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  1. 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]

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hycqpk46kiaaakujowilpzfl/post/3mkadowfhu22v

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Happy birthday to Canadian 🇨🇦 geneticist Irene Ayako Uchida (1917-2013)! My #linocut is hand printed on 9.25” x 12.5” Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper. Uchida is shown surrounded by chromosones, with anomalies (shown with pink arrows) due to radiation exposure, based on one of her research papers. A strand of DNA is hidden in the image (as her watchband).⁠
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    minouette.etsy.com/listing/608

    #printmaking #sciart #genetics #cytology #DNA #histstm #WomenInSTEM #chromosomes #mastoArt

  7. 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), 🧵1/

    minouette.etsy.com/listing/170

    #geographer #geography #histstm #sciart #linocut #printmaking #mapart #maps #Mercator

  8. Happy birthday to Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867 – 1934, Polish-born, naturalized-French #physicist & #chemist at work in her lab. The contents of her lab glassware appropriately glow-in-the-dark!

    Marie Curie was the 1st woman to win a Nobel prize, the only woman to ever win TWO Nobel prizes, and the only person ever to win in two different sciences: #physics & #chemistry! She was also the 1st woman prof at the U of Paris, 🧵

    #linocut #printmaking #sciart #WomenInSTEM #histstm

  9. Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), #chemist & x-ray #crystallographer whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of #DNA, made important contributions to #carbon & #virus research, was 1 of the great scientists of the 20th century.⁠

    Watson’s bio lead some to (inaccurately) joke, “What did Watson and Crick discover?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes.” 🧵

    #linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #histstm #sciart

  10. Happy birthday to Canadian 🇨🇦 geneticist Irene Ayako Uchida (1917-2013)! In my #linocut Uchida is shown surrounded by chromosones, with anomalies (shown with pink arrows) due to radiation exposure, based on one of her research papers. A strand of DNA is hidden in the image (as her watchband).⁠

    Uchida didn’t set out to be a scientist. She was studying English literature at UBC, before she was interned 🧵1/n

    #printmaking #sciart #genetics #cytology #DNA #histstm #WomenInSTEM #chromosomes

  11. Happy birthday to Wilhem Röntgen (1845-1923), the German physicist who discovered x-rays and earned the Nobel Prize for physics in 1901. I’ve depicted him in this thermochromic portrait at work, studying this mysterious, newly discovered, invisible form of light, based on a photograph of him in his lab, using a Crookes tube to produce x-rays. The form of the print mimics the nature of his discovery -
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    #MastoArt #linocut #sciart #Roentgen #physics #histstm #xrays #printmaking

  12. Happy birthday to #neurologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852 - 1934), here in front of Purkinje and granule cells from a pigeon, based on one of his own drawings! Cajal &Golgi won the Nobel in 1906, "in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system". He was as much of an artist as he was a scientist & his 100s of drawings are still used for teaching purposes.⁠
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    #sciart #linocut #printmaking #histstm #PurkinjeCell #neuroscience #MastoArt

  13. This print "Occam's Razor" is about the Law of Economy or Parsimony postulated by Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1287–1347), "pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate" or entities should not be needlessly multiplied. More simply this law, or really, rule of thumb is that the simplest explanation is usually right. 🧵1/n

    #linocut #printmaking #Occam #Ockham #OccamsRazor #typography #sciArt #philosophy #histstm #imaginaryfriends #science #cryptids #MastoArt

  14. Happy birthday to #neurologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852 - 1934), here in front of Purkinje and granule cells from a pigeon, based on one of his own drawings! Cajal &Golgi won the Nobel in 1906, "in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system". He was as much of an artist as he was a scientist & his 100s of drawings are still used for teaching purposes.⁠

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    #sciart #linocut #printmaking #histstm #PurkinjeCell #neuroscience

  15. This print "Occam's Razor" is about the Law of Economy or Parsimony postulated by Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1287–1347), "pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate" or entities should not be needlessly multiplied. More simply this law, or really, rule of thumb is that the simplest explanation is usually right.

    #linocut #printmaking #OccamsRazor #typography #sciArt #philosophy #histstm #imaginaryfriends #science #cryptids

  16. Happy birthday Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827), French mathematical physicist (who incidentally, did invaluable work in geophysics). He was pretty hard-headed and probably didn't really have any imaginary friends, but nonetheless Laplace’s Demon is my 3rd in the series of Imaginary Friends of Science.

    #linocut #printmaking #histstm #Laplace #LaplacesDemon #physics #determinism #ImaginaryFriends #Science

  17. An extraordinary Black woman in science & math to celebrate this #BlackHistoryMonth: my #linocut portrait of mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020). One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (and its predecessor NACA), …

    #mathematics 🚀
    #linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInStEM #BlackInSTEM #histstm #NASA #KatherineJohnson #mathematician #aeronauticalEngineer #physics #space

  18. 📢 It's out !
    @cmadruga and I are thrilled to announce the publication of our special issue on #SituatedNature!

    If like us you wonder what collecting nature actually meant in the nineteenth century, and why it does _really_ matter ➡️ read more here ! journalhistoryknowledge.org/si

    tl;dr : contains a lot #histodons #nature, #collections, #fieldwork #empire and #nation-building, #coloniality #LocalKnowledge !
    @histodons #histSTM #histsci

  19. Minnie Elizabeth (Betty) Barclay Lindsay, 2nd woman engineering graduate (mech eng) @EdinburghUni Worked as #civilengineer in #Albania on Anti-Malarial Mission 1926-39 later technical translator in Spanish & Albanian for Air Ministry d. #OTD 11 Jan 1953 bit.ly/3gCNy8u

    
    #WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth#WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #WomenInCulture #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery