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Monday, March 24th, 2014
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

Watching a Renaissance Cartographer at Work: The Construction of Waldseemüller's Carta marina (1516)
Chet Van Duzer, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

Junípero Serra and the Spanish Craze
Richard L. Kagan, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William and Myrtle Harris Seminar on Science and Civilization

Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts
Andrew Robinson, Author and Journalist,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

The Einstein-Picasso Question
Lewis Pyenson, Professor of History, Western Michigan University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

Big Science, 19th Century Style: Terrestrial Physics and the British Quest for the South Magnetic Pole
Edward J. Larson, University Professor and Hugh & Hazel Darling Chair in Law, Pepperdine University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

Archaeologies of Performance: Ritual Movement through Greek Sacred Space
Joan Breton Connelly, Professor of Classics, Art History; Director, NYU Yeronisos Island Excavations, Cyprus, New York University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
9:00am 5/7 5:00pm
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Francis Bacon Conference

Molecular Biology and Intellectual Property in the Age of Biocapitalism
Myles W. Jackson, professor of the history and philosophy of science and technology, Polytechnic Institute and Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University,
4:30pm 5:30pm
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Francis Bacon Conference

Intellectual Property and Molecular Biology: Biomedicine, Commerce, and the CCR5 Gene
Myles W. Jackson, professor of the history and philosophy of science and technology, Polytechnic Institute and Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

The Apples of Our Eyes: Art, Intellectual Property and American Fruits
Daniel J. Kevles, J. O. and Juliette Koepfli Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, Caltech, and professor of history, Yale University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

Walther Rathenau's Dilemma: Modernity and the Human Soul
Shulamit Volkov, professor of modern history, Tel Aviv University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
9:00am 5/9 5:00pm
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Francis Bacon Conference

How the Cold War Transformed Science
Naomi Oreskes, Francis Bacon Visiting Professor of History, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

Manufacturing Memories
Elizabeth Loftus, distinguished professor social ecology and professor of law and cognitive science, UC Irvine,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

Did Darwin Write the Origin of Species Backwards?
Elliott Sober, professor of philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

The Religious Rise of Civilizations
Scott Atran, University of Michigan and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris ,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Cartesian Consciousness Reconsidered
Alison Simmons, professor of philosophy, Harvard University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

From Professor to Crusader: Galileo Transformed by His Telescope
John L. Heilbron, professor emeritus of history and vice chancellor emeritus, UC Berkeley, honory fellow, Worcester College, Oxford,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Pre-History of the Mechanical Philosophy
Daniel Garber, professor of philosophy, Princeton University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Big Books in Manuscript and Print
Ann Blair, professor of history, Harvard University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

Commemorating Darwin: 1809, 1859, 2009
Janet Browne, Aramont Professor of the history of science, Harvard University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Marx, Mao, and Mathematics
Joseph Dauben, professor of history, City University of New York,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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 ,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

Robert Hooke in the Round: Ingenious Scientist, Newton's Nemesis, and a Most Disastrous Clerk
Lisa Jardine, professor of renaissance studies, Queen Mary University, London,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

Watson, Crick, and the Mushroom Cloud
Soraya de Chadarevian, department of history and the New Center for Society and Genetics, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Visualizing the Mathematical Sciences in the Early Modern Period
Volker Remmert, University of Mainz,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

Is There a Neurophysiological Challenge to Freedom and Responsibility of Human Action
Julian Nida-Rumelin, Professor of Philosophy, Chair for Political Theory and Philosophy, University of Munich, Visiting Associate in Philosophy, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,