Seminar series in the History of Science Seminar Room of the Modern History
Faculty, Broad Street, Oxford.
Thursdays at 5 pm.
14 October
Dr Patricia Fara (University of Cambridge)
‘Hidden depths: Halley, hell and other people’
21 October
Dr Jim Bennett (Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford)
‘Wind-gun, air-gun, or pop-gun: the fortunes of a philosophical instrument
(mostly in 1794-6)’
28 October
Dr William Ashworth (University of Liverpool)
‘Regulation, imitation and industrialisation in 18th-century England’
4 November
Efstathios Arapostathis (Modern History Faculty, University of Oxford)
‘Innovations, engineering practices and roles in consulting, 1878-1898: the
case of John Hopkinson’
11 November
Dr Stephane Van Damme (Maison Française, Oxford)
‘Making a philosophical greatness: Descartes in France (1650-Revolution)’
18 November
Dr Rebekah Higgitt (Imperial College, London)
‘History by induction: men of science as historians of science’
25 November
Professor Graham Richards (British Psychological Society)
‘The place of religion in the history of modern Psychology’
2 December
Professor Roy MacLeod (University of Sydney)
title to be confirmed
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