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He weighed his food, his sleep, his feces, and, by his own accounting, his sex life. For thirty years he sat in a chair that took his dinner away. Santorio Santorio, founder of quantitative physiology, discovered that we are all quietly evaporating.
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as would be visible over Paris.
She & husband adopted his nephew, Joseph Lepaute Dagelet in 1768 whom she trained as a mathematician & astronomer. He became a professor & was inducted in the French Royal Academy of Sciences in 1785.
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257 years ago today, #AlexanderVonHumboldt was born. The Invention of Nature is a delightful biography that paints a lively portrait of this ever-restless polymath, showing he was a force of nature.
https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/02/11/book-review-the-invention-of-nature-the-adventures-of-alexander-von-humboldt-the-lost-hero-of-science/#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Biography #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Scicomm @andrea_wulf
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He weighed strings with birdshot, photographed the sag, and flipped the picture to find his church. He carried hazelnuts and one key when the tram hit him. Taxis refused the rags. Antoni Gaudí, the dandy who ended up trusting what falls.
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#histsci folks, if you're not following @[email protected] yet on all the things, now's the time!
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An excerpt on AI & robots from the “Machines” chapter of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, 1st published by @[email protected], now out from @[email protected] in a South Asian edition, is out in Newslaundry!
🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
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I wrote this blog when QUEER ORIGINS was published in the UK. I'm reposting it now that the book is out in Canada and the US.
Read about the natural wonder of sexual polymorphism — and why Richard Dawkins' view of Darwin needs amending. 🌈📚🦋
Darwin's Queer Inheritance: https://yalebooks.co.uk/blog/darwin-queer-inheritance/
#book #books #bookstodon #reading #readingcommunity #writing #author #science #nature #animals #darwin #Darwin #evolution #history #histsci #sts #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia
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He ate his meat raw, slept bolt upright by candlelight, and casually mentioned that 18,000 boys were sacrificed to an ox-headed god each year. Oxford gave George Psalmanazar rooms and asked him to teach the language. He was from Marseille.
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Rappel : à l'occasion des #JEP2026, vous pouvez visiter le petit Musée de la Radiologie et de l'Imagerie Médicale, dans le 13e arrondissement de #Paris ! https://journeesdupatrimoine.culture.gouv.fr/w/391796/evenement/19901988/visite-du-musee-de-la-radiologie-sur-inscription#/events/19901988
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I spoke with @[email protected] CEO Patrick Spero on the Useful Knowledge podcast! We discussed monster-thinking and first contact in #VastEarlyAmerica and in outer space.
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The South Asian edition of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is out from @[email protected]! It’s the history of the category of the human since antiquity, told through ideas about monsters and monster-making.
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Everything is horrible, but CHALLENGING HISTORIES, a new #podcast from @[email protected], hosted by @[email protected], drops on 14 September!
Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. It's never been more important to understand the past and its legacies.
🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #medieval
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: three second-hand books, all revolving around the theme of ice.
- #Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent by Gabrielle Walker, published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
- The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the #IceAge by Edmund Blair Bolles, published by Counterpoint.
- Glaciovolcanism on Earth and Mars: Products, Processes and Palaeoenvironmental Significance by Benjamin R Edwards and John L Smellie, published by Cambridge University Press.#Books #Bookstodon #Glaciology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Volcanology #EarthSciences #Geology #Scicomm @bookstodon
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Friends and neighbours on the Sussex Coast (UK), I've signed some copies of QUEER ORIGINS for you at three Waterstones stores: Brighton, Eastbourne, and Worthing.
And, yes, there are a few of those coveted bookmarks too . . . if you get in quick! 🌈 📚 🌞 🌊 🍦
#book #books #bookshop #bookshops #reading #history #science #histsci #histsex #nature #queer #queerhistory #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #Brighton #Eastbourne #Worthing #Sussex #SouthCoast #UK
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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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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.
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Big update to ‘Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty’: the PDFs are now *tagged* (plus various minor improvements).
A #TaggedPDF contains hidden extra semantic information to assist screen-reading software etc., including alt text for diagrams+images (in the case of ‘F&N’, 552 pieces of alt text were required, some quite lengthy).
The new version is available (#OpenAccess as always) at: https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large
Feedback from users of screen readers would be very welcome!
Creating this version has been possible because of the ongoing LaTeX tagging project [https://latex3.github.io/tagging-project/] (thank you to the LaTeX team and other contributors!). I have been adapting my own #LuaLaTeX styles [https://codeberg.org/ajcain/minos] to use the new interfaces.
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#accessibility #a11y #MathArt #HistMath #HistSci #MathematicalBeauty #aesthetics #typography #TeXLaTeX
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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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Happy birthday to Bibha Chowdhuri (1913-1991) who, with her supervisor D.M. Bose in extensive air showers from cosmic rays, was the first person to observe mesons. My portrait shows her, a mountain on which she gathered her data & a schematic of the cascade of particles we find in cosmic rays.
Born in Kolkata, her family’s Bramohist faith quite unusually encouraged the education of girls. 🧵
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/4433739199
#womenInSTEM #histsci #particlePhysics #physics #cosmicRays #mastoArt
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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.
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#cfp Mineral Expertise: The Rules of Knowing Earthly Matter in the Early Modern World -- 4-6 February 2027 in Bologna.
Deadline for Submission: July 10th 2026
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Saviez-vous que l'Université Paris-Saclay a aménagé dans les locaux de l'ancien synchrotron un petit musée pour valoriser sa collection de minéralogie ?
Il est ouvert au public pour les Journées nationales de la géologie vendredi 5, samedi 6 et dimanche 7 juin 2026 de 10h à 17h !
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Happy birthday Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827), French mathematical physicist (who incidentally, did invaluable work in geophysics). He was pretty hard-headed and probably didn’t really have any imaginary friends, but nonetheless Laplace’s Demon is my 3rd in the series of Imaginary Friends of Science. 🧵
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/74889917#linocut #printmaking #histsci #Laplace #LaplacesDemon #physics #determinism #ImaginaryFriends #Science #mastoArt
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For the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt ‘even’ -the number of quarks in a meson, a type of particle first observed & published by Bibha Chowdhuri (1913-1991) & her supervisor D.M. Bose in extensive air showers from cosmic rays. My portrait shows her, a mountain on which she gathered her data & a schematic of the cascade of particles we find in cosmic rays.
Born in Kolkata, her family’s Bramohist faith quite unusually 🧵
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This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- I adopted a damaged copy of David Farrier's Nature's Genius: Evolution's Lessons for a Changing Planet, published by @canongatebooks.The other two are cases of the more I read, the more I go down rabbit holes.
- After reviewing Mysteries of the Deep, I bought an ex-library copy of the classic 1995 Paleoclimate and Evolution, with Emphasis on Human Origins, published by Yale University Press, to read more on the work of Elisabeth Vrba and colleagues (this one came from the holdings of the University Library of Durham)- After reviewing Every Living Thing, I wanted to know more about Cuvier and tracked down an ex-library copy of the classic 1987 The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate: French Biology in the Decades Before Darwin, published by Oxford University Press (this one came from the holdings of the University of Saint Katherine Library)
#ClimateChange #Evolution #Palaeoclimate #HumanEvolution #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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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 -
Happy birthday Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827), French mathematical physicist (who incidentally, did invaluable work in geophysics). He was pretty hard-headed and probably didn’t really have any imaginary friends, but nonetheless Laplace’s Demon is my 3rd in the series of Imaginary Friends of Science. In 1814, when he envisioned an entity such
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Evento próximo y con registro gratuito. Las anteriores ediciones han sido realmente enriquecedoras
See You there if interest
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Tempête dans un canal thoracique : la querelle du chyle au XVIIe siècle !
#histmed #histsci #anat
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TOMORROW: I'll be doing a virtual event with the National WWI Museum at 1 pm CST (that's 7 pm for UK attendees). I'll be talking about the pioneering surgeon Sir Harold Gillies, who rebuilt soldiers' faces during WWI, followed by Q&A. Event is FREE! Please register: https://www.theworldwar.org/events/facemaker-lindsey-fitzharris?fbclid=IwAR18GASogq8Me0YtANsUZM-CvldBHWU2w-MGgoMV9-tuv8WbJbyuql_yEqE
#histodons #histodon #twitter #histmed #medhist #histsci #plasticsurgery #books #bookstodon #booktoot
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Scarificator, late 17th century. This instrument with spring-loaded blades delivered many cuts simultaneously. Afterwards, the doctor placed a heated cup over the site. As it cooled, blood was forced out of the wounds.
Photo: University of Melbourne.
#histodons #histodon #history #histmed #medhist #histsci #instrument #scientific #science #medicine #doctors
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“One Night Cough Syrup” from the 1930s, which contained cannabis, morphine, chloroform, and alcohol! In 1934, the FDA ruled that the claims of the cough syrup's therapeutic properties were misleading, and remaining stock was destroyed.
Follow me for more medical history content!
#histmed #histsci #histodons #histodon #twitterexodus #twittermigration #medhist #DYK #bigpharma
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During WWI, Marie Curie created a vehicle that contained a hospital bed, a generator, an X-ray machine and photographic darkroom equipment. These “petite Curies" (below) could be driven right up to the Front. Curie also helped train 150 women as radiology technicians.
#histmed #histsci #WWI #warhistory #war #medhist #science #womeninstem #womenshistory #histodon #histodons #twittermigration #twitterexodus
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Watercolor of a malignant growth springing from the eye of a woman, 19th century. The eye protruded for two months. In the righthand corner, you can see a monochrome sketch of the eyeball and tumour after its removal. [Image: Wellcome Collection] #histmed #histodons #histodon #history #medhist #histsci #illustration
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This remarkably detailed wax anatomical model (c.1787) is now housed at the Javier Puerta Museum. Wax models like this were used for teaching anatomy to medical students at a time when few bodies were available for dissection. It demonstrates the merging of art and science.
#histodon #histodons #histmed #sciart #histsci #medhist #anatomy
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Male skeleton showing wear pattern to teeth resulting from long-term pipe smoking, c.1660. It was excavated from the Patuxent Point site, Calvert County, MD. All of the skeletons uncovered (men, women, and children) showed signs of smoking. #histodons #histodon #skull #histmed #medhist #smoking #skeleton #histsci #archaeology #archaeologist
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This is a photo of Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri at the turn of the 20th century. The walls were painted by a surgeon who wanted to give patients something to look at while they waited for their anesthesia. A beautiful merging of art and medicine.
#histsci #histmed #medhist #sciart #art #oldphoto #medhistorian #surgery #histodon #histodons
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The hematologist Oswald H. Robertson pioneered the idea of "blood banks" in WWI by packing glass jars of citrated blood from universal donors in an ice-filled chest that he had constructed from ammunition cases. Learn more in my book THE FACEMAKER: https://linktr.ee/drlindseyfitzharris
#histodons #histodon #history #histmed #histsci #medhist #medhistorian #twitterstorians #twittermigration #twitter #TIL #writer #writing #nonfiction
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This weekend marks the 125th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's Death, and I wrote and article for BBC History Extra exploring the life of the man behind the pseudonym, whose work, mathematical and literary influenced the lives of so many, from suffragettes to Alan Turing.
https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/lewis-carroll-author-life-alice-in-wonderland/
#scicomm #histsci #histodon #literature #science #history #victodon