My response to Ambrosio, Bird and Westerblad is now out in SHPS - as part of a book forum on Inference and Representation: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Make sure to check and download it before the curtain closes on December 21.
#philsci #hps #histci #philsky #sts #philtech #metascience
Born #OTD, 1883: Leonid Kulik, Russian minerologist who led the first scientific expedition to study the #Tungusta event wp.me/p3ihHu-1Xl #histci
This week on my blog, I argue that we must have some degree of artifice to organize our thoughts and recognize the things we see in our world following a new book about Buffon & Linnaeus by @jsnr.bsky.social. #earlymodern #histci #hps #naturalhistory wednesdayblog.org/2025/08/13/o...
Happy #AsteroidDay: On the morning of June 30, 1908, eyewitnesses reported a large fireball crossing the sky above #Tunguska in Siberia, traveling at a speed of about 33,500 miles per hour. #TheColourOutofSpace wp.me/p3ihHu-1Xl #Lovecraft #histci
TEXT: IAHI-NACBS VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP The IU Indianapolis Arts and Humanities Institute (IAHI) and North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) Visiting Research Fellowship supports access to resources for scholars working on projects that bring together aspects of British Studies and Environmental Studies. The fellowship will provide successful applicants with affiliation and library privileges at the lAHl. ELIGIBILITY • Open to scholars at any phase of their career, including graduate students, recent graduates and postdocs, early career scholars, as well as established scholars who can demonstrate a need for access to specific resources • Applicants must demonstrate a need for access to particular resources available through IAHI WWW.NACBS.ORG Due June 23
I'm pleased to announce the new IAHI-NACBS VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP--a collaboration between the IU Indianapolis Arts and Humanities Institute (IAHI) and @thenacbs.bsky.social.
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#skystorians #history #envhist #histci #envhum #humanities #environmentalhumanities
Read "'I Gave My Tooth to Science:' The Voice of Women and the Baby Teeth Collection Program" by Brandon Cordeiro - niche-canada.org/2020/02/20/i...
#histci #womenshistory #cdnhist
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 🧪🧬
The primary function of works within the alchemical (rasaśāstra) corpus is to provide written technical instructions for iatrochemical processes. These medical interventions require the user to be skilled in botany, metallurgy, and mineral- and gemologies. The specifications themselves are often incomplete, demonstrating that the user must have the practical experience and technical training to complete operations successfully. Though largely focused on the purification of mercury for use in medicinal elixirs to rejuvenate the body and cure disease, rasaśāstra works contain detailed descriptions of plants, substances, and the apparatuses used in alchemical production. The practicalities of rasaśāstra make the works more akin to āyurvedic manuals than religious ones. Alchemy includes the chemical arts of pharmacy and metallurgy, the transmutation of imperfect metals (dhātuvāda), and the search for a universal medicine that is both panacea (sarvārha) and elixir of longevity (rasāyana). However, unlike their āyurvedic counterparts, rasaśāstra works contain specific medico-religious technologies required for the efficacy of their medicines. Where āyurveda points back to the sages, rasaśāstra looks directly toward god. While early works, such as the Rasahṛdayatantra discusses an immortal body, it is longevity, not immortality proper, that is the goal of the alchemist. The perfected body (dehasiddhi) of the alchemical patient is one with long life and free of disease. Once this perfect body is achieved, one can then work toward the attainment of superhuman powers and enter into the transcendent states familiar to tantric and yoga practitioners.
#histci and #histmed folks I’d love feedback especially if you’re interested in diamonds and medico-religion.
A paper sundial on a wooden floor: horizontal square with curved lines, vertical triangle on the side. Latitude 49.5°.
🔭 🧪 #histci #historyofastronomy
Paper #sundial!
This altitude sundial is to be placed on a horizontal surface. Carefully oriented toward the Sun it'll tell you solar time and the Sun's altitude, following the shadow of its triangle.
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Paul Jozef Crutzen, Dutch atmospheric chemist and Nobel Prize-winning, was born #OTD in 1933. He coined the term #Anthropocene wp.me/p3ihHu-J3 #histci 🧪⚒️
Ooh, what a venue for a conference!! I would be tempted to brush off my 1890s outfit (remember Victorian Science Spectacular, anyone in #histci ?!) - but it overlaps with @bshsnews.bsky.social 2025 dates...
“Den Sorte Diamant” (The Black Diamond) in Copenhagen, picture taken by me on a rainy morning 11. June 2024
Another day, another archive in Copenhagen! This time in the reading rooms of the National Archives in “Den Sorte Diamant”. Hope to find some institutional dimensions of early radiology in Denmark. #histci
I worry about this too, but rarely see discussed. Does anyone out there know of scholarship on utopias/dystopias, futures, fictions etc that pokes at the idea? #STS #envhums #histci #histm
