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Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Born on this day: <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physicist</span></a> J. R. Oppenheimer (1904-1967). While best remembered for his role in the Manhattan Project, he was a giant of 20th century theoretical physics, nominated for a Nobel 3 times. ⁠<br>⁠<br>In 1927 he &amp; Max Born greatly simplified how we predict electrons behaviour within atoms. The Born-Oppenheimer or adiabatic approximation is based on the observation that electrons are 1000s times lighter than nuclei, 🧵1/n<br><a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a></p>
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋<p>📏 **150 years ago, the Metre Convention determined how we measure the world — a radical initiative for the time**</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://theconversation.com/150-years-ago-the-metre-convention-determined-how-we-measure-the-world-a-radical-initiative-for-the-time-252108" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/150-years-</span><span class="invisible">ago-the-metre-convention-determined-how-we-measure-the-world-a-radical-initiative-for-the-time-252108</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistSci</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/science" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>science</span></a></span></p>
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋<p>**Codex Vigilanus Primeros Numeros Arabigos**</p><p>“_The first Arabic/Hindu (Ghobar type) numerals in a Western manuscript, AD 976. From Codex Vigilanus._”</p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Image" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Image</span></a> attribution: The original uploader was Srnec at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Codex_Vigilanus_Primeros_Numeros_Arabigos.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil</span><span class="invisible">e:Codex_Vigilanus_Primeros_Numeros_Arabigos.jpg</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistSci</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maths</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Math</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/science" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>science</span></a></span> </p>
Richard Carter, FCD 🪲🇺🇦<p>16-Apr: On this day in 1834, HMS Beagle was beached on the banks of the Santa Cruz River to allow her keel to be inspected. The event resulted in one of the most iconic images of the famous ship. Here’s the story of the operation…<br><a href="http://friendsofdarwin.com/articles/beagle-laid-ashore/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">friendsofdarwin.com/articles/b</span><span class="invisible">eagle-laid-ashore/</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistSci</span></a></p>
The Inquisitive Biologist<p>Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life is now out in paperback! An epic history of taxonomy across three centuries, this book charts the lives, works, and legacy of Linnaeus and Buffon.</p><p><a href="https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2024/12/24/book-review-every-living-thing-the-great-and-deadly-race-to-know-all-life/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquisitivebiologist.com/2024/</span><span class="invisible">12/24/book-review-every-living-thing-the-great-and-deadly-race-to-know-all-life/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/BookReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookReview</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Taxonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Taxonomy</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Linneaus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linneaus</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Buffon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Buffon</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Biography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biography</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfScience</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ScienceHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceHistory</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistSci</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scicomm</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/biochemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biochemist</span></a> Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemistry</span></a> in the US! She made important research contributions to our understanding of the biochemisty of the cell nucleus &amp; cardiovascular issues &amp; the chemistry of histones &amp; protein synthesis. She established that “no bases other than adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine were present in appreciable amounts” in DNA - 🧵<br><a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/BlackInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histmed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histmed</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
Thony Christie<p>The recently invented telescope acquired its name on 14 April 1611 <a href="https://historians.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/hitech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hitech</span></a><br><a href="https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/teleskopos-how-the-telescope-got-its-name/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thonyc.wordpress.com/2011/07/1</span><span class="invisible">2/teleskopos-how-the-telescope-got-its-name/</span></a></p>
Abie<p>Marie Tharp’s Adventures in Mapping the Seafloor, In Her Own Words<br><a href="https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2020/07/24/marie-tharp-connecting-dots/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.climate.columbia.edu/2020</span><span class="invisible">/07/24/marie-tharp-connecting-dots/</span></a><br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Tharp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Th</span><span class="invisible">arp</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/womeninSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womeninSTEM</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>This print “Occam’s Razor” is about the Law of Economy or Parsimony postulated by Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1287–1347), “pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate” or entities should not be needlessly multiplied. More simply this law, or really, rule of thumb is that the simplest explanation is usually right. The print shows Ockham himself, inspired by an image of him from a 🧵 1/n<br>⁠<br><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Ockham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ockham</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/OccamsRazor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OccamsRazor</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/typography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>typography</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciArt</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋<p>🔴 **Descartes’ Mathematics**</p><p>“_In La Géométrie, Descartes details a groundbreaking program for geometrical problem-solving—what he refers to as a “geometrical calculus” (calcul géométrique)—that rests on a distinctive approach to the relationship between algebra and geometry._”</p><p>Domski, Mary, “Descartes’ Mathematics”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2025 Edition), Edward N. Zalta &amp; Uri Nodelman (eds.), forthcoming URL = &lt;<a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2025/entries/descartes-mathematics/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">plato.stanford.edu/archives/su</span><span class="invisible">m2025/entries/descartes-mathematics/</span></a>&gt;. </p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Descartes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Descartes</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistSci</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maths</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Math</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Algebra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Algebra</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Geometry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Geometry</span></a></p>
WerkstattGeschichte<p>Unser neues Heft <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/WerkstattGeschichte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WerkstattGeschichte</span></a> 91 "körpermaße" ist erschienen!<br>🧵 1/</p><p>Im Thementeil, hg. v. Cornelia Aust, geht es diesmal um das Vermessen &amp; Vergleichen von Körpermerkmalen v.a. im 18./19. Jh. Wie trug dies dazu bei, geschlechtsspezifische &amp; rassistische Differenz herzustellen und so Körpereigenschaften zu essenzialisieren?</p><p>▶ <a href="https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/koerpermasse/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_au</span><span class="invisible">sgaben/koerpermasse/</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/historikerinnen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>historikerinnen</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/K%C3%B6rpergeschichte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Körpergeschichte</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/BodyHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BodyHistory</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Wissenschaftsgeschichte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wissenschaftsgeschichte</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/histmed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histmed</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/histSTM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histSTM</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/GenderHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenderHistory</span></a></p>
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋<p>🔴 **The Persistence of Tychonism**</p><p>“_In conclusion I will suggest that the historical longevity of<br>Tychonism has been considerably underestimated and also that Tychonists were not generally restrained from public endorsement of heliocentrism by religious pressure. On the contrary, I suggest that the continued acceptance of Tychonism was conditioned by its congruence with scientists’ religious beliefs._”</p><p>Barker, P. (2025) ‘The Persistence of Tychonism’, in Philosophical Readings. Zenodo, pp. 11–23. doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15035063" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1503506</span><span class="invisible">3</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/OA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OA</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/DOI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOI</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistSci</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/EarlyModern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EarlyModern</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Religion</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academic</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/science" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>science</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/religion" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>religion</span></a></span></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827), French mathematical physicist (who incidentally, did invaluable work in geophysics). He was pretty hard-headed and probably didn’t really have any imaginary friends, but nonetheless Laplace’s Demon is my 3rd in the series of Imaginary Friends of Science. In 1814, when he envisioned an entity such <br>⁠🧵<br><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Laplace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Laplace</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/LaplacesDemon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaplacesDemon</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/determinism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>determinism</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ImaginaryFriends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ImaginaryFriends</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to one of greatest <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematicians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematicians</span></a> of all time Emmy Noether (1882-1935), here with her eponymous theorem, the backbone of modern physics. Noether’s theorem links any symmetry of a system with a conservation law. In my portrait, I chose to depict a young Emmy in front of a blackboard with a more simple formulation of her theorem and three specific applications of it, shown schematically, 🧵1/</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womensHistoryMonth</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋<p>🔴 **Born On This Day**</p><p>Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Pierre-Simon Laplace was born in Beaumont-en-Auge, Normandy, France on this day in 1749.</p><p>“_He proved the stability of the solar system. In analysis Laplace introduced the potential function and Laplace coefficients. He also put the theory of mathematical probability on a sound footing.”</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Laplace/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/</span><span class="invisible">Biographies/Laplace/</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/BornOnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BornOnThisDay</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/BOTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BOTD</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maths</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Math</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistSci</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Physics</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/science" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>science</span></a></span></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to Canadian medical researcher &amp; <a href="https://spore.social/tags/biochemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biochemist</span></a> Maud Menten (1879-1960). Not only was she an author of Michaelis-Menten equation for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/enzyme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enzyme</span></a> kinetics, she invented the azo-dye coupling for alkaline phosphatase, 1st example of enzyme <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histochemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histochemistry</span></a>, still used in imaging of tissues today &amp; she also performed the first <a href="https://spore.social/tags/electrophoretic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>electrophoretic</span></a> separation of blood haemoglobin in 1944!⁠ 🧵1/n<br>⁠<a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
Dr Surekha Davies (she/her)<p>Public book talk (no need to RSVP) on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY ( <a class="mention" href="https://bsky.app/profile/ucpress.bsky.social" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ucpress.bsky.social</a> ) at Wesleyan University on Tuesday March 25th at 4:30pm in PAC), room 100! 💙📚 🧪🗃 <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ancient" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancient</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23medieval" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medieval</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23earlymodern" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#earlymodern</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23histsci" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23histmed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histmed</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%2318thCentury" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#18thCentury</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23politics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23HAMH" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HAMH</a> 1/🧵 <a href="https://wesleyan.campuslabs.com/engage/event/11104801" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wesleyan.campuslabs.com/engage/event...</a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to botanist &amp; photography trailblazer Anna Atkins (1799-1871), née Children!</p><p>Atkins’ mother died when she was still an infant, but she was close with her naturalist father &amp; received a much more scientific education than was common for women in her time. Her 250 detailed engravings of shells were used to illustrate her father’s translation of Lamarck’s ‘Genera of Shells’; 🧵1/n</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/cyanotype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyanotype</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Botany</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womensHistoryMonth</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to chemist William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)! This <a href="https://spore.social/tags/lino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lino</span></a> block print ‘William Henry Perkin Discovers Mauve’ is about how the British chemist &amp; entrepreneur made the serendipitous discovery of the 1st synthetic organic dye: mauveine. ⁠<br>⁠<br>Perkins entered the Royal College of Chemistry in London in 1853 when he was only 15, studying with August Wilhelm von Hofmann. 🧵1/n<br>⁠<br><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemistry</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/dye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dye</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemist</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/FashionHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FashionHistory</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/purple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>purple</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mauve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mauve</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/colour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colour</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>For <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InternationalWomensDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalWomensDay</span></a> a short thread of my ongoing series of portraits of women in science through history. If you look for them, they’re there. I’m up to 67 now! Here’s to the day when a scientist’s sex is no longer remarkable in any field!</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/IWD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWD</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/IWD2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWD2025</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> </p><p> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/scientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scientists</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciArt</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
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