Vallemont, (Pierre Le Lorrain). La physique occulte ; ou Traité de la baguette divinatoire, et de son utilité pour la découverte des sources d’eau, des miniéres, des tresors cachez, des voleurs & des meurtriers fugitifs. Avec des principes qui expliquent les phenoménes les plus obscurs de la nature / par M.L.L. de Vallemont. Chez Adrian Braakman, 1693. (Linda Hall Library)

Vallemont, (Pierre Le Lorrain). La physique occulte; ou Traité de la baguette divinatoire, et son utilité pour la découverte des sources d’eau, des minières, des tresors cachez, des voleurs & des meurtriers fugitifs ... Par M. L. L. de Vallemont ... Augmenté en cette edition, d’un traité de la connoissance des causes magnetiques des cures sympathiques, des transplantations & comment agissent les philtres. Par un curieux de la nature. Suivant la copie de Paris. Chez Adrian Bkaakman, 1696. (Linda Hall Library)

Want to learn more about the Abbé de Vallemont? As is so often the case, Bill Ashworth examined his work in a #ScientistOfTheDay blog post for the Linda Hall Library:

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#histsci #philsci #histSTM 🗃️📜

Detail of the masthead, Scientific American, volume 1, issue 1, page 1, Aug. 28, 1845 (Wikimedia commons

#ICYMI: @sciam.bsky.social was also LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay. (I think it may be the first magazine to receive that honor...)

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#ScientificAmerican #SciAm180 #histsci

Portrait of Liu Cixin, photograph from dust jacket flap, Death’s End, by Liu Cixin, Tor Books, 2016

Dust jacket, The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin, trans. by Ken Liu, Tor Books, 2014.

Liu Cixin, the Chinese computer engineer & #scifi author who won the 2015 #HugoAward for his novel The #ThreeBodyProblem, was born #OnThisDay in 1963.

He is also LHL’s #ScientistOfTheDay: www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-...

#histSTM #booksky 📚 🚀

Movie poster, Raiders of the Lost Ark, featuring Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, 1981 (rarecollectiblestv.com)

Henry Jones, Jr., the Marshall College professor who borrowed his preferred sobriquet from his family dog, is LHL’s #ScientistOfTheDay! Bill Ashworth uses this post to ask who is the “best” fictional archaeologist in the history of film?

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#histSTM #archaeolgy 🗃️📜🎥

Jérôme de Lalande Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande, a French astronomer and mathematician, was born on July 11, 1721. Lalande wrote a number of books on astronomy, many of which we have...

Jérôme de Lalande, French astronomer & mathematician, is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay. Bill features a recent acquisition (my final one for LHL) by Lalande about the Languedoc Canal, a book I've wanted for some time: #histSTM #histastro #galileo #OnThisDay 🗃️📜⚙️🔭 www.lindahall.org/about/news/s...

Large folding map of the paths of the three comets of 1618 against the stars, engraving, unsigned, in De tribus cometis anni M.DC.XVIII: Disputatio astronomica, by [Orazio Grassi], 1619 (Linda Hall Library)

Orazio Grassi, Jesuit mathematician and astronomer (and foe of Galileo), is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay. Really pleased that Bill featured two of our recent-ish acquisitions in this SOTD: #histSTM #histastro #galileo #OnThisDay 🗃️📜⚙️🔭 www.lindahall.org/about/news/s...

Portrait of Pieter Vogelvormer, oil on canvas, by Jan Lievens, 1629 [1636?], Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena (nortonsimon.org)

Another leaf with sketches of finches modified and bred in Mauritsstad, Ecuador, by Pieter Vogelvormer; a thorn-wielding finch is on the cactus at left; the turtle-nosed finch at right is one which did not survive long enough on the Galapagos Islands for Darwin to observe and collect it; Mauritshuis Museum, The Hague (mauritshuis.nl/en)

Pieter Vogelvormer, the Dutch naturalist who bred the finches that #Darwin later studied in the Galapagos, was born #OnThisDay in 1608.

Read about this little-known contributor to the history of #evolution in a very special #ScientistOfTheDay post:

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#histSTM 🗃️📜

A brown pelican right at home on Pelican Island, in the pose of the USPS commemorative stamp of 2003, photograph, U.S. Field & Wildlife Service (atlasobscura.com)

"A wonderful bird is the #pelican.
His bill can hold more than his belican." -Ogden Nash

#OnThisDay in 1903, Theodore Roosevelt established America's first national wildlife refuge (Pelican Island). Read more in LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay post: www.lindahall.org/about/news/s...

#histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜

Portrait of Charles Lapworth, undated photograph, University of Birmingham (birmingham.ac.uk)

Fossil graptolites such as those Lapworth studied and classified and used to identify a new rock system (geoscientist.online)

#ICYMI: Charles Lapworth, the English geologist whose investigations of graptolites (the fossils seen in the rock on the right) led him to propose a new division of geologic time--the Ordovician period, is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay.

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#histSTM #histsci #geology 🗃️📜⛏️

Portrait of Richard Roberts, copy of one painted from life in 1858 and 1859, by Thornton Rippingille, now in the Science Museum, London, Salford Museum & Art Gallery (artuk.org)

A working self-acting spinning mule at Quarry Bank Mill, frame from a video (Wikimedia commons)

#ICYMI: RIchard Roberts, the Welsh mechanical engineer & inventor who developed the self-acting mule (shown at right) to spin fibers into yarn, is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay.

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#histSTM #histtech #IndustrialRevolution
#industry #OnThisDay 🗃️📜⚙️

Portrait of Edward Joseph Lowe, undated image in an unknown medium, probably lithograph, Nottingham (blogs.nottingham.ac.uk)

Title page, Ferns: British and Exotic, by Edward Joseph Lowe, vol. 4, 1858-64 (Linda Hall Library)

Edward Joseph Lowe, an English botanist and meteorologist who published a beautiful eight-volume encyclopedia on British ferns illustrated with chromoxylographs (woodcuts printed in color from multiple blocks), is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay.

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#histSTM #botany 🗃️📜🌲

Detail of the star map of the constellation Centaurus, Johann Bayer, Uranometria, plate 41, 1603; the star in the front hoof is marked with the Greek letter α (alpha) (Linda Hall Library)

Johann Bayer, German astronomer whose Uranometria (1603) is often cited as the 1st modern star atlas, is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay.

Bayer established the convention of labeling bright stars w/Greek letters (e.g., Alpha Centauri, seen here.)

www.lindahall.org/about/news/s... #histSTM #astronomy 🗃️📜🔭

Sheet music, “Transit of Venus March,” by John Philip Sousa, 1896 (written 1883), Library of Congress (Wikimedia commons)

John Philip Sousa, the American composer known as the "March King," is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay.

Sousa wasn't a scientist, but he wrote a march to commemorate the 1883 transit of Venus and helped invent a new brass instrument that bears his name.

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#histSTM 🗃️📜

Portrait of Edmund Beecher Wilson as a young man, undated photograph, Marine Biological Laboratory (mbl.edu)

Mitosis, text diagram in The Cell in Development and Inheritance, by Edmund Beecher Wilson, p. 80, 1896 (Linda Hall Library)

Edmund Beecher Wilson, an American zoologist and embryologist who wrote an influential cell biology textbook (The Cell in Development & Inheritance, 1896), is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay.

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#histSTM #histci 🗃️📜
#histbio #biology 🔬📖
#CellBiology #EvoDevo 🧪🧬

Portrait of Karl Ernst von Baer, from a voyage narrative of 1852, engraving (Wikimedia commons)

Dozens of various stages in the development of the mammalian egg, hand-colored engraving based on drawings by Karl von Baer, De ovi mammalium et hominis genesi epistolam, by Karl Ernst von Baer, 1827 (Linda Hall Library)

Karl Ernst von Baer, the Baltic German biologist & naturalist and the first person to successfully observe the mammalian egg, is the Linda Hall Library's #ScientistOfTheDay.

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#histSTM #histsci
#histmed #embryology
🗃️ 📜 🔬

U.S. postage stamp, portrait of Alice Hamilton, 1995, National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution (postalmuseum.si.edu)

Title page, Industrial Toxicology, by Alice Hamilton, 2nd ed., ca 1934 (Linda Hall Library)

Alice Hamilton--an American physician, medical researcher, and the first woman appointed to the faculty of Harvard University--is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay.

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#histSTM #WomenInSTEM
#histmed #OnThisDay 🗃️📜

Avery Fisher with an early amplifier and speaker, undated photograph (www.findagrave.com)

Avery Fisher, American book designer turned audio engineer, is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay. Fisher later donated $10.5 million to @nyphilharmonic.bsky.social, which named their @lincolncenter.bsky.social performance hall in his honor.

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#histSTM #ClassicalMusic 🗃️📜🎼🔊

Pocket at the end of Mathematical Snapshots, by Hugo Steinhaus, 1938, with contents spilling out (Linda Hall Library)

Printed color diagrams illustrating the “knight’s walk” and Euler’s problem of the “36 soldiers,” Mathematical Snapshots, by Hugo Steinhaus, p. 14, 1938 (Linda Hall Library)

Good morning, Bluesky--would you like to play a game?

Hugo Steinhaus, Polish mathematician & puzzle master, is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay. (The images below are from a newly acquired 1st ed. of his 1938 book, Mathematical Snapshots.)

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#histSTM #mathematics #puzzles🗃️

Original drawing of “Deinodon” (Tyrannosaurus rex), by William D. Matthew, 1905, American Museum of Natural History, New York City, AMNH neg. no. 17532 (digitalcollections.amnh.org)

"Deinodon was the largest of the Carnivorous or Flesh-eating Dinosaurs, but is as yet incompletely known."

Description of Deinodon (later renamed T. Rex) by William Diller Matthew. The American paleontologist is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay.

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#histSTM #FossilFriday 🗃️📜

Portrait of E. A. Milne, photograph, ca 1928 (milne-centre.wordpress.hull.ac.uk)

Illustration demonstrating the cosmological principle, so that an expanding universe will be seen to expand at the same rate no matter where the observer is situated, frontispiece to Relativity, Gravitation and World-Structure, by E. A. Milne, 1935 (Linda Hall Library)

E.A. Milne, the British astrophysicist who sparred w/Arthur Eddington, befriended Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, and proposed the "cosmological principle" that became a cornerstone of steady state theory, is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay.

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#histSTM #physics #cosmology 🗃️📜🔭

Portrait of James Dwight Dana, oil on canvas, by Daniel Huntington, 1858, Yale University Art Gallery (artgallery.yale.edu)

Map of the coral formations in the Feejee (Fiji) Islands, On Coral Reefs and Islands, by James Dwight Dana, 1853 (Linda Hall Library)

James Dwight Dana, the American geologist who shared a birthday with Charles #Darwin & corresponded with him about coral reefs, barnacles & #evolution, is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay.

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#histSTM #histsci #geology
#DarwinDay #OnThisDay

Portrait of James Cowles Prichard, unknown source (Wikimedia commons)

Title page, Researches into the Physical History of Man, by James Cowles Prichard, 1813 (Linda Hall Library)

James Cowles Prichard, the English physician and ethnologist who argued for the fundamental unity of humankind in his 1813 book (Researches into the Physical History of Man), is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay.

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#histSTM #anthropology #OnThisDay 🗃️📜

Portrait of Sinclair Lewis on a U.S. postage stamp, 1985, National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution (usstampgallery.com)

Dust jacket of a first edition of Arrowsmith, by Sinclair Lewis, 1925, a copy offered for sale by Between the Covers (betweenthecovers.com)

Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the #NobelPrize in Literature, was born #OnThisDay in 1885.

Lewis highlighted recent developments in microbiology in his 1925 book, #Arrowsmith. Learn more in LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay post: www.lindahall.org/about/news/s...

#histSTM #histmed 🗃️📜🔬

Portrait of Charles Wheatstone, chalk on paper, by Samuel Lawrence, 1868, National Portrait Gallery, London (npg.org.uk)

Modern circuit diagram of a Wheatstone bridge, National Maglab (nationalmaglab.org)

An original Wheatstone concertina, 24-key, sometime after 1829, Science Museum, London (collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk)

Charles Wheatstone, English physicist & inventor familiar to electrical engineers for his namesake "bridge" (used to measure an unknown electrical resistance), is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay.

Fun fact: He also invented a new type of concertina!

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#histSTM #physics 🗃️📜

Portrait of William Rutter Dawes, undated photograph, from The Observatory, vol. 36, 1913 (Wikimedia commons)

Drawings of Mars, 1864-65, by William Rutter Dawes, in Other Worlds than Ours, by Richard A. Proctor, 5th ed, 1882 (Linda Hall Library)

William Rutter Dawes, the English astronomer who attempted to map the surface of #Mars during the 1860s, is the Linda Hall Library's #ScientistOfTheDay.

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#histSTM #astronomy #histastro 🗃️📜🔭

Portrait of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz on the occasion of his being awaded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1902, photograph, Nobel Prize archives (www.nobelprize.org)

Paul Ehrenfest, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, and Niels Bohr chilling in Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's low-temperature lab in Leiden, 1919 (www.nobelprize.org).

Hendrik Lorentz, the Dutch physicist & Nobel laureate who lent his name to the series of equations relating distance and time in different inertial reference frames, is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay.

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#histSTM #physics #OnThisDay 🗃️📜

Portrait of Gideon Mantell, oil on canvas, by John J. Masquerier, 1837, Royal Society of London (artuk.org) CC BY-NC-ND

A plumose fem from Yorkshire, engraving in A Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains, by Gideon Mantell, plate 31, 1850 (Linda Hall Library)

Gideon Mantell, the English surgeon & fossil collector, is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay. Today's post focuses on his Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains (1850), one of the few books from the mid-19th c. w/large color illustrations of #fossils.

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#histSTM #paleontology 🗃️📜

My Friday morning soundtrack: An excerpt from #Kepler, the 2009 opera by Philip Glass, born #OnThisDay in 1937.

Read more about how Glass interpreted the astronomer's search for cosmic harmony in LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay post: www.lindahall.org/about/news/s...

#histSTM #ClassicalMusic 🗃️📜

The Menai Suspension Bridge, designed and built by Thomas Telford, engraved frontispiece, slightly cropped, after a drawing by T.G. Cumming, in Description of the Iron Bridges of Suspension Now Erecting over the Strait of Menai, at Bangor, and over the River Conway, in North Wales; with Two Views, by T.G. Cumming, Surveyor, 1824 (Linda Hall Library)

The Menai Suspension Bridge, which links the island of Anglesey & mainland #Wales, opened #OnThisDay in 1826.

Thomas Telford designed & built the bridge, but this engraving is from a book by T.G. Cumming, an English surveyor & LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay.

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#histSTM 🗃️

Portrait of Richard Lower, oil on canvas, by Jacob Huysmans, undated, Wellcome collection (wellcomecollection.org) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The silver tubes used for transfusion experiments, Tractatus de corde, by Richard Lower, plate 7, 1669, Wellcome Collection (wellcomecollection.org) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Image brightened for clarity

Richard Lower, the English physician who performed some of the earliest blood transfusions and published an influential book on circulatory physiology (Tractatus de corde, 1669), is the Linda Hall Library's #ScientistOfTheDay.

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#histSTM #histmed 🗃️📜