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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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Happy birthday to Sophie Brahe (born either Aug 24, 1559 or Sept 22, 1556 -1643) horticulturalist, astronomer, genealogist, & alchemist with the gardens at her brother #astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg estate, where she often assisted his research, alchemical tools & illustrations of the supernova she observed as Tycho’s assistant.
Tycho trained her in horticulture & chemistry but initially discouraged astronomy. 🧵1/
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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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@temptoetiam @johannesylvestre le document est désormais sur #WikimediaCommons avec la cote et tout, et librement réutilisable 😋 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Affichette_relative_%C3%A0_l%27%C3%A9clipse_de_soleil_du_1er_avril_1764.png (le truc sur X est sans doute un post automatique de LinkedIn où figurait une (autre) cote)
#archivesnationales #eclipse2026 #eclipse #GLAMarchives #histsci #histastro
poke @daieuxdailleurs
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History of science meets forensic mysteries: what's not to like? I've pre-ordered mine and can't wait!
#histsci #histmed 🗃
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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 -
‘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 -
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
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Enfin disponible en ligne : la thèse "Génie de la collection et échanges savants au XVIIe siècle, le modèle social et la symbolique culturelle du cabinet de curiosités" de Lorenzo Cirrincione !
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"Milk sickness is a kind of poisoning that affects individuals who ingest milk, other dairy products, or meat from a cow that has fed on the white snakeroot plant, which contains the poison tremetol."
"Dr. Anna Pierce Hobbs Bixby is credited with identifying the plant in the 1830s. Legend has it that she was taught about the plant's properties by a Shawnee woman."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_sickness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageratina_altissima#Toxicity
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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 -
New Interfaces article!! (link below) Insightful article on the history of Indian supercomputing by Cornell U. STS scholar Andra Sonia Petrutiu "Disrupting Flattening Universal Ambitions: The Case of Supercomputing in India."
#histsci #supercomputing #india #highperformancecomputing #software #technology #tech #science #sociology #anthropology #mediastudies #computerscience #ai #artificialintelligence #datascience #history
cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces
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I talked with @bethbarany.bsky.social about how curating an exhibition got me into monsters; on what makes a good #SFF monster; #StarTrek’s Borg Collective; and lessons from Monsters, Inc. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! 1/ 💙📚 🗃 #histsci #politics #HAMH writersfunzone.com/blog/2025/11...
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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. Women were still not allowed to participate in 🧵#sciart #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #linocut #mastoArt
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HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is at #AmherstBooks. #NewEngland folks, get signed copies here while stocks last! @umassamherst.bsky.social @hampshirecollege.bsky.social #SmithCollege #MountHolyoke #AmherstCollege 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
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🔴 **Born On This Day**
Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Pierre-Simon Laplace was born in Beaumont-en-Auge, Normandy, France on this day in 1749.
“_He proved the stability of the solar system. In analysis Laplace introduced the potential function and Laplace coefficients. He also put the theory of mathematical probability on a sound footing.”
🔗 https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Laplace/.
#BornOnThisDay #BOTD #History #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Science #HistSci #Astronomy #Physics @science
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Happy birthday to Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) renown Flemish cartographer.
What made Mercator a great #cartographer, was in fact his abilities as a #mathematician -and like those of us scientists who feel compelled also to create art he was wasn’t hindered by his immense ability as an engraver. He produced beautiful world maps (a version of which is depicted in this print), globes, 🧵1/n
#geographer #geography #histsci #MastoArt #sciart #linocut #printmaking #mapart #maps #Mercator
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For the #Spacetober prompt lift-off: it’s my portrait of #mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; 1918-2020). One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (and its predecessor NACA), she was known for her mastery of complex manual calculations of orbital mechanics and played a pivotal role in the success of the US crewed spaceflights from the beginning. 🧵1/n
#mathematics #sciart #linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #spaceArt #histsci #BlackInSTEM #MastoArt
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Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown in 1930)! Shown with satellite tracks & 3 satellites important to her career: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. 🧵1/n
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For the #Spacetober prompt Carl Sagan: the famous Arecibo message, an interstellar radio message carrying basic information about humanity and Earth that was sent to the globular cluster Messier 13 in 1974 alongside a view of space with stars & nebulae.
Designed by astronomers who were thinking about the possibility of & communicating with alien life, including Drake, creator of the Drake equation & others, the message was a demo of 🧵1/
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For the #Spacetober prompt orbit: my portrait of #mathematician and #astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)! We remember him for his role in the Scientific Revolution, and his three laws of planetary motion in particular. His laws modified Copernicus’ heliocentric model; he replaced the circular orbits with elliptical ones & described velocities of planets. Today we know them as:
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#sciart #histsci #MastoArt #Kepler #geometry #PlatonicSolids #mathematics #musicOfTheSpheres #linocut -
For #Spacetober prompt telescope: #astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell as a grad student in ‘67 discovered the 1st radio pulsar, a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star that emits a beam of EM radiation. This radiation can only be observed when the star is pointed towards us; like the light from a lighthouse, it appears to pulse at a precise frequency. She had been working with her supervisor Hewish & others to construct a radio telescope to study quasars.🧵1/n
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For the #Spacetober day 11 prompt wavelength: my #linocut of trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941) with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. Named the Harvard Classification after the university, her tremendous contribution was less visible. 🧵1/n
#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #DisabledInSTEM #printersolstice2024 #MastoArt
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Hello fediverse, [I‘m re-posting my #introduction as I changed instances…]
I’m a historian of technology, working mainly on historical #mobility and #technologyfutures . I'm just starting with a new project on the history of #childrensmobility while my first book on the history of #drivingassistance systems will hopefully soon be published.
My fields of interest are #STS #TechnologyAssessment #Anthropology and of course #HistTech #HistSci #HistSTM #histchild and #TheoryofHistory . Working @KIT_Karlsruhe , being #newhere , hoping to meet mutual #histodons @histodons @historikerinnen @histstm !