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Today's honors Justine Siegemund, whose 1690 manual (The Court was the first German medical text written by a woman.

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2023-03-28

Today's celebrates the 80th birthday of Mario Molina, the Mexican chemist who demonstrated that gases were damaging the layer.

Further details via : https://t.co/LFelfj3sNc


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2023-03-20

John Fothergill, an English physician & patron of several Quaker naturalists including Sydney Parkinson & William Bartram (whose painting of a Franklin tree is shown on the right), is 's

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2023-03-08

John Edward Gray, 's Keeper of who helped Charles conduct research on is 's

(The image on the right is from Darwin's 1854 book on the subclass Cirripedia.)

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2023-03-07

Edward Donovan, Anglo-Irish naturalist and illustrator, is ’s

These engravings are from his Epitome of the Natural History of the of China (1798).

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2023-02-01

Deborah Passmore, American botanical illustrator who became the head artist in 's division, is 's

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2023-01-03

Happy to my friends in the Northern Hemisphere!

(And, of course, Happy to those of you south of the equator!)

[Planisphere from Sigismond Visconti & A.H. Dufour's Tableaux du système planétaire, c. 1830]

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2022-12-21

Christian Andreas the Austrian physicist who described the apparent change in a wave's frequency when its source was in motion relative to an observer, is 's

https://t.co/CcoLU3xtdv

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2022-11-29

Today a 🧵on mining maps, how to look at them, and what they tell us about how people perceived the underground world! With bits of map history, paper history, and obviously lots of For the untrained eye, these maps are difficult to understand...

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2022-11-25

This be sure to send your holiday greetings by Radiogram!

(Poster encouraging U.S. servicemen in occupied to call home in 1949. Further details via : https://t.co/vBBwBuvH99)


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2022-11-25

John Barrow, the Second Secretary of the Admiralty who organized numerous expeditions to search for the Northwest Passage, is 's

https://t.co/tXYNDFxpIz

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2022-11-23

Edme-François Jomard, the French topographical engineer and cartographer who oversaw the publication of the Description de l’Égypte, is 's

https://t.co/vkctUdsaZp

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2022-11-23

Leslie Matthew Ward, a British portraitist who created over 1,300 caricatures for magazine, is 's

Here we see two of his subjects, industrialist Henry Bessemer & anatomist Richard Owen.

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2022-11-22

Robert Fulton, American inventor who built the 1st commercially successful steamboat, was 's

(Fulton also built a prototype submarine called the featured in my recent exhibit.)

https://t.co/SNK7ZN9w4N

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2022-11-15

After a tasty lunch courtesy of WITH, I've relocated to the Evergreen Room (4th floor) for a session on the intellectual history of tech.

Our 1st speaker, Kate McDonald, who asks us to think critically about the use of transportation to periodize broader

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2022-11-12

Oct. 2022 issue of Technology & Culture was just released, and the section is devoted to 's virtual

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This writing project has been in the works for over a year. Here's a quick thread... (1/n)

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2022-11-07

Our newest issue of Technology and Culture is OUT! We'll be doing a round up of this tremendous issue this weekend but in the meantime check it out online here: https://t.co/Tzj36k9FEW

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2022-11-05

Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer known for his emphasis on measurement and record keeping, is 's

https://t.co/dR2GSVnVtG


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2022-09-14

A Concise History of Veterinary Medicine by and Peter A. Koolmees

The first concise global history of veterinary medicine and animal healing, covering the past 400 years.



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2022-09-13

Alcide d' Orbigny, French paleontologist who founded the science of was born in 1802 https://t.co/XgU4ZnXaGY

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2022-09-06