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
Volume #1
Monday 23 June 2014
EDITORIAL:
After six years the history of science blog carnival On The Shoulders of Giants ceased to exist, going out with style in a superb final edition put together by its founder Dr SkySkull. The reasons for this termination were explained in advance here. However it was obvious from the reception of each edition and the reaction to the news of its demise that quite a few people enjoyed having their Internet history of science, technology and medicine links served up in one big chunk, saving them, as it did, from having to daily check cyberspace for anything new in those fields. As the apparatus for collecting and collating those links was firmly established for Giants Shoulders it has been decided to offer them here in the form of a weekly Gazette under the general editorship of the Ghost of William Whewell, that great Victorian polymath, and historian and philosopher of science.
The format of our Gazette will almost certainly evolve with time and critique and feedback are welcome at all times. If you feel that are highly professional editorial team are consistently overseeing some excellent source of STEM history then please contact our chief sub-editor here. Items for inclusion in the Gazette can also be submitted to the same address or to the chief sub on Twitter. We hope that you, the readers, will enjoy our weekly digest of all the best in Internet STEM history and will continue to return to this well of historical knowledge on a regular basis.
Your Whewell’s Gazette Editorial Team
ON THE BLOGS AND WEBSITES:
PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY:
At The History Vault Felicity Henderson writes about Hooke, Newton and the ‘Missing’ Portrait
Jon Ptak has collected some Quantum Mechanics and Physics Timelines and James Clerk Maxwell’s Library
History of Science Society: An Iconic Image Not so Newtonian After All by Liba Taub
Daily Breeze News: My Turn: Albert Einstein: Just a neighbour to this little girl
Halley’s Log: Halley’s maritime experience, part 1: Hally a Sayling
MEDICINE:
From the Hands of Quacks: On Sharing #histmed Images
The New York Academy of Medicine: A History of Blood Transfusion
Open Culture: The Famous Letter Where Freud Breaks His Relationship with Jung
Dittrick Museum Blog: Morbid Matter: Public Health and Public Opinion
Smithsonian.com: The Glory New York City Riot that Shaped American Medicine
Chirugeon’s Apprentice: Public Health & Victorian Cemetery Reform
Early Modern Medicine: Pregnancy and Prostitution
Social History of Science: Wombs, Worms and Wolves: Constructing Cancer in Early Modern England
The Public Domain Review: A Treatise on Adulteration of Food and Culinary Poisons (1820)
DNAinfo New York: ‘Elixir of Long Life’ Recreated from 1800s Bottle Unearthed on Bowery
Dr Alun Withey: ‘Worems in the teeth’: Toothache, dentistry and remedies in the early modern period
Jess Clark: Pimples, Corns, and Correspondence: Remedying Victorian Beauty Dilemma
THE LIFE & EARTH SCIENCES:
Letters from Gondwana offers The Late Quaternary Megafauna Extinction: The Human Factor
Yovisto: Barbara McClintock and Cytogenetics
TrowelBlazers: Maria Graham
Welcome Library: Francis Galton: a Victorian polymath
The H-Word: Public engagement with science, Victorian style
TECHNOLOGY:
Fiction Reboot: Daily Dose On The Invention of Writing
Bletchley Park: No longer the world’s best kept secret
Letters of Note: To a Top Scientist: A schoolboy designs a rocket
Messynessy: The Forgotten Firsts: 10 Vintage Versions of Modern Technology
META:- HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY and OTHER:
At least get the facts right says Darin Hayton
Inside the Science Museum: Copenhagen: at the nexus of drama, science and history Interview with Michael Frayn
Imperial College London: Imperial scientists share their life stories in oral history project
On Finding the Grave of Descartes’ Lover, Helena Jans:
Scientific Instrument Makers in the Netherlands: Directory
ESOTERIC:
Forbidden Histories: William James on Exceptional Mental States
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
23rd June is Women in Engineering day! Stay tuned for our participation. Folllow @WES1919@thewisecampaign for more!
Adventures With Technology: A Call for Pitches Historians may also apply!
Radical a history of medicine play in Toronto
One day symposium: White Heat: art, science and social responsibility in 1960s Britain
Freud Museum London: 20 Years of Archive Fever
New Book: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude Rebekah Higgitt and Richard Dunn
Registration open for New Directions in Early Modern British History Conference Hull
Robert Hooke’s Diary added to UNESCO Memory of the World Register
University of Manchester: Book prize launched to honour world renowned historian of science and medicine
Rebekah Higgitt on Longitude in BBC History Magazine
The 3rd Annual Robert Boyle Summer School: Full programme
British Society for the History of Mathematics: Non-Western Mathematics Day Oxford 27 June 2014
BOOK REVIEWS:
New Scientist: The war on pain and why we can’t win it
Brain Pickings: Leonardo da Vinci’s Life and Legacy, in a Vintage Pop-Up Book
The Economist: Magician’s Brain: The Newton Papers: The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton’s Manuscripts by Sarah Dry
Times Higher Education: Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science, by Richard Yeo
LOOKING FOR WORK?
History Of Science at Work Another Jobs Roundup
That’s all for this week. Come back next Monday for another seven days of Internet history of science, technology and medicine.
