149 years ago today, #HMSChallenger returned to Spithead from a scientific expedition that birthed the discipline of #Oceanography, but what did they find? Read more about this in Full Fathom 5000, an engaging book that focuses on the many animals the expedition found in the deep sea.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2024/07/30/book-review-full-fathom-5000-the-expedition-of-hms-challenger-and-the-strange-animals-it-found-in-the-deep-sea/

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Scicomm #Oceans #MarineBiology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci

318 years ago today #CarlLinnaeus was born. The scholarly #biography The Man Who Organized Nature provides a full immersion in his life, revealing the polymath behind his reputation as the father of taxonomy.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2024/12/05/book-review-the-man-who-organized-nature-the-life-of-linnaeus/

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Taxonomy #Botany #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #SciComm @princetonupress

Very interesting podcast about universals as an idea in American linguistics in the mid-20th century (27 mins.) @hiphilangsci
https://hiphilangsci.net/2024/12/01/podcast-episode-43/

#language #linguistics #podcast #science #ScienceHistory #LinguisticUniversals #NoamChomsky #JosephGreenberg

The Electron Microscope’s Canadian Link

Physicist Eli Burton and his University of Toronto team developed one of North America’s first electron microscopes in 1938, revolutionizing our ability to see the microscopic world. 🔬

🇨🇦 #Canada #ScienceHistory #Microscopy

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/eli-franklin-burton

The Electron Microscope’s Canadian Link

Physicist Eli Burton and his University of Toronto team developed one of North America’s first electron microscopes in 1938, revolutionizing our ability to see the microscopic world. 🔬

🇨🇦 #Canada #ScienceHistory #Microscopy

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/eli-franklin-burton

166 years ago today, the world lost #AlexanderVonHumboldt. This admirably concise biography offers a factual and nuanced picture of his life and work, and critically interrogates previous portrayals.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/02/11/book-review-alexander-von-humboldt-a-concise-biography/

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Biography #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Scicomm @princetonupress @princetonnature

This week's #NewBooks at the library: A second-hand copy of an original 1961 hardback of Arthur O. Lovejoy's The Great Chain of Being from Harvard University Press, a review copy of The Lives of #Bats from @princetonupress @princetonnature, and a second-hand copy of @matthewcobb's The Genetic Age: Out Perilous Quest to Edit Life from Profile Books.

#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #ScalaNaturae #Chiroptera #Mammals #Genetics @bookstodon