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Friday, June 5th, 2015
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Dead Letters on Galileo's Sunspots
Eileen Reeves, Associate Member of the Program in the History of Science, Princeton University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Early Enlightenment Monks? Philosophy, History, Law and Theology in German and Austrian Benedictine Monasteries after 1700
Thomas Wallnig,
Institute of History, University of Vienna,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Medical Philosophers: Nicolas Hartsoeker and Cartesian Physicians in the Dutch Republic
Catherine Abou-Nemeh, Lecturer, School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Picture Multiple: Figuring, Thinking, and Knowing in Descartes's Essais (1637)
Melissa Lo, Assistant Curator of the Dibner Collections at the Huntington,
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CANCELLED!!! Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Dead Letters on Galileo's Sunspots
Eileen Reeves,
Associate Member of the Program in the History of Science,
Princeton University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Wandering Scot: A Cultural Agent in Seventeenth Century Europe
Stefano Gattei,
Assistant Professor, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Isaac and Diana's Doves: Newton's Transformation of Philalethan Alchemy
William R. Newman,
Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor in History, Caltech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Visualizing Disease: problems and Challenges in Pathological Illustrations
Domenico Bertoloni Meli,
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science,
Indiana University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Ancient Geometry Meets the Modern State: Colin MacLaurin among the Molasses Barrels
Judith V. Grabiner,
Pitzer College,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The impact of Alexander von Humboldt and Humboldtian science in the United States
Sandra Rebok,
Huntington Library/Spanish National Research Council ,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Big Bang Scenarios Before the Discovery of the Red Shift: Alexander Friedman and the Foundations of Relativistic Cosmology
Alexei Kojevnikov,
Department of History,
University of British Columbia,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Natural Kinds as Categorical Bottlenecks
Laura Franklin-Hall,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
New York University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Recovery and Application of Greek Mathematics in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period
Noel M. Swerdlow,
Visiting Associate in History,
Caltech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Reclaiming a New World: Fen Drainage, Improvement, and Projectors in 17th-century England
Eric H. Ash,
Associate Professor of History, Wayne State University,
Dibner Research Fellow at the Huntington Library,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Galileo and Descartes on Copernicanism and the Cause of the Tides
Tad Schmaltz,
Professor of Philosophy,
University of Michigan,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Representing Order Information in Elementary Geometry: Diagrams vs. Axioms
John Mumma,
Philosophy Department,
California State University of San Bernardino,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
NOA's Einstein / Einstein's NOA
Thomas Ryckman,
Professor of Philosophy,
Stanford University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
A Tale of Two Vigne: Galileo, the Telescope and Roman Elites, 1611
Thomas F. Mayer,
Augustana College,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
More than Skin Deep: Anatomy and the Creation of Early Modern Saints
Bradford Bouley,
Assistant Professor of History,
Pennsylvania State University and USC,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Mechanics of Romantic Thinking: Point and Lever Circa 1800
Jocelyn Holland,
Associated Professor,
UC Santa Barbara,
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This Seminar has been cancelled - Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Bohr's Invention of the Quantum Atom: A Fresh Look via Newly Available Material
John Heilbron,
Visiting Associate in History,
Caltech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Locating the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century: The Collections of R.-A. F. de Réaumur
Mary Terrall,
Professor of History,
UCLA,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Physicist Max von Laue: "Knight Without Fear or Fault"
Dieter Hoffman,
Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Goofball Panic: Bureaucratic Rationality, Economic Interest, and Irrational Sentiment in Postwar American Drug Regulation
Nicolas Rasmussen,
Professor in the School of History & Philosophy,
University of New South Wales,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Einstein-Picasso Question
Lewis Pyenson,
Professor of History,
Western Michigan University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
History of Science and the Historiography of Astrology
Steven Vanden Broecke,
University of Ghent,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Analysing Alkaloids, Analysis Mania: What Liebig's 1830 Laboratory Notebook Can Tell Us About the Practice of Organic Analysis
Catherine Jackson,
Chemical Heritage Foundation,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Stitching the World Together: Why Time Seems to Flow
Craig Callender,
University of California, San Diego,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Concepts of Completeness in EinsteinÂ’s Critique of Quantum Mechanics
Don Howard,
Department of Philosophy,
University of Notre Dame,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
X-phi as Explication Preparation for Formal Epistemology
James Justus,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Philosophy,
University of Texas-Austin,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
History and Philosophy of Feynman Diagrams
Adrian Wuthrich,
Center for Philosophy of Science,
University of Pittsburgh,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
How to Destroy Probabilities and Lives by Trying to Make Things Safer
Adam Elga,
Department of Philosophy,
Princeton University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Molding of the Young Bethe
Silvan S. Schweber,
professor of physics and Richard Koret Professor in the History of Ideas, Emeritus,
Brandeis University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Empire and the Politics of Information in America, 1840-1860
Peter Shulman,
assistant professor of history,
Case Western Reserve University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Incommensurabilities? Trying to Grasp Chinese Medicine in 17th-Century Europe
Harold J. Cook,
professor of history,
Brown University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The 'Unity of the Occult Sciences': A View from late Seventeenth-century Britain
Michael Hunter,
University of London,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Leibniz and His Followers on Action and Reaction: The Origin of Kant's Third Law of Mechanics
Marius Stan,
Caltech-Huntington Mellon Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy,
Caltech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Immanuel Velikovsky and the Pseudoscience Wars: The Great Collision of 1950
Michael Gordin,
professor of history,
Princeton University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Early Kant's (Anti-)Newtonianism
Eric Watkins,
professor of philosophy and science studies,
UC San Diego,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Ancient Greek Atomism and the Mechanical Philosophy
Sylvia Berryman,
associate professor of philosophy,
University of British Columbia,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Learned Surgeons and the Cultures of Print in Renaissance Venice
Cynthia Klestinec,
assistant professor of English,
Miami University of Ohio,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Modeling and Representing: An Artefactual Approach to Model-based Representation
Tarja Knuuttila,
visiting associate in philosophy,
Caltech,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
The Origin of Vector Calculus in Geometry and Mechanics
Sandro Caparrini,
postdoctoral fellow,
University of Toronto,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Cartesian Consciousness Reconsidered
Alison Simmons,
professor of philosophy,
Harvard University,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Persons and Explanations by Mechanisms
Peter Machamer,
professor of the history and philosophy of science,
University of Pittsburgh,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Beyond Galton: J.S. Mill, Charles Darwin, and the 19th Century British Debate over Inherited Differences?
Diane Paul,
professor emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston,
visiting professor, UCLA Center for Society and Genetics,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Pre-History of the Mechanical Philosophy
Daniel Garber,
professor of philosophy,
Princeton University,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Leibniz's History of the Earth
Claudine Cohen,
CNRS-University of Paris,
Andre Wakefield,
Pitzer College,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Big Books in Manuscript and Print
Ann Blair,
professor of history,
Harvard University,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Gravity in the Tropics: The Seconds Pendulum and Global Science, 1672–1726
Nicholas Dew,
assistant professor of history,
McGill University,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
The Genesis of the 1000-foot Arecibo Dish
Marshall Cohen,
professor of astronomy, emeritus,
Caltech,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Marx, Mao, and Mathematics
Joseph Dauben,
professor of history,
City University of New York,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Two Concepts of Scientific Philosophy: Carnap and Reichenbach
Andre Carus,
affiliate lecturer,
University of Cambridge ,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Visualizing the Mathematical Sciences in the Early Modern Period
Volker Remmert,
University of Mainz,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Modeling in Synthetic Biology
Andrea Loettgers,
senior postdoctoral scholar in the Center for Biological Circuitry Design,
Caltech,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Heinrich Hertz's Road to the Principles of Mechanics
Jesper Lutzen,
visiting professor of history, Caltech,
and professor of mathematics,
University of Copenhagen,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Useful Knowledge: On the History of the Concept of Science for the Common Good, from Bacon to Mill
Rose-Mary Sargent,
Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor of History, Caltech,
and professor of philosophy, Merrimack College,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Wonderment for Idiots in Baroque Rome
Ingrid Rowland,
associate professor of art history,
University of Chicago,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
To Draw or to Calculate: Aristarchus's Problem and the Computational Practices of Greek Astronomy
Ido Yavetz,
assistant professor, The Cohn Institute for History of Science, Tel Aviv University,
and the Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor in the History of Science,
Caltech,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Kepler's Archetypal Cosmology and Arguments for the Copernican Theory
Noel Swerdlow,
professor of history and professor of astronomy and astrophysics,
University of Chicago,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
The Mathematical Theory of Perspective from Alberti to Lambert: Its Development, Its Use, and Its Prestige
Kirsti Andersen,
associate professor,
department of the history of science,
University of Aarhus, Denmark,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Building MIT: Architecture and Technology
Thomas P. Hughes,
Emeritus Professor of the History of Science and Technology ,
University of Pennsylvania,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Running a Laboratory in 19th-Century Germany: Virchow the Pathologist and Ludwig the Physiologist
Robert G. Frank,
Department of History,
UCLA,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Einstein as Object and Tool of Historical Research
Diana Kormos-Buchwald,
Associate Professor of History,
Caltech,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Ernst Mayr's Identification of Typology as the Enemy of Darwin: an Exercise in Metahistory
Mary P. Winsor,
Professor Emeritus, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,
University of Toronto,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Shifting Ontologies in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry: Classification Between Workshop, Laboratory, and the Field
Wolfgang Lefevre and Ursula Klein,
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Mount Wilson Observatory and Dutch Astronomy: The Legacy of Jacobus Kapteyn (1851-1922)
Klaas van Berkel,
University of Groningen,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Recent Controversies in the History of Einstein's Special Relativity
Alberto A. Martinez,
Weisman Postdoctoral Instructor in History of Science,
California Institute of Technology,
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