If your philosophy of [scientific] history claims that the sequence should have been A→B→C, and it is C→A→B, then your philosophy of history is wrong. You have to take the data of history seriously.
John S. Wilkins 30th August 2009
Culture is part of the unholy trinity—culture, chaos, and cock-up—which roam through our versions of history, substituting for traditional theories of causation. – Filipe Fernández–Armesto “Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration”
RT @mcnees: Engineer and inventor Douglas Engelbart was born #OTD in 1925. His team at SRI developed or contributed to the computer mouse,… 11 hours ago
RT @CUP_LifeScience: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin by Charles Darwin
Letters from 1882, the year of Darwin's death, and a supplement… 11 hours ago
RT @EponymousBreeze: ‘Portret van Laura Maria Caterina Bassi Verati’, a ca. 1741 engraving by Johann Jacob Haid.
In 1732 Laura Bassi (171… 13 hours ago
RT @MBarany: I guess it's scientists' prerogative to have a wee celebration of their own and not invite the historians, but given the long-… 13 hours ago
RT @StoriaMedicina: #OTD in 1898, the french #surgeon Jules-Émile Péan died at the age of 67. He was the first to successfully perform sple… 13 hours ago
RT @csmbr_pisa: Gardens of Health 1:
Figs. 1-2 Garden of Simples, 1450
Add Ms 19720, f. 165r, British Library, London.
Fig. 3. Pietro de Cr… 13 hours ago