Abie2d ago

Mot du jour : Electroculture.
"En 1783, l'abbé Pierre Bertholon de Saint-Lazare invente l'électrovégétomètre, appareil visant à recueillir l’électricité atmosphérique pour la distribuer dans le sol."

#histtech #motdujour
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lectroculture

Thony C6d ago
The natural historian, Henry Baker, who wrote The Microscope Made Easy described as the first laboratory manual for microscopy, was born 8 May 1698 #histsci #histtech
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/how-to-use-a-microscope/
How to use a microscope.

The regular reader of this blog (are you still there?) will have long ago realised that I have a genuine fondness for polymaths and that I like to promote the memory of obscure contributors to the …

The Renaissance Mathematicus
Thony CMay 1

Joseph Moxon wrote, printed and published the first ever accurate and detailed account of the techniques and methods of printing 1683-84 #histtech

https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/joseph-moxon-a-man-of-many-talents/

Thony CMay 1
Joseph Moxon innovative printer, publisher, author, globe and instrument maker in the second half of the seventeenth century #histsci #histtech
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/joseph-moxon-a-man-of-many-talents/
Joseph Moxon–a man of many talents

As I explained in a previous post Emery Molyneux (d. 1598) was the first English, printed-globe maker. After Molyneux departed from England to the Netherlands in 1597, where he died a year later, i…

The Renaissance Mathematicus
Sara PritchardApr 22
Today is #EarthDay. 🌍 But what about Earth at #night? 🌌🌃 And how did scientists come to understand #night as environment, albeit in distinct ways? #envhist #envhum #histsci #histtech #sts @[email protected] uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

Transforming Night
Transforming Night

Who owns the night—and what is lost as we flood it with light, worldwide?Darkness has become legible—and contested. Blending archival narrative with on-t...

University of Washington Press
Show threadAbieApr 16

Mes deux préférées :

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drypool_Bridge,_Kingston_upon_Hull_-_geograph.org.uk_-_6483068.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alternative_Heritage_Blue_Plaque_(geograph_6089577).jpg
#histsci #histtech
(oui je range l'histoire des calendriers dans #histtech, I'll fight you on it)

AbieApr 16
#histsci #histtech #fforfake
https://bsky.app/profile/maitre-poulard.bsky.social/post/3mjkmrey7q42n
Bluesky

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Julia Gül ErdoganApr 14
Vom 7.-9. Mai findet die Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte e.V. statt, dieses mal in Dortmund zum Thema "Un|Sichtbarkeiten – Energiegeschichte zwischen Materialität, Praxis und Repräsentation". Programm steht und Anmeldungen sind noch bis zum 26. April möglich https://gtg-histtech.info/tagungen/
#technikgeschichte #histtech
Tagungen – gtg – Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte

Rebekah HiggittApr 14
This looks great, and of #histtech #histSTM interest - out today

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2jxqlaczscaxsj5soxpbcfjc/post/3mfr7euntss2s
AbieApr 13
Sténographie et diffusion des textes scientifiques :
https://bsky.app/profile/maitre-poulard.bsky.social/post/3mjejkui7o52s #histsci #histtech #histtext
Suave Morbida (@maitre-poulard.bsky.social)

Dans le Kitâb al-Fihrist d'Ibn al-Nadim (cité par Needham, dans La tradition scientifique chinoise), il y a ce médecin chinois qui débarque chez Rhazès à Bagdad pour fast-download un livre de Galien grâce à sa technique secrète de sténographie(!) 🧵2/2

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