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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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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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Happy birthday to Sophie Brahe (born either Aug 24, 1559 or Sept 22, 1556 -1643) horticulturalist, astronomer, genealogist, & alchemist with the gardens at her brother #astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg estate, where she often assisted his research, alchemical tools & illustrations of the supernova she observed as Tycho’s assistant.
Tycho trained her in horticulture & chemistry but initially discouraged astronomy. 🧵1/
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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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Happy birthday to #geologist & oceanographic #cartographer Marie Tharp (1920-2006), whose pioneering, thorough & complete ocean floor maps with Bruce Heezen, made using realms of echo sounder data, revealed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
After studying #geology & math, Maurice ‘Doc’ Ewing at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia hired her to draft 1000s of echo sounder profiles. 🧵1/5 -
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 Danish #seismologist Inge Lehmann (1888 – 1993) who demonstrated that the Earth’s core is not a single molten sphere, but contained an inner solid core, in ‘36. She was a pioneer #womanInScience, a brilliant seismologist & lived to be 105.
As she first postulated, the earth has roughly 3 equal concentric sections: mantle, liquid outer core & solid inner core. 🧵 -
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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Another scientist in my collection with an unknown birthday is one of the earliest recorded women in science, Peseshet. She is described in the elaborate Saqqara tomb of her son Akhethotep,a royal official and overseer of priests, who lived during the Fifth Dynasty around 2400 BCE. She is described as the “Overseer of the Women Physicians.”
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#mastoArt #linocut #sciart #printmaking #histsci #histmed #medicine #Peseshet #AncientEgypt #hieroglyphics
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The #Mathober day 3 prompt is ‘#Polyhedron’. I have no art to offer, but I thought I would use the occasion to draw attention to a lesser-known role of polyhedra in Johannes Kepler's (1571–1630) thought.
Start with the famous part: Kepler argued that the five regular (or Platonic) solids fitted between the orbs of the then-known six planets [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kepler-solar-system-1.png].
When Galileo discovered four moons of Jupiter, Kepler sought a similar polyhedral structure for the Jovian system, and suggested that ‘semiregular’ solids provided the key. ‘Semiregular’ for Kepler meant that the polyhedra had rhombic faces and satisfied certain technical criteria. (The concept differs from today's notion of semiregular polyhedra.)
There were exactly three such ‘semiregular’ polyhedra:
• the cube (the square being a special kind of rhombus).
• the rhombic dodecahedron (12 faces; diagram attached).
• the rhombic triacontahedron (30 faces; diagram attached).
Kepler placed the rhombic dodecahedron between Io and Europa, the rhombic triacontahedron between Europa and Ganymede, and the cube between Ganymede and Callisto.
Kepler thought that there were six planets because God had shaped the cosmos around the five platonic solids. The three ‘semiregular’ solids would similarly explain why there were four moons of Jupiter.
Perhaps someone who is a better artist than I am could draw a diagram of the three rhombic solids and the orbs of the four Galilean moons in the style of Kepler's famous diagram of the Platonic solids between the orbs of the planets.
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Happy birthday to #geologist & oceanographic #cartographer Marie Tharp (1920-2006), whose pioneering, thorough & complete ocean floor maps with Bruce Heezen, made using realms of echo sounder data, revealed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
After studying #geology & math, Maurice ‘Doc’ Ewing at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia hired her to draft 1000s of echo sounder profiles. Women were still not allowed to participate in 🧵#sciart #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #linocut #mastoArt
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"J'ai retiré ce radium de la pechblende
Et j'ai brûlé mes doigts à ce feu défendu
Ô paradis cent fois retrouvé reperdu
Tes yeux sont mon Pérou ma Golconde mes Indes"
Louis Aragon, Les Yeux d'Elsa, 1942
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Yeux_d%27Elsa
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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
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yaparqzfaouqf3ht6xlxfrot/post/3llklouu7hs2b -
Happy birthday to Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) renown Flemish cartographer.
What made Mercator a great #cartographer, was in fact his abilities as a #mathematician -and like those of us scientists who feel compelled also to create art he was wasn’t hindered by his immense ability as an engraver. He produced beautiful world maps (a version of which is depicted in this print), globes, 🧵1/n
#geographer #geography #histsci #MastoArt #sciart #linocut #printmaking #mapart #maps #Mercator
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For #SciArtSeptember prompt enchanted: Kepler’s Somnium. This hand-printed linocut illustrates astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler’s science fiction story Somnium, or “The Dream”. Kepler (1571-1630) wrote the strange manuscript in Latin, and circulated it amongst friends, with the intention of eventually publishing it but he died before that could could happen. 🧵1/n
#linocut #suminagashi #printmaking #histsci #sciart #Kepler #MastoArt #moon #astronomy
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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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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
