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Julia S.

ENTERTAINING, IMPRESSIVELY COMPREHENSIVE history of humanity’s long and confused journey to the discovery of germ theory is a work of popular science with all the propulsive energy of a mystery novel, even though we know the ending. A MINUS

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Barnes & NobleSo Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs--and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease|Hardcover“An elegant, wide-ranging history” (The New York Review of Books) of the centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease thatreveals as much about human reasoning—and the pitfalls of ego—as it does about...
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The Inquisitive Biologist

149 years ago today #GeorgeMurrayLevick was born. This British Antarctic explorer made observations on penguins considered too shocking for the world, as recounted in A Polar Affair, an unusual and colourful book of #PolarExploration, #Penguins, and perversion.

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The Inquisitive Biologist

This week's #NewBooks at the library: I bought a second-hand copy of #JamesHutton: The Genius of Time from Birlinn Publishing and adopted a damaged copy of The Great Auk from Bloomsbury Sigma that I hope to review soon. Also very pleased to have found a second-hand copy of Peter Wellnhofer's classic The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of #Pterosaurs which was recommended by @markwitton for its section on the history of research (when Witton recommends, I listen).

#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Geology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Ornithology #Palaeontology #Paleontology @bookstodon

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. On the left, standing up, The Great Auk, showing a beautiful colour painting of several auks on and below the surface of a body of water set against an orangey-pink sky. In the middle, lying down, The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Pterosaurs, showing several photos and drawings of skeletons and live reconstructions of pterosaurs. On the right, standing up, James Hutton: The Genius of Time, showing a drawing of a green landscape with bushes and trees with several people on horseback and in old-fashioned stage coaches with a multicoloured cross-section of the bedrock underneath. In the lower left corner is a smaller black-and-white drawing of a man in a knee-length coat standing to the left of a rock face, looking at it. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books, a red curtain in front of a door, and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor.
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The Inquisitive Biologist

This week's #NewBooks at the library: Two academic books

- "Science for All: The Popularisation of Science in Early Twentieth-Century Britain" from the University of Chicago Press; and
- "The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire" from Harvard University Press.

Completely unrelated, won at auction, a vintage artbook from #GamesWorkshop by John Blanche and one of my favourite illustrators, Ian Miller.

#HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Anthropology #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. On the left, standing up, Science for All, showing a collage of vintage science book covers. In the middle, lying down, Ratspike, showing two surrealistic drawings of human figures by Ian Miller and John Blanche. On the right, standing up, The Creation of Inequality, showing a yellow-tinted drawing of human figures, some naked, some wearing loincloths, in a savannah landscape. Most are kneeling in a large circle and have geometric figures painted on their chests, with some seemingly having some sort of bags or coverings on their heads and faces. Several other figures are standing behind the kneeling figures, bent over them and holding on to the coverings. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor.
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The Inquisitive Biologist

Today it is 69 years ago the world lost #GeorgeMurrayLevick.This British Antarctic explorer made observations on penguins that were considered too shocking for the world. They are recounted in A Polar Affair, an unusual and colourful book of #PolarExploration, #Penguins, and perversion.

inquisitivebiologist.com/2020/

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