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Whewell’s Ghost on Facebook and Twitter
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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Tagged blogs, Facebook, history of science, links, The Giants' Shoulders, Twitter
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Catching up with The H Word
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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Tagged blogging, history of science, Teleskopos, The H Word
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A tale of a telescope
In this month’s Journal for the History of Astronomy I have a book review of Richard Gillespie’s The Great Melbourne Telescope – a book I enjoyed reading and a review I enjoyed writing. Hop over to teleskopos to read it.
The Historical Science Society of 1840
My second post on the new Guardian Science blog, The H Word, is now up – looking at The first HSS, a 19th-century venture doomed to failure as a result of its young founder’s succumbing to bibliophilic temptation.
Posted in Historiography, History
Tagged history, history of science, James Orchard Halliwell, Manuscripts, William Whewell
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More than transitory interest: an instrument of note
Slightly belatedly, here’s a cross-posting of my last post on the Longitude Project blog, which takes a closer look at a significant astronomical relic: A lesson quickly learned in the world of museum collections and displays – perhaps especially in … Continue reading
Observing transit history in the media
I have a post up on the Guardian’s ‘Notes and Theories’ science blog. It’s called What they didn’t tell you about the transit of Venus. ‘They’ are all the potted transit histories that I’ve read/heard/watched over the last few weeks. What … Continue reading
Posted in Astrology, History
Tagged astronomy, history of science, media, popular writing, transits of Venus
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Faraday’s motivation
In response to a comment stream on the Times Higher Education supplement, that raised the issue of whether Michael Faraday was about the business of pure or applied scientific research, I wrote this post.
Posted in History
Tagged applied science, history of science, Michael Faraday, pure science
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Cutting a dash: men of science as ‘historical hotties’
I had a bit of fun this week tweeting links to portraits of some 19th-century men of science, suggesting that they were ’19thC scientific hotties’. Such a phrase is not, I should add, my usual vocabulary, and nor is a … Continue reading
Tartu: “the Russian Empire’s leading observatory”
My review of Lea Leppick’s Tartu Old Observatory (2011), appeared in the February 2012 issue (£) of the Journal for the History of Astronomy. You can read it here.
Posted in astronomy, Book Reviews, History
Tagged Estonia, history of astronomy, history of science, observatories, Russia
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