For certain reasons...
☄️🔭 #histastro #histscience

Read about the time the guy who discovered photosynthesis wrote to Ben Franklin about how he almost electrocuted himself with a Leyden jar.

#c18th 🗃️ #histscience

Founders Online
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Another #Fagel update: one for #medicine #histscience crowd. I came across a manuscript list of items that apothecaries in the frontier cities of Dutch Republic and those joining the army of Maurice of Nassau had to have. It includes a range of different ointments, herbs, oils, etc. #earlymodern

Today is the day for our annual Colloquium; we've had some opening words from lead organiser Julia Gustavsson highlighting how #HistChild can contribute to #HistScience, in particular through discussions on agency and the construction and operation of categories of age and development

The work of surgeon and artist Joseph Maclise is the focus of a show at the Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds.
#anatomy #history #histscience
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

I will be at the Jávea Archaeological Museum on October 3rd giving the lecture "A New Witch Hunt: Francoist Repression Against Spanish Midwives". @profbarrydoyle.bsky.social @chendirl.bsky.social @eurohealthhist.bsky.social #HistMidwifery #HistMed #HistScience #skymidwives #HealthHist #MedHums

#VegetativePowers #HistScience #histphilo #historysoul 🌳#vegetation ☘️The volume analyzes philosophical accounts on vegetative and vegetation from the past and outlines a crucial section of early modern sciences of life!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007... @fabribald.bsky.social

Das Programm der Colloquia Ceranea 2026 ist jetzt online:
www.ceraneum.uni.lodz.pl/colloquia-ce...

#histmed
#histscience

Introducing the research of ISiS members at the RCNP 👇

www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

🙌 @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social #philphysics #philsci #HPS #histscience

Our #ArchiveOfTheWeek is the 1694 will of Thomas Wilson of Codnor, who decided all his books would go to his namesake grandson, with one exception: his "mathematical bookes & instruments" go to John Harris, another relative - who would presumably value them more.

#HistScience

#Histmeds #Histscience Help! I am looking for suggestions how (and what) to teach 4th graders about the history of medicine in 10-15 minutes. I am drawing a blank.