Thomas WeibelIt‘s half past #moon.
https://www.thomasweibel.ch/meton/
#newmoon #moon #astronomy #mathematics #mechanics #history #moonphase #antiquity #archaeology #webdev #javascript #sciencehistory #digitalhumanities #astrophysics #physics #coding #solstice
Shyamalhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_Thoulet
Remarkable (or not!) that someone who was considered the father of oceanography in France was not covered in the English Wikipedia ... helped produce the first large scale bathymetry maps of the world's oceans.
Sharing bits of Canada 'eh🇨🇦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
earthlingAmazon to Zodiac: 101 Scientific Curiosities Across Time and Space by Barry Evans, 2026
Discover long-lost stories of science spanning thousands of years of Life on Earth in this journey through our universe’s most peculiar properties. Amazon to Zodiac takes readers on a journey through science’s biggest, tiniest, weirdest, and wildest stories from the realms of explorers and inventors to space, evolution, myths, and more through 101 bite-sized chapters.
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 Inquisitive BiologistToday, it is 70 years since #GeorgeMurrayLevick passed away. This British Antarctic explorer made observations on penguins that were considered too shocking for the world. They are recounted in A Polar Affair, an unusual and colourful book of #PolarExploration, #Penguins, and perversion.
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Brian MarickI’ve written what I hope is both a lay-friendly and roughly accurate explanation of the big 1920s debate¹ between (especially) Einstein and Bohr about causality in quantum mechanics. Possibly because I’m a failed physics major, I’d be more bothered than usual if I got things wrong.
So if you have technical or historical knowledge, I’d love for you to give me corrections for https://blog.oddly-influenced.dev/binary/ before it goes live. Thanks.
¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr%E2%80%93Einstein_debates
150(!) 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.
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Book review – Full Fathom 5000: The Expedition of HMS Challenger and the Strange Animals It Found in the Deep Sea
Focusing on the many animals it found in the deep sea, Full Fathom 5000 provides a novel perspective on the legendary Challenger expedition, all the while treating you to engaging vignettes on scie…
This week's #NewBooks at the library: Who is excited about the next few books he will be reviewing?
- After an impressive debut, I am looking forward to reading Cal Flyn's second book, The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness, published by HarperCollins.
- Time for another deep dive into the history of my favourite discipline, #EvolutionaryBiology. I really enjoyed Costa's annotated version of Wallace's notebook, and am very excited about delving into this annotated version of #CharlesDarwin's The Descent of Man, beautifully published here by @princetonupress. Expect me to go dark for a while, it's over 760 pages!
- And for context, I will be adding a review of Jeremy DeSilva's A Most Interesting Problem: What #Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about #HumanEvolution, published a few years back, also by Princeton.
#Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #Evolution #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci @bookstodon
319 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.
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Taxonomy #Botany #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #SciComm @princetonupress
