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 #45
Monday 26 June 2017
EDITORIAL:
The summer solstice and midsummer’s day in the Northern Hemisphere have been and gone and now it’s time for a new edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list bringing all of the histories of science, technology and medicine that we could find in cyberspace over the last seven days.
“Well that’s it! Summer solstice’s been and gone. It’s all downhill from here on in to winter” – Thony Christie (@rmathematicus)
The summer solstice of course brought with it lots of people posting images of the solstice at Stonehenge, which has become a sort of universal symbol for the summer solstice, a not ironic situation as the latest archaeological theories think that the world’s most famous Neolithic monument is probably orientated to the winter solstice rather than the summer one.
WS Goodwin’s pioneering Stonehenge maps (1867-1887) – Map Library (@BLMaps)
This brings up one important point concerning astronomical orientations in archaeoastronomy, they are not as precise as is often claimed. It is actually rather difficult with naked eye observation to exactly determine either of the solstices more accurately than within a couple of days. So remember every time somebody claims an astronomical orientation for an ancient monument that claim should be treated with a dose of healthy scepticism.
This is probably Goodwin, gazing wistfully up at the stones in 1867 whilst with the Ordnance Survey
Royal Museums Greenwich: Equinoxes and solstices
Vox: Decoding the ancient astronomy of Stonehenge
The Guardian: Summer solstice: the perfect day to bask in a dazzling scientific feat
Summer solstice: where pagan revelry meets mathematical rigour. Photograph: Neil Munns/EPA
Quotes of the week:
“Too much sun over the weekend? “The gall of a roe deer, mix’d with water, helpeth a sonne-burned face”” – Edward Topsell, 1607 h/t @DrAlun
“Memo to David Davis. what Churchill would actually think of Brexit talks – Never was so much chaos created by so few for so little …” – Alastair Campbell (@campbellclaret)
“who called it a mushroom omelet and not breakfast of champignons?” – Rachelle Mandik (@rachelle_mandik)
“He who is in love with himself as at least this advantage – he won’t encounter many rivals” – Georg Lichtenberg h/t @hekint
“I am just SO BORED with vacuous technofearing wankery” – Dr Adam Rutherford (@AdamRutherford)
Who exactly are these people that you want to be admired by? Aren’t they the same people you are in the habit of calling crazy? And is this your life ambition, then – to win the approval of lunatics? – Epictetus
“I guess the hardest part of handwriting a letter these days would be drawing all the emojis” – Simon Holland (@simoncholland)
“In his first years as an academic, Martin Luther hardly published. However, his REF score was saved by his successful 1517 impact case study” – Jonathan Healey (@Social HistoryOx)
“He that would perform great work, must diligently apply himself to knowing his subject” – Ambroise Paré
“He wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar” – Oscar Wilde
“The brain of an ant is one of the most marvellous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man” – Charles Darwin
Birthday of the Week:
Blaise Pascal born 19 June 1623
Portrait of Blaise Pascal by unknown artist
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal 1623-famously asked his brother-in-law to climb a mountain w/a barometer to test if the atmosphere has weight!
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Religion contra science
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: Pascal
Aage Niels Bohr born 19 June 1922
Aage Bohr. Portrait from 1955 – the year when he joined the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: Aage Niels Bohr and the Nuclear Structure
AHF: Aage Niels Bohr
James Braid born 19 June 1795
Photograph of Portrait of James Braid. Before 1860, artist unknown. From an engraved portrait in the possession of the Manchester Medical School
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHI Blog: James Braid – Gentleman Scientist
Silvanus P. Thompson born 19 June 1851
Source: Wikimedia Commons
IET Archives Biographies: Silvanus P. Thompson, F.R.S.
Alan Turing born 23 June 1912
Statue of Turing by Stephen Kettle at Bletchley Park, commissioned by Sidney Frank, built from half a million pieces of Welsh slate.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Science Museum: The Multiple Lives of Alan Turing
The Royal Society: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Forging patterns and making waves from biology to geology: a commentary on Turing (1952) ‘The chemical basis of morphogenesis’
New Scientist: Instant Expert: Alan Turing’s legacy
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
SciHi Blog: Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn and the Rotation of the Milky Way
The New York Review of Books: Robert Oppenheimer – On Albert Einstein
AHF: Espionage
LROC: Lunokhod 1 Revisited
AHF: Vannevar Bush
Forbes: From Wartime Devastation to Academic Discrimination, Cecile DeWitt-Morette Overcame It All
Cecile DeWitt-Morette at her desk in her office in R.L. Moore Hall.
University of Texas at Austin, News and Information Service / L. Murphy
NASA: Biographical Data: Ilan Ramon (Colonel, Israel Air Force)
SciHi Blog: Siméon Denis Poisson’s Contributions to Mathematics
SciHi Blog: Anders Ångström and the Science of Spectroscopy
Spaceflight History: What If a Space Shuttle Orbiter Had to Ditch? (1975)
National Geographic: How a Refrigerator Led to Einstein’s Pleas for Atomic Bomb Research
Atlas Obscura: The Librarian Who Guarded the Manhattan Project’s Secrets
Inner view of the Manhattan Project’s scientific library COURTESY LOS ALAMOS HISTORICAL SOCIETY PHOTO ARCHIVES
SciHi Blog: Martin Pearl and the Tau
SciHi Blog: William Penney and the British Atomic Bomb
Historic Royal Palaces: The wine-fuelled destruction of Charles II’s sundial
AHF: Ernest Walton
HAL archives–ouvertes: Jeanne Dumée as Astronomer and Woman in Seventeenth-Century France
The New York Times: Jerry Nelson, Designer of the Segmented Telescope, Dies at 73
Jerry Nelson peering into a mirror at the Lick Observatory. Mr. Nelson, an astronomer, helped design a telescope that has become a model for many advanced modern-day telescopes. Credit University of California Santa Cruz
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
The Hakluyt Society Blog: ‘world enough, and time’: Richard Hakluyt and the Renaissance Discovery of the World
Atlas Obscura: The Lion-Shaped Maps That United a Nation
Royal Museums Greenwich: Jens Munk North-West Passage expedition 1619-20
harvard-cga.maps.arcgis.com: Manuscript Maps: Hand-Drawn Treasures from the Harvard Map Collection
British Library: Chinese terrestrial globe
Library of Congress: Worlds Revealed: Geography and Maps: Places in Civil War History: Surveys of the Gulf Coast
Royal Museums Greenwich: Thomas James North-West Passage expedition 1631–32
Boston Rare Maps: A spectacular and unrecorded Holy Land map
Moral High Ground h/t @CloudyLeod
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
This is definitely the best footnote I have read this week – Thomas Morris (@thomasmorris)
Past Medical History: Going round in circles: The discovery of the body’s circulatory system by William Harvey
Thomas Morris: The monk with a perfume bottle stuck up his bottom
The New York Times: Inspired by War Zones, Balloon Device May Save Civilians From Fatal Blood Loss
SciHI Blog: Josef Breuer and the Cathartic Method
The Recipes Project: Swimming in Broth: Medicated Baths in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Apparatus for making mineral waters, 1783.
Credit: Wellcome Library, London.
Wellcome Collection: Electric Age: condenser couch
Mistaking histories: To be beside the seaside: cold water and menstruation
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: First Person Narratives II
Distillations: Auld Medicine
English Heritage: Blue Plaques: Garrett Anderson, Elizabeth (1836–1917)
The Blog of Gettysburg National Military Park: “…in my opinion the army will never be made up of such material again” – Confederate Losses at Gettysburg
Thomas Morris: The fractured penis
Hektoen International: Carl von Rokitansky (1804–1881)
Hektoen International: Elizabeth Fleischmann-Aschheim
Fleischmann Examining a patient with a fluoroscope (Camera Craft, June 1901).
Courtesy of Palmquist
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Electrical Generations: ESB Advertising: The Early Years
Conciatore: The Materials of All Enamels
Conciatore: Vitrum Flexile
Conciatore: Montpellier
SciHi Blog: Jack Kilby – Inventor of the Integrated Circuit
SciHI Blog: The Rotary Plane of Engelbert Zaschka
Engelbert Zaschka’s Rotationsflugzeug. Photo: Bundesarchiv
Shipwreck and History In Plymouth Sound: Maria
Geek History: Reginald Fessenden Canadian inventor of radio and wireless telephone
Ken Shirriff’s blog: One-hour Mandelbrot: Creating a fractal on the vintage Xerox Alto
The Public Domain Review: Alexander Graham Bell’s Tetrahedral Kites (1903–9)
Atlas Obscura: Hunting for Famous Architects’ Forgotten Design-School Projects
The Telegraph: The amazing story of D-Day, Colossus and Tommy Flowers
Code breaker: Colossus, designed and built by Tommy Flowers CREDIT: NATIONAL ARCHIVE
NASA: The NACA’s First Victory
BBC News: Union Chain Bridge investigations pave way for upgrade
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Flight of fancy
Scientific American: Quest for Clues to Humanity’s First Fires
The Renaissance Mathematicus: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Ferdinand Berthoud (1727–1807)
Source: Wikimedia Commons
New England Historical Society: USS Squalus Rescue: World Awaits News of Sailors’ Fate
Smithsonian.com: Motorized Ice Cream Cones and Floating Campgrounds: 14 of the Wackiest Summer Fun Patents
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Evolving Thoughts: Noah’s Ark and the creation of the species rank
Colonizing Animals: Animal Actors in the “Burmese Tarzan”
The Embryo Project: Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844)
ZSL: Journal of Zoology: Women in Zoology
NCSE blog: Inconceivable!
Herbarum World: Conrad Gessner: Publish or Perish
Hollyhock and Mallow. Gessner Notebook 2, page 338v: University Library Erlangen
Herbarum: Conrad Gessner; Drawing for the Eye and Mind
NICHE: #EnvHist Worth Reading May 2017
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Morris Ketchum Jesup
Smithsonian.com: Scientists Are Putting Tens of Thousands of Sea Fossils Online
Notches: Searching for Sodom: Homoeroticism and the Protestant Tradition in England 1550–1850
The Guardian: Blue Prints: photography pioneer Anna Atkins’s hand-crafted images – in pictures
Equisetum sylvaticum
Born in 1799 in Kent, Anna Atkins had a lifelong love of botany. Her striking images feature in a major retrospective of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. New Realities: Photography in the Nineteenth Century is at Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, until 17 September. All photographs: Rijksmuseum
The H-Word: Ana Atkins: Google’s tribute to a pioneer of botany and photography
Inishowen: A Pioneering Survey of Heritage in Inishowen
SciHi Blog: Gaston Maspero and the Sea Peoples
Nature: Botany: He made plants a profession
Fossil History: Darwin’s Worst Nightmare Part II: I Will Do Anything
The Diplodocus mount sent to Great Britain in 1905 by the Carnegie Museum was a plaster replica. This mount, presented to the new Senckenberg Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1907, was the real thing. It had been found at Bone Cabin Quarry in Wyoming in 1899 by W. D. Matthew and P. Kaison. The cost of preparing this mount was born personally by the president of the American Museum of Natural History, Morris K. Jessup.
CHEMISTRY:
Learn Chemistry: On This Day in Chemistry: June 19th Sir Ernst Boris Chain
Curie–osities: The Sunshine Dinner (1904)
New York Herald
06-02-1904
CHF: Distillations: The Secret of Max Perutz’s Life
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Deodat de Dolomieu
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
Telegraph: 50 of London’s most unusual (but fascinating) museums
Newsworks: Audio tour highlights historic preservation flash points in Philly’s Old City
ACS Omega: Guest Editorial: Open Access: Principles, Practice, and Potential
BSHS: Celebrating 50 Volumes of the BJHS
the many-headed monster: What is microhistory now?
The Hakluyt Society: Hakluyt Society Research Funding & Essay Prize
EE Times: Computer History Must Include People of Color
AHF: Scientist Refugees and the Manhattan Project
Old Operating Theatre: Staff Profiles: Q&A with Kirsty Chilton
The Clinic: Publishing your PhD (or, the secret to a stressful life): Part II
Ptak Science Books: A Fine display of Pie Charts 1893
The Atlantic: Nota Bene: If You ‘Discover’ Something in an Archive, It’s Not a Discovery
LSE Impact Blog: “Words divide, pictures unite” – great historical examples of the use of data visualisation for research communication
Poverty map of Old Nichol slum, East End of London, showing Bethnal Green Road, from Charles Booth’s Labour and Life of the People. Volume 1: East London (London: Macmillan, 1889) [public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
The Guardian: It’s time for academics to take back control of research journals
Atlas Obscura: Vintage Photos of Travelling Libraries
Hektoen International: Volume 9, Issue 2 – Spring 2017
The Voice: New Charity Will Promote The Legacy of Mary Seacole
The Guardian: Trump officials oppose funding museum for victims of Tuskegee syphilis study
Making Science Public: CRISPR, unicorns and responsible language use
ESOTERIC:
BOOK REVIEWS:
Financial Times: Collecting the World by James Delbourgo – the life of Hans Sloane
Evening Standard: Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane by James Delbourgo
The New York Times: He Built Roads. He Oversaw Mines. He Shrank the Deficit. He Was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Popular Science: Time Machine Tales – Paul Nahin
Routledge: Author Q&A Session with Alain Touwaide – Census of Greek Medical Manuscripts
New Books Network: Neil M. Maher – Apollo in the Age of Aquarius
The New York Times: The iPhone Is 10 Years Old: Here’s the Story of Its Birth
NEW BOOKS:
Historiens de la santé: Human and Animal Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy and Medicine
CUP: Academic: Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters
CNRS Editions: L’Humain et ses prosthèses; Savoirs et pratiques du corps transformé
Basic Books: The Quantum Labyrinth
Historiens de la santé: Il regime di salute in medicina. Dalla dieta ippocratica all’epigenetica
OSU Press: On the Ragged Edge of Medicine: Doctoring Among the Dispossessed
Éditions Matériologiques: Construction locale de la santé
Historiens de la santé: Le médecin hippocratique. Aux sources de la médecine moderne
Historiens de la santé: The Oxford Handbook of Sports History
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Musée « La Boverie » de Liège: La leçon d’Anatomie – 500 ans d’histoire de la médecine 21 Juni 2017–17 Septembre 2017
Royal Botanical Gardens Kew: Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker – Trailblazing global botanist and explorer
BBC News: Whaling’s ‘uncomfortable’ legacy
University of Otago Library: Special Collections Exhibitions: Intrepid Journeys: Travelling with the Hakluyt Society 16 June–8 September 2017
Musée Barrois, Bar-le-Duc: Inventer pour guérir. François Humbert (1776-1850), une aventure médicale meusienne 27 Mai–23 Septembre
Wellcome Collection: A museum of modern nature 22 June–8 October 2017
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
Union College, NY: Maps hold key to Adirondacks history in new exhibit runs till 29 September 2017
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
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
Science Museum: The Festival of Britain – a meeting of science and art
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
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:
Variety: Paramount, Lorne Michaels Developing Autism Book ‘Neurotribes’ as Movie
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:
University of Glasgow: Talk: Tapeworms in/as Body in Early Modern Europe – Lianne McTavish 7 July 2017
The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Fashionable Medicine: syphilis, Spas and Melancholy 8-12 August 2017
Wellcome Collection: BSL Tour: A head apart from the body 13 July 2017
The National Museum of Computing: Premium Bonds at 60 –the Colossus connection 29 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
British Library: Keith Houston: The Book 3 July 2017
ICE: Smeaton Lecture 18 July 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:
Detail from View of Sangre de Christo Pass: J.M. Stanley from sketch by R.H. Kern
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Edward Beckwith
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Gresham College: The First Three Minutes of Creation
Youtube: To Touch the Sky (1971)
Youtube: Playing a 19th century Helmholtz vowel synthesizer built by Rudolph Koenig
Know Your Leak: Professor William Cronon Explains Environmental History at OAH in Milwaukee
Gresham College: Discovering Australia: The Legend and the realty of the navigator-explorer Matthew Flinders
TeacherTube: Animaniacs – Cookies for Einstein
AEON: Glas
RADIO & PODCASTS:
BBC Radio 4: Science Stories: The Anglo-Saxon remedy that Kills MRSA
BBC Radio 4: Science Stories: The Man Who Found Physics in Shells, Seeds and Bees
France Culture: Un médicine roi ou les utopies du colonialisme
Smithsonian.com: Smithsonian’s Behind-the-Scenes “Sidedoor” Podcast Returns for Second Season
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: Robert Boyle
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
BSHS: Literary Agents Seek History of Science Authors
King’s University College London, Ontario: CSTHA: Appel à communiquer: Innovation ou aberration? Les significations historiques de l’échec scientifique et technologique 3–5 November 2017 Date limite: 30 juin 2017
Rice University: CfP: Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery 23–24 February 2018 Deadline 15 September 2017
University Paris Diderot: ISPC Paris Conference: Programme 3-6 July 2017
Early Modern Low Countries: Call for Articles: A multidisciplinary open access journal dedicated to the study of the early modern Low Countries
Royal Museums Greenwich: Talks & Courses: Mapping the past, exploiting the future : cartographies and understandings of the Artic 21-22 July 2017
Pittsburgh, PA: CfP: 2018 NEMLA Conference: (Im)possible Bodies: Spaces and the Body in Early Modern Europe Deadline 29 September 2017
Unsettling Scientific Stories: Conference: Imagining the History of the Future 27–29 March 2018
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: Translating Medicine in the Pre-modern World: Knowledge and Practice 23-24 June 2017 Wellcome Trust & Library, London: Materials, Images, Texts 7-8 July 2017
University of Oxford: CfP: Conference: The Human Body and World War II 23–24 March 2018 Deadline 1 October 2017
University of Padua: CfP: ESA History Conference 23–24 November 2017 Deadline 30 July 2017
The Historic Dockyard, Chatham: Hakluyt Society Symposium 2017: Trading Companies and Travel Literature 11–12 September 2017
Trivent Publishing Series: History and Archaeology: Call for Contributions: Same Bodies, Different Women: Witches, Whores, and Handicapped
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
NICHE: Seed2: Call for Pitches: New Research in Environmental History
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?
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
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
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
Uppsala University: Conference: CfP: Making It Up: Histories of Research Integrity and Fraud in Scientific Practice 12–14 April 2018 Deadline 15 May 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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 York: CfP: BSHS Annual Conference 2017 6–9 July 2017 Deadline 19 January 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
‘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
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
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
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 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
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
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:
ALFA: First Post-doctoral Call: Alfonsine Astronomy Deadline 14 September 2017
University of Cambridge: Darwin Correspondence Project: Production Assistant
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: Call for Applications: Visiting Scholarships (3-9 months)
Natural History Museum: Senior Curator Lichens Deadline 14 July 2017
UQAM Montreal, Canada: Post-doctoral Fellowship in Philosophy of Science Deadline 12 July 2017
AIP: Oral History Graduate Fellow
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