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Slightly late announcement of an update to my book ‘Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty’ [https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large] (#OA as always).

Karl Berry, treasurer of the TeX Users Group and one of its journal editors, has completed the Heraclean task of proof-reading the entire book (including the bibliography and index!).

Based on Karl’s innumerable comments, this update has numerous improvements (including microtypographical adjustments) and corrections.

Thank you, Karl!

#typography #TeXLaTeX #HistSci #MathArt

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Fabienne Gallaire 20h ago

"Annotating a 1934 photographic glass plate by hand, Harvard University “computer” Muriel Mussells Seyfert found 431 galaxies within the dashed red circle marking the center of the Coma Cluster."
#histsci #astronomy

Fabienne Gallaire 20h ago

"As the supply of astronomical data exponentially increased, astronomers and mathematicians pioneered many of the first “computers”: human beings scribbling on paper. One early program employed teams of hairdressers put out of work by the execution of the aristocracy in the French Revolution to calculate logarithms."
https://www.science.org/content/article/amid-flood-ai-advances-astrophysicists-are-questioning-soul-their-field
#histsci

Thony C 1d ago

Johann Fabricius published the first book on the telescopic observation of sun spots on 13 June 1611 #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/spotting-the-spots/

Spotting the spots.

As I have commented on more than one occasion Galileo was not the only European astronomer to point a telescope at the heavens in the first years after its invention in Holland in 1608. In fact all…

The Renaissance Mathematicus

Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)1d ago

#histsci #histmed folks!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zkndtyrtei4bxmn4a5fzjutv/post/3mnuulitnmx2t

Fabienne Gallaire 1d ago

#Parution Pour une histoire globale des opiacés.
https://academic.oup.com/book/62592
#histsci #histnat #histmed

Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)2d ago

I need these for work. Book haul in London yesterday, for a new narrative nonfiction book idea. 1/ 🧵 #earlymodern #histsci 💙📚 🗃

🌈 Dr Ross Brooks 2d ago

Read an excerpt from my forthcoming book, DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE . . . 🏳️‍🌈 📚️ 🐵

Just posted on Yale University Press's website: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2026/06/10/an-excerpt-darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/

#book #books #history #science #biology #nature #Darwin #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @histodons @histodon @histsci @histstm #sex #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM #pride #PrideMonth

An Excerpt: Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life - Yale University Press

While Charles Darwin's theories acknowledged the diversity and fluidity of sex in nature, he often framed queer and intersex traits as anomalies through the lens of his own social prejudices.

Yale University Press

Fabienne Gallaire 3d ago

O_O'
#histmed #histsci
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:h4tiqxlaess3yxdmrwhqqdwh/post/3mnwqtetif32f