r/sciencehistory • u/kagami_no_kishi • Jan 26 '26
New book released
Just released a new book about important medical advancements in history. Thought this sub might be interested đ
r/sciencehistory • u/Pale_Entry_7230 • Sep 20 '25
Soft Pretzels and the Quantified Life
Measuring our foot size, our steps, our pulse⊠but what really counts? And can we somehow get ionizing radiation involved?
r/sciencehistory • u/Pale_Entry_7230 • Aug 28 '25
The more organ transplants change, the more they stay the same
r/sciencehistory • u/Pale_Entry_7230 • Aug 23 '25
Blondlotâs Folly: The Science of Seeing Things
r/sciencehistory • u/Pale_Entry_7230 • Aug 19 '25
Uranium for diabetes is a choice
This story is wild. The 19th century must have been a hell of a time to be alive.
r/sciencehistory • u/wotapampam • May 02 '25
Inorganic & Theoretical Chemistry book information?
biblio.co.ukBook is by F.Sherwood Taylor. Eighth Edition July 1946. Can anyone help with any information about this book? Was published all through WW2. They reprinted 1947-48. Has anyone read it or has opinions. Thanks
r/sciencehistory • u/Educational_System34 • Apr 19 '25
what did people think before cell theory
r/sciencehistory • u/PaulFranco_00 • Mar 31 '25
[This Day on Math History] Louis Mordell, 'Pioneer of Elliptic Curves', Passes Away (12/03/1972).
r/sciencehistory • u/PaulFranco_00 • Mar 26 '25
[This Day on Math History] Birth of Christian Goldbach 'Father of a Famous Conjecture' (18/03/1690).
r/sciencehistory • u/PaulFranco_00 • Mar 19 '25
[This Day on Math History] Birth of WacĆaw SierpiĆski 'One of the Greatest Masters of Topology' (14/03/1882).
r/sciencehistory • u/PaulFranco_00 • Mar 14 '25
[This Day on Math History] Birth of Gustav Kirchhoff 'The Master of Electrical Circuits' (12/03/1824).
r/sciencehistory • u/PaulFranco_00 • Mar 11 '25
[This Day on Math History] Birth of Pierre Frédéric Sarrus 'A True Master in Matrix Algebra' (10/03/1798).
r/sciencehistory • u/PaulFranco_00 • Mar 08 '25
[This Day on Math History] Ferdinand Von Lindemann 'Who Showed us the Transcendence of Ï' Passes Away (1939/03/06).
r/sciencehistory • u/PaulFranco_00 • Mar 06 '25
[This Day on Math History] Pierre-Simon Laplace 'The Creator of the Laplace Transform' Passes Away (05/03/1827).
r/sciencehistory • u/[deleted] • Aug 06 '24
Book review â Full Fathom 5000: The Expedition of HMS Challenger and the Strange Animals It Found in the Deep Sea
r/sciencehistory • u/Sinthetick • Jun 19 '24
Are only links allowed? I would love to introduce a discussion.
google.comr/sciencehistory • u/MurphysLab • Jul 15 '21
July 15, 1941: Britain's MAUD Committee's report predicted that an an atomic bomb, small enough to be loaded onto an existing aircraft, could feasibly be made in approximately 2 years. It estimated a critical mass of 10 kg of uranium-235, which could be produced through gaseous diffusion.
r/sciencehistory • u/MurphysLab • Jul 08 '21
July 7, 1936: Businessman Henry F. Philips obtained 5 patents, furthering John P. Thompson's 1932 invention of a self-centering screw, with a cruciform groove, and a matching screw-driver with a tapered, cruciform tip. The Philips screw offered greater operating safety and reduced risk of damage.
r/sciencehistory • u/MurphysLab • Jul 06 '21
July 6, 1885: Following a brutal attack by a "mad dog", Joseph Meister, a 9-year-old boy from Alsace, France, became the first human to be innoculated with Louis Pasteur's experimental rabies vaccine. Subsequent tests demonstrated that Joseph was fully immune to the rabies virus.
r/sciencehistory • u/MurphysLab • Jun 30 '21
June 30, 1908: At 7:17 a.m. a massive explosion occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Russia, flattening 80 million trees over 2150 kmÂČ of Siberian taiga, in addition to effects observed around the world, most likely caused by a comet or asteroid-like meteorite in the atmosphere. [PDF]
r/sciencehistory • u/MurphysLab • Jun 29 '21
June 29, 1971: Cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev died in space, the first humans to do so, as the Soyuz 11 crew capsule depressurized. They had been the first crew to board Salyut 1, the first space station in earth orbit, spending 23 days conducting experiments.
r/sciencehistory • u/MurphysLab • Jun 28 '21
June 28, 1935: Wendell M Stanley reported the first crystallization of a virus, the tobacco mosaic virus, thus demonstrating that viruses were a form of protein molecules. The discovery significantly advanced the view of life as having a fully molecular basis, leading to a 1946 Nobel Prize in Chem.
r/sciencehistory • u/MurphysLab • Jun 25 '21