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Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge Please find below the Michaelmas Termcard for the Departmental Seminars. Beginning the 20th of October, seminars meet on Thursdays at 4.30 in Seminar Room 2. Tea is served from 4.00 and following the talk all are welcomed to come along to the pub and then dinner. 20 October *Robin Findlay Hendry (Durham University)*, No really, it is: 'water' and 'H2O’ 27 October *Xavier Roqué (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)*, The rise of modern physics in Spain: knowledge, power and memory 3 November *Bence Nanay (University of Antwerp and Peterhouse, Cambridge) * Singularist semirealism 10 November *Cesare S. Maffioli (International Academy of the History of Science)* The mathematicians' philosophy: early Italian perspectives on the intellectual appropriation of the mechanical arts 17 November *Abigail Woods (Imperial College London)* Rethinking health, disease and modernity: a view from the farm, c.1930–70 24 November *Josipa Petrunic (University of Toronto)* Cambridge mathematics in the north: Peter Guthrie Tait, Philip Kelland and the local nature of mathematics in Edinburgh, 1858–65 Abstracts are available at http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/seminars/dept.html. organised by Karin Ekholm -- Dr Karin Ekholm Research and Teaching Associate in History of Medicine Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Cambridge Free School Lane Cambridge CB2 3RH