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Writing tagged: ‘history of science’

Book review: ‘The Enlightenment’ by Ritchie Robertson

‘The Enlightenment’ by Ritchie Robertson

The pursuit of happiness, 1680–1790.

Published 31-Aug-2021
Filed under: Writing Genres: Culture, History, Science Tags: history, history of science, reviews, Ritchie Robertson, The Enlightenment

17 June 2019

Jupiter’s moons.

Published 17-Jun-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: astronomy, Calder Valley, Hebden Bridge, history of science

14 May 2019

‘Nondescript’
‘Nondescript’

A surprise encounter with a howler monkey’s backside.

Published 14-May-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: Charles Darwin, Charles Waterton, history, history of science, Wakefield

Book review: ‘Darwin’s Backyard’ by James T Costa

Darwin's Backyard

How small experiments led to a big theory.

Published 28-Jun-2018
Filed under: Writing Genres: People, Science Tags: books, Charles Darwin, history of science, reviews, science

Book review: ‘Dispelling the Darkness’ by John van Wyhe

Dispelling the Darkness

Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the discovery of evolution by Wallace and Darwin.

Published 18-Jun-2018
Filed under: Writing Genres: History, People, Science Tags: Charles Darwin, history of science, reviews

Newsletter No. 12: ‘Unspeakable things beneath the shrubs’

Mill in snow

Mark E Smith · Alan Bennett · Carl Linnaeus · Ronald Blythe · human evolution · flu epidemics · Great Exhibition of the North · Charles Darwin · insects · introverts · Virginia Woolf · John Tyndall

Published 16-Feb-2018
Filed under: Writing Tags: Alan Bennett, Charles Darwin, evolution, history of science, John Tyndall, On the Moor (book), Ronald Blythe, science

Newsletter No. 7: ‘Hacked and hurt by time’

Now remind me… Which one of us absolutely insisted on going for a walk, and which one of us thought to bring an umbrella?

John Tyndall · Galápagos cormorants · why English is so odd · Thoreau & Darwin · anthropological discoveries · mass-extinction hyperbole · WG Sebald · yellow rattle · Inigo Thomas · Mars exploration

Published 30-Jun-2017
Filed under: Writing Tags: Charles Darwin, Henry David Thoreau, history of science, W.G. Sebald

Newsletter No. 5: ‘Incongruous owl’

Sunny bunny
Sunny bunny.

dawn chorus · Simon Armitage · the invention of the telescope · huge, sprawling collaborations · Withnail & I · book smells · re-assembling Darwin’s research notes · converting walks into words · Daniel Dennett · writing letters · humanist politics · dentistry with stone tools · analysing penguin poo · Melissa Harrison · Robert Macfarlane · swallows

Published 25-Apr-2017
Filed under: Writing Tags: Ben Myers, birds, Charles Darwin, history of science, humanism, Melissa Harrison, Robert Macfarlane, swallows

Book review: ‘Man of Iron’ by Julian Glover

Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain.

Published 06-Mar-2017
Filed under: Writing Genres: History, People Tags: books, history of science, reviews, science

Book review: ‘The Enlightenment’ by John Robertson

The Enlightenment

A very short introduction.

Published 18-May-2016
Filed under: Writing Genres: Culture, History, Science Tags: history, history of science, reading, reviews, science, The Enlightenment, …a very short introduction (book series

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