#historical scientists

[yourdailyqueer]

Rachel Carson (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 27 May 1907 

RIP: 14 April 1964

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Writer, marine biologist, conservationist

Note 1: Her book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.

Note 2: Had a relationship with Dorothy Freeman, which was conducted mainly through letters and during summers spent together in Maine. Over 12 years, they exchanged around 900 letters.

#Rachel Carson #lgbt history #lgbt #lgbtq #wlw #Lesbian Visibility Week #female #lesbian #1907 #rip #historical #white #writer #biologist #scientist #conservationist #activist #popular #popular post

[city-of-ladies]

During the second or first century BCE, a woman pretended to be able to control the moon. This was Aglaonice, who is regarded by some as the first known female astronomer. 

She’s mentioned in the writings of Plutarch and the scholia to Apollonius of Rhodes and lived in Thessaly, Greece. Being “skilled in astronomy”, Aglaonice used her knowledge to predict eclipses and make people believe she caused the moon to disappear. 

According to Plutarch:

“Thoroughly acquainted with the periods of the full moon and when it is subject to eclipse, and, knowing beforehand the time when the moon was due to be overtaken by the earth’s shadow, imposed upon the women, and made all believe she was drawing the moon down.”

The scholia adds that Aglaonice lost a close relation as a punishment for having angered the moon goddess.

Interestingly, Thessaly is associated with women skilled in astronomy and occult practices. Several female astrologers from the third to first centuries BCE were for instance known as “The Witches of Thessaly”. These women were said to study the movements of the moon and trick people into believing that they caused lunar eclipses.

In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates mentions the "Thessalian enchantresses who, as they say, bring down the moon from heaven at the risk of their own destruction."

Today, a crater on Venus bears Aglaonice’s name.

Feel free to check out my Ko-Fi if you like what I do! Your support would be greatly appreciated.

Further reading:

Bicknell Peter, "The witch Aglaonice and dark lunar eclipses in the second and first centuries BC." 

Chrystal Paul, Women in Ancient Greece

Plutarch, On the failure of oracles

Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta 

Reser Anna, McNeil Leila, Forces of Nature: the women who changed science 

#aglaonice #history #women in history #women's history #women in science #herstory #greece #ancient greece #antiquity #scientists #astronomy #historyedits #1st century BCE #ancient world #historical figures

[nabasart]

SCUDWORTH I LOVE YOU SO MUCH <33

#is he a great dad? no #BUT HE LOVES THEM ALL DEARLY #clone high #clone high scudworth #clone high joan #clone high candide #not art #sometimes a family is an evil scientist his robot butler husband and their school of historical figures

[frankidacre]

IT’s GREGORRRR MENDELLLLL!!! (Posting this drawing I made because guess who passed their bio finals!!!!) Anyways I think about how this guy really loved his bees 😭 but the monastery wouldn’t let him study the reproduction of bees as opposed to peas sjfjsjfjj. The bees and the peas.

#history #historical figures #gregor mendel #biology #science #stem #fanart #digital art #character design #leyendecker #illustration #vintage inspired #stem student #scientists #gregor mendel and his bees are >>>> #they really dug him up and examined his dna recently omg #digital illustration #mendel

[amethystamanda]

Stone Gemology Table

Before there were tables, there were stones. And there were also pretty stones. Sometimes people used stones to make pretty stones prettier.

For your pre-gemology table saves (or post gemology table saves), a Stone To Cut Stones On.

A total of 74 swatches (shown below). Found in Creative Activities, or by searching Gemology or Jewel. 500 Simoleons (cheaper than the original, but still something to spend your money on). Off the grid, same as the original.

A mesh edit of the stone coffee table from Outdoor Retreat, making it into a gemology table. Does not require Outdoor Retreat, just Crystal Creations.

There are 2 medium slots and 4 small slots for deco or whatever fits in them. I would recommend not using move objects near the front of the table, because that area is used by the sims.

Five basic natural swatches:

28 swatches from the Historian palette (@academiapalettes):

28 swatches in the Scientist palette (@academiapalettes):

and 13 more fantastical swatches of my own creation:

Known issues:

Original effects are still present, including modern tools and bright light from the grinder while in use. I removed what lighting I could, but that one spot is an effect, not a light.

The grinder looks a bit out of place, but it would look weirder removed, I think, because the animation and visual effects would remain the same.

Download on patreon (free): https://www.patreon.com/posts/100320495

#sims 4 cc #build buy cc #the sims 4 #ts4cc #ts4 #my cc #Crystal Creations #sims 4 activities #historian palette #scientist palette #sims 4 historical #sims 4 historical cc #sims 4 prehistoric #sims 4 stone age

[clairewritesjjkxreader]

Young!Human!Sukuna whose heart is stolen by a isekai'd scientist reader

WARNING: attempted murder, abuse, bullying, successful murder, CANNIBALISM

Go away if the aforementioned concepts make you sick

Sukuna who is born with his tattoos and is seen as a monster. His parents try to kill him but fail every time. When his father left him in the woods, he woke up the next morning to find the baby back in the house, and when his mother tried to crush him with a rock, she slipped and broke her leg.

Sukuna who isn’t given a proper first name because “he doesn’t deserve it.”

Sukuna who is forced to learn how to hunt and fish as a young child because “he’s useless” otherwise.

Sukuna who doesn’t complain about having to eat only swill because the other option is to starve.

Sukuna who can only watch as other children play and have fun with their families while his father berates him in public. 

Sukuna who’s the reason why his parents started arguing more. 

Sukuna who came home from a hunt one day to find his childhood home bloodied, his mother dead and his father hysterical. 

Sukuna who kills his father in self-defense.

Sukuna who is ostracized by the other villagers.

Sukuna who encounters an oddly dressed foreigner in the forest, who saves you from a bear.

Sukuna who stiffens when you throw your arms around him in gratitude, crying and laughing with relief. 

Sukuna who learns a lot from you even though you speak a language he vaguely understands as Japanese. 

Sukuna who helps you build a nipa hut in a safe place in the woods, away from the village. 

Sukuna who has never known the weight and warmth that a home-cooked meal is until he met you, who realizes that the reason the food is so salty is because he’s crying.

Sukuna whose chest feels with indescribable joy when you start calling him “Kitten.”

“Because your birthmarks remind me of a tiger,” you said. 

Sukuna who doesn’t question your desire to dissect already dead animals and can only think of how your eyes shine when you cut them open.

Sukuna who does everything as you instruct without a word of complaint, who learns that he is abnormally fast and extremely strong for a human. 

Sukuna who falls in love with everything you do and would marvel at everything you say because instead of getting scared of him, you seem to be eager to be near him.

Sukuna who grows up into a supernaturally big and strong person, but is a complete puppy.

Sukuna who with your help, discovers that he has an abundance of what he will later know to be cursed energy. 

Until one day, he finds your home desecrated–all those glass test tubes and surgical tools you had him make for you were scattered about, stomped on by people from his village and strange men he’s never met before. 

“Sorcerers,” they called themselves as they showed him your corpse, wrapped in binding talismans. 

The kitten Sukuna losing control, unknowingly releases a burst of cursed energy that decimates everyone who isn’t you.

An  overwrought Sukuna caging you in his arms, crying out your name, begging you to look at him. 

Your eyes are wide open but they are unfocused and glazed over. He cups your cheek and turns your face towards him. He pinches you the way you always do with him.

Nothing.

You’re not breathing.

Sukuna then remembers something that you taught him. 

He sets you down on the ground, muttering a desperate apology because he knows how much you hate dirt, and puts both his hands over your chest.

He pushes down, cringing as he feels your soft bones crumble beneath his touch, but he keeps pumping because you told him that’s normal.

He puts his mouth over yours, trying to breathe life back into you just as you instructed before. Then he resumes pumping your chest. Then he breathes into you again.

Day turns into night and he has crushed all your ribs.

Sukuna scratches at his throat, drawing blood.

This isn’t happening.

“Kitten,” he hears your voice, “you know, in my time, hiding our emotions is considered detrimental in our wellbeing, so if you ever have a problem, whether it’s with our experiments or because the villagers were mean to you, just tell me. Even if we can’t solve each other’s problems, at least we can be angry at them together.”

Sukuna pushes back your hair and tries his best to wipe the dirt from your face, illuminated by the full moon.

“Hey…” he remembers himself asking you, “what do you call it when a person’s chest hurts…when the thumping gets stronger when they see someone?”

You’re smiling at him. “Hm, that depends. Is this someone hated?”

“No! It’s the opposite. It’s someone who makes the person smile every time.”

“Hmmm. There is a term for this human condition that hasn’t been coined yet. Where I come from we call it–”

“Love…” Sukuna whispers. “I…love…you.” He has never heard of this phrase before he met you. He has never even known about the concept of love until you explained it to him through various ways.

When you sang a lullaby to an injured bird as you nursed it back to health.

When you chatted with the plants in your tiny herb garden because that helped them grow.

When you patted his back when he finished a task, successfully or otherwise.

Sukuna presses his lips over your forehead as you did to him many times before. “I love you,” he repeats, caressing the skin over your fractured chest before lovingly tearing through it. 

His nails push through the broken ribcage and grab your still heart. 

He examines the organ. It’s a lot smaller than his own hand. It’s so cute, as expected of you, he thinks. Then he opens his mouth and takes a big chunk of your heart.

Your blood drips from the corners of his lips and down his arms as he continues to consume what is left of you.

Without a soul, only the corpse is cursed. 

Every bone, every piece of flesh, every drop of blood is gently consumed, because he doesn’t want to leave a single part of you behind.

When Sukuna went to take a bath in the river–“I despise dirty things,” you had told him–he caught a glimpse of his reflection and burst out laughing.

He leers at the four-armed monster in the water and wonders if you’ll still accept him like this.

A/N: So… just a clarification, even though I wrote "isekai" (and this is technically still isekai) in the title prompt, Y/N basically time-travelled into the past and is unaware of who Sukuna is or what is jujutsu. Y/N isn’t a foreigner from our world who knows about Jujutsu Kaisen. They just time-travelled.

Also, if it wasn’t clear enough, in this au: Sukuna wasn’t born as a two-faced, four-armed human. He gained the extra organs and limbs after he ate the corpse of Y/N, which he unknowingly cursed. I like to think that he has a LOT of cursed energy, and because he ate Y/N’s cursed corpse, his power doubled. Am I making sense??? Just…yeah. I’m tired. HAHAHAHAHAHA

#jjk #jujutsu kaisen #sukuna #sukuna ryoumen #sukuna x reader #sukuna x y/n #y/n #gn #scientist #genius #isekai #time travel #au #historical au #past au #headcanons #imagines #scenarios #jjk x reader #jjk x y/n #angst #yandere #tw #abuse #bullying

[sysig]

When does the Tom Kenny brainrot stop (Patreon)

#Doodles #That's the fun part: It doesn't #I mean he's in every cartoon ever made so it's kind of a tall ask to avoid him-brainrot completely lol #So let's see the ones we've got here are: #I'm not even going to bother tagging the fandoms it's already too much lol #Commander Peepers #Dr. Two Brains #Simon Petrikov #And while they're not voiced by him they get the very special honour of being Within Range - seven degrees style lol #Spamton #Rouxls Kaard #Winter King #Too many! Too silly! #I do think it's funny that the three that I've Definitely and Unequivocally fixated on were all on the mad scientist side of things lol #Peepers is the militant side - Steven is your classic kids' villain (and the fact that they're both on the villain side haha) #And Simon is more of the magical/historical/scientific - AT's magic system is just kinda like that tho even if he was from before all that #And they all have such a queer bent to them it's honestly incredible - I know audience seeing the self in the other fjdsalfjdsf look. Look #Look me in the eyes and tell me any of those men are cishet. I will call you a liar #Gosh it's been a while since I've drawn Two Brains! One of these days I'll actually watch Word Girl in earnest again haha #I'm still so partial to the original shorts I can't help it <3 I mean - Professor Boxleitner is right there! #Don't read too deeply into me enjoying another Jekyll and Hyde type character I've been normal for a long time I swear (lol) #I'm trying to remember if I've drawn Simon before :0 I've definitely liked him for as long as I've enjoyed AT! At least since his appearance #Gosh he's so good in Fionna and Cake - Mr. Kenny just does such a lovely job portraying him <3 #I wonder which roles he enjoys the most ♪ He's taken so many! #And then finally the silly idea since Moon got me into Winterkov as a gateway into watching the full series lol #Just the image of them holding their little crackship baby swaddled between them lol #''Look He Has Thou's Nose'' ''H3 has y0Ur [HAIR CUT COLOR HERE]!'' ''Looks Like He'll Needst Glasses Just Like Thouest As Well'' #Lol #Winter's interesting :) In a lot of ways :)

[uwmspeccoll]

Science Saturday

RACHEL CARSON

In 1951 Oxford University Press published American marine biologist and conservationist Rachel Carson‘s critically-acclaimed book, The Sea Around Us. It became one of the most successful books ever written about the natural world. Rachel Carson's rare ability to combine scientific insight with moving, poetic prose catapulted her book to first place on The New York Times best-seller list, where it enjoyed wide attention for thirty-one consecutive weeks. It remained on the list for more than a year and a half and ultimately sold well over a million copies, was translated into 28 languages, inspired an Academy Award-winning documentary, and won both the 1952 National Book Award and the John Burroughs Medal.

In 1958, Simon and Schuster published this special edition for young readers, adapted by Russian Empire-born American writer Anne Terry White, with illustrations by Rene Martin and maps by Emil Lowenstein. It also includes an additional chapter by Jeffrey Levinton, a leading expert in marine ecology, who incorporates the most recent thinking on continental drift, coral reefs, the spread of the ocean floor, the deterioration of the oceans, mass extinction of sea life, and many other topics. In addition, noted nature writer Ann Zwinger contributed a brief foreword. The last photographic image shown here is by American science photographer Fritz Goro.

View our 2021 Earth Day post on Rachel Carson’s most influential book, Silent Spring.

View more Science Saturday posts

#Science Saturday #women's history month #science #oceanography #marine science #marine biology #marine ecology #Rachel Carson #women scientists #The Sea Around Us #Simon and Schuster #Anne Terry White #Rene Martin #Emil Lowenstein #Jeffrey Levinton #Ann Zwinger #Fritz Goro #children's books #Historical Curriculum Collection #New York Times best-seller

[tirsynni]

BotW/TotK Hylian Royal Family meta ahead. 

These are my headcanons based on what I’ve seen from the games. Obviously, everyone has different thoughts on it. No bashing in it and possibly Rhoam-critical but not Zelda-critical. Just headcanons about how the role religion played in Royal Life pre-Calamity.

Also, I’ve barely touched AoC, so this meta is based more on BotW, TotK, OoT, MM, TP, and SS, with the full understanding that this is headcanon and no consistent canon on this matter exists and will never exist... not even between BotW and its direct sequel, TotK.

A major plot point in BotW is Zelda’s inability to connect with her powers. There is no indication that she can do the things Link takes for granted in BotW, like see the Koroks and dragons. I would be surprised if she could. She’s young, frustrated, and her father -- her only living parent -- is pressuring the hell out of her to connect with her powers. It’s clear in the flashback and in his journals that he isn’t acting like a parent and he’s aware of it. He’s acting like a king who knows that he needs a specific weapon and is given a rough rulebook on how to access the weapon. Per their history, Zelda has Goddess blood which gives her access to a weapon which can defeat this grand evil; her ancestor was able to activate it, so obviously Zelda should be able to do the same; Zelda is failing to activate the weapon which should be automatic to her per some ancient rulebooks. It’s unknown how detailed the guidelines for activating this power is or the King is just assuming that of course this is what Zelda needs to do to activate this power. I mean, it was 10k years ago (which seems insane to me, but whatever).

Here’s where more headcanons come into play. I think the power of the Goddess -- and honestly, pretty much everything spiritual -- is completely disconnected from the Royal Family in this era. Per their records, the last time the holy power was needed was a long time ago. I would be shocked if something else hadn’t happened in the meantime (seriously, it’s one hell of a time difference), but for them, the power of the Goddess Blood hasn’t been needed any time recently. Zelda has made it clear that she has no personal connection to it. Her drive is scientific. She has no internal motivation to be connected to the Goddesses. Her motivation to connect to her powers isn’t because she wants to connect to anything on a spiritual level. She wants the power to protect her people and, honestly, because she’s experiencing so much pressure and backlash. Again, per BotW (and TotK, really), we don’t see her do any of the spiritual/divine/extra stuff Link does. Link talks to multiple divine statues. He plays games with the Koroks. In the BotW flashbacks, she is happiest when she’s doing Science(!), and in TotK, she focuses on highly practical things with no stories (that I’ve seen so far) of her doing anything with a spiritual slant. Her focus is rebuilding a school, not rebuilding a church.

It makes sense, though! I think the Goddess Blood and its associated power is more academic than anything. They know Zelda has it. Hell, the Hylian Royal Family relies on that Bloodline to claim their divine right to rule. They know that the power of the Goddess was used by previous princesses to protect the family. With all that said, there is no indication in canon that it has any modern role in their lives. Hell, there is no indication that spirituality in general has any role in the lives of the Royal Family. It seems like the Goddess Blood has two primary roles pre-Calamity: to ensure Divine Right to Rule and to awaken to protect Hyrule from the Calamity. That’s it.

In at least one previous game, it was said that the Hylians’ ears were shaped that way in order to better hear the spirits and the like. We don’t know Link’s own abilities when it comes to this pre-Calamity. I personally enjoy the headcanon that he could hear and see far more than Zelda but didn’t want to say anything because it would hurt her. Would also match with the concept of “keeping his mouth shut helps keeps his ears open.” But there’s no strong evidence that spirituality or anything play a strong role in Hylian daily life pre-Calamity. It might have been something which was also lost through time. That is a major theme in many Zelda games: that important things, including connection with the divine, have been lost. The Zelda games love showing ancient, forgotten things, things whose stories can never fully be told again. The original stories are long lost, and all that exists in the BotW/TotK are modern interpretations, fairy tales, prophecies, etc. For further examples, see the Zonai Survey Teams and how they are excited about their discoveries but can’t connect to them in the way Link casually does.

I read a story once about how a pastor once invited an enthusiastic member of his congregation to lead a prayer one day. He didn’t ask her beforehand. She was always highly motivated, highly social, and a strong believer. He didn’t think anything of his request. It should have been fine! Instead, she walked up to the front of the congregation, stood there for a moment, burst into tears, and fled. Later, he discovered that while she was very religious, she was never taught how to pray. Prayer was a major part of their religion, and as such, it was expected that everyone automatically knew how to do it! Not so! He realized an important lesson that day and didn’t take it for granted again.

Prophecy and Divinity play a significant role in the Royal Family, but do they actually know what to do with it? Zelda is told to pray and she’s told to do it for a specific reason: unlock her powers so she can help defeat the Calamity. We never see the King pray or do anything religious at all. He obviously believes in the prophecies and such but doesn’t actively do anything himself: Hylia favors their family, Zelda has Goddess Blood, etc. etc. etc. Very matter-of-fact things. Nothing he needs to do, actually! Because according to the Prophecies, he just needs to make sure the players are in place! Actual knowledge and practice doesn’t come into play here. No actual internal spiritual beliefs: just practical applications.

So that’s my headcanon as to one of the reasons why Zelda struggled. Would knowing how to pray have helped in the end? Unknown. When her power eventually arose, she was still pretty disconnected from it. It seemed like in BotW and TotK that she never fully connected with it: just used it to fulfill her goal, which was stopping the Calamity from destroying her people. Maybe her daughter or granddaughter or whoever would connect with their spiritual heritage. Overall, King Rhoam, who had probably never really prayed a day in his life and had no real connection to Hylia himself, looked at his daughter, told her that the only way to awaken her powers was to pray, and never thought for a moment that if he didn’t know how to pray, how the fuck should she?

#meta #botw #totk #loz #not zelda bashing #i love me some scientist zelda #but really #she didn't want to pray #she wanted to see what happened #if link licked a frog #she would barely blink at a church #but would go nuts #over historical ruins #no idea if this makes sense #or if it is just rambling #but still #also makes me want to write #yet MORE AUs #sigh

[lindahall]

Giambattista Vico – Scientist of the Day

Giambattista Vico, an Italian philosopher, was born June 23, 1668, in Naples.

Learn more

#Giambattista Vico #historical thought #historicism #histsci #histSTM #18th century #history of science #Ashworth #Scientist of the Day

[european-love-hotel]

happy first contact day girlies! only 40 more years until we can get some CRAZY alien dick! sit tight and behave! 👽🛸😱💦😏

#solkar #first contact #star trek #i want vulcan peepee #star trek first contact #we should all get astrology and biology degrees so we can be well respected scientists by the 2060s and be apart of this historical moment!!

[yourdailyqueer]

Joseph Sonnabend (deceased)

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 6 January 1933 

DOD: 24 January 2021

Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Doctor, scientist, researcher, AIDS activist

Note: One of the first physicians to notice among his gay male patients the immune deficiency that would later be named AIDS. During the height of the AIDS crisis, Sonnabend helped create several AIDS organisations.

#Joseph Sonnabend #lgbt history #gay history #male #gay #1933 #rip #historical #jewish #ashkenazi jewish #south african #african #doctor #scientist #researcher #activist #popular #popular post

[majimasleftasscheek]

I saw your last post just now and saw you ask about a name for Okita and Ryoma and I got this for you:

Sakakita or Ryoji

Or

Okimoto or Sojima

ohhhh I quite like sakakita or okimoto kdlkld really rolls off the tongue

I do wonder tho, is there an actual ship name out there for them? anyone know?

#I'll prolly keep tagging em as kazumaji since ya know they're practically the same but more feral lmao #also very funny since they were real people but that's what we have our funny historical fanfiction for 👉👉 #if I wasn't supposed to fawn over ryoma then why he got cleavage deeper than the grand canyon huh #explain that scientists

[katiajewelbox]

Meet more notable women in plant biology during Women's History Month 2024.

Anna Atkins

One of the first female photographers was also a botanist. Although she did not attend college, Anna Atkins (16 March 1799 – 9 June 1871) received her scientific education from her chemist father John George Children. As an adult, she pursued her curiosity about plants by collecting and drying specimens of land plants and seaweed which she used to create educational and artistic “photograms” using cyanotype photographic paper. She self-published the book containing photographic illustrations, entitled “ Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions” in 1843. She was also elected as a member of the London Botanical Society.

Miriam Rothschild

Curiosity about nature and collecting came naturally to Miriam Rothschild ( 5 August 1908 – 20 January 2005)– after all she was the niece of the eccentric Lionel Walter Rothschild who created a natural history museum stuffed with specimens from around the world at Tring in the UK. Her long and eventful life included campaigning for the rights of animals, children, people with mental illness, and LGBTQ people as well as innovative scientific research on entomology, particularly chemical ecology and mimicry. Her botanical connection is her research on how Monarch butterfly larvae’s toxicity is derived from chemicals in the milkweed which they feed on.

#katia_plantscientist#womeninscience#womeninstem#womeninbotany#womeninsplantscience#womeninbiology#annaatkins#miriamrothschild#photography#algae#entomology#chemicalecology#botany#plantbiology#plantscience#history#womenshistorymonth

#katia plant scientist #botany #plant biology #plants #plant science #women in science #women in stem #women in biology #women scientists #female scientists #womens history #women's history month #historical figures #anna atkins #miriam rothschild #ecology #photography

[alliterative-endlessknot]

It’s #CelebrateScientistsDay! So we’d like to share an older video in which we celebrate the life, inventions, connections, poems, and word coinages of a fascinating early scientist, and tireless science educator, Erasmus Darwin. #ScienceEducationDay

#celebrate scientists day #science education day #etymology #history #words #language #linguistics #word nerd #wordnerd #history of the english language #history of english #historical linguistics #lingcomm #lingblr #video #youtube

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Not to be picky but I sorta feel the council of Piltover should maybe have put more people into the r&d department of the work that literally launched the city into a new era of technology than like, two guys and their one assistant.

#like bestie I am not a scientist but I understand the importance of group work in a lab and in myriad huge discoveries historically #arcane