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 #39
Monday 15 May 2017
EDITORIAL:
It is time once again for a new edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list bringing you all of the histories of science, technology and medicine thrown up by the Internet over the last seven days.
One of the most persistent myths in #histSTM is that in the Middle Ages before Columbus sailed westward to try and reach the Spice Islands and ran instead into the Americas the people believed that the world was flat.
This is simple not true; since at least the sixth century BCE educated Europeans had know that the world was a sphere. Another variation of the flat earth myth is that it is true that they knew the earth is a sphere in antiquity but that this knowledge somehow got lost in the European Middle Ages. This is also simple not true.
One does ask what historians have to do to kill of this myth? Apparently the world doesn’t want to know.
Youtube: Is Earth Actually Flat?
Darin Hayton: Another Flat Earther
Darin Hayton: Yet Another Flat Earther
Quotes of the week:
“If you work hard enough you can replace depression with exhaustion” – Nihilist Memes
“For a variety of reasons I’ve read a lot on cannibalism over the last year. There’s a convergence on the upper arm as being tastiest” – Liam Heneghan (@DublinSoil)
“Stupidity is much the same all the world over” – John Stuart Mill
“Naaah, it’s not yer British foxes she’s after. It’s them foreign foxes. They sneak through the tunnel and eat all our bendy bananas” – Stephen McGann (@StephenMcGann)
“The course of excavation on Hadrian’s Wall is littered with the bones of discarded hypotheses” – C. E. Stevens
“It doesn’t matter how old you get, buying snacks for a road trip should always look like an unsupervised 9-year-old was given $100” – bananafanafofisa (@lisaxy424)
“Do you think I reference dinosaurs too much when I write?” I asked.
“She was silent, like the p in pterodactyl, but it said everything” – Nathan Usher (@thenatewolf)
I remember, when I was a small boy in the 1960s, saying “Dad, what’s an anachronism?”, and he simply replied “Google it” – Moose Allain (@MooseAllain)
“Sometimes I wonder whether we are not smart enough to realize how simple our Brains actually are” – Neil deGasse Tyson (@neiltyson)
“Dear Physicists,
You aren’t qualified to make pronouncements on every field of science.
Love,
Every other scientist” – Timothy (@NotHF)
Dear Scientists,
You aren’t qualified to pronounce on history of science just b/c you know current state of *your field*.
Love,
Historians – dhayton (@dhayton)
Birthday of the Week:
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin born 10 May 1900
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Composition of Stars
brainpickings: Stiching a Supernova: A Needlepoint Celebration of Science by Pioneering Astronomer Cecilia Payne
Dorothy Hodgkin born 12 May 1910
Dorothy Hodgkin
Source: Wikimedia Commons
175 Faces of Chemistry: Professor Dorothy Hodgkin OM
BBC Radio 4: An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy Hodgkin
Nobelprize.org: Enhancing X-ray Vision
Proceedings of the Royal Society A: The Bakerian Lecture, 1972: Insulin, its Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Oxford: Hodgkin gets stamp of approval
Florence Nightingale born 12 May 1820
Painting of Florence Nightingale by Augustus Egg, c. 1840s
Source: Wikimedia Commons
PBS Newshour: How Florence Nightingale cleaned up ‘hell on earth’ hospitals and became an international hero
Atlas Obscura: Florence Nightingale Was Born 197 Years Ago, and Her Infographics Were Better Than Most of the Internet’s
Henry Baker born 8 May 1698
Henry Baker Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Renaissance Mathematicus: How to use a microscope
Richard Feynman born 11 May 1918
Richard Feynman at the Robert Treat Paine Estate in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1984.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Richard Feynman
AHF: Richard Feynman
philly.com: Lessons on resilience from a Nobel physicist
web.mit.edu: Physics and Feynman’s Diagrams
Physics Today: A look inside Feynman’s calculus notebook
Quanta Magazine: How Feynman Diagrams Almost Saved Space
CalTech: The Feynman Lectures on Physics
John Strachey born 10 May 1671
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – John Strachey
Albertus Seba born 12 May 1665
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Albertus Seba
Ole Worm born 13 May 1588
Ole Worm and Dorothea Worm, neé Fincke
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Ole Worm
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
Medievalists.net: The Astrolabe: Medieval Multi-Tool of Navigation
MAA: Mathematical Treasures – Italian astrolabe
Gerard Turner Memorial Lecture: Of Making Celestial Globes There Seems No End – Emilie Savage-Smith
IET: Earth the Magnet – Gilbert’s Terrella
AIP: This month in Physics History May 10, 1752: First Experiment to Draw Electricity from Lightning
Skulls in the Stars: Benjamin Franklin shocks the world! (1752)
Dannen.com: Target Committee, Los Alamos, May 10–11, 1945
Historiek: Hendrik Lorentz (1853–1928) – Nederlandse Nodbelprijswinnaar
Atlas Obscura: The Mysterious Case of the Radioactive Toothpaste
AHF: Nicholas Kurti
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Bringing the heavens down to earth
The Fabricii, father and son, remain largely unknown to the world at large but a monument to them both was erected in the churchyard in Osteel, where David had been village pastor, in 1895.
University of Texas at Austin: UT Austin Mourns Death of Groundbreaking Physicist Cécile DeWitt-Morette
Dr. Cecile Dewitt-Morette with a team of UT physicists (including her husband, Bryce Dewitt, back left) in Mauritania in 1973. They went there to observe a solar eclipse to test out Einstein’s prediction that light passing through a gravitational field would be deflected more than was accounted for by Newtonian physics.
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
British Library: Picturing Places: Earth and the Heavens in maps
Hyperallergic: The Octopus, a Motif of Evil in Historical Propaganda Maps
Fred W. Rose, “Serio-Comic War Map For The Year 1877” (1877), published by G. W. Bacon & Co. two months after Russia attacked the Ottoman Empire in response to the Turkish massacre of Christian Bulgarians (represented by a skull) (courtesy Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection, Cornell University Library)
CBHC–RCAHMW: List of Historical Place Names in Wales
Lapham’s Quarterly: Water Margins: Searching for the sources of China’s great rivers
RetroEnt: Disneyland Was Born on Paper in 1953 and Now That Paper Is up for Sale
British Library: Maps and views Blog: Saxton’s cost-cutting exercise
National Library of Scotland: Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, 1654 – Place Names search
Smithsonian.com: Massive Royal Atlas Gets Digitized
The Public Domain Review: The Maps of Matrakçi Nasuh, Ottoman Polymath
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
SciHi Blog: Henry Dunant and the Red Cross
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: A History of Mental Health, through the College Collections
Medical News Today: Dorthea Dix: Redefining mental Illness
Thomas Morris: Painful news from the Bobbin Factory
AHF: Martha Zukas
Collectors Weekly: Sacred Anatomy: Slicing Open Wax Women in the Name of Science and God
Mistaking History: Beans at bedtime? How to dream well
Mistaking History: Constipation in History
Mistaking History: Peeing like a horse?
Mistaking Histories: Fun with pigs
Mistaking Histories: Bodies at breakfast, and a grand day out
Mistaking histories: Where’s Hippocrates?
Mistaking Histories: Vesalius – The Ultimate Wedding Present?
L0021650 A. Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica.
Hektoen International: Heinz Lehmann and the dawn of psychopharmacology
Wellcome Library: Art in the asylum
The Atlantic: The Doctor Used to Know Best
The Globe and Mail: We can improve mental-health care by fighting poverty
Smithsonian.com: The Woman Who Stood Between America and Epidemic of Births Defects
Hektoen International: Frances Oldham Kelsey: A medical profile in courage
Nursing Clio: Whose Body Is it Anyway? Decolonizing Narratives of Aboriginal Prisoners’ Health
Harvard School of Dental Medicine: A 150 Year Legacy
Thomas Morris: A freak accident
BIRMAC: Jessica Borge – Wanting it Both Ways: The London Rubber Company, the Condom and the Pill, 1915–1970
STAT: Generations later, the effects of the Tuskegee syphilis study linger
Past Medical History: Willem Einthoven and the Electrocardiogram
Royal College of Physicians: Baking patients alive: an unexpected treatment from late Victorian England
Hyperallergic: Studying the Design of a 19th-Century Mental Asylum
Johns Hopkins University: Department of The History of Medicine: Medicine from the Black Death to the Scientific Revolution (Survey 2) Online Course
Vaccines Work: The woman who made modern vaccines work
Drs Pearl Kendrick & Grace Eldering (1890-1980, 1900-1988)
Thomas Morris: The case of the luminous patients
Exploring the history of prisoner health: Prison Doctors in the Medical Profession in England, 1970–1990
The Columbus Dispatch: John Chynoweth Burnham Obituary
Hektoen International: Plague Sydney 1900
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Ruoteclassiche: Guida autonoma, un sogno partito quasi cent’anni fa
Conciatore: Artificial Gems
WBEZ91.5Chicago: Zeppelin Poseurs: Why Chicago’s Airship Dreams Never Took Off
Science Museum: The Thames Barrier: A guardian of the river and a product of mathematics
Flickering Lamps: Ashby’s Mill: Bringing Brixton’s Hidden Past to Life
Medium: 11 Forgotten Women who Invented the British Industrial Revolution
Atlas Obscura: Jens Olsen’s World Clock
Business Insider: A thermonuclear bomb slammed into a North Carolina farm in 1961 – and part of it is still missing
TechRepublic: Cracking Hitler’s unbreakable code: How the Colossus computer helped beat the Nazis
Atlas Obscura: A Wayback Machine for Early 20th Century Tunes
The Recipes Project: The Fruits of Summer in the Dead of Winter
Atlas Obscura: Nilometer
Medium: Paint by Numbers: From Leonardo da Vinci to “Space Age Technology”
SciHi Blog: Betamax and the Video Format Wars
Ptak Science Books: TubePunk – Electronics Returns from War (1946)
The National Museum of American History: Wooden chip cut from a railroad tie, Promontary, Utah, 1869
Lincolnshire Live: Ancient log boat discovered at Lincoln bypass archaeological dig
Innovations150: Hand Telephone
Boys sitting on top of telephone booths, ca.1950. Toronto, Ontario.
Smithsonian.com: Patents (Only) a Mother Could Love
Medium: This is what a 16th century e-reader looked like
Scientists of India: Indian Edison: Shankar Abaji Bhise 1867–1935
Atlas Obscura: Sanfilippo Theatre Pipe Organ
The New York Times: Tracing the Waterways Beneath the Sidewalks of New York
A topographical map of New York from 1874 showing original water courses. Credit NYPL, Digital Collections
National Library of Scotland: A New Song on the Electric Light
Tedium: Between the Bars
SciHi Blog: Igor Sikorsky and the Helicopter
Soft Machines: How Sheffield became Steel City: what local history can teach us about innovation
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Eleanor Scott Archaeology: Gertrude Bell – More Than A ‘Free Booting Scholar’
Notches: Sex Between the Solitudes: Interracial Sex and Adoption in Montreal’s Postwar Jewish Community
BBC News: Amazing haul of ancient human finds unveiled
SciHi Blog: Andrew Sherratt and the Secondary Products Revolution
SciHI Blog: James Pollard Espy – the Storm King
Humanities: Bird Artist John Gould and the Man Who Lost a Fortune Collecting Him
The Atlantic: A New Addition to the Human Family Tree Is Surprisingly Young
The Guardian: New haul of Homo naledi bones sheds surprising light on human evolution
Scientific AmericaN. New Evidence of Mysterious Homo nadeli Raise Questions about How Humans Evolved
The Conversation: More secrets of human ancestry emerge from South African caves
Paige Fossil History: 3 Reasons Homo naledi is Headline Worthy (that have nothing to do with controversy)
Prospect: Homo nadeli: our “decidedly strange” cousins
The Public Domain Review: Watercolours from a 16th-Century De Materia Medica
BHL: Ole Worm’s Cabinet of Wonder: Natural Specimens and Wondrous Monsters
BBC News: Identity of famous baby dinosaur fossil revealed
SciHi Blog: Howard Carter and the Tomb of Tutankhamun
Overland: Melbourne from the Falls
SciHi Blog: Leonhart Fuchs’ Herbal Book
Fuchs called this thistle Chamaeleon albus, it is now known as Carlina caulks.
Albrecht Meyer, who made drawings based on the actual plants; Heinrich Füllmaurer, who transferred the drawings to woodblock; and Vitus Rudolph Speckle, who cut the blocks and printed the drawings.
National Museums Scotland: Snakestones
Socks: Meteorographica, or Methods of Mapping the Weather, by Francis Galton (1863)
Royal Ontario Museum: Zuul, Destroyer of Shins
The Washington Post: ‘Rare as winning the lottery’: New dinosaur fossil so well-preserved it looks like a statue
Forbes: This Amazing Fossil Rode to Los Angeles in a Beer Truck
A Short History of Climate Change: Who sells sea-shells by the river Niger’s shore?
The Wichita Eagle: An ancient people recovered piece by piece: Kansas, 11,000 B.C.
Rolfe Mandel studies prehistoric mammoth and camel bones dug out of a cutbank near Kanarado in June 2003. Mandel, a geo-archaeologist from the University of Kansas, found evidence there that Clovis-culture Paleo-Indians hunted elephants, camels and ancient bison on the High Plains of Kansas nearly 13,000 years ago. Travis Heying File photo
Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/state/article150402617.html#storylink=cpy
CHEMISTRY:
SciHi Blog: Modern Chemistry started with Lavoisier
CHF: Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff
The New York Times: Nicholas Sand, Chemist Who Sought to Bring LSD to the World, Dies at 75
Nicholas Sand in August 1970 at Long Reach Ranch in Cloverdale, Calif. Credit Joss Thomas
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
History of Women Philosophers and Scientists: 3rd Issue of the Illustrated Women and History zine is now available on Etsy!
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Andrea Alciato
BBC News: Rare flowers destroyed in Australia after paperwork error
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Gregor Reisch
Gregor Reisch, Margarita Philosophie, Astronomia
AEON: Stuck on one idea of truth or beauty? Rhizomes can help
Marginal Revolution: How long until another Industrial Revolution would have taken place?
Medium: If not Britain, where? The case for a French Industrial Revolution
225 Años de la Universidad: Las Primeras Universtarias
Flip Flop Globetrotters: Visiting the Tylers Museum with a toddler
Darin Hayton: Astrolabes and S•Town
Physics Today: What was it like to be peer reviewed in the 1860s
John Tyndall used this experimental apparatus to compare how heat gets transferred via conduction and radiation. Credit: J. Tyndall/Phil. Trans. Royal Society of London 1861.
The Recipes Project: Depending on the Season
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Fair Use Too Often Goes Unused
University of Leeds: Dr James Stark appointed Reviews Editor for the British Journal for the History of Science
Old Operating Theatre: Staff Profiles: Q&A with Monica A. Walker
Science: Botanists fear research slowdown after priceless specimens destroyed at Australian border
Science Museum: Search Our Collection
History of Psychiatry: Volume 28, Issue 2, June 2017 Table of Contents
ESOTERIC:
Electrical Generations: Electricity and the Extinction of Fairies?
Conciatore: Casino di San Marco
Atlas Obscura: When Science and the Occult Went Head-to-Head on a German Mountaintop
Could magic have turned this goat into a human boy? MCGEDDON/CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
BOOK REVIEWS:
MedHum – Daily Dose: Self-Medication and Society
Hyperallergic: Celestial Spheres, Smog Charts, and Radial Cartography in a New Book About Circles
St. Croix Valley Area Lowdown: Twin Cities professor shares book about black women in NASA
Australian Women’s History Network: “A Book of Lies”: Settlers impressions of Aboriginal women
Chemistry World: A tale of seven scientists and a new philosophy of science
Popular Science: The Mathematics Lover’s Companion – Edward Scheinerman
New Books Network: Tara H. Abraham: Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloch’s Transdisciplinary Life in Science
Science Magazine: Environmental history of the Second World War compiled into a book
Arcade: The Metaphysics of Handiwork or How Aristotle Conquered America
New Books Network: Jonathan Schlesinger: A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule
NEW BOOKS:
Historiens de la santé: A Professional Legacy: The Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lectures in Occupational Therapy, 1955–2016
Johns Hopkins University Press: Between medicine, business and politics: Silicosis, a promising 21st century scourge from the remote past
Musings of a Social Historian: Payment & Philanthropy in British Healthcare, 1918–48
Historiens de la santé: Passion neurologie. Jules et Augusta Dejerine
Enfilade: Collecting the World: Hans Sloane
The Quantum Labyrinth: Step into the Quantum Labyrinth
ARC Humanities Press: Plague and Contagion in the Islamic Mediterranean
ART & EXHIBITIONS:
Hyperallergic: A 19th-Century Photographer of Scottish Industrialization Gets His First Survey
The Guardian: Designers on acid: the tripping Californians who paved the way to our touchscreen world
Teylers Museum: De Lorentz Formule in Het Lorentz Lab 18 May 2017–18 May 2020
Wollaton Hall Nottingham: Dinosaurs of China 1 July–29 October 2017
The Royal Society: Global arts and science unite in unique sponsorship for Lisa Reihana exhibition at Biennale Arte 2017 in Venice
Captain James Cook and his John Shelton clock – Lisa Reihana, detail in Pursuit of Venus [infected] 2015–17 Ultra HD video, colour, sound, 64 min, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the Patrons of the Auckland Art Gallery, 2014.
U.S.News: New Kensington Museum Preserves Computing Relics
The Grosvenor Museum, Chester: Raising Horizons: Portraits Highlighting Women in Archaeology and Geosciences Past and Present 20 May–4 June 2017
Sanofi Pasteur: The Legacy Project
The Recipes Project: Artifacts at an Exhibition: The Art and Science of Healing at the University of Michigan
Het Scheep Vaart Museum: Blaeu’s Wereld In Kaart 14 April–31 December 2017
Le Soleil: 400 ans de pharmacie
Royal Cornwall Museum: The Medicine Man – A Spotlight on Richard Lander March–September 2017
The Gibbes Museum of Art: Artist, Scientist, Explorer: Mark Catesby in the Carolinas 12 May–24 September 2017
Indianapolis Museum of Art: Audubon: Drawn to Nature 1 April–30 July 2017
The Guardian: Mat Collishaw restages 1839 photography show in virtual reality
Arizona State University: Rare ASU map collection reveals truths about history of American Southwest
Old Operating Theatre: Virtual Tour
Criminal Corpses: Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpses – Online Exhibition
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: Joseph Hooker: Putting plants in their place 25 March–17 September 2017
Daguerreotype of J.D. Hooker by William Edward Kilburn, circa 1852
IET: Archives: Online Exhibitions
Oxford Today: Volcanoes – from catastrophe to the sublime
The British Museum: Where the Thunderbird lives: cultural resilience on the Northwest Coast of North America 23 February–27 August 2017
American Museum of Natural History: Mummies Opens Now
Biodiversity Library Exhibition: Early Women in Science
Maria Emma Gray (1787–1876), was an English conchologist and algologist
SD Times: Computer History Museum debuts Make Software exhibit
Harvard Map Collection: Exhibition Analysis 1: Commemorative and Humanitarian Disasters
University of Southern Maine: Osher Map Library to celebrate new exhibition “To Conquer or Submit? American views the Great War” 100 years after U.S. involvement in WWI
St John’s College: Under the Knife at St John’s: New exhibition showcases a medical history of disease and dissection
Boston Public Library: Exhibition: Regions and Seasons: Mapping Climate through History 4 March–27 August 2017
Osher Map Library: The Northwest Passage: Navigating Old Beliefs and New Realities
Adler Planetarium: Chasing Eclipses Opening 25 March 2017
Hyperallergic: When Dissection Was a Criminal Punishment Worse Than Death
Wellcome Collection: Electricity: The spark of life 23 February–25 June 2017
Feeling the buzz … 1910 advertisement for body lotion. Photograph: Wellcome Collection
Advances in the History of Psychology: New Book & Touring Exhibit on Ramón y Cajal: The Beautiful Brain
The Royal Society: Global arts and science unite in unique sponsorship for Lisa Reihana exhibition at Biennale Arte 2017 in Venice
The Sydney Morning Herald: Beauty in Science
Palaeo Manchester: Object Lessons exhibition: coming soon – Opens 20 May 2017
Brendel plant models.
Image courtesy of Rosamond Purcell
Linda Hall Library: Connecting the Dots: The Science of CSI 16 March–1 September 2017
ekathimerini.com: Antikythera Mechanism – Athens – 10 February–28 May 2017
The Orange County Register: CSUF’s Pollak Library presents a special program and exhibit on the art of map making
Djournal.com: 200 years of statehood: Ole Miss puts history on display for bicentennial
American Museum of Natural History: Natural Histories: 400 Years of Scientific Illustration from the Museum’s Library
Daily Titan: New CSUF exhibit maps out California’s history
Stedelijk Studies: Vestiges of 125,660 Specimens of Natural History
heritage.utah.gov: Utah Drawn: An Exhibition of Rare Maps Opens: 27 January 2017
Colonizing Animals: Historical Pose-abilities of Colonial Photography
Royal Museums Greenwich: Endeavour galleries: Launches 2018
Hyperallergic: When Art Was the Scientist’s Eye: 400 Years of Natural History Illustrations
Frog dissection illustration from the book “Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium…(Natural history of the native frogs…)” from 1758 (© AMNH\D. Finnin)
Orpiment: Prehistoric Animals: A series of illustrations by David Roland
Centrum für Naturkunde, Universität Hamburg: 19 Oktober 2017 – 28 Februar 2018: Tieranatomisches Theater, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Frühling/Sommer 2018: Verschwindende Vermächtnisse: Die Welt als Wald
ICE: ICE Bridge Engineering exhibition
Evening Standard: Forgotten women of science are remembered in a new exhibition at Burlington house
AHF: Los Alomos History Museum Reopens
Linda Hall Library: Online Exhibition: Ice Victorian Romance
Utah Capitol Building: Utah Dawn: An Exhibition of Rare Maps 27 January–Late Summer 2017
BHL: Poetic Botany: A Digital Exhibition Celebrating the History of Botany
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: Bilderwelten: Aufbruch zu Neuen Ufern: Mitteleuropäische Buchmalerei 1400–1540
Science Museum: Mathematics – The Winton Gallery
Royal College of Physicians: ‘a cabinet of rarities’: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne 30 January–27 July 2017
The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 17 March–23 July 2017
Harvard Gazette: The story of Edwin Land
The National Museum of Computing: 1950’s celebrity robot goes on world tour
Causway Coast Community: County Antrim adventurer’s royal maps will graphically outline history
Bradbury Science Museum: Fifty years of nuclear safeguards
Cambridge Digital Library: Browse our collections: Curious Objects
Leek Post & Times: Mary A Blagg the Cheadle Astronomer honoured at Cheadle Discovery Centre exhibition
Museum of the History of Science Oxford: Back from the Dead: Demystifying Antibiotics 4 November 2016–21 May 2017
Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle Saale: Alchemie – Die Suche nach dem Weltgeheimnis 25 November 2016–5 Juni 2017
The Arctic Journal: Northwest Passages: Pre-factual cartography
Royal College of Physicians: ‘a cabinet of rarities’: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne 30 January–27 July 2017
past@present: Women in Science: The Stories Are All Around Us
Exhibition open 15 September 2016 through Summer 2017
Poetic Botany: Art & Science of the Eighteenth-Century Vegetable World
Gallica Rose
University of Birmingham: Inspiring Knowledge: 13 October 2016–30 June 2017
American Museum of Natural History: Opulent Oceans
The Australian: Hadron Collider show reveals art of science at Sydney Powerhouse Museum
Royal Museums Greenwich: Do the Ultimate Time Trail
National Railway Museum: National Railway Museum marks historic First World War centenary with new exhibition
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
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library
Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm
Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
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
Science Museum: Robots
Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph
Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy
Science Museum: Journeys Through Medicine
Science Museum: Cosmos & Culture
Science Museum: Challenge of Materials
Science Museum: The Clockmakers’ Museum
Science Museum: Making the Modern World
Science Museum: Flight
Science Museum: Exploring Space
Science Museum: Mathematics: The Winton Gallery
University of Birmingham: Inspiring Knowledge 26 September 2016–30 June 2017
Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle Saale: Alchemie – Die Suche nach dem Weltgeheimnis 25 November 2016–5 Juni 2017
Wellcome Collection: Making Nature: How we see animals 1 December 2016–21 May 2017
Royal College of Physicians: ‘a cabinet of rarities’: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne 30 January–27 July 2017
Museum of the History of Science Oxford: Back from the Dead: Demystifying Antibiotics 4 November 2016–21 May 2017
Bodleian Libraries: Volcanoes 10 February–21 May 2017
Ottawa Insider: Improved Science & Tech Museum Opening November 2017
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
The New York Times: Could a Long-Gone Antarctic Explorer Be Mr. Right?
PBS: American Experience: Rachel Carson: She set out to save a species…us.
Youtube: Kepler’s Trial
Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 03 June 2017
The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017
EVENTS:
University of Manchester: Lecture: Marie Hicks, Programmed inequality: gender and meritocracy in computing 23 May 2017
University of Dundee: 50th Anniversary Weekend: Tayside Medical History Museum Showcase 20 May 2017
Royal Geographical Society: Xtreme Everest: A Celebration of Six Decades of Medicine on Everest 23 May 2017
The Warburg Institute: Opening Doors – Moving Ideas 31 May 2017
Royal Museums Greenwich: Distorting the line: Globes, Maps and Movement: Talks & Courses: 27 May 2017
Wellcome Collection: The 2017 Roy Porter Lecture: Corridor Dread: A History of Institutional Fear 24 May 2017
Oxford Seminars in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Seminars 17 May & 14 June 2017
Birkbeck College, University of London: Lecture: Stories from the birthing room 18 May 2017
Sea Trek: Cruise: In Search of Wallace and His Living Treasures with Dr. George Beccaloni 13–24 January 2018 $$$
The Grosvenor Museum, Chester: Raising Horizons: Exhibition Launch 20 May 2017
Wellcome Collection: BSL tour of Electricity: The spark of life 20 May 2017
ICE: ICE Smeaton Lecture 2017 London 18 July 2017
University of Oxford: Oxford Talks: Oxford Seminar in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Wednesdays: 3, 10, 17 May & 14 June 2017
Notches: Walking Tour: Gentrification and Queer Erasure in Roanoke, Virginia
NYAM: Walking Tour of Medical Heritage Sites: Downtown 20 May 2017
Senate House, University of London: Maps and Society Lectures: Glasgow and Its Maps: How Cartography Has Reflected the Highs and Lows of the Second City of the Empire 18 May 2017
Discover Medical London: London’s Medical Cabinets of Curiosity
Royal Institution: Lecture: The Periodic Table: Its Story and Significance – Eric Scerri 20 July 2017
Center for the History of Medicine at Countway Library: J. Worth Estes Lecture: Spare Parts Hope, Drama and Dispute: Heart Transplantation and Total Artificial Heart Implant Cases in the 1960s 23 May 2017
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Events January –June 2017
New Scientist Discovery: The Science of the Renaissance: 8 Day Tour Departure: 2 November 2017 £££
Morbid Anatomy Museum: Events
Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events
The Warburg Institute: Maps and Society Lectures 26th Series Programme 2016–2017
Museum of Science and Industry Manchester: Engine Demonstration
The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours
Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)
Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tour
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
Heath Robinson: The cartoon was reproduced in 1909, anticipating the 1910 return of Halleys Comet on 20 April 1910. It shows several scientists on the roof of what appears to be the rear extension of Flamsteed House, probably including employees of the Observatory. Heath Robinson was best known for his humorous drawings of mechanical inventions. The focus of the humourous drawing is on the telescopic equipment, including a series of additional lenses being held up to achieve maximum possible magnification. The small, mischievously smiling comet appears at the top right.
This light-hearted take on astronomy’s endless quest for bigger and better telescopes illustrates the growing popular interest in astronomy, particularly surrounding events such as the return of Halleys Comet, and demonstrates that the Royal Observatory has long been intimately connected in the popular imagination with such important moments in astronomy.
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Youtube: Nomen Nominandum: Interview with Louis de Broglie, 1967 (French)
Youtube: Nuclear Vaults: Operation Dominic (1962)
Youtube: History of the Atomic Bomb, Manhattan Project and Atomic Power 71672
Youtube: A Phrenologist Amongst the Todas (Book Collector)
Youtube: Universität Göttingen: “Huxley’s Rule” and the origins of scientific realism
AEON: Whalevolution
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Museum of Science + Technology Chicago: Moving the U-505
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AACT: Mystery of Matter Resources for the Chemistry Classroom – Webinar
Gresham College: From Jenner to Wakefield: The long shadow of anti-vaccination movement
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History of Philosophy without any gaps: 277. Trivial Pursuits: Fourteenth Century Logic
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Ordered Universe: Tom McLeish at University College Dublin’s Institute for Discovery
The Planetary Society: Visiting Worlds Fantastic with Bonnie Buratti
Gresham College: Florence Nightingale and her Crimean War Statistics: Lessons for hospital safety, public administration and nursing
BBC Radio 4: Miss Simpson’s Children
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BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: Logic
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Belo Horizonte: International Conference for the History of Cartography Programme 9–14 July 2017
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: The Goodall Symposium 2017: Safer Surgery – The Lasting Legacy of Joseph Lister 15 June 2017
University of Chicago: Conference: The Philosophy of Howard Stein 9–11 June 2017
Harvard University: CfP: Medical Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Environmental Conference 2017 29–30 September 2017
Philadelphia Pennsylvania: CfP: Measure, Model, Mix: Computer as Instrument 2017 SIGCIS Conference 29 October 2017 Deadline 30 June 2017
Society of Architectural Historians, Saint Paul, Minnesota: CfP: A Matter of Life and Death: Spaces for Healing in the Premodern Era 18–22 April 2018 Deadline 15 June 2017
IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, Senate House, London: CfP: Controlling ‘Unseen’ Contagion: Disease, citizenship and mobility: 10 July 2017 Deadline 29 May 2017
Stevens Institute of Technology: CfP: Technologies of Frankenstein 1818–2018 7–9 March 2018
American University in Bulgaria: The Rethinking of Religious Belief in the Making of Modernity
University of Greenwich: CfP: The State of Maritime History Research 9 September 2017 Deadline 1 June 2017
Institut d’histoire de la médecine de l’Université de Berne: Workshop: Des objets sous la loupe : histoire(s) et culture(s) matérielles des professions de la santé 16 juin 2017
Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité: Appel à communications: Monde du sport, monde de la santé : quelles relations, quels croisements? 16 et 17 novembre 2017 au plus tard le 3 juillet 2017
Nantes: Journée d’études: Psychiatrie, big data, Médecine de la Personne 15 juin 2017
Uppsala University: Conference: CfP: Making It Up: Histories of Research Integrity and Fraud in Scientific Practice 12–14 April 2017 Deadline 15 May 2017
University of Leeds: Centre for History and Philosophy of Science: Events in May 2017
Science Museum: Open Workshop – Programme: London 1600–1800: Communities of Natural Knowledge and Artificial Practice 16–17 June 2017
Edinburgh: CfP: Pamphleteering Culture, 1558–1702 30 September 2017 Deadline 30 June 2017
Tsinghua University: Symposium: Frontier in the Philosophy of Specific Sciences 19–20 August 2017
Johns Hopkins University: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 13–14 October 2017 Deadline 15 June 2017
Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh: CfP: International Symposium: Building the Scottish Diaspora 17–18 November 2017 Deadline 24 July 2017
University of Sevilla: Workshop: Mathematics and Mechanics in the Newtonian Age: historical and philosophical questions 18–20 September 2017
The Warburg Institute: Conference: Creation and Artifice in Medieval Theories of Causality 1–2 June 2017
Harvard University: CfP: Medical Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Environment 29–30 September 2017 Deadline 15 June 2017
University of Cambridge: CfP: Histories of Anthropology: Transforming Knowledge and Power (1870–1970)
Science Museum: Dana Research Centre: Metropolitan Science: Opening Workshop 16–17 June 2017
University of Groningen: Histories of Healthy Aging 21–23 June 2017
Institute of Historical Research: School of Advance Study University of London: Workshop: What is Microhistory Now? 2 June 2017
Remedia: CfP: Themed Series: Managing Women’s Health
Fondation Singer-Polignac, Paris: Appel à communications: L’Oeil du XIXe siècle 26-29 mars 2018
University of Leeds: Symposium: Medicine and the Senses 1 June 2017
University of Edinburgh: CfP: Conference: Pamphleteering Culture, 1558–1702 30 September 2017 Deadline 30 June 2017
University of Montréal: Conference: Early Modern ‘Transformissions’ Linguistic, material, and cultural translation in England and France (c.1470–1660)
Libori Summer School 2017: Émilie du Châtelet on Matter, Bodies, Forces, and Motion Part II 23–28 July 2017 Deadline 15 July 2017
University of Westminster, London: CfP: Different Bodies: (Self-)Representation, Disability and the Media 23 June 2017 Deadline 28 April 2017
Open University of the Netherlands: CfP: The Icon as Cultural Model: Past, Present and Future 23–26 January 2018 Deadline 1 July 2017
TU Delft and Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam: CfP: EAHN: The Tools of the Architect 22–24 November 2017 Deadline 15 May 2017
The Society for the History of Natural History: William T. Stearn Student Essay Prize Deadline 30 June 2017
Hakluyt Society Blog: CfP: Hakluyt Society Symposium 2017: Trading Companies and Travel Literature 11–12 September 2017 Deadline 30 April 2017
Rutgers University: CfP: Workshop: Method and Analysis of Syriac texts
NICHE: CfP: Special Issue of Canadensis on Environment and Technology Deadline 1 June 2017
University of Oxford: The Bountiful Sea Conference: Fish processing and consumption in Mediterranean antiquity 6–8 September 2017
Academia: Scientiae 2017 Programme
St Anne’s College, Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars for Trinity Term 2017
Insitute of Historical Research: School of Advanced Study, University of London: Food History
Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire: Special Issue: Call for Proposals: The Material Realities of Energy History Deadline 2 June 2017
Science Museum London: CfP: The Evolution of the Museum: 13–14 July 2017 Deadline 30 April 2017
University of Sevilla, Institute of Mathematics: CfP: Workshop: Mathematics and Mechanics in the Newtonian Age: historical and philosophical question 18-20 Sept. 2017
Bushuis/Oost-Indisch Huis, Amsterdam: Symposium: Madness in Civilization. Current research into the history of psychiatry in the Low Countries 2 June 2017
University of Sheffield: The 11th Annual Science in Public Conference: Science, Technology & Humanity 10–12 July 2017
Kings’s College London: Conference: CfP: The Forgotten Other: Disability Studies and The Classical Body 18–19 June 2017
Colloque National Annuel des Espaces de Réflexion Ethique Régionaux Journée scientifique: Appel à communication: La Transgression en santé Date limite d’envoi des propositions : dimanche 16 juillet 2017
University of London: Institute of Historical Research: CfP: The Hakluyt Symposium 2017: Trading Companies and Travel Literature 11–12 September 2017 Deadline 30 April 2017
University of Amsterdam: Maria Sibylla Merian Conference 7-9 June 2017
Durham University: CfP: Toxic Legacies, Global Pollutants 29–30 June 2017
Royal Institution: New and Old Themes in the History of Chemistry 20 May 2017
Society for the History of Technology: Prizes
University of Crete: CfP: Ancient Greek and Indian Medicine: Achievements and Interactions 6 June 2017 Deadline 17 April 2017
Scottish Universities Insight Institute, University of Strathclyde: CfP: Understanding the Intersection of Alcoholism, Stigma, and Disability: Past and Present 1–2 March 2018 Deadline 3 July 2017
University of Kent: CfP: Hakluyt Society Symposium 2017: Trading Companies and Travel Literature 11–12 September 2017
The Recipes Project: What is a Recipe?: A Recipes Project Virtual Conversation 2 June–5 July 2017
APS: 2017 History of Physics Essay Contest Deadline 1 September 2017
The Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew: Joseph Dalton Hooker Bicentenary Meeting: The Making of Modern Botany 30 June 2017
SHMCNG, Archives départementales Nîmes: Appel à communications: Hygiène et santé en Bas-Languedoc oriental du XVIIIe siècle aux lendemains du premier conflit mondial la fin septembre 2017
Madison Wisconsin: Conference: CfP: Book History and Digital Humanities 22–24 September 2017 Deadline 15 April 2017
EUI – History of Science: #BSHSPG2017 programme is out
Royal Air Force Museum: Conference: Air Power in an Age of Uncertainty 29 September 2017
Manchester Medieval Society: New Seminar Series: Connecting ‘Medieval’ Worlds
Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague: Conference: Scientists and “Third World Countries” in the 1960s to 1980s 23–24 November 2017
Libori Summer School: Émilie Du Châtelet: Matter, Bodies, Forces, Motion 23–28 July 2017
Somatosphere: CfP: Speculative Health Deadline 1 June 2017
Hamburg Museum of Medical History: CfP: XVI.th Conference of the German-Polish Society for the History of Medicine (DPGGM): Historical Aspects of Preventive Healthcare in Germany and Poland 12–14 July 2017 Deadline 1 April 2017
Warburg Institute: Resources and Techniques for the Study of Renaissance and Early Modern Culture 22–25 May 2017
Université de Genève: Appel à communication: Produire du nouveau ? Arts – Techniques – Sciences en Europe (1400-1900) 23–25 novembre 2017 avant le 15 mars 2017
Christ’s College, Cambridge: Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World 1400–1750
Université de Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée: Appel à contribution: Corps au travail. Performance, discipline et fatigue à l’épreuve du métier (XVIIe-XXe siècle) 30 juin-1er juillet 2017 avant le 10 avril 2017
University of Bern: Conference: Thinking about Space and Time: 100 Years of Applying and Interpreting General Relativity 13–15 September 2017
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: SHAC Award Scheme open for applications Deadline 31 May 2017
University of Colorado in Boulder: CfP: 33rd Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science 13–15 October 2017 Deadline 1 June 2017
Journée d’étude pluridisciplinaire: Appel à communications: Corps et dépendances Date limite : 30 avril 2017
Philosophia Scientiae: Journal CfP
Durban, KZN, South Africa: CfP: Philosophy of Technology Symposium 22–23 July 2017 Deadline 31 March 2017
Surgeons’ Hall, Edinburgh: CfP: British Society for the History of Medicine Congress 13–16 September 2017 Deadline 31 May 2017
Sheraton City Centre, Toronto: CfP: History of Science Society (HSS) 2017 Conference 19–121 November 2017 Deadline 3 April 2017
NYAM: Public Programs
H-Sci-Med-Tech: Call for Submissions, Glenn Sonnedecker Prize
University of Notre Dame: Biennial History of Astronomy Workshop – ND XIII 5–9 July 2017
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich: CfP: Mapping the Past, Exploiting the Future 21–22 July 2017 Deadline 1 March 2017
St Anne’s College, Oxford: CfP: International Research Symposium: Alcohol, Psychiatry and Society 29–30 June 2017 Deadline 31 March 2017
New College, Oxford: CfP: Patient Voices: Historical and Ethical Engagement with Patient Experiences of Healthcare, 1850–1948 18–19 September 2017 Deadline 1 April 2017
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens: Conference: Borders and Technology 7–10 September 2017
NACBS Denver: CfP: Workshops on Early Modern Bodies and Cultures of Imperialism November 2017 Deadline 30 March 2017
New College, University of Oxford: CfP: Patient Voices: Historical and Ethical Engagement with Patient Experiences of Healthcare, 1850–1948 18–19 September 2017 Deadline 1 April 2017
Leibniz University Hannover: CfP: PROGRESS IN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY – Workshop with Philip Kitcher 14 June 2017 Deadline 12 March 2017
Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile: Conference: KNOWLEDGE/CULTURE/ECOLOGIES – KCE2017 15–18 November 2017
Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Ankara, Turkey: IHPST Biennial Conference 4–7 July 2017
Liverpool Medical Institution: CfP: The Governance of Health Conference 2017: Historical & Contemporary Perspectives on Medical, Managerial and Economic Influence on Health Policy-Making 10–12 July 2017 Deadline 24 February 2017
University of Glasgow: CfP: First International Conference on Historical Medical Discourse 14–16 June 2017 Deadline 28 February 2017
Notches: CfP: Histories of Sex and Sexuality in Central and Eastern Europe
University of Göttingen: Summer School: The Material Culture of Exploration and Academic Travel 1700–1900 24–29 July 2017
Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation: Summer School on “Science and Religion” Crete 5–10 June 2017
Royal Historical Society: New Historical Perspectives: Accepting Proposals from Early Career Historian
CHF: The Decay Project: Call for Entries
Society for Renaissance Studies: London Rare Books School 26 June–14 July 2017
Woudschoten Hotel & Conference Centre, Zeist: Call for Applications: TransPositions Summer School 2017: Sensible Objects, Material Engagement, Skilled Expertise 21–25 August 2017
Université McGill, Montréal: 85e congrès de l’ACFAS: Appel à communications: Les infirmières de la folie. Histoire et évolution des soins infirmiers en psychiatrie au sein de l’espace francophone
Tunis National Library: Summer School: The Arabic Manuscript: Codicology, Palaeography, and History 10-15 July 2017
University of Manchester: CHSTM seminar series
University of Glasgow: Conference: CfP: Medical Machines in Antiquity 19–20 May 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf: Vortrags- und Sektionsanmeldungen für die erste Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft in Münster vom 22.-24. September 2017: Wissenschafts-, Medizin- und Technikreflexion auf dem Prüfstand: Historische und aktuelle Herausforderungen
IUHMSP, Lausanne: Séminaire de recherche en histoire et études sociales de la médecine, de la santé, et des sciences du vivant: Semestre de printemps 2017
University of Münster, Germany: CfP: Contemplating Science, Medicine, and Technology: Past and Present Challenges 22–24 September 2017 Deadline 1 March 2017
American Academy of Religion: Annual Meeting Boston MA 18-21 November 2017 CfP: Western Esotericism Unit
Université McGill, Montréal: Appel à contribution: Les infirmières de la folie: Histoire et évolution des soins infirmiers en psychiatrie au sein de l’espace francophone 8 et 9 mai 2017 avant le 20 février 2017
BSHS: Themes: Call for Proposals
IRSPUM, Montréal: La santé en débat: Programme de l’Hiver 2017
Dartmouth History Institute in Intellectual History: Workshop: 11–15 June 2017 Applications Due 1 February 2017
University Paris Diderot: International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry: CfP: Symposia: 3–5 July 2017 Deadline: 31 January 2017
The Collation: Announcing a New Folger Fellowship in Honor of Margaret Hannay
Domus Comeliana, Pisa: International Conference: CfP: Humours, mixtures, & Corpuscles: A Medical Path to Corpuscularism in the Seventeenth Century 18–20 May 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
Indiana University in Bloomington: Summer Institute: Beyond East and West: Exchanges and Interactions across the Early Modern World (1400–1800) 19 June–7 July 2017
SHOT 2017: CfP. Thinking with Ann Johnson Philadelphia 26–29 October 2017
Patras, Greece: 5th International Phytocosmetics and Phytotherapy Congress: CfP. History of Cosmetics and Phytotherapy 15–17 May 2017
NACBS Denver: CfP: Early Modern History Workshop: Bodies Corporeal and Rhetorical 3–5 November 2017 Deadline 3 March 2017
Society for the History of Natural History’s Annual Conference: CfP: Women in the History of Natural Sciences University of Cumbria Ambleside Campus 15 June 2017 Freshwater Biological Association, at Far Sawrey 16th June 2017
American Astronomical Society: DDA’s New Early Career Prize Named for Very Rubin
Notches: CfP: Histories of Sex and Sexuality in Central and Eastern Europe
The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at Boston Public Library: Teacher Workshop: Mapping a New World: Places of Colonization and Conflict in 17th-Century New England 9–14 July 2017 National Participants 23–28 July 2017 Commuting Participants Applications Deadline 1 March 2017
University of Texas at Dallas: CfP: Conference: Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology 18–21 May 2017 Deadline 15 January 2017
BHSH: Travel Grants for the International Congress in Rio
University of Cumbria Ambleside Campus: SHNH: CfP: Women in the History of Natural Sciences 15-16 June 2017
British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference: CfP: Session proposal: Science and Connoisseurship: New Perspectives 6–9 July 2017 Deadline 10 January 2017
Cornell University: The Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar Spring 2017
History of Anaesthesia Society: CfP: HAS Summer Scientific meeting 16–17 June 2017 Deadline 17 May 2017
BSHS 2017: CfP: Science and Connoisseurship 6–9 July 2017 Deadline 10 January 2017
BNF/Université Paris-Descartes-USPC: Colloque international: Appel à communications: Alfred Binet, expérimentateur. Entre archives de la psychologie et éducation physique 12–13 Octobre 2017 Avant le 31 janvier 2017
University of Aberdeen: CfP: Workshop: Gut Feeling: Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Culture 26-27 May 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
Société de Démographie Historique, Centre Roland Mousnier, Paris: Appel à communications: Le sang. Famille, parenté, transmission du Moyen Âge à nos jours 23–24 novembre 2017 Date limite de l’appel : 15 janvier 2017
Merida, Yucatan, Mexico: CfP: “IX International and Interdisciplinary Conference: Alexander von Humboldt and Travellers Through Yucatan”, 19–24 November 2018 Deadline 29 May 2017
University of Pittsburgh: Call for Applications: A Summer Program in Philosophy of Science for Underrepresented Groups 10–14 July 2017
Domus Comeliana of Pisa: CfP: Conference: Humours, mixtures, & corpuscles. A Medical Path to Corpuscularism in the Seventeenth Century 18–20 May 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
Centre for Global Health Histories, Department of History, University of York: Call for applications: William Bynum Essay Prize (Medical History)
University of Sheffield: Call for Open Panels: 11th Annual Science in Public Conference Science, Technology & Humanity 10–12 July 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa: CfP: Joint Meeting of the Red EsCTS and the Portuguese STS Network: Lost in Translation? People, Technologies for Practices and Concepts Across Boundaries 7–9 June 2017 Deadline 10 February 2017
University of California, Berkeley: 2017 4S Conference Proposal Submission Dates
Historiens de la santé: CfP: Edited Collection: Medicine and What it Means to be Human
University of Utrecht: CfP: Workshop: Histories of Measurement and Self-making 29–30 June 2017 Deadline 6 January 2017
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: CfP: Estimated Truths: Water, Science, and the Politics of Approximation
Mississippi State University: CfP: 49th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences 22-25 June 2017 Deadline 15 January 2017
University of Sheffield: CfP: 11th Annual Science in Public Conference: Science, Technology and Humanity 10–12 July 2017 Deadline 31 January 2017
The Göttingen Institute of Advanced Study: CfP: Mapping the Territory: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1830 Two Conferences Berne 14–16 September 2017 Göttingen 7–9 December 2017 Deadline 20 January 2017
University of Toronto: CfP: 7th Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable: Medicine, Public Health and Healthcare 23–24 June 2017
Manchester Conference Centre: CfP: Genealogies of Knowledge I: Translating Political and Scientific Thought across Time and Space 7–9 December 2017 Deadline 15 February 2017
University of Chicago: Marine Biological Laboratory: Seminar: A Century of Engineering Life: Cells and Organisms 17–24 May 2017
University of Wales Trinity Saint David: The Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture: Annual Sophia Centre Conference: CfP: The Talking Sky: Myths and Meaning in the Celestial Spheres 1-2 July 2017 Deadline 15 January 2017
University of Toronto: CfP: 7th Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable 23–24 June 2017
University of Darmstadt: CfP: Society for Philosophy and Technology’s 20th biennial conference 14–17 June 2017 Deadline 5 December 2016
University of Toronto: CfP: 7th Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable 23–24 June 2017
University of Darmstadt: CfP: Society for Philosophy and Technology’s 20th biennial conference 14–17 June 2017 Deadline 5 December 2016
University of York: CfP: BSHS Annual Conference 2017 6–9 July 2017 Deadline 19 January 2017
University of Ireland, Galway: CfP: Medicine and Mystery: The Dark Side of Science in Victorian Fiction 8 June 2017
Septièmes journées internationales d’études médiévales des Jeunes Chercheurs Médiévistes de l’Université de Genève & de la Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale: Appel à communications: Vivre et mourir au Moyen Âge 9-10 mars 2017 avant le 1er décembre 2016
University of Amsterdam: CfP: Changing the Nature of Art and Science: Intersections with Maria Sibylla Merian 7–9 June 2017 Deadline 31 December 2016
University of Ghent: Program Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science 2016–2017
Toronto Ontario: CfP: Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science Annual Conference 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 20 January 2017
Transversal: CfP: Special Issue on Historiography of Medicine Deadline 31 July 2017 Publication December 2017
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science: 57th Annual Program 2016–2017
Victoria, British Columbia: CfP: Conference SHARP 2017: Technologies of the Book 9-12 June 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
University of Groningen: CfP. Histories of Healthy Ageing 21–23 June 2017 Deadline 1 December 2016
Kraków Poland: CfP. 6th Conference of the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences 20-22 September 2017
University of Utrecht: CfP: Workshop: Histories of Measurement and Self-Making 29–30 June 2017 Deadline 6 January 2017
‘Villa Dohrn’, Ischia, Italy: Call for applications: Fifteenth Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences Cycles of Life 24 June–1 July 2017
Philadelphia, PA: RBS Mellon Conference: CfP: Resembling Science: The Unruly Object across the Disciplines 12–15 October 2017
University of Ghent: Concepts and methods in philosophy and history of science: Calendar, 2016–2017
Friends of Birmingham Museums and Arts Gallery (BMAG): Looking for speakers for their Science Shorts series in March, June, September and December 2017
The History of Modern Biomedicine: CfP: Frontiers in Pharmacology: Pharmaceutical innovation after World War II: from rational drug discovery to biopharmaceuticals
Centre Alexandre-Koyré, Paris: Histoire des sciences humaines et sociales 4 novembre 2016 au 9 juin 2017
Ryerson University (Toronto): Appel à communications: Congrès annuel de la Société canadienne d’histoire de la médecine: L’épopée d’une histoire: 150 ans vers l’avenir 27–29 mai 2017
University of Warwick: CfP: Cultures of Exclusion in the Early Modern World: Enemies and Strangers, 1600–1800
All Souls College Oxford: Oxford Naval History Conference: Economic Warfare and the Sea 1650–1950 13–15 July 2017
King’s College London: ChoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: Workshop: Turkish Manuscript Studies: An Introduction 27 March–1 April 2017 Deadline 27 November 2017
UCL: STS: Seminar Series Spring 2017
Erasmus University Rotterdam: CfP: Fourth Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science
University of Toronto: CfP: CSHPS–SCHPS Annual Conference 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 20 January 2017
Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, UK: CfP: Conference: BRIDGE: The Heritage of Connecting Places and Cultures 6–10 July 2017 Deadline: 1 November 2016
SCHCT: 9th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularisation 18–20 May 2017
University of Exeter: EPSA 17: CfP: The Sixth Biennial Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association 6-9 September 2017 Deadline 5 January 2017
University of Kiel: CfP: 9th International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicines (ICTAM IX) 6–12 August 2017: Asian Medicines: Encounters, Translations and Transformations Deadline 1 November 2016
‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest: Biennial Conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH): CfP: The Body Politic: States in the History of Medicine and Health 30 August-2 September 2017 Deadline 1 January 2017
Ryerson University, Toronto, ON: Canadian Society for the History of Medicine: CfP: From Far and Wide: The Next 150 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 15 November 2016
Moot Court Room, Toronto, ON: ISHTIP 9th Annual Workshop: CfP: ‘Intellectual Property as Circulation and Control’ 12–14 July 2017
BSHS: University College London: 8th International Conference for the European Society for the History of Science: Unity and Disunity 15–17 September 2018
Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS: CfP: 49th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Institute of Historical Research, University of London: Maritime History and Culture Seminar 2016–17
FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia: Applications to Fernando Gil International Prize in Philosophy of Science 2017
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London: The Forum for European Philosophy Women in Science Forthcoming Events
Royal Museums Greenwich: CfP: Conference: Joseph Banks, Science, Culture and Exploration 14–15 September 2017
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim: CFP: 11th International Conference on the History of Chemistry 29 August–2 September 2017
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
University of Edinburgh: Science, Technology and Innovation Studies Seminar Series 2016/17
Trivium, Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern Studies: CfP: Religious and/or Medicinal definitions of Otherness Deadline 23 September 2016
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
H-Empire: CfP: Empires of Knowledge” ESEH 2017 (Zagreb 28 June–2 July 2017)
GHI Washington: CfP: Workshop: Beyond Data: Knowledge Production in Bureaucracies 1–3 June 2017
Archives and Records: CfP: Special issue on ‘Archives and Museums’, spring 2018
King’s College London: CHoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
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
ICHST “2017: Symposium Proposals Approved by IPC
IWHA: CfP: Water History Conference 2017 Grand Rapids USA 15–17 June 2017
University of Durham: Conference: Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism? 5–7 August 2017
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
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
Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science: Upcoming Events
Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)
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
H-Sci-Med-Tech: CFP: Blood, Food & Climate – Symposium at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology
University of York: CfP: BSHS Annual Conference 2017 6–9 July 2017 Deadline 19 January 2017
University of Ireland, Galway: CfP: Medicine and Mystery: The Dark Side of Science in Victorian Fiction 8 June 2017
University of Amsterdam: CfP: Changing the Nature of Art and Science: Intersections with Maria Sibylla Merian 7–9 June 2017 Deadline 31 December 2016
University of Ghent: Program Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science 2016–2017
Toronto Ontario: CfP: Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science Annual Conference 27–29 May 2017 Deadline 20 January 2017
Transversal: CfP: Special Issue on Historiography of Medicine Deadline 31 July 2017 Publication December 2017
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science: 57th Annual Program 2016–2017
Victoria, British Columbia: CfP: Conference SHARP 2017: Technologies of the Book 9-12 June 2017 Deadline 30 November 2016
University of Groningen: CfP. Histories of Healthy Ageing 21–23 June 2017 Deadline 1 December 2016
Kraków Poland: CfP. 6th Conference of the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences 20-22 September 2017
University of Utrecht: CfP: Workshop: Histories of Measurement and Self-Making 29–30 June 2017 Deadline 6 January 2017
‘Villa Dohrn’, Ischia, Italy: Call for applications: Fifteenth Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences Cycles of Life 24 June–1 July 2017
Philadelphia, PA: RBS Mellon Conference: CfP: Resembling Science: The Unruly Object across the Disciplines 12–15 October 2017
University of Ghent: Concepts and methods in philosophy and history of science: Calendar, 2016–2017
Friends of Birmingham Museums and Arts Gallery (BMAG): Looking for speakers for their Science Shorts series in March, June, September and December 2017
Centre Alexandre-Koyré, Paris: Histoire des sciences humaines et sociales 4 novembre 2016 au 9 juin 2017
Ryerson University (Toronto): Appel à communications: Congrès annuel de la Société canadienne d’histoire de la médecine: L’épopée d’une histoire: 150 ans vers l’avenir 27–29 mai 2017
All Souls College Oxford: Oxford Naval History Conference: Economic Warfare and the Sea 1650–1950 13–15 July 2017
King’s College London: ChoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
LOOKING FOR WORK:
Michigan State University: Instructor in Environmental History (Fixed Term)
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Grants Deadline 31 May 2017
Maastricht University: Postdoctoral researcher “history of medicine and/or technology”
Université d’Angers: Appel à candidature: Recrutement d’un-e doctorant-e: Contrat Doctoral “L’éveil des sens. Histoire médicale de la puberté au siècle des Lumières” Deadline 10 June 2017
UCL STS: Teaching Fellow in Philosophy of Science Deadline 27 May 2017
