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FAME IN ART AND SCIENCE
A conference organised jointly by
The Royal Institution and the Leonardo da Vinci Society
Friday 4 November 2011
The Royal Institution
21 Albemarle Street, London W1
Programme
1030 Registration and tea/coffee
1110 Welcome: Frank A. J. L. James (Royal Institution)
1115 Introduction: J. V. Field (Birkbeck, University of London)
1130 Paul Hills (Courtauld Institute, University of London)
Titian and the Performance of Painting
1210 Stephen Pumfrey (University of Lancaster)
Galileo Galilei
1250 J. V. Field
Johannes Kepler
1330 Lunch interval
1500 Jon Whiteley (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
The Image of Cultural Heroes in the Romantic Era
1540 David Knight (University of Durham)
A Romantic Genius in Science: Davy and His Contemporaries
1620 Tea/coffee
1650 Frank A. J. L. James
Why is Faraday so Famous and Maxwell not?
1730 End of afternoon session
1800 Reception
1900 Martin Kemp (University of Oxford)
Leonardo and Mona Lisa. Why?
2000 Approximate end of the meeting
Attendance at the whole meeting (including tea/coffee) is £20 pounds for non-members of the Leonardo da Vinci Society, £15 for members of the Leonardo da Vinci Society, students and unwaged.
A ticket for the evening lecture only (available from the Royal Institution www.rigb.org) is £10.
Further details are available from the organisers: J. V. Field (jv.fieldhart.bbk.ac.uk) and Frank James (fjamesri.ac.uk).
A conference poster is here and a registration form is here.
The Royal Institution and Leonardo da Vinci Society are registered charities, numbers 227938 and 1012878.
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