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Saturday, 14 July Peter Ramberg, Truman State University, Between University and Polytechnic: Chemistry in Zürich, 1860-1872 Chiara Ambrosio, University College London, “In One’s Way of Seeing Lies One’s Way of Action”: Science and Art in Alfred Stieglitz’s Photographic Experimentation Chair: Chiara Ambrosio, University College London 3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Coffee Break (Houston Hall Reading Room) 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. HUMAN, ANIMAL, AND MACHINE CAFÉ 58 (IRVINE, 1ST FLOOR) Teófilo Espada-Brignoni, University of Puerto Rico, The Human and the Animal: Looking at The Descent of Man through Foucault’s Archeology Francis Neary, University of Cambridge, Reassessing the Human Automatism Debate in the Late Nineteenth Century Robert Poole, University of Cumbria, Apeman, Spaceman: 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Dawn of Man Chair: Greg Macklem, History of Science Society “IMPROVING” THE CLIMATE IN THE EARLY-MODERN NORTH ATLANTIC WORLD GOLKIN (HOUSTON, 2ND FLOOR) Keith Pluymers, University of Southern California, Writing the Wilderness in the Early- Modern English Atlantic Victoria C. Slonosky, Independent Scholar, Climate Improvement and Cultivation in Colonial Canada, 1742-1867 *Brant Vogel, Independent Scholar, “The Pisspot of Europe”: Rains, Mists, and Bogs in the Anglo-Irish Imagination Chair: Jennifer Steenshorne, Columbia University MECHANISM, LIFE, AND EMBODIMENT IN EARLY MODERN SCIENCE CLASS OF ’49 (HOUSTON, 2ND FLOOR) Barnaby Hutchins, University of Ghent, The Fire without Light: The Non-Mechanical Foundation of Descartes’ Mechanical Physiology Lucian Petrescu, University of Ghent, Descartes on the Heartbeat: The Leuven Controversy Dagmar Provijn, University of Ghent, Bloody Analogical Reasoning. The Role of Analogical Reasoning in William Harvey’s Discoveries *Charles T. Wolfe, University of Ghent, Teleomechanism Redux? The Conceptual Hybridity of Living Machines in Early Modern Natural Philosophy 37
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