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 #48
Monday 17 July 2017
EDITORIAL:
The summer rolls on and it rolls around to time for another edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list bringing you all of the histories of science, technology and medicine thrown up out of the depths of cyberspace over the last seven days.
Whewell’s Gazette doesn’t usually cover the history of mathematics and that despite the fact that the subeditor started out as a historian of mathematics; however, this week we are making an exception and that here in the editorial.
One thing that Whewell’s Gazette does cover and in fact tries to promote is the role that women have played in #histSTM and that is the reason that we are turning our attention to mathematics and its history in this week’s editorial.
There is no Nobel Prize for mathematics, according to legend because Nobel’s wife had an affair with a mathematician. However, mathematicians do have their own awards and their Nobel is the Fields Medal. Named in honour of the Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields (1863–1932), who was instrumental in establishing it, the prize has been awarded every four years since 1950 (it was awarded previously once in 1936) to up to four mathematicians under forty years of age.
Like many other scientific awards and honours the Fields Medal had never been awarded to a women when it was won by the Iranian, Stanford University professor of mathematics Maryam Mirzakhani in 2014. This was a truly classic example of a woman in the sciences breaking a glass ceiling and quite rightly received a lot of publicity at the time.
Sadly Maryam Mirzakhani is in the news once again this week because she died of cancer on Friday 14 July just 40 years old. Her death is a sad blow for the world of mathematics and for all the women for whom she was a role model. This edition of Whewell’s Gazette is humbly dedicated to the memory of an extraordinary woman.
Maryam Mirzakhani 3 May 1977–14 July 2017
Maryam Mirzakhani. Credit: Stanford University
I don’t have any particular recipe [for developing new proofs]… It is like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck you might find a way out – Maryam Mirzakhani
Iran Front Page: Iranian Math Genius Mirzakhani Dies of Cancer
Tehran Times: Iranian math genius, Fields Medal winner Mirzakhani passes away
BBC News: Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win maths’ Fields Medal, dies
The Guardian: Maryam Mirzakhani: ‘the more I spent time on maths, the more excited I got’
Stanford News: Maryam Mirzakhani, Stanford mathematician and Fields Medal winner, dies
The Wire: Maryam Mirzakhani, First Woman and Iranian to Win Fields Medal, Dies at 40
Terence Tao: Maryam Mirzakhani
Quartz: Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win mathematics’ Fields Medal, has died at age 40
The Mercury News: Maryam Mirzakhani, world-renowned math genius and Stanford professor, dies at 40
The New York Times: Maryam Mirzakhani, Only Women to Win a Fields Medal, dies at 40
Scientific American: Mathematics World Mourns Maryam Mirzakhani, Only Woman to Win Fields Medal
The New Yorker: Remembering Maryam Mirzakhani, the Pioneering Mathematician Who Died at Forty
Smithsonian.com: Remembering the Brilliant Maryam Mirzakhani, the Only to Win a Fields Medal
UNESCO: UNESCO pays tribute to mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani
Youtube: Maryam Mirzakhani wins 2014 Fields medal – first woman to do so
Quotes of the week:
“The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia” – Malcolm Turnbull Prime Minister of Australia
“There is ample evidence … that numerous races have existed, and still exist, who have no idea of one or more gods” – Darwin
‘Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous’ – David Hume
“Homeopathy is “alternative medicine” in roughly the same sense in which a rabbit’s foot is an “alternative insurance policy”” – Ragnar Belial (@RagnarBelial)
Odd footnote from Adam Rutherford’s book: Emma Darwin’s use of the word ‘nigger’ as a term of endearment for Charles
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, some few to be chewed and digested” – Francis Bacon
“The German word for ‘to mansplain’ (‘herrklären’) is one of those beautiful moments when the translation improves on the original” – Graham (@HerrDrKlaerer)
“It’s a folk singer’s job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people” –
Woody Guthrie, born 14 July 1912
“If I had a time machine I would go back and kill the first fish who evolved legs” – Existential Comics (@existentialcoms)
Anniversaries of the Week:
Eva Ekeblad born 10 July 1724
Eva Ekeblad (née Eva De la Gardie; 10 July 1724 – 15 May 1786)
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Google Doodles: Eva Ekeblad’s 293rd Birthday
Huffpost: 6 Cool Facts About Eva Ekeblad, The Scientist Who Made Vodka From Potatoes
The Sun: Who was Eva Ekeblad?
Florence Bascom born 14 July 1862
Florence Bascom
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Rock Stars: A Life of Firsts: Florence Bascom
Nikola Tesla born 10 July 1856
Nikola Tesla aged 23, c. 1879
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Nikola Tesla
CHF: Distillations: The Electrical Wizard
The National Museum of American History: Collections Search Results: Tesla
SchHi Blog: Nikola Tesla – The Master of Lightnings
The Atlantic: Tesla’s Letterhead Is so Much Better than Edison’s
Roger Cotes born 10 July 1682
Roger Cotes This bust was commissioned by Robert Smith and sculpted posthumously by Peter Scheemakers in 1758. Source: Trinity College Cambridge
SchHi Blog: Roger Cotes and Newton’s Principia Mathematica
The Renaissance Mathematicus: “if he had lived, we might have known something”
Franz Boas born 9 July 1858
Franz Boas
Source: Wikimedia Commons
NNDB: Franz Boas
Samuel Goudsmit born 11 July 1902
Uhlenbeck, Kramers, and Goudsmit.
AIP’s Emilio Sergè Visual Archives
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: Samuel Goudsmit and the Electron Spin
APS News: AIP Releases Complete Goudsmit Papers Online
AIP: Samuel A. Goudsmit papers
Physical Review Letters: Essay: Samuel Abraham Goudsmit (1902–1978)
Josiah Wedgwood born 12 July 1730
Josiah Wedgwood
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: Josiah Wedgwood and his Pottery Company
The Renaissance Mathematicus: The scientific potter
James Bowerbank born 14 July 1797
James Scott Bowerbank (1797-1877)
by Maull & Polyblank,photograph,circa 1855
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – James Bowerban
The Rosetta Stone was discovered 15 July 1799
The British Museum Blog: Everything you ever wanted to know about the Rosetta Stone
Gresham College: The Rosetta Stone
Google Arts & Crafts: The Rosetta Stone
SchHi Blog: Cracking the Code – Champollion and the Rosetta Stone
Sketchfab: Rosetta Stone 3D Model
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
SciHi Blog: David Brewster and the Kaleidoscope
AHF: Samuel K. Allison
SciHi Blog: Jérôme Lalande measuring the distance to the Moon
The Curious Wavefunction: Black holes and the curse of beauty: When revolutionary physicists turn conservative
SciHi Blog: Nicole Oresme – Polymath of the Late Middle Ages
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: Telstar
Telstar
Source: Wikimedia Commons
AHF: Los Alamos Innovations: Electronics and Detonators
Dannen.com: Setting the Test date, July 2, 1945
AHF: Nancy F. Wood
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Edward Teller’s Interview
Making Science Public: Jupiter’s Great Red Spot: Puzzles, pictures and participation
Medievalists.net: The Moon in the Middle Ages
Diagrams of the sun and moon orbiting the earth, with the sun casting shadows upon the other two.
ADS: The Observatory: The early History of the Red Spot on Jupiter
ESA: Space in Images: GEOS-2 Launch
SciHi Blog: George Green and his Theory of Electricity and Magnetism
NASA: Jack Boyd Talks About His 70 Years with NASA (and NACA)
Jack Boyd
AEON: How the rainbow illuminates the enduring mystery of physics
Living Maya Time: The Maya Calendar System
SchHI Blog: Pavel Cherenkov and the Blue Light
Medium: The Man Who Invented the 26th Dimension
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Emilio Segrè’s Interview
British Library: Medieval manuscripts blog: The future is in the moon
A diagram with the Moon’s phases, Germany, 1446, Additional MS 17987, ff. 49v-50r
AHF: Remembering the Trinity Test
Dannen.com: Trinity Test, July 16, 1945 – Radiation Monitoring
AHF: Trinity Test – 1945
Geek History II: Who discovered electricity?
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Atlas Obscura: The Mysteries of a Rare, 18th-Century Native American Map
The “Catawba Deerksin Map.” LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/2005625337
Library of Congress: Worlds Revealed Geography & Maps: Mr. Dürer Comes to Washington
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
drugmuseum.org: Oklahoma Frontier Drugstore Museum & The Apothecary Garden
Medievalists.net: Heads, shoulders, knees and toes: Injury and death in Anglo-Scottish combat, c.1296–c.1403
Thomas Morris: A dubious paper
NMHM: To Bind Up The Nation’s Wounds
The Conversation: Four of the most lethal infectious diseases of our time and how we’re overcoming them
Remedia: A Historical Perspective on Women in Surgery
Photograph of female staff in an operating theatre (1919), from Medical Women’s Federation, Endell Street Hospital 1916-1920: Commemorative Calendar, SA/MWF/C.173/2, Wellcome Library, London.
Advances in the History of Psychology: Andy Byford’s “The Imperfect Child in Early Twentieth-Century Russia”
Wiley Onlne Library: Malaria and malaria-like diseases in the early Middle Ages
Women’s History Review: The feminist appropriation of pregnancy testing in 1970s Britain
Museum of Health Care: The History of Vaccinations: The Build Up to the Spanish Flu
Thomas Morris: A flaming nuisance
The New York Times: Keith Conners, Psychologist Who Set Standard for Diagnosing A.D.H.D., Dies at 84
Dr. Keith Conners in 2013. He devised a 39-item questionnaire for diagnosing and treating what came to be known as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Credit Karsten Moran for The New York Times
Thomas Morris: The lawn-tennis elbow
Wellcome Collection: The child whose town rejected vaccines
Nova Next: How Our Ancient Origins Are Guiding Modern Medicine
Anna Belfrage: The adventures of that perennial herbalist, Mr Nicolas Culpepper
SciHi Blog: Eugen Bleuler’s Research on Schizophrenia
Hektoen International: William Withering and the foxglove
Early Modern Prisons: Early Modern Coroners’ Inquests into Deaths in Custody
Hektoen International: The basilisk – a cause of sudden death
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Conciatore: Don Giovanni in Flanders
Cultural and Social History: Cold Steel, Weak Flesh: Mechanism, Masculinity and the Anxieties of Late Victorian Empire
Matterport: The National Museum of Computing in 3D
BBC News: Canada: Workers find live British shell in Quebec
BSHM Bulletin: The early mathematical education of Ada Lovelace
SciHi Blog: John Fowler and the steam-hauled Plough
Steam traction engine at Mt Warrenheip near Ballarat
Source: Wikimedia Commons
AEON: Quantum cryptography is unbreakable. So is human ingenuity
Conciatore: Decolorising Glass
SciHi Blog: The Miraculous World of Buckminster Fuller
Jezebel: Japanese Blogger Discredits New Amelia Earhart Documentary After 30 Minutes Research
National Geographic: Amelia Earhart ‘Lost Photograph’ Discredited
The Guardian: Blogger discredits claim Amelia Earhart was taken prisoner by Japan
The woman said to resemble pilot Amelia Earhart is seen sitting on the dock in the centre of the picture. Photograph: Reuters
Theresa Kaminski: What Happened to Amelia Earhart
JSTOR Daily: Amelia Earhart Taught America to Fly
Gizmodo: German Enigma Machine Found at Flea Market Fetches $51,000 at Auction
Smithsonian.com: WWII Enigma Machine Found at Flea Market Sells for $51,000
Mental Floss: Typewriter Sold at Flea Market Turns Out to Be Rare World War II enigma Machine
BBC News: Enigma I: ‘€100 typewriter’ found to be German code machine
The machine was being sold at a flea market as a typewriter
REUTERS
The Public Domain Review: Inventing the Recording
Atlas Obscura: Augenroller (Eye Roller)
IET Archives: The Papers of the Electrical Measuring Instrument Specialist, George F Shotter
Tedium: Who Killed The Encyclopaedia?
The Long Run: British engineering skills in the age of steam
Source: Wikimedia Commons
boingboing: A travelling neon salesman’s sample-case, 1935
Motherboard: This Ridiculous Laptop Cost $20,000 in the 90s
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
JSTOR Daily: How Can a Fish Not Have a Face
The Gospel Coalition: The Scopes Trial, Evolution, and the Age of the Earth
NICHE: #EnvHist Worth Reading June 2017
Science News: The giraffes that sailed to medieval China
The Guardian: So long, Dippy: museum’s blur whale seeks to inspire love of living world
Workers attach the blue whale’s mandible bones. Photograph: BBC
BBC News: Blue whale takes centre-stage at Natural History Museum
Laelaps: On the Trail of a Dinosaur Sail
Atlas Obscura: Why It Took Scientists So Long to Figure Out Where Babies Come From
History Matters: The Past Is Not a Straight Line
npr: Timeline: Remembering the Scopes Monkey Trial
Clarence Darrow was 68 when he agreed to act as John Scopes’ defense attorney. At the time, he was the most famous criminal defense lawyer in the country, and a very popular public speaker. His favorite topic was anticlericalism.
Bryan College Archives
Royal College of Surgeons: Professor Quekett and the Curious Case of the Coal Slides
Longreads: Late in Life, Thoreau Became a Serious Darwinist
The Guardian: ‘Tired of medals’: new letters reveal how Alfred Russel Wallace shunned Darwin’s fame
CHEMISTRY:
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Stanislao Cannizzaro
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
History of women in science a selection of readings in English via Cambridge HPS discussion
Lady Science: Pitching Lady Science
hpd: Nachruf auf Bernulf Kanitscheider: Ein Meister der intellektuellen Redlichkeit
BBC News: What tally sticks tell us about how money works
physicsworld.com: The power of the blackboard
AIP: Physic History Network now available!
NICHE: Five-and-a Half Things I Learned Teaching My First Course
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine: Online Program in the History of Medicine
Royal College of Surgeons: Jessie Dobson (1906–1984): Hunterian Museum’s first female curator
Zócalo: How Fireworks Helped Spark a Scientific Revolution
The Renaissance Mathematicus: A very innovative early scientific printer/publisher
A page with marginalia from the first printed edition of Euclid’s Elements, printed by Erhard Ratdolt in 1482
Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog: The Reinventing Civil Defense project
Library Of Congress: The PDF’s Place in a History of Paper Knowledge: An Interview with Lisa Gitelman
The Chemist: Public Understanding of Chemistry – A Look Inside the AIC Awards Program: The Gol Medal & Chemical Pioneer Awards
SciHi Blog: Vilfredo Pareto and the Law of the Vital Few
ESOTERIC:
Conciatore: Francesco and Bianca
19th century romantic depiction of
Bianca Cappello, Francesco de’ Medici
(with Don Antoni as a child.)
BOOK REVIEWS:
The Guardian: The 100 best nonfiction books: No 75 – The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1793)
Youtube: Stephan McGann – Flesh and Blood – Exposure
Broadly: Science Has Consistently Underestimated Women Because Scientists Are Sexist
brainpickings: A Bioluminescent Wonder: Rachel Carson on the Art of Illuminating Nature Beyond Scientific Fact
The Atlantic: Jill Tater, Feminist Cosmic Icon
DW Science: Heretics!
Smithsonian.com: Ancient Humans Liked Getting Tipsy, Too
New Books Network: Melvin R. Adams – Atomic Geography: A Personal History of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation
Book Circle Online: Dr. Eric Scerri A Tale of Seven Scientists – Author Interview
The New York Review of Books: The Brave New World of Gene Editing
Nature: History: Science lessons from the Gulag
The Washington Post: What Libraries Lost When They Threw Out the Card Catalog
Nature: Information technology: A digital genius at play
NEW BOOKS:
h-madness: A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought
The Geological Society: The Archaeological and Forensic Applications of Microfossils: A Deeper Understanding of Human History
Harvard University Press: Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present
Boydell & Brewer: Bacteriology in British India: Laboratory Medicine and the Tropics
Historiens de la santé: Spatializing the History of Ecology: Sires, Journeys, Mappings
puf: La consultation
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Express: Stranded in the Arctic: Discovered missing ship set to be shown in exhibition
The Guardian: Going underground: London’s new Postal Museum and subterranean mail train
Imperial War Museum: Secret War
IET: Archives online exhibitions
Philly.com: Decay, rot on display at Chemical Heritage Museum
Environment & Society Portal: Virtual Exhibitions: The Northwest Passage: Myth Environment, and Resources
Circumpolar routes. The map shows the different shipping routes across the Arctic. Source: Arctic Council, “Circumpolar Routes,” Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment 2009 Report, available at arcticdata.is.
Tampa Bay History Center: The Florida-Cuba Connection 4 July 2017–28 January 2018
Osher Map Library: Online Exhibits: Local Boosters, Historians, and Engineers Map Antebellum Portland Maine
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
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
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:
The Map Room: A Turkish Piri Reis Documentary is Coming
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:
BSHS: Events at the Museum of the History of Science Oxford July–September 2017
Atlas Obscura: Anatomical Illustrations from the Rare Book Room at the New York Academy of Medicine 21 July 2017
NYAM: Upcoming Events
NYAM: Talk: Get Me Out: Childbirth in Early 20th Century NYC 22 August 2017
NYAM: Summer & Fall 2017 Catalog of Events
Royal Museums Greenwich: One-day course: Sir John Franklin’s Artic exploration 25 July and 21 October 2017
Cardiff Naturalist Society: Cardiff Naturalist Society marks 150th Anniversary with a series of fascinating events
CHF: History Lab: Fiction and the Future 12 August 2017
The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Fashionable Medicine: syphilis, Spas and Melancholy 8-12 August 2017
Sea Trek: Cruise: In Search of Wallace and His Living Treasures with Dr. George Beccaloni 13–24 January 2018 $$$
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
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:
Gérard Dou The Astronomer and the Candle 1650
Source: Wikimedia Commons
TELEVISION:
BBC TWO: Melvyn Bragg on TV: The Box That Changed the World
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Youtube: Linnean Society Channel
Youtube: AHF Channel
CBS Philly: Dream Drives: Elements of Life and Death at Chemical Heritage Museum
archive.org: Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams
Gresham College: Discovering Australia: The legend and the reality of the navigator-explorer Matthew Flinders
RADIO & PODCASTS:
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: The Ming Voyages
History Extra: Hans Sloane and the British Museum
BBC World Service: The Forum: Carl Linnaeus: Naming Nature
Stuff You Missed in History: NASA History: Chief Historian Bill Barry on Hugh Dryden
Scientific American: Old Records Help Resurrect Historic Quake
History of Philosphy without any gaps: 282. Portrait of the Artist: John Buridan
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Le premier numéro de la revue Doc.Eu: Appel à contributions: Représentations du corps dans les sciences humaines et sociales Réception de l’article : 14 août 2017 au plus tard
Notches: CfP: Transgender Histories
BMJ Medical Humanities: CfP: Special Issue: Pain and its Pardoxes Deadline 1 August 2017
Intellect Journals: CfP: Journal of Science & Popular Culture
National Maritime Museum: Conference: Mapping the past, exploiting the future: cartographies and understandings of the Arctic 21–22 July 2017
Ordered Universe: Publications
Toronto, Ontario: Preliminary Program: HSS Annual Meeting 9–12 November 2017
Middlesex University: 2nd CLE Colloquium for Philosophy and History of Formal Sciences: “Logic and Computing” 19–21 July 2017
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow: CfP: Cannabis: Global Histories 19–20 April 2018 Deadline 15 January 2018
Societate și Politică: CfP: Rewrite Conflicts: The Role of Losers, Heretics, and Outsiders in the History of Medicine Deadline 15 December 2017
University of Exeter: Symposium: Medical Practice in Early Modern Britain in Comparative Perspective 4–6 September 2017
BPS: A BPS Flagship Event: Women in Psychology: From Invisibility to Influence 19 October 2017
ESA: History of Europe in space: Call for Contributions: ESA History Project Deadline 30 July 2017
University of Düsseldorf: CfP: The Generalized Theory of Evolution 31 January–3 February 2018
BJHP: CfP: Special Issue: Women and the History of Philosophy Deadline 31 January 2018
The American University of Paris: Appel à communications: Conférence internationale pluridisciplinaire d’histoire de la sexologie: Sexologies et théories de la sexualité. Traduction, appropriation, problématisation, médicalisation 30-31 Octobre 2017 Soumission des propositions 15 Juillet 2017
Ecole des Mines Paris Tech: Appel à communications: Techno*Care / Les technologies du « care » en santé 12 décembre 2017 avant le 14 juillet 2017
UCL Health Humanities Centre: Exploring Transcultural Histories of Psychotherapies 8 July 2017
Numéro de la revue Itinéraires 2018-2: Appel à articles: Le merveilleux scientifique en spectacle (1850-1940) Date limite de réception des propositions : 14 juillet 2017
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 London: Institute of Historical Research: CfP: The Hakluyt Symposium 2017: Trading Companies and Travel Literature 11–12 September 2017 Deadline 30 April 2017
Scottish Universities Insight Institute, University of Strathclyde: CfP: Understanding the Intersection of Alcoholism, Stigma, and Disability: Past and Present 1–2 March 2018 Deadline 3 July 2017
University of Kent: CfP: Hakluyt Society Symposium 2017: Trading Companies and Travel Literature 11–12 September 2017
APS: 2017 History of Physics Essay Contest Deadline 1 September 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
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
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
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich: CfP: Mapping the Past, Exploiting the Future 21–22 July 2017 Deadline 1 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
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
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
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
The Collation: Announcing a New Folger Fellowship in Honor of Margaret Hannay
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
Cornell University: The Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar Spring 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
Centre for Global Health Histories, Department of History, University of York: Call for applications: William Bynum Essay Prize (Medical History)
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
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
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
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
King’s College London: ChoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: Workshop: Turkish Manuscript Studies: An Introduction 27 March–1 April 2017 Deadline 27 November 2017
UCL: STS: Seminar Series Spring 2017
Erasmus University Rotterdam: CfP: Fourth Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science
University of 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
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
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 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
Kraków Poland: CfP. 6th Conference of the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences 20-22 September 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
King’s College London: ChoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
LOOKING FOR WORK:
Natural History Museum: Vacancy for Research Leaders, Life Sciences
Science Museum: Collaborative doctoral awards 2017 Open Call
University of Lund: Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Knowledge
University of Leuven: PhD Studentship: Catholic Medicine and Its Others in Belgium and the Belgian Congo, 1900–1965
Harvard University: Tenure-Track assistant Professor in the History of Modern American Medicine
Wesleyan University: Assistant Professor, Science in Society Program
NYAM: Library Fellowships
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