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Thony Christie<p>Factors contributing to the changes in the role, status and nature of mathematics in the 16th century <a href="https://historians.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a><br><a href="https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/04/02/from-τὰ-φυσικά-ta-physika-to-physics-xli/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/04/0</span><span class="invisible">2/from-τὰ-φυσικά-ta-physika-to-physics-xli/</span></a></p>
Thony Christie<p>Jesuit astronomer, mathematician and physicist, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, who first investigated optical diffraction and published it posthumously in his Physico mathesis de lumine, coloribus, et iride, aliisque annexis libri duo in 1665, was born 2 April 1618. <a href="https://historians.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a><br><a href="https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/refraction-refrangibility-diffraction-or-inflexion/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thonyc.wordpress.com/2010/03/1</span><span class="invisible">4/refraction-refrangibility-diffraction-or-inflexion/</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>
Jennifer Lynn Bartlett<p>Joanne Simpson (1923-2010)<br>1st woman in the U.S. to earn a <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/meteorology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meteorology</span></a> PhD<br><a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/pilot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pilot</span></a> </p><p>her research &amp; models revolutionized our understanding of <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/clouds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>clouds</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/hurricanes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hurricanes</span></a>, helping to shape modern <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>weather</span></a> forecasting</p><p>Photograph: Dr. Joanne Simpson (1923–2010) pores over reams of images of tropical clouds filmed during flights across the tropical Pacific. courtesy Schlesinger Library</p><p><a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistoryMonth</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistSci</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/WomeninSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomeninSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/atmosphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atmosphere</span></a></p>
Thony Christie<p>Swiss Renaissance polymath, Conrad Gesner, was born 26 March 1565 <a href="https://historians.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <br><a href="https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/putting-the-lead-in-your-pencil/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thonyc.wordpress.com/2011/03/2</span><span class="invisible">8/putting-the-lead-in-your-pencil/</span></a></p>
Kristin Wilson<p>⚛️ 🔬 💎 Two Dames appreciating the work of Kathleen Lonsdale, the first woman to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (in 1945), only 282 years to wait (est. 1663).</p><p>Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell FRS. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwcf23XJ8vI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=Jwcf23XJ8v</span><span class="invisible">I</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistSci</span></a></p>
drsurekhadavies<p>Catch me talking about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY in London in about six weeks!</p><p>💙📚 🧪🗃 <a href="https://beta.argyle.social/tags/ancient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ancient</span></a> <a href="https://beta.argyle.social/tags/medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medieval</span></a> <a href="https://beta.argyle.social/tags/earlymodern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>earlymodern</span></a> <a href="https://beta.argyle.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://beta.argyle.social/tags/histmed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histmed</span></a> <a href="https://beta.argyle.social/tags/18thCentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>18thCentury</span></a> <a href="https://beta.argyle.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://beta.argyle.social/tags/HAMH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HAMH</span></a></p>
Thony Christie<p>Georgius Agricola, author of De re metallica, was born 24 March 1494 <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/histtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histtech</span></a> <br><a href="https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2019/04/17/renaissance-heavy-metal/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thonyc.wordpress.com/2019/04/1</span><span class="invisible">7/renaissance-heavy-metal/</span></a></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>
Wilko Hardenberg<p>An excerpt from my book Sea Level: A History has been published in Issues in Science and Technology!</p><p><a href="https://issues.org/sea-level-history-hardenberg/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">issues.org/sea-level-history-h</span><span class="invisible">ardenberg/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/envhist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>envhist</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a></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>
kategenevieve<p>Excited to launch the next season of&nbsp;<a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/Cosmoimaginaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cosmoimaginaries</span></a>.&nbsp; Tomorrow we begin with a presentation from&nbsp;Gabriela Radulescu:</p><p>📡 Earthly and extraterrestrial connections: CETI/SETI in Armenia and Czechoslovakia (Spojeni s mimozemskymi intelligencemi / the search for extraterrestrial intelligence)</p><p>Thurs, Mar 20 4pm EST / 8pm GMT / 9pm CET</p><p>Friday, 21 March&nbsp;9am NZDT/7am AEDT</p><p>All welcome.</p><p>Registration link: <a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/JL-yhGskSLi74izOB6CoSw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist</span><span class="invisible">er/JL-yhGskSLi74izOB6CoSw</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/seti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>seti</span></a></p>
Thony Christie<p>Galileo's first post Sidereus Nuncius publication his Discourse on Floating Bodies (1612) <a href="https://historians.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <br><a href="https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/03/19/from-τὰ-φυσικά-ta-physika-to-physics-xl/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/03/1</span><span class="invisible">9/from-τὰ-φυσικά-ta-physika-to-physics-xl/</span></a></p>
WerkstattGeschichte<p>Mit Heft 81 „steine“ erschien heute vor 5 Jahren die erste <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/WerkstattGeschichte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WerkstattGeschichte</span></a> beim neuen Verlag, schönen Dank an <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/transcript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transcript</span></a> in Bielefeld für die Zusammenarbeit!<br>Der Thementeil, hg. von Susann Lewerenz &amp; Veronika Springmann, bot Beiträge von Sebastian Felten (<a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Bergbau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bergbau</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/18thCentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>18thCentury</span></a>), Kathrin Rottmann (<a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Pflastersteine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pflastersteine</span></a> #1968) &amp; Regina Sarreiter (<a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Steinwerkzeuge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Steinwerkzeuge</span></a>, koloniale <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Ethnologie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ethnologie</span></a>).</p><p>Dies &amp; mehr online unter: <a href="https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/steine/" 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/steine/</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/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/histknow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histknow</span></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 Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) a trail blazing woman in <a href="https://spore.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a>. Hers was a real life Cinderella story, where rather than marrying a prince, she made a life and career for herself. Marriage her expected role but she was deemed unmarriageable, since a childhood bout of typhus stunted her growth. Her mother thought she should train to be a servant, &amp; purposely stood in the way of her learning French, or music,🧵</p><p><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/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/astronomer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astronomer</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>
Thony Christie<p>The German/English astronomer Caroline Herschel was born 16 March 1750 <a href="https://historians.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <br><a href="https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2016/11/24/a-herschel-comes-seldom-alone/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thonyc.wordpress.com/2016/11/2</span><span class="invisible">4/a-herschel-comes-seldom-alone/</span></a></p>
Thony Christie<p>Book Review: Math Through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others <a href="https://historians.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <br><a href="https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/history-of-maths-for-beginners/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/03/1</span><span class="invisible">3/history-of-maths-for-beginners/</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Mercury, final prompt for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printerSolstice2425" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printerSolstice2425</span></a>, made me think of <a href="https://spore.social/tags/alchemy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alchemy</span></a>. It is an element the alchemists favoured &amp; felt was fundamental in their efforts to transmute base into precious metals, both in western &amp; Chinese alchemy (from whence western alchemy emerged).</p><p>This is my <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> portrait of an <a href="https://spore.social/tags/alchemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alchemist</span></a> known as Master Geng (before ~975, 耿先生; Gěng Xiānshēng, sometimes Kêng Hsien-shêng). 🧵1/n</p><p><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/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/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
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