Early Modern Science

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Upcoming Meetings

There are no currently scheduled upcoming events.

Past Meetings

  • November 13, 2014

    Bruce Moran of the University of Nevada, Reno introduced his draft paper "Preserving the Cutting Edge: Traveling Woodblocks, Material Networks, and Visualizing Plants in Early Modern Europe"
  • October 9, 2014

    Elly Truitt introduced chapter six, "The Trouble with Taxa," from Daryn Lehoux's What did the Romans Know? An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking.
  • April 10, 2014

    Alisha Rankin of Tufts introduced her draft paper, "To Cure a Thief: Testing Poison Antidotes in Early Modern Europe."
  • March 13, 2014

    Darin Hayton of Haverford College introduced his paper "Byzantium: the Other East."
  • December 12, 2013

    Joel Klein of Indiana University introduced his "Daniel Sennert and the Quest for a (Nearly) Universal Medicine".
  • November 14, 2013

    Nicholas Harris of UPenn introduced a chapter from his dissertation Better Religion through Chemistry: ‘Izz al-Din Aydemir al-Jildaki and Alchemy under the Mamluks.  This chapter examines the alchemist al-Jildaki’s legacy, and, more broadly, discusses the implications of the omission of early modern Arabic alchemy from the history of alchemy.
  • October 10, 2013

    Darin Hayton of Haverford College introduced the "Introduction" to his book Astrology and Politics in the Holy Roman Empire
  • May 2, 2013

    Joel Klein of Indiana University introduced selections from "Communities of Learned Experience: Epistolary Medicine in the Renaissance" by Nancy G. Siraisi
  • April 19, 2013

    Stephen Greenblatt's "The Swerve"
  • March 6, 2013

    Selections from Ann Blair's "Too Much to Know"