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 #43
Monday 12 June 2017
EDITORIAL:
Yet another week and another edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list bring all of the histories of science, technology and medicine that came to our attention in the Internet over the last seven days.
On the whole I exercise very little editorial quality control over the articles that are linked to here in Whewell’s Gazette. If I did, being the finicky perfectionist that I tend to be then the list would probably have about seven entries every week. Instead I glance at the articles and as long as they are not overtly crap they get included, leaving it up to the individual readers to decide what the articles are worth to them.
This week however I stumbled across an article that is, in my opinion, not only so bad that I wouldn’t include it but I am going to complain about it here in the editorial. The offending piece is on a website called information is beautiful and entitled Mavericks & Heretics: Ideas rejected, later proven correct. What at first glance seems relatively harmless turns out at closer examination to be a #histSTM disaster.
As the title states we have a list of #histSTM innovators whose new and original ideas were supposedly rejected and their creators discriminated against. All well and good but the lists turns out to be a horrible collection of half-truths, myths and outright lies. I had originally intended to write a full-length blog post about it but then realised that there is so much wrong with it that I would need to write a book to correct it all.
This brings us to what I see as the worst aspect of the whole affair. This website/blog post is actually an advert for a full-length book entitled information is beautiful published by a major publisher Harper Collins. I have to ask; don’t publishers employ fact checkers anymore? If they did this piece of rubbish would have landed it in the rubbish bin where it belongs and not in a bookstore
Quotes of the week:
“The 9th Beatitude: Blessed are the stupid, for their confidence makes them so easy to spot” – John Cleese @JohnCleese
“this fibonacci joke is as bad as the last two you heard combined” – also frightened @eggsandbread
“The new political Moore’s Law suggests that the interval between each election will halve till we are having an election every hour” – James Roberts (@jroberts332)
“Why don’t textbook authors check their historical claims with a historian?” – Carsten Timmermann (@ctimmermann)
“Just seen someone describe the DUP manifesto as “basically just the bible, with fortnightly bin collections”” – Adi Peltz (@adi_peltz)
“How do socks manage to do disappearing acts when washing-machines are involved?” – Megan Davies (@Megfdavies)
“Socks are not conserved under the action of the rotation operator” – Peter Coles (@telescoper)
Emojis hießen 1893 “Setzerscherze”. Das Internet war damals noch Neuland –h/t @CandleToGo
Birthday of the Week:
Herbert John Fleure born 6 June 1877
Herbert John Fleure
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Dictionary of Welsh Biography: Fleure, Herbert John (1877–1969), geographer
Johannes Müller aka Regiomontanus born 6 June 1436
Johannes Regiomontanus, Woodcut Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Renaissance Mathematicus: The world’s first scientific press
Giovanni Domenico Cassini born 8 June 1625
Giovanni Cassini (artist unknown)
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Renaissance Mathematicus: The real founder of telescopic astronomy
ESA: history of Europe in space: Jean-Dominique Cassini: Astrology to Astronomy
ESA: Space Science: 8 Jun 1625
John Dollond born 10 June 1706
John Dollond by Benjamin Wilson
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Taking the colour out of light
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Spaceflight History: The Spacewalks That Never were: Gemini Extravehicular Planning Group (1965)
APS News: This Month in Physics History: June 1849: James Prescott Joule and the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat
AHF: Frisch-Peierls Memorandum
Annals of Science: Framing the transit: expeditionary culture and identities in Lieutenant E.J.W. Noble’s caricatures of the 1874 transit of Venus expedition to Honolulu
Making Visible: An Image Interview with Frances Willmoth
John Flamsteed’s Atlas Coelestis (1729): plate 13 of 25
The Catholic Astronomer: Revealed Through Reason: The Phases of the Jovian Moons
AHF: Bohr Letter to UN
AHF: Edward Teller
The Atlantic: The Scientist and the Fascist
Graphic Arts Collection: Geography of the Heavens
Geographicus Rare & Antique Maps posted a nice biography of the original engraver Thomas Illman, repeated in part here: Thomas Illman (died 1858) attended Trinity College, Oxford, where he received a degree in theology but never pursued it as a career, turning instead to the art of engraving. His first professional work was illustrating Thomas Carlyle’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater.
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
British Library: Maps and view blog: Hollar in Hull
Transit Maps: Fantasy Maps: Roman Roads in 125AD as a Subway Map by Sasha Trubetskoy
New York Public Library: Digital Collections: Map of all the railroads in the United States in operation & progress (1850)
Cartographic Images: World Map of Ibn Sa’id
Smithsonian.com: See 17th-Century England Through the Eyes of One of the First Travel Writers
The Tribune: Zigzags of history and its people
Michigan Tech: Ready to Launch: Public Can Experience Keneenaw Time Traveler
The Public Domain Review: Remembering Scott
Liverpool1207: Old Liverpool Maps
Liverpool in 1934
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Thomas Morris: The long road to recovery
Smithsonian.com: This Man’s Gunshot Wound Gave Scientists a Window into Digestion
National Museum of Civil War Medicine: Major Jonathan Letterman
Science Museum: Wounded: maps, blood transfusion and the Passchendaele centenary
NYAM: Library Digital Collections & Exhibits: Vesalius’s De humani corporis Fabrica
Mistakinghistories: The danger of libraries…
Mistakinghistories: The Plague of Athens: dying like sheep?
Mistakinghistories: Should physicians treat their enemies?
Mistakinghistories: The mummy returns
Mistakinghistories: Making a disease from a remedy: Trotula and vaginismus
Gizmodo: How Fake Science Saved Lives in Victorian London
Vinaigrettes like this one (1701-1800) would hold strong-smelling items like a vinegar-soaked sponge for sniffing in smelly areas of the city to “prevent” disease. Image: Science Museum, London, Wellcome Images
Hektoen: Art and the myth of the “wandering womb”
East Carolina University: Digital Collections: Perry Davis’ Vegetable Pain Killer
Pox and Prejudice?: An unexpectedly fashionable career
The Lancet: James Hardy and the first heart transplant
The New York Times: Isabelle Rapin, Who Advanced Concept of an Autism Spectrum, Dies at 89
Isabelle Rapin in 2012. Dr. Rapin helped debunk myths about autism and popularized the use of the term “autism spectrum disorder.” Credit J. Torres Photography
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Combo dirigible weathervane and birdhouse–Popular Mechanics 1931 h/t @ptak
C-Net: Enigma: Why the fight to break Nazi encryption still matters
Robb Report: WWII Enigma Machine and Early Apple Computer Come to Christie’s
Vintage is the New Old: The National Museum of Computing made available incredible 3D virtual tour
The Telegraph: Inventor Samuel Morse sends the first US telegram
ICE: Obituary. Robert Stephenson, 1772-1850
Robert Stevenson’s grave, New Calton Cemetery
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Smithsonian.com: Archaeologists Uncover Massive Naval Bases of the Ancient Athenians
The Happy Pontist: London Bridges: 33. Hammersmith Bridge
CHF: Carl von Linde
IEEE Spectrum: Happy Birthday Camera Phone! Your Papa Is Very Proud of You
Middlesbrough moving forward: Tees Transporter Bridge
Smithsonian.com: A Picture History of One of the World’s Greatest Hot Air Balloons
Smithsonian.com: A Partial History of Headphones
Deutsches Museum: an original drawing by Otto Lilienthal of his wing glider from 1895
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
In a New Zealand newspaper 1912. If we only had listened – @Wedonthavetime
NCSE: From Natural Selection to Plate Tectonics: Excerpted from Darwin’s First Theory by Rob Wesson
BBC travel: The island that forever changed science
NICHE: Hope and Environmental History: An Introduction
NICHE: Declining Declensionism: Toward a Critical Hopeful Environmental History
New York Times: Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89
Jean Sammet, who brought computing into the business mainstream, at the University of Maryland in 1979 to deliver a lecture. Credit Ben Shneiderman
Notches: Collecting Riot Grrrl: Sexual Awakening in NYU’s Punk Archive
Notches: The Legal Invention of Lesbian Sexuality in Canada
Scientific American: How Colors Revolutionized Geological Mapmaking
The Public Domain Review: Public and Private Life of Animals (1877)
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft: The first of our kind
Nature: Oldest Homo Sapiens fossil claim rewrites our species’ history
Fossils of early members of Homo sapiens found in Morocco (left) display a more elongated skull shape than do modern humans (right).
Science: World’s oldest Homo sapiens fossil found in Morocco
earth-pages: Origin of anatomically modern humans
Forbes: This 1783 Volcanic Eruption Changed The Course of History
Forbes: Ancient Whales’ Hearing Was Like Hippos and Camels, Fossils Show
flickr: BHL: Women Illustrators in Natural History
History of Geology: A 3,000 Years Old Geological Map
Nursing Clio: The Black Politics of Eugenics
Forbes: Who Drew the First Geological Map?
Natural History Museum: Nature on our doorstep: the art of British natural history
CHEMISTRY:
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
storify: What is a Recipe? Day 1 A Virtual Conversation
The Recipes Project: What Is a Recipe? Week 2
BSHM Bulletin: Picturing Lovelace, Babbage, and the Analytical Engine: a cartoonist in mathematical biography
Scientific Instrument Commission: Website
The Guardian: John Freely obituary
In 1960 a chance encounter with a former teacher at Robert College, Istanbul, persuaded John Freely to move his young family to Turkey, where he took up a post teaching theoretical physics at the college
The Guardian: It’s time for academics to take back control of research journals
NYAM: Launched? Check! Library’s New Digital Collections & Exhibits Website
Cultural Anthropology: Relationships
Ambix: Volume 64, 2017 Table of Contents
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Open shelved serendipity
14th-Century Portrait of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln by unknown scribe
Source: Wikimedia Commons
AEON: Science Fictions
ESOTERIC:
distillatio: Turning lead into silver, part 1
BOOK REVIEWS:
SomeBeans: Women in Science by Rachel Ignotofsky
Narrative Species: Steve Silberman Explores the Secret History of Autism: Neuro Tribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
New York Review of Books: A Darkness Lit with Sheets of Fire
“Earthquake and Eruption of the Mountain of Asayama” in Japan in 1783, from an account by Isaac Titsingh, 1822
The Book of Doctrines and Opinions: Interview with Yuval Harari – Jewish Magic before the Rise of Kabbalah
History of the Human Sciences: ‘Psyche on The Skin’ and ‘A History of Self-Harm in Britain’
Down Recorder: Hero or villain? New book uncovers dark side to Killyleagh’s Sir Hans Sloane
The Economist: The life and curiosity of Sir Hans Sloane
NEW BOOKS:
Bloomsbury Publishing: Chief Engineer: The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge
h-madness: The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences: Technique, Technology, Therapy
Historiens de la santé: Caring for the Living Soul. Emotions, Medicine and Penance in the Late Medieval Mediterranean
The University of North Carolina Press: The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800–1900
NASA: Making the Invisible Visible: A History of the Spitzer Infrared Telescope Facility (1971–2003) Free ebook
Historiens de la santé: Histoire de la médecine à l’île Bourbon – La Réunion
Combined Academic Publishers: The Age of Noise in Britain
The Royal Society: Young People’s Book Prize
ART & EXHIBITIONS
BBC News: Captain Cook Birthplace Museum reopens after revamp
Royal Museums Greenwich: Maritime Memories Machine Tour 8 June–27 August 2017
Bletchley Park: Bill Tutte: Mathematician + Codebreaker 15 May 2017–15 May 2019
Berwick Museum & Art Gallery: Bright Lights in the Borders 3 June–30 September 2017
National Maritime Museum Greenwich: Death in the ice: the shocking story of Franklin’s final expedition 14 July 2017–7 January 2018
Medium: Biggest-ever display of fossil hominins opens
Garden Museum: Tradescant’s Orchard: A Celebration of Botanical Art: May–September 2017
Painting from the Tradescants’ Orchard
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
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
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: – 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
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
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
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:
Sandia National Laboratories: History of Sandia Labs rocketry in award-winning film, ‘It Really Is Rocket Science!’
Sandia National Laboratories launched this 12-foot, single-stage rocket from Tonopah Test Range in Nevada in 1957 in early field testing to gather data from high altitudes. Sandia Labs has worked on rocketry and aerodynamics since 1945. (Sandia National Laboratories)
BBC News: Britain’s great explorations now online
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:
St Fagans National Museum of History: NHS Roadshow 17 June 2017
The National Museum of Computing: Premium Bonds at 60 –the Colossus connection 29 June 2017
Wellcome Library: Women in Engineering Wikithon 15 June 2017
The Recipes Project: What Is a Recipe? And So It Begins Various Events 2 June–10 July 2017
King’s College London: Lecture: The Antibiotic Era: Reform, Resistance, and the Pursuit of a Rational Therapeutics 29 June 2017
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: The Goodall Symposium: Safer Surgery – The Lasting Legacy of Joseph Lister 15 June 2017
British Library: Keith Houston: The Book 3 July 2017
ICE: Smeaton Lecture 18 July 2017
Wellcome Library: Women in Engineering Wikithon 15 June 2017
NYAM: GRUNT: The Curious Science of Humans at War 12 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
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:
Harriet Moore (1801–1884): British artist, best known for her drawings of Michael Faraday’s work at the Royal Institution. She documented his apartment, study, and laboratory in a series of watercolour paintings in the early 1850s.
TELEVISION:
BBC Two: Science Museum: Britain’s Greatest Invention
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Youtube: The British Museum: The Night Clock – Curator’s Corner Season 2 Episode 6
boingboing: How bicycles boosted the women’s rights movement
Youtube: Under The Knife: The Dissected Criminal
Youtube: Maladies and Medicine, J Evans & S Read
Youtube: Birth Stories: Having your first baby at 42: identifying risk in the 1740s
Youtube: WildTrig81: Rheticus and 17th century trig tables
Science Friday: The Wisdom of Teeth
Youtube: Carl von Linde und die Kühltechnik – Meilensteine der Naturwissenschaft und Technik
RADIO & PODCASTS:
British Library: Sound and vision blog: Recording of the week: surviving an oil rig disaster
npr: Videotapes Are Becoming Unwatchable As Archivists Work to Save Them
cbc radio: Bringing up furbaby: The evolution from family pet to pet family
BBC Radio 4: Science Stories: The Medieval Bishop’s Big Bang Theory
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
University of Kent: History of Medicine and Health – MA
Lady Science: Seeking Writers for Technological Memoir Special Series
University of York: Translating Medicine in the Pre-Modern World c. 1350–1800: A new collaborative project to be kickstarted with two conferences
International History of Cartography: Future Venues: 27th Conference Belo Horizonte, Brazil 9-14 July 2017 28th Conference Amsterdam, The Netherlands 14-19 July 2019
University of Leeds: Call of Participants: Interdisciplinarity in Practice: Medical Humanities Research Workshop for PGRs 7 September 2017
University of Greenwich: The State of Maritime Research 9 September 2017
University of Turku: CfP: Interdisciplinary Conference: Re-imagining the Christian Body 2-3 November 2017
Freud Museum London: Symposium: Freud in Cambridge: Hidden Histories of Psychoanalysis 1 July 2017
Palgrave Communications: CfP (Special Issue): Socioeconomic Factors and Mental Health: Past and Present
Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London: CfP: Controlling ‘Unseen’ Contagion: Disease, citizenship and mobility
Christ Church, University of Oxford: Interdisciplinary Symposium: Past and Present: Narratives of Progress and Decline in Nineteenth-Century 19 March 2018
Bodleian Libraries: War, health and humanitarianism 16 June 2017
NICHE: Seed2: Call for Pitches: New Research in Environmental History
Espace Hamelin, Paris: Conférence Benjamin Delessert: La Table, entre santé et art culinaire 21 Juin 2017
Utrecht University: CfP: Funding bodies and late modern science 30 November–1 December 2017 Deadline 15 June 2017
HSTM Network Ireland: 6th Robert Boyle Summer School 22–25 June 2017: What is science for?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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) 5-7 July 2017
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
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
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
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
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
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
University of Colorado in Boulder: CfP: 33rd Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science 13–15 October 2017 Deadline 1 June 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:Workshop: Estimated Truths: Water, Science, and the Politics of Approximation 16-17August 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 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 Toronto: CfP: 7th Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable 23–24 June 2017
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 Ghent: Program Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science 2016–2017
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
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
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
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)
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 Ghent: Program Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science 2016–2017
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
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Herschel Museum of Astronomy: Volunteering
Université Strasbourg: Appel à candidature pour un contrat doctoral fléché: L’histoire de la Faculté de Médecine à la Reichsuniversität Strassburg 1941-1944 La date limite 25 juin 2017
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