EMPHASIS 2007-8 Programme

6 October 2007

Venue: ST265 (Stewart House), Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Felicity Henderson (King's College, London)
"Scattered remains: locating the books and papers of Robert Hooke"
Guest co-chair: Nadiya Midgley (London, Birkbeck)

3 November 2007

Venue: ST265 (Stewart House), Time: 14:00 - 16:00

John A. W. Lock
"Practical applications of a mid-sixteenth-century English alchemist and metallurgist"
Guest co-chair: Jennifer Rampling (Cambridge, HPS)

8 December 2007

Venue: ST265 (Stewart House), Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Peter Harrison (Manchester College, Oxford)
"What was Philosophical about Natural Philosophy?"
Guest co-chair: Andrew Campbell (UCL)

12 January 2008

Venue: ST265 (Stewart House), Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Stephen Johnston (Museum of the History of Science, Oxford)
"Mathematics, causes and magnetism: Thomas Digges on the variation of the compass"

9 February 2008

Venue: ST265 (Stewart House), Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Susan James (Birkbeck, University of London)
"Reading Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus"

8 March 2008

Venue: ST265 (Stewart House), Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Pascal Brioist (CESR, Tours)
"The geometry of the bastion in Renaissance fortifications"

5 April 2008

Venue: ST265 (Stewart House), Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Andrew Campbell (University College, London)
"Paolo Antonio Foscarini: A Life Less Copernican"

3 May 2008

Venue: ST265 (Stewart House), Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Christopher D. Johnson (Harvard University)
"Breaking the Encyclopaedia: Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum"

7 June 2008

Venue: ST265 (Stewart House), Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Richard Coulton
"Gentlemen and Horticulture in eighteenth-century London"