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Happy 315th birthday to Émilie du Châtelet, the subject of today's #GoogleDoodle! Du Châtelet was the author of Institutions de Physique & the 1st French translation of Newton's Principia, both of which are in @LindaHall_org's rare book collection.
#histSTM #WomenInSTEM #physics
Few people know more about Thomas Pennant than @EdwinRose3 (2017-18 LHL Fellow), who studied three volumes of watercolors in LHL's collections by Pennant's servant-turned-illustrator, Moses Griffith.
All of these are available online: https://t.co/X6GftP8dO7
#sciart #NatHist
Claude-Louis Berthollet, French chemist who accompanied #Napoleon during his invasion of Egypt, is @LindaHall_org's #ScientistOfTheDay.
https://t.co/q20ELxq0KD
#histSTM #chemistry
Did you know that 46 @LindaHall_org exhibition catalogs, dating from 1956 to 2016, are now available online?
Check it out by visiting our digital collections: https://t.co/WTAk6f4xKc
#histSTM #rarebooks #exhibits
New idea for a future HSS/SHOT/ICHC talk:
The Metal Men vs. The Elements of Doom! - A Brief History of Chemically Inspired Superheroes (& Villains)
#HST2021 #ComicBooks https://t.co/wHthhA062o
Horatio Thomas Austin, British naval officer who led an expedition to the Arctic to determine the fate of the Franklin expedition, is @LindaHall_org's #ScientistOfTheDay.
https://t.co/JfPNyaevGa
#histSTM #exploration
Louis-Bertrand Castel, the French natural philosopher who proposed the creation of an "ocular harpsichord" that would play colors instead of sounds, is @LindaHall_org's #ScientistOfTheDay.
https://t.co/uK9O9PltZ1
#histSTM #optics #music
🎶Sunny Frey...Driving jötnar away!
On my way to where the mead is sweet.
Can you tell me how to get to Asgard Street?🎶
(A must-read thread for fans of #SesameStreet, #mythology, and #Muppets, courtesy of @jessnevins!) https://t.co/nFkOVmBG59
Excited to tune into the first session of #GreedyScience: Money & Knowledge in the Global 1980s. Today we'll be discussing:
* Big oil & Entrepreneurship w/@ccmmody
* Biotech & cancer biology w/Angela Creager
* #ColdWar asteroid detection efforts w/Matt Stanley
#histSTM