Events for February 9, 2010
February 9, 2010
James R. Voelkel, Chemical Heritage Foundation
The Digital Edition of Isaac Newton’s Alchemical Papers: Challenges and Promises
Chemical Heritage Foundation | Visit site »
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Place: 6th Floor Conference Room, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Information: 215-873-8289 or bbl@chemheritage.org
The Chymistry of Isaac Newton (www.chymistry.org) is a large-scale project funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities that will make all of Isaac Newton’s alchemical manuscripts available in an on-line edition. Initial transcriptions of all available manuscripts have been made and are in the final stages of editing. James Voelkel, who has been intimately involved with the project for many years, will discuss the technical difficulties of creating an on-line scholarly edition as well as the promises of digital humanities.
James Voelkel is curator of rare books at the Chemical Heritage Foundation and a senior advisory editor to the Chymistry of Isaac Newton Web project.
February 9, 2010
James Elkins, Art Institute of Chicago
Visual Practices Across the University
Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ | Visit site »
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Place: Alexander Library Teleconference Lecture Hall
Information: info@cca.rutgers.edu or 732-932-8426
Evidence and Explanation in the Arts and Sciences: Distinguished Lecture Series
Today’s university employs a wide range of image-making and image-interpreting practices: doctors, lawyers, scientists of all sorts, engineers, humanists, and social scientists all produce images and make arguments about them in different ways. This talk assesses the state of scholarship on links between art and science, arguing that it is possible to consider images in various fields without using tropes from the humanities or social sciences as explanatory tools—in other words, by letting the different disciplines speak in their own languages.