#histsci — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #histsci, aggregated by home.social.
-
He rented two apartments so no neighbour could hear him, wrote a symphony for one piano, and translated the entire Bible from three languages. Then Charles-Valentin Alkan vanished. For a century, no one knew how the great hermit of Paris died.
-
He rented two apartments so no neighbour could hear him, wrote a symphony for one piano, and translated the entire Bible from three languages. Then Charles-Valentin Alkan vanished. For a century, no one knew how the great hermit of Paris died.
-
The ceilings were 1.65 metres. He stuffed broken windows with newspaper, wore the whitewash that rubbed from above, and called his bicycle 'that which rolls.' At the centre, a stone phallus from Rops. Alfred Jarry lived around it for nine years.
-
The ceilings were 1.65 metres. He stuffed broken windows with newspaper, wore the whitewash that rubbed from above, and called his bicycle 'that which rolls.' At the centre, a stone phallus from Rops. Alfred Jarry lived around it for nine years.
-
Happy birthday to #geologist & oceanographic #cartographer Marie Tharp (1920-2006), whose pioneering, thorough & complete ocean floor maps with Bruce Heezen, made using realms of echo sounder data, revealed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
After studying #geology & math, Maurice ‘Doc’ Ewing at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia hired her to draft 1000s of echo sounder profiles. 🧵1/5 -
Happy birthday to #geologist & oceanographic #cartographer Marie Tharp (1920-2006), whose pioneering, thorough & complete ocean floor maps with Bruce Heezen, made using realms of echo sounder data, revealed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
After studying #geology & math, Maurice ‘Doc’ Ewing at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia hired her to draft 1000s of echo sounder profiles. 🧵1/5 -
Expelled at eighteen for holding a girl's hand, he walked to Constantinople with Horace in his pocket. Eleven years later, dressed as a German policeman on occupied Crete, Patrick Leigh Fermor stole a general. His strangest night was still ahead.
-
Expelled at eighteen for holding a girl's hand, he walked to Constantinople with Horace in his pocket. Eleven years later, dressed as a German policeman on occupied Crete, Patrick Leigh Fermor stole a general. His strangest night was still ahead.
-
Some nice 18th-century mathematical typography: pages from Edmund Halley’s 1710 Latin translation of Apollonius’ ‘Conics’, showing Propositions X and XI of Book I. Prop. XI defines the term ‘parabola’.
The Greek and Latin texts are in parallel columns, with the Greek in the inner columns of each two-page spread. Small diagrams, like the ones on these pages, are placed in the middle, with the text of both columns wrapping around them. Some of the narrow lines of Latin next to the diagrams are widely spaced, but generally the typographer has done an excellent job of fitting the text around the diagrams.
Books I–IV are translated from the Greek, books V–VII (which are not extant in Greek) from the Arabic. Halley also tried to reconstruct the lost book VIII.
The book is available on Gallica: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9760213g
-
Some nice 18th-century mathematical typography: pages from Edmund Halley’s 1710 Latin translation of Apollonius’ ‘Conics’, showing Propositions X and XI of Book I. Prop. XI defines the term ‘parabola’.
The Greek and Latin texts are in parallel columns, with the Greek in the inner columns of each two-page spread. Small diagrams, like the ones on these pages, are placed in the middle, with the text of both columns wrapping around them. Some of the narrow lines of Latin next to the diagrams are widely spaced, but generally the typographer has done an excellent job of fitting the text around the diagrams.
Books I–IV are translated from the Greek, books V–VII (which are not extant in Greek) from the Arabic. Halley also tried to reconstruct the lost book VIII.
The book is available on Gallica: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9760213g
-
A bit more on the alchemical side… ⚗️
But here’s a first sneak peak into our #ComputationalHumanities special issue of Ambix 😍
Mediating Alchemical Language across Terminologies and Cultures in Ruland’s Lexicon Alchemiae: A Data-driven Study of Arabic Terms https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00026980.2026.2697142
-
A bit more on the alchemical side… ⚗️
But here’s a first sneak peak into our #ComputationalHumanities special issue of Ambix 😍
Mediating Alchemical Language across Terminologies and Cultures in Ruland’s Lexicon Alchemiae: A Data-driven Study of Arabic Terms https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00026980.2026.2697142
-
Just a reminder that discount code HSS26 (from the recent history of science conference in Edinburgh) gets you a cracking 30% off my book, and free UK postage, from my publisher's website until the end of August. 🏳️🌈 📚 🦋
https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/
#book #books #history #science #nature #Darwin #histsci #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia
-
Just a reminder that discount code HSS26 (from the recent history of science conference in Edinburgh) gets you a cracking 30% off my book, and free UK postage, from my publisher's website until the end of August. 🏳️🌈 📚 🦋
https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/
#book #books #history #science #nature #Darwin #histsci #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia
-
Her signature was peach ice cream, uncooked, served cold. She chased the sanitary inspector into the street with a carving fork. They confined her on an island, then released her on one condition. Mary Mallon kept her word for five years.
-
Her signature was peach ice cream, uncooked, served cold. She chased the sanitary inspector into the street with a carving fork. They confined her on an island, then released her on one condition. Mary Mallon kept her word for five years.
-
He invented the mathematics of prediction. Wall Street uses it to price options; your headphones use it to cancel noise. Norbert Wiener could speak twelve languages and coin the word cybernetics. He could not, reliably, find his own car.
-
He invented the mathematics of prediction. Wall Street uses it to price options; your headphones use it to cancel noise. Norbert Wiener could speak twelve languages and coin the word cybernetics. He could not, reliably, find his own car.
-
At five he drank wine onstage. At six he bowed to Queen Victoria, then reverse-shuffled toward the door, as protocol required. The royal poodle attacked. Charles Stratton — General Tom Thumb — drew his miniature sword and fenced it.
-
At five he drank wine onstage. At six he bowed to Queen Victoria, then reverse-shuffled toward the door, as protocol required. The royal poodle attacked. Charles Stratton — General Tom Thumb — drew his miniature sword and fenced it.
-
He wore cosmic robes, recorded a hundred albums, taught a Berkeley course with the Bible credited to "God," and applied to NASA hoping to ride the Voyager Golden Record. Sun Ra also maintained, calmly, that he was from Saturn.
-
He wore cosmic robes, recorded a hundred albums, taught a Berkeley course with the Bible credited to "God," and applied to NASA hoping to ride the Voyager Golden Record. Sun Ra also maintained, calmly, that he was from Saturn.
-
Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), #chemist & x-ray #crystallographer whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of #DNA, made important contributions to #carbon & #virus research, was 1 of the great scientists of the 20th century.
Watson’s bio lead some to (inaccurately) joke, “What did Watson and Crick discover?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes.” While it’s important 🧵1/
#linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #histsci #mastoArt #sciart -
Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), #chemist & x-ray #crystallographer whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of #DNA, made important contributions to #carbon & #virus research, was 1 of the great scientists of the 20th century.
Watson’s bio lead some to (inaccurately) joke, “What did Watson and Crick discover?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes.” While it’s important 🧵1/
#linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #histsci #mastoArt #sciart -
I've written about Charles Darwin's surprisingly queer science of sex in the latest issue of History Today! 🏳️🌈🦚 :transgender: 🦋
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/charles-darwins-sexual-revolution
#Darwin #science #nature #history #Victorian #histsci #sex #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia
-
I've written about Charles Darwin's surprisingly queer science of sex in the latest issue of History Today! 🏳️🌈🦚 :transgender: 🦋
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/charles-darwins-sexual-revolution
#Darwin #science #nature #history #Victorian #histsci #sex #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia
-
‘Cabinet of Materia Medica for the Major Examination Published by Evans, Lescher and Evans, London; and Evans, Sons and Co, Liverpool’
Circa 1860 - 1880
https://www.finch-and-co.co.uk/artwork-detail/814272/18676/victorian-mahogany-cased-cabinet-of #histsci #histmed #histpharma #histedu -
‘Cabinet of Materia Medica for the Major Examination Published by Evans, Lescher and Evans, London; and Evans, Sons and Co, Liverpool’
Circa 1860 - 1880
https://www.finch-and-co.co.uk/artwork-detail/814272/18676/victorian-mahogany-cased-cabinet-of #histsci #histmed #histpharma #histedu -
A weekly seance. Six spirits with names like Amaliel and Gregor. A commission for 193 canvases, four days each, for a temple never built. Hilma af Klint crated the first abstract paintings in Western art and told the world to wait.
-
A weekly seance. Six spirits with names like Amaliel and Gregor. A commission for 193 canvases, four days each, for a temple never built. Hilma af Klint crated the first abstract paintings in Western art and told the world to wait.
-
Happy birthday to pharmaceutical #chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for #leprosy. Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for both women & Black scientists.
Ball studied #chemistry at UW earning a BSc & 2nd degree in pharmacy 2 years later. 🧵 -
Happy birthday to pharmaceutical #chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for #leprosy. Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for both women & Black scientists.
Ball studied #chemistry at UW earning a BSc & 2nd degree in pharmacy 2 years later. 🧵 -
Le médecin en musicien ?
Un rapprochement moins étrange qu'il n'y paraît, à une époque où les montres n'avaient pas de trotteuses pour objectiver la fréquence d'un pouls.https://books.google.fr/books?id=halGAAAAcAAJ&hl=fr&pg=PA1#v=onepage #histsci #histmed #histtech #histmus
-
Le médecin en musicien ?
Un rapprochement moins étrange qu'il n'y paraît, à une époque où les montres n'avaient pas de trotteuses pour objectiver la fréquence d'un pouls.https://books.google.fr/books?id=halGAAAAcAAJ&hl=fr&pg=PA1#v=onepage #histsci #histmed #histtech #histmus
-
"What began as a simple curiosity-led search for a single specimen quickly snowballed. This 77-year-old enquiry had suddenly launched me into a deep dive into entangled stories of colonial history, war time losses and bird taxonomy."
#histnat #histsci #museum #collections -
"What began as a simple curiosity-led search for a single specimen quickly snowballed. This 77-year-old enquiry had suddenly launched me into a deep dive into entangled stories of colonial history, war time losses and bird taxonomy."
#histnat #histsci #museum #collections -
He walked 1930s Leningrad in a deerstalker and spats, carrying a butterfly net. He recited poems from on top of a wardrobe. He prayed, in rotation, for sex, money, and death. Meet Daniil Kharms, children's poet and founder of Russian absurdism.
-
He walked 1930s Leningrad in a deerstalker and spats, carrying a butterfly net. He recited poems from on top of a wardrobe. He prayed, in rotation, for sex, money, and death. Meet Daniil Kharms, children's poet and founder of Russian absurdism.
-
The Man Who Organized Nature is now out in paperback. This scholarly biography provides a full immersion in the life of Linnaeus, revealing the polymath behind his reputation as the father of taxonomy.
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Linnaeus #Taxonomy #Biography #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Scicomm @[email protected] @princetonupress @princetonnature
-
The Man Who Organized Nature is now out in paperback. This scholarly biography provides a full immersion in the life of Linnaeus, revealing the polymath behind his reputation as the father of taxonomy.
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Linnaeus #Taxonomy #Biography #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Scicomm @[email protected] @princetonupress @princetonnature
-
He made one fortune in indigo, another selling saltpeter to the tsar's army, a third running a gold-dust bank in Sacramento. At forty-eight, Heinrich Schliemann quit it all to go dig for Homer's Troy. He could brag about it in fifteen languages.
-
He made one fortune in indigo, another selling saltpeter to the tsar's army, a third running a gold-dust bank in Sacramento. At forty-eight, Heinrich Schliemann quit it all to go dig for Homer's Troy. He could brag about it in fifteen languages.
-
He left school around ten. He invented a way for moving trains to telegraph each other. He beat Thomas Edison's lawyers in court. Twice. Edison offered him a job. Granville Woods said no, then sold the company patents anyway.
-
He left school around ten. He invented a way for moving trains to telegraph each other. He beat Thomas Edison's lawyers in court. Twice. Edison offered him a job. Granville Woods said no, then sold the company patents anyway.
-
🌞 For a limited time only (21-24 July), you can pre-order Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life with 25% OFF at Waterstones (online only)! 🏳️🌈 📚 :transgender: 🦋
Details here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ross-brooks/9780300287202
#book #books #history #science #nature #histsci #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia
-
🌞 For a limited time only (21-24 July), you can pre-order Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life with 25% OFF at Waterstones (online only)! 🏳️🌈 📚 :transgender: 🦋
Details here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ross-brooks/9780300287202
#book #books #history #science #nature #histsci #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia
-
En ce #martdi, voici une aquarelle de Natale di Pace, illustrant son Compendio della Naturale Historia di MonGibello (1621). L’œuvre illustre parfaitement les différents phénomènes éruptifs de l’Etna : éruption sommitale, avec éjection de scories et d’un panache de cendres ; coulées de lave ; éruptions latérales, avec construction de cônes adventifs ; destruction des cultures…
#art #histsci #volcan #éruption #Etna #Sicile -
En ce #martdi, voici une aquarelle de Natale di Pace, illustrant son Compendio della Naturale Historia di MonGibello (1621). L’œuvre illustre parfaitement les différents phénomènes éruptifs de l’Etna : éruption sommitale, avec éjection de scories et d’un panache de cendres ; coulées de lave ; éruptions latérales, avec construction de cônes adventifs ; destruction des cultures…
#art #histsci #volcan #éruption #Etna #Sicile -
20-Jul: On this day in 1858, Charles Darwin began work on an ‘abstract’ of his planned major work on evolution. The abstract was later given the title ‘On the Origin of Species’.
https://friendsofdarwin.com/articles/darwin-puts-pen-to-paper/
#HistSci -
20-Jul: On this day in 1858, Charles Darwin began work on an ‘abstract’ of his planned major work on evolution. The abstract was later given the title ‘On the Origin of Species’.
https://friendsofdarwin.com/articles/darwin-puts-pen-to-paper/
#HistSci