The full list of papers for the rest of this term's series of seminars at
the Museum of the History of Science is as follows.
Seminars are on Wednesdays at 5pm.
Speakers will build their papers around individual objects, both from the
Museum's collection and from elsewhere.
1 May, Jim Bennett, 'Illustrations as objects: the prints in Stoeffler's
Elucidatio (and other early instrument books)'
8 May, Jessica Ratcliff, 'Wedge of Sun and slice of Venus: George Airy's
"Working Model of Transit of Venus 1874"'
15 May, Alex Marr, 'Pillars, pedagogy and practice: the 'mathematical
model' of Sir Clement Edmondes'
22 May, Willem Hackmann, 'The Watkins & Hill plate electrical machine: the
end of the line'
29 May, Jon Agar, 'Anti-modern measurement in an "Age of Vulgarity and Noise"'
5 June, Mark Steadman, 'Grave Robbers and Scholars: interpreting an
eighteenth century trepanned skull'
12 June, Giles Hudson, 'Early Photographs and Photographers in Oxford'
The Museum is on Broad Street in central Oxford. To get to the seminars, go
through the museum's front gates, down the stone steps to basement level
and through the glass doors.
Jim Bennett
Stephen Johnston
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