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
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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