Commodifying Botany in Early Modern England
For next Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Lecture (Harry Ransom Center), Sarah Neville (Ohio State University) will give a talk on “Herbals ‘Grete’ and Small: Commodifying Botany in Early Modern […]
The Applied Arts of Alchemy
The Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry (Science History Institute) presents “The Applied Arts of Alchemy,” a multi-day virtual symposium on alchemy’s practical and applied uses and their lasting […]
How Early Modern Readers Used Geometrical Diagrams
For Diagrams in Science, Science in Diagrams conference at Bibliotheca Hertziana, Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford) will give a lecture entitled “How Early Modern Readers Used Geometrical Diagrams.” Monday, 14 […]
Hernando Colón’s New World of Books
For next Book and Print Initiative at Warburg Institute, Edward Wilson-Lee (University of Cambridge) and José María Pérez Fernández (University of Granada) will give a talk entitled “Hernando Colón’s New […]
Organizing and Disorganizing Knowledge
The Durham History of the Book Conference provides an online forum for scholars working on premodern book cultures from across the globe. Among the presentations: Wednesday 8 September Emma Spary […]
Experimentation in Renaissance Instrument Prints
For next online Research Seminar at Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Suzanne Karr Schmidt (Newberry Library) will give a talk entitled “Sammelband Scientia: Experimentation in Renaissance […]
Digitizing Materiality: On the Fabric of Human Bodies
The “On the Fabric of Human Bodies” Workshop at Science History Institute will explore the body and materiality of scientific collections, moving from 2-D to 3-D representations and objects. Dow […]
Medieval and Early Modern Medical Practice and Pedagogy
For next Digitizing Materiality online workshop at Science History Institute, Julia Nurse (Wellcome Collection) will give a talk entitled “The Materialized Body: Aspects of Medieval and Early Modern Medical Practice […]
After Hours with Banned Books
The next online talk at Linda Hall Library, “After Hours with Banned Books,” will host Jamie Cumby and Hannah Marcus on censoring scientific books in early modern Europe. Thursday September […]
Visualizing the Unknown in 17th-Century Science and Society
The kick-off meeting of the NWO-funded research-project Visualizing the Unknown. Scientific Observation, Representation and Communication in 17th-century Science and Society will take place at Rijksmuseum Boerhaave and will be streamed […]