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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences

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HSNS is an academic journal devoted to the history of science. Our papers reveal the "diverse histories and practices of technical, professional, and vernacular knowledge as they have developed since the 18th century." https://online.ucpress.edu/hsns

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences@hsnatsci.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The group review is one of our favorite forms of historical scholarship. Is there anything historians love more than reading a group of books and talking in depth about what they reveal about the state of the field? Maybe asking questions that aren't really questions at conferences! (more a comment)

Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen@jessiewhchen.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Can historians benefit from creative works for historical research? In this @hsnatsci.bsky.social short piece, I share how I worked w/ different types of making to research and write my recent book on 17th-c. florilegia. Thank you @dominikhhh.bsky.social & @mbaldwin.bsky.social for the invitation!

Practicing Early Modern History through (Re)Making Things

How can historians engage with hands-on research to better understand the embodied knowledge and sensorial experiences in historical practices? In what ways can creative works be implemented in order ...

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences@hsnatsci.bsky.social · last yr.

Today is a great day to read Spencer Weart's paper on funding at Mauna Loa Observatory: doi.org/10.1525/hsps... From the #vault, it begins "Funding is obviously a necessity for scientific research, but the details of the funding of a given program have rarely been studied in detail."

Money for Keeling: Monitoring CO2 levels

C.D. Keeling's measurements of the level of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere since 1957, tracking a rise that threatens global warming, form one of the most important scienti.c data sets ever cr...

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences@hsnatsci.bsky.social · 2y ago

James Fleming's article on promises about weather and climate modification is an important read these days: online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article... Fleming shows the cycle of boom and bust surrounding ideas of weather modification. Check it out! #archive #WeatherModification

The pathological history of weather and climate modification: Three cycles of promise and hype

ABSTRACT. The checkered history of weather and climate modification exhibits a modicum of promise and an excess of hype. This paper examines two completed historical cycles: the first, dating from 183...

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences@hsnatsci.bsky.social · 3y ago

As we think about the place of history of science on the web (and celebrate our first official post here), let's look at a great paper from the archives. David K. Hecht's 2011 article about Rachel Carson, "nonscientific attributes were central in legitimating Carson as a public scientist."