Day 20 #SciArtSeptember prompt is meander so I am sharing geologist & paleontogist Alice Wilson (1881-1964) with the Ottawa River. 🧪👩🏼‍🔬⚒️ #histsci
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A job in the Mineralogy Division of the U of Toronto Museum was her entry into #geology. In 1909 as a museum assistant with Geological Survey of Canada

In order to understand early modern science, images are no less significant than words. A new #NotesandRecords special issue examines a wide range of images, from true-to-life drawings to carefully conceived schematics: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsnr/issue/8... #HistSci #HistSTM

"And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by" (Sea-Fever, Masefield)

... & a quadrant for sights & calculations

celestial #navigation in the #GoldenAgeofPiracy

#celnav #astrophysics🧪🏛️ #talklikeapirateday #histsci #MarinersMuseum #instrumentation #timekeeping

Interesting reading. But this line from the author felt piercing, “note: I personally view wanting to be first to a discovery as a relatively fixed behavioral quality of scientists for at least the next few generations.” When did we become about priority > purpose? #scisci #metascience #histsci

Leeuwenhoek in Mexico: new paths in the global circulation of scientific knowledge doi.org/10.1098/rsnr... | #NotesAndRecords #HistSci #AnthonyVanLeeuwenhoek

He catalogued 98,721 letters. He did math in his head at night to hold off doubt. When even that failed, Lewis Carroll invented a gridded card so he could write in bed without lifting his hands from the sheets.

https://oddlet.com/p/six

#HistSci #history #SciComm

Florentino Ameghino, pioneer of Argentine paleontology, was born #OTD 1854. He was a key figure in the development of science in the country. The Ameghino crater, located north of Sinus Successus on the Moon, is named in his honor—a very rare privilege for a paleontologist
wp.me/p3ihHu-Af #histsci

#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...)

#HistSTM #histsci 🗃️📜🔬

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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#HistSci #SciComm

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
#histsci

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
#histsci #physics

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
#histsci #physics

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
#histsci #physics

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
#histsci