Whewell’s Gazette
Your weekly digest of all the best of
Internet history of science, technology and medicine
Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell
Year 3, Volume #40
Monday 22 May 2017
EDITORIAL:
Faster than we can register, it’s once again time to deliver up another edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list bringing the latest histories of science, technology and medicine thrown up on the shores of cyberspace over the last seven days.
On the 17 May Google celebrated the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the so-called Antikythera Mechanism with a doodle. As always with a #histSTM Google Doodle this provoked a minor flood of post and reposts on the subject, some of which are collected below.