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How can the writings of Friedrich #Nietzsche enhance our understanding of modern science?
Find out tomorrow at a #philsci lecture by @LindaHall_org research fellow Will Parkhurst.
Registration & livestream details: https://t.co/PEsRzkecGV
(Img HT @existentialcoms)
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Check out this incredible "Family Portrait" of all the spacecraft that humans have sent to #Mars. Further details and higher resolution scans via @exploreplanets: https://t.co/Ar4nxoDrnv
#LHLLive #infographic
Next, we showcased the work of botanical illustrator Margaret Mee, whose stunning "Flowers of the Brazilian Forests" foreshadowed her later involvement in rain forest conservation efforts. (3/5)
(QK486 .B6 M4 1968 folio)
#histSTM #sciart #envhist
#WomenInSTEM #IWD2019
#OnThisDay in 1858, Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Donati discovered his namesake comet, illustrated here in Edmund Weiß' Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt (1888). Further information on Donati's Comet via @IAU_org: https://t.co/SxSPCyawfy #histSTM #comets #astronomy
Can you see the music? Louis Bertrand Castel-natural philosopher who proposed the creation of an "ocular harpsichord" that emitted color rather than sound-is @LindaHall_org's Scientist of the Day! #histSTM #sciart https://t.co/QKsjZQp9xF
William Swainson-British ornithologist-is @LindaHall_org's Scientist of the Day! (@IBIS_journal) #histSTM #sciart https://t.co/U8WMzX1dBn
Cool trivia fact from @specolations: The coat of arms of Pope Leo XIII (who re-founded @VaticanObserv) features a comet! #LHLLive
Thanks to @bucknellupress for sending @LindaHall_org a copy of this new book. The cover art is from our collection! https://t.co/HVbMsf40Nh
Aimé Bonpland: botanist who collaborated w/Humboldt=@LindaHall_org's Scientist of the Day! https://t.co/rAB7ylg3GN
Earning good karma on #WorldLizardDay w/this chameleon from Belon's De Aquatilibus (1553) HT @LindaHall_org #histSTM