute in Intellectual History: Workshop: 11–15 June 2017 Applications Due 1 February 2017
University Paris Diderot: International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry: CfP: Symposia: 3–5 July 2017 Deadline: 31 January 2017
The Collation: Announcing a New Folger Fellowship in Honor of Margaret Hannay
University of Cambridge: CRASSH: The Power Switch; How Power is Changing in a Networked World 31 March 2017
Domus Comeliana, Pisa: International Conference: CfP: Humours, mixtures, & Corpuscles: A Medical Path to Corpuscularism in the Seventeenth Century 18–20 May 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
Indiana University in Bloomington: Summer Institute: Beyond East and West: Exchanges and Interactions across the Early Modern World (1400–1800) 19 June–7 July 2017
SHOT 2017: CfP. Thinking with Ann Johnson Philadelphia 26–29 October 2017
University of Pennsylvania: Conference: The Futures of Medieval Historiography 24–25 February 2017
Patras, Greece: 5th International Phytocosmetics and Phytotherapy Congress: CfP. History of Cosmetics and Phytotherapy 15–17 May 2017
NACBS Denver: CfP: Early Modern History Workshop: Bodies Corporeal and Rhetorical 3–5 November 2017 Deadline 3 March 2017
Society for the History of Natural History’s Annual Conference: CfP: Women in the History of Natural Sciences University of Cumbria Ambleside Campus 15 June 2017 Freshwater Biological Association, at Far Sawrey 16th June 2017
University of Helsinki: CfP: International Seminar: Commanding the Environment or Green Dictatorships? Nature-Culture – Nature-Society Relationships in Authoritarian Regimes 27–28 April 2017
British Society for the History of Pharmacy: BSHP 50th Anniversary Conference 1–2 April 2017
American Astronomical Society: DDA’s New Early Career Prize Named for Very Rubin
Notches: CfP: Histories of Sex and Sexuality in Central and Eastern Europe
Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, Ulster University: CfP: Food anxieties in Twentieth Century Britain and Ireland 7 April 2017 Deadline 25 January 2017
The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at Boston Public Library: Teacher Workshop: Mapping a New World: Places of Colonization and Conflict in 17th-Century New England 9–14 July 2017 National Participants 23–28 July 2017 Commuting Participants Applications Deadline 1 March 2017
University of Texas at Dallas: CfP: Conference: Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology 18–21 May 2017 Deadline 15 January 2017
BHSH: Travel Grants for the International Congress in Rio
University of Cumbria Ambleside Campus: SHNH: CfP: Women in the History of Natural Sciences 15-16 June 2017
Denver Colorado: 131st Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA): History of Sexuality
British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference: CfP: Session proposal: Science and Connoisseurship: New Perspectives 6–9 July 2017 Deadline 10 January 2017
Cornell University: The Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar Spring 2017
History of Anaesthesia Society: CfP: HAS Summer Scientific meeting 16–17 June 2017 Deadline 17 May 2017
BSHS 2017: CfP: Science and Connoisseurship 6–9 July 2017 Deadline 10 January 2017
Society for the History of Technology: The Diber Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits 2017 Deadline 1 May 2017
BNF/Université Paris-Descartes-USPC: Colloque international: Appel à communications: Alfred Binet, expérimentateur. Entre archives de la psychologie et éducation physique 12–13 Octobre 2017 Avant le 31 janvier 2017
University of Aberdeen: CfP: Workshop: Gut Feeling: Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Culture 26-27 May 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
The History of Modern Biomedicine: CfP: ebook: Frontiers in Pharmacology: Pharmaceutical innovation after World War II: from rational drug discovery to biopharmaceuticals Deadline 28 February 2017
Société de Démographie Historique, Centre Roland Mousnier, Paris: Appel à communications: Le sang. Famille, parenté, transmission du Moyen Âge à nos jours 23–24 novembre 2017 Date limite de l’appel : 15 janvier 2017
The Hakluyt Society: Essay Prize
Merida, Yucatan, Mexico: CfP: “IX International and Interdisciplinary Conference: Alexander von Humboldt and Travellers Through Yucatan”, 19–24 November 2018 Deadline 29 May 2017
University of Pittsburgh: Call for Applications: A Summer Program in Philosophy of Science for Underrepresented Groups 10–14 July 2017
Département de français, New York University: Appel à communications: Le goût 13 et 14 avril 2017 avant le 15 janvier 2017
Domus Comeliana of Pisa: CfP: Conference: Humours, mixtures, & corpuscles. A Medical Path to Corpuscularism in the Seventeenth Century 18–20 May 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
Centre for Global Health Histories, Department of History, University of York: Call for applications: William Bynum Essay Prize (Medical History)
University of Sheffield: Call for Open Panels: 11th Annual Science in Public Conference Science, Technology & Humanity 10–12 July 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa: CfP: Joint Meeting of the Red EsCTS and the Portuguese STS Network: Lost in Translation? People, Technologies for Practices and Concepts Across Boundaries 7–9 June 2017 Deadline 10 February 2017
University of California, Berkeley: 2017 4S Conference Proposal Submission Dates
Historiens de la santé: CfP: Edited Collection: Medicine and What it Means to be Human
History of Psychology: CfP: Special Issue on the History of Global Psychology and Psychiatry Deadline 15 May 2017
University of Utrecht: CfP: Workshop: Histories of Measurement and Self-making 29–30 June 2017 Deadline 6 January 2017
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: CfP: Estimated Truths: Water, Science, and the Politics of Approximation
University of Leeds: CfP: Conference: Who Cares? The Past and Present of Caring 27–28 March 2017 Deadline 13 January 2017
UK Association for the History of Nursing: Annual Nursing History Writing Competition Deadline 31 March 2017
Mississippi State University: CfP: 49th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences 22-25 June 2017 Deadline 15 January 2017
University of Sheffield: CfP: 11th Annual Science in Public Conference: Science, Technology and Humanity 10–12 July 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
The Göttingen Institute of Advanced Study: CfP: Mapping the Territory: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1830 Two Conferences Berne 14–16 September 2017 Göttingen 7–9 December 2017 Deadline 20 January 2017
University of Toronto: CfP: 7th Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable: Medicine, Public Health and Healthcare 23–24 June 2017
Manchester Conference Centre: CfP: Genealogies of Knowledge I: Translating Political and Scientific Thought across Time and Space 7–9 December 2017 Deadline 15 February 2017
University of Chicago: Marine Biological Laboratory: Seminar: A Century of Engineering Life: Cells and Organisms 17–24 May 2017
University of Wales Trinity Saint David: The Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture: Annual Sophia Centre Conference: CfP: The Talking Sky: Myths and Meaning in the Celestial Spheres 1-2 July 2017 Deadline 15 January 2017
University of Toronto: CfP: 7th Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable 23–24 June 2017
University of Darmstadt: CfP: Society for Philosophy and Technology’s 20th biennial conference 14–17 June 2017 Deadline 5 December 2016
University of Wales Trinity Saint David: The Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture: Annual Sophia Centre Conference: CfP: The Talking Sky: Myths and Meaning in the Celestial Spheres 1-2 July 2017 Deadline 15 January 2017
University of Toronto: CfP: 7th Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable 23–24 June 2017
University of Darmstadt: CfP: Society for Philosophy and Technology’s 20th biennial conference 14–17 June 2017 Deadline 5 December 2016
University of York: CfP: BSHS Annual Conference 2017 6–9 July 2017 Deadline 19 January 2017
University of Oxford: TORCH: CfP: Symposium: Doctor-Doctor: Global and Historical Perspectives on the Doctor Patient Relationship 24 March 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016 Deadline 17 March 2017
University of Ireland, Galway: CfP: Medicine and Mystery: The Dark Side of Science in Victorian Fiction 8 June 2017
University of North Caroline: CfP: Carolina Conference for Romance Studies: Dia.gnosis 30 March–1 April 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
Septièmes journées internationales d’études médiévales des Jeunes Chercheurs Médiévistes de l’Université de Genève & de la Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale: Appel à communications: Vivre et mourir au Moyen Âge 9-10 mars 2017 avant le 1er décembre 2016
University of Amsterdam: CfP: Changing the Nature of Art and Science: Intersections with Maria Sibylla Merian 7–9 June 2017 Deadline 31 December 2016
Harvard University: CfP: Technical Landscapes: Aesthetics and the Environment in the History of Science and Art 6–8 April 2017 Deadline 14 December 2016
University of Southampton: CfP: Skeletons, Stories and Social Bodies Conference 24–26 March 2017 Deadline 16 December 2016
University of Ghent: Program Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science 2016–2017
Toronto Ontario: CfP: Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science Annual Conference 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 20 January 2017
Transversal: CfP: Special Issue on Historiography of Medicine Deadline 31 July 2017 Publication December 2017
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science: 57th Annual Program 2016–2017
Victoria, British Columbia: CfP: Conference SHARP 2017: Technologies of the Book 9-12 June 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
Durham University: Conference: CfP: Scale of Nature: Long Nineteenth-Century Culture and the Great Chain of Being 18 March 2017 Deadline 25 November 2016
University of Groningen: CfP. Histories of Healthy Ageing 21–23 June 2017 Deadline 1 December 2016
Kraków Poland: CfP. 6th Conference of the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences 20-22 September 2017
University of Utrecht: CfP: Workshop: Histories of Measurement and Self-Making 29–30 June 2017 Deadline 6 January 2017
‘Villa Dohrn’, Ischia, Italy: Call for applications: Fifteenth Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences Cycles of Life 24 June–1 July 2017
Philadelphia, PA: RBS Mellon Conference: CfP: Resembling Science: The Unruly Object across the Disciplines 12–15 October 2017
University of Padua: CfP: Scientia 2017 19–22 April 2017
University of Ghent: Concepts and methods in philosophy and history of science: Calendar, 2016–2017
Friends of Birmingham Museums and Arts Gallery (BMAG): Looking for speakers for their Science Shorts series in March, June, September and December 2017
The History of Modern Biomedicine: CfP: Frontiers in Pharmacology: Pharmaceutical innovation after World War II: from rational drug discovery to biopharmaceuticals
BSHS: Dingle Prize 2017: The British Society for the History of Science invites book nominations for the 2017 Dingle Prize
Centre Alexandre-Koyré, Paris: Histoire des sciences humaines et sociales 4 novembre 2016 au 9 juin 2017
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
University of Warwick: CfP: Cultures of Exclusion in the Early Modern World: Enemies and Strangers, 1600–1800
Indiana University: CfP: Images, Copyright, and the Public Domain in the Long Nineteenth Century 29–30 March 2017
All Souls College Oxford: Oxford Naval History Conference: Economic Warfare and the Sea 1650–1950 13–15 July 2017
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
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
UCL: STS: Seminar Series Spring 2017
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
SCHCT: 9th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularisation 18–20 May 2017
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
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
Moot Court Room, Toronto, ON: ISHTIP 9th Annual Workshop: CfP: ‘Intellectual Property as Circulation and Control’ 12–14 July 2017
BSHS: University College London: 8th International Conference for the European Society for the History of Science: Unity and Disunity 15–17 September 2018
University of Padua: CfP: Scientiae 2017 19–22 April 2017
Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS: CfP: 49th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of St Andrews: CfP: Conference: Encountering the Material Medieval 19–20 January 2017
Institute of Historical Research, University of London: Maritime History and Culture Seminar 2016–17
FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia: Applications to Fernando Gil International Prize in Philosophy of Science 2017
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science: CfP. Pierre Duhem’s Philosophy and History of Science Deadline 30 March 2017
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London: The Forum for European Philosophy Women in Science Forthcoming Events
Royal Museums Greenwich: CfP: Conference: Joseph Banks, Science, Culture and Exploration 14–15 September 2017
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim: CFP: 11th International Conference on the History of Chemistry 29 August–2 September 2017
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
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
H-Empire: CfP: Empires of Knowledge” ESEH 2017 (Zagreb 28 June–2 July 2017)
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
Archives and Records: CfP: Special issue on ‘Archives and Museums’, spring 2018
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
Birkbeck: University of London: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–25 March 2017
King’s College London: CHoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
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
ICHST “2017: Symposium Proposals Approved by IPC
APS Physics: CfP: April Meeting 2017 Include History of Physics Deadline 30 September 2016
Royal Historical Society: University of Chester: CfP: Putting History in its Place: Historic Landscapes and Environments 21 April 2017 – deadline 28 October 2016
IWHA: CfP: Water History Conference 2017 Grand Rapids USA 15–17 June 2017
University of Durham: Conference: Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism? 5–7 August 2017
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
University of Sydney: CfP: Workshop: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18 April 2017
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
Université François Rabelais, Tours: Appel à communications: Représentations et figures de la maternité dans le monde anglophone 3 au 5 avril 2017
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
Christ’s College Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World (1400-1750) 3–4 April 2017
Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta, and the University of Warwick: CfP: Beauty and the Hospital in History 6–8 April 2017
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
Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)
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
H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology
University of York: CfP: BSHS Annual Conference 2017 6–9 July 2017 Deadline 19 January 2017
University of Oxford: TORCH: CfP: Symposium: Doctor-Doctor: Global and Historical Perspectives on the Doctor Patient Relationship 24 March 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016 Deadline 17 March 2017
University of Ireland, Galway: CfP: Medicine and Mystery: The Dark Side of Science in Victorian Fiction 8 June 2017
University of North Caroline: CfP: Carolina Conference for Romance Studies: Dia.gnosis 30 March–1 April 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
Septièmes journées internationales d’études médiévales des Jeunes Chercheurs Médiévistes de l’Université de Genève & de la Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale: Appel à communications: Vivre et mourir au Moyen Âge 9-10 mars 2017 avant le 1er décembre 2016
University of Amsterdam: CfP: Changing the Nature of Art and Science: Intersections with Maria Sibylla Merian 7–9 June 2017 Deadline 31 December 2016
Harvard University: CfP: Technical Landscapes: Aesthetics and the Environment in the History of Science and Art 6–8 April 2017 Deadline 14 December 2016
University of Southampton: CfP: Skeletons, Stories and Social Bodies Conference 24–26 March 2017 Deadline 16 December 2016
University of Ghent: Program Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science 2016–2017
Toronto Ontario: CfP: Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science Annual Conference 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 20 January 2017
Transversal: CfP: Special Issue on Historiography of Medicine Deadline 31 July 2017 Publication December 2017
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science: 57th Annual Program 2016–2017
Victoria, British Columbia: CfP: Conference SHARP 2017: Technologies of the Book 9-12 June 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
University of Groningen: CfP. Histories of Healthy Ageing 21–23 June 2017 Deadline 1 December 2016
Kraków Poland: CfP. 6th Conference of the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences 20-22 September 2017
University of Utrecht: CfP: Workshop: Histories of Measurement and Self-Making 29–30 June 2017 Deadline 6 January 2017
‘Villa Dohrn’, Ischia, Italy: Call for applications: Fifteenth Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences Cycles of Life 24 June–1 July 2017
Philadelphia, PA: RBS Mellon Conference: CfP: Resembling Science: The Unruly Object across the Disciplines 12–15 October 2017
University of Padua: CfP: Scientia 2017 19–22 April 2017
University of Ghent: Concepts and methods in philosophy and history of science: Calendar, 2016–2017
Friends of Birmingham Museums and Arts Gallery (BMAG): Looking for speakers for their Science Shorts series in March, June, September and December 2017
Centre Alexandre-Koyré, Paris: Histoire des sciences humaines et sociales 4 novembre 2016 au 9 juin 2017
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
Indianna University: CfP: Images, Copyright, and the Public Domain in the Long Nineteenth Century 29–30 March 2017
All Souls College Oxford: Oxford Naval History Conference: Economic Warfare and the Sea 1650–1950 13–15 July 2017
University of Bristol: CfP: The British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference 6–8 April 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
LOOKING FOR WORK:
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS), Pennsylvania: Visiting Research Fellowship Deadline 1 May 2017
Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London: IHR Archivist
University of Manchester: PhD Project: Unlocking the SCAR archive: the sixty-year long consolidation of Antarctic governance through polar research
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh: Assistant Curator Deadline 11 April 2017
Whewell's Ghost 
I have some sympathy with the physicists celebrating Emmy Noether because I think that you have understated the importance of Noether’s Theorem, by dismissing it as her only contribution to physics. Even a populariser of physics, Brian Clegg, managed to ignore it completely when writing about the events that transformed our understanding of reality. The value of Noether’s Theorem is that it connects two totally separate areas of physics: conservation laws and symmetries in space and time, that no-one before had realised were connected. Perhaps we should not be comparing Noether to Einstein, but certainly she deserves to be as well known as Maxwell or Dirac for her contribution to physics, even if it is dwarfed by her contribution to mathematics.