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Scientific Images Discussion Group

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This seminar aims to discuss the relationship between history and philosophy of science and the visual image. Almost all of us come across scientific images in our research; there is, however, no clear consensus of how best to incorporate visualisation into fields of studies. If we do not want to consider scientific images merely as illustrations of a text, how can we use appropriate methods and concepts in order to get results beyond the pure text? The group aims to face these challenges and deal with the methods, treatment and interpretation of scientific images, that will include images as a constitutional part of knowledge and evidence as well as images of the fine arts reflecting science. All welcome.

Meetings will take place in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Each presenter will choose a text to be prepared by the group for their topic. You will find these texts a week in advance in the group’s box in the Whipple Library. If you would like to be added to the mailing list, please contact gdb32@cam.ac.uk

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0 upcoming talks and 26 talks in the archive.

Curious – Looking at Microscopy through Craft and Technology

UserSusanna Edwards (Science Museum London).

HouseDepartment of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 11:00-12:00

Mars Globes and the Canal Controversy

UserJoshua Nall (HPS).

HouseDepartment of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2009, 11:00-12:00

Human Art and Natural Beauty in eighteenth-century Microscopy

UserFlorence Grant (King's College London).

HouseDepartment of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 January 2009, 11:00-12:00

The Historiography of the Scientific Image

UserChitra Ramalingam (Harvard University).

HouseDepartment of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2009, 11:00-12:00

Methodology and the visual image

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UserGeoff Belknap (HPS).

HouseDepartment of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2008, 10:30-01:00

The visual language of geology, 1760-1840

User Martin Rudwick (HPS).

HouseDepartment of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2008, 11:00-01:00

Isaac Newton's architectural drawings of the Temple of Solomon

UserAlexander Wragge-Morley (HPS).

HouseDepartment of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2008, 11:00-01:00

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