JOINT MEETING BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF ...

Friday, 13 July
Friday, 13 July
Breakfast
7:00 – 8:30 a.m.
Houston Hall Bistro and Hall of Flags Balcony
(Breakfast is included with your full registration)
Registration
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Houston Hall 1 st Floor Lobby
Book Exhibit
9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Houston Hall Reading Room, 1 st Floor Lobby
9:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. (Coffee Break 10:00 – 10:15 a.m.)
Coffee Break in Houston Hall Reading Room
EXPERIMENTING IN BACONIAN STYLE
BODEK LOUNGE (HOUSTON, 1ST FLOOR)
Peter Dear, Cornell University, Bacon’s Sylva sylvarum and the Practice of the Great
Instauration
Dana Jalobeanu, University of Bucharest, The Hunt of Pan: The Creative and Heuristic
Role of Experiments in Francis Bacon’s Natural Histories
Laura Georgescu, University of Bucharest, The Rules of Experientia Literata: The Case
of Bacon’s Magnetic Experiments
*Cesare Pastorino, University of Sussex, The Baconian Experiment as Probatio
Commentator: Daniel Garber, Princeton University
Chair: Carin Berkowitz, Chemical Heritage Foundation
MATERIAL CULTURE
CAFÉ 58 (IRVINE, 1ST FLOOR)
Prakash Kumar, Colorado State University, The Biography of the Blue Dye: Science,
Nature and the Limits of Improvement
Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Cambridge, Making – and Breaking – Scientific
Specimens in 21st-Century Paleontology Laboratories
Martin Weiss, Leiden University, How the Oldest Museum in the Netherlands Became a
Museum for the History of Science
Chair: Leandro Surya, Federal University of São Francisco Valley
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