Seminar in the History of Pre-Modern Science

Series dates:

5pm, Wednesdays

Series venues:

Old Library (Hovenden Room on 29 May)

Series Convenor:

Dmitri Levitin, Jennifer Rampling

All sessions will be held on Wednesdays, 5.00–6.45pm, in the Old Library, apart from the session on 29 May, which will be held in the Hovenden Room. Access to the College is via the entrance on the High Street; please ask at the Porters' Lodge for further directions, or consult the information on the College website.

Events in this series

Seminar in the History of Pre-Modern Science - Experiment and enterprise: the reformation of English alchemy in the sixteenth century

1st May 2019 5:00pm-6:45pm

Seminar in the History of Pre-Modern Science - The chemical arts in antiquity: metals, spirits and medicines

8th May 2019 5:00pm-6:45pm

Seminar in the History of Pre-Modern Science - Robert Hooke’s vibrating matter and Isaac Newton’s aether Queries

15th May 2019 5:00pm-6:45pm

Seminar in the History of Pre-Modern Science - Knowing with images: natural history illustration and cartography in the global Renaissance

29th May 2019 5:00pm-6:45pm

Please note: this seminar will be held in the Hovenden Room. 

Seminar in the History of Pre-Modern Science - “Desire is the Essence of Man”. Kepler’s optics, Descartes’ epistemology and Spinoza’s politics

12th June 2019 5:00pm-6:45pm