📖 2023's second issue of #HoST — Journal of History of Science is now online. The theme is "Social History of Science and Historiography: Where are We in Brazil?".
"I argue that inclusion of Occam's razor is an essential factor that distinguishes science from superstition and pseudoscience. I also describe how the razor is embedded in Bayesian inference and argue that science is primarily the means to discover the simplest descriptions of our world."
"Abraham de Moivre (born May 26, 1667, Vitry, Fr.—died Nov. 27, 1754, London) French mathematician who was a pioneer in the development of analytic trigonometry and in the theory of probability"
Here is a panoramic intellectual history that begins in ancient Greece, ranges across the entire span of Western philosophy and science, and ends with the first direct visual proof of the atom's existence.
✍️ HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology, has opened a call for thematic dossiers to be published in 2025.
#HoST encourages submissions of original historical research exploring the cultural, social and political dimensions of science, technology, and medicine (#STM), both from a local and a global perspective.
📅 Proposals should be submitted by 20 January 2024.
❗️The applications for a Junior Researcher position for the project "KNOW-AFRICA - Knowledge networks in 19th century Africa", coordinated by Sara Albuquerque at the University of Évora, closes on 20 November.
This article (from 2021) is infuriating on the unwillingness of Very Important Scientists to reconsider their categories and recognize that #CovidIsAirborne during the crucial first phase of the pandemic, and illuminating on how the work of #histodons can help scientists understand how their categories came to be.
The description of the historical work is fascinating - and, of course, leads to a #Chortlemuffin.
I first #read The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite in Feb 2020 when I had a mystery virus that put me to bed for a week. I can only plead illness for giving it only 4⭐️ in GR. This week, I bought the #audiobook. I’ve now revised to a perfect 5⭐️ - a perfect F/F #historicalromance. In addition to the #romance, it dives into access & equity debates of women’s & 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ rights. @romancebooks@bookstodon#books#reading#romancelandia https://amzn.to/3Sn3z50
@hendric@romancebooks@bookstodon@herhandsmyhands it’s a fictional historical romance, so it’s science as understood in 1831: mostly astronomy, physics, & the first concepts of Babbage’s analytical engine. But primarily it’s a fictionalized account of Mary Somerville translating the Marquis de Laplace's “Mécanique Céleste” as “The Mechanism of the Heavens” -if she’d been gay, single, & 23yo. (She was 51yo, married twice, & a mother by 1831.) #historyofscience
the journals #Aniki: Revista Portuguesa da Imagem em Movimento and #HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology, both published with the support of the IHC, have been accepted for indexing by the #Scopus platform! 🥳🎊