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#artofserknoir Close your eyes. 🪼

#lavoisier #antoinelavoisier #frenchrevolution #frev #chemistry #historyofscience
November 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
warburginstitute.bsky.social
Explore alchemy’s visual and material culture, from green lions and Christ-like eagles to surviving laboratories & rare manuscripts.

A 5-day online course tracing the evolution of European alchemy and its imagery, ideas, and artefacts.

warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

#Alchemy #HistoryofScience
Visual History of European Alchemy
This course opens a window onto the development of European visual culture and the history of science by tracing the evolution of alchemy and its artefacts.
warburg.sas.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
anthropology.net
New research reveals how Maya astronomers used overlapping lunar tables to predict solar eclipses for 700 years, blending ritual calendars with mathematical precision. #Archaeoastronomy #MayaCivilization #HistoryOfScience #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/the-ancien...
The Ancient Mathematicians of the Sky: How the Maya Predicted Solar Eclipses with Centuries of Precision
New research reveals how Mayan astronomers transformed lunar calendars into long-term eclipse forecasting systems—bridging divination and scientific observation.
www.anthropology.net
October 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
csmbr-pisa.bsky.social
Forma Fluens - Histories of the Microcosm

𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐕𝐄𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐔𝐒 𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐂𝐘
𝐓𝐡𝐞 "𝐅𝐚𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚" 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 "𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐞" 𝐚 𝐇𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (𝟏𝟔𝟎𝟒, 𝟏𝟔𝟏𝟕, 𝟏𝟔𝟒𝟐)
Sabrina Engert

𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/blog/forma-f...

#CSMBR #Vesalius #Anatomy #HistoryOfScience #BookHistory
October 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
histphilosophy.bsky.social
Today's new episode: Cartesian Science!

From comets to blood transfusions, embryology, and the debate over the pineal gland: Descartes’ impact on science, especially medicine.

www.historyofphilosophy.net/cartesian-sc...

#hopwag #philsky #descartes #historyofscience #podcasts
Early modern diagram of the brain
October 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM
amphilsociety.bsky.social
On Experimentation, Air, and Human Health: Considering Priestley’s Scientific Legacies!

Join the APS and @scripps.edu for a public conversation with atmospheric chemist Dr. Kimberly A. Prather (APS 2022)! www.amphilsoc.org/events/exper...

#science #health #humans #historyofscience
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October 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
cduigan.bsky.social
A shared heritage - "Irish Lumper" #potato leaf with #Phytophthora infestans #blight @rbgkew.bsky.social collected 1847 during an Gorta Mór - Great #Famine - used to illustrate monoculture risks in Future of Food exhibition, Science Museum #London
#historyofscience #Empire #Ireland #envhist #botany
Two herbarium sheets with fragments of three potato leaves and associated record cards.
October 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
royalsocietypublishing.org
Here's a little taster of an upcoming Notes and Records Special Issue entitled: Picturing Life in the Early Modern Age: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory
September 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
elsa-panciroli.bsky.social
Like what you see? One of these could be yours... www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/dyR5704... #scottishgeology #geologyart #historyofscience
September 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
ishpssb.bsky.social
Wow — 287 followers in just 2 weeks! 🙌 Thanks for your support!
Here’s a few more snapshots from our July Congress 📸
Open question: What’s the biggest challenge for interdisciplinary work in our fields today?
#PhilosophyOfScience, #HistoryOfScience, #STS, #Interdisciplinarity
September 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
emilyrowe1.bsky.social
New publication out! You can read my open access article on the interwoven histories of early modern alchemical and linguistic satire (with plenty of Nashe, Jonson, even a bit of Tomkis, Bacon, and Sprat!) here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#historyofscience #history #literature #earlymodern
‘Alcumists of eloquence’:  The alchemist and the inkhorner in early modern England | BJHS Themes | Cambridge Core
‘Alcumists of eloquence’: The alchemist and the inkhorner in early modern England
www.cambridge.org
September 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
phalpern.bsky.social
Young Stephen Hawking (right), playing a game of croquet at the University of Cambridge:

cai.cam.ac.uk/news/croquet...

#historyofscience
October 14, 2023 at 4:51 PM
cduigan.bsky.social
Arguably "British" limnology began at Hayes Island Biological Station Lough Derg #Shannon but was abruptly halted by political violence and uncertainty before Irish Free State established.
Glen George
Freshwater Biological Association Fellow
#envhist #historyofscience
www.fba.org.uk/articles/lou...
Lough Derg: A pioneering limnological laboratory — Freshwater Biological Association
Limnology, the science of lakes, had a slow start in Britain. The first limnological laboratory in Europe was established in Germany in 1892 and was followed by similar ventures in Denmark and Austria...
www.fba.org.uk
February 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
ihpst-uoft.bsky.social
Happening today! We are delighted to host Prof. Lan A. Li (@hopkinsmedicine.bsky.social) who will explore the history of anatomical illustrations in global Chinese medicine. Join us at 3 PM! Hybrid event.
More details ➡️ ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/ihpst...
#IHPST #HistoryofScience
March 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
rememberingmary.bsky.social
“And this book still stands as a wonderfully written introduction to Irish scientific heritage.” Julianna Adelman recommends Ingenious Ireland as an ideal Christmas gift#Christmas #IrishScience #HistoryofScience

irishtimes.com/news/science/t…
These books on science history are ideal for Christmas stockings
A reprint of Mary Mulvihill’s tour of Ireland and a dive into late Victorian Dublin
www.irishtimes.com
December 17, 2024 at 11:44 AM
rememberingmary.bsky.social
Republishing Ingenious Ireland, Mary Mulvihill’s great survey of #Ireland’s #science #heritage, was a cherished goal – thank you @FourCourtsPress @DublinCityUni @DublinPortCo @aoibhinn_ni_s @muirtheimhne & @EPICMuseumCHQ for your support #HistoryOfScience

youtube.com/watch?v=FUsrY2…
Republication of Ingenious Ireland by Mary Mulvhill
Republishing Ingenious Ireland, Mary Mulvihill's landmark survey of Ireland's science heritage, has been a long cherished goal. We thank Four Courts Press, Dublin City University, Dublin Port Company, Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin, Brian MacCraith & Epic The Irish Emigration Museum for helping to make it happen
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December 17, 2024 at 11:43 AM
bbienias.bsky.social
Excited for tomorrow's talk in panel 5.8. (Scientific and Celestial Writing). Do join us! #Rensoc25 #Bristol #SRS #earlymodern #skystorians #bookhistory #historyofscience #culturalastronomy
July 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
danrbphotograph.bsky.social
History of Science Museum!
#photo #photography #outdoors #oxford #oxforduniversity #oxfordstudent #architecture #oldbuilding #listedbuildings #gothic #gothicarchitecture #historyofsciencemuseum #historyofscience #historyofsciencemuseumoxford #universityofoxford #sheldoniantheatre
May 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
astronomybot.bsky.social
...y's earliest known female scientists is profound.

#Astronomy #AncientGreece #HistoryOfScience
August 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
ghilondon.bsky.social
#ThyssenLecture #colonialhistory #postcolonial #imperialhistory #globalhistory #historyofscience #fritzthyssenstiftung #envhist #environmentalhistory
#climatecrisis

📷Credits: ©2011CIAT/NeilPalmer, “India burning 69” by Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, CC BY-SA 2.0 [cropped].
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September 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
rathankar.bsky.social
Isaac Newton was wrong about light. 😲

For over a century, his particle theory dominated science until one brilliant experiment changed everything.

Read about the History of waves, from Wi-Fi to our own vision.

Link: ibphysicswithrao.com/home/waves/

#HistoryOfScience #Physics #STEM
October 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
medievalists.bsky.social
Translatio Scientiae: Chaucer, the Astrolabe, and Making English Scientific https://www.medievalists.net/2024/10/translatio-scientiae-chaucer-the-astrolabe-and-making-english-scientific/ #Chaucer #HistoryofScience
Translatio Scientiae: Chaucer, the Astrolabe, and Making English Scientific - Medievalists.net
I examine how Chaucer’s vocabularies—whether translated or adopted—offer new possibilities for using English as a language for scientific knowledge and for articulating and even creating new…
www.medievalists.net
October 16, 2024 at 12:05 AM
nathanprobably.bsky.social
A really interesting #CFP from a consistently amazing conference. Bring your most yeast-y ideas!
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/10/...
#historyofmycology #fungalturn #fermentation #yestoyeast #historyofscience #STS
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
October 29, 2024 at 1:41 PM
cduigan.bsky.social
“Periodic Fluctuations in the Numbers of Animals: their Causes and Effects" - how Charles Elton used the records of the Hudson Bay Company in his pioneering ecological research. #envhist #historyofscience #ecology #Empire
January 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
brianderby.bsky.social
Just written a piece in @nwbylines.bsky.social on 17th century astronomy in Northwest England.
#Historyofscience
#Historyofastronomy

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Horrocks, Crabtree and Gascoigne – seventeenth century astronomy pioneers of the North
Pioneers from the North of England played a big role in our knowledge of astronomy, through their prediction of the path of Venus around the sun
northwestbylines.co.uk
November 28, 2024 at 5:32 PM