Category Archives: Administrative

Whewell’s Ghost on Facebook and Twitter

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Rebekah Higgitt

I have decided that it is time to take the Facebook page and Twitter account of Whewell’s Ghost in a new direction. In part inspired by our earlier discussions about the future of The Giants’ Shoulders history of science blog … Continue reading →

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Catching up with The H Word

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Rebekah Higgitt

As mentioned in my previous post here, I have been cross-posting my posts from The H Word, hosted by the Guardian, to my personal blog Teleskopos. Please feel free to read and/or comment there, or follow the links below to … Continue reading →

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Apologies for cross-cross-posting

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Rebekah Higgitt

In order to keep my Teleskopos blog alive, to have a personal record in one place of all of my posts, and to have a space for commenters who prefer not to register at the Guardian (or to find themselves among those … Continue reading →

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On and upwards?! A question for you all

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Rebekah Higgitt

Some of you who follow me on Twitter will by now have heard today’s news, which is the launch of my new blog. Having launched teleskopos only just over a year ago, my main blogging efforts are now migrating over … Continue reading →

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WG on Fb

Posted on July 8, 2011 by John M. Lynch

Whewell’s Ghost is now on Facebook! If you are a reader, feel free to “like” our page. Update: And we’re on Twitter!

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Congratulations!

Posted on January 7, 2011 by John M. Lynch

Congratulations to our very own Thony Christie for winning the “Best Individual Blog” Award at the 2010 Cliopatras. The awards were announced last night at the AHA Meeting. Thony’s blog is – if you don’t already know – Renaissance Mathematicus.

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Links series

Posted on September 23, 2010 by John S. Wilkins

At my blog Evolving Thoughts, I do links posts about twice a week (all with titles of 1980s movies). They often have HPS material. You can subscribe to them here.

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Women in science

Posted on September 14, 2010 by John S. Wilkins

Notice the incredible lack of XX karyotypes in the above header image? Me too. I want to find a nice historical shot of people doing science en masse, but I can’t find any with women in it before the 1990s. … Continue reading →

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Hello world!

Posted on September 1, 2010 by John M. Lynch

This is a group blog for collecting blog posts on the history and philosophy of science, and for posting new ones too. It is named after William Whewell (pronounced “hew-ell”), whose works History of the Inductive Sciences and Philosophy of … Continue reading →

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