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February 17, 2010

Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University (Fellow, Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton)

Science and Craft:  An Experiment in Reconstructing Early Modern Knowledge

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Time: 4:30 p.m.
Place: 211 Dickinson Hall, Princeton University

Note:  There is no pre-circulated paper for this talk.

This informal seminar will discuss examples in which various kinds of knowledge have been reconstructed through re-enactment of techniques and processes, in order to consider how such reconstruction can be employed as a source by historians to gain insight into the material and mental world of the past.