March for Science Posters

— Beyond Curie is a design project that highlights badass women in science, technology, engineering + mathematics.

by Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya

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https://www.beyondcurie.com/

#OTD in 1675.

Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus. He adapted the integral symbol, ∫, from the letter ſ (long s), standing for summa (written as ſumma; Latin for "sum" or "total").

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7168

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Three women translators who bridged cultures

Stories of Birgitte Thott, Sarah Austin, and Émilie du Châtelet.

by Małgorzata Szynkielewska via @Europeanaeu

https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/three-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures

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Italian physicist and academic, first woman to have doctorate in science Laura Bassi was born #OTD in 1711. Bassi became the most important populariser of Newtonian mechanics in Italy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Bassi

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"Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist."
— Lise Meitner (7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968)

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Lise Meitner died #OTD in 1968.

She is known for her part in the discovery of nuclear fission. Among physicists she had been known for many years as one of the early pioneers in the study of radioactivity. Einstein nicknamed her ‘the German Madame Curie’ despite being Austrian.

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First ever drawings of the moon made by Galileo Galilei after observing it through his telescope in 1609.

Galileo produced this extremely famous set of six watercolours of the Moon in its various phases "from life", as he observed the Earth's satellite through a telescope in the autumn of 1609. They represent the first realistic depiction of the Moon in history.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Drawings of the Moon, November-December 1609
Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale

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#OTD in 1609, Galileo Galilei aimed his telescope at the Moon.

While not being the first person to observe the Moon through a telescope (English mathematician Thomas Harriot had done it four months before but only saw a "strange spottednesse"), Galileo was the first to deduce the cause of the uneven waning as light occlusion from lunar mountains and craters. In his study, he also made topographical charts, estimating the heights of the mountains. via @wikipedia

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Find out why Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection is one of TIME's 200 best inventions of 2023.

Project Gutenberg is the oldest digital library, started in 1971 to make e-books more accessible. But CEO Greg Newby says it “isn’t great at either creating or distributing.” So Microsoft and MIT teamed up to make the Open Audiobook Collection, using text-to-speech tech to turn 5,000 books into free, synthetically narrated audiobooks, now available on Spotify.

https://time.com/collection/best-inventions-2023/6324762/project-gutenberg-open-audiobook-collection/

"In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it."

~Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (6 December 1778 – 9 May 1850)

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