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 #50
Monday 31 July 2017
EDITORIAL:
With #50 we are just two editions away from completing the third year of publication of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list serving up all of the histories of science, technology and medicine delivered via the Internet over that last seven days.
I think that the last (almost) three years of Whewell’s Gazette have amply demonstrated that the width, depth and diversity of #histSTM writing available on the Internet is pretty impressive. However, we must note that dedicated #histSTM blogs on major media platforms are exceedingly rare, The Guardian website featuring The H-Word Blog by Vanessa Heggie (@HPS_Vanessa) and Rebekah Higgitt (@beckyfh) being a notable exception.
This #histSTM blog featuring not only the work of its highly knowledgeable founders but also, over the years, a very impressive list of top quality guest bloggers is without doubt one of the best addresses for top quality #histSTM in cyberspace today. This being the case Whewell’s Gazette was deeply saddened when we recently discovered that The Guardian is to drop the H-Word because it doesn’t garner enough traffic in comparison with the Guardian’s other science blogs.
It is to be hoped that the H-Ladies succeed in setting up their #histSTM tent on another platform and continue to educate, entertain and enlighten us with their excellent #histSTM journalism. For the moment we will just say adieu Guardian H-Word and thank you for setting standards in quality #histSTM blogging that we could and can only aspire to emulate, even if we don’t always succeed.
Quotes of the week:
“A person died after hearing the price of Tur daal.
Dr. issued death certificate that read… Cause of death.…”High pulse rate”” – Sanjay Hegde (@sanjayuvacha)
“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned” – Richard Feynman
“James Bond gave me wholly unrealistic expectations of how exciting microfilms could be…” – Seb Falk (@Seb_Falk)
“Algebra is the offer made made by the devil to the mathematician…” -Sir Michael Atiyah
“All things living are in search of a better world” – Karl Popper
“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it” – Karl Popper
“I must invent my own systems or be enslaved by other men’s” – William Blake
“Dad just asked if Egyptians who spoke both Greek and Coptic were called Helle-Copters and now I don’t feel too well” – Danica Fuller (@DJFuller1991)
“German lesson of the day “Trantüte” literally “bag of whale blubber” meaning a very slow and not-thinking person” – Sandra Kamping (@sakamping)
Stephen Leacock (1936) on how historians spend their summers h/t Tina Adcock (@TinaAdcock)
Anniversaries of the Week:
Christoph Scheiner born 25 July 1573 or 1575
Christoph Scheinet (artist unknown)
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Christoph Scheiner
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Apelles hiding behind the painting
Frontispiece from Rosa Ursina (1630) by Christoph Scheiner
Rosalind Franklin born 25 July 1920
Rosalind Franklin
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: Rosalind Franklin and the Beauty of the DNA Structure
The Royal Society: Facebook: The tragically short, yet illustrious life of Rosalind Franklin
MRC insight: Behind the picture: Photo 51
Wellcome Library: The Rosalind Franklin papers
yg Topics: Giants in genomics: Rosalind Franklin
Alembic Rare Books: A Rare Biographical Sketch of Rosalind Franklin by Her Mothe
CHF: James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin
AHF: Rosalind Franklin
Jeanne Baret born 27 July 1740
Imagined portrait of Jeanne Baré dressed as a sailor, dating from 1817, after her death. Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: Jeanne Baret – An Intrepid Woman of Discovery
George Biddell Airy born 27 July 1801
George Biddell Airy (1801-1892)
John Collier / 1883
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHI Blog: The Astronomical Achievements of Sir George Biddell Airy
Royal Museums Greenwich: Astronomer Royal George Biddell Airy and his many measuring devices
Edward Drinker Cope born 28 July 1840
Edward Drinker Cope
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Edward Drinker Cope
The Academy of Natural Sciences: Getting to Know Cope
Youtube: Bone Wars Teil 5 – Ich bin Edward Drinker Cope
Linda Hall Library: Paper Dinosaurs: 11. Cope Reconstructs Laelaps, 1869
Vladimir Zworykin born 30 July 1888
Zworykin demonstrates electronic television (1929).
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Engineering and Technology History Wiki: Oral-History: Vladimir Zworykin
SciHi Blog: Vladimir Zworykin’s Television System
Regnier de Graaf born 30 July 1641
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: Regnier de Graaf – Creator of Experimental Physiology
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Roger Launius’s Blog: Three Canopies into the Pacific: Coming Home during Project Apollo
culture.pl: Dr. Rotblat: Or How I learned to Start Worrying & Fear the Bomb
ESA: Alphasat
Symmetry: A brief etymology of particle physics
AGU Blogosphere: Researchers uncover 200-year-old sunspot drawings in Maine
The Public Domain Review: Images from Johann Zahn’s Oculus Artificialis (1685)
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Raemer Schreiber’s Interview (1965)
AHF: Los Alamos Innovations: Water Boiler Reactor
Society for the History of Astronomy: SHA e-NEWS: Volume 9, no.3, August 2017
University of Cambridge Digital Library: Newton Papers: Early Papers
AIP: Charles Townes
The Renaissance Mathematicus: A very special book
Title page of the first edition of De revolutionibus
Source: Wikimedia Commons
brainpickings: How to Watch the Un-sunlike Sun: Solar Eclipse Tips from Pioneering Astronomer Maria Mitchell
Spaceflight History: Flyby’s Last Gasp: North American Rockwell’s S-IIB Interplanetary Booster (1968)
ESA: space in images: Comet on 30 July 2015 – Navcam
ESA: space in images: During Venus Express Orbit Number 465, on 30 July 2007
Pri: A team of women is unearthing the forgotten legacy of Harvard’s women ‘computers’
A dozen women computers hold hands in this 1918 photograph, which Smith Zrull calls the “paper doll” photo. To the far right is Edward Pickering, who hired the women computers. Credit: Courtesy Harvard College Observatory, Plate Stacks
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
SciHi Blog: Joseph Nicollet and the Upper Mississippi River
Teaching the Middle East: Eleventh-century BCE Egyptian Funerary Papyrus Showing Nut and Geb
Sasha Trubetskoy: Roman Roads of Britain: Network Map
Atlas Obscura: Mapping Dante’s Inferno, One Circle of Hell at a Time
Botticelli’s Map of Hell.
Atlas Obscura: 11 Geographic Markers That Are Totally Inaccurate
Boston Rare Maps: Rare cholera map of the first and second Pandemics
SciHi Blog: John Speed and His Famous Maps
Boston Rare Maps: A “sweeping application of thematic cartography”
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Royal Colle4ge of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Our Artist in Residence “meets” Joseph Lister
O Can You See?: From “Invalid Corps” to full active duty: America’s disabled soldiers return to war
National Museum of Civil War Medicine: Blood Transfusion in the Civil War Er
SciHi Blog: You Cannot Not Communicate – Paul Watzlawick
TLS: The tooth hurts
Sara’s Blog: The Old Paregoric Shop
History Extra: Dr James Barry: a surgeon with a secret
University of Malta: Guarding Against Contagion: Vigilance and the Role of Fortifications in Malta during the Outbreak of Plague in Messina in 1743
Hektoen International: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Wellcome Library: Ambroise Paré’s medical ‘monsters’
Smithsonian.com: Five Fascinating Facts About Carl Jung
Smithsonian.com: The Lady Anatomist Who Brought Dead Bodies to Light
Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714-1774), Italian anatomist and sculptor, from a drawing by Cesare Bettini. (Wikimedia Commons)
Hektoen International: Portraits of vision: Sir Joshua Reynolds
Wynning History: “Played Out” – Corporal Henry Keiser and Disease in the Seven Days’ Battle
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Library and Archive: Cataloguing the GoldieScot Correspondence Collection
Nursing Clio: The “Right” and “Wrong” Kind of Addict: Iatrogenic Opioid Addiction in Historical Context
The Globe and Mail: Insulin: The Canadian discovery that has saved millions of lives
Dallas News: How Dallas dealt polio a massive blow by vaccinating 900,000 people in two days
In 1962, Dr. Percy Luecke Jr. led a bold campaign to vaccinate 1 million residents of Dallas County against polio. Now 91, Luecke proudly recalls the effort and has a scrapbook with news articles about the campaign.
AEON: Humans are the only animals who crave oblivion through suicide
Thomas Morris: The seventy-year-old mother-to-be
Thomas Morris: The cheese knife lobotomy
Mental Floss: 7 Famous People Researchers Want to Exhume
The Wood Library-Museum: Replica of Morton Inhaler
NCPedia: Smith, Henry Louis
Hektoen International: The Heritage Craft Schools and Hospitals for Crippled Children
Carpentry school, from Kimmins,
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
1832 diagram of the Sheerness tide gauge h/t Wilko Hardenberg (@wilkohardenberg)
SciHi Blog: Robert Cocking’s Parachuting Accident
SciHi Blog: Arthur Whitten Brown and the First Transatlantic Flight
Wired: Einstein’s Little-Known Passion Project? A Refrigerator
The Public Domain Review: Barnard’s Universal Criminal Cipher Code (1895)
SciHI Blog: Louis Blèriot’s famous Flight across the English Channel
National Cryptologic Museum Foundation: Cryptologic History Calendar: 1889: Agnes Meyer Driscoll, noted cryptanalyst, was born
British Library: Untold lives blog: Thomas Bowrey’s cloth samples
O Say Can You See?: Dotchin or “opium scale” – What’s in a name?
Tedium: Sega, In Channel Form
Atlas Obscura: USS Ling Submarine
Friends of the Union Chain Bridge: Celebrating 200 Years
The New York History Blog: A Short History of Watervliet Water Works
British Library: Sound and vision blog: Recording of the week: ‘The BBC are coming on Friday, can we show them a prototype?”
delancyplace.com: The Self-Taught Engineers of the Erie Canal
Family Tree: New database focuses on railway worker accidents in Britain between 1911 and 1915
ominous-valve.com: High’s Awesome Shortwave Recordings
AEON: The Soviet InterNyet
The Dawlish Chronicles: Bermuda’s Floating Dry Dock 1869
Atlas Obscura: How Clothing Made From Milk Became the Height of Fashion in Mussolini’s Italy
Atlas Obscura: Found: A Lunch Box From 4,000 Years Ago
Troy Hunt: Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era
The Guardian: Mail Rail delivers an underground history lesson at London’s new Postal Museum
BT: Explore the history of the postal service at the Post Office Museum
Atlas Obscura: See London’s Underground ‘Mail Rail,’ Then and Now
The Guardian: Au revoir to the original kilogram: Le Grand K joins the list of relegated metrics
Chemistry World: Game over for original kilogram as metric system overhaul looms
Medievalists.net: A Good Day for a Trebuchet
Co.Design: The Fascinating History of “Designed in California”
Leonard Maltin: The Death of VHS – And What We’ve Lost
IEEE Spectrum: Seymour Cray: The Man Who Brought Style to Supercomputers
SciHi Blog: The Citroën 2CV
First generation “ripple bonnet” Citroën 2CV built from 1949 to 1960
Source: Wikimedia Commons
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
The first weather forecasts aired on BBC TV 29 July 1949
Government of Canada: 66. Ottawa Geology (1946)
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Henry Shaw
Smithsonian.com: The Painstaking Process of Preserving a 400-Pound Blue Whale Heart
NICHE: Collaborative Landscapes
TrowelBlazers: Audrey Williams
Colonizing Animals: Seeing, Shooting, Saving, Seeing…
trilobite.com: Darwin: L’Origine Della Specie
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – William A. Mitchell
Atlas Obscura: In Ancient Rome, Citrus Fruits Were Status Symbols
Mental Floss: The Most Important Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of
BJHS Themes: The ‘modern’ management of rats: British agricultural science in farm and field during the twentieth century
OPB: Portland Environmental Journalist Lizzie Grossman Dies at 59
Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Grossman
Island Press
Hektoen International: The anatomy of beauty in nineteenth-century England
New Scientist: DNA of long-dead cows read from pages of Medieval books
Science: Goats, bookworms, a monk’s kiss: Biologists reveal the hidden history of ancient gospels
Academia: A forgotten fossil: The wild Homo calpicus of Gibraltar
ScienceBlog: In Saliva, Clues to a ‘Ghost’ Species of Ancient Human
NCSE: Famous Last Words, Part 2
Henry Drummond (1851–1897)
Atlas Obscura: Found: A Hint of Humans’ Connection to an Ancient ‘Ghost Species’
Arctic Deeply: Introducing an Online Encyclopedia of Inuit Arctic Observations
Newsworks: World weather libraries offer historic clues about climate
Science: The Brain of Hermann von Helmholtz (1899)
CHEMISTRY:
IET: Archive Biographies: Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney
AHF: Stanley G. Thompson
CHF: Distillations: A Forgotten Star
While astronomers had been sorting stars by spectra since the mid-1800s, in 1920 Indian polymath Meghnad Saha was the first to recognize that a star’s spectrum indicated its temperature.
CHF Collections; “Voltiana,” Como, Italy—September 10, 1927, issue, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archive
Science Notes: Today in Science History – July 27 – John Dalton
SciHi Blog: Paul Walden and the Walden Inversion
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Bertram Boltwood
Voices of the Manhattan Project: William Ginell’s Interview
Science Notes: Today in Science History – July 28 Otto Hahn
AHF: Otto Hahn
SciHi Blog: Ernst Haeckel and the Phyletic Museum
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
Social History of Medicine: Social History of Medicine in Latin America: A Free Highlight issue of Social History of Medicine for ICHST2017 oa till 30 September 2017
Digital Cavendish Project: Current Publications
Scientific American: Betty Shannon, Unsung Mathematical Genius
Open Culture: Leonardo da Vinci’s Visionary Notebooks Now Online: Browse 570 Digitized Pages
UCL: STS Observatory: Science and the Cold War at UCL. 1. Surveillance
CHSTM: Science in the Age of Invincible Surmise
Medium: The Fifteenth Century is the Most Interesting Century
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine: Hidden Figures Wins Best Book Award From Academies
The Public Domain Review: Out From Behind the Mask
SciHi Blog: Karl Popper and the Philosophy of Science
Royal College of Physicians: Finding maths in the RCP library: some 16th century rare books
Blink: The tuning of electric suns
The Irish Times: History of Science Museums, Europe and the US
ESOTERIC:
Conciatore: Sal Ammoniac
Conciatore: Alchemy School
Frontispiece woodcut from
De Chemia Senioris, by Zadith ben Hamuel, 1566
Conciatore: Filippo Sassetti
Renaissance Hub: Alchemical Texts in Early Modern England
BOOK REVIEWS:
Science News: This history book offers excellent images but skimps on modern science
Early Canadian History: Time and a Place: An Environmental History of Prince Edward Island – A Review
BJPS: Marcel Boumans // Science outside the Laboratory
Public Books: On The Origin of Extinction
adamtornhill.com: A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman
New Scientist: An elementary history lesson
h-madness: Nina Salouâ Studer, The Hidden Patients. North African Women in French Colonial Psychiatry
sharedconversations: The Greeks didn’t have a word for it
The Guardian: Stephen McGann: ‘My lot walked, my lot starved’
New Books Network: TRANS/gressive: How Transgender Activists Took on Gay Rights, Feminism, the Media & Congress…and Won!
LA Review of Books: Deprovincializing Philosophy
NEW BOOKS:
Routledge: Cultural Histories, Memories and Extreme Weather: A Historical Geography Perspective
CUP: Feeding France: New Science of Food, 1760–1815
Springer: Executing Magic in the Modern Era
Penguin Random House: The Book That Changed America: How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation
Andrew Isles: Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science, 1500–1630
OUP: Malleable Anatomies: Models, Makers, and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy
Palgrave Macmillan: John Clare: Nature, Criticism and History
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Zaha Hadid Architects: Mathematics: The Winton gallery at the Science Museum shortlisted for “World Interior of the Year”
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
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
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 Guardian: ‘Nobody has one button’: Steve Jobs opera sings Apple founder’s praises – and flaws
The Catholic Astronomer: The Heart of an Explorer: A reflection on the Futore Exploration of Mars In Light of the Lost City of Z
V&A: Ocean Liners: Speed & Style Opening 3 February 2018
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:
The National Archives: PAST Introduction to Archival Research 12 October 2017
NYAM: Lecture Series: Who Controls Women’s Health? A Century of Struggle 22 August, 12 September, 5 October 2017
BSHS: Events at the Museum of the History of Science Oxford July–September 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
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:
Johannes Kepler
Source: Wikimedia Commons
TELEVISION:
BBC FOUR: Hyper Evolution: Rise of the Robots
Nature: Climate change: Al Gore gets inconvenient again
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Youtube: Birth Stories: ‘Networks, specimens and data: understanding quins in the late 18th century’
Youtube: James Poskett: How a Printing Press Works
Youtube: Galileo and Medieval Science by James Hannam
Youtube: Trees & Wood: Forest Industries & Forestry – 1946 Educational Film
Youtube: Micro Men
RADIO & PODCASTS:
Ben Franklin’s World: We Are One: Mapping America’s Road from Revolution to Independence
Radio Canada: En 1885, une émeute antivaccination éclatait à Montréal
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Royal Holloway, University of London: CfP: Workshop: Animals and Emotions in History 17 November 2017
Contagions: CfP: Contagions sessions at the International Congress for Medieval Studies 2018
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine; Oxford University: Knowledge in Context: Colloquium in Honour of Laurence Brockliss and Colin Jones 22–23 September 2017
The Royal Society: Conference: Joseph Banks: Science, Culture and Exploration, 1743–1820 14–15 September 2017
University of Oxford: Workshop: Digital Approaches to the History of Science 28 September 2017
Western University London, Ontario: Women Intellectuals in 18th Century Germany 20-21 October 2017
BSHS: Call for nominations for the 2017 BSHM Neuman Prize
Centre Alexandre-Koyré, Paris: Actualités et appels à contribution: Actualités et appels à contribution: Journées d’études – Éditer l’histoire des sciences (France, XXème siècle) 14 et 15 septembre 2017
The Open University: CfP: Conference: Medieval and Early Modern Spaces and Places 23 February 2018
University of Leeds: CfP: Get Real! Realism as a goal for the sciences and for HPS 19–20 September 2017
O Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical da Universidade Nova de Lisboa: Abertas as inscrições para o workshop ‘História da Medicina Tropical’ 14 e 15 de dezembro de 2017
The Science Museum: Workshop: The British Post Office in the Telecommunications Era 31 August 2017
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
Ordered Universe: Publications
Toronto, Ontario: Preliminary Program: HSS Annual Meeting 9–12 November 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
University of Ghent: Program Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science 2016–2017
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
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