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@bhgross144.bsky.socialFirst the Academy of Natural Sciences, and now the Sternberg Museum of #NaturalHistory.
In a better world, leaders would divert some of the money currently being spent on AI or data centers to maintain our libraries, museums, and archives...
@drnereide.bsky.social#OTD in 1901, #EnricoFermi was born.
His scientific work stands out for originality and range.
He was an exceptional scientist, capable of lightning-fast intuitions, but also a tireless worker, deeply human towards colleagues, students, family, friends.
A thread.⤵️
@descarteslab.bsky.socialSo it starts our 1st event of this series of #DescartesLab - we dedicate this season to the memory of Antonella Del Prete
@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialHe poured tetraethyl lead over his bare hands at a press conference. He exhaled Freon onto a candle to prove it was safe. Thomas Midgley Jr. held a hundred patents and an unmatched instinct for the regrettable.
@fabribald.bsky.socialshs.cairn.info/revue-intern... 📣 a very recent journal issue edited by @arnpelletier.bsky.social and Gabriel Meyer-Bish on Descartes's early physics of Le Monde #Descartes #Cartesianism #17thcentury #histphilo #histsci - usually read through the lens of the Principia, i.e., through the metaphysics,
@friendsofdarwin.bsky.social28-Sep: On this day in 1838, Charles Darwin brainstormed some old ideas about population growth from Rev. Thomas Malthus, and a famous simile was born…
#HistSci
@farsouthhistory.bsky.socialOnly 2 more days to buy "Antarctic Materialities" with the 50% code McCa6648 #histsci #polar #Antarctica #envhist #musuems
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...
@farsouthhistory.bsky.socialSomehow I think us historians of science will have an older mean....But twice I have cited Alexander Dalrymple's "An historical collection of the several voyages and discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean (1771), and I think that in my academic writing, it is as old as my citations get #histsci
@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialHe drafted the first computer in 1837. The government wouldn’t fund it. So he sat in his Marylebone study and logged 165 interruptions by organ-grinders, brass bands, and "the human voice." Charles Babbage, chronicler of street nuisances.
@lignedescience.social.sciences.re.ap.brid.gyNatural history, more than any other science, has always been crowdsourced :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUfobESjj6s
#histnat #histsci #citizenscience
@barbarasplendor.bsky.socialWhen writing about #earlymodern #histsci, sometimes I wonder if early modern Aristotelians felt like me. Certain of the value of my perspective, and sorry because the critical humanistic tradition looses terrain in favor of the new (in this case capitalistic acritical techno-science)...
@rmathematicus.bsky.socialFrench astronomer, mathematician, Ismael Boulliau, who was a Keplerian and suggested the first inverse squared theory of gravity, was born 28 September 1605 #histsci
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@mqassiti.bsky.social@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialTwenty-three years old, med degree on Tuesday, professor of surgery on Wednesday. To overturn thirteen centuries of anatomical dogma, he needed bodies — and Renaissance Padua was not handing them out. Meet Andreas Vesalius, gentleman ghoul.
@royalsocietypublishing.orgThis #NotesandRecords special issue demonstrates the complexity of plant studies, as early modern scholars conceived plants not only as a subject of botanical studies, but also as a laboratory object that mediates the study of nature: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsnr/issue/7... #HistSci #HistSTM
