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for "Diversity, Culture, Theory, and Data: Science on Human Variety."
SLAS Faculty Research Seminar (2011).
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Until (and a bit after) Darwin
for "Diversity, Culture, Theory, and Data: Science on Human Variety."
SLAS Faculty Research Seminar (2011).
#HistSTM #HistSci
#CharlesDarwin
www.academia.edu/1118937/_Unt...
@alexandreklein.bsky.social(Appel à communications) Les visages de la physiognomonie : 1750–1850 histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/09/les-... #histSTM
@bhgross144.bsky.socialDid #Galileo design a four-lens telescope at some point before 1630? In a new Annals of Science article, José María Moreno Madrid examines a treatise by Spanish friar Ignacio Muñoz that hints at that possibility.
![Excerpt from De Tellescopiis Stellarum by Dominican firar Ignacio Muñoz.
**Latin text**
De Tellescopiis Stellarum
156] Anno 1666 in civitate Mexicana die 8 Augusti Pro RexNovae Hispaniae D. Antonio de Toledo, Marchio de Manseramihi accommodavit Tellescopium fabricatum a Galilaeocuius fabricam examinavi, ut videre est in sequentibusproportionibus, et mensuris. Constat specillis 4. Primumspecillum lenticulare ut in .A. cuius semidiameter .A.B. etlunula eius .C. Exterior. Et .C.D. circellus, seu annulusretinens lunulam.Haec approximatur oculo, sed oculus ponitur in .E.respiciens per parvum foramen quasi pupilla oculi distat avitro .A. distantia .E.A.Secundum specillum omnino aequale est primo .C. et eiussemidiameter .A.F. quam etiam (re exactius examinata)judico esse veram semidiametrum primi specilli. Distatsecunda luna a prima quanta est linea sequens.G. Hic lunasecunda est lenticularis.
**English translation**
On the Telescopes of the Stars
156] On August 8, 1666, in Mexico City, the viceroy of NewSpain D. Antonio de Toledo, Marquis of Mancera, handed mea telescope fabricated by Galileo, the construction of which Iexamined, as can be seen in the following proportions andmeasurements. It consists of four lenses. The first lens islenticular, as in .A., whose semi-diameter is .A.B., and itscurved surface (lunula) is .C. – exterior – and .C.D. is thesmall ring holding the lens surface (lunula).It is brought close to the eye, but the eye is set at .E., lookingthrough a small hole about the size of the pupil. The eye isdistant from the glass .A. the distance .E.A.The second lens is entirely the same as the first .C. andits semidiameter is .A.F., which, upon closer examination,I judge to be the true semidiameter of the first lens.The second lens is as distant from the first as the length ofthe following line .G. This second lens is lenticular.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:gctqfxnif4zrn7rw76gnzzcu/bafkreicc46auqaerbrxocbhvxoknkgf5yfoo7sj75tv4znomw5dm4fgubm@jpeg)
@node801.bsky.socialFruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s
From the 16th to the 20th century, urban farmers grew Mediterranean fruits and vegetables as far north as England and the Netherlands, using only renewable energy.
#Climate_Change #Biodiversity #EnvHist #HistSTM
solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/frui...
@karlgalle.bsky.socialInteresting profile of a woman who in the 1950s wrote some of the earliest programming code for running computer simulations, including pioneering work in non-linear dynamics: wapo.st/3UXwSyu [gift link] #HistSTM
@alexandreklein.bsky.social(Call for applications) Santorio Residential Fellowship 2027 histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/07/sant... #histSTM