Project MUSE®: Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences.daily12026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 53 (2023) through current issueLatest Articles: Historical Studies in the Natural SciencesTWOProject MUSE®Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences1939-182X1939-1811Latest articles in Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Encounters in the Living Ocean: Giant Squid and Human Understanding of the Sea
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988459
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I have never seen a living giant squid, but giant squid have a place in my memory. "To grow up in Newfoundland is to be captivated by the story of the giant squid," explains Jenny Higgins, author of Devilfish.1 As a child, I occasionally visited a pickled specimen on display in the lobby of a local office of the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans. I was captivated by the fictional battle between men and squid imagined by Jules Verne and vividly brought to life in a 1954 screen adaptation of Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. And later, as a teenager learning to sail small dinghies in Conception Bay, I often had these creatures in mind when I looked over the gunwales into the opaque, blue-grey
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/890/image/coversmallEncounters in the Living Ocean: Giant Squid and Human Understanding of the Sea2026-04-24text/htmlen-USEncounters in the Living Ocean: Giant Squid and Human Understanding of the Sea2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®1508512026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Margrete Heiberg Bose, a Woman in Early Physical Chemistry
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988460
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The entrance of women into academic sciences as cultivated at universities and technical colleges dates essentially from the last quarter of the nineteenth century. It was also in this period that the first women graduated with university degrees in chemistry and physics. Many of them worked as educators, demonstrators, and laboratory assistants, and several of them collaborated with their husbands. Moreover, they often took on less visible roles such as translating, annotating, illustrating, and editing scientific works. Stimulated by the shining example of Marie Curie in Paris, women chemists and physicists found the new field of radiochemistry to be particularly attractive.1 Not all of the first generation women
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/890/image/coversmallMargrete Heiberg Bose, a Woman in Early Physical Chemistry2026-04-24text/htmlen-USMargrete Heiberg Bose, a Woman in Early Physical Chemistry2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®1746062026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Four Paths through Climate History
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988461
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These four recent books represent four different ways in which the story of climate's influence on history can now be written.First, authors may attempt to tell as much of the story as they can with as much detail as they can, drawing on the latest scholarship in diverse academic disciplines—including paleoclimatology, environmental archaeology, and environmental history—that seem relevant to the histories of human and climatic changes. The sweeping and ambitious narratives encouraged by this approach lend themselves to trade press books that can reach a broad audience. But there is a contradiction: Such narratives touch on so many topics, so many forms of evidence, that such books are typically dense, reading more
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/890/image/coversmallFour Paths through Climate History2026-04-24text/htmlen-USFour Paths through Climate History2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®314252026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24