📗 Luís Mendonça de Carvalho edited the book ‘The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective. Volume 1’ (Springer), which provides us with a 'unique re-evaluation of the Victorian Age and presents a new historiography based on plants'.
👉 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-68759-4
#Histodons #Botany #Plants #Historiography #Victorians #VictorianEra #VictorianBotany #EconomicBotany #Ethnobotany #HistoryOfPlants #SocialHistory #HistoryOfScience #SciHist
There's a new issue of HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology. It includes the themtic dossier "Towards a global history of eclipses_ Entanglements of disciplines, actors, and practices".
🔓 Available on #OpenAccess: https://sciendo.com/issue/HOST/19/1
#Histodons #HistoryOfScience #SciHist #HistoryOfTechnology #TechHist #Astronomy #HistoryOfAstronomy #Eclipses #TotalSolarEclipse #SanskritAstralSciences
I am biased of course, but I like her book too. The review is behind a paywall but the book itself is available as an #OpenAccess ePub from #CornellUniversityPress
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501772122/a-few-acres-of-ice/#bookTabs=1
#envHist #SciHist #histodons #JanetMartinNielsen #AFewAcresOfIce #Antarctica #France #TAAF #TerreDAdelie
A Few Acres of Ice is an in-depth study of France's complex relationship with the Antarctic, from the search for Terra Australis by French navigators in the sixteenth century to France's role today...
#AFewAcresOfIce has a review in #AmericanHistoricalReview by Alessandro Antonello:
“Well written and enlivened with biographical snapshots of compelling French #polar figures basically unknown in English-language literature, [Janet] Martin-Nielsen’s close attention to this forbidding stretch of #Antarctic coast makes a long overdue addition to both French imperial and Antarctic historiographies.”
#envHist #sciHist #TAAF #JanetMartinNielsen #France #HistoireDeFrance
https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/130/2/898/8158901?redirectedFrom=fulltext
📖 In a chapter of the book "A History of Physics", Quintino Lopes contributes to the #HistoryOfPhysics in the period between-wars, "examining relations between the physics laboratories of the Faculty of Sciences ogf teh University of Lisbon and the Instituto Superior Técnico on the one hand and the Laboratoire Curie, the @collegedefrance and other prestigious science institutions on the other hand".
👉 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-26174-9_24
This paper provides a contribution to the history of physicsHistory of Physics in the period between the two worldWorld wars, examining relations between the physics laboratories of the University of LisbonLisbon Faculty of Science and the Instituto Superior...
✍️ The editors of #HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology have opened a call for a thematic dossier to be published in 2026.
📅 The deadline is 31 March 2025
👉 https://tinyurl.com/yaf5ymym
#Histodons #HistoryOfScience #HistoryOfTechnology #CallForPapers #SciHist #TechHist #STM #HistoryOfMedicin #MedHist #HistóriaDaCiência #HistóriaDaTecnologia #HistóriaDaMedicina #OpenAccess #AcessoAberto
In the Middle Ages and early modernity, celestial observation was frequently a subject for verbal rather than numerical and geometrical recording. These records can now be difficult to decode, since what they address is frequently obscured by formal conventions of genre, imagery, rhetoric, prosody, to name but a few. The volume collects essays exploring such configurations between literature and observation from Europe to China. How, contributors ask, were verbal representations of celestial phenomena encoded and self-consciously placed vis-à-vis other systems of representation and knowledge? What kinds of data are represented, and what are the modes in which they are communicated? What interpretational problems arise when present-day disciplines like climatology, meteorology, geophysics, and astronomy, but also literary studies, try to access them? How were discourses on religion, law, anthropology, aesthetics, colonialism etc. linked, in and through their verbal presentation, with astronomical observation and knowledge? How did individual scholars, texts, and concepts travel between European and non-European cultures, both in space and in time, and which constructions of self and other arose in the process?
👥 Na próxima semana, acolheremos os novos alunos e alunas do Programa Doutoral em História e Filosofia da Ciência – Museologia com uma sessão de boas-vindas no Colégio do Espírito Santo da Universidade de Évora.
Uma oportunidade para conhecer alguns dos projectos em curso e investigadores/as do Grupo de Investigação em História da Ciência, da Tecnologia e do Ambiente.
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/hfc2024/
#Histodons #HistoryOfScience #PhilosophyOfScience #Museology #SciHist #PhDLife #HistóriaDaCiência
🧐 Have you ever heard of the “great shipworm epidemic” that ravaged European ships?
If not, then we suggest you read what Amedeo Policante published in The Sociological Review Foundation's magazine.
This ‘worm’, which is actually a bivalve mollusc, has been a headache for global shipping companies and, more recently, for the maintenance of submarine cables, on which we are highly dependent.
https://thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/october-2024/the-sea/boring-stories/
#HistoryOfScience #Globalization #SciHist #SubmarinaCables #Tech
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