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William Whewell was born OTD in 1794. One of the great early philosophers and historians of science, he was also a neo-Kantian and an Anglican priest. He also believed that our redemption on earth via Christ’s crucifixion proved the impossibility of extraterrestrial life. 🧪 #HistSTM #PhilSci

But Lorenz was not the first with the intuition. In The Phantom Tollbooth, the Princess of Pure Reason says: "...whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world." 🧪🦋🦫🧠🗃 #PhilSci #HistSTM #Booksky

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But Lorenz was not the first with the intuition. In The Phantom Tollbooth, the Princess of Pure Reason says: "...whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world." 🧪🦋🦫🧠🗃 #PhilSci #HistSTM #Booksky

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But Lorenz was not the first with the intuition. In The Phantom Tollbooth, the Princess of Pure Reason says: "...whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world." 🧪🦋🦫🧠🗃 #PhilSci #HistSTM #Booksky

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But Lorenz was not the first with the intuition. In The Phantom Tollbooth, the Princess of Pure Reason says: "...whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world." 🧪🦋🦫🧠🗃 #PhilSci #HistSTM #Booksky

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But Lorenz was not the first with the intuition. In The Phantom Tollbooth, the Princess of Pure Reason says: "...whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world." 🧪🦋🦫🧠🗃 #PhilSci #HistSTM #Booksky

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Edward Lorenz, of “butterfly effect” fame, was born OTD in 1917. "Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.” 🧪🦋🦫🧠🗃 #PhilSci #HistSTM

Edward Lorenz, of “butterfly effect” fame, was born OTD in 1917. "Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.” 🧪🦋🦫🧠🗃 #PhilSci #HistSTM

Edward Lorenz, of “butterfly effect” fame, was born OTD in 1917. "Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.” 🧪🦋🦫🧠🗃 #PhilSci #HistSTM

Edward Lorenz, of “butterfly effect” fame, was born OTD in 1917. "Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.” 🧪🦋🦫🧠🗃 #PhilSci #HistSTM

Edward Lorenz, of “butterfly effect” fame, was born OTD in 1917. "Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.” 🧪🦋🦫🧠🗃 #PhilSci #HistSTM

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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

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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/ 🏳️‍🌈 📚️ 🐵

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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/ 🏳️‍🌈 📚️ 🐵

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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

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: 📜 🦋

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Nice, long article on the Clockworks Museum, focused on the history of electrical timekeeping #histSTM 📜 From when time went electric to the emergence of quartz clocks share.google/7XYmkerxgbkq...

From when time went electric t...

#Manchester History, #HistSTM & #HistTech hivemind: Do we know if anyone is working on a biography of Harold Hankins, UMIST Principal from 1984, and first VC when UMIST obtained university status? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_...

Harold Hankins - Wikipedia

#HistSTM Job Klaxon

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"The division of the perceived universe into parts and wholes is convenient and may be necessary, but no necessity determines how it shall be done." 🦫🦋🧪🐋🌱 #PhilSci #HistSTM

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Gregory Bateson was born OTD in 1904. “Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.” “Epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?” 🦫🦋🧪🐋🌱 #PhilSci #HistSTM

Great paper by @[email protected] alumna @[email protected] on the history of Manchester's science museum. #HistSTM #HistSci www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A science museum ‘to rival Sou...

Next Tuesday: Mary Brazelton on the Chinese response to Sputnik. #HistSTM #HistSci

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Thomas H Huxley was born OTD in 1825. The idea of “warfare” between science and religion is suspect, but it works for H. Protestantism lacks “a trace of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is a proposal to change masters” from the Pope to the Bible. 🧪🌱🐋 #HistSTM #EvoBio

D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson was born OTD in 1860. He conceived of organismal form as primarily a matter of physical forces, rather than natural selection. He used diagrams to represent how networks of physical forces could deform one body plan into another. 🧪🌱🐋🦋🦫🐡 #HistSTM

D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson was born OTD in 1860. He conceived of organismal form as primarily a matter of physical forces, rather than natural selection. He used diagrams to represent how networks of physical forces could deform one body plan into another. 🧪🌱🐋🦋🦫🐡 #HistSTM

Thank you for this review of Metropolitan Science, @[email protected]! It is lovely to have our book on London 1600-1800 discussed alongside works on Naples 1500-1800 and Lisbon 1840-1940 #histSTM #earlymodern cc @[email protected]

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Upcoming talk by G. Geltner "The Workers’ View: An Environmental Approach to Premodern Public Health" as part of the Oxford Medieval History Seminar. 1 June, 5pm BST at the Wharton Room, All Souls College

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Upcoming talk by G. Geltner "The Workers’ View: An Environmental Approach to Premodern Public Health" as part of the Oxford Medieval History Seminar. 1 June, 5pm BST at the Wharton Room, All Souls College

For remote attendance, email [email protected]

#histmed #histstm

Upcoming talk by G. Geltner "The Workers’ View: An Environmental Approach to Premodern Public Health" as part of the Oxford Medieval History Seminar. 1 June, 5pm BST at the Wharton Room, All Souls College

For remote attendance, email [email protected]

#histmed #histstm

Upcoming talk by G. Geltner "The Workers’ View: An Environmental Approach to Premodern Public Health" as part of the Oxford Medieval History Seminar. 1 June, 5pm BST at the Wharton Room, All Souls College

For remote attendance, email [email protected]

#histmed #histstm

Upcoming talk by G. Geltner "The Workers’ View: An Environmental Approach to Premodern Public Health" as part of the Oxford Medieval History Seminar. 1 June, 5pm BST at the Wharton Room, All Souls College

For remote attendance, email [email protected]

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Henri Poincaré was born OTD in 1854. Identical antecedents must lead to identical consequents. But our world is so complex that it is inconceivable that two situations should *ever* be in all respects identical. And so the principle of determinism has no application to us. 🧪🦋🦫 #HistSTM #PhilSci

Kurt Gödel was born OTD in 1906. “If a 'religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Gödel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one.” John Barrow, The Artful Universe 🧪🦫🦋 #HistSTM #PhilSci

Kurt Gödel was born OTD in 1906. “If a 'religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Gödel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one.” John Barrow, The Artful Universe 🧪🦫🦋 #HistSTM #PhilSci

Kurt Gödel was born OTD in 1906. “If a 'religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Gödel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one.” John Barrow, The Artful Universe 🧪🦫🦋 #HistSTM #PhilSci

Kurt Gödel was born OTD in 1906. “If a 'religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Gödel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one.” John Barrow, The Artful Universe 🧪🦫🦋 #HistSTM #PhilSci

Kurt Gödel was born OTD in 1906. “If a 'religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Gödel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one.” John Barrow, The Artful Universe 🧪🦫🦋 #HistSTM #PhilSci

Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge & Practice, c.1600-1800, by me, @[email protected] and Noah Moxham, is available as a paperback from Thursday! A relative snip at £26 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #earlymodern #histSTM

Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge & Practice, c.1600-1800, by me, @[email protected] and Noah Moxham, is available as a paperback from Thursday! A relative snip at £26 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #earlymodern #histSTM

Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge & Practice, c.1600-1800, by me, @[email protected] and Noah Moxham, is available as a paperback from Thursday! A relative snip at £26 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #earlymodern #histSTM

Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge & Practice, c.1600-1800, by me, @[email protected] and Noah Moxham, is available as a paperback from Thursday! A relative snip at £26 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #earlymodern #histSTM

Pleased to say that 'Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances' is now available through Oxford Scholarship Online!

The volume gathers fifteen studies on the history and archaeology of public health from across the preindustrial globe

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Pleased to say that 'Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances' is now available through Oxford Scholarship Online!

The volume gathers fifteen studies on the history and archaeology of public health from across the preindustrial globe

academic.oup.com/book/62595

#histmed #histstm

Pleased to say that 'Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances' is now available through Oxford Scholarship Online!

The volume gathers fifteen studies on the history and archaeology of public health from across the preindustrial globe

academic.oup.com/book/62595

#histmed #histstm

Pleased to say that 'Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances' is now available through Oxford Scholarship Online!

The volume gathers fifteen studies on the history and archaeology of public health from across the preindustrial globe

academic.oup.com/book/62595

#histmed #histstm

Pleased to say that 'Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances' is now available through Oxford Scholarship Online!

The volume gathers fifteen studies on the history and archaeology of public health from across the preindustrial globe

academic.oup.com/book/62595

#histmed #histstm

Another exhibition to look out for if you come to Edinburgh this summer #ESHS-HSS #histSTM

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Another exhibition to look out for if you come to Edinburgh this summer #ESHS-HSS #histSTM

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The famous DNA diagram from the Watson/Crick paper was more than just a post-hoc visual representation. Diagramming DNA played a key role in their solution of its structure. On the role of diagramming in DNA research, and in science more generally, see below. 🧪🌱🐋 #HistSTM #EvoBio

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Tools of Reason: The Practice ...