Maria Winkelmann And The Guilded Age Of Astronomy
Back in the age when historians favored hard and fast lines between different Eras of world history, 1543 stood as the gold standard boundary between the Old w...
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The Life Stories Of Birds: How Margaret Morse Nice Ended Ornithology’s Long List Era
When you headed out into the field as a 19th century ornithologist, you had one of two things in mind as to what constituted your profession: (1) to look for b...
Return To Nature: Stella Brewer And The Science Of Chimpanzee Rehabilitation
Our interactions with our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, the chimpanzees, have rarely been entirely honorable. We dress them up in amusing hats, teac...
Janaki Ammal And The Fight For India’s Botanical Future
Caste. Race. Gender. These were the three categories that, in early twentieth century Madras, combined to determine the boundaries of an individual’s potent...
Chronicler Of The Path Untread: The 19th Century Journeys Of Isabella Bird
As Isabella Bird, in her seventieth year and in the middle of her last great adventure, sat across from Sultan at Marrakesh, telling him tales of her adve...
One Woman Against The Black Death: The Saga Of Dr. Edith Pechey-Phipson And The Fight For Medical Women in India
In 1896, the city of Bombay recorded its first case of bubonic plague, a disease which would grow to claim ten million lives over the following decade as the g...
Where Sex Begins: The Chromosomal Investigations Of Nettie Stevens
If you were to ask an ancient Greek how it is determined that a baby is born a boy or a girl, they would have had some interesting and very compelling theories...
The Many Wars Of Florence Nightingale
Though we think of her as the Lady With the Lamp, tirelessly patrolling the sick wards of the Crimean War offering solace and healing to soldiers who had been ...
The Modern Amphitrite: The Many Nautical Revolutions Of Janet Taylor
The nineteenth century saw Great Britain expanding vociferously into new markets, extending its influence, for better or worse, into every corner of the globe ...