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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

#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

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

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 🧪🌎

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

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

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

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...

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

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.

🧵1/

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.

🧵1/

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.

🧵1/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 📉📈

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

Ernst Mayr was born OTD in 1904.

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

🧠🗃️🌱🐋🦋🦫🧪 #HistSTM #PhilSci

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

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