The Weekly Smörgåsbord #8
Back to a regular schedule for the Weekly Smörgåsbord, with links to posts ranging from witchcraft to SETI.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 04/25 at 10:57 PM
PACHSmörgåsbord
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Barnes, Berkowitz, and British Medicine at the Wagner
David Barnes offered the commentary on Carin Berkowitz’s paper about rhetoric and British medical practice. A spirited if smallish audience showed up at the Wagner to participate.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 04/24 at 10:50 PM
Sunday, April 18, 2010
The Weekly Smörgåsbord #7
After a few weeks off, due to travels and grading, the Weekly Smörgåsbord returns with links to posts ranging from Regiomontanus to the RAND Corporation.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 04/18 at 12:01 AM
Monday, April 12, 2010
HoS Micropost: On-Line History of Medicine Museum
The Science Museum in London has recently launched a site devoted to the history of medicine. It’s one of the better history of medicine sites and well worth a visit, and some time.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 04/12 at 10:25 PM
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Science in the Renaissance (Society of America)
The RSA held it’s annual conference in Venice last week. It was successful on a number of levels, not the least of which was the number of history of science panels at the conference. With nearly 20 panels and other papers scattered across panels, most historians of science would have found something interesting to hear.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 04/11 at 09:05 AM
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Barbara Traister on the Occult Physician Simon Forman
Barbara Traister spoke on the 17th-century English “occult physician” Simon Forman at yesterday’s Brown Bag Lecture. Her talk centered on her work editing one of Forman’s alchemical manuscripts, “Of Appoticaries Druges.”
Posted by Darin Hayton on 03/31 at 10:15 PM
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
The Scientific Revolution: China’s Failure (pt. 1)?
This is the first is of perhaps three or four posts that explores the history and historiography of the Scientific Revolution. In particular, these posts will examine some of the explanations historians have given for why the Scientific Revolution occurred in Western Europe and not elsewhere, most notably China or Islam.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 03/30 at 06:00 AM
Sunday, March 28, 2010
The Weekly Smörgåsbord #6
This week’s roundup of posts includes a few good articles too. There were a number of good Ada Lovelace posts around, but rather than link to them all, I chose a couple that I liked and pointed to the Ada Lovelace site, which collected most of them.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 03/28 at 12:00 PM
Sunday, March 21, 2010
The Weekly Smörgåsbord #5
A short Smörgåsbord of posts and articles from last week.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 03/21 at 08:51 AM
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Joris Mercelis on Baekeland and Bakelite
A review of the recent Brown Bag Lecture at the CHF. Joris Mercelis tries to adjust the standard history of plastics in the U.S. and technology transfer across national borders.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 03/18 at 08:48 AM