Nick Wilding, Georgia State University
Bibliography Week Lecture, New York Academy of Medicine
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029
Sponsor: The Bibliography Week Lecture
Recent forgeries of early modern books using photopolymer plates have attained a high level of sophistication. This talk will examine the technological, intellectual, and material aspects of book forgery, looking especially at efforts to create convincing artifacts, rather than merely forge texts.
About the speaker:
Nick Wilding is Associate Professor of History at Georgia State University. He received his BA in English from Oxford University, his MA in Renaissance Studies at Warwick, and his PhD from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. He has held postdoctoral positions at Stanford University, Cambridge University, Columbia University, and the American Academy in Rome. Specializing in early modern history of science and communication, he has worked on two projects bringing archival resources to the internet: the Athanasius Kircher Correspondence Project and the Medici Archive Project. His first book, Galileo's Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge, was published in September 2014 by the University of Chicago Press. Wilding has also been commissioned by Penguin Classics to produce a new translation of Galileo’s Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems. He has written book reviews for, among others, Isis, Annals of Science, The Journal of Modern History, and the London Review of Books.
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