Event Description

The Knowledge in Motion – Science and Medicine in the Islamic World online lecture series (History of Science Museum, University of Oxford) is created in partnership with the HSMT Centre and the Global History Centre​​​​​​​.

Julia Bray (Faculty of Oriental Studies) will be talking about a pilot project funded by her college, St John’s, to photograph and document some of the annotations made by seventeenth-century Oxford astronomers in Arabic books and manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and St John’s College Library.  Some of them were transcribed by Raymond Mercier in the 1990s, but recent technologies give us new means to record them visually, show them to the public and make them more fully accessible for research. Julia will talk about practical issues encountered in the early stages of this new project.

Thursday, 12 Nov 2020, 18:00 GMT

Source: https://event.webinarjam.com/register/24/159zmbpm

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