HSNS is an academic journal devoted to the history of science. Our papers reveal the "diverse histories and practices of technical, professional, and vernacular knowledge as they have developed since the 18th century." https://online.ucpress.edu/hsns
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
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The group review is one of our favorite forms of historical scholarship. Is there anything historians love more than reading a group of books and talking in depth about what they reveal about the state of the field? Maybe asking questions that aren't really questions at conferences! (more a comment)
New Special Section Call for Proposals for @hsnatsci.bsky.social ! My co-editor Dominik Huenniger and I are seeking short essays (800-1000 words) on the theme of "Revisiting Classics and Major Influences." More below.
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Thanks @aip.bsky.social for highlighting @hsnatsci.bsky.social's article on roads as scientific infrastructure. www.aip.org/history/arti...
The project produced a website, a curated exhibit, a 24-page briefing book, and an academic book; these outputs reached a varied audience. Fyfe asks if removing pressure to produce a single book can free projects to take new forms and reach a greater variety of audiences.
🚨New Issue Alert🚨 Volume 56 Issue 3 is out now with essays by Karin Nickelsen and David Kaiser, as well as a book review by John DiMoia. online.ucpress.edu/hsns/issue/5...
Do historians focus too much on producing academic books? In her essay for our most recent volume @aileenfyfe.bsky.social her team's research project "Publishing the Philosophical Transactions: the social, cultural and economic history of a learned journal, 1665–2015"
🚨New Issue Alert🚨Up first! Tony Adler's paper analyzing the way that humans have viewed giant squid. online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article...
Adler traces human understandings of the submarine world through visualizations of squid-- from turn-of-the-century photographs of dead squid to recent high definition videos taken from deep sea submersibles. Vol. 56 Issue 2 is out now!
