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 #52
Monday 14 July 2017
EDITORIAL:
We have the final edition of the third year of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list brining you all of the histories of science, technology and medicine that we could dig up in the furthest reaches of the Internet.
There is a stupid saying in German that everything has an end and only the sausage has two. It is with a feeling of sadness but also one of relief that I am announcing that this is not just the final edition of year three of Whewell’s Gazette but the final edition; Whewell’s Gazette is no more.
I am sad because Whewell’s Gazette is one hundred per cent my baby. I conceived it, I birthed it, I nurtured it and I have watched it grow and mature over one hundred and fifty six information packed issues; now I have taken the decision to kill it off.
I actually took this decision many months ago but decided then to complete three full years before I pulled the plug and let my baby sink into cyber oblivion. Producing Whewell’s Gazette has come to consume much, in fact too much, of my life in terms of both time and effort and that is why I have a feeling of relief in letting it go.
The personal satisfaction that I have garnered through producing this gazette has for a long time not been enough to compensate for the number of unpaid hours that I have devoted to its production every week. I’m not even sure that if those hours had been adequately remunerated that I would have found enough satisfaction to keep going; I actually seriously doubt it.
Editing Whewell’s Gazette for three years has been a learning process. I have discovered just how much #histSTM material is being put out every week on the Internet and I’m sure there is even more that I didn’t succeed in gathering up in my sweeps of cyberspace. The Internet #histSTM community is healthy and productive and it is to be hoped that it will long remain so. On a personal trivial level my weekly endeavours have improved both my highly deficient typing and spelling skills and that at least is something that I will take with me into my own personal #histSTM future.
For the foreseeable future I shall continue to write my Renaissance Mathematicus blog, which does give me the personal satisfaction that I miss here. Over the last three years I have used my Twitter stream to collect the links that I have then published here and I intend to continue doing so. This means that if you follow me on Twitter (@rmathematicus) you can find all of this links that would have appeared here if I had continued to collate them for Whewell’s Gazette. You will of course have to filter the #histSTM tweets and retweets out from the jazz and jam rock, political and humorous tweets and retweets that I also send into cyberspace daily.
When I decided to end Whewell’s Gazette I also decided not to produce any form of special final edition but to leave the same mundane way as I started with just the regular links list, so to misuse T S Elliot’s infamous line Whewell’s Gazette ends not with a bang but a whimper.
Quotes of the week:
Q: How do you celebrate an AI reaching maturity?
A: A bot mitzvah – Amanda Levendowski (@levendowski)
“It should be obvious that “medieval Europe” is neither temporally nor spatially distinct from the rest of Afro-Eurasian history” – Medieval Indonesia (@siwaratrikalpa)
“The world has to reacquaint itself with the value of expertise, diplomacy, and experience. And the basic adherence to facts. Quite quickly” – Stephan McGann (@StephanMcGann)
“If you write Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem on a Möbius strip the universe will implode.
Modern magic spells” – Peter Broks (@peterbroks)
“Two antennae met, fell in love and were married. The wedding ceremony wasn’t much but the reception was excellent” – Swedish Canary (@SwedishCanary)
“Math poem:
Counting to infinity will drive you to divinity
But counting PAST infinity will drive you to insanity” – Math Prof (@mathematicsprof)
“”History is too important to be antiquarian window-dressing”
or mythology or propaganda
Please note for hist of sci
Historians of science know this already but scientists telling stories of the olden days may not” – Peter Broks (@peterbroks)
“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people” –Thomas Mann
“The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level” – Wolfgang Pauli
“Nirvana is a state of pure blissful knowledge…The ego or its separation is an illusion” – Erwin Schrödinger
“This isn’t right, this isn’t even wrong” – Wolfgang Pauli
“One of television’s great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs” – Alfred Hitchcock
“Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet” – Maya Angelou
“A Nazi isn’t a ‘controversialist’, an edgy guest in a political debate show, or a tabloid ‘contrarian’. They’re your enemy. Always” – Stephen McGann (@StephenMcGann)
Clara Barton at the Battle of Cedar Mountain 9 August 1862
Anniversaries of the Week:
Foundation stone of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich laid 3:14pm 10 August 1676
Royal Museums Greenwich: History of the Royal Observatory
Heritage Calling: Saving Lives with Clocks and Telescopes
Louis Leakey born 7 August 1903
Louis Leakey examining skulls from Olduvai Gorge
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: Louis Leakey and the Human Evolutionary Development in Africa
Leakey: Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
OUP Blog: Louis Leakey’s quest to discover human origins
Youtube: Dr Leakey and the Dawn of Man (1966)
Ernest Lawrence born 8 August 1901
60-inch cyclotron, c 1930s. This shows the cyclotron at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, sonn after completion in 1939. The key figures in its development and use are shown, standing, left to right: Dr D Cooksey, Dr D Corson, Dr EO Lawrence (1901-58), the inventor of the cyclotron, Dr R Thornton, Dr J Backus, WS Sainsbury, Dr LW Alvarez (1911-88) and Dr EM McMillan (1907- ). Copyright American Institute of Physics (AIP).
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Ernest O. Lawrence
Youtube: Berkeley Lab: Berkeley Lab Founder Ernest O. Lawrence Demonstrates the Cyclotron Concept
Amedeo Avogadro born 9 August 1776
SciHi Blog: Amadeo Avogadro and Avogadro’s Law
Science Notes: Today in Science History – August 9 – Amedeo Avogadro
Paul Dirac born 8 August 1901
Paul Dirac with his wife in Copenhagen, July 1963
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: Paul Dirac and the Quantum Mechanics
Encyclopaedia Britannica: P.A.M. Dirac
The Curious Wavefunction: The clearest essay on physics I have read: The beauty and clarity of Paul Dirac’s prose
The Guardian: Paul Dirac: The man who conjured laws of nature from pure thought
Dirac’s commemorative marker in Westminster Abbey
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Erwin Schrödinger born 12 August 1887
Erwin Schrödinger as a young scientist
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: Erwin Schrödinger and his Famous Thought Experiment
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
SciHI Blog: Victor Franz Hess and the Cosmic Radiation
Gizmodo: Four Incredible Eclipses History Never Forgot
Ptak Science Books: Reporting the Hiroshima Bomb the Day After, 7 August 1945. And The First Map of NYC A-Bombed
ESA: Hipparcos: Ariane-4 V33 on Launch Pad with Hipparcos and TV-Sat on 8 August 1989
SciHi Blog: Sir Roger Penrose and the Singularity
Mount Holyoke Archives and Special Collections: Professor Elisabeth M. Bardwell looking through a telescope
SciHi Blog: Benjamin Silliman and the 1807 Meteor
The Catholic Astronomer: Benjamin Bannaker and Planet George
The Atlantic: The Moon’s Origin Story Is in Crisis
russianspaceweb.com: Luna-24: Last Moon digger
LROC: Mare Crisium: Failure then Success
SciHi Blog: Wolfgang Paul and the Ion Trap
The New York Times Magazine: Weirdness Makes Sense
NASA: Magellan
Undark: ‘Atomic Bill’ and the Birth of the Bomb
BBC News: RBS to issue polymer £10 banknote in October
Independent: New RBS £10 note featuring Scottish astronomer Mary Somerville to be released in October
Science Notes: Today in Science History – August 14 – Hans Christian Ørsted
ESA: ATV Completes Final Automated Docking
ESA: Europe’s Involvement: Spacelab
BBC Future: The secret lab hidden inside a famous monument
The spiral staircase at the Monument has a secret second use (Credit: Alamy)
OpenMind: Thomas Young and the Wave Nature of Light
The Denver Post: Photos: Partial and total solar eclipses from around the world
Irish Philosophy: Truth above all things: G.G. Stokes
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Library of Congress: Map: Da Qing wan nian yi tong tian xia quan tu
The great Qing Dynasty’s complete map of all under heaven
CNN Style: Striking pictorial maps tell the story of 20th-century America
Mary Gillham Archive Project: Cracking the Antarctic
Gis & Beers: 150,000 mapas antiguos para descargar
SciHi Blog: Ferdinand Magellan and the first Trip around the World
Magaellan Map
History Today: The Map: Bering Strait, 1860s
Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps: First Modern Topographical Map of Tyrol
Quartz: Eclipse maps of the past show the evolution of science and civilisation
National Geographic: This Enormous 100-Year-Old Map of Rome is Still the City’s Best
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
SciHi Blog: Ewald Hering’s Oponent Colour-Vision Theory
iNews: As polio is soon to be officially eradicated, here are five gruesome illnesses no longer with us
Hetoen International: Mixing Medicine – religion and science
SciHi Blog: Jean Piaget and Genetic Epistemology
SciHi Blog: William Morton and the Ether Anesthesia
Undark: Unsung: Marie Maynard Daly
Marie Maynard Daly
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Effaced from History: Disrupting Our Sense of the Past: Medical Photographs that Push Interpreters to the Limits of Historical Analysis
Mirror: Nuclear test veterans bid for £1million to prove blasts caused cancer and birth defects
Thomas Morris: Death of an earl
Thomas Morris: The other Horatio Nelson
The Conversation: In Victorian Britain the crowds approved of sports doping – with cocaine
BBC News: Passchendaele’s untold army of women nurses
Nurses like Nellie Spindler worked alongside doctors in makeshift hospitals a hair’s breadth from the front line
Nursing Clio: Care Gone Wrong: Bad Moms, Fake Disabilities, and Imagined Illnesses
Nursing Clio: The Magic Liquid that Guarantees the Life of the Infant: Breast Milk as a Superfood
Smithsonian.com: Aspirin’s Four-Thousand-Year History
SciHi Blog: Christiaan Eijkman and the Cause of Beriberi
SciHi Blog: Richard Mead and the Understanding of Transmissible Diseases
Richard Mead
Thomas Morris: The healing power of nature
Hektoen International: Unlocking the secrets of a bohemian painting
CHF: Distillations: A Killer of a Cure
Thomas Morris: The woman who could read with her stomach
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Telephone and telecoms networks in New York, prior to the establishment of natural monopolies – h/t Mark Carrington (@mark_carrington)
ars technica: IBM PC: The complete history, part 1
ars technica: IBM PC: The complete history, part 2
British Library: European studies blog: Belarus Celebrates 500 Years of Printing
The Telegraph: Discovery of lost WW2 Mosquito plans will allow ‘Wooden Wonder’ to fly again
Tedium: CMYK all the Way
SciHI Blog: Road Trippin’ with Alice Ramsey
Conciatore: Tatar Salt
Conciatore: Benjamin Franklin and Glass
Mistaking Histories: Cleopatra and the vibrator powered by bees
SciHi Blog: The Man Who Shrank the Globe – Frank Whittle
SciHi Blog: Marvin Minsky and Artificial Neural Networks
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Journalists getting the facts wrong in the 19th century
The third Difference engine (Scheutz No. 2) built by Per Georg Scheutz, Edvard Scheutz and Bryan Donkin
Source: Science Museum London
Engineering Timelines: Wearmouth Bridge (1796), site of
laststandonzombieisland: Warship Wednesday, Aug 9, 2017: The King’s most curious battlecruiser
Mashable: c.1942–1945 V-Mail
The Institute: Timeline: Advances in Audio
SciHi Blog: The Salvage of the Vasa
SciHi Blog: Otto Lilienthal, the Glider King
The New York Times: An Inside Look at the Germans’ Deadly Bomber
NASA: Armstrong Fact Sheet: HL-10 Lifting Body
Medievalists.net: How did medieval seafarers turn trees into boat parts?
SciHi Blog: Tom Kilburn and the First Sored-Program Computer
blogTO: Inside the Film Reference Library at TIFF Bell Lightbox
Chasewater Stuff: Steam Locos of a Leisurely Era – LSWR Drummond’s ‘Bug’
The Conversation: The heartbreaking story of the flying mathematicians of World War I
Kottke.org: Yes, barbed wire fenced cows but also provided telecommunications
Londonist: The Pilot Whose Act of Bravery Was an Aviation First
Lew Termen demonstrating Termenvox
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: Felix Wankel and the Rotary Engine
SciHi Blog: IBM and the Personal Computer
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
SciHi Blog: The Venus of Willendorf
Parks Blog: Timber Tales: Marten River’s “Winter Camp”
NICHE: #EnvHist Daily
The New York Times: Lenin’s Eco-Warriors
Wales Online: Celebrated Welsh fossil hunter to get blue plaque in her home town
Vox: Nettie Stevens discovered XY sex chromosomes. She didn’t get credit because she had two Xs
Nettie Stevens
EurekAlert! New look at archaic DNA rewrite human evolution story
SciHi Blog: William Bateson and the Study of Heredity
The Leakey Foundation: New 13 million-year-old infant skull sheds light on ape ancestry
UCL: Fossil skull sheds light on ape ancestry
Smithsonian.com: This Obscure Fishing Book is One of the Most Reprinted English Books Ever
Harvard Magazine: Blanche Ames: Brief life of an intrepid botanical illustrator: 1878–1969
Blanche Ames
Photograph courtesy of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
SciHi Blog: Thomas Telford – the Colossus of Roads
The Telegraph: Prehistoric Britons ate their dead and carved mysterious markings on their bones
Smithsonian.com: The Founder of the Smithsonian Institution Figured Out How to Brew a Better Cup of Coffee
New Scientist: early humans may have seen a supervolcano explosion up close
Letters from Gondwana: Patagotitan and the Problem of Body Mass Estimation
TrowelBlazers: Dianne Edwards: Hidden Beauty in Plain Sight
Dianne Edwards
Source: The Royal Society
The Guardian: the bone collector: eccentric archaeological treasury to be digitised
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Gifford Pinchot
Forbes: America’s Most Famous (And Most Expensive) Dinosaur Turns 25 Today
Tech Crunch: Deep learning could discover new plant species hidden in centuries of herbarium data
CHEMISTRY:
SciHi Blog: Henry Moseley and the Atomic Number
APS News: This Month in Physics History: August 10, 1915: Henry G.J. Moseley Killed in Action
Henry G. J. Moseley in the Balliol-Trinity Laboratories, Oxford University (1910).
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: Felix Hoffmann and Aspirin
RSC: On this day in Chemistry: August 10 Felix Hoffmann synthesises Aspirin
Chemistry World: August Hofmann and the chemists factory
RSC: On this day in Chemistry: August 13 Discovery of Argon
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
Collectors Weekly: From Boy Geniuses to Mad Scientists: How America Got So Weird About Science
The Mission: Claude Shannon’s “Creative Thinking” Speech: A Genius Reveals How to Be Creative
Commission on Bibliography and Documentation: Second Neu-Whitrow Prize awarded to Prof. Dr. Klaus Hentschel and his Stuttgart Team for online resource “Database of Scientific Illustrators 1450-1950.”
OUP Blog: Philosopher of the month: Sir Karl Raimund Popper [timeline]
JSTOR Daily: Seven Beautiful Illustrations of Women Scientists You Should Know
Deep Time Chicago: Time (and time again) Temporality, criticality, and the historical imagination: a conversation with historian of science Lorraine Daston
The Guardian: Sorry, Google memo man: women were in tech long before you
Future Learn: Onlne Course: Humphry Davy: Laughing Gas, Literature and the Lamp
Slate: Stop Equating “Science” With Truth
Big Questions Online: Science and Religion: Conflict or Consonance?
Advances in the History of Psychology: History of Psychiatry September 2017 Content
Museum Careers: How to Emerge as a Museum Professional: A Guide
Whipple Library Books Blog: Descartes at the Whipple
Advances in the History of Psychology: History of Psychology August 2017 Content
Reading Euclid: Augustus De Morgan and Euclid
ExtraNewsfeed: The Counterfactual and the Factual
SciHi Blog: Nikolaus of Cusa and the Learned Ignorance
The New York Times: Tech’s Damaging Myth of the Loner Genius Nerd
Atlas Obscura: Vintage Photos of Travelling Libraries
ESOTERIC:
Atlas Obscura: 5 Mythical Eclipse Monsters Who Mess With the Sun and Moon
App the moon serpent displayed in a tomb in Deir el-Medina, Luxor, Egypt. HAJOR/ CC BY-SA 3.0
Atlas Obscura: When Physicians Used Lunar Signs to Diagnose Patients
SciHi Blog: Abu Ma’shar al-Balkhi – The Prince of Astrologers
SciHi Blog: Abu Ma’shar – the Greatest Astronomer of Baghdad
Smithsonian.com: Benjamin Franklin Mocked Eclipse Astrology to Elevate Science
BOOK REVIEWS:
H-Histsex: Philippe Brenot, Laetitia Coryn: The Story of Sex: From Apes to Robots
Undark: Egg, Meet Sperm: The Stubborn Secrets of Sex
Annenberg Public Policy Center: What Are the Challenges Facing Science Communication?
Advances in the History of Psychology: Homo Cinematicus: Science, Motion Pictures, and the Making of Modern Germany
The Renaissance Mathematicus: American eclipse tourism in the nineteenth century
The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Author’s Corner with Steve Lubar author of Inside the Lost Museum
Nursing Clio: Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital
H-Environment: Rondtable Reviews: Richard S. Newman, Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present
Stanford News: Stanford scholar traces medical experimentation on slaves in 18th-century Caribbean colonies
The Christian Science Monitor: How woolly mammoth bones baffled previous generations
London Review of Books: Back from the Underworld
Futurity: Health and Medicine: Doctor tested vaccines on slaves in colonial Jamaica
NEW BOOKS:
Greystone Books: Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
Roman & Littlefield: The Kuhnian Image of Science: Time for a Decisive Transformation
The MIT Press: The Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Osher Map Library: Online Exhibits: Maps and Firsthand Accounts of the Northeast Boundary Dispute
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:
archive.bridgesmathart.org: Émilie, an Opera about Love, Death, and Mathematics
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:
Hilary Lappin-Scott – Disruptive STEMinist: Raising the profile of successful women: holding a Wikipedia edit-athon 28 September 2017
Old Operating Theatre & Freud Museum: Three talks: Interiority: An Exploration of the Inward Gaze 15–16 September 2017
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Talk: Alienation and Beauty in Medical Photography 10 January 2018
National Maritime Museum Greenwich: Joseph Banks Lecture Series Wednesdays 13 September–4 October 2017
RSC: Women in Chemistry Wikithon 17 August 2017
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
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:
Portrait of Newton at 46 in 1689 by Godfrey Kneller
Source: Wikimedia Commons
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
Slide Player: Gunnery Control Computing at the Battle of Jutland, 1916
VIDEOS:
Youtube: Charting the Galaxy – from Hipparcos to Gaia Pt.1
Youtube: Basic Mechanisms in Fire Control Computers: Solvers, Integrators… 1953 US Navy Training Film
Youtube: CNN, Feynman and the Challenger Disaster
Youtube: The Royal Society: Historical Wearables – Objectivity #127
Science Friday: Breakthrough: Portraits of Women in Science
RADIO & PODCASTS:
npr: Episode 576: When Women Stopped Coding
Ada Lovelace Day: Ep 11: Nanotech, the coffee filter, and how computers search
Kulturradio: Das Nullniveau schwankt: Ein Gespräch über die Meereshöhe mit Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, Historiker und Geograf
soundcloud: Watching the eclipse with Neil Armstrong and Isaac Asimov
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Rice University: CfP: Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery 23–24 February 2018 Deadline 15 September 2017
Canadian Society for the History of Medicine: CfP: Edited Volume on the History of Medical Education Deadline 30 October 2017
Bodleian Libraries: Symposium: Enlightening Maps: celebrating 25 years of the Oxford Seminars in Cartography 22 September 2017
The Huntington: Conference: Early Modern Collections in Use 15–16 September 2017
University of St Andrews: CfP: The St Andrews Book Conference: Print and Power 21–23 June 2018 Deadline 1 December 2017
Swansee University: CfP: ‘The All-Seeing Eye’: Vision and Eyesight Across Time and Cultures Workshop 11 April 2018 Deadline 1 December 2017
The Foundling Museum: Symposium: Art, Charity & the Navy: The Greenwich & Foundling Hospitals 30 October 2017
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
LOOKING FOR WORK:
Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich: Environment & Social Portal Research Associate
UCLA: Digital Humanities Academic Administrator
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