desembre 2010

Content Developer, History of Science £22,970 - £23,970 per annum pro rata. Fixed-term contract to October 2011. Science Museum, South Kensington, London Closing date: 12th January 2010. Interviews will be held in the week commencing 17th January. A specialist position has arisen on the Science Museum's project team for Making Modern Science, a proposed major permanent exhibition on the history and current practice of science. The gallery will be based around the Science Museum’s world-class collections, spanning from the late 18th century to the present day.

Science Museum, London Curator, History of Science £29,844 to £32,344 inclusive per annum Location: South Kensington, London A specialist curatorial position has arisen in the Collections Unit based at the Science Museum, London. This role is for an individual with a good knowledge of the history of science and, ideally, experience of working with museum objects. A commitment to developing and communicating knowledge of the history of science and its associated material culture using all media – exhibition, publication, web, presentation and broadcast – is essential.

A new book on the collection of psychological instruments of Albert Michotte (1881-1965) preserved at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
For more information see:
http://upers.kuleuven.be/nl/titel/9789058678430
http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/erfgoed/psy/index.html

Granato, M. and Lourenço, M. C. (eds.), Coleções científicas de instituições luso-brasileiras: Patrimônio a ser Descoberto (Rio de Janeiro: MAST/MCT, 2010).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Patrimônio Científico do Brasil e de Portugal: uma introdução Marcus Granato e Marta C. Lourenço

La Cultura Material de la Ciencia en España: historia, estado actual y proyectos de futuro José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez, Mar Cuenca Lorente, Antonio García Belmar e Josep Simon Castel

Senior Lecturer/Administrative Director, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments is the oldest and most extensive university-based collection of its type in the United States, holding some 20,000 instruments dating from the 17th century to the present.