Tuesday, October 11, 2011
At the recent Science on Tap Jonathan Seitz prompted people to think more broadly about what constitutes a science, both in the past and the present. Demonology, he argued, was a science that tried to categorize and make sense of natural phenomena.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 10/11 at 09:52 AM
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Rebecca Kamen gave a presentation on her sculpture and art, tracing her inspiration to old scientific illustrations. Her description of these illustrations and the uses to which she put them raise questions about how we use the past and for what ends.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 09/24 at 12:42 PM
Thursday, December 23, 2010
A (belated) summary of Jonathan Seitz’s recent colloquium, along with an account of the discussion that followed. Jonathan’s colloquium confronted a number of historiographical issues about expertise and experts. It also showed that early modern talks can draw reasonable crowds.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 12/23 at 10:53 PM
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Saturday, December 11, 2010
Maria Poruondo’s recent colloquium offered a new interpretation of a fresco cycle in the Royal Library at the Escorial—a belated report.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 12/11 at 11:56 AM
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
The discovery of the Philadelphia chromosome in 1960 was a landmark in cancer research—and an illustration of the primitive state of human cytogenetics.
Posted by Nathaniel Comfort on 09/28 at 07:12 AM
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Matteo Martelli’s recent Brown Bag Lecture at CHF offered a nice diversion from the more modern presentations. His project, to recover the contours of ancient Greek alchemy, raise some historigraphic issues.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 04/28 at 10:01 PM
Saturday, April 24, 2010
David Barnes offered the commentary on Carin Berkowitz’s paper about rhetoric and British medical practice. A spirited if smallish audience showed up at the Wagner to participate.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 04/24 at 10:50 PM
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Barbara Traister spoke on the 17th-century English “occult physician” Simon Forman at yesterday’s Brown Bag Lecture. Her talk centered on her work editing one of Forman’s alchemical manuscripts, “Of Appoticaries Druges.”
Posted by Darin Hayton on 03/31 at 10:15 PM
Saturday, March 06, 2010
Just a quick link to Simon Schaffer’s Tarner Lectures on astronomy and empire. Podcasts are available for download.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 03/06 at 06:57 AM
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Daniele Cozzoli offered a detailed chronology of the development of antihistamines from the early 1930s through the mid- to late-1940s. He arranged these developments broadly against the backdrop of World War II and French-German business interests,on the one hand, and French-U.S. on the other.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 03/02 at 10:30 PM