In 132 CE, the Chinese scholar Zhang Heng designed a device that could indicate the direction of a distant earthquake
Eight dragon heads surrounded a bronze vessel, each holding a ball that could fall into a waiting toad's mouth.
Ancient ingenuity

Queen Elizabeth II Opens Calder Hall #TodayInHistory #MabelQuill #CalderHall #NuclearHistory #HistoryOfScience #HistoryTok #HistoryFacts #LearnHistory #fyp
In 132 CE, the Chinese scholar Zhang Heng designed a device that could indicate the direction of a distant earthquake
Eight dragon heads surrounded a bronze vessel, each holding a ball that could fall into a waiting toad's mouth.
Ancient ingenuity
Ether Day Revolutionizes Modern Surgery #TodayInHistory #MabelQuill #EtherDay #MedicalHistory #HistoryOfScience #HistoryTok #HistoryFacts #LearnHistory #fyp
Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat Munchen (@lmu.de) is hiring:
Professorship of the History of Science, Technology, and the Environment
Did Tesla Fall in Love with a Pigeon? #historypodcast #tesla #historyofscience
Absolute pleasure to record an episode of BBC Wild Lives podcast today all about Gilbert White! Should be hitting your podcast lists on the 11th December. #HistoryOfScience #PodcastRecording #PublicHistorian #SciComms
Could machines outthink or replace us? The Romantics asked similar questions 200 years ago. My new Routledge book "Artificial Intelligence before Computers" explores how their hopes and fears still shape the AI debate. #AIHistory #HistoryOfScience #Romanticism www.routledge.com/Artificial-I...
Knowing an answer is not knowing how it was found. Explore Maxwell and the scaffolding of discovery in a science-history essay. Potentials changed status in fundamental equations; they did not vanish from all calculations.
https://note.com/hydezero/n/n61d15c4d3a69?hl=en
#HistoryOfScience #Physics
University of North Carolina is hiring:
Assistant Professor in the History of Science and Technology
liberalism. The extensive collection of data allowed a whole socio-ecology to be recast by scarcely detectable means.
#historyofscience #globalhistory #colonialhistory #germanhistory #samoa #skystorians
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📚 Science among the Ottomans (2015), Miri Shefer-Mossensohn: How did scientific knowledge circulate and change in Ottoman society?
🇹🇷 Osmanlı'da bilimsel bilgi nasıl dolaştı ve dönüştü?
my #bookreview of a fascinating and somewhat #radioactive #familyHistory:
Children of radium: A buried inheritance
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/10/a-moral-minefield.html
#science #historyOfScience #Germany #chemicalweapons #worldwar2 #holocaust #turkey #chemistry #memoir #biography
Wait. That planet is going backwards. 🪐🔄
Explore Ptolemy’s Cosmos: choose a planet, inspect its epicycles, and press “Next retrograde.”
A historical Earth-centered model—not modern astronomy. Try it free:
skirnirstudios.com/ptolemys-cos...
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Queen Victoria offered him a knighthood; Westminster Abbey begged to bury him. Michael Faraday refused them all to lie under a plain stone in Highgate. The bookbinder who gave humanity electricity owned nothing but his integrity. #Faraday #STEM #HistoryOfScience #Ethics
Spontaneous generation removes parents, language, doctrine, and society. An obsolete theory asks what knowledge could arise without cultural transmission.
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6PTFQFG
#SonOfTheIsland #SpontaneousGeneration #HistoryOfScience #Philosophy #GoldenArchivePress
Our Journal welcomes new contributions to the history of science and knowledge in Arabic-Islamic contexts.
We invite research articles including critical editions, and studies of manuscripts and instruments
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The word most people use for this field was coined in 1957 by psychiatrist Humphry Osmond, writing to Aldous Huxley: Greek psyche, mind, and deloun, to make visible. Their letters appeared in 2018 as Psychedelic Prophets, a primary source.
Image: AI-generated.
About three times in every billion—that's the decay rate the Standard Model predicts. Franco Bedeschi, an Italian physicist from Pisa, appears among the authors who confirmed it. #HistoryOfScience #ParticlePhysics #CERN