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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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New at Darwin Online translation of Lucretius for Darwin by his niece, the feminist writer Frances Julia 'Snow' Wedgwood. She also helped Darwin translate Linneaus.
Wedgwood, Frances Julia. 1871. 'Translation of Lucretius [De Rerum Natura] (Natural selection)' with marginal notes by Darwin.
#HistSTM #HistSci #CharlesDarwinhttps://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=CUL-DAR47.77-79&viewtype=side&pageseq=1
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Happy birthday to writer, statesman and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). Made for the #printersolstice Fauvism prompt: This print is a hand-printed, limited edition, reduction block print portrait. While best known for his contributions to German literature, he pursued natural sciences, studying morphology, doing work which presaged evolution, 🧵1/
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1162543096
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #Goethe #NaturalScience #reductionPrint #printmaker #mastoArt
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Les savants du Moyen Âge connaissaient bien la rotondité de la Terre, et Christophe Colomb aussi !
Mais alors, d'où vient ce mythe sur la croyance en la Terre plate ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpPhK22ndFo
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Between Nature and Society: Empowering Research on the History of Science
Biodiversity Heritage Library Blog Reel, User Stories Interview/profile by Grace Costantino
#BHL #HistSTM #HistSci #CharlesDarwin
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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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Hey, still need to submit fall book orders? (I KNOW)
Teaching #envhist #envhum #envstudies #histsci #histtech #histstm #sts #discardstudies ?
🤩Please consider #TransformingNight 🌌💡🌃 -- out 3 Aug, just in time for the new academic year!
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
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Read an excerpt from my forthcoming book, DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE . . . 🏳️🌈 📚️ 🐵
Just posted on Yale University Press's website: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2026/06/10/an-excerpt-darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/
#book #books #history #science #biology #nature #Darwin #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci @histstm #sex #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM #pride #PrideMonth
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Happy #PrideMonth! 🌈
Here's a lovely western capercaillie described by Swedish zoologist Sven Nilsson in 1832 as a female that had developed male-typical plumage. 🐦 :transgender:
#history #science #biology #nature #birds #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci @histstm #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM #pride
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Whoop, whoop! 🥳
My book has just been sent to the printers! It also features in Yale University Press's Autumn Catalogue, in some very illustrious company . . . #excited
All shares and preorders much appreciated! 🙏
UK: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ 🏳️🌈 📚️ 🐵
US: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ :transgender: 📜 🦋
#books #bookstodon #history #science #biology #nature #Darwin #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci @histstm #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM
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Happy birthday to British #engineer, #mathematician, #physicist & #inventor Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923). I’ve shown her in my #linocut with a diagram of the dividers from her 1st of 26 (!) patents, one of her diagrams about the origin & growth of ripple marks & one of her diagrams of an electric arc lamp (a subject on which she literally wrote the textbook).
Born Phoebe Sarah Marks, she was the 3rd 🧵https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/966154261
#printmaking #sciart #WomenInSTEM #histsci #suffragette #mastoArt
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I'm bowled over by the first endorsements my forthcoming book has received. Such brilliant authors - WOW!
You will love it too . . .
UK: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ 🏳️🌈 📚️ 🐵
US: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ :transgender: 📚 🦋
#books #bookstodon #history #science #biology #nature #animals #Darwin #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci @histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM
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It's #Easter Sunday! 🌱
No cute bunnies or lambs in my files, I'm afraid. But I do have a *lot* of queer chickens. 🥚🏳️🌈🐤 :transgender: 🐔
Here's a domestic hen with male plumage, described in the Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society in 1821.
#HappyEaster #history #histbio #histsci #histstm #sts #science #biology #nature #birds #animals @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histstm @histsci #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM
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It is a pleasure to see Charles Darwin's original signature in the Charter Book of Fellows of the Royal Society of London, signed in January 1839 (two years after his return from the Beagle voyage)
🧪🌿💚 #evolution #ecoevo #histbio #histsci #bookhistory #darwin @evolution @nature @biodiversity @ecology
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Steter Tropfen höhlt den #Stein - deshalb erinnern wir heute am #OldRockDay wieder an unser keineswegs steinaltes #WerkstattGeschichte-Heft 81/2020 "#steine"; im Thementeil, hg. von Susann Lewerenz & Veronika Springmann, Beiträge von Sebastian Felten (#Bergbau #18thCentury), Kathrin Rottmann (Pflastersteine #1968) und Regina Sarreiter (Steinwerkzeuge #kolonial #Ethnologie).
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Un des meilleurs podcasts de ce début d'année, pour celles et ceux qui aiment l'histoire des sciences, au moins : une ballade nocturne au Musée d'histoire naturelle de Paris avec Matthieu Vidard et Camille Crosnier pour #LaTAC
Le cabinet des curiosités : épisode • 3/4 du podcast Les nuits au musée
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/la-terre-au-carre/la-terre-au-carre-du-mercredi-03-janvier-2024-6407080 -
Die menschlichen Knochen, die in den vergangenen Jahren bei mehreren Grabungen auf dem Gelände der @freieuniversitaet gefunden wurden, sollen am 23.3. auf dem #Waldfriedhof #Dahlem bestattet werden. Sie stammen insbesondere aus Sammlungen des ehem. KWI für Anthropologie, menschliche Erblehre & Eugenik ( @maxplanckgesellschaft).
#HumanRemains #antropology #histsci #histmed
Nach Funden an der Freien Universität Berlin: Trauerfeier und Bestattung für menschliche Knochen
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/nach-funden-an-der-freien-universitat-berlin-trauerfeier-und-bestattung-fur-menschliche-knochen-9489605.html -
Heute ist #OldRockDay - wir erinnern daher an unsere Ausgabe #WerkstattGeschichte 81/2020 mit dem Thementeil "steine", hg. von Susann Lewerenz und Veronika Springmann, mit Beiträgen von Sebastian Felten (#Bergbau #18thCentury), Kathrin Rottmann (Pflastersteine #1968) und Regina Sarreiter (Steinwerkzeuge #kolonial #Ethnologie).
Dies und vieles mehr frei zugänglich unter: https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/steine/#Histodons #Geologie #histsci #histknow #geology
@histodons @historikerinnen
