James Secord is a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University. His research interests include social history of science since 1750, life and earth sciences, and the history of science communication.
Caroline Ford is a History Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include modern France, environmental history, and urban and architectural history. This event is co-sponsored by the History Department.
Please 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 of science grad students; anyone else who would like to participate can get the papers from Iris (irisclever@ucla.edu)
Adam Mosley (Swansea University (Wales) and Dibner Fellow, Huntington Library)“Cosmographic Instruments, Sundials, and the Decline of Cosmography Revisited”