#histsci — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #histsci, aggregated by home.social.
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: second-hand copies galore!
- The #Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar: Life with a Lovable Tawny Owl, published by Bantam Press, bought at a local recycling shop.
- Lyell: The Past is the Key to the Present, published by the Geological Society of London.
- Volcanoes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions, published by @princetonupress.Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #Birds #BirdsOfPrey #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Geology #EarthSciences #Volcanoes #Volcanology @bookstodon
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: second-hand copies galore!
- The #Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar: Life with a Lovable Tawny Owl, published by Bantam Press, bought at a local recycling shop.
- Lyell: The Past is the Key to the Present, published by the Geological Society of London.
- Volcanoes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions, published by @princetonupress.Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #Birds #BirdsOfPrey #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Geology #EarthSciences #Volcanoes #Volcanology @bookstodon
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She slept beside drying human heads in Borneo and called her hosts good-natured. At fifty-five, she walked into Batak country with a line rehearsed in two languages. Ida Pfeiffer: Viennese widow, world traveler, connoisseur of tough flesh.
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She slept beside drying human heads in Borneo and called her hosts good-natured. At fifty-five, she walked into Batak country with a line rehearsed in two languages. Ida Pfeiffer: Viennese widow, world traveler, connoisseur of tough flesh.
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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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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
https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2019/08/between-nature-and-science -
He sold shrimp from a tin shanty on a sandspit, reachable only by boat. He couldn't swim. He wrote Eisenhower, Jung, and Meyer Schapiro at Columbia. For eighteen years Betty Parsons hung him beside Pollock. Forrest Bess: bait-camp visionary.
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He sold shrimp from a tin shanty on a sandspit, reachable only by boat. He couldn't swim. He wrote Eisenhower, Jung, and Meyer Schapiro at Columbia. For eighteen years Betty Parsons hung him beside Pollock. Forrest Bess: bait-camp visionary.
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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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@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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She horsewhipped a Prussian gendarme, challenged a newspaper editor to a duel with poisoned pills, and raised a private army of law students that toppled a king. Meet Lola Montez: dancer, countess, kingdom-wrecker.
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She horsewhipped a Prussian gendarme, challenged a newspaper editor to a duel with poisoned pills, and raised a private army of law students that toppled a king. Meet Lola Montez: dancer, countess, kingdom-wrecker.
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RE: https://fedihum.org/@sarahalang/117057837640947026
What does it mean to do digital history?
New epistemic horizons, new epistemic responsibilities!
At least that’s what we say in the (27p long) introduction to our Ambix special issue on computational approaches - that I think could also be a helpful read for those new to the topic 🤔
What do you think? Let me know!https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2026.2709974
#DH #digitalhistory #ComputationalHumanities #histsci -
RE: https://fedihum.org/@sarahalang/117057837640947026
What does it mean to do digital history?
New epistemic horizons, new epistemic responsibilities!
At least that’s what we say in the (27p long) introduction to our Ambix special issue on computational approaches - that I think could also be a helpful read for those new to the topic 🤔
What do you think? Let me know!https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2026.2709974
#DH #digitalhistory #ComputationalHumanities #histsci -
He took six sugars in his tea, ate sardines dusted with curry powder, and took heroin in the parlour. Mussolini had deported him. A judge called him blasphemous. By 1945, Aleister Crowley was a tweed pensioner in Room 13. The Beast in retirement.
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He took six sugars in his tea, ate sardines dusted with curry powder, and took heroin in the parlour. Mussolini had deported him. A judge called him blasphemous. By 1945, Aleister Crowley was a tweed pensioner in Room 13. The Beast in retirement.
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Happy birthday to British-born, American #astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge (1919-2020) who was one of the people instrumental in building our understanding of stellar nucleosynthesis, how nuclei are produced in stars & you and I are all stardust! She was the 1st author of a monumental scientific paper Synthesis of the Elements in Stars, which became known as B2FH from the initials of its authors: 🧵1/4
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1855643660
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #womenInSTEM #mastoArt -
Happy birthday to British-born, American #astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge (1919-2020) who was one of the people instrumental in building our understanding of stellar nucleosynthesis, how nuclei are produced in stars & you and I are all stardust! She was the 1st author of a monumental scientific paper Synthesis of the Elements in Stars, which became known as B2FH from the initials of its authors: 🧵1/4
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1855643660
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #womenInSTEM #mastoArt -
DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE is published in the UK today! 🥳🎈🍾
To mark the occasion, I've written a blog on my publisher's website about the natural wonder of sexual polymorphism—and why Richard Dawkins' view of Darwin needs some clarification. 🌈📚 :transgender: 🦋
Read it here: https://yalebooks.co.uk/blog/darwins-queer-inheritance/
#book #books #history #Darwin #evolution #science #nature #histsci #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #PrideInSTEM
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DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE is published in the UK today! 🥳🎈🍾
To mark the occasion, I've written a blog on my publisher's website about the natural wonder of sexual polymorphism—and why Richard Dawkins' view of Darwin needs some clarification. 🌈📚 :transgender: 🦋
Read it here: https://yalebooks.co.uk/blog/darwins-queer-inheritance/
#book #books #history #Darwin #evolution #science #nature #histsci #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #PrideInSTEM
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Stolen from a Greek island at fourteen. Ran an empire for forty-six years from behind a wooden lattice. Signed off on her own son's execution. Kösem Sultan, strangled at sixty-two with a torn-down curtain because protocol forbade silk.
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Stolen from a Greek island at fourteen. Ran an empire for forty-six years from behind a wooden lattice. Signed off on her own son's execution. Kösem Sultan, strangled at sixty-two with a torn-down curtain because protocol forbade silk.
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Shotgunned off her horse two days before her 41st birthday. Suspects: her third husband, her own son, and a Florida fugitive next door. They buried the Bandit Queen in black velvet with a revolver in her hands.
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Shotgunned off her horse two days before her 41st birthday. Suspects: her third husband, her own son, and a Florida fugitive next door. They buried the Bandit Queen in black velvet with a revolver in her hands.
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Please help me get QUEER ORIGINS 'out there' by recommending it to your favourite libraries!
Academics and students can usually submit a request to their uni libraries. Public libraries all have a way for members to suggest a title. Thank you! 💜🌈📚🦋
#book #books #library #libraries #lovelibraries #GLAM #librarian #history #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #science #nature #histsci #PrideInSTEM
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Please help me get QUEER ORIGINS 'out there' by recommending it to your favourite libraries!
Academics and students can usually submit a request to their uni libraries. Public libraries all have a way for members to suggest a title. Thank you! 💜🌈📚🦋
#book #books #library #libraries #lovelibraries #GLAM #librarian #history #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #science #nature #histsci #PrideInSTEM
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He jumped through a closed dining-room window to escape the police, wrote to the Abwehr from his cell, and parachuted into Cambridgeshire to blow up a factory MI5 then faked with papier-mache. Eddie Chapman: safecracker, double agent, decorated Nazi.
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He jumped through a closed dining-room window to escape the police, wrote to the Abwehr from his cell, and parachuted into Cambridgeshire to blow up a factory MI5 then faked with papier-mache. Eddie Chapman: safecracker, double agent, decorated Nazi.
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This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- Another second-hand volume to my growing collection of The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, this one Volume 26: 1878, published by Cambridge University Press.
- #Warhammer: The Art of #GamesWorkshop, a rather rare exhibition catalogue of grimdark artwork that I bought via eBay.
- I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in #NaturalHistory, the final of the essay bundles from #StephenJayGould, published by Harmony Books.#Books #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Scicomm @bookstodon
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This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- Another second-hand volume to my growing collection of The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, this one Volume 26: 1878, published by Cambridge University Press.
- #Warhammer: The Art of #GamesWorkshop, a rather rare exhibition catalogue of grimdark artwork that I bought via eBay.
- I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in #NaturalHistory, the final of the essay bundles from #StephenJayGould, published by Harmony Books.#Books #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Scicomm @bookstodon
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He read fourteen languages, refused a raise for five decades, and shouted "My God, it talks!" into Bell's prototype before ordering a hundred. Meet Pedro II of Brazil: the monarch who would rather have been a teacher.
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He read fourteen languages, refused a raise for five decades, and shouted "My God, it talks!" into Bell's prototype before ordering a hundred. Meet Pedro II of Brazil: the monarch who would rather have been a teacher.
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Again, me with the somewhat provocative takes 😳😎😇
Does a digital or computational history of science and knowledge even exist as a field? 🤔
Find out what I think here:
https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2026.2709686
#DH #ComputationalHumanities #alchemy #histsci #DigitalHumanities #digitalhistory -
Again, me with the somewhat provocative takes 😳😎😇
Does a digital or computational history of science and knowledge even exist as a field? 🤔
Find out what I think here:
https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2026.2709686
#DH #ComputationalHumanities #alchemy #histsci #DigitalHumanities #digitalhistory -
07-Aug: On this day in 1838, Charles Darwin described his first ever railway journey. He was not overly impressed.
https://friendsofdarwin.com/articles/darwin-takes-the-train/
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07-Aug: On this day in 1838, Charles Darwin described his first ever railway journey. He was not overly impressed.
https://friendsofdarwin.com/articles/darwin-takes-the-train/
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In 1875 a Manhattan parlor began receiving letters from Tibetan Masters, dropped from the ceiling onto devotees' heads. One hundred and forty-two arrived. Blavatsky kept a stuffed baboon holding Darwin. Every yoga studio owes her its vocabulary.
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In 1875 a Manhattan parlor began receiving letters from Tibetan Masters, dropped from the ceiling onto devotees' heads. One hundred and forty-two arrived. Blavatsky kept a stuffed baboon holding Darwin. Every yoga studio owes her its vocabulary.
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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, 🧵1/
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1856856615
#sciart #printmaking #histsci #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, 🧵1/
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1856856615
#sciart #printmaking #histsci #womenInSTEM #linocut chemistry
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I'm hyperexcited that QUEER ORIGINS will be published in the UK on Tuesday!
Just a reminder that discount code HSS26 (from the recent history of science conference in Edinburgh) gets you a cracking 30% off the book from my publisher's website until the end of August: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/.
As it stands, I think it remains the cheapest way to buy it (£17.50 with free UK postage). 🏳️🌈 📚️ 🦋
#book #books #history #science #nature #Darwin #histsci #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia
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I'm hyperexcited that QUEER ORIGINS will be published in the UK on Tuesday!
Just a reminder that discount code HSS26 (from the recent history of science conference in Edinburgh) gets you a cracking 30% off the book from my publisher's website until the end of August: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/.
As it stands, I think it remains the cheapest way to buy it (£17.50 with free UK postage). 🏳️🌈 📚️ 🦋
#book #books #history #science #nature #Darwin #histsci #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia
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Today I stumbled across a portal of doom in a book published in 1609 by alchemist Henrico Khunrath 😵💫
Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae
(Amphitheater of Eternal Wisdom)
This post courtesy of a v special 2hrs volunteering in our Crawford Library of ancient 🔭astro books.
#skystorians #histsci -
Today I stumbled across a portal of doom in a book published in 1609 by alchemist Henrico Khunrath 😵💫
Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae
(Amphitheater of Eternal Wisdom)
This post courtesy of a v special 2hrs volunteering in our Crawford Library of ancient 🔭astro books.
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He gave away a kingdom, called for the mass suicide of grown men, and snubbed the king of Persia. Then a diet of grass gave Heraclitus dropsy. His cure: be plastered head to toe in cow dung and baked in the sun. The weeping philosopher.
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He gave away a kingdom, called for the mass suicide of grown men, and snubbed the king of Persia. Then a diet of grass gave Heraclitus dropsy. His cure: be plastered head to toe in cow dung and baked in the sun. The weeping philosopher.
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05-Aug: On this day in 1832, in what he described as ‘an eventful day’, Charles Darwin and his HMS Beagle shipmates helped put down an armed insurrection in Argentina. More here…
https://friendsofdarwin.com/articles/darwin-under-fire/
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05-Aug: On this day in 1832, in what he described as ‘an eventful day’, Charles Darwin and his HMS Beagle shipmates helped put down an armed insurrection in Argentina. More here…
https://friendsofdarwin.com/articles/darwin-under-fire/
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In 1853 Prussia awarded its Gold Medal for Arts and Sciences to a fourth foreigner. The previous three were Humboldt, Spontini, and Liszt. The fourth was Ira Aldridge — the American actor no American theatre would book.
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In 1853 Prussia awarded its Gold Medal for Arts and Sciences to a fourth foreigner. The previous three were Humboldt, Spontini, and Liszt. The fourth was Ira Aldridge — the American actor no American theatre would book.
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Cet appareil est un pyromètre de Wedgwood, inventé dans les années 1780 par un industriel potier anglais – par ailleurs grand-père de Charles et Emma Darwin – afin de mesurer la température dans ses fours. À l’époque n’existaient que les thermomètres à mercure de Fahrenheit, limités à 356 °C. Wedgwood eut l’idée d’utiliser une propriété de l’argile, qui se contracte en chauffant. Le principe : on place un petit cylindre d’argile calibré dans l’environnement dont on veut mesurer la température, puis on l’insère entre les règles en laiton graduées (qui ne sont pas parallèles) jusqu’où son nouveau diamètre l’emmène pour lire la température. L’échelle est spécifique, en degrés Wedgwood, démarrant à 0 °W ≈ 581 °C et s’incrémentant par pas de 72 °C – l’appareil dépasse donc allègrement les 17 000 °C !
Cet exemplaire fait partie du cabinet de physique et chimie de l’université de Catane. Il a été commandé en 1820 par Carmelo Maravigna, professeur de chimie, à Nicolas Constant Pixii, célèbre fabricant d’instruments parisien, par l’entremise de Jean‑André‑Henri Lucas, du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle. Il aurait servi à mesurer les températures de coulées de lave de l’Etna.
Avec le temps néanmoins, il s’est avéré que les mesures du pyromètre de Wedgwood étaient très imprécises. Le développement de nouveaux instruments l’a rapidement condamné aux oubliettes de l’histoire des sciences…
#histnat #histsci #histoire #science #mesure #température #thermomètre #MNHN #Etna
