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