Darin Hayton
Associate Professor, History of Science
Haverford College (Haverford, PA)
Blog Posts
Plague Columns in Central Europe
May 29, 2013
Cosmas, the Tabernacle, and the Flat Earth
March 25, 2013
More Patent Medicine Artifacts
February 08, 2013
Relics from Medicine’s Sordid Past
February 08, 2013
The Caspar Wistar Plaque on 4th Street
February 07, 2013
Controlling Panic in Renaissance Europe
February 05, 2013
Medical Notes from the 1940s
February 04, 2013
Tales of Scientific Heroes are Just Celebrity Bios
January 31, 2013
Astrology and Medicine at the College of Physicians
January 29, 2013
Medical Marketing Pamphlets
January 29, 2013
History of Science on Stamps
January 28, 2013
Plagiarism in 17th-Century Pamphlets?
January 26, 2013
Roman Science?
January 25, 2013
It’s About Domains of Expertise
January 08, 2013
What can Witchcraft Confessions Teach Us?
January 07, 2013
Traces of Reading Left by a Historian of Science
January 04, 2013
A Historian of Science Reads Kuhn
January 04, 2013
Discovery in Kuhn’s Structure
January 03, 2013
Energy Drinks—Today’s Patent Medicines
January 02, 2013
Revisiting Noah’s Ark?
December 17, 2012
A Phrenological Evaluation of Andrew White
November 23, 2012
A History of Genetic Degeneration Theories
November 21, 2012
Dawn of the Living Genetic-Materialist Determinism
November 20, 2012
A Historian of Science Reads History of Science
November 14, 2012
More Velikovsky Paraphernalia
November 11, 2012
Pseudoscience and Orthodoxy
October 31, 2012
Corporate, Personal, and Neon Museums
October 31, 2012
Hurricanes Were and Remain Political
October 30, 2012
On Catalysts and Science Heroes
October 05, 2012
Betting on Theories
October 04, 2012
Against Whiggish History
October 03, 2012
Fraud, Plagiarism, and Errors in Science
October 02, 2012
Velikovsky’s “Worlds in Collision”
September 25, 2012
Astrology and Morbus Gallicus (aka Syphilis)
September 24, 2012
Is Rupert Sheldrake a Modern Giordano Bruno?
September 22, 2012
Who Really Needs Scientific Discoveries and Science Heroes?
September 21, 2012
Ciba Pharmaceuticals and Mid-Century Marketing
September 13, 2012
On whigs and whig history
September 11, 2012
What Killed King Tut, Another Guess
September 11, 2012
Collecting Memo Books
September 10, 2012
A LEGO Turing Machine?
September 09, 2012
From Trash Collecting to Collection of Trash
September 08, 2012
Oregon Plague Update
September 05, 2012
John Dee in Rudolfine Prague
September 02, 2012
Everybody has a “Paradigm”
September 01, 2012
Did Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Record Supernova?
June 27, 2012
The Plague in Oregon
June 26, 2012
Lynn White—Historian of Medieval Technology & Futurist
June 25, 2012
Another Flat Earth Report
June 12, 2012
Toward a history of “eppur si muove”
June 03, 2012
And Yet the Legend Lives
May 30, 2012
Science is Not Just a Word
May 27, 2012
A Mathematician Solves the Obesity Puzzle
May 15, 2012
Universal Vaccination is a Perennial Struggle
May 11, 2012
Should Science Writers Read Historical Material?
April 30, 2012
More Thoughts on Comedy and History of Science
April 29, 2012
Fighting the Flat Earth Myth
April 28, 2012
Thoughts on “Life, Sex, Death (and Food)”
April 27, 2012
The Mythical Copernican Moment
April 27, 2012
A Scurvy Epidemic: Direct-to-Consumer Drug Marketing in 17th-Century England
April 25, 2012
Making History of Science Funny
April 22, 2012
Is Professional History Boring?
April 18, 2012
Whither the Book Review
April 10, 2012
R. G. Collingwood on Historical Practice
March 30, 2012
Columbus’s Voyage was a Religious Journey
March 27, 2012
Why the Flat Earth Myth Bugs Me
March 26, 2012
HOS Micropost: Collect it, Display it, and Call it a Museum
March 19, 2012
President Obama Invokes Flat Earth Myth
March 15, 2012
Scientists and Bad History
March 06, 2012
Scientists Practicing Bad History
February 27, 2012
Rejecting “Alternative”
February 26, 2012
History and the Problem of Historical Expertise
February 25, 2012
On Pepper Mills
February 24, 2012
A Manifesto for History of Science
February 22, 2012
On Salt Shakers and Chinese Takeout Menus
February 16, 2012
Artifacts and Artists: E. Kessler on Astronomical Photos
February 09, 2012
An Astrolabe Rant
February 07, 2012
Textual Analysis of Prognostications
February 07, 2012
An Introduction to the Astrolabe
February 07, 2012
Plague Textual Analysis
February 06, 2012
Marketing Drugs, Then and Now
January 29, 2012
Grinding Telescope Mirrors, Then and Now
January 27, 2012
An Introductory History of Astrolabes
January 26, 2012
The Politics of Calendar Reform
January 20, 2012
Retro-Diagnosis Run Amok—Sophocles’ Plague of Thebes
January 17, 2012
Is Grandma to Blame for Obesity Today?
January 05, 2012
On Collecting and Collectors
December 31, 2011
In Praise of Ephemeral Astrological Literature
December 29, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on Maps
December 27, 2011
The Giant’s Shoulders #42 — History of Science Blog Carnival
December 16, 2011
Thoughts on History of Science in a Science Curriculum
November 23, 2011
On Medieval Sundials and Scholarly Publishing
November 20, 2011
Putting Science on Display at HSS 2011
November 19, 2011
Early Astronomy and Astrology at HSS 2011
November 15, 2011
The Antikythera Mechanism at HSS 2011
November 13, 2011
Musing on Book Reviews
November 13, 2011
How Many Witches Were Executed?!?
October 27, 2011
Mapping Our Way Forward—More Experiments in Pedagogy
October 18, 2011
“You are Here”—A Special Exhibition on Maps
October 17, 2011
Marketing a Colony—William Penn’s Maps of Pennsylvania
October 12, 2011
Really? Demonology was a Science?
October 11, 2011
Biography of a Map—Further Experiments in Pedagogy
October 07, 2011
Is there Life or Water on Mars?
September 27, 2011
Art, Science, and Historical Method
September 24, 2011
Philadelphia Area Special Collections Search Engine
March 02, 2011
Exploring Collections: Satirical Scientific Pamphlet at the Library Company
March 02, 2011
Explaining Earthquakes ca. 1500
February 20, 2011
A Modern Astrologer’s Intellectual Breadcrumbs
February 14, 2011
What Exactly is Accomplished by Asserting “Astrology is Rubbish”?
January 30, 2011
The Role of Experts in Identifying Witchcraft
December 23, 2010
How (Not?) to Popularize the History of Science: Tycho Brahe (again)
December 19, 2010
Calling All Clyde Tombaughs
December 16, 2010
Biblical Natural Philosophy in the Royal Library at the Escorial
December 11, 2010
Dawn of the Living Brahe: Retro-Diagnosis that Refuses to Die
December 03, 2010
Sundials at Haverford College, Then and Now
November 23, 2010
A Monument to Kopernik, a.k.a. Copernicus
November 20, 2010
Tycho Brahe, Mercury, and Retro-diagnosing Illnesses
November 17, 2010
Science, Religion, and Demons
November 15, 2010
Byzantine Astrology during the Reign of Manuel I Komnenos
October 10, 2010
Maybe Nobody Does Care about Byzantine Science
October 09, 2010
Explaining Good Questions in the History of Science
October 05, 2010
Popular History of Science for the American G.I.
October 02, 2010
Formulating Questions in the History of Science
September 29, 2010
Why Should Anybody Care about Byzantine Science?
September 23, 2010
Modeling Curiosity in the History of Science?
September 16, 2010
How to Teach Curiosity in the History of Science?
September 12, 2010
Joseph Moxon Popularizes Astronomy
September 10, 2010
Reconstructing the History of Science, in LEGOs
August 10, 2010
Ernst Haeckel’s Letter to E.D. Cope
August 04, 2010
Surveying “The Giant’s Shoulders”
August 03, 2010
Exploring Collections: Early American Imprints at the Library Company
August 02, 2010
History of Science in Philadelphia—Curie’s Early Piezo-Electric Apparatus
August 01, 2010
Ancient Technologies or Modern Fantasies?
July 20, 2010
Exploring Collections: George Tannstetter as Editor
July 19, 2010
Exploring Collections: Johannes Ganivet’s Amicus medicorum at the College of Physicians
July 18, 2010
Making Science Fun: Joseph Moxon’s Astronomical Playing Cards
July 12, 2010
Exploring Collections: Tracts on the French Disease in the College of Physicians
July 09, 2010
History of Science in Philadelphia—The E.D. Cope Residence
July 08, 2010
More History of Science on “In Our Time”
July 08, 2010
HoS Micropost: Infectious Disease and IQ
July 06, 2010
HoS Micropost: King Tut, again
July 06, 2010
Heresy is not all that thrilling
July 06, 2010
Pluto is not Planet X
June 27, 2010
A Monument to Joseph Priestley
June 26, 2010
Exploring Collections: Walter Burley in the College of Physicians
June 25, 2010
Renaissance Art or Neuroanatomy (part 3)
June 24, 2010
Cold War Science Is Everywhere
June 16, 2010
History of Science Podcasts
June 15, 2010
Renaissance Art or Neuroanatomy (part 2)?
June 10, 2010
Renaissance Art or Neuroanatomy (part 1)?
June 03, 2010
The Weekly Smörgåsbord #12
May 30, 2010
The Weekly Smörgåsbord #11
May 25, 2010
HoS Micropost: The Cavendishes, a Scientific Dynasty?
May 21, 2010
The Weekly Smörgåsbord #10
May 09, 2010
Arsenic, Toxicology, and the Problem of Science in the Courtroom
May 08, 2010
The Choleric Cope: An Exhibition Panel on Edward Drinker Cope
May 07, 2010
The Weekly Smörgåsbord #9
May 02, 2010
Distilling Ancient Greek Alchemy from the Manuscripts
April 28, 2010
The Weekly Smörgåsbord #8
April 25, 2010
Barnes, Berkowitz, and British Medicine at the Wagner
April 24, 2010
The Weekly Smörgåsbord #7
April 18, 2010
HoS Micropost: On-Line History of Medicine Museum
April 12, 2010
Science in the Renaissance (Society of America)
April 11, 2010
Barbara Traister on the Occult Physician Simon Forman
March 31, 2010
The Scientific Revolution: China’s Failure (pt. 1)?
March 30, 2010
The Weekly Smörgåsbord #6
March 28, 2010
The Weekly Smörgåsbord #5
March 21, 2010
Joris Mercelis on Baekeland and Bakelite
March 18, 2010
The Giant’s Shoulders #21—History of Science Blog Carnival
March 16, 2010
The Weekly Smörgåsbord #4
March 14, 2010
HoS Micropost: Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius turns 400
March 13, 2010
Uranus-Lowell-Pluto
March 13, 2010
Medicines for the Faithful
March 08, 2010
The Weekly Smörgåsbord #3
March 07, 2010
HoS Micropost: Simon Schaffer on Astronomy and Empire
March 06, 2010
History of Science Blog Carnival Coming Soon
March 04, 2010
Tyson’s The Pluto Files Now Made for TV
March 03, 2010
Can Business History Inform History of Science?
March 02, 2010
The Weekly Smörgåsbord #2
February 28, 2010
HoS Micropost: The Royal Mail celebrates the Royal Society
February 27, 2010
HoS Micropost: The Royal Society’s Science Podcast
February 25, 2010
Jo Ann Caplin’s Video on La Bella Milanese
February 23, 2010
The Weekly Smörgåsbord #1
February 21, 2010
HoS Micropost: King Tutankhamun (link roundup)
February 16, 2010
HoS Micropost: Liberal Democracies foster Science
February 16, 2010
More on Important Books in the History of Science
February 14, 2010
History of Science in 132 Characters
February 13, 2010
Erik Rau on Terry Christensen on Cold-War Liberals
February 12, 2010
James Voelkel on Bringing Newton’s Alchemy to the Masses
February 10, 2010
S. W. Mitchell and Phantom Limbs
February 04, 2010
Stephen Johnston on Early-Modern Chymistry
January 27, 2010
HoS Micropost: Science vs. Religion, again
January 25, 2010
File Pluto under “K” for “Kuiper Belt”
January 24, 2010
Building a Temple to Galileo
January 22, 2010
HoS Micropost: Matteo Ricci’s World Map
January 20, 2010
HoS Micropost: Newton and the Apple (redux)
January 18, 2010
HoS Micropost: Newton and the Apple
January 17, 2010
What is the case for Pluto?
January 16, 2010
On-line Exhibition: The Mind of Leonardo
January 15, 2010
What’s so Confidential about Pluto?
January 07, 2010