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@principiah.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 4:28 AM

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

@principiah.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 2:32 AM

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

@principiah.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 12:36 AM

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
#histsci #physics

@principiah.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 10:40 PM

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
#histsci

@principiah.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 10:36 PM

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
#histsci #physics

@descarteslab.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 8:03 PM

📣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

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@rossbrooks.co.ukSep 17, 2026, 7:26 PM

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

Copies of Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A History of Sex and Science by Ross Brooks front-faced on a wooden bookshelf. Underneath the front copy is a hand-written recommendation from a bookseller. It reads: 'Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A wonderful queering of science by the brilliant Ross Brooks. Examining how scientists including Darwin always knew our natural world was queer.'
@node801.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 6:02 PM

[Archive]
The Quadrupedia and the Observations on the Three Kingdoms of Nature by Linnaeus (1735)
#HistSTM #HistSci
until-darwin.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-...

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@lignedescience.social.sciences.re.ap.brid.gySep 17, 2026, 3:42 PM

Les archives de l’Académie royale de chirurgie (1731-1793) sont maintenant entièrement disponibles en ligne !
#histsci #histmed
https://bibliotheque.academie-medecine.fr/mise-en-ligne-arc/

@feministory.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 2:46 PM

9/17/1872 — b. Cora Frances Stoddard, American temperance reformer, author, lecturer. Key authority on the scientific aspects of #alcohol; leader, Scientific Temperance Federation (30yrs); #gov rep for both US & intl congresses on #publichealth + alcohol #womenshistory #womenwriters #HistSci #PolSky

Cora Frances Stoddard
@lovableweirdo.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 2:01 PM

He threw the gold sovereigns into the snow and kept the twelve-pound banjo. He crossed 800 miles of ocean in a 22-foot boat, then climbed uncharted mountains with screws in his boots. The station manager asked who he was. His name was Shackleton.

https://oddlet.com/p/us7

#HistSci #history #SciComm

My Name Is Shackleton
@minouette.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 1:18 PM

into the Canadian Science & Engineering Hall of Fame in 2012.⁠

#linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #histsci

@minouette.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 1:18 PM

Happy birthday Canadian scientist/writer Ursula Franklin (1921 – 2016), thinker on role of tech in society, advocate for women in STEM, peace & social justice. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🎢 #histsci Her research interests were guided by her principles, including gathering evidence of the harmful health effects of radiation

Linocut of Ursula Franklin working in the lab in blue in a circle in the centre. Surrounding this area is a golden olive colour, on which are carved several gears at the top, a tooth at the bottom left which is labelled Sr-90 with radiating arrows labelled e- to indicate how radioactive strontium-90 can absorbed into bone can undergo radioactive decay emitting electrons, and in the bottom right corner is an ancient Chinese vessel she dated. The blue circle is actually a peace symbol and below it is a cross carved into the golden olive area, making it the symbol for women.
@minouette.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 1:04 PM

had to retract his instruction to excommunicate a man in her community.

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histSci #histMed #botany

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@minouette.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 1:04 PM

Today is the feast day of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), here surrounded by plants & a mineral she touted as medical treatments, her invented alphabet & model of the universe. One of my most popular prints! 🐡👩🏼‍🔬🧪 #histsci

Her writings preserve not only her own knowledge & theories but the nature

This is my hand-printed 11" x 14" lino block print of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), surrounded by plants and a mineral she touted as medical treatments, her invented alphabet and model of the universe, on lovely ivory Japanese washi paper. She is printed in dark blue on cream coloured washi paper. She is dressed in a habit holding a scroll with one of her Gregorian chants in Medieval musical notation. Her model of the universe is depicted on her habit. Clockwise from the top, she is surrounded: by tansy; common comfrey (Symphytum officinale) is sometimes used on the skin to treat wounds and reduce inflammation from sprains and broken bones, it roots and leaves contain allantoin, a substance that helps new skin cells grow, along with other substances that reduce inflammation and keep skin healthy; mandrake (species in the genus Mandragora, either Mandragora officinarum or Mandragora autumnalis) which contain deliriant hallucinogenic tropane alkaloids which are poisonous; sulfur for skin ailments does indeed act as a fungicide; lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) which has been shown to have some calming effects, some antibacterial properties and positive effects on indigestion; and quince (Cydonia oblonga), which while understudied, there is some early evidence that it may help prevent stomach ulcers. Above and below Hildegard is the alphabet along with her own alternate alphabet Litterae ignotae which she used for her own Lingua ignota (Unknown Language).
@minouette.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 12:46 PM

Day 17 of #SciArtSeptember shape prompt is eyelet, so I thought of lace collars & chose to share astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), who discovered that hydrogen and helium are the most common elements in the universe.⁠🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔭 #histsci
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Born England, she won a scholarship

My linocut portrait of astronomer Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin: At the bottom there’s a thin horizontal rectangle with a rainbow roll from left to right of indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red and black. The rectangle has a series of discrete thin vertical black stripes as this is a solar absorption spectrum. Above is Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin’s face and neck and a halo made by the shape of the sun in yellow and orange against a black background of outer space. She is serious young woman with a bob and a wide lace collar. Shading on her face is in the yellow of the sun.
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@friendsofdarwin.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 11:49 AM

17-Sep: On this day is 1842, Charles Darwin moved to his forever home, Down House, in Kent. Here’s the story…
friendsofdarwin.com/darwin-comes...
#HistSci

@fabribald.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 8:55 AM

Antonio Vallisneri's representation of Chameleon #histsci #livingnature #histlife #18thcentury

My class is taking shape!

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