Sophie Waring

Name:	Sophie Waring
Affiliation:	Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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Talks given by Sophie Waring

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• 'O! How glad I am I have no pendulum': in pursuit of the figure of the earth
• Finding space to swing a pendulum: the Board of Longitude and 19th-century geodesy, weights and measures
• Margaret Fountaine: the life and works of a rather ordinary Victorian lepidopterist

Talks organised by Sophie Waring

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• 'Vampire excursions': making blood anthropological in the postwar era
• 'It is indeed a thing ominous for a Toad to be born of Woman': taking experimental frogs and toads seriously
• An apprenticeship in theory: rethinking Darwin's debt to Lyell
• Raiders of the lost ark: an introduction into the practical archaeology of knowledge at the collections of the University of Basel
• Thomas Bewick, engraving the world
• Peter Paul Rubens and the bird of paradise: natural knowledge and painting in 17th-century Europe
• Curating science in an age of empire: the Kew Museums of Economic Botany
• Virgin birth crosses the Atlantic: Jacques Loeb's experiments on artificial parthenogenesis in the British press, 1900–06
• Recalled into stalk and leaves: the many methods and meanings of early modern palingenesis
• Skulls and idols: anthropometrics, antiquity collections, and the origin of American man
• Agricultural science and the Development Commission: the Olby account revisited
• Creativity and the construction of fossils: 'The artist's piece is already in the stone'
• Continuities in Francis Crick's scientific life and the ethos of post-World War II Cambridge biophysics
• Percy Smith: the self-creation of an amateur scientist and filmmaker
• Descriptions and disciplines in the ocean: defining the perspective of oceanography in the 1920s
• Domesticating the Victorian dog: a public life for a private animal
• Trick or treatise? Alchemy as natural magic
• Placing a laboratory: botanical buildings in Cambridge around 1900
• 'Your observations and experiments are by far the best which have ever been made': the hidden world of women and science in Charles Darwin's private correspondence