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Joseph Leidy seated next to a fossilized tibia of the Hadrosaurus foulkii, a duck-billed dinosaur discovered in Haddonfield, NJ. Image courtesy of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.

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March 15, 2010

Matt Stanley, New York University

Past as Prediction:  Victorian Scientists on Ancient Eclipses and the Power of Science

Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

March 16, 2010

Joris Mercelis, CHF Doan Fellow, Ghent University, Belgium

Leo H. Baekeland and the Translation of Technology

Chemical Heritage Foundation

March 17, 2010

Sonya Grypma, Associate Professor, Trinity Western University, BC, Canada

China Confidential:  Ethical and Methodological Challenges of Conducting International Historical Nursing Research

Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania

March 17, 2010

Roger Horowitz, Chemical Heritage Foundation and Hagley Museum and Library

The Chemistry of Kosher

Chemical Heritage Foundation and the National Museum of American Jewish History

March 18, 2010

Eisso Atzema, University of Maine

Beyond the Compass: On the Mechanical Construction of the Conic Sections

Philadelphia Area Seminar on the History of Mathematics, Villanova University

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