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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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He ran his engine on peanut oil and took a million in cash from Adolphus Busch. On 29 September 1913 he boarded the SS Dresden, asked to be woken at 6:15, and marked a small cross on his diary. Rudolf Diesel, the rational man.
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He ran his engine on peanut oil and took a million in cash from Adolphus Busch. On 29 September 1913 he boarded the SS Dresden, asked to be woken at 6:15, and marked a small cross on his diary. Rudolf Diesel, the rational man.
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He ran his engine on peanut oil and took a million in cash from Adolphus Busch. On 29 September 1913 he boarded the SS Dresden, asked to be woken at 6:15, and marked a small cross on his diary. Rudolf Diesel, the rational man.
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He ran his engine on peanut oil and took a million in cash from Adolphus Busch. On 29 September 1913 he boarded the SS Dresden, asked to be woken at 6:15, and marked a small cross on his diary. Rudolf Diesel, the rational man.
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Mineral Cup Round 1 Match 2, Erythrite vs. Skutterudite.
Red Erythrite is an ore of cobalt, which is used in modern paints, but Skutterudite has been known since the Middle Ages & used in the production of smalt, a pigment in painting, glass making & ceramics, thus has a substantial contribution to art history.
https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/vote-r1m02
Vote Skutterudite! 🧪⚒️ #histsci #MinCup26My side quest to see how many times I can mention Rembrandt while talking about minerals is starting strong.
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Mineral Cup Round 1 Match 2, Erythrite vs. Skutterudite.
Red Erythrite is an ore of cobalt, which is used in modern paints, but Skutterudite has been known since the Middle Ages & used in the production of smalt, a pigment in painting, glass making & ceramics, thus has a substantial contribution to art history.
https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/vote-r1m02
Vote Skutterudite! 🧪⚒️ #histsci #MinCup26My side quest to see how many times I can mention Rembrandt while talking about minerals is starting strong.
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Mineral Cup Round 1 Match 2, Erythrite vs. Skutterudite.
Red Erythrite is an ore of cobalt, which is used in modern paints, but Skutterudite has been known since the Middle Ages & used in the production of smalt, a pigment in painting, glass making & ceramics, thus has a substantial contribution to art history.
https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/vote-r1m02
Vote Skutterudite! 🧪⚒️ #histsci #MinCup26My side quest to see how many times I can mention Rembrandt while talking about minerals is starting strong.
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Mineral Cup Round 1 Match 2, Erythrite vs. Skutterudite.
Red Erythrite is an ore of cobalt, which is used in modern paints, but Skutterudite has been known since the Middle Ages & used in the production of smalt, a pigment in painting, glass making & ceramics, thus has a substantial contribution to art history.
https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/vote-r1m02
Vote Skutterudite! 🧪⚒️ #histsci #MinCup26My side quest to see how many times I can mention Rembrandt while talking about minerals is starting strong.
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Mineral Cup Round 1 Match 2, Erythrite vs. Skutterudite.
Red Erythrite is an ore of cobalt, which is used in modern paints, but Skutterudite has been known since the Middle Ages & used in the production of smalt, a pigment in painting, glass making & ceramics, thus has a substantial contribution to art history.
https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/vote-r1m02
Vote Skutterudite! 🧪⚒️ #histsci #MinCup26My side quest to see how many times I can mention Rembrandt while talking about minerals is starting strong.
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A remarkable write-up by Neal Stephenson (yes, that one!) on the physics of whip cracking and crucially, who it was discovered. Enjoy!
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/kdk-part-4-carrieres-amazing-experiment
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A remarkable write-up by Neal Stephenson (yes, that one!) on the physics of whip cracking and crucially, who it was discovered. Enjoy!
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/kdk-part-4-carrieres-amazing-experiment
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A remarkable write-up by Neal Stephenson (yes, that one!) on the physics of whip cracking and crucially, who it was discovered. Enjoy!
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/kdk-part-4-carrieres-amazing-experiment
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A remarkable write-up by Neal Stephenson (yes, that one!) on the physics of whip cracking and crucially, who it was discovered. Enjoy!
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/kdk-part-4-carrieres-amazing-experiment
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A remarkable write-up by Neal Stephenson (yes, that one!) on the physics of whip cracking and crucially, who it was discovered. Enjoy!
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/kdk-part-4-carrieres-amazing-experiment
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Day 2 of #SciArtSeptember prompt is violet hence, William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)! This lino block print ‘William Henry Perkin Discovers Mauve’ is about how the British chemist & entrepreneur made the serendipitous discovery of the 1st synthetic organic dye: mauveine.
Perkin entered the Royal College of Chemistry in London in 1853 when he was only 15, studying with August Wilhelm von Hofmann. 🧵1/
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/955324548
#mastoart
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Day 2 of #SciArtSeptember prompt is violet hence, William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)! This lino block print ‘William Henry Perkin Discovers Mauve’ is about how the British chemist & entrepreneur made the serendipitous discovery of the 1st synthetic organic dye: mauveine.
Perkin entered the Royal College of Chemistry in London in 1853 when he was only 15, studying with August Wilhelm von Hofmann. 🧵1/
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/955324548
#mastoart
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Day 2 of #SciArtSeptember prompt is violet hence, William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)! This lino block print ‘William Henry Perkin Discovers Mauve’ is about how the British chemist & entrepreneur made the serendipitous discovery of the 1st synthetic organic dye: mauveine.
Perkin entered the Royal College of Chemistry in London in 1853 when he was only 15, studying with August Wilhelm von Hofmann. 🧵1/
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/955324548
#mastoart
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Day 2 of #SciArtSeptember prompt is violet hence, William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)! This lino block print ‘William Henry Perkin Discovers Mauve’ is about how the British chemist & entrepreneur made the serendipitous discovery of the 1st synthetic organic dye: mauveine.
Perkin entered the Royal College of Chemistry in London in 1853 when he was only 15, studying with August Wilhelm von Hofmann. 🧵1/
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/955324548
#mastoart
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Day 2 of #SciArtSeptember prompt is violet hence, William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)! This lino block print ‘William Henry Perkin Discovers Mauve’ is about how the British chemist & entrepreneur made the serendipitous discovery of the 1st synthetic organic dye: mauveine.
Perkin entered the Royal College of Chemistry in London in 1853 when he was only 15, studying with August Wilhelm von Hofmann. 🧵1/
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/955324548
#mastoart
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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 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 chemistry trailblazer Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (20 January 1758 – 10 February 1836), wife and collaborator of French scientist Antoine Lavoisier (26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794).
The Lavoisiers, working closely together, modernized and quantified chemistry and the scientific method, named oxygen and hydrogen, explained the role that oxygen plays in combustion, helped modernize 🧵
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1499274509
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #histsci #chemistry #chemist
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RE: https://social.sciences.re/@david_alberto/115838281623463388
This modernized version of James Ferguson's (1710–1776) ‘Astronomical Rotula for showing the motions of the planets, places of the sun and moon, &c.’, drawn with #TikZ by @david_alberto is, quite simply, a typographical *masterpiece*. I like to think of myself as an accomplished user of TikZ, but I have never used it for anything as ambitious or as successful as this.
It mimics the style — and incorporates scanned decorative components — of the original, while being usable today.
Even if you are not interested in astronomy or its history, you should still go admire the intricate detail.
#HistSci #HistAstronomy #Astronomy #TikZ #TeXLaTeX #typography
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Starting 2026 with some unknown birthdays: Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 1673), 17th-century English aristocrat, philosopher, poet, scientist, writer, with her imaginary world from her strange sci-fi novel ‘The Blazing World’ which she appended to her treatise ‘Observations upon Experimental Philosophy’. An odd addition to my collection of scientists, 🧵
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/611949454
#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #scifi #naturalPhilosophy #MargaretCavendish
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Happy birthday to #mathematician & #computerscientist US Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper (1906-1992) who popularized the revolutionary idea of developing machine-independent programming languages based on English.
She began teaching at Vassar in 31 & got PhD (Yale) in 34. She found marriage & teaching less fulfilling & tried to enlist in the Navy, but was rejected then got a special exemption to 🧵
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/748918489
#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #artAdventCalendar #mastoArt
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Happy birthday to #mathematician & #computerscientist US Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper (1906-1992) who popularized the revolutionary idea of developing machine-independent programming languages based on English.
She began teaching at Vassar in 31 & got PhD (Yale) in 34. She found marriage & teaching less fulfilling & tried to enlist in the Navy, but was rejected then got a special exemption to 🧵
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/748918489
#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #artAdventCalendar #mastoArt
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Happy birthday to #mathematician & #computerscientist US Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper (1906-1992) who popularized the revolutionary idea of developing machine-independent programming languages based on English.
She began teaching at Vassar in 31 & got PhD (Yale) in 34. She found marriage & teaching less fulfilling & tried to enlist in the Navy, but was rejected then got a special exemption to 🧵
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/748918489
#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #artAdventCalendar #mastoArt
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Happy birthday to #mathematician & #computerscientist US Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper (1906-1992) who popularized the revolutionary idea of developing machine-independent programming languages based on English.
She began teaching at Vassar in 31 & got PhD (Yale) in 34. She found marriage & teaching less fulfilling & tried to enlist in the Navy, but was rejected then got a special exemption to 🧵
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/748918489
#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #artAdventCalendar #mastoArt
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Happy birthday to #mathematician & #computerscientist US Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper (1906-1992) who popularized the revolutionary idea of developing machine-independent programming languages based on English.
She began teaching at Vassar in 31 & got PhD (Yale) in 34. She found marriage & teaching less fulfilling & tried to enlist in the Navy, but was rejected then got a special exemption to 🧵
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/748918489
#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #artAdventCalendar #mastoArt
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Day 8 #artAdventCalendar x-ray #crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994), Nobel laureate in #chemistry for her models of biomolecules like penicillin, vitamin B12 & insulin.
She was “captured for life by chemistry and crystals,” in childhood, 1 of 2 girls allowed to study chemistry rather than domestic science at her school with a small lab in her attic. On her 16th birthday her mother gave her 🧵
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Day 6 of #artAdventCalendar is my portrait of Claudine Picardet (1735-1820) #chemist, #mineralogist, meteorologist & perhaps most importantly, translator of latest science from Swedish, English, German, Italian & possibly Latin to French at the height of the chemical revolution.
She married barrister & member of the Académie royale des sciences, arts, et belles-lettres de Dijon, Claude Picardet in 1755, 🧵
#sciart #printmaking #histsci #mastoArt #womenInSTEM #linocut #chemistry
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Happy birthday to Claudine Picardet (1735-1820) #chemist, #mineralogist, meteorologist & perhaps most importantly, translator of latest science from Swedish, English, German, Italian & possibly Latin to French at the height of the chemical revolution.
She married barrister & member of the Académie royale des sciences, arts, et belles-lettres de Dijon, Claude Picardet in 1755, her entry into the high society scientific 🧵
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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. She published “Benzoylations in Ether -
This week's #NewBooks at the library: A second-hand copy of an original 1961 hardback of Arthur O. Lovejoy's The Great Chain of Being from Harvard University Press, a review copy of The Lives of #Bats from @princetonupress @princetonnature, and a second-hand copy of @matthewcobb's The Genetic Age: Out Perilous Quest to Edit Life from Profile Books.
#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #ScalaNaturae #Chiroptera #Mammals #Genetics @bookstodon
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#Chicago folks: you can view a physical copy of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY and its tomato-red cover with silvery mirror design, & #SFF monsters at the #NewberryLibrary bookstore! Thanks @pdtoler.bsky.social! 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH #maps
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