Whewell’s Gazette
Your weekly digest of all the best of
Internet history of science, technology and medicine
Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell
Year 3, Volume #05
Monday 19 September 2016
EDITORIAL:
The summer draws to a close but for those encroaching autumn evenings you have the well filled newest edition of Whewell’s Gazette the #histSTM links list bringing you, as always, all of the histories of science, technology and medicine that we could dredge up out of the depths of cyberspace over the last seven days.
The #histSTM news of the week was without doubt the announcement of the probable discovery of John Franklin’s ship HMS Terror in the Arctic ice almost two years to the day of the similar announcement of the discovery of his other ship HMS Erebus. Both ships disappeared together with their entire crews in Franklin’s final attempt to find the North-West Passage in 1845. The loss of Franklin’s expedition was just one more episode in a centuries long attempt to find alternative routes to Asia either along the top of the European continent, the North-East Passage, or along the top of North America, the North-West Passage through the Arctic ice floes.
In the late High Middle Ages, Europeans began to explore the possibility of sailing to Asia to trade, especially to fetch the spices that were so desired in Europe and on which the Arab traders had a monopoly via the overland route. A monopoly that they shared with the traders of Northern Italy, who passed on those spices with a substantial mark up.
The Portuguese worked their way down the coast of Africa until Vasco da Gama reached India by the sea route in 1498. Six years earlier Columbus, sponsored by the Spanish Crown, had accidentally discovered America whilst trying to reach the Spice Island by sailing west around the globe. Whilst in the sixteenth century Magellan found his way around the tip of South America on his fatal voyage around the world (1519–1522) others were already attempting to find the North-East and North-West Passages, an endeavour that has not lost its attraction even today.
Over the centuries this endeavours have involved large amounts of #histSTM in the form of exploration, navigation, cartography, natural history and oceanography. The loss of Franklin’s expedition in the 1840s became a Victorian cause celebre because he was already a highly successful and highly decorated explorer and the disappearance of ships and crew has excited story tellers and historians down till the present.
Now it seems with the recovery of both ships a final chapter will be written in the story of Franklin’s final ill fated North-West passage in a time when both the North-West and North-East Passages are finally becoming navigable due to global warming and the seasonal melting of the Arctic ice.
The Franklin Expedition:
‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror’ in New Zealand, August 1841, by John Wilson Carmichael
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Guardian: Ship found in Artic 168 years after doomed Northwest Passage attempt
CBC News: Sir John Franklin’s Long-lost HMS Terror believed found
The Star: HMS Terror, second ship from doomed Franklin Expedition, found in Terror Bay
McGill-Queen’s University Press: MQUP Author and Franklin Expert Russell A. Potter Comments on Discovery of HMS terror
The Canadian Encyclopedia: Franklin Search
The Society for Nautical Research: E.G.R. Taylor Lecture – Finding Franklin: King’s College London 13th October 2016
Canadian Geographic: Sir John Franklin’s HMS Terror believed found in Artic
BBC News: Sunken ship found 168 years after doomed voyage
British Library: Maps and views blog: The long search for HMS Terror
Royal Museums Greenwich: John Franklin’s final North-West Passage expedition 1845
Jalopnik: Shipwreck Discovered ‘In perfect Condition’ 168 Years After Failed Expedition
Smithsonian.com: Second Ship From Sir John Franklin’s 19th-Century Expedition Found
Royal Museums Greenwich: They forged the last links of their lives
Süddeutsche Zeitung: Verschollenes Schiff aus Arktis-Expedition entdeckt
Canadian Geographic: Five interesting facts about the HMS Terror
Quotes of the week:
“Libraries aren’t just about books. They are almost the only public space we have left which don’t like our wallets more than us” – Matt Haig (@matthaig1)
“When I voted Brexit, it was to keep foreigners out, not so I need a visa to travel. It’s ridiculous” – Some customers chatting in my work – Wee Mowgz (@Mowgzilla)
Mrs Dirac’s overall judgement of Heisenberg was right: ‘I wouldn’t trust him further than I could throw his piano’ – Graham Farmelo (@grahamfarmelo)
Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion” ― Simon Sinek h/t (@roos-annamarie)
‘Farewell, turd!’ – Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, signs off a letter to his nephew John, duke of Cleves, 1451-2 h/t @hrcastor
Me: So how can we tell scholarly sources from non-scholarly ones?
Student: They’re behind a paywall? – Emily Johnson (@esj312)
Parent: I’d do anything for my children!
Scientist: here’s how to stave off climate change so your children can stay on earth
Parent: nah – Sophia Benoit (@1followernodad)
“Anyone who believes you can’t change history has never tried to write his memoirs.” – David Ben-Gurion
“Biography that is at once popular, important, and original: an insoluble equation?” – Gabriel Finkelstein (@gabridli)
“I rather love HG Wells’ glee here at what he did to southwest London and environs in War of the Worlds” – Philip Ball (@philipcball)
“Matthew Effect: big men do everything
Matilda Effect: no women do anything
Ada Effect: all non-men are Ada Lovelace” – James Sumner (@JamesBSumner)
“This Fibonacci joke is as bad as the last two you heard combined” – Dan Piponi (@sigfpe)
“See that OTD in 1994 Karl Popper died
I say he didn’t. Now prove me wrong.
It’s what he would have wanted” – Peter Broks {@peterbroks)
Yes I can imagine, what with the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and the constant wars in Europe – Michael Hughes (@michaelehughes)
Birthdays of the Week:
Irène Joliot-Curie born 12 September 1897
Physicist Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956) is shown in full academic regalia on May 23, 1921 Photo by James Stokley
Source Wikimedia Commons
Yovisto: Irène Joliot-Curie and Artificial Radioactivity
CHF: Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot
AHF: Irene Joliot-Curie
Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean-Baptiste Le Gentil de la Galaisière born 12 September 1725
Sidereal Times: The Ordeal of Guillaume Le Gentil
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Born under a bad sign
Alexander von Humboldt born 14 September 1769
Humboldt and Bonpland in the Amazon rainforest by the Casiquiare River, with their scientific instruments, which enabled them to take many types of accurate measurements throughout their five-year journey. Oil painting by Eduard Ender, 1856.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Humboldt and Bonpland’s: Essai sur la géographie des plantes and its significance
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: Humboldt
Stephen Hales born 17 September 1677
Stephen Hales, aged 82, by J.McArdell after T. Hudson
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Renaissance Mathematicus: A breath of fresh air
Yovisto: Stephen Hales and the Blood Pressure
Edwin McMillan born 18 September 1907
Edwin Mattison McMillan
Source: Wikimedia Commons
AIP: Edwin McMillan
AHF: Edwin McMillan
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
September 12, 1933. London Times reported that Ernest Rutherford dismissed atomic energy as ‘moonshine.’ h/t @GeneDannen
Yovisto: The First Spacecraft to Land on the Moon – Luna 2
Luna II
Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Curiosity Touching Down, Artist’s Concept
MV CRASSH: Copying Hevelius’s Lunar Template
Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog: Szilard’s chain reaction: visionary or crank?
AHF: H.G: Wells, “The World Set Free”
Medievalists.net: The Copernican System: A Detailed Synopsis
Archaeology & Arts: The conical sundial in the Archaeology Museum of Piraeus
Atlas Obscura: International Women’s Air & Space Museum
AHF: Jane Hall
APS News: Poll Reveals All-Star Physicists
The Nation UEA: Matchless tolerance of the 18th century brass astrolabe
Observer: Space Shuttle Enterprise: From Richard Nixon to New York City
teleskopos: Sights and sounds: darkness and silence
Voices of the Manhattan Project: General Keith Nicol’s Interview – Part 2
The best technical report ever written about particle accelerators: h/t @realscientists
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Atlas Obscura: These Utopian City Maps Have Influenced Urban Planners for Over a Century
A series of Garden Cities around a larger central city. (Image: Ebenezer Howard/Public domain)
British Library: Online Gallery: Crace Collection of Maps of London
laist: This 1939 Map Shows America, As Seen Through the Eyes of an Angeleno
Columbus: World’s Finest Globes and Maps: 3 Unforgettable Celestial Globes from the Globe Museum
Gerardus Mercator’s Celestial Globe from 1551
National Geographic: How Mapmakers Make Mountains Rise Off the Page
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
Thomas Morris: The woman who vomited pins
Wonders & Marvels: Poisons and love potions
STAT: The surprising history of the war on superbugs – and what it means for the world today
Mille feuilles de Bretagne: Episode 2 des archives médicales du Centre hospitalier Guillaume Régnier
PLOS Neuro Community: Could an ancient Asian remedy fight memory loss?
VERSO: a Renaissance Curiosity
Detail from Pierre Pomet’s l’Histoire générale des drogues, Paris, 1694. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Yovisto: Phineas Gage’s Accident and the Science of the Mind and the Brain
Phy Org: Tracing the path of pygmies’ shared knowledge of medicinal plants
Bizarre Victoria: Final Countdown
Thomas Morris: Severed, replaced, reunited
Two Nerdy History Girls: Pulvermacher’s Hydro-Electric Chains to Cure Whatever Ails You
Dittrick Medical History Center: Condoms and Sponges
Thomas Morris: Catching a disease through an electric wire
New Statesman: Why the media doesn’t understand how to cover Hillary Clinton’s health
Slate: America Has Always Seen Ambitious Women as Unhealthy
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Old and new surgical tools
The New York Times Magazine: Could Ancient Remedies Hold the Answer to the Looming Antibiotics Crisis?
Notches: Abortion Under Apartheid
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Orukter Amphibolos-an amphibious vehicle designed by inventor Oliver Evans born 13 September1755 h/t Ben Gross (@bhgross)
I Programmer: Original EDSAC Programmers Look Back
The Atlantic: The Appropriately Messy Etymology of ‘Kluge’
Smithsonian.com: The World’s Oldest Papyrus and What It Can Tell Us About the Great Pyramids
Red Bull Music Academy Daily: The Legend of the Rhythmicon, the World’s First Drum Machine
Smithsonian.com: American Drivers Have Bicyclists to Thank for a Smooth Ride to Work
npr: Gas, Electric Or Steam? Car Shopping, 100 Years Ago
Atlas Obscura: Found: Photos of Sewer Construction From 1901
1901 construction of a Scottish sewer. (Photo: Scottish Water)
Conciatore: Deadly Fumes
Ptak Science Books: Cross Section of the Comstock Lode
British Library: Sound and vision blog: Restoring the first recording of computer music
Ptak Science Books: Questionable Quidity: the Fire Escape Head Parachute, 1879
AEON: How Cold War rivalry helped launch the Chinese computer
Patent Pending Blog – Patents and the History of Technology: The Hand-Cranked Ice Cream Maker
Atlas Obscura: Dymaxion Car at the National Automobile Museum
Dymaxion Car at the National Automobile Museum
CNRS News: Nero’s Rotating Dining Room
British Library: Collection items: Invention of photography
Ptak Science Books: North Pole Airport of the Future (1945)
The New York Times: Don Bulcha, Electronic Music Maverick, Dies at 79
AEON: Getting things moving
JSTOR Daily: Which Came First, The Spoon, Fork, or Knife?
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
NICHE: Introduction: Dam Nation: Hydroelectric Developments in Canada
NICHE: “To C or not to C”: Dam Development in Northern British Columbia
Rebecca Rideal: Poisonous Little Beasts
History of Geology: The true Geology behind The X-Files: Firewalker
JSTOR Daily: Constructing the White Race
NICHE: #EnvHist Worth Reading: August 2016
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Joannes Jonston
The Linnean Society: Every New Term Deserves a Fresh Pencil Case
CHF: Distillations: Future Calculations: The first climate change believer
Letters from Gondwana: The Legacy of the Feud between Florentino Ameghino and P Moreno
Medievalists.net: Telling the Truth about Sex in Late Medieval Paris
Lady Science: Gertrude Caton-Thompson, Women’s Networks, and Racial Politics in Great Zimbabwe
Gertrude Caton-Thompson
Lady Science: Writing About Fossils Found by Men
The Royal Society: The unseen world: reflections on Leeuwenhoek (1677) ‘concerning little animals’
CHEMISTRY:
Conciatore: Lixiviation
Untold Stories of Science: Marie Maynard Daly: an Illuminating Chemist and a Path-Paving Activist
Marie Maynard Daly
OUP Blog: An egalitarian and organic history of the periodic table
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
Lyman Entomological Museum: What is natural history anyway?
The Recipes Project: Recipes and the Unanticipated
The Recipes Project: Cooking for a Crowd: Recipes and the Transcribathon
Past & Present: Most-Read Articles during August 2016: Some #histSTM Some oa.
BBC Culture: Are these the strangest relics in history?
The dissected brain of physicist Albert Einstein, removed by pathologist Thomas Harvey shortly after the great scientist’s death, segmented and preserved in celloidin, circa 1980. (Photo by Steve Pyke/Getty Images)
History of Psychiatry: Volume 27 Issue 3 September 2016 Table of Contents
Atlas Obscura: One of the Earliest Science Fiction Books Was Written in the 1600s by a Duchess: Meet Lady Margaret Cavendish
NICHE: CHESS 2016 Reflections: Reconciliation and Environment
News Works: A natural history museum questions what ‘natural’ means
ESOTERIC:
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Cornelius Agrippa
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Conciatore: A Band of Alchemists
BOOK REVIEWS:
The Guardian: A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived review – popular science at its best
Popular Science: A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived – Adam Rutherford
The Guardian: A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford review – genes, race and rewriting the human story
Popular Science: Laurie Winkless – Four Way Interview
The Dispersal of Darwin: Charles Darwin’s Life With Birds: His Complete Ornithology
Skulls in the Stars: Light, by Kimderly Arcand and Megan Watzke
Science & Religion: Exploring the Spectrum: Peter Harrison’s The Territories of Science and Religion: A New Peter Principle
MAAS: Observations: “Under the radar. The first woman in radio astronomy: Ruby Payne-Scott” by WM Goss and Richard X McGee
Physics Today: Five essential history of physics books
Literary Hub: One of the Greatest English Prose Writers of All Time?
London Review of Books: Such Matters as the Soul: The Invention of Science: a new History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton
Trading Knowledge: The Lasker book prize
Public Books: How to be a Global Historian
NEW BOOKS:
Historiens de la santé: La santé aux États-Unis. Une histoire politique
Columbia University Press: A History of Virility
OUP: The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic
British Library Publishing: Lines in the Ice
Thames and Hudson: This Way Madness Lies: The Asylum and Beyond
Routledge: Harriet Matineau and the Birth of Disciplines: Nineteenth-century intellectual powerhouse
la vie des idéees.fr: Impudique pudeur Recensé : Dominique Brancher, Équivoques de la pudeur – Fabrique d’une passion à la Renaissance
McGill-Queen’s University Press: Wildlife, Land, and People: A Century of Change in Prairie Canada
OUP: Academic: Philosophy in the Islamic World
“Hidden Figures” Book and Film
AFRO: Margot Shetterly: The American Dream and the Untold Story of Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
The New York Times Magazine: Margot Lee Shetterly Wants to Tell More Black Stories
Shine: Watch: “Hidden Figures” Tells the Untold Story of NASA’s Black Women Mathematicians
ars technica: New movie celebrates the true geniuses behind Apollo: NASA’s mathematicians
The New York Times: On Being a Black Female Math Wiz During the Space Race
The Guardian: How history forgot the black women behind NASA’s space race
Nature: A View From The Bridge: Breaking barriers: The US space programme’s black women mathematicians
On Point: The ‘Hidden Figures’ Who Helped NASA Win the Space Race
Smithsonian.com: The Forgotten Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Send Astronauts to Space
ART & EXHIBITIONS
The H-Word: Why women are asking a major art and technology festival to #KissMyArs
British Library: Maps and views blog: Map exhibition – the countdown begins
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Lodovico Cigoli
Guildhall Art Gallery, London: Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy 20 September 2016–22 January 2017
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies Harvard University: The Art of Discovery 13 September– 29 October 2016
Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art: Mapping Australia: Country to Cartography 4 October 2016–15 January 2017
past@present: Women in Science: The Stories Are All Around Us
Exhibition open 15 September 2016 through Summer 2017
Hodinkee: Historical Perspectives: New York’s Grolier Club to Exhibit a Collection of Rare Horological Books and Artifacts
flickr: On Time: The Quest for Precision: Books on Time and Timekeeping from the Linda Hall Library Curated by Bruce Bradley
Londonist: New Wellcome Exhibition Invites You Into Bedlam
The Quack Doctor: Beyond the asylum: a review of the Wellcome Collection’s Bedlam
Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: the asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017
New Scientist: Exhibition seeks to put utopia in its place
Live Mint: Science, time, and Rohini Devasher’s art
Poetic Botany: Art & Science of the Eighteenth-Century Vegetable World
Gallica Rose
University of Leicester: New Website showcases migraine artwork digitally for the first time
Yale News: Yale marks 175th anniversary of Arabic and Sanskrit studies with exhibit, public events
Hyperallergic: The Morgan Marks the Centennial of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
BBC News: Mary Rose shipwreck skulls go online in 3D
Université de Lausanne: Musée de physique de Lausanne : brève visite virtuelle
Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and Los Angeles Basin, 1940–1990
blog.umass.edu: Women in Science: The Stories Are All Around Us
The Hunterian: Tracking Animals 7 April–12 February 2017
University of Birmingham: Inspiring Knowledge: 13 October 2016–30 June 2017
COMING SOON: Guildhall Art Gallery: Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy 20 September–22 January 2017
American Museum of Natural History: Opulent Oceans
Natural History Museum: Colour and Vision: Through the Eyes of Nature 15 July–6 November 2016
Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September –16 December 2016
The Australian: Hadron Collider show reveals art of science at Sydney Powerhouse Museum
Royal Museums Greenwich: Do the Ultimate Time Trail
University of Nottingham: Manuscripts and Special Collections: Weston Gallery Exhibition: Francis Willughby (1635–1672) A Natural Historian and His Collections 19 August–4 December 2016
National Railway Museum: National Railway Museum marks historic First World War centenary with new exhibition
CLOSING SOON: BBC News: James Brindley: The canal pioneer who changed England Runs till 2 October 2016
Various accounts suggest Brindley carved cheese to showcase his Barton Aqueduct design to a parliamentary committee
HERBERT DUNKLEY
HSS: On Time: The Quest for Precision
Christ Church Oxford: Hakluyt and Geography in Oxford 1550–1650 Opens 14 October 2016
Bodleian Library: The World in a Book: Hakluyt and Renaissance Discovery Opens 28 October 2016
Heriot Watt University: New exhibit unveiled at ICE museum
National Library of Scotland: You Are Here 22 July 2016–3 April 2017
The Walters Museum: Waste Not: The Art of Medieval Recycling 25 June–18 September 2016
CLOSING SOON: The Holburne Museum: Stubbs and the Wild June 25–2 October 2016
George Stubbs A Lion and a Lioness 1778 Enamel on Wedgwood ceramic
The Daniel Katz Gallery London
Australian National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude 5 May–30 October 2016
Science Museum: Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care 29 June 2016–15 January 2018
Art Institute Chicago: The Shogun’s World: Japanese Maps from the 18th and 19th Centuries 25 June–6 November 2016
Museum of London: Fire! Fire! 23July 2016–17 April 2017
The Mary Rose: Mary Rose Museum re-opening on 20th July 2016
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
St. Louis Central Library: Fantasy Maps Exhibit 11 June–15 October 2016
Amritt Museum: Beatrix Potter – Image & Reality
Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph
Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library
Historiens de la santé: Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England: Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts
Science Museum: Robots
Horniman Museum & Gardens: H Blog: Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus
CLOSING SOON: Royal Collections Trust: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 15 April–9 October Frome Museum:
Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera: Bodleian Treasures: 24 Pairs 25 February2016–19 February 2017
AMNH: Opulent Oceans 3 October 2015–1 December 2016
Corning Museum of Glass: Revealing the Invisible: The History of Glass and the Microscope: April 23, 2016–March 18, 2017
Wellcome Collections: States of Mind 4 February–16 October 2016
Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm
Manchester Art Gallery: The Imitation Game
Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Somerset House: Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility
Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday
Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017
Science Museum: Information Age
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: YOUTOPIA: VISIONS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE MAUDSLEY AT WAR 25 May–20November 2016
Herschel Museum: Science and Spirituality: Astronomy and the Benedictine Order 4 May–12December
Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy
Bethel Museum of the Mind: The Weight of History 27 July – 18 November 2016
Royal Collection: Maria Merian’s Butterflies
Royal Society of Medicine: charcot, hysteria, & la salpetriere 3 May 2016–23 July 2016
Royal College of Physicians: ‘To fetch out the fire’: reviving London, 1666 1 September–16 December 2016
COMING SOON: Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017
Bethlem Museum of the Mind: THE WEIGHT OF HISTORY 27 July–18 November 2016
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Shakespeare’s World View: Stars, Globes and Magic 1 August–31 December 2016
Wellcome Collection: Bedlam: The asylum and beyond 15 September 2016–15 January 2017
The Star: Sea monsters, beavers and made-up lands dot Toronto Reference Library map exhibit
Science Museum: Journeys Through Medicine
Science Museum: Cosmos & Culture
CLOSING SOON: Oxford University Museum of Natural History: How spiders linked the world together, and the man at the centre of it all 26 July–27 September 2016
Bodleian Libraries: Tuberculosis: milestones of discovery and innovation 9September–16 October 2016
Science Museum: Challenge of Materials
CLOSING SOON: Oxford University Museum of Natural History: How spiders linked the world together, and the man at the centre of it all 26 July–27 September 2016
Science Museum: The Clockmakers’ Museum
Maudsley Long Gallery: Before and After 15 September 2016–16 January 2017
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
The Polar Museum: Do Not Adjust Your Stage: Wunderkammer 29 September 2016
BFI Southbank: Light Up The Ladies Bridge 22–24 September 2016
Leaping Robot: “God Help American Science”: Engineering Theatre and Spectacle
Science Museum: ‘Museums of the New Age’: Science Museum Premiere for New Film Score 2 October 2016
St John’s College Cambridge:Kepler’s Trial: An Opera Premieres 28 & 29 October 2016
Gravity Fields Festival: World Premier: The Old Dogg at the Mint 22-23 September 2016
Smithsonia.com: The Cosmos Sings in This Fusion of Astrophysics and Music: The Hubble Cantata
NIST: Public Affair Office: Funding Opportunity to Produce Science Documentary
SFGate: Doc resurrects weird 20th century con man
Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 07 January 2017
The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017
CLOSING SOON: Barbican: The Alchemist 2 September–1 October 2016
CLOSING SOON: Barbican: Doctor Faustus 7 September–1 October 2016
COMING SOON: Hull Truck Theatre: Faustus 14 October 2016
COMING SOON: Salisbury Playhouse: Frankenstein 20 October–5 November 2016
COMING SOON: Dundee Rep Theatre: Frankenstein 28–29 October 2016
COMING SOON: The Anvil Trust: Frankenstein 29 September–1 October 2016
COMING SOON: Greenwich Theatre: Jekyll And Hyde 10–11 October 2016
COMING SOON: Dundee Rep Theatre: Frankenstein 28–29 October 2016
Harrogate (White Rose) Theatre: The Trials of Galileo 21–22 September 2016
EVENTS:
Center for the History of Medicine at Countway Library: Lecture: The Anatomy of Murder: Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich 20 September 2016
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Art and Beauty in Medicine 5 October 2016
Discover Medical London: Our Walks and Tours
The Polar Museum: Tour of Operation Deep Freeze 27 September 2016
Millennium Theatre, Limerick: Dream Big: Space, Limerick and Two Mens’ Quest to Reach for the Stars 5 October 2016
Scientific Instrument Society: Turner Memorial Lecture: Emilie Savage-Smith, FBA ‘Of Making Celestial Globes There Seems No End’ Society of Antiquaries of London Burlington House, London 25 November 2016
University of Paderborn: Émilie du Châtelet on Space and Time 10 October 2016
University of Paderborn: History of Women Philosophers in Antiquity 10 October 2016
Wellcome Collection, London: 2016 Fred Sanger Lecture: Steven Sturdy, Professor of the Sociology of Medical Knowledge, University of Edinburgh: Genomic data: public, private or ‘common’? A historical perspective 3 October 2016
UWE Bristol: Lecture: Brunel’s Temple Meads terminus: the wrong building in the wrong place? 22 September 2016
The Royal Society of Medicine: Chris Renwick: William Bynum Lecture 2016: Social Biology and Progressive Politics in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain 30 November 2016
The Center for Science & Society, Columbia University: Historical Perspectives on Personalized and Precision Medicine 15 September 2016
Manchester Museum: Animal Kingdoms – Stereoscopic Images Talk 22 September 2016
The Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret, London: Chloroform and Cholera: The Life of John Snow 20 October 2016
New England Wireless & Steam Museum: Yankee Steam-Up 1 October 2016
Gravity Fields: Life’s Greatest Secrets 22 September 2016
LSE: Sir Karl Popper Memorial Lecture 28 September 2016
University of Birmingham: Professor Alice White: The genius of Vesalius 13 October 2016
UCL: Spices and Medicine: Food and Medical Traditions from the Plant World: Exploring Herbal Uses 12 October 2016
Bklyn Public Library: James Gleick, National Book Award nominated science writer, on his new book, Time Travel 27 September 2016
History Collections: Next History Day 15 November 2016
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Art and Beauty in Medicine 5 October 2016
Royal College of Physicians: Study Tour: ‘Flight from the Flames’: Recovering London from The Great Fire 5 September & 5 October 2016
IET London: Ada Lovelace Day Live! 2016 11 October
Evenbrite: London 1708: a Walk into Library History 4 October 2016
The Warburg Institute: Maps and Society Lectures 26th Series Programme 2016–2017
Wellcome Collection London: Museums Computer Group: First Keynote 2016: Museums & Tech 19 October 2016
New Scientist: The life and work of Alan Turing 4_8 November 2016 (other dates available) £££
Royal College of Physicians: Walking Tour: The Making of Thoroughly Modern Medicine
Museum of Science and Industry Manchester: Engine Demonstration
Morbid Anatomy: Upcoming Morbid Anatomy Events
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: One for the Road
Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “London’s Plagues”
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: John Dee and the History of Understanding
University College Cork: Walking Tours: A second chance to solve the mystery of ‘Being Boole’!
The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours
Gresham College: Lecture: The Expanding Universe 26 October 2016
Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Harley Street: Healers and Hoaxers
The Royal College of Physicians: Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: “Sex and The City”
Norcroft Auditorium, Norcroft Centre, University of Bradford: The secret chemistry of art: unravelling an age-old textile mystery / September 2016
Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tours
Discover Medical London: Walking Tour: Medicine at War
Discover Medical London: Tour: Who needs doctors anyway?
Royal College of Physicians: Walking Tour: John Dee and The History of Understanding
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
Diego Rivera: The Mathematician
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Liquid Squid: A Case for Why Transistors Are the Invention That Most Changed the World
Youtube: Royal Society: Krakatoa – Objectivity #84
Youtube: Royal Museums Greenwich: Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s ‘Great Eastern’
Youtube: Carl Zimmer – 2016 SSE Gould Prize talk
RADIO & PODCASTS:
BBC Radio 4: Natural History Heroes
BBC World Service: The beauty and complexity of the Chinese typewriter
BBC Radio 4: The Anatomy of Rest
CHF: Distillations: Best of 2016: Insiders vs. Outsiders in Medicine
soundcloud: Royal College of Physicians garden podcast: Tale of two trees
BBC World Service: How thorium lit up the world
History of Philosophy without any gaps: 221. Leading Light: Hildegard of Bingen
BBC Radio 4: Food Programme: An Antarctic Chef
History of Philosophy without any gaps: 25 Communications Breakdown: Bhartrihari on Language
Radio 4: A History Of The Infinite
David Attenborough and the Aquatic Ape
BBC Radio 4: The Waterside Ape
The Conversation: Sorry, David Attenborough, we didn’t evolve from ‘aquatic apes’ – here’s why
The Guardian: David Attenborough’s aquatic ape series for Radio 4 based on ‘wishful thinking’
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
HSS: THATCAmpHSS 2016 in Atlanta 6 November 2016
IHR: Library Exhibition Curation Competition (ECR)
FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia: Applications to Fernando Gil International Prize in Philosophy of Science 2017
Oxford Brookes University: Conference: Maritime Masculinities 1815–1940 19–20 December 2016
Penn Libraries: Symposium: The Materiality of Scientific Knowledge 30 September–1 October 2016
International Map Collectors’ Society: IMCoS 34th International Symposium: ‘Private Map Collecting and Public Map Collections in the United States’ Chicago 24–29 October 2016
University of Leuvan: Conference: Science of Evolution and the Evolution of the Sciences 12–13 October 2016
University of Durham: CfP: Conference: Scale of Nature: Long Nineteenth-Century Culture and the Great Chain of Being 18 March 2017
Journal of Science Communication: CfP: Special Issue: History of Science Communication Deadline 12 December 2016
University of Sheffield: Humanities Research Institute: Interdisciplinary Workshop: Intoxication, Discourse and Practice 30 September–1 October 2016
Remedia: CfP: Upcoming Remedia Series: Medicine and Migration Deadline 1 October 2016
University of Cambridge, CRASSH: Workshop: Epistemic Images in Early Modern Germany and its Neighbours 10–11 November 2016
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science: CfP. Pierre Duhem’s Philosophy and History of Science Deadline 30 March 2017
The Linnean Society: What should be in your Digital Toolbox?
Cornell University: The Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar Fall 2016
BSHS: The Francis Bacon Award in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Hakluyt Society: CfP: Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2017
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science: Part A – Special Issue: CfP: Knowledge Transfer and Its Context Deadline 30 October 2016
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London: The Forum for European Philosophy Women in Science Forthcoming Events
University of Swansea: CfP: Conference: Disability and Religion 2–4 December 2016 Deadline 1 October 2016
Royal Museums Greenwich: CfP: Conference: Joseph Banks, Science, Culture and Exploration 14–15 September 2017
Rice University, Houston: CfP: Southern Forum on Agriculture, Rural, and Environmental History (SFARE) 10–11 February 2017 Deadline 1 November 2016
Georgetown University, Washington: Conference: Humanity and Other Forms of Life: Environmental Histories of the World 5 November 2016
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim: CFP: 11th International Conference on the History of Chemistry 29 August–2 September 2017
Penn Museum: Philadelphia: Animals in the Archives Symposium 27-28 October 2016
Library of Congress: Celebrating Waldseemuller’s Cart Marina at 500: A Conference at the Library of Congress 6-7 October 2016
University of Manchester: Workshop: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Water, Technology and the Nation-Sate 27–28 October 2016
University of Toronto: John Wallis at 400: A Workshop on Science, Mathematics, and Religion in 17th-C. England 1-2 November 2016-09-10
SSHM: Undergraduate Essay Prize 2016 Deadline 1 October 2016
Science Museum: Artefacts Meeting: Understanding Use: Science and Technology Objects and Users 2-4 October 2016
IEEE: International Early Engines Conference: Papers: May 2017
Digital History Seminar: Autumn & Winter Term 2016–2017
National University: 13th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Environment, Space and Place: CfP: “Nightmare Spaces/Uncanny Places” 28–30 April 2017 Deadline 8 February 2017
Geoffrey Kaye Museum: Medical history masterclass 15 October
Palgrave MacMillan: Call for chapter contributors: Scientific Studies of Dreams in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
The Huntington Library: American Printing History Association: Conference: The Black Art & Printers’ Devils 7–9 October 2016
École de puériculture du Bd Brune, Paris: Le 6e colloque de la Société d’Histoire de la Naissance: La naissance au risque de la mort, d’hier à aujourd’hui 17 et 18 septembre 2016
Salle de séminaire de l’hôtel Balance, Les Granges-sur-Salvan, Salvan, Confédération Suisse: Colloque: Toujours plus haut, plus vite, plus engagé ? Gravir les Alpes du XIXe siècle à nos jours. Pratiques, émotions, imaginaires 22-23-24 septembre 2016
University of York: CfP: The Medieval Brain 10–11 March 2017
London Metropolitan University: Conference: ‘Made in London 2’: Makers, designers and innovators in musical instrument making in London from the 17th to 21st centuries 23 September 2016
University of Edinburgh: Science, Technology and Innovation Studies Seminar Series 2016/17
San Sebastian/Donostia (Spain): CfP: Workshop: Ether and Modernity: The Recalcitrance of an Agonising Object in Physics and Culture 30–31 March 2017
Trivium, Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern Studies: CfP: Religious and/or Medicinal definitions of Otherness Deadline 23 September 2016
The Maintainers: CfP: Maintainers II: Labor, Technology, and Social Order 6–8 April 2017
University of Sydney: CfP: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18 April 2017
University of Groningen: CfP: Histories of Healthy Ageing 21–23 June 2017
Institut Pasteur de Lille: Conférences d’histoire de la médecine de Lille Programme des conférences 2016 – 2017
University of Swansea: CFP: Disease, Disability & Medicine in Medieval Europe: 10th Anniversary Meeting: Disability and Religion 2–4 December 2016
Osiris: Proposals for next Osiris volume due 15 October 2016
H-Empire: CfP: Empires of Knowledge” ESEH 2017 (Zagreb 28 June–2 July 2017)
10th World Conference of Science Journalists: Call for Proposals: San Francisco 2017 Deadline 30 September 2016
University of Toronto Press: CfP: Edited Collection: Controlling Sexuality and Reproduction, Past and Present
Techne: CFP: Special Issue on Philosophy of Technology in the Age of the Anthropocene
St Catherine’s College Oxford: Advanced Studies Seminar: The Montgomery Ruling: Impacts on Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics 9 November 2016
University of Paderborn: History of Women Philosophers and Scientists 10–14 October 2016
Penn Libraries: The Materiality of Scientific Knowledge: Image-Text-Book 30 September–1 October 2016
GHI Washington: CfP: Workshop: Beyond Data: Knowledge Production in Bureaucracies 1–3 June 2017
Johns Hopkins University: Call for Participation & Program: The Making of the Humanities V 5–7 October 2016
Coastal Carolina University: CfP: SAHMS Nineteenth Annual Meeting 16–18 March 2017 Deadline 31 October 2016
l’Abbaye de Hambye (près d’Avranches): 15e réunion d’histoire de la santé 10 septembre 2016
Archives and Records: CfP: Special issue on ‘Archives and Museums’, spring 2018
The Hakluyt Society Blog: Hakluyt@400 Quartercenteneary programme Autumn 2016
University of Bristol: CfP: Writing Remains: In Interdisciplinary Symposium on Archaeology and Literature 20 January 2017
RSA: Call for Submissions: Picturing Death 1200–1600 (Edited Volume)
UCL: The Second London Philosophy of Science Graduate Conference 1-2 September 2016
Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo: ICMS: CfP: Before and After 1348: Prelude and Consequences of the Black Death 11–14 May 2017
Royal Historical Society: University of Chester: CfP: Putting History in its Place: Historical Landscapes and Environments 21 April 2017 Deadline: 28 October 2016
University of York: CfP: Workshop: The Medieval Brain 10-11 March 2017
Birkbeck: University of London: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–25 March 2017
King’s College London: CHoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
York Medical Society: CfP: “First Impressions”: Faces, clothes, and bodies 1600–1800 10 November 2016
ICHST 2017 Rio: CfP: XXXVI Symposium of the Scientific Instruments Commission Deadline 25 November 2016
Royal Museums Greenwich: AHRC Funded Research Network Project: Joseph Banks, Science, Culture and the Remaking of the Indo-Pacific World
University of Pittsburgh: Center for Philosophy of Science 57th Annual Lecture Series 2016–17
King’s College London: Workshop: Popularising Palaeontology: Current & Historical Perspectives 14–15 September 2016
Medieval Institute Publications: Call for proposals: History and Cultures of Food 14th–18th Centuries New Series
ICM Leeds 2017: CfP: Health and Medicine in the Early Medieval West Deadline 9 September 2016
University of Sheffield: Interdisciplinary Workshop: Intoxication, Discourse and Practice 30 September–1 October 2016
ICHST “2017: Symposium Proposals Approved by IPC
APS Physics: CfP: April Meeting 2017 Include History of Physics Deadline 30 September 2016
BSHS: Annals of Science Student Essay Prize
University of York: International Workshop: Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past 14-16 September 2016
BSHS: The 2016 Big Draw Festival: STEAM Powered: From STEM to STEAM 1–31 October 2016
Hakluyt Society: Essay Prize 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
Gravity Fields Festival 2016: 21–25 September: Tickets are now on sale
Medieval Art Research: CFP: Of Man Eating Men: Medieval and Early Modern Cannibalism (edited volume)
International Map Collectors Society: IMCoS 34th International Symposium, Chicago 24–29 September 2016
Royal Historical Society: University of Chester: CfP: Putting History in its Place: Historic Landscapes and Environments 21 April 2017 – deadline 28 October 2016
IWHA: CfP: Water History Conference 2017 Grand Rapids USA 15–17 June 2017
All Souls College Oxford: Second CfP: Teaching mathematics in the early modern period
University of York: Northern Network for Medical Humanities: Research Workshop: 22 September 2016
University of Reading: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016 Registration now open
University of Milan: Conference: Mathesis quaedam Divina seu Mechanismus Metaphysicus -Leibniz and the sciences 7–8 October 2016
The Medical School of Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez: 7th International Congress of the International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine (ISHIM) & 4th Congress of Fez on the History of Medicine 24–28 October 2016
University of St. Andrews: Conference: Mathematical Biography: A MacTutor Celebration
University of Durham: Conference: Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism? 5–7 August 2017
Salem Academy Charter School, Salem MA: New England Regional World History Association Fall Symposium: CfP: Navigation, Travel, and Exploration in World History 24 September 2016
Istanbul: XXXVth Scientific Instrument Symposium: Draft Programme 26–30 September 2016
Universidade de Évora: Conference: Évora’s 7th Symposium on Philosophy and History of Science and Technology: Structuralism: Roots, Plurality and Contemporary debates 4–5 November 2016
University of Valencia: Institute for the History of Medicine and Science “López Piñero”: Programme Fall 2016 Seminars, Conferences etc
Radboud University Nijmegen: Call for nominations: Hanneke Janssen Memorial Prize 2016: Essay in History and Philosophy of Physics Deadline 1 November 2016
Mahon/Maó (Menorca): 9th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularisation: CFP: Living in Emergency: humanitarianism and medicine 18–20 May 2017
Berlin –Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaft: Project: Galen of Pergamum: The Transmission, Interpretation and Completion of Ancient Medicine
Warwick: Humanities Research Centre: Conference: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Text and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s 4 March 2017
The German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker- GDCh): PAUL BUNGE PRIZE 2017: HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS Deadline 30 September 2016
Birkbeck University of London: The Birkbeck Trauma Project: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–27 March 2017
Christ Church & Bodleian Library Oxford: Conference: Hakluyt and the Renaissance Discovery of the World 24–25 November 2016
CELFIS University of Bucharest: Call for Applications: Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science 24–26 October 2016
University of Sydney: CfP: Workshop: Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800–2000 18 April 2017
Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall: Workshop: Tools of Reason: The Practice of Scientific Diagramming from Antiquity to the Present 10–11 February 2017
American Association for the History of Medicine: Awards and Grants
University of Edmonton: CfP: Theology and the Philosophy of Science 14–15 October 2016
The Lowry, Salford Quays: Discovering Collections Discovering Communities 10–12 October 2016
Universidade de Évora (Portugal): Évora’s 7th Symposium on Philosophy and History of Science and Technology 4–5 November 2016
HUMANA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies: CfP: Issue 32, April 2017: Beyond Toleration? Inconsistency and Pluralism in the Empirical Sciences
Centre de Russie pour la Science et la Culture, Paris: Appel à communications: “L’Homme dans le monde de l’incertitude. Méthodologie de la cognition culturelle et historique”. Colloque international pour le 120e anniversaire de la naissance de Lev Vygotsky 13 octobre 2016
University of Glasgow: CfP: Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures 3–4 April 2017
IUHPST: Call for entries: IUHPST Essay Prize in History and Philosophy of Science “What is the value of philosophy of science for history of science?” Deadline 30 November 2016
Eä: A workshop in Rio to debate about the challenges facing interdisciplinary journals
Université François Rabelais, Tours: Appel à communications: Représentations et figures de la maternité dans le monde anglophone 3 au 5 avril 2017
JOURNÉES D’ÉTUDES: Appel à communicatio: « Petites mains » d’artistes dans les pratiques scientifiques
BSHS: Museum of the History of Science Upcoming Free Lecture Series
Université de Strasbourg: Appel à symposia: 6ème Congrès de la Société française d’histoire des sciences et des techniques (SFHST) 19-20-21 avril 2017
Birkbeck University of London: CfP: Gender and Pain in Modern History 24–25 March 2017
Lexicon Philosophicum: CfP: Issue 5 (2017) Histories of Philosophy, Science and Ideas
Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds: CfP: Workshop: Exploring Histories and Futures of Innovation in Advanced Wound Care 20 September 2016
Université de Caen: Colloque: Le corps humain saisi par le droit : entre liberté et propriété 14 Octobre 2016
HSTM Network Ireland: International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Young Scholar Prize
ENVA, Amphithéâtre Blin: Appel à communications: Animalhumanité. Expérimentation et fiction : l’animalité au cœur du vivant 1er et 2 décembre 2016
New Bern NC: CfP: North Carolina Maritime History Council Conference 4–5 November 2016
Christ’s College Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World (1400-1750) 3–4 April 2017
Villa Mirafiori, Rome: Conference: Building Theories, Hypothesis & Heuristics in Science
Society for U.S: Intellectual History: Conference: From the Mayflower to Silicon Valley: Tools and Traditions in American Intellectual History October 13-15, 2016
University of Lisbon: CfP: Third Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Issues 14–16 December 2016
San Sebastian: Physics in the XII International Ontology Congress 3-7 October 2016
Westminster Quaker Meeting House: ‘A MANY-SIDED CRYSTAL’: THE QUAKER PHYSICIST & ELECTRICAL ENGINEER, SILVANUS PHILLIPS THOMPSON (1851–1916) A Workshop to Mark the Centenary of his Death 16 September 2016
Notches: CfP: Histories of Disability and Sexuality
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science: CfP: Special Issue: Knowledge Transfer and Its Context
The Victorianist: CfP Reminder: The “Heart” and “science” of Wilkie Collins and His Contemporaries 24 September 2016 London
ICOHTEC Conference Porto: CfP: Early Career Scholars Workshop: Tension of Europe 1 August 2016
Society for Renaissance Studies: CfP: More than meets the page: Printing Texts and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science: CfP: “Ludwik Fleck’s Theory of Thought Styles and Thought Collectives – Translations and Receptions” Deadline 30 August 2016
HPDST: 2017 DHST Prize for Young Scholars
BSHS: Great Exhibitions Competition 2016
Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Paris: Colloque: Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique 20–21 Octobre 2016
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: CFP: Conference: HIV/AIDS Research: Its History and Future 13–16 October 2016
Australian Academy of Science: The Moran Award for History of Science Research
University Of Belgrade: CfP: Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation-5 22–23 September 2016
Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta, and the University of Warwick: CfP: Beauty and the Hospital in History 6–8 April 2017
MedHum Fiction – Daily Dose: CfP: Medical Humanities
University of Birmingham: Social Studies in the History of Medicine – ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Partington Prize
Western Michigan University: CfP: Sixth Annual Medical Humanities Conference
University of Cambridge: CfP: Medicine, Envirment, and Health In the Easterm Mediterranean World, 1400–1750 3–4 April 2017
Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science: Upcoming Events
Fórum Lisboa (Antigo Cinema Roma): CFP: Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science 14–16 December 2016
Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)
Calenda: Le Calendrier des Lettres et Sciences Humains et Sociales: Appel à contribution « Les sciences du vivant. Imaginaire et discours scientifique »
Society for the Social History of Medicine: Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October 2016
Kunsthistorisches Institut In Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut: CfP: Photo-Objects. On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo-Archives in the Humanities and Sciences 15–17 February 2017
University of Leuven: CfA: The science of evolution and the evolution of the sciences 12–13 October 2016
Science Museum: Artefacts Meeting 2–4 October 2016: CfP: Understanding Use: Science and Technology Objects and Users
Cambridge: CfP extended: Science and Islands in the Indo-Pacific World 15–16 September 2016
University of Bristol: Centre for Science and Philosophy: Events
Society for the Social History of Medicine: 2016 Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline 1 October
H-Pennsylvania: Philip J. Pauly Book Prise Nominations Sought for Histories of Science in the Americas
BSHS: Prizes
Queen Mary University of London:Upcoming History of Emotions Work in Progress Seminars
University of Reading: Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums 23 September 2016
Barts Pathology Museum: CfP: The “Heart” and “Science” of Wilkie Collins and his Contemporaries 24 September 2016
University of Leicester: Centre for Medical Humanities: Seminars:
Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware: CfP: Making Modern Disability: Histories of Disability, Design, and Technology 28 October 2016
New York City: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 30 September–1 October 2016
Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (Rio de Janeiro, 23-29 July 2017): CfP: Blood, Food, and Climate: Historical Relationships Between Physiology, Race, Nation-Building, and Colonialism/Globalization
IHPST, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris: CfP: International Doctoral Conference in Philosophy of Science 29-30 September 2016
Annals of Science: Annals of Science Essay Prize for Young Scholars
H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology
The International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Division of History of Science and Technology (IUHPST/DHST): Invites submissions for the fourth DHST Prize for Young Scholars, to be presented in 2017.
Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST: CfP: 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature
St Anne’s College: University of Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Trinity Term 2016
LOOKING FOR WORK:
University of Glasgow Library: Special Collections Project Manager (C18th Medical Humanities)
Folger Shakespeare Library: Fellowships Deadline 1 November 2016
University of Kent: Research Associate (Two Posts) “Law, knowledges and the making of ‘modern healthcare’: regulating traditional and alternative medicines in contemporary contexts”
National Media Museum, Bradford: Curator of Photography and Photographic Technology
LSE: Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz: eine/einen wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter/in Mitarbeit in der Lehre (2 SWS) Mitwirkung bei Forschungsprojekten und Publikationen im Bereich Geschichte der Mathematik und der Naturwissenschaften
