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  1. He moved apartments up to sixty times in Vienna. When notes wouldn't come, he stripped down, poured pitchers of cold water over his head, and bellowed scales until the floorboards leaked. Beethoven: deaf, drenched, evicted repeatedly.

    oddlet.com/p/56o

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  2. 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

  3. 05-Sep: On this day in 1831, Charles Darwin first met Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle. Here’s the story… friendsofdarwin.com/beau-ideal/
    #HistSci

  4. 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.

    oddlet.com/p/5q7

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  5. 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.

    oddlet.com/p/c2d

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  6. RE: sciences.social/@NODE801/11720

    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: babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id

    #HistSTM #HistSci #CharlesDarwin

  7. RE: sciences.social/@NODE801/11720

    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: babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id

    #HistSTM #HistSci #CharlesDarwin

  8. RE: sciences.social/@NODE801/11720

    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: babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id

    #HistSTM #HistSci #CharlesDarwin

  9. RE: sciences.social/@NODE801/11720

    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: babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id

    #HistSTM #HistSci #CharlesDarwin

  10. RE: sciences.social/@NODE801/11720

    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: babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id

    #HistSTM #HistSci #CharlesDarwin

  11. "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
    theguardian.com/world/2025/jun

  12. "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
    theguardian.com/world/2025/jun

  13. "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
    theguardian.com/world/2025/jun

  14. "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
    theguardian.com/world/2025/jun

  15. "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
    theguardian.com/world/2025/jun