Abie4h ago
"But that weird stuff is what makes art history so interesting in the first place. It's everywhere! You just have to peel back like one layer of that history onion and then randomly you're like "Ok, nice, pink prison experiments; arsenic laden wallpaper; grinding up convicts into paint and using that pretending that it's Egyptian mummies..."
#histart #histsci
https://youtu.be/1vD-GXFvAPY?t=1932
The DARK History of Indian Yellow. ⚠️ (And how I almost poisoned myself)

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✨ Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋7h ago

🎥 Mary Somerville: The first person to be called a scientist

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gy2EQ1tmYFw

#Video #History #Histodons #Science #HistSci #STEM #WomenInSTEM

Mary Somerville: The first person to be called a scientist | BBC Ideas

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)12h ago
Nerds of Bluesky: did you know that the @[email protected] has podcasts? Here's @[email protected] talking about her latest book, on Benjamin Franklin's stove, on the Useful Knowledge podcast: 💙📚 🗃 #histsci #earlymodern #18thCentury podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Episode Three (Joyce Chaplin) ...
Episode Three (Joyce Chaplin) - “Warming the World: Benjamin Franklin, Climate Science, and an Unintended Revolution”

Podcast Episode · Useful Knowledge · January 13 · 28m

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Oddlet - Lovable Weirdos14h ago

Born on a prison cell floor. Twice widowed by forty. Built a warship larger than Ottoman law allowed, then bribed the inspector to call it a merchant vessel. Laskarina Bouboulina spent nearly her entire fortune on a war she started herself — the woman who didn't wait for permission.

https://oddlet.com/p/bxs

#Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

Thony C21h ago
The evolution of Newton's mechanics from De motu (1684) to Principia (1687) #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/from-τὰ-φυσικά-ta-physika-to-physics-lxii/
Thony C22h ago
Renaissance Swiss polymath, Conrad Gesner was born 26 March 1516 #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/putting-the-lead-in-your-pencil/
Putting the lead in your pencil

Anyone who has regularly reads this blog (does anybody regularly read this blog?) will perhaps be aware of the fact that I have a soft spot for polymaths. There is an expression in German “Fachidio…

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Fabienne Gallaire1d ago
So many books, so little time...
https://presses-universitaires.parisnanterre.fr/index.php/produit/moments-dhistoire-naturelle-au-cinema/
https://presses-universitaires.parisnanterre.fr/index.php/produit/les-universalites-museales-aux-xixe-et-xxe-siecles/
https://presses-universitaires.parisnanterre.fr/index.php/produit/temoignages-sur-la-naissance-dune-science-les-developpements-de-lethologie-en-france-1956-1990/
https://presses-universitaires.parisnanterre.fr/index.php/produit/lhomme-animal-dans-les-arts-visuels-image-et-creatures-hybrides-dans-le-temps-et-dans-lespace/ #histsci #histnat #animhist #museum
Show threadFabienne Gallaire1d ago
Savanturières : aussi une série de vidéos courtes sur les pionnières de l'#histoirenaturelle !
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1CLz7J7QOxg
via https://mnhn.hosting.augure.com/Augure_MnhnRP/default.ashx?
#mnhn #histnat #WomeninSTEAM #womeninSTEM #histsci
👩‍🎨🍓 Madeleine-Françoise Basseporte, illustratrice botanique du roi

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Fabienne Gallaire1d ago
Savanturières : l'#HistoireNaturelle au féminin !
https://www.mnhn.fr/fr/savanturieres-une-histoire-naturelle-au-feminin
#mnhn #histnat #WomeninSTEAM #womeninSTEM #histsci
Savanturières. Une histoire naturelle au féminin

Un beau livre pour aller à la rencontre des femmes qui ont fait – et font encore ! – l’histoire naturelle, au Muséum et au-delà.

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Thony C2d ago
Georg Agricola, author of De re Metallica, was born 24 March 1494 #histsci #histtech
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2019/04/17/renaissance-heavy-metal/
Renaissance Heavy Metal

One of the most fascinating and spectacularly illustrated Renaissance books on science and technology is De re metallica by Georgius Agricola (1494–1555). Translated into English the author’s name …

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