3rd May Seminar, in the Museum
5 p.m. Dr Richard Drayton
"Collecting and Comparing the Sciences: an Introduction to the Seminar"
17th May Seminar, in the Museum
5 p.m. Arthur MacGregor
"Enlightenment and Curiosity: Utility and Entertainment in British Museums of the Later Eighteenth Century"
18th May The Thomas Harriot Lecture,
5 p.m. in the Champneys Room, Oriel College
Dr Jim Bennett
"Instruments, Mathematics and Natural Knowledge: Thomas Harriot's Place on the Map of Learning"
27th May Talk, at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
2 p.m. Dr Willem Hackmann
"Art Meets Alchemy and Quantum Physics"
31st May Seminar, in the Museum
5 p.m. Dr John Clark
"'The ants were duly visited:' John Lubbock, Social Insects and the Science of Society in Late Victorian England"
14th June Seminar, in the Museum
5 p.m. Dr Gillian Lewis
"Natural History Collections 1530-1630: Objects, Images and the Role of the Printed Book"
3rd July Special Exhibition, opens in the Museum
"The Measurers: a Flemish Image of Mathematics in the Sixteenth Century"