Cabinet of Natural History Program: Lent Term 2000
24th January: Alexandra Cook (Victoria University of Wellington) "Rudiments
of a philosophical botany: Jean-Jacques
Rousseau and the ‘etude oisieu’"
31st January: John van Whye (Cambridge) "Travels of a Craniologist: Franz
Joseph Gall and his European lecture tour 1805–1807"
7th February: Max Jones (Cambridge) "The Royal Geographical Society and
British exploration, 1878–1914"
14th February: David Clifford (Cambridge) "Angry red Lamarckians on every
corner: transformist ideology in pre-Victorian London"
21st February: Tim Lewens (Cambridge) "Problem-Solving and Evolving"
28th February: Nigel Leask (Cambridge) "Curiosity and Romantic Travel
Writing"
6th March: Emma Spary (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte),
Nick Jardine (Cambridge) and Jim Endersby (Cambridge) "A Rum Affair: a
discussion"
13th March: Thomas Soderqvist (University of Copenhagen) "Writing the Life
of a Living Scientist: Ethical Problems"
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Jim Endersby, Graduate Student
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge
Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RH
Daytime phone: (01223) 500 284
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