Month: October 2015
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Pee in a jar?! Dirty Materials in History of Science
Objects can be a real pearl on the shores of history of science. Telescopes and steam engines still figure prominently in our field, and rightfully so. From the edited volume Making Instruments Count (1993) to Frans van Lunteren’s blog ‘Mediating Machines’ here at Shells & Pebbles, many scholars research the role of scientific instruments in…
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Talking activism & history – part I
Can or should historians be activists? Floor Haalboom and Hans Schouwenburg share their ideas on this dilemma in e-mails which they make available on Shells & Pebbles. October 1, 2015 Dear Hans,
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Revisiting Risk Society
In this new series, historians of the sciences will share one book that made a lasting impact on them, with the goal to inspire others to pick up those books as well. These ‘rocks’ may have been written in the Middle Ages or in 2015, and our authors may abhor or admire its content– our question is simply this: why did it make such a…