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Architecting the Molecular World Makers of Modern Matter is a sweeping two-volume biographical series edited by Jeffrey Iverson that chronicles the lives and legacies of the chemists who transformed science from an art of observation...

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How did chemists turn observation into design? Architects of the molecular world — read Jeff Iverson’s piece on the Makers of Modern Matter series. Quick 2-minute read: wix.to/KLxHGfO #Chemistry #BookNews #HistoryOfScience #MakersOfModernMatter #ScientificBiographies

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Lives in Stone "The biographies collected here are not endpoints but starting points—reminders that scientific progress is built by people who choose to look closely, think carefully, and follow evidence wherever it...

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Lives in Stone: short biographies that remind us scientific progress comes from careful observation and following the evidence. Two-minute read: wix.to/U6v72im
#Science #Nonfiction #ReadingRecommendation #Geology #HistoryOfScience #LivesInStone #EarthScience #Biographies

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De mora luminis: Roemer’s discovery 350 years later De mora luminis: Roemer’s discovery 350 years later, Falchi, Fabio, Furgoni, Riccardo, Gattillo, Paolo, Francesio, Maurizio

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#artofserknoir "A few years later, Jöns Jacob Berzelius refined Dalton’s atomic table using letters rather than pictorial symbols, but Dalton preferred his own symbols and did not adopt the new system." - Scientists Who Changed The World by DK Books

#dalton #johndalton #historyofscience

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Ibrahim Khan

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2 weeks ago

I Told You So by Matt Kaplan 📚💙 #booksky #bookreviews #sciencebooks #historyofideas #historyofscience #history #ideas #bookrecs #tbr

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Salva Bará

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2 weeks ago

By Fabio Falchi:

De mora luminis: Roemer's discovery 350 years later.

"Today in European Journal of Physics a new paper on the measurement of the speed of light"

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

#HistSci #HistAst #AstronomyHistory #HistoryOfScience

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IOP Publishing

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2 weeks ago

#OnThisDay, German chemist and physicist Ida Noddack was born! Noddack is best known for discovering element 75, known as rhenium, with her husband Walter Noddack. Today we celebrate Noddack and all #WomeninSTEM who have paved the way for scientists everywhere! #HistoryofScience #WomeninScience

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Mark O. Martin

@markowenmartin.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Something I bought from the UK: a Rosalind Franklin mini-fig, complete with Photo 51. I am super fond of it. #HistoryOfScience #DNA

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John Tweedie

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2 weeks ago

Review Geology: An Illustrated History Geology is a multifaceted subject with a rich history. In Geology: An Illustrated History, David Bainbridge, Professor of Comparative Anatomy at the University of Cambridge, brings to light some of…

Geology: An Illustrated History by David Bainbridge, a book that will appeal to a wide audience including non-geologists who are curious about the subject. #EarthSciences #HistoryOfScience jtweedie.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/r...

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Histonetica

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3 weeks ago

Histonetica: A Relational Framework for the Systematic Analysis of Historical Knowledge Movements and Epistemic Infrastructures Historical sources are predominantly examined as isolated discrete states—in archival boxes, as scans, PDFs, or scattered digitized items, each without systematic context. Digitization alone produces ...

Histonetica is a relational framework for modeling epistemic infrastructures and scientific knowledge movements in the history of science.

5D model · Histotrames · Data Resonance.

Preprint:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

#HistoryOfScience · #DigitalHumanities · #STS

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Ben Young Landis

@younglandis.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Happy New Year! Alysa Liu brings joy; the dazzling Taipei Book Fair; Lorraine Daston visits Taiwan; and other things that give us hope in the Year of the Horse

"What new questions, observations, or conversations might emerge from those unexpected combinations?" Thoughts from Lorraine Daston at #TIBE in Taiwan via @michellekuo.bsky.social: ampleroad.substack.com/p/happy-new-... #HigherEd #HistoryOfScience #SciComm 🧪

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Stephanie Holt

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3 weeks ago

Last week I was invited to assist with an MSt class for @ox.ac.uk Faculty of History at @morethanadodo.bsky.social to discuss working as a historian with natural history specimens #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #HistoryOfScience #MuseumResearch.

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#artofserknoir The Four Immortals of Chemistry - Dmitri Mendeleev/Curio-sincere | Curiosity and Sincerely
"Reeds of Maintain" (1834 ~ 1907)

#mendeleev #dmitrimendeleev #historyofscience

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#artofserknoir The Four Immortals of Chemistry - John Dalton/Sceptic-allow | Sceptical and Allowance
"Prairie of Indomitable" (1766 ~ 1844)

#dalton #johndalton #historyofscience

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The Daily Historian

3 weeks ago

Édouard Riou's 1863 depiction of herbivore Iguanodon battling Megalosaurus

That step turned scattered bones into a new chapter of natural history.

Follow the page for more daily history!

#Megalosaurus #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #HistoryOfScience #Fossils #NaturalHistory

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The Symphony of Patterns: Order, Entropy, and the Architects of Modern Reality The third volume of Architects of the Invisible explores the profound shift from the certainties of Newtonian mechanics to the statistical and symmetrical beauty of the modern age. By documenting the ...

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From Newton’s clockwork to symmetry and statistics — The Symphony of Patterns spotlights Maxwell, Noether, Meitner and the thinkers who reframed modern reality. Short read: wix.to/gUnWF7M #SciComm #Physics #HistoryOfScience #ArchitectsOfTheInvisible #PhysicsHistory

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The Giants of Certainty and the Architects of the Unknown The transition from the visible world to the invisible laws that govern it was not a single leap, but a series of hard-won insights by individuals who refused to stop asking 'why.' From Heisenberg’s u...

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New essay: The Giants of Certainty and the Architects of the Unknown — a concise exploration of the people and moments that reshaped science. Read it here: wix.to/rQrPD6I #SciComm #HistoryOfScience #Physics #ArchitectsOfTheInvisible #PhysicsHistory #QuantumRevolution

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Listening to the Silence: The Human Story Behind the Laws of Nature Physics is a long conversation with the invisible—the human attempt to understand forces we cannot touch and structures we cannot see. This volume presents the history of people who sensed patterns be...

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Who are the people behind the laws of nature? Discover their ambition, doubt, and curiosity in “Listening to the Silence” — a short read by Jeff Iverson. Read here: wix.to/zsn3SE3 #Physics #Science #HistoryOfScience #ArchitectsOfTheInvisible #PhysicsHistory

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#artofserknoir The Four Immortals of Chemistry - Antoine Lavoisier/Siren-nity | Siren and Serenity
"Sea of Dreams" (1743 ~ 1794)

#lavoisier #antoinelavoisier #historyofscience

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