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From the sixteenth to the twentieth century, urban farmers grew Mediterranean fruits and vegetables as far north as England and the Netherlands, using only renewable energy.
#LowTech #DIY #Climate_Change #Biodiversity #EnvHist #HistSTM
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-farming-in-the-1600s/

From the sixteenth to the twentieth century, urban farmers grew Mediterranean fruits and vegetables as far north as England and the Netherlands, using only renewable energy.
#LowTech #DIY #Climate_Change #Biodiversity #EnvHist #HistSTM
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-farming-in-the-1600s/

From the sixteenth to the twentieth century, urban farmers grew Mediterranean fruits and vegetables as far north as England and the Netherlands, using only renewable energy.
#LowTech #DIY #Climate_Change #Biodiversity #EnvHist #HistSTM
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-farming-in-the-1600s/

From the sixteenth to the twentieth century, urban farmers grew Mediterranean fruits and vegetables as far north as England and the Netherlands, using only renewable energy.
#LowTech #DIY #Climate_Change #Biodiversity #EnvHist #HistSTM
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-farming-in-the-1600s/

From the sixteenth to the twentieth century, urban farmers grew Mediterranean fruits and vegetables as far north as England and the Netherlands, using only renewable energy.
#LowTech #DIY #Climate_Change #Biodiversity #EnvHist #HistSTM
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-farming-in-the-1600s/

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

#HistSTM #HistSci #CharlesDarwin

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

#HistSTM #HistSci #CharlesDarwin

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

#HistSTM #HistSci #CharlesDarwin

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

#HistSTM #HistSci #CharlesDarwin

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

#HistSTM #HistSci #CharlesDarwin

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 #CharlesDarwin

https://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=CUL-DAR47.77-79&viewtype=side&pageseq=1

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 #CharlesDarwin

https://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=CUL-DAR47.77-79&viewtype=side&pageseq=1

Eunice Foote conducted an experiment showing that atmospheric CO2 traps heat.

OTD in 1856, she listened to a man (John Henry of the Smithsonian) present her results to the American Acad. for the Advancement of Science.

Henry downplayed the significance of Foote’s finding.

#HistSTM #WomeninSTEM 🧪🌎

Thomas Lovejoy was born OTD in 1941

“Conservation is sometimes perceived as stopping everything cold, as holding whooping cranes in higher esteem than people.... [But] the choice is not between wild places or people, it is between a rich or an impoverished existence for Man.”

🌱🐋🧪 #HistSTM #PhilSci

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
https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2019/08/between-nature-and-science

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
https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2019/08/between-nature-and-science

60 Years ago today, the first Lunar Orbiter launched on a mission to photograph the Moon in preparation for Apollo. For the occasion, I wrote a history of the camera, originally built by Eastman Kodak for a classified Air Force program.

#otd #HistSTM 🗃️🔭

invertingvision.com/2026/08/10/k...

Kodak’s “Pre-Invented” Lunar O...

Happy birthday to trailblazing American computer scientist Frances Elizabeth Allen (1932 – 2020) who made foundational contributions to optimizing compilers, optimizing programs and parallel computing. She was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, where she worked from 1957 to 2002 and as an emeritus fellow afterwards. She was the first woman to win the Turing Prize.

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https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1086564033

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histSTM #computing #mathematician #sciart #compsci

Happy birthday to trailblazing American computer scientist Frances Elizabeth Allen (1932 – 2020) who made foundational contributions to optimizing compilers, optimizing programs and parallel computing. She was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, where she worked from 1957 to 2002 and as an emeritus fellow afterwards. She was the first woman to win the Turing Prize.

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https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1086564033

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histSTM #computing #mathematician #sciart #compsci

Donald Griffin, discoverer of bat echolocation, was born OTD 1915.

I imagine “small mammals enough like ourselves to feel that I could understand what their lives would be like, and yet different enough to make it a sort of adventure and exploration to see what they were doing.”

🐋🌱🧪 #HistSTM

J-B Lamarck was born OTD in 1744

A “prime cause … endows animal life with the power to make organization gradually more complex…. Occasionally a foreign, accidental, and therefore variable cause has interfered with the execution of the plan, without, however, destroying it.”

🐋🌱🧪🗃️🧠 #EvoBio #HistSTM

Rosalind Franklin was born OTD in 1920.

Her X-ray crystallography was key to discovering DNA’s structure (her student Raymond Gosling took photo 51).

She also studied viruses. After her untimely death, a colleague Aaron Klug continued her work and won a Nobel.

🌱🐋🧪 #EvoBio #HistSTM #WomeninSTEM

Rosalind Franklin was born OTD in 1920.

Her X-ray crystallography was key to discovering DNA’s structure (her student Raymond Gosling took photo 51).

She also studied viruses. After her untimely death, a colleague Aaron Klug continued her work and won a Nobel.

🌱🐋🧪 #EvoBio #HistSTM #WomeninSTEM

OTD in 1925 John Scopes was found guilty of violating the Butler Act, a Tennessee statute that forbade the teaching of "any theory … that man has descended from a lower order of animals."

The trial was as much an effort to bring tourist money into Dayton TN as anything else.

🐋🌱🧠🗃️🧪 #HistSTM #EvoBio

The letters by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace had been read before the Linnean Society.

OTD in 1858, D abandoned the “Big Species Book” he had been working on and began a short “abstract” of his theory.

It would go on to be published as On the Origin of Species.

🌱🐋🧪🧠🗃️ #HistSTM #EvoBio

Thomas Kuhn was born OTD in 1922.

Historicity—over revolutions and paradigms—was core to his thought.

“History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed.”

🦋🦫🧠🗃️ #HistSTM #PhilSci

Vilfredo Pareto was born OTD in 1848. His most famous quote is:

"Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself."

But he never said it: quoteinvestigator.com/2024/08/02/f...

🧪🦋🦫 #PhilSci #HistSTM 📉📈

Ernst Mayr was born OTD in 1904.

“Most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.”

🧠🗃️🌱🐋🦋🦫🧪 #HistSTM #PhilSci

OTD in 1858, papers by Darwin and Wallace proposing transmutation of species by natural selection were read to the Linnean Society.

Its president later noted that 1858 had not seen any “discoveries which at once revolutionize … the department of science on which they bear.”

🐋🌱🗃️🧠🧪 #HistSTM #EvoBio

Joseph D. Hooker was born OTD in 1817.

Darwin’s best friend, and the period’s greatest botanist. Like D, H feuded with Richard Owen. O sought to bring H’s Kew Botanic Gardens under the authority of O’s British Museum, accusing H of “attaching barbarous binomials to foreign weeds.”

🌱🐋🧪 #HistSTM

Adding: #histSTM #histsci #philsci #philbio

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Adding: #histSTM #histsci #philsci #philbio

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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...

Transforming Night

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...

Transforming Night

It has been catalogued as 'Planetenbuch: Gottes huld uberal' (1450) There are images of Biblical and Classical figures and roundels with poetic couplets. Presumably astrological? #histSTM

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Babbage would later use a model of the Difference Engine to show that what we perceive as miracles are better understood as consequences of laws of nature we don’t fully understand. He proposed the origin of new species of plants and animals as an example of this. #HistSTM 🐋🌱🧪 #PhilSci

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OTD in 1822, a letter from Charles Babbage proposing the construction of a “Difference Engine” for the automated calculation of mathematical functions was read before the Royal Astronomical Society of London. #HistSTM 🐋🌱🧪🦫🦋

English landscape painter John Constable was born OTD in 1776. "Painting is a science and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.  Why, then, may not a landscape be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but experiments." 🧪🐋🌱🐡#philsci #HistSTM

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

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

On the role that diagramming played in Crick and Watson’s contributions to the structure of DNA--and on diagrams as epistemic tools in science and math more generally--see www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (paywall). 🌱🐋🧪🐡 #EvoBio #HistSTM

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6eqjufcnopmdmucccde5aeob/post/3mnrxbytods2t

Tools of Reason: The Practice ...

Francis Crick was born OTD in 1916. We've all seen the DNA diagram that appeared in Crick and Watson’s Nature paper (left), but have you seen his sketch (right), from which his wife Odile made the published version? 🌱🐋🧪🐡 #EvoBio #HistSTM

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

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

Check out Katherine Harvey's (@katherineharvey.bsky.social) recently published 'The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living' which explores the way that medieval people looked over their physical and mental health.

https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-medieval-guide-to-healthy-living

#histmed #histstm

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

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

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

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