@karlgalle.bsky.socialIn related news, how did I not know that a new open-access English translation of Kepler's Dioptrice (1611) -- his second major optics work, and the first detailed printed theory of how telescopes work -- just came out last year? books.radbouduniversitypress.nl/index.php/ru... #HistSTM #EarlyModern
@karlgalle.bsky.socialDirect link to the digitized text here: catalog.lindahall.org/discovery/de... #HistSTM
@karlgalle.bsky.socialNew copy of Michael Maestlin's rare treatise on the 1580 comet acquired and digitized by the Linda Hall library: www.lindahall.org/about/news/s... #HistSTM #EarlyModern 🔭 ☄️
@alexandreklein.bsky.social(New Book) Quantification and Measurement in British Health Advice, c. 1670–1830. Diet, Exercise, and Body Weight in Iatromechanics histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/09/quan... #histSTM
@rhiggitt.bsky.socialGood to see a #histSTM book winning. It featured in this episode of Start the Week, if you want to know more www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
@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...
@gregpriest.bsky.socialOTD in 1838, Charles Darwin read Malthus’s Principles of Population “for amusement.”
The idea of a “war of nature” was venerable, but D realized that such a war would tend to remove deleterious variations from populations. Natural selection would necessarily follow.
🌱🐋🧪#HistSTM #philsci 📈📉#evolbio
@node801.bsky.social[Archive]
'Continuity and Discontinuity in Aronowitz’s Critiques of Sociology, Science, and Marxism"
for the meeting “Stanley Aronowitz and the Labors of Theory”
CUNY Graduate Center, April 13 and 14, 2017
#HistSTM #CriticalTheory #Sociology #CulturalStudies
node801.blogspot.com/2017/04/cont...
@bhgross144.bsky.socialThe good news: Registration is now open for @shothisttech.bsky.social's virtual meeting!
The bad news: The conference schedule has not been posted.
The weird news: SHOT apparently owns a time machine...?
Further details: www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeti...
@bhgross144.bsky.social"You got history in my engineering!"
"You got engineering in my history!"
Two great tastes that go great together...
@bhgross144.bsky.social"The wireless I knew 45 years ago is not the radio of today. The television you know now as pioneers will not be the television of tomorrow."
#OnThisDay in 1951, #RCA Labs became the David Sarnoff Research Ctr. & the facility's namesake delivered the speech that gave my book its title. #histSTM 🗃️📜📺
@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
@karlgalle.bsky.socialA really great essay on the history of dinosaurs in popular culture, including reviews of both "The End of Oak Street" and a new book by @tattersdill.bsky.social on "The Social Dinosaur: The Life of the Mesozoic in the Popular Imagination." 👇 🦖 #HistSTM
@karlgalle.bsky.socialA nice account in @nybooks.com of Jessica Riskin's new book on Lamarck: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... #HistSTM
@gregpriest.bsky.socialThomas Hunt Morgan was born OTD in 1866.
If you're ever feeling that your work is uending and unedifying, remember that he once said this: "Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it."
🌱🐋🧪 #HistSTM
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