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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
Today's #histSTM/#WomenInSTEM lunch read-@435Mag's Susie Whitfield's profile of Sarah Ratley: #KCMO native, @ATT engineer & member of the Mercury 13, a cohort of women recruited as potential astronauts the early 1960s. https://t.co/EoIStP6uoZ
(cc @ladyxscience; @WomenInAviation)
#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
@esallychang @LindaHall_org @shsternberg And if you can’t make it to KC, you can stream most @LindaHall_org talks on Facebook and tweet about them using #LHLLive! #NNLFK
Henry Foster-Arctic explorer awarded the @royalsociety's Copley Medal for his geodetic investigations-is @LindaHall_org's Scientist of the Day! #histSTM https://t.co/tkjEko6Bp0
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
Rosalind Franklin-scientist who studied #DNA's structure was b #OTD 1920! See her in @LindaHall_org's exhibit, Connecting the Dots! #histSTM
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