18 research chemists discuss their Eureka moments:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.4c00802
#socsci #histsci
18 research chemists discuss their Eureka moments:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.4c00802
#socsci #histsci
Last week, the International Glass Plates Group explored why counting astronomical photographic plates is more difficult than eeny, meeny, miny, moe ...
Expect some radio silence while The Inquisitive Biologist is delving into the history of #Taxonomy over the next few weeks with these three intriguing books.
Reviews coming soon to https://inquisitivebiologist.com!
#Taxonomy #Biography #Linnaeus #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Scicomm @princetonupress @princetonnature
With his Dioptrice published in 1611, Johannes Kepler explained how the telescope functioned #histsci #histtech
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2024/11/20/from-τὰ-φυσικά-ta-physika-to-physics-xxxiv/
Conflits d’agenda à l’horizon, jugez plutôt :
Jeudi 21 & vendredi 22 : Domestication des animaux et civilisation des peuples : Histoire d’un débat interdisciplinaire
https://www.ehess.fr/fr/colloque/domestication-animaux-et-civilisation-peuples-histoire-d-d%C3%A9bat-interdisciplinaire
Vendredi 22 & samedi 23 : “Collections techniques et scientifiques en quête d’enquêtes” au CNAM
https://cthsshstai.hypotheses.org/995 #histnat #histsci #histtech #collections
[ Version sans les images de mon fil #lectures2024, archivé de mon compte fermé #repost ]
1. Sofia Kovalevskaïa, Vie et révolutions d'une mathématicienne géniale, bande dessinée d'Alice Milani, traduit de l'italien par Laura Brignon. #histsci #histmath #womeninSTEM
J'ai été un peu déçue par certaines inexactitudes (je ne parle pas des clins d'œil modernes de certaines planches qui m'ont plutôt fait sourire). Le dessin très personnel et coloré divisera peut-être les lecteurs mais je trouve qu'il marche bien.
2. Du côté du Jardin des Plantes, de Jacques Damade.
Plus historique de "Darwin au bord de l'eau" du même auteur, dans la même collection l'Ombre animale des éditions La Bibliothèque, il m'a nettement plus séduite, et j'y ai gagné des connaissances sur la naissance de la Ménagerie, ainsi qu'une grande tendresse pour Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.
https://www.editionslabibliotheque.fr/product-page/du-c%C3%B4t%C3%A9-du-jardin-des-plantes-1
3. Jouer à Chat, d'Olivia Rosenthal
https://www.museedesconfluences.fr/fr/ressources/editions/la-collection-litteraire-recits-dobjets/jouer-chat-olivia-rosenthal
Ce court texte fait partie de la collection éditée par le Musée des Confluences de Lyon, où des auteurs se laissent inspirer par des objets ou des spécimens du musée.
Cette histoire, nominalement inspirée par les momies de chats (qui parfois n'en contiennent presque pas, de chat), ne m'a guère convaincue, mais je compte bien explorer davantage le catalogue (Pouy, entre autres).
https://www.museedesconfluences.fr/fr/ress
4. Alice fait des merveilles quand elle s'en fout, scénario d'Anne-Sophie & Fanny Lesage, dessin de Léna Piroux.
Bande dessinée pseudo-autofictionnelle où on sent bien que les scénaristes sont surtout autrices d'une newsletter de développement personnel.
5. Éloge du quotidien: Essai sur la peinture hollandaise du XVIIe siècle, de Tzvetan Todorov.
Interessant et plutôt accessible pour du Todorov, on y decouvre quelques perles méconnues (au moins de moi).
6. Brèves d'histoire, réunies par Patrice Beck, petit bouquin à petit prix composé d'extraits touchants d'archives médiévales.
https://www.lcdpu.fr/livre/?isbn=978285944
7. Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise, de Katherine Rundell.
Courte et éloquente lettre d'amour à la littérature enfantine.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44244323
Quelques passages :
"Children’s books are specifically written to be read by a section of society without political or economic power. People who have no money, no vote, no control over capital or labour or the institutions of state; who navigate the world in their knowledge of their vulnerability. And, by the same measure, by people."
"Adult life is full of forgetting; I have forgotten most of the people I have ever met; I’ve forgotten most of the books I’ve read, even the ones that changed me forever; I’ve forgotten most of my epiphanies. And I’ve forgotten, at various times in my life, how to read."
"Ignore those who would call it mindless escapism: it’s not escapism: it is findism. Children’s books are not a hiding place, they are a seeking place."
#TIL "a poll in America found that two of the most stolen books [from US libraries] were The Prophecies of Nostradamus and The Joy of Sex."
La source est donnée par WP : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_theft#cite_note-11
-. Pandora, de Gérard de Nerval.
Vaut surtout pour le tout début et la toute fin.
https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Pandora
8. Comment cuisiner un phénix, d'Allen S. Weiss.
Court et intéressant :)
#lesvraiesquestions
-. Chez elle, chez elle, de Béatrice Poncelet.
Un album techniquement pour enfants mais relevant quasiment du livre d'art, avec une emphase particulière sur la typographie (un police différente pour chaque membre de la famille).
https://www.seuiljeunesse.com/ouvrage/chez-elle-beatrice-poncelet/9782020297936
9. Ahmed, d'Edmond About, 1869.
Tombée dessus en cherchant tout autre chose dans la Revue des deux mondes, je l'ai commencé en croyant à une nouvelle de quelques pages, curieuse de la représentation d'un personnage égyptien à Paris à cette époque.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44728757
C'est en fait un roman publié en pas moins de sept parties, soit plus de 300 pages une fois édité en volume.
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k62077112
Présentation touristique et un peu sociologique des charmes du Caire et des voyages sur le Nil, et sans doute plus d'informations que je n'en réclamais sur la culture de la canne à sucre ou le dragage du canal de Suez.
10. Le Loup en slip et le mystère du P silencieux, de Lupano et
Mayana Itoïz.
Ma doctrine est que Lupano est un génie. Certes, Le Loup en slip est une série pour les enfants mais 1) c'est trop bien 2) c'est extrêmement drôle, et 3) se reporter au numéro 7 de ce fil. J'ai donc ri comme une baleine avant de l'offrir à une petite princesse pour ses sept ans.
11. Nos monde perdus, de Marion Montaigne.
Cette fois-ci l'autrice nous parle de dinos sans se cacher derrière le célèbre professeur Moustache de la série Tu mourras moins bête. J'ai encore beaucoup ri :)
https://www.dargaud.com/bd/nos-mondes-perdus-bda5512900
The English mathematician Henry Gellibrand, who is credited with being the first to prove that magnetic declination varies over time, was born 17th November 1597 #histsci #histtech
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2024/05/29/magnetic-variations-ix-it-varies-over-time/
This week's #NewBooks at the library: a #CharlesDarwin special! I obtained several copies of the correspondence project via second-hand booksellers at very reasonable prices
#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Evolution #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci
Happy birthday to Millie Dresselhaus (née Spiewak; November 11, 1930 – February 20, 2017). She was a professor of physics and electrical engineering at MIT, known as the Queen of Carbon Science.
In this linocut I've shown her in front of a carbon nanotube. She was recognized for her work on graphite, graphite intercalation compounds, fullerenes (a form of carbon known as buckyballs, 1/n
Happy birthday to #physicist Lise Meitner (1878-1968) who explained #nuclear #fission. She worked with chemists Hahn & Straßmann in 30s Berlin, investigating whether there were any stable elements beyond uranium. They discovered bombarding nucleus of U-235 with neutrons actually triggered it to fission, or break, into 2 nuclei of roughly half the size & some free neutrons! Hahn’s chemistry lead to startling discovery of barium,
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #womenInSTEM #MastoArt
Happy birthday to Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867 – 1934, Polish-born, naturalized-French #physicist & #chemist at work in her lab. The contents of her lab glassware appropriately glow-in-the-dark!
Marie Curie was the 1st woman to win a Nobel prize, the only woman to ever win TWO Nobel prizes, and the only person ever to win in two different sciences: #physics & #chemistry! 1/n
#MastoArt
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #WomenInSTEM #histsci
For the #Spacetober prompt lift-off: it’s my portrait of #mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; 1918-2020). One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (and its predecessor NACA), she was known for her mastery of complex manual calculations of orbital mechanics and played a pivotal role in the success of the US crewed spaceflights from the beginning. 1/n
Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown in 1930)! Shown with satellite tracks & 3 satellites important to her career: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. 1/n
#linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #Spacetober #EarthScience #Math
Happy birthday to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632 – 1723), the Dutch scientist & progenitor of #microbiology known for his improvements to microscope tech. He was a draper in Delft, then a politician with an interest in lensmaking. Using his handmade #microscopes, he was 1st to observe microorganisms, which he called tiny animals, or "animalcules". He also made pioneering microscopic observations on muscle fibres, bacteria, coffee & 1/n
For the #Spacetober prompt Carl Sagan: the famous Arecibo message, an interstellar radio message carrying basic information about humanity and Earth that was sent to the globular cluster Messier 13 in 1974 alongside a view of space with stars & nebulae.
Designed by astronomers who were thinking about the possibility of & communicating with alien life, including Drake, creator of the Drake equation & others, the message was a demo of 1/
Happy birthday to Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) a physician who became the first Black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour for NASA, on September 12, 1992! She also has a B.S. in chemical engineering, served in the Peace Corps, is a dancer & choreographer, formed & runs her own company researching the application of technology to daily life, 1/n
#MastoArt
#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #astronaut #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci
For the #Spacetober prompt orbit: my portrait of #mathematician and #astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)! We remember him for his role in the Scientific Revolution, and his three laws of planetary motion in particular. His laws modified Copernicus’ heliocentric model; he replaced the circular orbits with elliptical ones & described velocities of planets. Today we know them as:
1/n
#sciart #histsci #MastoArt #Kepler #geometry #PlatonicSolids #mathematics #musicOfTheSpheres #linocut
For #Spacetober prompt telescope: #astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell as a grad student in ‘67 discovered the 1st radio pulsar, a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star that emits a beam of EM radiation. This radiation can only be observed when the star is pointed towards us; like the light from a lighthouse, it appears to pulse at a precise frequency. She had been working with her supervisor Hewish & others to construct a radio telescope to study quasars.1/n
#linocut #printmaking #histsci
For the #Spacetober day 11 prompt wavelength: my #linocut of trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941) with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. Named the Harvard Classification after the university, her tremendous contribution was less visible. 1/n
This is the 16th Ada Lovelace Day to celebrate and blog about #womenInSTEM
This #AdaLovelaceDay #ald24 I’m posting about the extraordinary self-taught marine biologist Maude Delap.
https://minouette.blogspot.com/2024/10/maude-delap-and-lifecycle-of-jellyfish.html