Chris Walter
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**How a medieval Oxford friar used light and colour to find out what stars and planets are made of**
**How a medieval Oxford friar used light and colour to find out what stars and planets are made of**
petersuber
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The unexplained disappearance of the previously- #OpenAccess Digital Einstein Papers is the subject of a question on the History of Science and Mathematics StackExchange [https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/18948/why-have-princeton-universitys-free-online-einstein-archives-disappeared], on which a bounty is now being offered for a definitive answer.
The comments on the question contain some speculations about the reason for the site being taken down. No answer has been offered yet, presumably because Princeton University Press, for all its publicity about the new paid-for database of the Einstein papers, seems to be quietly ignoring the 10+ years of open access that came before.
The unexplained disappearance of the previously- #OpenAccess Digital Einstein Papers is the subject of a question on the History of Science and Mathematics StackExchange [https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/18948/why-have-princeton-universitys-free-online-einstein-archives-disappeared], on which a bounty is now being offered for a definitive answer.
The comments on the question contain some speculations about the reason for the site being taken down. No answer has been offered yet, presumably because Princeton University Press, for all its publicity about the new paid-for database of the Einstein papers, seems to be quietly ignoring the 10+ years of open access that came before.
Chip Butty
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Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930)! Shown with 3 satellites important to her career + tracks: 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. She started her career at 🧵
#spacetober_challenge Earth
#linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #EarthSci #Math #mastoArt
Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930)! Shown with 3 satellites important to her career + tracks: 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. She started her career at 🧵
#spacetober_challenge Earth
#linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #EarthSci #Math #mastoArt
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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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 and choreographer, formed and runs her own company researching the application of technology to daily life, and even 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #astronaut #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci
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 and choreographer, formed and runs her own company researching the application of technology to daily life, and even 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #astronaut #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci
priryo@linernotes.club
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Happy birthday Canadian scientist/writer Ursula Franklin (1921 – 2016), thinker on role of tech in society, advocate for women in STEM, peace & social justice. Her research interests were guided by her principles, including gathering evidence of the harmful health effects of radiation from atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons or her work on political & societal impacts of support of tech & its use.
Born in Munich, she survived Nazi 🧵
Happy birthday Canadian scientist/writer Ursula Franklin (1921 – 2016), thinker on role of tech in society, advocate for women in STEM, peace & social justice. Her research interests were guided by her principles, including gathering evidence of the harmful health effects of radiation from atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons or her work on political & societal impacts of support of tech & its use.
Born in Munich, she survived Nazi 🧵
Sylvia Wenmackers 🦉🍀
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Book Review: Benjamin Wardhaugh "Counting: Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers" #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/a-book-you-can-count-on/
Book Review: Benjamin Wardhaugh "Counting: Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers" #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/a-book-you-can-count-on/
Greg Lloyd
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Happy birthday to trailblazing American computer scientist Frances Elizabeth Allen (1932 – 2020) who made foundational contributions to optimizing compilers, optimizing programs and parallel computing. She was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, where she worked from 1957 to 2002 and as an emeritus fellow afterwards. She was the first woman to win the Turing Prize.
IBM Research was recruiting teachers 🧵1/n
#printmaking#womenInSTEM#histSci #mathematician #sciart #compsci#mastoArt
Happy birthday to trailblazing American computer scientist Frances Elizabeth Allen (1932 – 2020) who made foundational contributions to optimizing compilers, optimizing programs and parallel computing. She was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, where she worked from 1957 to 2002 and as an emeritus fellow afterwards. She was the first woman to win the Turing Prize.
IBM Research was recruiting teachers 🧵1/n
#printmaking#womenInSTEM#histSci #mathematician #sciart #compsci#mastoArt
Jeremy ⁂
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Question ouverte : quels sont les schémas scientifiques les plus graphiquement intéressants, les plus "iconiques" ? #histsci
Je pense par exemple au 1er arbre phylogénétique de la main de Darwin dans un de ses carnets
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Darwins_first_tree.jpg
![Charles Darwin's 1837 sketch, his first diagram of an evolutionary tree from his First Notebook on Transmutation of Species (1837) on view at the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. Text:
I think
[graph]
Case must be that one
generation then should be
as many living as now.
To do this & to have many species in
same genus (as is) requires extinction.](https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/114/899/508/966/487/517/original/d67e34c372d610e4.png)
Dans la lignée du thread lancé par @temptoetiam ( les schémas scientifiques les plus graphiquement intéressants, les plus "iconiques" ? 🔗 https://eldritch.cafe/@temptoetiam/114899511398797706 )
Un dessin de la main de John Coltrane pour expliquer le cercle des quintes, avec ses propres ajouts personnels.
(source John Coltrane Illustrates the Mathematics of Jazz https://www.openculture.com/2017/04/the-tone-circle-john-coltrane-drew-to-illustrate-the-theory-behind-his-most-famous-compositions-1967.html )
#Art
#Science
#Mathematique
#histsci
#Music
#Jazz
#ListenToJohnColtrane
Question ouverte : quels sont les schémas scientifiques les plus graphiquement intéressants, les plus "iconiques" ? #histsci
Je pense par exemple au 1er arbre phylogénétique de la main de Darwin dans un de ses carnets
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Darwins_first_tree.jpg
Marc
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