Some Internet friends write beautiful books, some even send me free copies, expect review later in the year @afbdijkstra
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Thony Christie
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Aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now resides mostly in 16th century Nürnberg.
Judging by the pictures in Arjen's book I think it must be
@dbellingradt I'm those, who can't work in libraries
Tonya Marie 🏳️⚧️
Gonçalo RibeiroMy take: clothes are to be used until they rip apart.
Ele Willoughby, PhDThis #linocut shows an obstinacy of buffalo in all senses of the words. The collective noun for a group of buffalo is a "obstinacy". Clearly, these are hard-headed beasts. These ones have drawn a line in the sand. I dare you to cross it. Technically, these are American bison (Bison bison), known colloquially in North America as 'buffalo'. These mighty beasts were once obiquitous across the Great Plains. 🧵1/2
The Public Domain ReviewHubert Airy's 1870 visualisation of the scintillating scotoma that would characterise his migraines.
More on 19th-century attempts to visualise "sick-headaches" here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/visualizing-migraines
Max-Planck-GesellschaftDer Pionier der Solarzelle: Hans-Joachim Queisser (1931–2025) erlebte die Geburtsstunde des Silicon Valleys & prägte später als Gründungsdirektor des Max-Planck-Instituts für Festkörperforschung die Halbleiterforschung in Deutschland - ein Nachruf. https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/zum-tod-des-physikers-hans-joachim-queisser-110572429.html
Zum Tod des Physikers Hans-Joachim Queisser
Er lernte sein Rüstzeug bei William Shockley, dem Vater des Transistors, und erlebte die Geburtsstunde des Silicon Valley. Seine Kenntnisse beflügelten auch die Forschung hierzulande. In der vergangenen Woche ist Hans-Joachim Queisser im Alter von 93 Jahren gestorben.
Happy birthday to #astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) who set the scale of our Universe. My portrait of Leavitt is printed in silvery lavender ink on Japanese kozo (or mulberry paper). Behind her is a line showing stellar luminosity (capital L with subscript sun-symbol, a circle with a dot) as a function of time (t). She is printed over constellations in gold (Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Draco, 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #sciart #histstm #astronomy #constellation #mastoArt
Happy birthday to #physicist Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933) who discovered atomic recoil, Radon & recognized radioactive elements could undergo chains of transmutations into a series of new elements. #nuclear #physics
She was Rutherford’s 1st grad student at McGill. After publishing her results in 1899 she completed her MSc in 1901 on “Damping of Electrical Oscillations,” before embarking on #radioactivity research. 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #histsci
She was Rutherford’s 1st grad student at McGill. After publishing her results in 1899 she completed her MSc in 1901 on “Damping of Electrical Oscillations,” before embarking on #radioactivity research. 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #histsci
