bibliolater , 10 months ago to science

Breathnach CS. Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682). Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 2005;98(1):33-36. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/014107680509800115 #History #STEM #Science #Medicine #PDF #HistSci @science

rossb_oxford , 10 months ago to histodons

I'm reading Charles Darwin's barnacle study with a queer eye with a mind towards developing my 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet' . . . but, doing a bit of googling around it, I find that someone on Reddit has already beat me to the core thesis . . . 🤨

#HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #Darwin #biology #zoology #science

Read about 'Darwin's Closet': https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 🐸 🏳️‍🌈 🐒 :transgender: 🦞

rossb_oxford , 11 months ago to histodons

My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871)' in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society has now been viewed over 20K times! Please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 🏳️‍🌈 🐒

There's now a prequel, 'Bounds of Diversity: Queer Zoology in Europe from Aristotle to John Hunter': https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/195/1/1/6568055 :transgender: 🦞

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rossb_oxford , 11 months ago to histodons

🎂 A delightful birthday treat today, visiting Down House - former home of Charles Darwin - for the first time. This was long overdue!

Amid all the staid Victoriana, I couldn't help but think of Darwin writing about gynandromorphs, 'latent sex,' 'vice,' and 'extreme sensuality' here . . .

Read about 'Darwin's Closet': https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648

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rossb_oxford , 11 months ago to histodons

🐘 It's #WorldElephantDay!

Two male Asian elephants, Dunk and Gold Dust, were star attractions at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. In November 1892 physician Irving C. Rosse described, somewhat disapprovingly, how the animals had sex together, this being the first published account of same-sex sexual behaviour in elephants. 🏳️‍🌈 🐘

#naturalhistory #zoology #zoo #elephants #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq

Section of text from article titled 'Sexual Hypochondriasis and Perversion of the Genesic Instinct' by Irving C. Rosse and published in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease in November 1892. It reads: 'Only a few days ago, to escape a shower, I took refuge in the elephant house in the Washington Zoölogical Gardens, where are confined the two male elephants, “Dunk” and “Gold Dust.” To my astonishment, they entwined their probosces together in a caressing way; each had simultaneous erection of the penis, and the act was finished by one animal opening and allowing the other to tickle the roof of his mouth with his proboscis, after the manner of the oscula more Columbino, mentioned, by the way, in some of the old theological writings, and prohibited by the rules of at least one Christian denomination.'

bibliolater , 11 months ago to science

Jonathan Westaway (2022) The Inuit discovery of Europe? The Orkney Finnmen, preternatural objects and the re-enchantment of early-modern science, Atlantic Studies, 19:2, 200-223, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2020.1838819 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #Science #HistSci #EarlyModern #Scotland #Orkney #Arctic #Inuit #Folklore #Europe @histodon @histodons @earlymodern @science

bibliolater , 11 months ago to random

🧵 #Thread: this the first #toot in a series of #toots that will eventually be stitched together into a #megathread related to 📚#books and 📘#ebooks. (1)