De Acido, de Igne, de Computer: 18th-Century Dissertations in the Digital World

Time: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Place: 6th Floor Conference Room, Chemical Heritage Foundation

Information: 215-873-8289 or bbl@chemheritage.org

Lisa Rosner holds the Chemical Heritage Foundation's Theodore and Mary Herdegen Fellowship in the History of Scientific Information and the Glenn E. and Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot Scholarship. While at CHF she is working with the extensive collection of 17th- and 18th-century chemical dissertations held in the Neville Collection. She has been using the HistoryBrowser developed by Bill Ferster at the University of Virginia’s Digital Humanities Center to create visual, geospatial presentations that graphically depict the world of 18th-century chemical learning. The BBL will give an overview of work I have completed so far and allow for discussion of future directions.

Lisa Rosner is a professor of history at Stockton College, New Jersey, where she is also interim director of the South Jersey Center for Digital Humanities. Her scholarship has focused on medicine and chemistry in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Her most recent book, The Anatomy Murders, is forthcoming on 31 October 2009 from University of Pennsylvania Press.