#histsci — Public Fediverse posts
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05-Sep: On this day in 1831, Charles Darwin first met Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle. Here’s the story… https://friendsofdarwin.com/beau-ideal/
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She stopped going to church at thirty. Skipped her own father's funeral one floor above. And yet Emily Dickinson lowered gingerbread by rope to the neighborhood children she called storm-tossed pirates.
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A bird-headed prince eats souls on a toilet. A choir of the damned sings from sheet music tattooed on a sinner's bare buttocks. In 2014, a sophomore transcribed the notes. They play. Hieronymus Bosch, patient deposition-filer of Hell.
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RE: https://sciences.social/@NODE801/117202571261839984
Frances Julia "Snow" Wedgewood's article "The Natural and the Supernatural" (1871) for the Spectator comparing Lucretius and Darwin's theory using portions of this translation can be found here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015038698000&seq=558&view=2up
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RE: https://sciences.social/@NODE801/117202571261839984
Frances Julia "Snow" Wedgewood's article "The Natural and the Supernatural" (1871) for the Spectator comparing Lucretius and Darwin's theory using portions of this translation can be found here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015038698000&seq=558&view=2up
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RE: https://sciences.social/@NODE801/117202571261839984
Frances Julia "Snow" Wedgewood's article "The Natural and the Supernatural" (1871) for the Spectator comparing Lucretius and Darwin's theory using portions of this translation can be found here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015038698000&seq=558&view=2up
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RE: https://sciences.social/@NODE801/117202571261839984
Frances Julia "Snow" Wedgewood's article "The Natural and the Supernatural" (1871) for the Spectator comparing Lucretius and Darwin's theory using portions of this translation can be found here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015038698000&seq=558&view=2up
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RE: https://sciences.social/@NODE801/117202571261839984
Frances Julia "Snow" Wedgewood's article "The Natural and the Supernatural" (1871) for the Spectator comparing Lucretius and Darwin's theory using portions of this translation can be found here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015038698000&seq=558&view=2up
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"A 200-year-old illustrated condom will go on display with Dutch golden age masters in Amsterdam this week, after the 19th-century “luxury souvenir” became the first-ever contraceptive sheath to be added to the Rijksmuseum’s art collection."
#histsci #histmed #histsex (#histnat?) #collections
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/03/rijksmuseum-condom-exhibition -
"A 200-year-old illustrated condom will go on display with Dutch golden age masters in Amsterdam this week, after the 19th-century “luxury souvenir” became the first-ever contraceptive sheath to be added to the Rijksmuseum’s art collection."
#histsci #histmed #histsex (#histnat?) #collections
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/03/rijksmuseum-condom-exhibition -
"A 200-year-old illustrated condom will go on display with Dutch golden age masters in Amsterdam this week, after the 19th-century “luxury souvenir” became the first-ever contraceptive sheath to be added to the Rijksmuseum’s art collection."
#histsci #histmed #histsex (#histnat?) #collections
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/03/rijksmuseum-condom-exhibition -
"A 200-year-old illustrated condom will go on display with Dutch golden age masters in Amsterdam this week, after the 19th-century “luxury souvenir” became the first-ever contraceptive sheath to be added to the Rijksmuseum’s art collection."
#histsci #histmed #histsex (#histnat?) #collections
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/03/rijksmuseum-condom-exhibition -
"A 200-year-old illustrated condom will go on display with Dutch golden age masters in Amsterdam this week, after the 19th-century “luxury souvenir” became the first-ever contraceptive sheath to be added to the Rijksmuseum’s art collection."
#histsci #histmed #histsex (#histnat?) #collections
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/03/rijksmuseum-condom-exhibition -
At thirteen, a loom took her right ear, an eyebrow, and most of her scalp. At thirty-seven, she rode alone into the Valleys of the Assassins and corrected the British maps by hand. Freya Stark crossed the desert in a Dior cartwheel brim.
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At thirteen, a loom took her right ear, an eyebrow, and most of her scalp. At thirty-seven, she rode alone into the Valleys of the Assassins and corrected the British maps by hand. Freya Stark crossed the desert in a Dior cartwheel brim.
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At thirteen, a loom took her right ear, an eyebrow, and most of her scalp. At thirty-seven, she rode alone into the Valleys of the Assassins and corrected the British maps by hand. Freya Stark crossed the desert in a Dior cartwheel brim.
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At thirteen, a loom took her right ear, an eyebrow, and most of her scalp. At thirty-seven, she rode alone into the Valleys of the Assassins and corrected the British maps by hand. Freya Stark crossed the desert in a Dior cartwheel brim.
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Hmmm, no book reviews in August. Do you still have a pulse?
Yes, dear readers, I might have mentioned that once I get my teeth stuck in Darwin's Descent of Man, they would remain firmly lodged there. Here is a progress shot as I am grinding my way through over 700 pages of Victorian English and effectively a separate book of dense annotations. No shortcuts here, just reading books cover to cover before writing a review, so I beg your patience.
And those books on the left? I am settling in for a deep dive into this topic.
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #Evolution #SexualSelection #CharlesDarwin #HistSci #Scicomm @bookstodon @princetonupress @princetonnature
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Hmmm, no book reviews in August. Do you still have a pulse?
Yes, dear readers, I might have mentioned that once I get my teeth stuck in Darwin's Descent of Man, they would remain firmly lodged there. Here is a progress shot as I am grinding my way through over 700 pages of Victorian English and effectively a separate book of dense annotations. No shortcuts here, just reading books cover to cover before writing a review, so I beg your patience.
And those books on the left? I am settling in for a deep dive into this topic.
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #Evolution #SexualSelection #CharlesDarwin #HistSci #Scicomm @bookstodon @princetonupress @princetonnature
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Hmmm, no book reviews in August. Do you still have a pulse?
Yes, dear readers, I might have mentioned that once I get my teeth stuck in Darwin's Descent of Man, they would remain firmly lodged there. Here is a progress shot as I am grinding my way through over 700 pages of Victorian English and effectively a separate book of dense annotations. No shortcuts here, just reading books cover to cover before writing a review, so I beg your patience.
And those books on the left? I am settling in for a deep dive into this topic.
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #Evolution #SexualSelection #CharlesDarwin #HistSci #Scicomm @bookstodon @princetonupress @princetonnature
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Hmmm, no book reviews in August. Do you still have a pulse?
Yes, dear readers, I might have mentioned that once I get my teeth stuck in Darwin's Descent of Man, they would remain firmly lodged there. Here is a progress shot as I am grinding my way through over 700 pages of Victorian English and effectively a separate book of dense annotations. No shortcuts here, just reading books cover to cover before writing a review, so I beg your patience.
And those books on the left? I am settling in for a deep dive into this topic.
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #Evolution #SexualSelection #CharlesDarwin #HistSci #Scicomm @bookstodon @princetonupress @princetonnature
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Hmmm, no book reviews in August. Do you still have a pulse?
Yes, dear readers, I might have mentioned that once I get my teeth stuck in Darwin's Descent of Man, they would remain firmly lodged there. Here is a progress shot as I am grinding my way through over 700 pages of Victorian English and effectively a separate book of dense annotations. No shortcuts here, just reading books cover to cover before writing a review, so I beg your patience.
And those books on the left? I am settling in for a deep dive into this topic.
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #Evolution #SexualSelection #CharlesDarwin #HistSci #Scicomm @bookstodon @princetonupress @princetonnature
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HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is out in Korean, from Hyeonamsa! Please considering sharing this with Korean folks in your circles.
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💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #18thC #histsci #histmed #politics
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A 500-year-old map known as “America’s Birth Certificate” was found a century ago. But what, and where, was “America”?
To learn more, check out my op-ed in the LA Times. PDF & images in 🧵.
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#maphistory #cartography #histsci #earlymodern #america250 #4thofJuly 🗃
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The audiobook of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is $0.99 on Amazon.com / 99p on Amazon.co.uk. Links in thread, plus links for 30% off from @[email protected] (valid for all books!).
Intro cliff-hanger in alt-text.
🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH -
Hunting for a #FathersDay gift? How about a book that blends history, science, & pop culture? HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is a history of the category of the human, told through ideas about monsters and monster-making. 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #18thC #histsci #histmed #politics 1/
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Another scientist in my collection with an unknown birthday is one of the earliest recorded women in science, Peseshet. She is described in the elaborate Saqqara tomb of her son Akhethotep,a royal official and overseer of priests, who lived during the Fifth Dynasty around 2400 BCE. She is described as the “Overseer of the Women Physicians.”
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#mastoArt #linocut #sciart #printmaking #histsci #histmed #medicine #Peseshet #AncientEgypt #hieroglyphics
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L’extinction d'espèce
Histoire d'un concept & enjeux éthiques
Julien Delord
#toreadlist #PàL #histsci #histnat #animhist
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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
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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
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#Introduction I'm an #InternalMedicine physician and #HealthPolicy researcher who studies how new medical technologies including drugs, devices, and vaccines are used to improve the quality of health care. #RxPolicy #RxEpi #PharmEpi #HealthServicesResearch
Other interests include #GIM, #PrimaryCare, #Geriatrics, #Deprescribing, #EBM, #Metaresearch, #Metascience, #ScienceOfScience, #STS, #HistSci, #HistSTM, #HistMed
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