What are science museums for?
There has of late been a lot of attention focused on one small corner of the Science Museum of London. Not, sadly, the Science in the 18th Century Gallery I mentioned in a previous post but an exhibit...
View ArticleLiving Traditions at the Science Museum
How would you feel if I told you that the Science Museum says that homeopathy and acupuncture, as medical treatments, are no more effective than drumming or divination? Satisfied? I hope so. In my...
View ArticleSympathetic vibrations
Over at PACHSmörgåsbord, brought to us by the Philadelphia Area Centre for History of Science, Darin Hayton has been catching the longitude vibe while investigating the collection of the Library...
View ArticleFictional science
One of the few objects included in the exhibition was John Russell's 1797 Selenographia. Image (c) National Maritime Museum. Yesterday, I went to the British Library’s exhibition on science fiction,...
View Article[Review] Richard Owen. Biology Without Darwin.
Nicolass Rupke. Richard Owen: Biology without Darwin. xxiv + 344pp., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. $29.00, (paper). The Natural History Museum in London recently unveiled its Darwin...
View ArticleVisiting Woolsthorpe
Recently, on an evocatively misty day, I finally had the chance to visit Woolsthorpe Manor, the National Trust property that was once Isaac Newton’s family home. It was, you might think, high time I...
View ArticleScience in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Last week I was back in Edinburgh and visited the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. This has just reopened after renovations and I took time to consider the depiction of science in the murals of its...
View ArticleObjects and storytelling
Some weeks ago on the Medical Museion blog, Thomas Soderqvist wrote an interesting and, perhaps, provocative post on Narrativity in exhibition making, suggesting that “the current enthusiasm” for...
View ArticleObjects and storytelling
Some weeks ago on the Medical Museion blog, Thomas Soderqvist wrote an interesting and, perhaps, provocative post on Narrativity in exhibition making, suggesting that “the current enthusiasm” for...
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