Reconstruction of Chemical Experiments as a Historical Method
The next Virtual HistSTM activities include a reading session on the history of chemistry. Tillmann Taape (Columbia University) will discuss the ways in which hands–on reconstruction can be useful as […]
The Deep Time of Earth: Environmental Experiments with History
This workshop organized by Stefano Gulizia (Scientiae / Polish Inst. of Advanced Studies) aims to revisit the relation between environmentalism and sustainability on the one hand, and historiography on the […]
Alchemy, Experiment and English History
The next Philosophical Café will host Jennifer Rampling (Princeton University) for her new book The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700 (Chicago University Press, 2020), in conversation with Georgiana Hedesan […]
What Do We Learn from Recreating Experiments?
The next Philosophical Café (University of Bucharest) will host a panel discussion on experimental history, a growing field of research that focusses on recreating past experiments, recipes and objects, with […]
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 […]
The Hydraulic Technician in Early Ducal Florence
The next Workshop for the Early Modern Period (University of Cambridge) will host Caroline Murphy (MIT) on “Defining the Alluvial Edge: The Hydraulic Technician at Work in Early Ducal Florence.” […]
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 […]
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 […]
Chymistry from the Middle Ages to the 18th Century
The Science History Institute will host a hybrid symposium entitled “Chymistry from the Middle Ages to the 18th Century…and Back Again” in Honor of Lawrence M. Principe, 2020 Recipient of […]
A New Picture of Isaac Newton’s Chymistry
The next Fondazione Comel webinar will host William Newman (Indiana University Bloomington) on “Principles Beyond Ordinary Practice: A New Picture of Isaac Newton’s Chymistry”. Thursday 11 November 2021, 17:00-18:30 (CET) […]