David Aubin
@davidaubin.bsky.social
Historien des sciences à Sorbonne université / Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu-Paris rive gauche.
Cette semaine, lancement du séminaire itinérant de l’iRHiST, avec James Poskett irhist.sorbonne-universite.fr/actualites/l...
Lancement du séminaire itinérant | iRHiST
irhist.sorbonne-universite.fr
October 15, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Cette semaine, lancement du séminaire itinérant de l’iRHiST, avec James Poskett irhist.sorbonne-universite.fr/actualites/l...
Camille Flammarion, influenceur avant l’heure www.pourlascience.fr/sr/histoire-...
Camille Flammarion, influenceur avant l’heure
L’astronome fut l’un des premiers savants à cultiver une image publique de vulgarisateur passionné. Une célébrité qui n’a rien à envier à celle des influenceurs actuels...
www.pourlascience.fr
June 11, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Camille Flammarion, influenceur avant l’heure www.pourlascience.fr/sr/histoire-...
400 de Cassini à l’observatoire de Paris
June 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
400 de Cassini à l’observatoire de Paris
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A French University is funding a Safe Place For Science program meant to recruit scientists who cannot continue their work in the US. www.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/a...
March 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A French University is funding a Safe Place For Science program meant to recruit scientists who cannot continue their work in the US. www.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/a...
Paris is standing up for science
March 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Paris is standing up for science
L’histoire en train de se faire à Juvisy-sur-Orge #Archiflamm
February 17, 2025 at 8:58 AM
L’histoire en train de se faire à Juvisy-sur-Orge #Archiflamm
Et Bernard Arnaud a le culot de se plaindre
💰 Les revenus des ultra-riches ont plus que doublé en vingt ans, selon une étude de Bercy
Plus d'infos : bit.ly/4aNeqfV
Plus d'infos : bit.ly/4aNeqfV
February 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Et Bernard Arnaud a le culot de se plaindre
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💰 Les revenus des ultra-riches ont plus que doublé en vingt ans, selon une étude de Bercy
Plus d'infos : bit.ly/4aNeqfV
Plus d'infos : bit.ly/4aNeqfV
January 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
💰 Les revenus des ultra-riches ont plus que doublé en vingt ans, selon une étude de Bercy
Plus d'infos : bit.ly/4aNeqfV
Plus d'infos : bit.ly/4aNeqfV
À l’occasion du lancement du projet “ARCHIFLAMM : Une popularité astronomique – Les archives Camille Flammarion, entre sciences et lettres” avec la construction d’un site EMAN, une conférence de lancement se tiendra les 12 et 13 février 2025 dédiée aux “Usages du numérique en histoire des sciences.
ARCHIFLAMM : Une popularité astronomique – Conférence de lancement
A l’occasion du lancement du projet “ARCHIFLAMM : Une popularité astronomique – Les archives Camille Flammarion, entre sciences et lettres” avec la construction d’un site EMAN, une conférence de lanc...
eman.hypotheses.org
January 30, 2025 at 6:33 AM
À l’occasion du lancement du projet “ARCHIFLAMM : Une popularité astronomique – Les archives Camille Flammarion, entre sciences et lettres” avec la construction d’un site EMAN, une conférence de lancement se tiendra les 12 et 13 février 2025 dédiée aux “Usages du numérique en histoire des sciences.
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Riccioli's Almagestum Novum (1651) wasn't just the most comprehensive Astronomy Textbook ever.
It also linked House Grimaldi to French Royal ancestors, pushing the diplomacy that would ally Monaco with France and protect them from Italian Unification.
www.amazon.com/Almagestum-N...
It also linked House Grimaldi to French Royal ancestors, pushing the diplomacy that would ally Monaco with France and protect them from Italian Unification.
www.amazon.com/Almagestum-N...
Almagestum Novum: History of Astronomy
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December 11, 2024 at 7:48 AM
Riccioli's Almagestum Novum (1651) wasn't just the most comprehensive Astronomy Textbook ever.
It also linked House Grimaldi to French Royal ancestors, pushing the diplomacy that would ally Monaco with France and protect them from Italian Unification.
www.amazon.com/Almagestum-N...
It also linked House Grimaldi to French Royal ancestors, pushing the diplomacy that would ally Monaco with France and protect them from Italian Unification.
www.amazon.com/Almagestum-N...
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"Von Mertens celebrates the constellation of women scientists who discovered how to calculate galactic distances and classify stars by chemical composition."
Scientific American recommends "Attention is Discovery": https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049382/attention-is-discovery/
Scientific American recommends "Attention is Discovery": https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049382/attention-is-discovery/
December 24, 2024 at 12:40 AM
"Von Mertens celebrates the constellation of women scientists who discovered how to calculate galactic distances and classify stars by chemical composition."
Scientific American recommends "Attention is Discovery": https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049382/attention-is-discovery/
Scientific American recommends "Attention is Discovery": https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049382/attention-is-discovery/
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In Doctors by Nature, @jaapderoode.bsky.social tells the astonishing story of how animals use #medicine and what it can teach us about healing ourselves.
Out March 4. Preorder your copy of this fascinating book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #LifeSciences #Zoology
Out March 4. Preorder your copy of this fascinating book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #LifeSciences #Zoology
December 18, 2024 at 4:54 PM
In Doctors by Nature, @jaapderoode.bsky.social tells the astonishing story of how animals use #medicine and what it can teach us about healing ourselves.
Out March 4. Preorder your copy of this fascinating book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #LifeSciences #Zoology
Out March 4. Preorder your copy of this fascinating book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #LifeSciences #Zoology
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Carlos Santana (UPenn) argues that optimal openness is not maximum openness. Openness is one of the core values that govern science. Trade offs apply depending on contexts. #ScienceAndValues #philsci #philsky
The Value of Openness in Open Science | Canadian Journal of Philosophy | Cambridge Core
The Value of Openness in Open Science
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December 22, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Carlos Santana (UPenn) argues that optimal openness is not maximum openness. Openness is one of the core values that govern science. Trade offs apply depending on contexts. #ScienceAndValues #philsci #philsky
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New issues of Early Science and Medicine Vol. 29, No. 5-6 (2024) brill.com/view/journal... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social Climate in the Middle Ages: an Introduction @goingloopy.bsky.social
December 20, 2024 at 3:47 PM
New issues of Early Science and Medicine Vol. 29, No. 5-6 (2024) brill.com/view/journal... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social Climate in the Middle Ages: an Introduction @goingloopy.bsky.social
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The 2025 Annual Meeting of the AAAS is in Boston this year on February 13-15, 2025
This year's Sarton Lecture at AAAS meeting will be given by Harvard #HPS scholar Peter Galison on "Visualizing Space/ Time/ Matter in Physics, Film, & History" ⚛️ 🧪
meetings.aaas.org
This year's Sarton Lecture at AAAS meeting will be given by Harvard #HPS scholar Peter Galison on "Visualizing Space/ Time/ Matter in Physics, Film, & History" ⚛️ 🧪
meetings.aaas.org
December 20, 2024 at 3:15 PM
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the AAAS is in Boston this year on February 13-15, 2025
This year's Sarton Lecture at AAAS meeting will be given by Harvard #HPS scholar Peter Galison on "Visualizing Space/ Time/ Matter in Physics, Film, & History" ⚛️ 🧪
meetings.aaas.org
This year's Sarton Lecture at AAAS meeting will be given by Harvard #HPS scholar Peter Galison on "Visualizing Space/ Time/ Matter in Physics, Film, & History" ⚛️ 🧪
meetings.aaas.org
Today’s #WomenInSTEM Book of the Day is Renee Bergland’s volume on astronomer Maria Mitchell which covers not only her life but the fascinating intellectually open Quaker community that she came from.
#BookSky #HistSci #AstroSky
#BookSky #HistSci #AstroSky
December 21, 2024 at 6:12 AM
Un nouvel article de Kapil Raj sur le mesmérisme en Inde. #HistSci
When Scottish medicine hospitalized Indian magic: Dr James Esdaile's mesmeric surgery in mid-nineteenth-century Bengal | The British Journal for the History of Science | Cambridge Core
When Scottish medicine hospitalized Indian magic: Dr James Esdaile's mesmeric surgery in mid-nineteenth-century Bengal
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December 19, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Un nouvel article de Kapil Raj sur le mesmérisme en Inde. #HistSci
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Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet, who translated Principia into French, was born 17 December 1706 #histsci
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thonyc.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/a...
A feminist Newtonian
Any major new scientific theory experiences a period of reception after publication in which it is examined, questioned, subject to criticism and put to the test. During this period, which can and …
thonyc.wordpress.com
December 17, 2024 at 6:28 AM
Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet, who translated Principia into French, was born 17 December 1706 #histsci
thonyc.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/a...
thonyc.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/a...
Bien lire la préface de De Revolutionibus fait apparaître la grande sagesse de son auteur. Non, ce n’est pas un « vilain »
Andreas Osiander, author of the Ad lectorum in Copernicus' De revolutionibus, was born 19 December 1496 or 1498 #histsci
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thonyc.wordpress.com/2015/12/19/t...
The greatest villain in the history of science?
In the popular version of the so-called astronomical revolution Andreas Osiander, who was born on the 19th December 1496 or 1498, is very often presented as the greatest villain in the history of s…
thonyc.wordpress.com
December 19, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Bien lire la préface de De Revolutionibus fait apparaître la grande sagesse de son auteur. Non, ce n’est pas un « vilain »
J’aime bien les bâtiments qui contiennent une maquette d’eux-mêmes. Je me demande toujours si c’est aussi le cas de la maquette #SaintsPeres #miseenabime
December 19, 2024 at 7:47 AM
J’aime bien les bâtiments qui contiennent une maquette d’eux-mêmes. Je me demande toujours si c’est aussi le cas de la maquette #SaintsPeres #miseenabime
Un rappel que les vaccins sauve des vies #SaintsPeres
December 19, 2024 at 7:45 AM
Un rappel que les vaccins sauve des vies #SaintsPeres
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This is the first research article to come out of my project on the unmapping of Africa.
What if cartographers decided to remove from maps long-held ideas about the African continent? Learn more about Enlightenment scholars and their relationship with the unknown in our latest article by Dr. Petter Hellström: journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view...
November 10, 2024 at 7:35 PM
This is the first research article to come out of my project on the unmapping of Africa.
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My book "Too Much Fun: The Fives Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer" about games and computers, is out today!
"The surprising history of the Commodore 64, the best-selling home computer of the 1980s—the machine that taught the world that computing should be fun."
jesperjuul.net/c64/
"The surprising history of the Commodore 64, the best-selling home computer of the 1980s—the machine that taught the world that computing should be fun."
jesperjuul.net/c64/
December 10, 2024 at 10:57 AM
My book "Too Much Fun: The Fives Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer" about games and computers, is out today!
"The surprising history of the Commodore 64, the best-selling home computer of the 1980s—the machine that taught the world that computing should be fun."
jesperjuul.net/c64/
"The surprising history of the Commodore 64, the best-selling home computer of the 1980s—the machine that taught the world that computing should be fun."
jesperjuul.net/c64/
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Les procès-verbaux du Bureau des longitudes : Un #patrimoine numérisé (1795-1932)
J'aime particulièrement les "focus" sur des instruments scientifique :
http://bdl.ahp-numerique.fr/focus-accueil
#histsci #histtech
J'aime particulièrement les "focus" sur des instruments scientifique :
http://bdl.ahp-numerique.fr/focus-accueil
#histsci #histtech
December 6, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Les procès-verbaux du Bureau des longitudes : Un #patrimoine numérisé (1795-1932)
J'aime particulièrement les "focus" sur des instruments scientifique :
http://bdl.ahp-numerique.fr/focus-accueil
#histsci #histtech
J'aime particulièrement les "focus" sur des instruments scientifique :
http://bdl.ahp-numerique.fr/focus-accueil
#histsci #histtech