NEW For the first time, researchers have identified the name of a #Maya 'mathematician-astronomer', enabling us to place an Indigenous Maya scholar amongst the ranks of other great astronomers from history. Read the new research 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

You occasionally come across some real gems while browsing through the inquisition archives (Mexico)👇

Our Easter Term Card is out 🌊 Join our mailing list to receive updates: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr... @camhistory.bsky.social #MaritimeHistory

Edinburgh via history/philosophy of science eyes! Safe to say the National Museum of Scotland has reached their target audience with the Dolly the Sheep pen. And the largest of shoutouts to @neurathic.bsky.social for spotting the Huxley book for me.

Busy morning doing research at the beautiful Wellcome Collection Library (@wellcomecollection.bsky.social)

Today!

Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period@emgscam.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We are thrilled to share our Lent Termcard 📚 We have some amazing speakers lined up for February and March, so you don't want to miss out - be sure to join our mailing list for further updates and to join us online!

Afternoon at the Wren (@trincolllibcam.bsky.social)

In my field, most senior specialists seem to be trying to create a huge protect that changes the way we understand colonial Latin America. I would argue we need the opposite: more local and regional history, with a look out always, but cemented in a community and territory.

Free school lane is getting... spooky

If you are not yet a member, feel free to explore our open-access articles! Like this recent and wonderful article by @stephenaj.bsky.social on astrolabes! 'Gerard Turner Memorial Lecture: Back to the Future: New Approaches to the Astrolabe'! scientificinstrumentsociety.org/BulletinArti...

Before being featured in Francis Bacon's Instauratio Magna (1620), the image of a ship going through the (literal) pillars of Hercules was featured in Andrés García de Céspedes' Regimiento de navegación (1606) (courtesy of the JCB library)

We are thrilled to share our Lent Termcard 📚 We have some amazing speakers lined up for February and March, so you don't want to miss out - be sure to join our mailing list for further updates and to join us online!

Not that long ago I was taking a class on the history of maritime science at UKing's in Halifax. I was thrilled to see some of the instruments I learnt about as an undergrad on display at @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social in Oxford!

I'll be presenting at the 12th Latin American Congress for Science and Religion: “Conflicto, negociación, e integración: teología natural e interpretación bíblica en los modelos heliocéntricos del movimiento diurno en la época medieval y de la modernidad temprana” September 12th at 3:00 PM CEST.

Participaré en el XII Congreso Latinoamericano de Ciencia y Religión: «Conflicto, negociación e integración: teología natural e interpretación bíblica en los modelos heliocéntricos del movimiento diurno en la época medieval y la modernidad temprana» el 12 de septiembre a las 3:00 PM CEST.

Just accepted: Situated Cognition in Early Modern Experimentation: The Case of Compelled Assent — Kirsten Walsh, Adrian Currie & Tom Roberts Abstract in alt text or read the full paper here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky #hps

Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity. Deadline to apply: October 1, 2025. #cdnhist @dalhistory.bsky.social cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...

Job posting: The Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity Dalhousie and the University of King’s College in Halifax, NS invite applications for this tenure stream, junior or mid-career position. Deadline October 1, 2025. Learn more: dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/19481

Finishing up a submission for an upcoming science and religion studies congress. God knows I want to keep fine-tuning (pun intended) details here and there. But, I guess that is why we have deadlines :(

Metascience is excited to announce the publication of Volume 34, Issue 2, featuring an editorial introduction from our new Editor-in-Chief, Gregory Radick. See the full issue here: link.springer.com/journal/1101...

Just published in #notesandrecords, a paper about Newton's beer mug! Read about the wooden flagon that Newton is on record as giving to his Trinity College, Cambridge chamber-fellow, John Wickins, which survives intact: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Biblical hermeneutics, natural theology, and astronomy. neurathic.substack.com/p/020825-two...

A little while ago I took a stab at translating an article by Feyerabend on ecology. It doesn't seem like it had been translated into English before. The translation might still need some work, but you can find it here: open.substack.com/pub/neurathi...

10.07.25 English translation of P.K. Feyerabend's "How Wrong is the Philosopher's Ecology"

This is a translation into English from the Spanish version of the article, which was produced by Antonio Elizalde.

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