#FossilFriday Elizabeth Vrba (1942-2025). Her extraordinary legacy continues to inspire researchers and students around the world. paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/t... #womeninstem #histsci 🧪⚒️

History of science & #BookHistory friends: What was the size of the initial print run of Hooke's Micrographia?

(I've frequently seen the 1st edition referred to as a bestseller, but haven't found a source that confirms how many copies the Royal Society commissioned...)

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Check out Lois Rosson's review of Jon Willis's "The Pale Blue Data Point: An Earth-Based Perspective on the Search for Alien Life," published in 2025 by @uchicagopress.bsky.social #envhist #histsci
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

9/18/1888 — b. Toni Wolff, Swiss psychotherapist, analytical psychologist. Noted paper on the 4 types of the feminine psyche: the Amazon, the Mother, the Courtesan + the Medial Wmn. Helped CarlJung identify + name some of his best-known concepts #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #PsychSky #MedSky #HistSci

She required a locked room in every house. She moved with two hundred boxes. She took the children to slaughterhouses, photographed Dali and Kirk Douglas, and left 150,000 negatives mostly undeveloped.

https://oddlet.com/p/r25

#HistSci #history #SciComm

For our #ResearchReels series, we invited scholars across the institute to pitch their recent publications! ⚡

To find more of our #ResearchReels or to learn more about our scholars and the MPIWG, visit our Mediathek:

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29 August 1831. Faraday connects a battery to a coil on an iron ring. The needle on a second coil jumps, falls back to zero while the current still flows, and jumps the other way when he disconnects. Every generator and transformer is that ring.

Ep. 7 of How Humanity Discovered Electricity
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October 15-16 in Paris to discuss #oeconomianaturalis #oeconomy - with an amazing group of scholars, and very happy to share my thoughts on Descartes's proto-ecology, Cartesian scholars, and some 17th-century naturalists discussing plants #Descartes #ecology #histsci #environmentalhistory #envhist

1858. Two thousand volts are pushed into the first Atlantic cable to make the signal come through faster; within weeks the cable is dead. Ohm's law, ridiculed thirty years earlier, and William Thomson explain why.

Ep. 6 of How Humanity Discovered Electricity
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April 1820. During a lecture, Ørsted brings a compass next to a wire carrying current and the needle swings sideways: not towards the wire, not away from it, across it. Within weeks Ampère measures the force between two currents.

Ep. 5 of How Humanity Discovered Electricity
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Meet Partner Investigator Dr. Ema Hrešanová (Charles University, Czechia)
Ema combines anthropology & history to study healthcare dynamics across East-Central Europe, Cuba & the USSR, bringing decolonial views to Cold War medical networks.
#HistMed #HistSci #ColdWarHistory #DecolonialHistory

1800. Volta stacks discs of zinc and silver with brine-soaked cloth between them and gets, for the first time, a current that does not stop: the battery. It began with Galvani's frog legs twitching on a balcony in Bologna.

Ep. 4 of How Humanity Discovered Electricity
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1785. Coulomb hangs a needle from a silver wire so fine that one degree of twist measures a force of a few billionths of a newton, and finds that the force between charges falls with the square of the distance. Franklin's rod came first.

Ep. 3 of How Humanity Discovered Electricity
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1746. Pieter van Musschenbroek charges the water in a glass jar and touches the wire. The shock is so violent he writes that he would not take it again for the kingdom of France. The Leyden jar: the first device to store electricity.

Ep. 2 of How Humanity Discovered Electricity
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1600. William Gilbert carves a lodestone into a sphere, moves a small needle over it and watches it dip exactly as compass needles dip at sea. The Earth is a magnet. Six hundred pages of experiments: De Magnete, the first modern book of physics.

Ep. 1 of How Humanity Discovered Electricity
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1861. Maxwell works out how fast a disturbance travels through his model of empty space: 310,740 km/s, a number two Germans had measured five years earlier with a Leyden jar and a magnetic needle. Fizeau's speed of light: 314,858 km/s.

Ep. 8 of How Humanity Discovered Electricity
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📣Next #DescartesLab event is scheduled on September 29 - 4.30 pm (Italy time) with this beautiful volume on Descartes and music #histsci #histmusic #Descartes #17thcentury #histphilo the event is in English with 2 amazing scholars (Domenica Romagni and Jonathan Regier) 🎶

Attendance is free

Fun day signing copies of QUEER ORIGINS in London bookshops. Check out Foyles on Charing Cross Road, Hatchards on Piccadilly, and Waterstones on Gower Street, where I was thrilled to find the book had been selected for a special mention! 💜🌈📚🦋🗃️

#booksky #histsci #queerhistory @yalebooks.bsky.social

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