Monday, January 04, 2010
Science Hagiography, Google Style
Today Google celebrates Isaac Newton’s birthday with a falling apple.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 01/04 at 10:15 AM
PACHSmörgåsbord: Alchemy
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
James Voelkel on Bringing Newton’s Alchemy to the Masses
James Voelkel spoke this past Tuesday about recent efforts to produce on-line editions of Isaac Newton’s alchemical manuscripts. The project, “The Chymystry of Isaac Newton” is an ambitious history-of-science foray into digital humanities.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 02/10 at 10:58 PM
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Barbara Traister on the Occult Physician Simon Forman
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
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Distilling Ancient Greek Alchemy from the Manuscripts
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
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
The Weekly Smörgåsbord #11
A belated roundup of history of science articles and blog posts.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 05/25 at 10:56 PM
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