Dear MERSENNE list,
I thought list-members might find the following of interest:
EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar), 2004-5
Venue: Room 265, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E.
Time: 2-4pm. Refreshments provided.
9 October 2004
Dr Raphael Hallett (University of Sussex)
Words in Abstract Space: Pierre Ramus, Rhetoric and the Geometry of Print
6 November 2004
Dr Kevin Killeen (Birkbeck, University of London)
"The Doctor Quarrels with Some Pictures": Animals and Exegesis in Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica
4 December 2004
Dr Kate Eagleton (British Museum)
The fruits of learning and the contents of a great library - John Whethamstede, Abbot of St Albans,
and his encyclopaedia Granarium.
8 January 2005
Dr Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Humane understanding before Locke.
5 February 2005
Dr Lauren T. Kassell (University of Cambridge)
"All was this land full fill'd of faerie": magic and the past in early modern England
5 March 2005
Dr Leo Catana (University of Copenhagen).
The exposition of Giordano Bruno in Jacob Brucker's history of philosophy:
Some historiographical considerations
19 March 2005
Prof. Lawrence Principe (Johns Hopkins University)
Transmutational Experiments at the Early Eighteenth Century Parisian Academy
2 April 2005
Dr Koen Vermeir (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven):
Divination and the powers of the imagination in the late Seventeenth-century
7 May 2005
Dr Nick Wilding (University of Cambridge)
Pseudonymity and seventeenth-century natural philosophy
18 June 2005
Professor Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute)
Arabic Magic in the Renaissance
Organisers: Dr Stephen Clucas ([log in to unmask]) and Dr Peter J. Forshaw ([log in to unmask]).
NB For the most up-to-date information regarding the seminar please check our webpage:
http://www.sas.ac.uk/ies/Seminars/Emphasis_2004-5.htm
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Dr Stephen Clucas
Senior Lecturer in English and Humanities
Birkbeck, University of London,
Malet Street, LONDON WC1E 7HX.
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