Gregory A Good
@geocosmohistory
I am Gregory (Greg) Good, historian of science, with an eye on technology, environment, and bigger worldviews. I write about human understanding of Earth and our near-space environment since about 1800. #histsci #histech #envhist #histgeo
Here is the group photo of the First AIP Early Career Conference for the History of the Physical Sciences. July 29, 2011.
I have access to digitized books through my university library, but what about people without a university affiliation? Digital orphans: Here are some sources of primary docs -- with some restrictions. Project Gutenberg Project Muse Google Books Internet Archive Any others? Photo for example
I made it safely home to find the skies full of smoke. Mayhem and bedlam! Edinburgh is in the rear view mirror. Thanks to everyone who pulled that complicated, splendid conference together! #ESHS-HSS
To celebrate completing our conference session, I hiked with my friend Ernie to the top of Arthur's Seat, the volcanic remnant that towers over Edinburgh. #ESHS-HSS
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I visited her home on the Isle of Wight after the conference in Bath two years ago.
I ventured out to the local state lands in West Virginia and saw a faint glow, nowhere close to the display a year ago for me so far. Clouds are the problem
A photo from a grueling hike in the White Mountains in New Hampshire. The views through rain and mist and occasional wings were incredible. Vacation ends soon.
A mountain stream on Chestnut Ridge, the western edge of the Appalachians.
A banner day yesterday for historians and philosophers of science interested in the geophysical sciences, their origins, and comparisons with other sciences. Thanks to Miguel Ohnesorge and Katy Duncan, who organized the day and to the Royal Institution which hosted us. Wonderful people!
Two of my favorite experiences in the last year. Both of these views are on Chestnut Ridge, a few miles from home in West Virginia. I’m taking a few days away from the desk
Camera lucida drawing by John Herschel, 1831. Photo by me, 2023. Scratchell's Bay, Isle of Wight.
I am laying the foundations for a writing project in #histsci and don’t want to post systematically until the right time. So here is a personal landscape photo of the Cheat River Gorge in West Virginia last week, under a thin blanket of snow, as a place holder until then
In December 2018 I visited the Archives of the KEK accelerator facility in Japan. Yoshinobu Takaiwa set up the archive. In the group shot are Dr Takaiwa, Dr. Kikutani, Dr. Nobumichi Ariga (my host), and me. In the front are Yuko Nakamura (Archivist) and Anna Watanabe (assistant Archivist)
Martinelli also wrote "Earthquakes, Prediction," for my 1998 volumes _Sciences of the Earth_, pp. 192-197. Here's a shot of his bibliography.