Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments

Measuring Difference Exhibition now open! Visit FREE 11am-4pm Sunday through Friday.

[Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments @harvardchsi]

Congratulations to Hannah Marcus, Professor of the Harvard Department of the History of Science and faculty director of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, on winning the 2025 Dan David Prize!
https://t.co/kOyBDEqlBR 👏

[Harvard Museums of Science & Culture @HarvardMuseums]

We're looking forward to our free #HarvardSolstice event on 6/20! Attendees will enjoy performances, and activities, & cool off in the galleries. Presented with @therevels, Office of FAS Chief Campus Curator, @gradcommons, & @masscultural.
https://t.co/QFCIFRn5hl ☀️

[Pre Cinema History 📷🎞️🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @RealPreCinema]

From the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments at the #HarvardMuseum @Harvard, an existing Cook and Bonelli Photobioscope.

It consists of a brass frame equipped with two eyepieces, their relative width being adjustable to exact accommodation for each viewer.

Also, here is an excerpt from ‘The History of Movie Photography,’ by Brian Coe, New York Zoetrope Inc., Westfield New Jersey, 1981 talking about an “unusual feature” of the Photobioscope, on page 41.

[Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments @harvardchsi]

Visit the Measuring Difference exhibit & attend a free conversation with curator and friends as they examine Euroamerican measuring systems & their role in constructing hierarchies that persist in Latin America and US today. https://t.co/dq7HoCqU7q. @harvarddrclas #ArtsThursdays

[DRCLAS @ Harvard @HarvardDRCLAS]

02/27 @ 6PM: The Power and Bias of Measurements

Pablo Gómez, Gabriela Soto Laveaga, and Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez will examine Euroamerican measuring systems and their role in constructing power structures that persist in Latin America and the US today.

https://t.co/Bsae8OOtJj

[Cambridge Office for Tourism @CambridgeUSA]

Step into Buzz Aldrin's moon shoes and launch into an out-of-this-world trip around Cambridge 🚀

🏨 Boston Marriott Cambridge
👣 @BostonInnoTrail
🌕 @DraperLab
🔭 @harvardchsi
🍦 @farout_icecream
🎒 Trademark's @MIT Tour
🍺 Theory Bar & Lounge, Residence Inn Cambridge

[Harvard Art Museums @harvartmuseums]

Make sure you plan a visit to our friends at the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments to explore "Measuring Difference" that looks the various ways colonial powers introduced new measurement systems to describe and exploit the "New World".
https://t.co/ZCVj2KbRaS

[Katherine Enright @Katherinenright]

What a joy to be back at Harvard for the opening of Measuring Difference! My hugest thanks to @gabrielasotolav for asking me to be part of the curatorial team with the wonderful Manny Medrano and Francis Newman, and to everyone at @harvardchsi and @HarvardMuseums

[BlueHill Observatory @bhobservatory]

Let's talk weather & climate at the 2024 Southern New England Weather Conference, Oct. 26th 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM. This conference is for all INDIVIDUALS, so join the conversation. Register-https://t.co/zkJgcMLj1w @SNEWxConf #WeatherEnthusiasts,#ClimateAwareness,#WeatherEducation

[Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments @harvardchsi]

Measuring Difference exhibit opens 10/20. Measurement is everywhere, but measurements are human inventions. Using examples from across the Americas, this exhibit illustrates what—and who—was measured. Visit FREE 11 am - 4pm Sunday through Friday. https://t.co/VoCawKUxRJ

[Boston.com @BostonDotCom]

Perseid meteor shower peaks Sunday evening and clear skies are promising a good show. https://t.co/1GHcVONCaZ

[Mario Livio @Mario_Livio]

Today is Feb 15. #OTD (or 16th) in 1564 mathematician and astronomer Galileo Galilei was born. He made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the scientific method. See "Galileo and the Science Deniers."

[Black Hole Initiative @BHI_Harvard]

The @ehtelescope released a new image of the supermassive black hole in M87! The bright spot in the disk has shifted by 30 degrees… a beautiful proof of this giant’s variability! Several members of the BHI (including Dominic Chang and Nimesh Patel) took part in the discovery!

[Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments @harvardchsi]

This @TIME Magazine cover from '50 features an article on #Harvard- @IBM Automatic Calculators. The Mark I was designed in '37 by Harvard grad student Howard H. Aiken. Aiken partnered with IBM to bring his design to fruition, arriving to Harvard in '44. https://t.co/Bx1IG7NANb

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

#OnThisDay in 1895, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X-rays.

The first X-ray image he took was of his wife Bertha's hand. The discovery of X-rays earned Röntgen the very first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.

Read more: https://t.co/7xMHvT6wa9

[Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments @harvardchsi]

Join us November 3 for "Creating an Ordered World in Disordered Times: The Pope Orrery"...either in-person or via Zoom, its going to be riveting! https://t.co/HY2w2FWnKN

[Harvard Museums of Science & Culture @HarvardMuseums]

Hannah Marcus is a Prof @HarvardHistSci & the new Faculty Director of @harvardchsi. She and Jennie Berglund chat about her journey into history through her love of archives, censored books, & Italy, and the new Surveillance exhibit at the museum. https://t.co/Bg7kiS4LCa #podcast

[Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments @harvardchsi]

@Scherlis @HarvardLocal Hi Dan, I'm sorry but I just found out that the event has been postponed and we don't have a new date. I will loop back with the new info when I have it. Sorry to disappoint!

[Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments @harvardchsi]

@Scherlis @HarvardLocal Great! Glad you can attend.

[Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments @harvardchsi]

@Scherlis @HarvardLocal This one? https://t.co/CsMaPX2fx2