Thread on Russell's Selenographia (there is also one at Greenwich www.rmg.co.uk/collections/...) 📜 #histSTM
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"What I hadn’t anticipated was the number of times people would say, ‘I don’t know, I can’t remember; how, why would you expect me to remember that?’”
Anyone who has ever conducted an #OralHistory can sympathize w/Thomas Kuhn's frustration while documenting the history of quantum #physics. #histSTM
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A globe of the Moon mounted in a complex golden mechanism. A tiny globe of the earth is mounted on an arm on the near side of the Moon.
An inscription on the back of the globe reads: "His Majesty's Letters Patent. This Globe being part of the Apparatus named the Sleneographia. Designed to exhibit the Lunar Libration and (published?) by the author, newman street, london, june (14th?) 1797." In the foreground is a part of the gold mechanism, which has Russell's signature, "J Russell," inscribed in fancy script
John Russel's 1797 Moon globe is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Made from original drawings, positions "accurately taken by a micrometer from moon itself."
Science Museum Group has a great page with high-res pics. 🧵(1/6)
collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co56...
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#SkyStorians I am looking for an introduction to horology/clocks in English (specifically, on how mechanical clocks work & what their main components are). I have a German book that's been great so far, but I want t be sure I translate the technical terms correctly. Any recommendations? #HistSTM 🗃️ 🕰️
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This is so destructive. Thanks to an NSF grant decades ago, I could do research for Collectors of Lost Souls, a book on kuru research (which had led to 2 Nobels). The book won the Fleck Prize @4sonline.bsky.social, Welch Medal @aahmhistmed.bsky.social & NSW Premier's History award!
#STS #histstm
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"ATS-1, and its Spin-scan cloud-cover Camera, provided this image on December 11, 1966- the first full disk image of Earth ever taken from geostationary orbit. Credit: NASA" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_first_images_of_Earth_from_space#/media/File:ATS-1_(Earth_full_disk),_1966.jpg
NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right and bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun. https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hello-world/
Two views of our planet. What a difference (nearly) 60 years makes!
L: First full-disk picture of the Earth from a geostationary orbit (Dec. 1966, ATS-1)
R: Photograph of the Earth taken by Reid Weisman (Apr. 2026, #ArtemisII)
#histSTM #astronomy #Earth 🌎
#astrophotography #photography
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Yesterday, we started fully disassembling the 16th century clock 🕰️. After three hours, we were at about 45 components, and we're nowhere near done yet 🤯
Christ on a cracker... just when you thought you could not have more respect for #EarlyModern craftspeople #HistSci #HistSTM 🗃️ 🏛️ #MaterialCulture
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For the history of science and medicine, this one by Katharine Park is amazing: bookshop.org/p/books/secr... #HistSTM #MedievalSky
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Sneak peek into what my book is about, now that it is off to the typesetter—TOC for #territorialnatures is up on the @uchicagopress.bsky.social site.
Thanks to my manuscript workshop, I abandoned chronological argument for a thematic one, embedding it into the book structure.
#envhist #histstm
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Boosting the signal for any early modern horologists in the audience... 🕰️⌛⏰
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Related: if anyone has knowledge of/literature recommendations on the use of putti (faces) on #EarlyModern scientific instruments (esp. on earliest use), I'd be very grateful for suggestions or getting in touch! (perhaps
@rhiggitt.bsky.social & @dominikhhh.bsky.social?) #HistSTM #ArtHistory 🗃️ 🏛️
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#SkyStorians, art historians and historians of science: Is anyone familiar with or specialized in decorative engravings on #EarlyModern scientific instruments, especially clocks? We have questions with respect to the dating! #HistSci #HistTech #ArtHistory #HistSTM #MaterialCulture 🗃️ 🏛️
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From the same publisher, a new open-access edited volume on Proclus for historians of medieval mathematics & theology: www.mirabileweb.it/edgalluzzo/m... #HistSTM #MedievalSky
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🔔Hear ye, hear ye🔔
New blog post by me & Len Smith: 'Women in the Private Asylum Business in Nineteenth-Century England'. Hosted by the Economic History Society's The Long Run, we argue that these women open up mental health histories in a whole new way.
#HistPsych #HistSTM #HistGender #HistMed 🗃️
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While waiting for Artemis, I've been watching coverage of Apollo 8, paying close attention to the role of science and lunar robotics. Here's a thread compiling what I found. 🧵(1/14)
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Opening from Cronkite: "The countdown for Apollo 8 is on."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBsq...
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100th speaker! 🥳
Come join the S&T in Asia online seminar series @ Harvard for this talk by Michitake Aso on Agent Orange and dioxin knowledge in postwar Vietnam.
🗓 Tue (4/14)
🕥 10:30 am ET
📍 Over Zoom
Register: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia%E2%...
#histstm #envhist #histmed #histsci
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Given the low uptake of botany among students in the UK, this is an really interesting find and welcome development #HistSTM #botany
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Were he alive today my co-author Ian Mackay would be demanding a new edition of Intolerant Bodies, the one and only history of autoimmunity!
press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
@hopkinspress.bsky.social @mxmcadam.bsky.social
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"I have been happier since I made this change than I ever have in my life, and I will continue this way as long as I live."
Today's #histSTM, #histmed & #TransDayOfVisibility lunch read: @kcur.org tells the story of Alan Hart, who popularized the use of chest X-rays to screen for tuberculosis 🗃️📜🏳️⚧️
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Forgot to include the project & application website 🙄, it's here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422012 #HistSTM
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Announcement text: "The Institute of History at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) is recruiting 2 postdoctoral researchers for the ERC Consolidator Grant Project ‘WILDHIST – Wild Rubber in the Industrial Age: A Global History of Production’, led by Dr. David Pretel. Postdoc 1. The history of rubber production in the Amazon rainforest. Postdoc 2. The history of rubber production in the Congo Basin. For details, see the project description and objectives below. Application deadline: 24 April 2026. Starting date: 1 September 2026 (flexible). Requirements: • PhD in history, history of science, economic history or associated fields (Latin American studies, African studies, science and technology studies, anthropology, digital humanities), and a strong interest in the project. • Good command of written and spoken English and, depending on research specialisation, Portuguese, Spanish and/or French. • Be based in Madrid for the duration of the project. • Expected to publish articles, book chapters, and/or a book manuscript / edited volume. • Ability to collaborate within a team and to work independently. Benefits: • A three-year contract (full-time). • A gross salary of 43,827 EUR. • A fully equipped workspace at the Institute of History. • Funding for research-related purposes, participation in international conferences, and organisation of events. • Mentorship in applying for tenure-track and tenure positions at CSIC."
Project description text: "The Project WILDHIST aims to offer a comprehensive, multi-sited and multi-scale global history of wild rubber production during the industrial age. It investigates the hypothesis that wild rubber industries in the tropical rainforests of Africa and Latin America were key sites in the broader dynamics of industrialisation and scientific research from the early 19th century to the Second World War, forming an integral part of the era’s expanding global networks of knowledge exchange. The project moves beyond plantations to focus on wild production and smallholders’ cultivation in rainforests, emphasizing production processes rather than consumption or trade, and placing much stronger emphasis on the study of exploration, extraction, processing, transportation, experimentation, and manufacturing than has been typical of historical research on rainforest commodities. WILDHIST combines an analysis of contrasting non-plantation histories of rubber production in the Amazon, Congo Basin and so-called Maya Forest with broader histories of transnational interaction. The project rethinks and rewrites the global history of wild rubber by systematically and critically exploring a rich array of written, visual and oral sources located throughout the world. Its trans-local, interdisciplinary, comparative, digital and visual methodology will provide a comprehensive historical account of how rubber was transformed into commodities and then final goods for local, regional or global markets. Beyond academia, WILDHIST contributes to discussions about bioprospecting, sustainability and labour in rainforests. To address the challenge of writing more inclusive histories of science, technology, and industrialisation, the project also considers collective memory as represented in museums, material culture, and industrial heritage.
Two 3-year postdoctoral research positions available at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid to study the history of wild rubber production in the Amazon rainforest and Congo basin; apply by April 24th, 2026: #HistSTM
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Two weeks ago, Taomo Zhou gave an amazing talk on her forthcoming Shenzhen book in the S&T in Asia @ Harvard series, showing how military engineers, converted military industries, and smuggled components helped make Shenzhen the world's hardware capital!
seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
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"At every level, concepts and technologies codevelop. Yet this extensive interpenetration of concepts and technical objects has not corresponded to sustained engagement between intellectual history and the history of technology..."
[Boosting this #CFP for #histSTM, #histtech & #STS friends!]
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Can confirm that at least two members of my cohort (including me) had no idea that Rob Kohler and his late wife Frances are/were major American art collectors (gift link) #histstm share.inquirer.com/CBS6mX
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During World War I, Nobel laureate scientist Marie Skłodowska Curie had a Renault car converted into a medical radiology unit, which she would drive from hospital to hospital and treat wounded soldiers (Getty Images)
#histSTM #Science #Curie
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(Call for applications) PhD position History of Science, History of Technology, Environmental History (70%) histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/03/bour... #histSTM
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Sadly can't get beamed into Oxford for launch of this collection on antecedents of public health, edited by Guy Geltner et al. Perhaps another launch back in Melbourne, Guy?
#histmed #histstm @sshmedicine.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social
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(Edinburgh folk might be interested to know you can do a range of certificate, introductory and online botany courses at the Botanics www.rbge.org.uk/learn/)
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