Seminar in the History of Pre-Modern Science

Series dates:

Wednesdays, 5:00 - 6:45 pm

Series Convenor:

Dmitri Levitin and Philipp Nothaft

Please note that the location will alternate between the Wharton Room and the Hovenden Room – details for each individual seminar are provided in the term card, and in the event pages listed below.

Events in this series

Seminar in the History of Pre-Modern Science - ‘The “Decline of magic” reconsidered’

25th April 2018 5:00pm-6:45pm

Seminar in the History of Pre-Modern Science - ‘Perceptions of nature between scholastic knowledge and individual observation: William Merle’s weather diary (1337-1344) and his De prognosticatione aeris (1340)’

2nd May 2018 5:00pm-6:45pm

Seminar in the History of Pre-Modern Science - ‘Robert Hooke, art, and craft in Restoration London’

9th May 2018 5:00pm-6:45pm

Seminar in the History of Pre-Modern Science - ‘The transmission of mechanical technologies between the Mediterranean and China in antiquity’

16th May 2018 5:00pm-6:45pm

Seminar in the History of Pre-Modern Science - ‘News from Sicily: Italian naturalists and the Royal Society on volcanic eruptions and earthquakes’

23rd May 2018 5:00pm-6:45pm

Seminar in the History of Pre-Modern Science - ‘Questions on twelfth-century cosmology’

30th May 2018 5:00pm-6:45pm

Seminar in the History of Pre-Modern Science - ‘“Airs” as boundary objects: the elaboration of a collective knowledge at the crossroad of chemistry, practical arts, and medicine in the eighteenth century’

6th June 2018 5:00pm-6:45pm