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29th April
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Seminar, in the Museum
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5 p.m.
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Dr Simon Schaffer (University of Cambridge)
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"Collection, Curiosity and Newton's Principia."
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6th May
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Seminar, in the Museum |
5 p.m
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Dr Michael Wintroub (University of Michigan) |
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"Museum Genealogies and Rituals of Power."
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11th May
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Exhibition Public Lecture, in the Museum
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5.15 p.m
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Professor Roshdi Rashed (Paris) |
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"Arab Science and Classical Modernity."
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12th May
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Seminar, at the Maison Française, Oxford |
5.15 p.m
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Professor Roshdi Rashed (Paris) |
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"Descartes entre al-Khayam et Newton." |
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13th May
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Seminar, in the Museum |
5 p.m
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Dr S. Mueller-Wille (Max Planck Institute, Berlin) |
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"Collectors, System-builders and World-wide Commerce: the epistemic functions of collection in Linnaean botany."
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14th May
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The Thomas Harriot Lecture |
5 p.m.
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Dr John Roche (Oxford) |
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"Harriot, Oxford, and Twentieth-century
Historiography."
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16th & 17th May
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Colloquium, at the Maison Française, Oxford
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"Révolution: arts, sciences, politique."
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16th to 24th May
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Museums Week: Competition in the Museum |
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"Geography of Instrument Making in Europe." |
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20th May
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Seminar, in the Museum |
5 p.m.
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Prof. Indira Peterson (Mount Holyoke College) |
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"King Serfoji's Cabinet of Experimental Science: the German Kunstkammer in eighteenth-century India."
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22nd May
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The Delta Lecture, in the Museum |
6 p.m.
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Professor J. D. North (University of Groningen) |
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"The Ambassadors' Secret: a new study of Holbein's painting."
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23rd May
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Exhibition Talk, in the Museum
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2 p.m.
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"Instruments and Islam." |
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27th May
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Seminar, in the Museum
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5 p.m.
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Prof. M. H. Kaufman (University of Edinburgh) |
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"The Museum Collection of the Edinburgh Phrenological Society."
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30th May
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One-day meeting, at the Maison Française
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10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Papers by History of Science Graduate Students
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3rd June
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Seminar, in the Museum
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5 p.m.
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Nick Wilding (European University Institute) |
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"The Collection and the Catalogue: Musæum Regalis Societatis and Musæum Kircherianum."
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10th June
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Seminar, in the Museum |
5 p.m.
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Dr David Harley (Oxford) |
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"The Species of Disease and the Destruction of Learned Medicine."
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13th June
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Exhibition Talk, in the Museum |
2 p.m.
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"Instruments and Islam." |
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27th June
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Special Exhibition closes in the Museum |
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"Lines of Faith: Instruments and Religious Practice in Islam."
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27th June
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Museum closes for redevelopment |