#histsci
Conferences generate and rely on material culture and infrastructures.
We've been building a gallery of conference objects on our website, here: https://sciconf.nu/gallery/
The gallery is a work in progress. Do get in touch if you have any images of objects to contribute - we'd love to expand the gallery and will keep adding to it.
#histodons #history #internationalism #scihistodons #histsci #STS #HERA #conferences #materialculture
In the 1930s, Listerine cigarettes were created. The tobacco was infused with the same antiseptic oils used in the mouthwash for a "cooling and soothing effect." Listerine cigarettes were evidently not very popular because there is almost no record of their existence.
#histodons #histodon #histmed #histsci #DYK #medhist #medmastodon
New post on my personal website reproducing a letter I wrote in the latest edition of the London Review of Books about #CharlesDarwin’s use of photography in his study of human and animal emotions.
#HistSci #Histodons #photography
http://richardcarter.com/sidelines/lrb-letter-the-reaction-economy/
Book Review: The Man from the Future by @ananyo https://ianhopkinson.org.uk/2023/03/book-review-the-man-from-the-future-by-ananyo-bhattacharya/ #histsci #BookReview <- about John Von Neumann, maths, game theory, and computing
My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871)' in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society has now been viewed over 15K times! Please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 🏳️🌈 🐒
There's now a prequel, 'Bounds of Diversity: Queer Zoology in Europe from Aristotle to John Hunter': https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/195/1/1/6568055 :transgender: 🦞
#HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #Darwin #biology #zoology
Midwifery Bag, c.1866 - containing destructive & non-destructive instruments. This bag would likely have belonged to a male midwife/obstetrican as female midwives traditionally did not use instruments when delivering babies in this period.
Photo: Science Museum, London.
#HistMed #MedHist #HistSci #MedMastodon #Histodon #Histodons #History #MuseumArchive #MuseumObject #FF
Henry Gray of #GraysAnatomy in a dissection room, c.1845. Gray contracted smallpox after caring for his nephew, who eventually recovered. On 13 June 1861, the day he was to appear for an interview as a final candidate for a prestigious hospital post, he died at the age of 34.
#HistMed #HistSci #MedMastodon #Histodon #Histodons #Anatomy #Dissection #MedHistory #MedicalHistorian #MedStudent
Some handsome dude writing in the latest edition of London Review of Books.
#CharlesDarwin #HistSci #Histodons
18th-century pewter syringe recovered from the shipwreck of the Queen Anne's Revenge, the famed flagship of the pirate Black Beard. The syringe contained mercury, which most likely treated pirates aboard ailing from syphilis. More info: https://www.livescience.com/49563-blackbeard-pirate-ship-yields-medical-supplies.html
#histodons #histodon #history #histmed #histsci #believeitornot #FF #FollowFriday
Elise Burton is a winner of the #2023DanDavidPrize. She is a historian of the life sciences in the modern Middle East, focusing on the history of genetics, physical anthropology, evolutionary biology, and biomedicine. Find out more in this thread.
09-Mar: On this day in 1833, the captain of HMS Beagle, Robert FitzRoy, purchased a Unicorn! It was to land him in considerable trouble. #HistSci #Histodons
http://friendsofdarwin.com/articles/fitzroy-buys-unicorn/
Napoleon's Toothbrush, c.1790. Napoleon brushed his teeth regularly using opium-based toothpaste. His toothbrush has a silver gilt handle and bristles made of horsehair, which would have been very rough on the gums.
Photo: the Wellcome Collection, London.
#histodons #histodon #histmed #histsci #dentist #Napoleon #history #MuseumArchive
This is what collaboration across four+ cities in two+ time zones looks like in practice. Here we are, hard at work on a special issue we're hoping to publish with the British Journal of the History of Science in due course.
#histodons #history #internationalism #scihistodons #histsci #STS #conferences #HERA #publicspaces #BJHS
Este #DíaInternacionalDeLaMujer es una buena oportunidad para reconocer y recomendar el sitio “Mujeres con ciencia”, una iniciativa de la Cátedra de Cultura Científica de la Universidad del País Vasco que busca “dar mayor visibilidad a la actividad que han desarrollado y desarrollan las mujeres en los ámbitos científicos y tecnológicos”. #CTS #STS #HistSci https://mujeresconciencia.com/
Another image for #InternationalWomensDay: medical students in dissection room of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP) - one of the nation’s first degree-granting medical schools for women, c.1906.
#histodons #histodon #histmed #histsci #IWD #IWD2023 #womenshistory #womensrights
For #InternationalWomensDay2023: the face of CPR doll "Resusci Annie" is based off a death mask of a woman who drowned in Paris in the 1880s. L'Inconnue de la Seine (The Unknown Woman of the Seine) teaches us how to save lives. More info on her story can be found on my IG page: instagram.com/p/CFNllKDMRQz/
#DYK #IWD #HistMed #Histsci #SciArt #ScienceMastodon #CPR #sciencecommunication #histodons #histodon #history
We've been quietly working away on various projects (more news soon!). In the meantime we're pleased to announce a new blog entry by guest contributor Julian Bondaz on the International Conferences of West Africanists. Come have a look.
#histodons #history #internationalism #scihistodons #histsci #STS #conferences
The decellularized GHOST HEART is created by stripping living cells from a pig’s heart. Researchers at the Texas Heart Institute hope that one day it could serve as a scaffold upon which to grow a working heart from human stem cells. More info via Science Friday: https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/ghost-heart-engineering/
#believeitornot #histmed #histsci #heart #cardiologist #cardiology #MedMastodon
New book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 10 • 1862’
#HistSci #Histodons
http://richardcarter.com/reviews/book-review-the-correspondence-of-charles-darwin-volume-10-1862/
It's #NationalDentistDay! Here's an illustration of a scientist using a steam machine, with pulley, to extract a tooth from a man drawn on the front of an envelope addressed to a Dr. J. Chapman, 1894.
Photo: Wellcome Collection, London.
#histodon #histodons #histmed #histsci #sciart #artistsonmastodon #MuseumArchive #dentist
Le volume 27-1 de la revue Philosophia Scientiæ est en ligne et en #openaccess sur le portail OpenEdition Journals
La « parenthèse Vichy » ?
Trajectoires d'universitaires et reconfigurations disciplinaires sous l'Occupation et durant l'immédiat après-guerre
Sous la direction de Christophe Eckes, Nicolas Brisset, Céline Fellag Ariouet et Raphaël Fèvre
@rmathematicus The story of my first encounter with Roger Bacon, and my first attempt at writing about #HistSci
http://richardcarter.com/sidelines/bacon-and-x/
How the Early Battle Over Race Science Was Lost
"As early as 1872, Miklucho-Maclay had already disproved several of Haeckel’s assumptions that were key to his human evolutionary tree.
Haeckel never publicly acknowledged Miklucho-Maclay’s work in New Guinea."
#HistSTM #HistoryOfScience #HistSci
https://www.sapiens.org/biology/haeckel-race-science/
JOB opportunity: 12 months teaching post in 20thC European history at
#univofstandrews #StAndrewsHist
Race and Early American Medical Schools: Review of Christopher D.E. Willoughby’s Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools
Nursing Clio
"As part of their demonstration of mastery over the body, medical schools established museums in which they displayed human remains. These museums functioned as teaching and research collections and increased institutional prestige".
#HistSTM #HistoryOfScience #HistSci #Slavery
https://nursingclio.org/2023/02/14/race-and-early-american-medical-schools-review-of-christopher-d-e-willoughbys-masters-of-health-racial-science-and-slavery-in-u-s-medical-schools/
The Children of the Nazis’ Genetic Project
Valentine Faure
#HistSTM #HistoryOfScience #HistSci #Eugenics #WWII
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2023/02/nazi-lebensborn-program-adopted-children-birth-origins/672962/
On #WorldBookDay, here I am holding a BOOK BOUND IN THE SKIN OF THE MURDERER William Burke, now at Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh. Want to know more about anthropodermic bibliopegy (binding books with human skin)? Check out my video on my YouTube channel #UnderTheKnife: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHKqBaAmzfU
#histodon #histodons #histmed #histsci #booklover #surgeonshall #MedMastodon
These Creatures Were Darwin's Greatest Enemy
PBS Eons
#HistSTM #HistoryOfScience #HistSci
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plYuvU2VZkE
02-Mar: The Friends of Charles Darwin were founded on this day in 1994. Happy 29th birthday to us!
To mark the occasion, why not sign up to our free newsletter? It contains links to Darwin-related news stories and book reviews.
01-Mar:
On this day in 1833, HMS Beagle arrived at the Falkland Islands.
On this day in 1839, Charles Darwin was elected Fellow of the Zoological Society.
…and, on this day in 1853, Darwin wrote to his son William, reminiscing about, erm… playing ice-hockey!
#HistSci #Histodons http://friendsofdarwin.com/articles/darwin-ice-hockey/
Elise Burton of the University of Toronto, winner of the #2023DanDavidPrize, is a historian of science, race and nationalism in the modern Middle East, focusing on the history of genetics, physical anthropology, evolutionary biology and biomedicine.
28-Feb: On this day in 1832, HMS Beagle arrived at Salvador, Brazil. #CharlesDarwin began to explore the rainforests. He recorded in his journal, “The delight one experiences in such times bewilders the mind. […] The mind is a chaos of delight, out of which a world of future & more quiet pleasure will arise.” #HistSci #Histodons
TFW the publisher sends you an advance review copy of a book you were going to buy anyway. #HistSci
Deux postes MCF publiés sur Galaxie en maths / histoire des maths cette année, donc :
https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/ListesPostesPublies/Emplois_publies_TrieParCorps.html
Le numéro 443 à Sorbonne Université / INSPE Paris, et le numéro 1628 Université de Lorraine / INSPE de Metz.
#histmath #histsci
BLOODLETTING WITH SCARIFICATOR, late 17th century. This instrument with spring-loaded blades delivered many cuts simultaneously. Afterwards, the doctor placed a heated cup over the site. As it cooled, blood was forced out of the wounds.
Photo: University of Melbourne.
#histodons #histmed #histsci #MedMastodon #histodon #history #Twitterstorians
24-Feb: On this day in 1871, the first edition of Charles Darwin’s ‘The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex’ was published. Here’s my review:
http://friendsofdarwin.com/reviews/book-review-descent-of-man-charles-darwin/
#HistSci #Histodons #CharlesDarwin
Hi! Anybody interested in scientific manuscripts and drafts should consider submitting to our special issue of Genesis:
https://brouillons.hypotheses.org/98
(French is preferred, but we can manage.)
@histodons #histsci #histmath
22-Feb: On this day in 1875, the geologist Sir Charles Lyell, Charles Darwin’s friend and inspiration, died in London. He is buried not far from Darwin in Westminster Abbey. #HistSci #Histodons
PhD FUNDING for a project in Scottish History at St Andrews [any period, any topic. Could be #histsci #bookhistodons etc]
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📢 Strathmartine Trust Scottish History Scholarship📢
The Strathmartine Trust has renewed its support for one Scottish history PhD student at the University of St Andrews (full fees & maintenance grant) for 3 years.
Deadline 21 March 2023 5pm.
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Details not yet on website; DM @ISHRStAndrews@twitter for more info & how to apply
We have postgraduate scholarships at King's CHoSTM in the History of Science &/or Technology.
Covers either
- 1 year MA study + 3 year PhD
- 3 year PhD
...as maintenance grant pegged to UKRI PhD grant + fees (inc international).
More info and how to apply here: https://www.kingschostm.com/funding-opportunities
& if you're interested, get in touch with potential supervisors among CHoSTM staff, listed here: https://www.kingschostm.com/about-us
#historyofscience #historyoftechnology #hstm #histsci #histtech #histodons
20-Feb: On this day in 1835, Charles Darwin experienced a major earthquake. #HistSci #Histodons #CharlesDarwin
http://friendsofdarwin.com/articles/darwin-witnesses-earthquake/
2/2 I also made a fun video about his life and ideas, walking in his footsteps in #Torun, #Krakow, #Warsaw, and #Frombork in #Poland: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wqRj0HgIaiE&t=13s ( #Copernicus #Copernicus550 #astronomy #science #history #histsci )
1/2 Happy 550th Birthday to Nicolaus Copernicus! A while back I wrote about how he shook up our view of the universe, for
@astronomymag: https://astronomy.com/magazine/2019/07/how-copernicus-moved-the-sun #Copernicus #Copernicus550 #astronomy #science #history #histsci
Jennifer Ouellette presents a masterclass in how not to report #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/02/13/leonardo-and-gravity/
"The optimal shape for the tip of a lightning rod has been controversial since the 18th century. During the period of political confrontation between Britain and its American colonies, British scientists maintained that a lightning rod should have a ball on its end, while American scientists maintained that there should be a point. As of 2003, the controversy had not been completely resolved.
It is difficult to resolve the controversy because proper controlled experiments are nearly impossible, but work performed in 2000 has shed some light on the issue, finding that moderately rounded or blunt-tipped lightning rods act as marginally better strike receptors. As a result, round-tipped rods are installed on most new systems in the United States, though most existing systems still have pointed rods."
#histsci #histtech
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_rod
Wax Vanitas (c.1700) - intended to remind us of the certainty of death. One side features a skull with insects feasting on decaying flesh. The other side resembles Queen Elizabeth I. It reads: “vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
This object is from the Wellcome Collection in #London.
#HistMed #MementoMori #HistSci #Histodons #Museums #WeirdHistory #MuseumObject #SciArt #Queen
Sur le même thème, il faudrait que je lise le bouquin historique "The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women", parce que quand même #histsci #histtech #histmed et #histsoc ! https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/31409135
Tinted, double-hinged spectacles, c.1790. Many opticians believed green or blue glass was easier on the eyes and would reduce glare; while clear glass was too soft and would distort images.
This extraordinary example is from the Wellcome Collection in London.
#histmed #histsci #histodons #mastodon #introduction #medhist #medhistory #MedMastodon #museumobject #steampunk
"The Tooth Worm as Hell's Demon,” 18th century. Carved from ivory, the two halves open up to reveal a scene about the infernal torments of a tooth worms which people believed caused cavities in the past. Complete with mini skulls, hellfire, and naked people wielding clubs.
#histodons #mastodon #introduction #histmed #histsci #museumobject #medhist #MedMastodon
Stumbled upon a cabinet of 19th-century anatomical treasures at the Natural History Museum in Venice. Unfortunately, there was very little information about the collection, but it did feel very much like walking into the office of an obsessive Victorian professor. I couldn't resist getting a few photos for you guys.
#histodon #mastodon #twittermigration #HistMed #HistSci #MedMastodon #Museums #MuseumArchive #anatomy
Prof. Niccolò Guicciardini's #book "Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy" (Reaktion Books / University of Chicago Press) offers interested readers a particularly well-written and well-illustrated portrait of Newton the mathematician, Newton the alchemist, Newton the theologian, Newton the cosmologist, and perhaps most overlooked, Newton the survivor.
#bookstodon @bookstodon #biography #science #history #Renaissance #HistSci #physics #mathematics #astronomy
https://www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2023/01/the-marvelously-multifaceted-mr-newton/
J'ai manqué cette semaine la première session des conférences « Un texte, un mathématicien » #1T1M avec Laure Saint-Raymond :( , mais les suivantes sont présentées ici :
https://www.animath.fr/un-texte-un-mathematicien/
La prochaine aura lieu le 8 février 18h30 : « Blaise Pascal, géomètre du hasard » par G. Miermont (possibilité d'y assister en ligne après inscription : https://smf.emath.fr/evenements-smf/conference-bnf-g-miermont-2023)
Call for papers: Integrating the History and Philosophy of Biodiversity: Narratives of Diversity, Extinction, Conflict and Value
October 20–21, 2023, Brussels; co-organized with @oliviodare
If you work at the intersection of the history and philosophy of biodiversity, conservation, or the environment, take a look at the site here, and submit an abstract for April 1: https://pencelab.be/events/biodiversity-2023/
#cfp #biodiversity #philosophy #philsci #philbio @philbio #histodons #histsci
The severe pitting in this skull is the direct result of tertiary syphilis, a bacterial infection commonly transmitted through sexual contact. Sometimes referred to as "Cupid's Disease," syphilis was fatal before the discovery of penicillin in 1928. In the final stage, the disease attacks a person's skeletal structure, as well as the brain and nervous system. This skull is from the Medical Museion in Copenhagen, Denmark, and dates to the 19th century.
If you're at a #Scottish #university, believe in #openaccess, and have a monograph nearly finished and not yet under contract, then...
18th January is the deadline for the first call for monographs from the new Scottish Universities Press @ScotUniPress@twitter.com
Monograph must be nearly completed (i.e. to be delivered later this year). An open call for other monographs will follow in February. See https://www.sup.ac.uk/
#openaccesspublishing
#histodons #victodons #bookhistodons #histsci
A hand-written copy of a new short #biography of Mary #Anning composed in the mid-nineteenth century by George Roberts has been discovered. The report of it, as well as link to an open access paper containing the transcribed text, can be found by followng the attached link.
#geology #palaeontology #womeninscience #history #HistSci #historyofscience
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2023/january/mary-anning-biography-.html
📢 It's out !
@cmadruga and I are thrilled to announce the publication of our special issue on #SituatedNature!
If like us you wonder what collecting nature actually meant in the nineteenth century, and why it does _really_ matter ➡️ read more here ! https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/situated-nature
tl;dr : contains a lot #histodons #nature, #collections, #fieldwork #empire and #nation-building, #coloniality #LocalKnowledge !
@histodons #histSTM #histsci
Meant to post yesterday, but: Mary Shelley's #frankenstein turned 205 on Monday. A little while ago, I wrote about the real-life #science that influenced her groundbreaking novel: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/526833/how-real-life-science-inspired-mary-shelleys-frankenstein #books #histsci
In 1863, Alexander T. Augusta became the first African-American commissioned as a medical officer in the Union Army and was awarded the rank of major. He was eventually put in charge of his own hospital during the Civil War. He was 1 of 13 African American doctors to serve.
#Histmed #HistSci #TIL #History #DYK #Histodons #Histodon #MedMastodon #CivilWar #Victorian #19thCentury #CivilWarHistory #Frontliners
Scottish mathematician, scientist, translator, Mary Somerville was born 26 December 1780
#histsci #womeninscience #historyofmathematics #19thcenturyscience #scientifictranslators
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/the-queen-of-science-the-woman-who-tamed-laplace/
[Carnet de recherche] Nouveau billet, écrit pour le projet #PatriMaths : « Un mathématicien et ses livres : Gabriel Cramer »
https://cramer.hypotheses.org/600
#histsci #histodons #bibliotheque
“Wound Man” is an illustration which first appeared in European surgical texts during the Middle Ages. It laid out schematically the various wounds a person might suffer in battle or in accidents, often with surrounding or accompanying text stating treatments for the these injuries. This particular “Wound Man” dates to the 15th century and is part of the Wellcome Collection in London.
Which “wound” are you today?!
#histodons #introduction #followback #weird #history #histmed #histsci
This is Ume Tange (also called Umeko). She's in her 70s in this photo. It's in 1948: she was born in 1873, and she died in 1955.
Tange was a nutritional chemist, and she had some amazing science career firsts behind her.
She was in the first group of Japanese women to enter full university, & again,when she was awarded her first science PhD. Tange had 2 by the time of this photo.
I've created an English-language Wikipedia page about her ... 1/4
This whalebone cane belonged to Charles Darwin. The skull pommel is decorated with some rather striking green glass eyes. (Wellcome Collection - where it was on display until November) #MementoMori #darwin #19thcentury #HistSci #Histodons #history #victorians #WeirdHistory
#DYK that COFFIN COLLARS like this were invented to thwart bodysnatchers in the early 19th century? The collar was fixed around the neck of a corpse and bolted to the bottom of a coffin, making it nearly impossible to remove the body from its grave. Bodysnatchers (or "Ressurectionists") stole bodies to sell to anatomists and medical schools during this period.
Follow me for more medical history!
Obstetric Phantom, 18th century. The wood and leather model was used to teach medical students, and possibly midwives, about childbirth. It came from the Hospital del Ceppo in Pistoia, near Florence, founded in 1277. Photo: Science Museum.
#Histodons #HistMed #HistSci #MedMastodon #ScienceMastodon #Midwife
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RABIES! SMALLPOX! PLAGUE! Who you gonna call?
My husband @TealCartoons and I are thrilled to reveal the title and cover of our new children's book, PLAGUE-BUSTERS!
Pre-order SIGNED copies from
The Mysterious Bookshop,
and enter to win original artwork from the book: https://bit.ly/3Fxgut4
You can also order from...
Amazon - https://bit.ly/3ByrDZJ
B&N - https://bit.ly/3hrYdpe
IndieBound - https://bit.ly/3huyOLB
#histodons #childrensbooks #histmed #histsci #illustration #plague
GRAVEYARD GUN (c.1820) - used to prevent bodysnatchers from stealing corpses to sell to anatomists. Set at the foot of a grave, the gun would have had three tripwires around it. One such gun reportedly killed a grieving father by accident. Coffin collars, fixed around the necks of a corpse and bolted to the bottom of a coffin, were also used to keep bodies in their graves.
Follow me for more #WeirdHistory!
#HistMed #HistSci #TIL #TheMoreYouKnow #Histodons #Introduction #Histodon #History
This wax model from the 19th century shows the internal structure of the brain, complete with its protective covering, the meninges. Wax models like this were used for teaching anatomy to medical students at a time when it was difficult to find bodies to dissect. They are an example of the combination of art and science that often characterized this period. Photo: Wellcome Collection.
#SciArt #ScienceMastodon #Histodons #Histodon #history #WeirdHistory #WeirdFacts #HistMed #HistSci #MedMastodon
As the #COP15 UN Biodiversity Conference kicks off in Montréal today, see our “Bestiary of Loss”, images of 39 recently extinct animals and their stories, from the aurochs to the ivory-billed woodpecker: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/extinct-animals #biodiversity #extinction #art #illustration #history #histodon #histsci #zoology
Marie Curie's notebooks, which are radioactive and must be stored in a lead-lined box in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Curie’s corpse is also radioactive. Her coffin is lined in an inch of lead. Both will remain radioactive for 1,500+ years.
#HistSci #ScienceMastodon #MedMastodon #science #scientist #HistoryOfScience #HistMed #WomenInStem #TIL #TheMoreYouKnow #WeirdHistory
Wax Vanitas (c.1700) - intended to remind us of the certainty of death. One side features a skull with insects feasting on decaying flesh. The other side resembles Queen Elizabeth I. It reads: “vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
This object is from the Wellcome Collection in #London.
#HistMed #MementoMori #HistSci #Histodons #Museums #WeirdHistory #MuseumObject #SciArt #Queen
This frieze from Fulton County, Georgia shows "Medicine's battle with Death." Note the rod with two snakes. Many mistake it for the Rod of Asclepius (the traditional symbol of healing). However, this is the Caduceus, symbol of commerce. A common error in the USA.
#histodon #medicine #MedMastodon #ScienceMastodon #HistMed #HistSci #SciArt #mastodon #introduction #Historian #TwitterMigration #FF #FollowBackFriday #FollowFriday
To mark #LostSpeciesDay today, a special post — “A Bestiary of Loss” — images of 39 recently extinct animals and their stories, from the aurochs to the ivory-billed woodpecker: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/extinct-animals #biodiversity #extinction #art #illustration #history #histodon #histsci #zoology
I've never been quite as scared of a publication as this one: the brand new Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on Charles Darwin, https://iep.utm.edu/darwin/
It's both intended to be reasonably "complete" and to be reasonably accessible. (Unlike the SEP, this should be at least somewhat readable for introductory students.) I'm sure I could do better on both counts, but I hope it's still pretty good!
#darwin #evolution #philsci #histsci #philbio #histbio @philbio
Looking at times like some kind of strange fusion of De Stijl abstraction and Tetris, behold the enigmatic "color analysis" charts of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel from her 1901 book Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color.
More here: https://buff.ly/2Uzv7J2 #art #illustration #science #histsci #design
Oldest-surviving anatomical theatre, located in Padua. Built in 1594.
At the centre is a table on which human and animal dissections took place. Around this table are several tiers with railings, where students or other observers could stand. Over the entrance to the theatre is the Latin inscription: “hic est locus ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitam,” (roughly translated: "this is the place where death delights to help the living.”)
Photo: Rolando Paolo Guerzoni.
Le Forum des jeunes mathématicien-nes (30 nov-2 déc) est organisé par l'association Femmes et Mathématiques depuis 1996 et il s'adresse aux jeunes mathématicien-nes en cours de thèse ou ayant soutenu leur thèse récemment.
Cette édition du forum est organisée à la Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de l'Université de Bretagne Occidentale, à Brest.
Pour la première fois, son thème est :
Histoire des mathématiques et de l'informatique
On the 163rd anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species today, the Darwin Correspondence Project have published the full edition of Charles Darwin's correspondence online today.
I will never read the more than 15000 letters, but it's transcribed and searchable. Leading me to such gems as Edith Evan's report of curious cats that appear to be cat–rabbit hybrids https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13646.xml
The hollow hypodermic needle was invented by Alexander Wood in 1853 and allowed drugs to be injected in the body under the skin. Accompanied by different length needles, this example is made from silver with a glass barrel. Unlike modern syringes, which use a plunger, this syringe works by turning the screw at the top to inject the liquid. The name “Mathieu," a French surgical instrument maker, is punched into the syringe.
#histmed #histodons #histsci #museum #TIL #MedMastodon #ScienceMastodon
