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Harvard Gazette: High-tech for the 1700s
Electrical conductors. Surveying tools. Mathematical instruments. Harvard College, founded in 1636, was a pioneer in teaching the applied sciences. Over the centuries, the institution amassed thousands of tools used for lessons in physics, trigonometry...
NEW EXHIBITION "Measuring Difference" Opening October 20
We measure everything around us. It is how we see and compare differences. However, measurements, often perceived as neutral tools, are essentially human inventions that may be, at their core, flawed and biased. The upcoming exhibition Measuring...
Pope's Grand Orrery: Up Close & Personal
Pope's Grand Orrery has long been a star object of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, where it looms large at the entrance to our Putnam Gallery, welcoming visitors to " Time, Life, & Matter: Science in Cambridge." It was also recently...
HMSC Connects with Prof. Hannah Marcus, CHSI's New Faculty Director
Jennifer Berglund, from the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture exhibits team, interviews Hannah Marcus about her journey into history through her love of archives, censored books, and Italy. https://bit.ly/HMSCPodcast Photo credit: EJSP Visual | Julieta...
PRESS RELEASE: Surveillance: From Vision to Data
Surveillance: From Vision to Data (Opening September 21, 2023) poses timely questions about the history of surveillance. The term surveillance may suggest images of high-tech cameras or George Orwell’s ever-watching Big Brother. But surveillance involves...
Look What Turned Up, in 1860!
David P. Wheatland Curator Sara Schechner recently consulted with the National Museum of American History (NMAH) on an interesting find: a French pocket sundial that purportedly turned up in an Indiana farmer's field in 1860! How is got there and how it...
Mark 1, rebooted...sort of.
The unexpectedly arduous journey of the Harvard IBM Mark I Automatic Calculator from the Harvard Science Center to its new home in the new SEAS complex in Allston is chronicled in article in the Harvard Gazette. Such drama!
Curator Sara Schechner discusses Women in Science at Harvard
The weekly HMSC Connects! podcast featured an interview with Sara Schechner, David P. Wheatland Curator. Host Jennifer Berglund speaks with Sara about women’s achievements in science at Harvard, and beyond.
CHSI Chief David Unger Talks Museums & Collecting in Podcast Interview
The latest HMSC Connects! podcast episode features an interview between Jennifer Berglund, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture exhibit developer, and Dave Unger, former Director of Administration at the Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific...
CHSI Clock Keeper Ketchen Gets the Star Treatment
CHSI longtime friend, clock maker, restorer, and horologist Richard Ketchen has been integral in keeping our most important timepieces cleaned, balanced, and, well...on time! In a recent article, The Harvard Gazette offers a brief discussion of Richard's...
CHSI Curator Sara Schechner Named 2019 American Astronomical Society Fellow.
David P. Wheatland Curator Sara Schechner has been named among the inaugural Fellows of the American Astronomical Society. Fellowships recognize members " for achievement and extraordinary service to the field of astronomy and the American Astronomical...
Dr. Sara Schechner Awarded 2019 Paul Bunge Prize
In recognition of her work in the history of science, David P. Wheatland Curator Sara Schechner has been named the recipient of the 2019 Paul Bunge Prize by the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker and the German Bunsen Society. Herzlichen glückwunsch and...
