Early Modern Science

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Upcoming Meetings

There are no currently scheduled upcoming events.

Past Meetings

  • December 2, 2016

    Bob Westman of UCSD and André Goddu of Stonehill College discussed with group participants their recent work on Copernicus.

    Robert S. Westman, Copernicus and the Astrologers, Dibner Library Lecture, December 12, 2013, Smithsonian Libraries. (Available here.)

    André Goddu, “Ludwik Antoni Birkenmajer and Curtis Wilson on the Origin of Nicholas Copernicus’s Heliocentrism,” Isis, v 107, no 2, June 2016, pp. 225-253. (DOI: 10.1086/687031)
  • October 21, 2016

    Participants in Consortium Working Groups attended remotely a symposium held at the University of Minnesota. The symposium will produce a special issue of the Journal of Early Modern History on the topic "Beyond the 'Scientific Revolution:' Thinking Globally about the History of Modern Science." The presenters were:Jorge Canizares Esguerra, UT Austin Hal Cook, Brown Harun Küçük, UPenn Carla Nappi, UBC Ahmed Ragab, Harvard Kapil Raj, EHESS Paris Daniela Bleichmar, USC JB Shank, UMN Program and details
  • April 14, 2016

    The group discussed Peter Dear's "Afterword" for the Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Science and Mary Baine Campbell's chapter on "Literature" from The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 3, Early Modern Science (2006), edited by Katharine Park and Lorraine Daston.
  • March 10, 2016

    We read the first two chapters from David Wootton's recent book, The Invention of Science, L. Daston's review (from the Guardian), and A. Wulff's review (from the Financial Times).
  • November 12, 2015

    The group discussed Kleber Cecon's "Chemical Translation: The Case of Robert Boyle's Experiments on Sensible Qualities," Annals of Science, Vol. 68, No. 2, April 2011, pp. 179-198, as well as Pamela Smith's "In the Workshop of History: Making, Writing, and Meaning," West 86th, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Spring-Summer 2012), pp 4-31.
  • October 7, 2015

    The group joined the "Science Beyond the West" group for a special event: Dimitri Gutas and H. Floris Cohen discussed Cohen's recent book, How Modern Science Came Into the World: Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough (Amsterdam University Press, 2011).
  • April 9, 2015

    Planning meeting for 2015-2016
  • March 12, 2015

    Sue Wells of Temple University introduced her draft chapter, "'The Anatomy of Melancholy' and Early Modern Medicine."
  • February 12, 2015

    Nahyan Fancy of Depauw University introduced his paper, "Avicenna, Ibn al-Nafis, and New Developments in Physiology in Western Eurasia, 1200-1560"
  • December 11, 2014

    Harun Küçük of UPenn introduced his draft paper, "The Compass and the Astrolabe: Religion and Empirical Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire."