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Next stop on the book tour: Amherst Books, Amherst, MA! Thursday 27 March, 6pm. #NewEngland #Massachusetts folks, do tell your friends! @umassamherst.bsky.social
#ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH 1/
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The first cosmographia in English William Cuningham's The Cosmographical Glasse (1559) #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/the-cosmographical-glass/
Swiss Renaissance polymath, Conrad Gesner, was born 26 March 1565 #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/putting-the-lead-in-your-pencil/
The Renaissance Mathematicus · Putting the lead in your pencilAnyone who has regularly reads this blog (does anybody regularly read this blog?) will perhaps be aware of the fact that I have a soft spot for polymaths. There is an expression in German “Fachidio…
"Sur le rôle de l’expérience, est-ce que vous connaissez un texte que j’adore, qui est la controverse entre le mathématicien René Thom (médaille Fields en 1958) et le physicien Anatole Abragam, à l’Académie ? Cette controverse a été extraordinaire.
(...) Thom avait publié [en 1984] un article d'une demi-page dans Le Monde, dans lequel il trouvait que l’on dépensait beaucoup trop d'argent dans la recherche expérimentale. Il avait pris deux exemples. Le premier était l'exemple de l'ADN. Il disait qu'il suffisait de réfléchir pour voir qu'il n'y avait besoin de faire des expériences pour comprendre sa structure. Le deuxième exemple était celui de la physique des particules. Il disait qu’il suffisait de regarder comment sont les équations et qu’il n’était pas utile de dépenser autant dans les accélérateurs. Cela avait fait scandale. Le Bureau de l’Académie avait organisé un débat public Abragam-Thom sur le rôle de l’expérience en sciences."
Roger Balian
#histsci #phisci #socsci
https://journals.openedition.org/hrc/10577
journals.openedition.orgSur la voie du physicien Roger Balian : de l’atelier familial à la ...Marta Cecilia Bustamante et Emanuel Bertrand (MCB et EB). Commençons cet entretien en partant de votre parcours de vie. Est-ce que vous pourriez nous retracer votre formation scolaire et étudiante,...
Martinius : "Ceux du Japon l'appellent Nisi ; les Chinois la nomment Ginseng, à cause qu'elle a la forme d'un homme qui ouvre les jambes (car ils appellent un homme Gin) vous croiriez que c'est notre Mandragore, si ce n'est qu'elle est plus petite, toutefois je ne doute point que ce n'en soit une espèce , car elle en a la figure & la vertu."
"La description de cette plante est si imparfaite dans Martinius que j'ai cru en devoir mettre ici la véritable figure ; tirée de l'Histoire des choses naturelles non décrites (.) où si elle a quelque ressemblance à la Mandragore par sa racine » ses feuilles font bien voir qu'il la faut mettre sous un autre genre."
https://archive.org/details/relationsdediver01th/page/n173/mode/1up?view=theater
#histsci #histplantes
My convo with Miranda Melcher about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY @ucpress.bsky.social was the New Books Network Book of the Day! @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
#ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #politics #HAMH 1/
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Georgius Agricola, author of De re metallica, was born 24 March 1494 #histsci #histtech
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2019/04/17/renaissance-heavy-metal/
The Renaissance Mathematicus · Renaissance Heavy MetalOne of the most fascinating and spectacularly illustrated Renaissance books on science and technology is De re metallica by Georgius Agricola (1494–1555). Translated into English the author’s name …
Happy birthday Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827), French mathematical physicist (who incidentally, did invaluable work in geophysics). He was pretty hard-headed and probably didn’t really have any imaginary friends, but nonetheless Laplace’s Demon is my 3rd in the series of Imaginary Friends of Science. In 1814, when he envisioned an entity such
#linocut #printmaking #histsci #MastoArt #Laplace #LaplacesDemon #physics #determinism #ImaginaryFriends #Science
Happy birthday to one of greatest #mathematicians of all time Emmy Noether (1882-1935), here with her eponymous theorem, the backbone of modern physics. Noether’s theorem links any symmetry of a system with a conservation law. In my portrait, I chose to depict a young Emmy in front of a blackboard with a more simple formulation of her theorem and three specific applications of it, shown schematically, 1/
An excerpt from my book Sea Level: A History has been published in Issues in Science and Technology!
Issues in Science and Technology · Our Bases Are Precarious!Our ideas about sea level, why and how we measure it, and how it varies have changed radically over the centuries.
Happy birthday to Canadian medical researcher & #biochemist Maud Menten (1879-1960). Not only was she an author of Michaelis-Menten equation for #enzyme kinetics, she invented the azo-dye coupling for alkaline phosphatase, 1st example of enzyme #histochemistry, still used in imaging of tissues today & she also performed the first #electrophoretic separation of blood haemoglobin in 1944! 1/n
#histsci #linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #MastoArt
Excited to launch the next season of #Cosmoimaginaries. Tomorrow we begin with a presentation from Gabriela Radulescu:
Earthly and extraterrestrial connections: CETI/SETI in Armenia and Czechoslovakia (Spojeni s mimozemskymi intelligencemi / the search for extraterrestrial intelligence)
Thurs, Mar 20 4pm EST / 8pm GMT / 9pm CET
Friday, 21 March 9am NZDT/7am AEDT
All welcome.
Registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/JL-yhGskSLi74izOB6CoSw
ZoomWelcome! You are invited to join a meeting: 📡 "Earthly and extraterrestrial connections: CETI/SETI in Armenia and Czechoslovakia" | Gabriela Radulescu | Cosmoimaginaries Season 2. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.This March, we have a conversation between Gabriela Radulescu and Nina Czegledy.
Gabriela (https://somatosphere.net/authors/gabriela-radulescu) will share the talk:
"Earthly and extraterrestrial connections: CETI/SETI in Armenia and Czechoslovakia"
Gabriela Radulescu’s research situates the history of SETI (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence) within a broader international context, focusing on Armenia and the former Czechoslovakia. Through ethnographic work at the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO) in Armenia, she carefully uncovers the imaginaries that shaped ideas in the golden age of radio astronomy (1956-1976) and the study of extraterrestrial communication during the “CETI” period, before the field was renamed SETI. Through archives and interviews, Gabriela traces how the story of SETI rooted in Armenia during the Soviet era with the 1964 USSR Conference on Extraterrestrial Civilisations at BOA and the Observatory’s First Soviet-American Conference on Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CETI) in 1971. As Soviet radio astronomers sought to establish a scientific framework for communicating with extraterrestrial civilizations, their Armenian counterparts brought a distinct imaginary: one that linked cosmic contact to Armenia’s ancient astronomical heritage.
Gabriela presents CETI as a relational and interdisciplinary endeavour, entangled in Soviet science-based imaginaries, the history of the space race and the international astronautical community, and political upheavals through the Prague Spring. This blending of scientific and historical imaginaries, combining the emerging field of radio astronomy with millennia-old traditions of celestial observation, reinforced national and collective identity, positioning Armenia as an astronomical civilization with deep temporal roots. These powerful imaginaries continue to shape contemporary perspectives on the earthly and extraterrestrial today.
More Info: https://cosmoimaginaries.com
Johannes Petreius the printer/publisher who published Copernicus' De revolutionibus died on this day 475 years ago #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/hans-peter-from-langendorf/
The Renaissance Mathematicus · Hans Peter from LangendorfOn this day in 2009 The Renaissance Mathematicus first crept warily out into the vast depths of cyberspace. As it’s our third birthday I decided it’s about time to talk about our blog banner. With …
Galileo's first post Sidereus Nuncius publication his Discourse on Floating Bodies (1612) #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/03/19/from-τὰ-φυσικά-ta-physika-to-physics-xl/
The Renaissance Mathematicus · From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XLUntil the publication of his Sidereus Nuncius in 1610, Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) was basically a nobody on the European scientific scene. Professor for mathematics, the lowest of the lo…