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Tuning out knowledge: radio interface design in interwar Britain

UserBrandon Jackson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 10 June 2015, 17:00-18:00

Rock, paper, patents: between intellectual property and embodied knowledge

UserJenny Bulstrode (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 27 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

John von Neumann, Alan Turing and the origins of cellular automata

UserJonnie Penn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

Pedagogy and the vernacular in medieval astronomy

UserSeb Falk (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2015, 17:00-18:00

Newtonian politics

UserJason Grier (York University, Canada).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 17:00-18:00

The making of the midlife crisis: psychology and feminism in the 1970s

UserSusanne Schmidt (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Finding drugs: Russia and the early modern global medicines trade, 1550–1750

UserClare Griffin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Research in psychiatry at a time of therapeutic optimism

UserKathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2015, 17:00-18:00

Crystals and optics: Huygens and Wollaston

UserSteve Irish (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Newton's chronology and the tradition of universal history

Please note change of date

UserTimothy Rees Jones (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

'Crackpots' and 'active researchers': the string wars, arXiv and the blogosphere

UserSophie Ritson (University of Sydney).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

'Illuminating effects': visual culture and the exhibition of lighthouses in Victorian London

UserStephen A. Courtney (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

Imagining ill bodies: the Basel Mission doctors and images from the Gold Coast, 1885–1914

UserLinda Ratschiller (University of Fribourg, Switzerland).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 June 2014, 17:00-18:00

The unknowable, the new reformation, and the rationale for religious freedom: the place of religion in Spencer's philosophy

UserFederico Morganti (Sapienza University of Rome).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 June 2014, 17:00-18:00

Pastoral modernism: the flying machine's arrival over the English countryside

UserCaitlin Doherty (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

The first Human Genome Project: computers and the mapping of human genes, 1950–1970

UserMichael McGovern (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

Dinosaurs don't die: the Crystal Palace monsters in children's literature, 1854–2001

UserMelanie Keene (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2014, 17:00-18:00

Grünthal, Nikolai Hartmann and Schichtenlehre: instituting brain anatomy in a 1950s Swiss psychiatric hospital

UserKathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

Sensible error and other silly notions: galvanizing time in Victorian London

UserKen Corbett (University of British Columbia).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

Spaces for debate between science and religion in Franco's Spain: the intellectual conversations of Poblet (1959–1961)

UserClara Florensa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2014, 17:00-18:00

Finding space to swing a pendulum: the Board of Longitude and 19th-century geodesy, weights and measures

UserSophie Waring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2013, 17:00-18:00

'Contagious' delusions? W.B.Carpenter and the politics of psycho-physiology in 19th-century Britain

UserDaniel Simpson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Illustrating Enlightenment science: women at the margins in 18th-century France

UserMargaret Carlyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

The changing face of Penfield's homunculus

UserZina Ward (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

Have you heard the northern lights? Science and re-enchantment in 19th-century Arctic exploration

UserShane McCorristine (Department of Geography).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 19 June 2013, 17:00-18:00

Laughing at the doctors: satire and public practice, 1660–1720

UserMichelle Wallis (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 05 June 2013, 17:00-18:00

Mythologizing popular scientists: the cult of Feynman and the image of Sagan

UserOliver Marsh (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Liebig's vampire: agricultural chemistry and the embodied earth in mid-19th century Britain

UserSimon Nightingale (Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Varieties of tacit knowledge

UserTim Rogan (Faculty of History).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

The meanings of a breakthrough: categories, news and priority in the making of transgenic mice

UserDmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

Governing for happiness: Mark Abrams, the Central Statistical Office and the development of subjective social indicators

UserScott Anthony (Faculty of History).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

Common sense and phrenology

UserSean Dyde (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 17:00-18:00

Fashionable intelligence: popular experiences of galvanism and the Regency newspaper press

UserIain P. Watts (Princeton University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Everything is illuminated: candles, funerals and sensuous technology in 18th-century London

UserNicky Reeves (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

'What is Mercury?', chapter 1 of The Making of English Alchemy, the speaker's forthcoming book

UserJennifer Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Studying Babylonia in Philadelphia: Assyriological practice and the University of Pennsylvania's museum, c.1900

UserRuth Horry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 20 June 2012, 17:00-18:30

Conceptual change in history of science

UserIrene Goudarouli (University of Athens).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2012, 17:00-18:30

From Cook to Cousteau: the many lives of coral reefs

Please note change of speaker and topic

UserAlistair Sponsel (Harvard University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

The global biopolitics of female sterilization

UserJesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

'Mouse No. 48' and 'Mouse No. 73': first gene transfer experiments, 1977–1980

UserDmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Technological trajectories of hip replacement

UserFrancis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

How to assess influence: Wu Wen-Tsun's work in measure, number and weight

UserJiri Hudecek (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Proctor's Mars: new astronomy and new journalism in Britain in the 1870s and 1880s

UserJoshua Nall (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Private science and public morals: the diary of a late-Victorian teratologist

UserSalim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

The many roles of material variation in Charles Dufay's mémoires on electricity and phosphorescence

UserMichael Bycroft (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

Human genetics and the blood transfusion services: circulating records, samples and expertise, 1939–1945

UserJenny Bangham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

History and philosophy of biology: new perspectives?

UserJoeri Witteveen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) and Pierre-Olivier Méthot (University of Exeter).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 01 June 2011, 13:00-14:00

Did wonders ever cease? The singular, shining and spectacular in Charles Dufay's 'Mémoires sur l'électricité' (1733–7)

UserMichael Bycroft (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Ancient Chinese mathematics in action: Wu Wen-Tsun's ethnic historicism after the Cultural Revolution

UserJiri Hudecek (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

'Lies and frivolity': manners in scientific dispute in 19th-century Britain and Germany

UserRaf De Bont (KU Leuven/Imperial College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

How the Harvard archives reveal that William James was a highly skilled hypnotist

UserThibaud Trochu (University of Paris-I Sorbonne).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

To graze and virtue: Anders Gabriel Duhre as a virtuous maker of useful knowledge in early 18th-century Sweden

UserJacob Orrje (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 09 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Pregnancy testing and the 1930s controversy over the hormonal placenta

UserJesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 26 January 2011, 13:00-14:00

Margaret Fountaine: the life and works of a rather ordinary Victorian lepidopterist

UserSophie Waring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 24 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Concepts and perceptions of body size within western medicine in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

UserAnne Katrine Kleberg Hansen (University of Copenhagen).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

From unhealthy lands to foyers of endemicity: malaria's place in the medical geography of French West Africa, ca.1880–1920

UserChristian Strother (Faculty of History).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 27 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

Representational practices and the ethics of natural history, 1650–1720

UserAlexander Wragge-Morley (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 13 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

Edmund Selous: birdwatching and interpreting animal behaviour in Britain, 1900

UserKathryn Ticehurst (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Mathematical culture in Elizabethan England

UserKatie Taylor (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 12:00-13:00

Title to be confirmed

UserJiri Hudecek (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

White maps of Africa – the making of blank spaces

UserNils Petter Hellström (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 12:00-13:00

Nunataks: historical phytogeography and botanical nation building in 1930s Québec

UserJesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 20 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

A scientific toy for red-blooded boys: the Gilbert chemistry set and non-journalistic popularization of science

UserMaggie Jack (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 20 January 2010, 12:00-13:00

Teacher, toy, or calculator? Reflections of mathematics, education, and society in a 20th-century American object

UserCaitlin Wylie (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

The contested banana tree: public debates about science in eighteenth-century Central America

UserSophie Brockmann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2009, 12:00-13:00

Special session in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 'Assembling Bodies' exhibition

UserVarious speakers.

HouseMuseum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2009, 12:00-14:00

Authenticating nature: situating photographic trust in the late nineteenth century scientific periodical press

UserGeoff Belknap (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

The theatre of science vs the science of theatre: thinking about 18th century experimental performance

UserNicky Reeves (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2009, 12:00-13:00

The meaning of altruism in interwar London

UserNick Whitfield (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Mass-Observation's May the Twelfth (1937) as utopian sociology

UserBoris Jardine (Department of History and Philosopy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 12:00-13:00

'Strange are the ways of providence': Calvinism, evolution, and the autobiography of James Croll

UserGerardo Con Díaz (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 10 June 2009, 13:00-14:00

The politics of participation: Francis Galton's Anthropometric Laboratory and the formation of civic selves

UserFrans Lundgren (Uppsala University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 27 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Mad women and mad-doctors

UserAlexandra Bacopoulos-Viau (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Placing trust in photographs – photography and the illustrated press

UserGeoff Belknap (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2009, 13:00-14:00

Visual organisation of heavenly knowledge in the 16th and 17th centuries

UserKatie Taylor (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

God, king, and geometry: Cauchy's reactionary rigour

UserMichael Barany (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

The golden road to China: cartographical representations of an improbable railway project, c.1881-5

UserSophie Brockmann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Products of conception and the order of nature in Danish natural philosophy and medicine, c.1650-1800

UserSigne Nipper Nielsen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

Hunting the phoenix: an alchemical detective story

UserJennifer Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Wu Wen-Tsun: a modern Chinese mathematician and the Chinese mathematical tradition

UserJiri Hudecek (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

'Restitution' in seventeenth-century architecture and natural philosophy

UserAlexander Wragge-Morley (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Puns and pea-shooters: play, words, and plays on words in John Ayrton Paris's 'Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest' (1827)

UserMelanie Keene (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

'In shape vnparfett that nature hathe not drest': vision, experience and incongruous anatomies in early modern England

UserValentina Pugliano (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 11 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

The natural and the divine in Al-Farabi's classification of knowledge

UserLydia Wilson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Finding favour in the heavens and earth: Georg Stadius, Johannes Kepler and the composition of astrological calendars in early modern Graz

Please note change of day

UserPatrick Boner (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 15 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Thomas Digges' astronomy

UserKatie Taylor (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

Preserving the forgotten: Fox Talbot’s interest in the antique – and what it has to do with photography

UserMirjam Brusius (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Zhang Jingsheng and the ‘sexual field’ in 1920s China

UserLeon Rocha (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Political radicalism and scientific discovery: the Cambridge Biotheoretical Gathering, 1932-1937

UserRobin Scheffler (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Military landscapes and secret science: mythical and empirical histories of the Suffolk coast

UserSophia Davis (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2008, 13:00-14:00

Refashioning women: dress, science and the female body in late nineteenth-century Britain

UserMargaret Olszewski (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

Monstrous deliveries: fetal anomalies and the making of facts in nineteenth-century obstetrics

UserSalim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 30 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

The flying penman: John Wilkins and 'The Secret and Swift Messenger'

UserNatalie Kaoukji (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 16 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

A statesman and a scholar: Hans Georg Herwart von Hohenburg as a critic and patron of Johannes Kepler

UserPatrick Boner (Kommission zur Herausgabe der Werke von Johannes Kepler, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

Samuel Brown of Edinburgh: chemistry and the scientific career in nineteenth-century Scotland

UserFrancis Lucian Reid (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

'Les particularités la plus considerable': Fontenelle's éloges

UserLisa Mullins (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

The place of natural philosophy in Al-Farabi's classification of knowledge

UserLydia Wilson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Samuel Lilley and the Commission for the History of the Social Relations of Science, 1947–53

UserVidar Enebakk (University of Oslo, Norway).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 24 January 2007, 13:00-14:00

Electrons in the family

UserJaume Navarro (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 22 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Darwin's microscopes: theory, practice and reputation

UserBoris Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Maternal or fetal diagnostics? Practices of ultrasound imaging in Norway, 1970-1995

UserLise Kvande (Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 25 October 2006, 13:00-14:00

Bangs and stinks: Ede's 'Youth's Laboratories' and the smell of useful knowledge

UserMelanie Keene (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 11 October 2006, 13:00-14:00

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