Nuncius
Nuncius is a mailing list for the Oxford community of historians of science, medicine, and technology, and for those with closely related interests. It can be used by students, staff, and academic visitors as a forum for discussion and a means of keeping in touch, as well as a place where announcements can be made and news posted, such as details of lectures, seminars, and other events.
Why ‘nuncius’? Aside from its use as a title of a journal produced by the Museum of the History of Science in Florence (to whom apologies are due for our plagiarism), the most famous example of the use of ‘nuncius’, at least in the context that interests us, was by Galileo, who in March 1610 published his ‘Sidereus nuncius’, or ‘Starry messenger’, announcing the discoveries made with his newly constructed telescope.
For this mailing list, however, it seems appropriate to drop the scientifically partisan word ‘Sidereus’ and in so doing to assert and encourage a firm belief in the coherence of the history of science, medicine, and technology in Oxford.
Nuncius is administered at the Museum of the History of Science.
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