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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 -
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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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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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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‘Cabinet of Materia Medica for the Major Examination Published by Evans, Lescher and Evans, London; and Evans, Sons and Co, Liverpool’
Circa 1860 - 1880
https://www.finch-and-co.co.uk/artwork-detail/814272/18676/victorian-mahogany-cased-cabinet-of #histsci #histmed #histpharma #histedu -
This week's #NewBooks at the library: Who is excited about the next few books he will be reviewing?
- After an impressive debut, I am looking forward to reading Cal Flyn's second book, The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness, published by HarperCollins.
- Time for another deep dive into the history of my favourite discipline, #EvolutionaryBiology. I really enjoyed Costa's annotated version of Wallace's notebook, and am very excited about delving into this annotated version of #CharlesDarwin's The Descent of Man, beautifully published here by @princetonupress. Expect me to go dark for a while, it's over 760 pages!
- And for context, I will be adding a review of Jeremy DeSilva's A Most Interesting Problem: What #Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about #HumanEvolution, published a few years back, also by Princeton.
#Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #Evolution #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci @bookstodon
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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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It’s #BlackHistoryMonth so it’s a good time to celebrate the extraordinary mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; 1918 – 2020). One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (& its predecessor NACA), she was known for her mastery of complex manual calculations of orbital mechanics & played a pivotal role 🧵1/
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #NASA #MastoArt #KatherineJohnson #mathematician #aeronauticalEngineer #physics #space -
Today I'm writing about the first descriptions of toad sex.
Chinese herpetologist Ch’eng-chao Liu, writing in the Peking Natural History Bulletin in 1932, was certainly thorough . . .
#zoology #herpetology #toads #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #Pride #PrideMonth #PrideMonth2023
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È uscito ieri per #Odoya l'"Almanacco della #fantarcheologia" curato da Fabio Camilletti.
Oltre ad un saggetto di Marco Ciardi e mio sui primi decenni di Peter #Kolosimo, ci trovate testi di Giulia Iannuzzi, Marco Malvestio, Edoardo Russo, Paolo Fiorino, Stefano Bigliardi e Roberto Batisti (con conclusioni di Paola Papetti) su diversi aspetti di Kolosimo e della fantarcheologia...
@histodons @litstudies #histodons #histscidons #histsci #bookstodon #fantascienza #fantascienzaitaliana
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Hello fediverse, [I‘m re-posting my #introduction as I changed instances…]
I’m a historian of technology, working mainly on historical #mobility and #technologyfutures . I'm just starting with a new project on the history of #childrensmobility while my first book on the history of #drivingassistance systems will hopefully soon be published.
My fields of interest are #STS #TechnologyAssessment #Anthropology and of course #HistTech #HistSci #HistSTM #histchild and #TheoryofHistory . Working @KIT_Karlsruhe , being #newhere , hoping to meet mutual #histodons @histodons @historikerinnen @histstm !
