Latest posts tagged with #scihist on Bluesky
Woman in white dress with small boys standing in tunnel - early Victorian era
#SaveTheDate for #HSTM #HSTMIreland #HSTMNetwork Annual Meeting 24 April 2026 hosted by our lovely colleagues @unioflimerick.bsky.social Convenor Dr José M Moreno - Theme *** The History of Knowledge in Ireland - Where do we Stand Today? *** #HistMed #MedHums #TechHist #SciHist #Skystorians
@medieval_illuminations Is she wearing #glasses? It looks a bit as if she is (and I think they'd have been newly invented around then).
#SciHist #optics
For more info on this event and other upcoming seminars please see: instructingnaturalhistory.com/events
#skystorian #envhist #scihist #collecting #museums
June 2025: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago In a retrospective look at scientific milestones from June 2025, the article highlights significant contributions made 50, 100, and 150 years ago, including the study of... @cosmicmeta.io #SciHist
https://u2m.io/JAdqLAe6
May 2025: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago In a captivating retrospective, the article explores significant scientific advancements and events from May 1875, 1925, and 1975. It highlights the rediscovery of old-time... @cosmicmeta.io #SciHist
https://tinyurl.com/259m67zs
May 2025: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago In a retrospective look at scientific history from May 2025, notable events from 50, 100, and 150 years ago are highlighted, including the discovery of old-time graffiti... @cosmicmeta.io #SciHist
https://tinyurl.com/259m67zs
May 2025: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago In May 2025, a retrospective look at significant scientific events from 50, 100, and 150 years ago reveals a fascinating mix of history, including the discovery of old-time... @cosmicmeta.io #SciHist
https://tinyurl.com/259m67zs
A pair of matching pieces of dark shale, with the positive- and negative-side imprints of a herring-sized fossil fish faintly visible.
The same shale slates seen from a low side-view angle - now the silvery scales and outline of the fish is clearly visible.
I love this painting of a fish fossil (Palaeoniscum?) from Johs. Gessner's collection 🖤
Viewed straight on, the fish is hard to see, but viewed from the side/with light, it springs to life - just like in real fossils of this type (ZBZ NFF4; gouache, mid-1700s) #SciHist #SciArt #EarlyModern
What's on at the Old Op over February half term?!
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#OldOpTheatre #HalfTerm #FebruaryHalfTerm #LondonWithKids #DaysOutLondon #HiddenLondon #HalfTermFun #LondonMuseum #LondonMuseums #MuseumWinter #MuseumSpring #MedHist #PharmHist #SciHist
The museum catalogue for the Wasserkirche Kunstkammer - an old, thick tome of a book, bound in vellum. It is now held in the archives of the Zentralbibliothek in Zurich.
The first page of contents of the catalogue, with lists of the various types of objects in an ordered system.
This weekend's project: Digging through the 700ish pages of Scheuchzer's catalogue of the holdings of the Zurich Kunstkammer's holdings in the Wasserkirche in the late 1600s/early 1700s to find fitting objects for a display there next month. #EarlyModern #SciHist
Here’s a story about actual Nazis, the Original Gastruloid, and the lengths scientists will go for other scientists and for science itself. Welcome to Episode Two of the #LongBibliography
#DevBiol #SciHist 🧵. 1/13
New OA publication! @katrinkleemann.bsky.social and I developed an analytical tool for interdisciplinary studies that explore past nature-induced disasters using Eldgjá and Laki as case studies.
doi.org/10.30909/vol...
#Volcanoes #HistSci #SciHist #EnvHist #MiddleAges
#earlyModernAge#Volcanica
@carsoncenter.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social @sfebert.bsky.social #volcanoes #iceland #interdisciplinary #skystorians #skystorian #history #laki1783 #eldgja #climhist #histsci #scihist #geology #volcanology #research #VICS archives of society #disaster
So, everyone knows the story about the time the 5th Dalai Lama wrote the Editor to complain that Ernst Haeckel hadn’t cited his work from 200 years earlier? Right? Right?
Coming soon….
#devbiol
#SciHist
#TheLongBibliography
My historian and #SciHist friends should rush to remind us that it’s incredibly difficult to know what the ancients thought. We can’t have trite Bluetorials by dilettante scientists do the important work of historical scholarship. So let me be clear: This isn’t history, it’s just a story. 14/n
Someone in 1st Century India got human embryonic limb development perfectly right. The progressive emergence of parts, even the timing, exactly right. Today, I'll start a new thing about the ancient origins developmental biology, the science of embryos. 🧵1/15 #TheLongBibliography
#DevBiol
#SciHist
Upcoming in May: A German translation of Conrad Gessner's book on fossils (sensu lato) from 1565 (first illustrated book on fossils), by Petra Schierl, with analyses of the context and Gessner's network, etc.!!
#SciHist #EarlyModern #Paleo #SciArt
schwabe.ch/petra-schier...
An old woodcut image of a goose-like bird with a pigeon beak. It stands in front of a small tree with large fruits.
The Solitaire featured in François Leguat's 1708 book about his adventures -which included being marooned on Rodrigues for several years. Soon after it was all thought to be fictional - until the subfossil bones started turning up. Here a drawing of the bird from Leguat 1708 #EarlyModern #SciHist 🪶
Happening tonight! 📢
There's still time to sign up and join us in person or via Zoom:
www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...
#scihist #medhist
Tomorrow would have been the 175th birthday of mathematician and astronomer Mary Emma Byrd! She was the first director of Smith College's observatory, the author of an important astro lab textbook, and one of the first members of the American Mathematical Society!
#WomenInSTEM
#SciHist
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Splendid image of 1920s Bristol University students in a lab circulated by an alumni account earlier on. Glad to see those ladies knowing their place and wearing gender- appropriate glam gowns. #SciHist #SciFashion
Adding another find to the reply list : Chapter 25 of the amazing "The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History" by Luke Keogh, Liisi Jääts, Nina Möllers, and Libby Robin #envhist #scihist #museums
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
A large page with painted images of starfish and brittlestars. Two large, partly overlapping starfish dominate the composition.
Celebrating #InverteFest with a plate of sea stars and brittle stars from Johs. Gessner's unpublished folio volumes with objects from his collection (ZBZ NFF3, mid-1700s). I love how the two large ones break into the legend and cross the frame, respectively #SciHist #EarlyModern 🐡🌿
When the fold-out takes up the whole table at the library... 💚 - fun with old illustrations of fossils at the Zentralbibliothek today! 🤗 #SciHist
Check out #CFPs for the Race, Empire and Edinburgh Medical School Conference on the 18-19 April 2024,
#MedHist #NursingHist #SciHist #DisHist
The deadline is TODAY, don't miss out and submit an essay asap #MedHist #SciHist #DisHist #HistNursing
Submit an essay for our Roy Porter Prize by 5pm 1 Feb for a chance to win cash prizes, mentoring for publication, and conference plenary! #DisHist #HistNursing #HistPsych #SciHist #MedHist #HistSTM
