Dear All,
Those of you in London might be interested the following talk at KCL on
Wednesday. This promises to be a brilliant talk, and there will be
plentiful refreshments afterwards -
May 20th - King's College London, Strand Campus, Somerset House East
Wing (17.00, Room SW1.09)
A Material Enquiry: 18th-Century Householders and their search for
Scientific Knowledge
Leonie Hannan, The Institute for Collaborative Research in the
Humanities, Queen’s University Belfast
This paper explores the practice of scientific enquiry as it took place
in the eighteenth-century British home. Whilst historians of science
have identified the genteel household as an important site for
scientific experiment, they have tended to do so via the particular
biographies of important men of science. This paper asks, instead, how
the spatial and material conditions of home were exploited by
householders more generally – householders who may not have been Fellows
of the Royal Society or published writers on natural philosophy but who
were nonetheless intellectually curious. Using three case studies of
individuals engaged in experimentation, observation and theorising in
their homes, this paper seeks to illuminate new connections between the
domestic and the investigative.
Full details including a location map can be found here:
https://enlightenmentsubjectivities.wordpress.com/
Prosecco and fancy soft drinks will be served in liberal quantities as
ever!
All good wishes,
Alex Wragge-Morley and William Tullett
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