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The Inquisitive Biologist

This week's #NewBooks at the library: A second-hand copy of an original 1961 hardback of Arthur O. Lovejoy's The Great Chain of Being from Harvard University Press, a review copy of The Lives of #Bats from @princetonupress @princetonnature, and a second-hand copy of @matthewcobb's The Genetic Age: Out Perilous Quest to Edit Life from Profile Books.

#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #ScalaNaturae #Chiroptera #Mammals #Genetics @bookstodon

A top-down photo of three books lying down on a small, brown, wooden table. At the top, lying down a wooden bookstand, The Great Chain of Being, opened on its title page (the cover is plain dark-red cloth binding so not very interesting to show). At the bottom left, The Lives of Bats, showing a bat in flight against a black background. At the bottom right, The Genetic Age, showing a simplified, schematic diagram of a DNA double helix with green and yellow nucleotides and a red-blue sugar-phosphate backbone. One of the two strands of the backbone turns into the head of a snake with a blue tongue flicking out. The background shows a beech-coloured laminate floor.
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Ele Willoughby, PhD

Happy birthday to #neurologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852 - 1934), here in front of Purkinje and granule cells from a pigeon, based on one of his own drawings! Cajal &Golgi won the Nobel in 1906, “in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system”. He was as much of an artist as he was a scientist & his 100s of drawings are still used for teaching purposes.⁠
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Born in 1852, in Petilla de Aragón, Spain, 🧵1/n
#sciart #linocut #printmaking #histsci #mastoart #neuroscience

My linocut portrait of Cajal in a gradient of gold (left, where there is a table and microscope) to blue (right, where he is) . Behind him is an image based on his drawing of a Purkinje and granule cell of a pigeon in a gradient of gold to black.
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Fabienne Gallaire

"Quand la civilisation actuelle comparaitra au tribunal de l’histoire pour avoir tué, détruit, laissé mourir, par tous les moyens possibles, mêmes administratifs son avocat, comme circonstance atténuante, fera valoir la CHÈVRE-NOURRICE."
bibliotheque.academie-medecine
#histmed #histsci #animhist

bibliotheque.academie-medecine.frCorrespondance – IV. L’année 1892 | Bibliothèque de l'Académie nationale de médecine
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Richard Martin-Nielsen

How flightless birds, among other things, undid an airstrip:
“Quickly, however, the airstrip met with opposition from environmental groups who argued that it would destroy important nesting grounds for Adélie #penguins, snowy and giant #petrels, Cape pigeons, and #fulmars, and also disrupt the nearby Emperor penguin colony.”
From #JanetMartinNielsen’s article “Environment and Sovereignty in the Antarctic: The Terre Adelie Airstrip”, 2022
#TAAF #HistSci
#WorldPenguinDay
brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/

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Ele Willoughby, PhD

Happy birthday to Zofia Keilan-Jaworowska (1925-2015) a Polish #paleobiologist famous for a series of Polish-Mongolian expeditions she lead from 1963-1971 to the Gobi desert! There she discovered dinosaurs including the Deinocheirus, plus she & team found the “Fighting Dinosaurs” fossil specimen in 1971 preserving a Protoceratops & Velociraptor trapped in combat about 74 million years ago. Her research covered a wide range of palaeontology 🧵

#MastoArt #paleontology
#womenInSTEM #sciart #histsci

My linocut portrait of Zofia Keilan-Jaworowska shows her as in slacks and sleeveless button down with collar turned in a 3/4 view with her right arm extended and left arm bent and resting on the small of her back. She has short hair and appears brightly lit from the left side. In front of her are the Fighting Dinosaurs fossils: a protoceratops and velociraptor entwined. Above her hand is a Cretaceous rodent Catopsbaatar and behind her is a Deinocheirus dinosaur. She is in the field in Mongolia with mountains in the distance. The print is made in a gradient of sandy golden green through dark green-brown through a dark rust from the bottom to the top.
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Fabienne Gallaire

"The Gallery of Mineralogy is so long, von Rumpel can hardly see the end of it. In sections, display case after display case sits vacant, little shapes on their felted shelves marking the silhouettes of whatever has been removed. (...) A gorgeous set of yellow topaz crystals on a gray matrix. A great pink hunk of beryl like a crystallized brain. A violet column of tourmaline from Madagascar that looks so rich he cannot resist the urge to stroke it. Bournonite; apatite on muscovite; natural zircon in a spray of colors; dozens more minerals he cannot name."
La Galerie de Minéralogie du MNHN telle que décrite dans le roman historique All the Light We Cannot See (Toute la lumière que nous ne pouvons voir)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_
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en.wikipedia.orgAll the Light We Cannot See - Wikipedia
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