2000 HSS/PSA Program 1 - History of Science Society

HSS 2000 Program
Saturday, 4 November
9:00 a.m.—11:45 a.m.
*indicates session organizer(s)
Saturday, 4 November
Natural Knowledge, Expertise and the Early Modern State
(Prince of Wales)
Eric␣ H. Ash, Princeton University, Queen v. Northumberland: Royal Mining
Rights and the Dilemma of Expertise
Emily␣ K. Brock, Princeton University, Gardeners and Botanists in the Study
of Forests in England, 1650-1800
Florence␣ C. Hsia, Wayne State University, Missionaries, Monks, and
Mathématiciens du roi in the Ancien Régime
*Matthew␣ L. Jones, Columbia University, Calculating Machinery: Pascal and
Leibniz on Knowledge and Spectacle in the Early Modern State
Jordan Kellman, Louisiana State University, Jean Mattieu de Chazelles and
the Birth of Naval Science in 17th-century France␣
CHAIR: Pamela␣ H. Smith, Pomona College
From the Ground Up:
Insects and Models of Science, Reason and Community
(King George)
Jonathan Clark, University of Canterbury, Kent, History from the Ground
Up: Bugs Political Economy and God in Early Nineteenth Century Britain
*Katharine Anderson, York University, Instincts and Instruments
Alison Winter, California Institute of Technology, Snails, Leeches, Mediums,
and Conductors: The Use of Living Things as Instruments in Mid-Nineteenth
Century Europe
Charlotte␣ L. Sleigh, University of Canterbury, Kent, Brave New Worlds:
Sociological Explanations of the Ants in the 1920s & 1930s
CHAIR AND COMMENTATOR: Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maps for Enlightenment:
Cartography and Science in the Eighteenth Century
(Plaza West)
Matthew␣ H. Edney, University of Southern Maine, Mapping Eighteenth-
Century Intersections of Scientific and Cartographic Practices
Anne Godlewska, Queen’s University, Kingston, When is Description Mere
Description? The Nature of 18th-Century Geography
Michael␣ T. Bravo, University of Cambridge, Enlightened Precision in
Geography and Anthropology
Michael␣ S. Dettelbach, Smith College, Map as Metaphor, Map as Math: The
Meanings of Cartography in the Enlightenment
COMMENTATOR: John Heilbron, Oxford
CHAIR: *D.␣ Graham Burnett, University of Oklahoma
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