JOINT MEETING BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF ...

Saturday, 14 July
*Carin Berkowitz, Chemical Heritage Foundation, The Surgeon’s Seeing Hand:
Teaching Anatomy to the Senses in Britain, 1750‐1830
Melanie Keene, Cambridge University, “Things Familiar”: Object Lessons in Victorian
Science and Literature
Alma Steingart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Drawing Mathematical
Theories, Illustrating Points: The History of a Topological Atlas
Commentator and Chair: Lynn K. Nyhart, University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
DEFINING THE INSTRUMENTAL: NAVIGATION, LONGITUDE AND SCIENCE AT
SEA IN THE 18TH CENTURY
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (HOUSTON, 2ND FLOOR)
Katy Barrett, University of Cambridge, Longitude Inscrib’d: Early Pamphlet Solutions
to the Longitude Problem
*Alexi Baker, University of Cambridge, “Precision”, “Perfection” and the Reality of
Eighteenth-Century Instruments at Sea
*Rebekah Higgitt, National Maritime Museum, UK, Nevil Maskelyne and the
Instruments of Scientific Exploration, 1760-1800
Commentator and Chair: Robert D. Hicks, Mütter Museum, Philadelphia
EXPERIMENTS OF THE EXPERIENTIAL: VALUING SUBJECTIVITY IN THE
MODERN EARTH, MEDICAL, AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES
CLASS OF ’49 (HOUSTON, 2ND FLOOR)
Robin Vandome, University of Nottingham, Science, Literature, and the ‘Mirror of
Nature’: Metaphors of Knowing in the United States at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Daniela Helbig, Harvard University, From Subjective Experience to Experimental
Subjects: Test Pilots in the Weimar Republic
Andrew M. Fearnley, Edge Hill University, “Checking Out Forms”: Research Subjects
and Psychiatrists’ Use of the Subjective
Commentator: Henrika Kuklick, University of Pennsylvania
Chair: *Andrew M. Fearnley, Edge Hill University
METHOD AND DISCOVERY: CONNECTIONS BETWEEN ANATOMY AND
PHILOSOPHY IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
BODEK LOUNGE (HOUSTON, 1ST FLOOR)
Peter Distelzweig, University of Pittsburgh, Philosophical Anatomy: Teleology in
Harvey’s De Motu Cordis
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