Giant’s Shoulders #12
Well, that fateful time has finally arrived! Here are the entries for Giant’s Shoulder’s #12 (a monthly blog carnival on classic science papers and experiments).
From The Renaissance Mathematicus, we have a very interesting post, A loser who was really a winner. It’s a tale of Christoph Clavius, educational reformer who played a pivotal, if oft forgotten role, for the 17th century mathematics revival and astronomy. As an extra treat blogger Thony Christie is presenting a more detailed lecture version this post at the Remeis Observatory in Bamberg at 7:00 pm on 24th June (for those of you in the area… I wish I could go).
From Nature networks I, Editor blog: Henry Gee searches for the origin of the term “the missing link.“ Ben Zimmer helps on the Visual Thesaurus.
Ethan Siegel from Starts with a Bang has a great (and lengthy and on-going) series on the last 100 years of physics and astronomy. Start (but by no means stop) with this post.
Here’s a post that may not be safe for work. the Evil Monkey Scicurious, from Neurotopia v2.0, blogs about Grafenberg’s 1950 paper on “the role of the urethra in the female orgasm” published in the (you can’t make this stuff up) International Journal of Sexology. The post is chock full of great quotes that would make you blush if you read them to your grandmother.
Brian Switek of Laelaps writes about an interesting hypothesis, about Charles Darwin’s ideas of origin of human races and genocide pursued by Western powers against indigenous people of the “new world” during his time. In another post, Switek discusses Richard Owen, a 19th century anatomis, attemps to classify the Thylacoleo.
I’m honestly not sure how this one classifies as classic science. But, Greg Laden submitted the post himself, so maybe he can help enlighten us?
edit – Greg Laden explains the background behind the post in the first comment, below
gg from Skulls in the Stars enlightens us on Barkla’s demonstration that x-rays have polarity (1905). As usual, gg does an incedible job, gives an extensive background on x-rays and goes into great detail on Barkla’s experiments.
Last, but not least, my own post. I talk about a paper which provided one of the origins for mathematical epidemiology, W. O. Kermack and A. G. McKendrick 1927 paper on their model of epidemic infectious disease.
Don’t forget, to vote for your favorite entry! The winning blog author (which will be decided by, lets say, next week if there is a clear winner) wins a $20 gift certificate. You have to be a registered member of SFN to vote in the poll, but if you leave a comment or send me a private email I can get your vote counted – or just register at the forum. It’s easy, free and fun.
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June 16th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
I will be glad to elucidate why my post was about classic science.
It was a moment in time when three of the major powerhouses at the ground floor in what was to become modern climate change studies were huddling with another classically important scholar of African archaeology. If you think about it, Isaac was second generation Aricanist (trained by the first generation) as long as we are willing to discount E.J. Whalen. The others are all first generation in their field, and it is an important field.
The post itself was a mere vignette and a cross-cultural (American vs. British) commentary. Not very heavy, I admit, but if you had a similar story told in relation, say, to Isaac Newton instead of Glynn Isaac, there would be no hesitation.
Of course, my post is not about a paper. But really, a little diversity with your tea is not a bad idea.
June 16th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Thanks for the education… I’ll edit the post.
June 16th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Oh, you can certainly leave it the way it is… People can read my comment and the carnival is quite nice the way it is.
June 16th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Thanks so much for including me! I <3 Giant’s Shoulders. But…*cough cough*…tis I, Scicurious, who wrote about the urethra in female orgasm. Evil is my co-blogger and arch nemesis. We get confused a lot. :)
June 16th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Please forgive me, scicurious. I will correct this terrible error immediately!
June 17th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Thank you four the kind and generous comments!
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The vote for best says I am not eligible for some reason. Just to let you know if there aren’t a lot of votes.
June 17th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
As far as I can see you have to registar with Science Forums in order to be able to vote.
June 17th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Either register at science forums, send me and email or leave a comment with your vote and I’ll make sure it gets counted.
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