Mary Terrall – “Michel Adanson’s Imagined Plantations: Secrecy, Botanical Knowledge, and French Colonial Policy after the Seven Years’ War”
Mary Terrall is a History Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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History of Science Colloquium
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5288 Bunche Hall
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Ted Porter and Norton Wise – “Positivism and Revolutions: First-Generation Historiographies of Science”
5288 Bunche HallPlease note: This meeting is designed especially for graduate students, and will be organized as a discussion of short essays about Kuhn and Gillispie. Essays will be circulated to history […]
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Kathleen Murphy – “Botany and Biopiracy along the Routes of the Asiento Trade”
5288 Bunche HallKathleen Murphy (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo) “Botany and Biopiracy along the Routes of the Asiento Trade”
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Adam Mosley & Dibner Fellow – “Cosmographic Instruments, Sundials, and the Decline of Cosmography Revisited”
Adam Mosley (Swansea University (Wales) and Dibner Fellow, Huntington Library)“Cosmographic Instruments, Sundials, and the Decline of Cosmography Revisited”
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Adam Lawrence – “The Territory of Fables: Ecological Productivity in Nazi Germany’s Imaginary Empire”
Adam Lawrence (UCLA)“The Territory of Fables: Ecological Productivity in Nazi Germany's Imaginary Empire”
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Rob Schraff – “Making and Unmaking Madness with LSD: From Psychotomimetic to Psychedelic and Back Again”
Rob Schraff (UCLA) “Making and Unmaking Madness with LSD: From Psychotomimetic to Psychedelic and Back Again”
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William Deringer – “Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age, 1688-1776″
William Deringer (MIT) “Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age, 1688-1776"
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Courtenay Raia-“William in Wonderland: Crookes’s Scientific Spiritualism and the Physics of the Impossible”
Courtenay Raia (Colson School of Music) “William in Wonderland: Crookes’s Scientific Spiritualism and the Physics of the Impossible”
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