Edinburgh via history/philosophy of science eyes! Safe to say the National Museum of Scotland has reached their target audience with the Dolly the Sheep pen. And the largest of shoutouts to @neurathic.bsky.social for spotting the Huxley book for me.
Busy morning doing research at the beautiful Wellcome Collection Library (@wellcomecollection.bsky.social)
Today!
Afternoon at the Wren (@trincolllibcam.bsky.social)
In my field, most senior specialists seem to be trying to create a huge protect that changes the way we understand colonial Latin America. I would argue we need the opposite: more local and regional history, with a look out always, but cemented in a community and territory.
Free school lane is getting... spooky
If you are not yet a member, feel free to explore our open-access articles! Like this recent and wonderful article by @stephenaj.bsky.social on astrolabes!
'Gerard Turner Memorial Lecture: Back to the Future: New Approaches to the Astrolabe'!
scientificinstrumentsociety.org/BulletinArti...
Cespedes work itself (and the whole genre of nautical manuals) however, certainly challenge caricatures of the role of the Iberian world in the history of science and technology.
The iconography does not particularly challenge traditional historiographies of science (note, someone might say, how Daniel 12:4 is missing in Cespedes book!).
Before being featured in Francis Bacon's Instauratio Magna (1620), the image of a ship going through the (literal) pillars of Hercules was featured in Andrés García de Céspedes' Regimiento de navegación (1606)
(courtesy of the JCB library)
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Not that long ago I was taking a class on the history of maritime science at UKing's in Halifax. I was thrilled to see some of the instruments I learnt about as an undergrad on display at
@pittriversmuseum.bsky.social
in Oxford!
I'll be presenting at the 12th Latin American Congress for Science and Religion:
“Conflicto, negociación, e integración: teología natural e interpretación bíblica en los modelos heliocéntricos del movimiento diurno en la época medieval y de la modernidad temprana” September 12th at 3:00 PM CEST.
Participaré en el XII Congreso Latinoamericano de Ciencia y Religión:
«Conflicto, negociación e integración: teología natural e interpretación bíblica en los modelos heliocéntricos del movimiento diurno en la época medieval y la modernidad temprana» el 12 de septiembre a las 3:00 PM CEST.
ABSTRACT. The early moderns surely didn’t defend an embodied, extended, embedded, or enacted conception of the mind, but we aim to show that this perspective can make sense of some of their practices; in particular, the epistemology of early modern experimentation. Focusing on Newton’s early optical work, we argue that the epistemic warrant he claims for his experimental results turns crucially on how the experimenter is situated towards gaining particular kinds of maker’s knowledge. Our account provides one answer to a long-standing puzzle regarding Newton’s method: his appeal to ‘compelled assent’ as an epistemic standard. We thus provide both a novel interpretation of Newton’s epistemology and a proof of concept towards applying tools from contemporary philosophy of mind to the history of science.
Just accepted:
Situated Cognition in Early Modern Experimentation: The Case of Compelled Assent
— Kirsten Walsh, Adrian Currie & Tom Roberts
Abstract in alt text or read the full paper here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity. Deadline to apply: October 1, 2025. #cdnhist @dalhistory.bsky.social cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...
Job posting: The Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity
Dalhousie and the University of King’s College in Halifax, NS invite applications for this tenure stream, junior or mid-career position. Deadline October 1, 2025.
Learn more: dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/19481
Finishing up a submission for an upcoming science and religion studies congress. God knows I want to keep fine-tuning (pun intended) details here and there. But, I guess that is why we have deadlines :(
Metascience is excited to announce the publication of Volume 34, Issue 2, featuring an editorial introduction from our new Editor-in-Chief, Gregory Radick. See the full issue here:
link.springer.com/journal/1101...
Just published in #notesandrecords, a paper about Newton's beer mug! Read about the wooden flagon that Newton is on record as giving to his Trinity College, Cambridge chamber-fellow, John Wickins, which survives intact: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Biblical hermeneutics, natural theology, and astronomy.
neurathic.substack.com/p/020825-two...
