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 #40
Monday 22 May 2017
EDITORIAL:
Faster than we can register, it’s once again time to deliver up another edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list bringing the latest histories of science, technology and medicine thrown up on the shores of cyberspace over the last seven days.
On the 17 May Google celebrated the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the so-called Antikythera Mechanism with a doodle. As always with a #histSTM Google Doodle this provoked a minor flood of post and reposts on the subject, some of which are collected below.
I an increasing disturbed by the tendency to refer to this piece ancient technology as the ‘world’s first computer’. In my opinion this creates a false image in the mind of the reader, particularly if they are not an expert on ancient astronomy; whatever this device might or might not be its purpose is definitely astronomical.
The word computer comes from the Latin verb computare, which means to calculate or to reckon. One could even translate it as doing arithmetic. It was first coined in English in the seventeenth century and originally referred to a person who did calculations most usually in astronomy. Only in modern times did it come to refer to a machine for doing calculations and that is what the machine on which I am typing this does somewhere deep inside.
The Antikythera Mechanism doesn’t calculate so to refer to it as a computer is a best a stretch and at worst a misnomer. The Antikythera Mechanism is a geared or clockwork device that can be used to determine the position of heavenly bodies over a period of years. Such a device would be more correctly termed a planetarium, an orrery or a mechanical astrolabe.
Calling it a computer leads people to a false impression of its purpose and function and gives it an aura of advanced achievement that it doesn’t possess.
Antikythera Mechanism discovered 17 May 1902
Google Doodle: 115th Anniversary of the Antikythera Discovery
Smithsonian.com: Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism, the First Computer
NDTV: Google Celebrates 115th Anniversary of the Antikythera Mechanism’s Discovery with a Doodle
Independent: What is the Antikythera Mechanism? Five things you didn’t know about the ‘world’s first computer’
Scientific American: Unique Marvel of Ancient Greek Technology Gives Up New Secrets
Search Engine Land: What is the Antikythera Mechanism? Google doodle honors ancient astronomical tool
Squarducation: Antikythera Mechanism revealed as a computer
Medium: Watch: The Antikythera Mechanism – GrrlScientist
ekathimerini.com: Antikythera Mechanism – Athens – 10 February–28 May 2017
Quotes of the week:
Wittgenstein invented the emoticon h/t Anita Leirfall (@anitaleirfall)
“Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life” ― William Blake
“In the stark lightning flashes of these… times, one is able to see human beings and human values in all their nakedness” – Albert Einstein Science & Civilisation Address 1933
“I don’t have any hang ups about living in a multi-cultural society. Better than insular one I grew up in” – Ken Clarke
“Anyone know where Kevin Bacon’s left his car keys? Asking for a friend of a friend of a friend of friend of a friend” – Moose Allain (@MooseAllain)
Mathematics – A Cultural Approach by Morris Kline
“The historian is obligated to understand how people understand their own times, but not obligated to adopt their…point of view” – Patty Limerick h/t @DanielGrant9
Leo Szilard’s “Ten Commandments” for life
Birthday of the Week:
Williamina Fleming born 15 May
Williamina Paton Fleming
Dave Reneke’s World of Space and Astronomer: Miss Universe – Williamina Fleming
mujeres con ciencia: Williamina Fleming, astrónoma
Mary Anning born 21 May 1799
Letter and drawing from Mary Anning announcing the discovery of a fossil animal now known as Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus, 26 December 1823 Source Wikimedia Commons
TrowelBlazers: It’s Mary Anning’s birthday and we’re celebrating
Thomas Midgeley Jr. borm 18 May 1889
Thomas Midgley Jr Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: Thomas Midgley Jr. and the Development of Leaded Fuel
Smithsonian.com: One Man Invented Two of the Deadliest Substances of the 20th Century
Clarence Dutton born 15 May 2017
Clarence Edward Dutton Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Clarence Dutton
Kepler (re)discovered his 3rd Law 15 May 1618
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Oh happy day!
SciHi Blog: And Kepler Has His Own Opera – Kepler’s 3rd Planetary Law
Ruđer Josip Bošković Born 18 May 1711
The Renaissance Mathematicus: A Croatian Polymath
Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente born 20 May 1537
Today in Science History: Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Jerry the Builder from the Waterfall
Albrecht Dürer born 21 May 147
The earliest painted Self-Portrait (1493) by Albrecht Dürer, oil, originally on vellum (Louvre, Paris)
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Visualoop: Looking at a lion for the first time
The H-Word: The triumph of melancholy: 500 years of Dürer’s most enigmatic print
Youtube: Conserving Dürer’s Triumphal Arch
The British Museum Blog: Conserving Dürer’s Triumphal Arch: a Moving experience
The British Museum Blog: One night at the Museum: moving Dürer’s paper triumph
Geschichte der Geologie: Albrecht Dürer und die Geologie
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Reaching for the stars
The Renaissance Mathematicus: A maths book from a painter
Albrecht Dürer, ‘Eight Studies of Wild Flowers’. Watercolour, ca. 1510-1520
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
SciHi Blog: Francis Baily and the Baily Beads
AHF: Ernest O. Lawrence
AHF: Pierre Curie
University of Cambridge: Digital Library: Waimea Station Journal
Physics Today: Gathering the human stories of Science
Herstory: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Jocelyn Bell Burnell launch of IYA Paris 2009
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Argonne: Nuclear Engineering Division: Argonne’s Nuclear Science and Technology Legacy
Alex Wellerstein: The Secret Patents for the Atomic Bomb
The Royal Society: The Repository: The lesser-spotted physicist
The High Frontier: Flying Without Wings: The Martin SV-5/X-24 Lifting Bodies
Nautilus: How Einstein and Schrödinger Conspired to Kill a Cat
Greenwich.co.uk Blogs: The Grave of John Flamsteed
Louvre: Roofed spherical sundial
AIP: Abraham Pais
AHF: Gregory Breit
APS: This Month in Physics History: May 1932: Chadwick reports the discovery of the neutron
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Clay Kemper Perkins’ Interview
The New Yorker: The Demon Core and the Strange Death of Louis Slotin
A re-creation of the plutonium core that briefly went critical on May 21, 1946, resulting in the death of the Manhattan Project physicist Louis Slotin.
Photograph courtesy Los Alamos National Laboratory
AHF: Atomic Accidents
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Isaac Beeckman
Google Arts & Culture: Astronomical compendium 1593
Google Arts & Culture: Golden Celestial Globe with Pearl Inlays
ESA: 21 May: Nils Christofer Dunér
AHF: James Frank
AHF: Andrei D. Sakharov
Sakharov in 1943
Source: Wikimedia Commons
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Blaeu’s 1665 Map of Norway
Quartz: This 6-foot-tall Renaissance book perfectly captures the timeless art of managing up
The Public Domain Review: Illustrations from The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier (1678)
The Record: University of Waterloo interactive maps offer a window into the past
Smithsonian.com: Walt Disney’s Original Map of Disneyland Is Headed to Auction
SciHi Blog: The Jolliet-Marquette Expedition on the Upper Mississippi
Pere Marquette and the Indians [at the Mississippi River], oil painting (1869) by Wilhelm Lamprecht (1838–1906), at Marquette University
Academia: The Savant and the Engineer: Exploration Personnel in the Narbough and Anson Voyage Accounts
laststandonzombieisland: 30 Years ago today: Tea party at the pole
Brilliant Maps: The First Ordnance Survey Map
The Scotsman: The first map of Gaelic speakers in Scotland
The Bartholomew’s map, published 1895, the first to show the rate of Gaelic speaking in Scotland. PIC: National Library of Scotland.
Read more at: http://www.scotsman.com/news/the-first-map-of-gaelic-speakers-in-scotland-1-4450018
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Hektoen International: Using bacteria in cancer therapy
Thomas Morris: The boy who got his wick stuck in a candlestick
The H-Word: Trump has a theory about exercise that would fit well in Victorian Britain
Lord Thomas Grey’s Regiment of Foote: Sins of the Flesh: Vegetarians in the English Civil War
The Public Domain Review: Sessions for the Blind at Sunderland Museum
Atlas Obscura: The Victorian Belief That a Train Ride Could Cause Instant Insanity
An illustration from the Illustrated Police News, Saturday 11 May 1889. ALL IMAGES: © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED/ COURTESY THE BRITISH NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE
Mistaking Histories: Theatres of Anatomy
Mistaking Histories: Medical Instruments as bling
Mistaking Histories: The ‘Rapunzel syndrome’
Mistaking Histories: Death in Vienna and the City of Salt
Mistaking Histories: Le bruit de diable: gunpowder, tops and purring cats
The New York Times: Brenda Milner, Eminent Brain Scientist, Is ‘Still Nosy’ at 98
Dr. Brenda Milner in her office at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital last month. Credit Aaron Vincent Elkaim for The New York Times
The Recipes Project: ‘Thus It Prevails Against Its Time’: Distillation and Cycles of Nature in Early Modern Pharmacy
Thomas Morris: An abnormal secretion
Hekteon International: Sir William Stewart Duke-Elder
Hekteon International: Episteme and translation in an annotated copy of the Canon of Medicine by Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna)
Nursing Clio: The Pre-History of the Paleo Diet
NYAM: The Early Days of the X-Ray
The X-Ray of Eugene Sandow’s foot in process.
Placing the Public in Public Health: Public Health in Britain, 1948–2010: Becoming emotional about public health
OUP Blog: Reflections on Freud, the first “wild analyst”
The Conversation: Five bloodcurdling medical procedures that are no longer performed … thankfully
Hekteon International: Torsten Almén 1931–2016. Inventor of non-ionized contrast media
Smithsonian.com: Good News, Everbody! Someone Once Patented Plans for Keeping a Severed Head Alive
Geoffrey Kaye Museum: The great women of anaesthesia: Mary Alice Blair
The Atlantic: The Dangers of Reading in Bed
Legal History Miscellany: Reading the Legal Record like a Physician
npr: shots: Why Brain Scientists Are Still Obsessed with the Curious Case of Phineas Gage
Atlas Obscura: What’s Kept the Society Against Quackery Going for 137 Years
Beware quacks. ARALLYN!/CC BY 2.0
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Wellcome Collection: Dazzling luxury
Wellcome Collection: Electric Age: the electrified garden
M0014519 The effect of electricity on the growth of plants
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
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Atlas Obscura: Resurrecting the Forgotten Bike Highways of 1930s Britain
The New Stack: COBOL Is Everywhere. Who Will Maintain It?
Mistaking Histories: Automata in history
Science Museum: The Dambusters, Barnes Wallis and the Bouncing Bomb
Conciatore: Diligence Among Craftsmen
IET: Archives Biographies: Sir Eric Mensforth
Atlas Obscura: Would You Confess Your Criminal Misdeeds to This Skeleton?
NBCNEWS.com: Roman ship sheds light on defenses
Technology Stories: From “Snow Eagle” to “Ban the Tan”: Aviation and Canadian Climatic Identity
The Library of Congress: Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry
Scunthorpe Telegraph: Do you use Kedley Bridge? Fascinating video shows how it used to lift in just 40 seconds
TNMoC: The Colossus Gallery
The new look Colossus Gallery 2013.
Ptak Science Books: The Highways of Tomorrow 1937 (and 1938)
Rubrik’s: The History of the Rubriks Cube
Royal Armouries: Brown Bess: Musket or Mistress?
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
19 Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century: Reading the Body-Object: Nineteenth-Century Taxidermy Manuals and Our Mutual Friend
Nature: Fossil of oldest known baleen-whale relative unearthed in Peru
Smithsonian.com: How a German Mathematician Took Responsibility for an Ancient Peruvian Artifact
Science: There’s no such thing as a ‘pure’ European – or anyone else
Forbes: Rock Model Suggests Phlegraean Fields Volcano More Likely to Erupt Than Previously Thought
Annals of Science: Systems and How Linnaeus Looked at Them in Retrospect
Smithsonian.com: A New Kind of Carrot Top
Trade card, C. Ribsam & Sons, Trenton, New Jersey, 1880s
Smithsonian Gardens, Horticultural Artifacts Collection
The Public Domain Review: Stuffed Ox, Dummy Tree, Artificial Rock: Deception in the Work of Richard and Cherry Kearton
Atlas Obscura: The Mysterious Death of the Namesake of the Douglas Fir
NICHE: #EnvHist Worth Reading April 2017
The Guardian: Earliest evidence of Aboriginal occupation of Australian coast discovered
Lady Science: The New Inquiry: Seducing the ‘Feeble-Minded’
Lady Science: The New Inquiry: Feminism, Fascism, and Frogs: The Case of Bertha Lutz at the United Nations
One New England: The Sunken Forest of Rye
New York Times: A Botanist in Swedish Lapland
Until Darwin: Maps from Cozzens’ Geological History of Manhattan or New York Island… (1843)
CHEMISTRY:
Chemistry World: Propranolol hydrochloride
lamonitor.com: Nerses ‘Krik’ Krikorian reflects on his career as a scientist and intelligence analyst
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Arnold Beckman
The Beckman G pH meter was produced from 1935 until 1950. At roughly 29 cm (about 11 inches) wide it is large by today’s standards, but measuring pH had required an entire benchtop of equipment before Beckman’s first pH meter was introduced in 1934.
Photograph by Gregory Tobias. CHF Collections.
CHF: Arnold O. Beckman
Chemistry World: The first chemical database
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
Social History of Medicine: Volume 30, Issue 2, May 2017 Table of Contents
Internet Histories: Hagiography, revisionism & blasphemy in Internet Histories
Forbes: Why Do We Invent Ancient Roots for Modern Science?
BMJ Blogs: New Editor for Medical Humanities
AAS – Historical Astronomy Division: Sara J. Schechner recipient of the 2018 LeRoy E. Doggett Prize for Historical Astronomy
Sara J. Schechner
Physics Today: Gathering the human stories of science
Knight Foundation: Museums & Technology: New Avenues for Wonder
IDTC–IUHPS: HPS&ST Notes for May 2017
BSHS: BJHS Themes: Call for Proposals
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Perpetuating the myths
History for Atheists: Giordano Bruno – Gaspar Schoppe’s Account of his Condemnation
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Perpetuating the myths addendum – ‘The Copernican Shock’
Charli Vince Blog: Open Day Graphic Novel – An Excuse for Science!
Blink: The virus in space
Atlas Obscura: It’s Hard to Be a Natural History Museum in the 21st Century
Ordered Universe: Heat, Comets, and Collaboration: a post by Dr Seb Falk
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – James Basire III
ESOTERIC:
Ptak Science Books: On Brain Light, Clairvoyants, and the Uselessness of X-Ray Photographs
Conciatore: Alchemist’s Assistant
BOOK REVIEWS:
The Cooper Square Review of Science, Medicine, and Technology
New Books Network: Sophia Roosth – Synthetic: How Life Got Made
New Books Network: Kate Daloz – We Are As Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on a Quest for a New America
The New York Review of Books: Calculating Women
The Atlantic: How Beauty Evolves
L’Oeil de Minerve: Ruwen Ogien, Mes mille et une nuits. La maladie comme drame et comme comédie
New Books Network: Sharrona Pearl: Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other
Chemistry World: Toxic exposures: mustard gas and the health consequences of world war II in the United States
The Wall Street Journal: Cowboys and Dinosaurs
Popular Science: Out of the Shadow of a Giant – John and Mary Gribbin
NEW BOOKS:
Routledge: Museum Storage and Meaning: Tales from the Crypt
Historiens de la santé: From Clinic to Concentration Camp: Reassessing Nazi Medical and Racial Research, 1933–1945
Routledge: Teaching and Learning about Climate Change
Historiens de la santé: Silicosis : A World History
MIT Press: The Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War
Historiens de la santé: Une histoire de l’orthopédie pédiatrique
ART & EXHIBITIONS
New-York Historical Museum: Museum & Library: Big Bird: Looking for Lifesize 7 April–11 June 2017
Union College, NY: Maps hold key to Adirondacks history in new exhibit
Cal Welch ’62 and his daughter, Caroline ’01, discuss new exhibit at the Kelly Adirondack Center – See more at: https://www.union.edu/news/stories/2017/05/maps-hold-key-to-adirondacks-history-in-new-exhibit.php#sthash.U5q1qh7d.dpuf
Harvard Gazette: Reviving the Philosophy Chamber
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Museum Collection: Explore highlights from our collection
WWD: ‘Ocean Liners: Glamour, Speed and Style’ at PEM Shows Off How Fashion Enhanced Travel
Nursing Clio: War Art 100 Years Later: The “World War I and American Art” Exhibit and the Centenary of the Great War
The University of Manchester: Manchester Museum: Object Lessons
Le Devoir: Le Musée de la civilisation dévoile toutes les couleurs de la matière grise
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
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
Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm
Hyperallergic: A 19th-Century Photographer of Scottish Industrialization Gets His First Survey
The Guardian: Designers on acid: the tripping Californians who paved the way to our touchscreen world
Teylers Museum: De Lorentz Formule in Het Lorentz Lab 18 May 2017–18 May 2020
Wollaton Hall Nottingham: Dinosaurs of China 1 July–29 October 2017
The Royal Society: Global arts and science unite in unique sponsorship for Lisa Reihana exhibition at Biennale Arte 2017 in Venice
Captain James Cook and his John Shelton clock – Lisa Reihana, detail in Pursuit of Venus [infected] 2015–17 Ultra HD video, colour, sound, 64 min, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the Patrons of the Auckland Art Gallery, 2014.
U.S.News: New Kensington Museum Preserves Computing Relics
The Grosvenor Museum, Chester: Raising Horizons: Portraits Highlighting Women in Archaeology and Geosciences Past and Present 20 May–4 June 2017
Sanofi Pasteur: The Legacy Project
The Recipes Project: Artifacts at an Exhibition: The Art and Science of Healing at the University of Michigan
Het Scheep Vaart Museum: Blaeu’s Wereld In Kaart 14 April–31 December 2017
Le Soleil: 400 ans de pharmacie
Royal Cornwall Museum: The Medicine Man – A Spotlight on Richard Lander March–September 2017
The Gibbes Museum of Art: Artist, Scientist, Explorer: Mark Catesby in the Carolinas 12 May–24 September 2017
Indianapolis Museum of Art: Audubon: Drawn to Nature 1 April–30 July 2017
The Guardian: Mat Collishaw restages 1839 photography show in virtual reality
Arizona State University: Rare ASU map collection reveals truths about history of American Southwest
Old Operating Theatre: Virtual Tour
Criminal Corpses: Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpses – Online Exhibition
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: Joseph Hooker: Putting plants in their place 25 March–17 September 2017
Daguerreotype of J.D. Hooker by William Edward Kilburn, circa 1852
IET: Archives: Online Exhibitions
Oxford Today: Volcanoes – from catastrophe to the sublime
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
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
Adler Planetarium: Chasing Eclipses Opening 25 March 2017
Hyperallergic: When Dissection Was a Criminal Punishment Worse Than Death
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 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
Linda Hall Library: Connecting the Dots: The Science of CSI 16 March–1 September 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
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
The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 17 March–23 July 2017
Harvard Gazette: The story of Edwin Land
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
Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
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
University of Birmingham: Inspiring Knowledge 26 September 2016–30 June 2017
Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle Saale: Alchemie – Die Suche nach dem Weltgeheimnis 25 November 2016–5 Juni 2017
Royal College of Physicians: ‘a cabinet of rarities’: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne 30 January–27 July 2017
Ottawa Insider: Improved Science & Tech Museum Opening November 2017
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
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:
Wellcome Library: Women in Engineering Wikithon 15 June 2017
University of Exeter: Lecture: Making Old Drugs New Again: Uses of History in Health Policy and Practice
NYAM: GRUNT: The Curious Science of Humans at War 12 June 2017
The British Academy: Lecture: Untangling Academic Publishing 25 vMay 2017
Brightstone, Isle of Wight: Special events celebrate Isle of Wight’s dinosaur pioneer 26 & 27 May 2017
The British Museum: Lecture: The man who collected the world: Hans Sloane and the origins of the British Museum 12 June 2017
Royal Museums Greenwich: Distorting the line: Globes, Maps and Movement 27 May 2017
The Warburg Institute: Opening Doors – Moving Ideas 31 May 2017
Royal Museums Greenwich: Distorting the line: Globes, Maps and Movement: Talks & Courses: 27 May 2017
Wellcome Collection: The 2017 Roy Porter Lecture: Corridor Dread: A History of Institutional Fear 24 May 2017
Oxford Seminars in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Seminars 17 May & 14 June 2017
Sea Trek: Cruise: In Search of Wallace and His Living Treasures with Dr. George Beccaloni 13–24 January 2018 $$$
ICE: ICE Smeaton Lecture 2017 London 18 July 2017
University of Oxford: Oxford Talks: Oxford Seminar in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Wednesdays: 3, 10, 17 May & 14 June 2017
Notches: Walking Tour: Gentrification and Queer Erasure in Roanoke, Virginia
Discover Medical London: London’s Medical Cabinets of Curiosity
Royal Institution: Lecture: The Periodic Table: Its Story and Significance – Eric Scerri 20 July 2017
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Events January –June 2017
New Scientist Discovery: The Science of the Renaissance: 8 Day Tour Departure: 2 November 2017 £££
Morbid Anatomy Museum: Events
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 Tour
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
Unusual painting, this title is ‘King Arthur in Eastleigh Works’ we don’t recognise artists signature though – Helen Warlow (@HWarlow)
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Youtube: IQIM Caltech: Michelle Feynman – One Entangled Evening
Youtube: Reanimating the 1882 Transit of Venus
Youtube: Omar Kayyám – Documentary (Part 1 0f 5) The Genius of Omar Kayyám
Youtube: Reanimating the 1882 Transit of Venus
RADIO & PODCASTS:
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: Louis Pasteur
soundcloud: UCD Institute of Discovery: Tom McLeish in conversation with Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: Ockham’s Razor
99% Invisible: This is Chance: Anchorwoman of the Great Alaska Earthquake
Gresham College: The Growth of London as a Port from Roman to Medieval Times
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Utrecht University: CfP: Funding Bodies and Late Modern Science 30 November–1 December Deadline 15 June 2017
Birkbeck College, London: Workshop: Ancient Wisdom in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy 23 June 2017
Ryerson University, Toronto: Day of Canadian Environmental History at CHA 2017 30 May 2017
Uppsaala University: CfP: Workshop: Vaccines: Values, Present and Past 23–24 November 2017 Deadline 9 June 2017
Columbia University: The Center for Science and Society: Science and Art Events in New York City
Johns Hopkins University: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 13–14 October 2017 Deadline 5 June 2017
Amsterdam: CfP: Materia Medica on the Move II 4–6 October 2017 Deadline 19 June 2017
Edge Effect: CfP: Seeds 2: New Research in Environmental History Deadline 1 June 2017
University of Trondheim: The 11th International Conference on the History of Chemistry 29 August–1 September 2017
Belo Horizonte: International Conference for the History of Cartography Programme 9–14 July 2017
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: The Goodall Symposium 2017: Safer Surgery – The Lasting Legacy of Joseph Lister 15 June 2017
University of Chicago: Conference: The Philosophy of Howard Stein 9–11 June 2017
Harvard University: CfP: Medical Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Environmental Conference 2017 29–30 September 2017
Philadelphia Pennsylvania: CfP: Measure, Model, Mix: Computer as Instrument 2017 SIGCIS Conference 29 October 2017 Deadline 30 June 2017
Society of Architectural Historians, Saint Paul, Minnesota: CfP: A Matter of Life and Death: Spaces for Healing in the Premodern Era 18–22 April 2018 Deadline 15 June 2017
IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, Senate House, London: CfP: Controlling ‘Unseen’ Contagion: Disease, citizenship and mobility: 10 July 2017 Deadline 29 May 2017
Stevens Institute of Technology: CfP: Technologies of Frankenstein 1818–2018 7–9 March 2018
American University in Bulgaria: The Rethinking of Religious Belief in the Making of Modernity
University of Greenwich: CfP: The State of Maritime History Research 9 September 2017 Deadline 1 June 2017
Institut d’histoire de la médecine de l’Université de Berne: Workshop: Des objets sous la loupe : histoire(s) et culture(s) matérielles des professions de la santé 16 juin 2017
Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité: Appel à communications: Monde du sport, monde de la santé : quelles relations, quels croisements? 16 et 17 novembre 2017 au plus tard le 3 juillet 2017
Nantes: Journée d’études: Psychiatrie, big data, Médecine de la Personne 15 juin 2017
Uppsala University: Conference: CfP: Making It Up: Histories of Research Integrity and Fraud in Scientific Practice 12–14 April 2018 Deadline 15 May 2017
University of Leeds: Centre for History and Philosophy of Science: Events in May 2017
Science Museum: Open Workshop – Programme: London 1600–1800: Communities of Natural Knowledge and Artificial Practice 16–17 June 2017
Edinburgh: CfP: Pamphleteering Culture, 1558–1702 30 September 2017 Deadline 30 June 2017
Tsinghua University: Symposium: Frontier in the Philosophy of Specific Sciences 19–20 August 2017
Johns Hopkins University: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 13–14 October 2017 Deadline 15 June 2017
Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh: CfP: International Symposium: Building the Scottish Diaspora 17–18 November 2017 Deadline 24 July 2017
University of Sevilla: Workshop: Mathematics and Mechanics in the Newtonian Age: historical and philosophical questions 18–20 September 2017
The Warburg Institute: Conference: Creation and Artifice in Medieval Theories of Causality 1–2 June 2017
Harvard University: CfP: Medical Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Environment 29–30 September 2017 Deadline 15 June 2017
University of Cambridge: CfP: Histories of Anthropology: Transforming Knowledge and Power (1870–1970)
Science Museum: Dana Research Centre: Metropolitan Science: Opening Workshop 16–17 June 2017
University of Groningen: Histories of Healthy Aging 21–23 June 2017
Institute of Historical Research: School of Advance Study University of London: Workshop: What is Microhistory Now? 2 June 2017
Remedia: CfP: Themed Series: Managing Women’s Health
Fondation Singer-Polignac, Paris: Appel à communications: L’Oeil du XIXe siècle 26-29 mars 2018
University of Leeds: Symposium: Medicine and the Senses 1 June 2017
University of Edinburgh: CfP: Conference: Pamphleteering Culture, 1558–1702 30 September 2017 Deadline 30 June 2017
University of Montréal: Conference: Early Modern ‘Transformissions’ Linguistic, material, and cultural translation in England and France (c.1470–1660)
Libori Summer School 2017: Émilie du Châtelet on Matter, Bodies, Forces, and Motion Part II 23–28 July 2017 Deadline 15 July 2017
University of Westminster, London: CfP: Different Bodies: (Self-)Representation, Disability and the Media 23 June 2017 Deadline 28 April 2017
Open University of the Netherlands: CfP: The Icon as Cultural Model: Past, Present and Future 23–26 January 2018 Deadline 1 July 2017
TU Delft and Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam: CfP: EAHN: The Tools of the Architect 22–24 November 2017 Deadline 15 May 2017
The Society for the History of Natural History: William T. Stearn Student Essay Prize Deadline 30 June 2017
Hakluyt Society Blog: CfP: Hakluyt Society Symposium 2017: Trading Companies and Travel Literature 11–12 September 2017 Deadline 30 April 2017
Rutgers University: CfP: Workshop: Method and Analysis of Syriac texts
NICHE: CfP: Special Issue of Canadensis on Environment and Technology Deadline 1 June 2017
University of Oxford: The Bountiful Sea Conference: Fish processing and consumption in Mediterranean antiquity 6–8 September 2017
Academia: Scientiae 2017 Programme
St Anne’s College, Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars for Trinity Term 2017
Insitute of Historical Research: School of Advanced Study, University of London: Food History
Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire: Special Issue: Call for Proposals: The Material Realities of Energy History Deadline 2 June 2017
Science Museum London: CfP: The Evolution of the Museum: 13–14 July 2017 Deadline 30 April 2017
University of Sevilla, Institute of Mathematics: CfP: Workshop: Mathematics and Mechanics in the Newtonian Age: historical and philosophical question 18-20 Sept. 2017
Bushuis/Oost-Indisch Huis, Amsterdam: Symposium: Madness in Civilization. Current research into the history of psychiatry in the Low Countries 2 June 2017
University of Sheffield: The 11th Annual Science in Public Conference: Science, Technology & Humanity 10–12 July 2017
Kings’s College London: Conference: CfP: The Forgotten Other: Disability Studies and The Classical Body 18–19 June 2017
Colloque National Annuel des Espaces de Réflexion Ethique Régionaux Journée scientifique: Appel à communication: La Transgression en santé Date limite d’envoi des propositions : dimanche 16 juillet 2017
University of London: Institute of Historical Research: CfP: The Hakluyt Symposium 2017: Trading Companies and Travel Literature 11–12 September 2017 Deadline 30 April 2017
University of Amsterdam: Maria Sibylla Merian Conference 7-9 June 2017
Durham University: CfP: Toxic Legacies, Global Pollutants 29–30 June 2017
Royal Institution: New and Old Themes in the History of Chemistry 20 May 2017
Society for the History of Technology: Prizes
University of Crete: CfP: Ancient Greek and Indian Medicine: Achievements and Interactions 6 June 2017 Deadline 17 April 2017
Scottish Universities Insight Institute, University of Strathclyde: CfP: Understanding the Intersection of Alcoholism, Stigma, and Disability: Past and Present 1–2 March 2018 Deadline 3 July 2017
University of Kent: CfP: Hakluyt Society Symposium 2017: Trading Companies and Travel Literature 11–12 September 2017
The Recipes Project: What is a Recipe?: A Recipes Project Virtual Conversation 2 June–5 July 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
Royal Air Force Museum: Conference: Air Power in an Age of Uncertainty 29 September 2017
Manchester Medieval Society: New Seminar Series: Connecting ‘Medieval’ Worlds
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
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
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
NYAM: Public Programs
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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 Ireland, Galway: CfP: Medicine and Mystery: The Dark Side of Science in Victorian Fiction 8 June 2017
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
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 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
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
All Souls College Oxford: Oxford Naval History Conference: Economic Warfare and the Sea 1650–1950 13–15 July 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
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 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
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
Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS: CfP: 49th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences
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
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
Trivium, Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern Studies: CfP: Religious and/or Medicinal definitions of Otherness Deadline 23 September 2016
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
Archives and Records: CfP: Special issue on ‘Archives and Museums’, spring 2018
King’s College London: CHoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
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
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
Berlin –Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaft: Project: Galen of Pergamum: The Transmission, Interpretation and Completion of Ancient Medicine
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
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 Ireland, Galway: CfP: Medicine and Mystery: The Dark Side of Science in Victorian Fiction 8 June 2017
University of Amsterdam: CfP: Changing the Nature of Art and Science: Intersections with Maria Sibylla Merian 7–9 June 2017 Deadline 31 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 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
All Souls College Oxford: Oxford Naval History Conference: Economic Warfare and the Sea 1650–1950 13–15 July 2017
King’s College London: ChoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
LOOKING FOR WORK:
Maastricht University: Postdoctoral Researcher History of Medicine and/or Technology Deadline 27 May 2017
Royal Museums Greenwich: Student research internships 2017
University of Bristol: Call for Applications: Research Associate post: Better by Design: Towards a Sensory History of the Modern Hospital
Darmstadt University of Technology: PhD Positions: Global History of Technology
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