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Rita Singer

It's publication day!

Enwogion o fri: Diversity Project 2023-2025

Our free #DiversityProject anthology for the #Bywgraffiadur has just dropped on KC Works. Over 40 authors contributed more than 60 articles about the most fascinating people in #Welsh #history you could possibly imagine.

We've covered #BAMEHistory #LGBTQ_ and #DisabilityHistory, #WomensHistory, #ArtHistory, the #HistoryOfScience, #HistoryOfReligion and #Wales

Frankly, there's not a single article in this collection that's not bound to be of interest to someone.

Get your own copy here as PDF or epub. And because we're in Wales, we even offer you two versions.

English: works.hcommons.org/records/dtb
Cymraeg: doi.org/10.17613/mmwvm-ryh93

Book cover for Enwogion o fri, showing two African and South Asian students of Harlech College in the 1960s. They're reading a piece of paper -- and clearly enjoy it.
#BlackHistory#OA#OpenAccess
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Mark McCaughrean

Niche question for astronomers & historians of astronomy, particularly those at Harvard perhaps.

Can anyone tell me the birth & death dates of Edith F. Reilly, who worked with Bart Bok in the 1940's & co-authored the discovery paper on "small dark nebulae", now called "Bok globules"?

I've looked online, but have drawn a blank. They'd be good to have for my book.

adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1947ApJ

#SpaceScience#Astronomy#HistoryOfScience
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Josh Wells

“ Although the details of animal magnetism may sound absurd (and even morally dubious) to modern ears, within its context Mesmerism was very much in line with the latest scientific developments. In some ways, exciting experiments with invisible forces — gravity, electricity, magnetism, wondrous gases like hydrogen — defined the era. Unlike the occultists of the previous ages, Mesmer was striving to give his practices a rational scientific as opposed to a religious flavour. Indeed, although the magnetic fluid part did not work out, in an important sense, animal magnetism marked the beginnings of hypnosis and psychological suggestion. These are very real and possibly still clinically useful phenomena, as a recent resurgence in research shows.”

publicdomainreview.org/essay/m

The Public Domain ReviewMesmerising Science: The Franklin Commission and the Modern Clinical TrialBenjamin Franklin, magnetic trees, and erotically-charged séances — Urte Laukaityte on how a craze for sessions of “animal magnetism” in late 18th-century Paris led to the randomised placebo-controlled and double-blind clinical trials we know and love today.
#historyofscience
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j_bertolotti

#PhysicsJournalClub
"The Tumultuous Birth of Quantum Mechanics"
by Philip Ball

physics.aps.org/articles/v18/2

"quantum mechanics wasn’t created all at once. It took several decades and was a messy, confused process, during most of which the true nature of this revolution was obscure. In some ways it still is."

Physics · The Tumultuous Birth of Quantum MechanicsThe creation of modern quantum mechanics was a messy business in which many of the participants did not grasp the significance of their own discoveries.
#QuantumMechanics#HistoryOfScience#Physics
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The Inquisitive Biologist

This week's #NewBooks at the library: I was chuffed to now also find an affordable copy of #Dinosaurs: Past and Present, Volume 2! Second, The Art and Making of #Arcane: League of Legends. Loved the series and thought to myself "if they publish a book with artwork...". And more #Buffon. There aren't many biographies on him - this 1972 classic is one of two on my wishlist. #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Palaeoart #Biography #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. On the left, standing up, Dinosaurs: Past and Present, Volume 2, showing a drawing of a small dinosaur in front of a large rock with a storm blowing fragments of ferns across the setting. The picture mostly orangey-ochre-coloured. In the middle, lying down, The Art and Making of #Arcane: League of Legends, showing a drawing a of a girl with long braids and stompy boots sitting on a turned-around chair, facing the viewer. She is holding a steampunk gun and wings extend from the chair to both sides. The cover is hot pink with white graffiti surrounding her. On the right, standing up, Buffon, showing a plain dark-red cover with the title and author names in gilded lettering sitting over a small,stylised drawing of globe over which a winged horse jumps. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor.
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