Resources
Mailing Lists
Podcasts
These mailing lists are dedicated to the History of Science, Medicine and Technologies and help keeping track with the field’s events, conferences, seminars and more. You can registers to these lists by following these links.
- UK mailing list of HoSM, “Mersenne” : http://www.list24.ch/mailman/listinfo/mersenne-users
- Cambridge Department of History of Science and Medicine: https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/about/hps-discussion-email-list
- International Society for the history and philosophy of Science (HOPOS) http://hopos.org/subscribe-to-mailing-list/
- List of information on HoSM in the francophone community : https://listes.univ-rennes1.fr/wws/info/theuth
- The Global History Podcast: https://theglobalhistorypodcast.com/
- Casenotes: a history of medicine podcast (hosted by the Edinburgh Royal College of Physicians): https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/casenotes-history-medicine-podcast
- The Evolution of Knowledge (Scuola Internationale SUperiore di Studi Avanzati in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute): https://www.sissa.it/news/evolution-knowledge-rethinking-science-antrophocene
- Science Social – Conversations on History, Science and Society (Max Plank Institute): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/science-social-conversations-on-history-science-and/id1536730848
Museo Galileo
Sistema Museale d’Ateneo
The Museo Galileo is Florence’s museum of the history of science and technologies. It features the Medici collection and the Lorraine collection which include scientific and medical instruments, maps, and telescopes.
The library of the museum is located at the top of the building. Anyone with the EUI card and an ID can register and have access to the wide library collection of books and archives in the history of science, medicine and technologies. The top floor, where the library is located, is also a working space — if you wish to work with a view on the Arno!
Information on the Museo Galileo Library can be found here: https://www.museogalileo.it/it/biblioteca-e-istituto-di-ricerca/biblioteca-e-archivi/informazioni-biblioteca.html
The Sistema Museale d’Ateneo is the University of Florence’s network of museums. It is composed of several units, corresponding to different discplines ranging from anthropology to botany.
- Museum of anthropology and ethnology, Palazzo Nonfinito
- Giardino dei Simplici, botanical gardens, La Pira
- Geology and Paleontology, La Pira
- Botany, La Pira
- La Specola, zoology and anatomical waxes, Via Romana
More information on these museums can be found here: https://www.sma.unifi.it/vp-471-visit-us.html
Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR)
“The Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR) is an international institute of advanced studies belonging to the Institutio Santoriana – Fondazione Comèl and based at the Domus Comeliana in Pisa. It carries on the scientific legacy of the Italian physician, philosopher
philosopher, scientist, and inventor Santorio Santori (1561-1636) and it furthers the values of Medical Humanism and the advancement of scientific knowledge as inspired by the intellectual, cultural and social development of the European Medical Renaissance (1300-1700).”