Full moon, says Meton, the ancient Greek.
Meet Meton: https://www.thomasweibel.ch/meton/
More on Meton: https://www.thomasweibel.ch/data/uploads/text/the_moon_machine.pdf
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New review: Complementing other recent books on the Challenger expedition, The Wake of HMS Challenger brings a focus all of its own to the subject and firmly stands on its own two feet as a thoroughly enjoyable work of science history.
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Complementing other recent books on the Challenger expedition, The Wake of HMS Challenger brings a focus all of its own to the subject and firmly stands on its own two feet as a thoroughly enjoyabl…
This week's #NewBooks at the library: An eclectic trio!
- Just in time for my review of The Wake of HMS Challenger, I found a second-hand copy of At Sea with the Scientifics from the University of Hawaii Press, which collects Joseph Matkin's letters home.
- Look what you made me do, Jordan Sorcery! I tracked down a very affordable copy of Jack Yeovil's Krokodil Tears in his Dark Future series.
- One more book from my employer's January sale: #Chimpanzees and Human Evolution from Belknap Press.
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For the next review, I will revisit the HMS Challenger expedition. Coming soon to https://inquisitivebiologist.com
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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. 🔬
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https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/eli-franklin-burton
This week's #NewBooks at the library: three more books from my employer's January sale
- The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush: Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Paul D. Brinkman from the University of Chicago Press;
- Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins, a wonderfully illustrated book by John Gurche from Yale University Press;
- Rethinking Human Evolution edited by Jeffrey H. Schwartz, a volume in the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology from @themitpress.
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🧑🔬 THE BIRTH OF A GENIUS
March 14, 1879 — In a quiet German town in Ulm, a baby boy is born who will forever change our understanding of the universe. Little Albert Einstein lies in his crib, unaware that his mind will one day unlock the secrets of space, time, and the very fabric of reality itself.
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Michael Faraday: Scientist and Nonconformist (1996)
http://silas.psfc.mit.edu/Faraday/
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