24th April | Seminar, in the Museum |
5 p.m. | Ms Patricia Kell (Wadham College) |
| "'Distributing Happiness'? Acquisitions policy in eighteenth-century British museums." |
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1st May | Seminar, in the Museum |
5 p.m. | Professor Harriet Ritvo (Clare Hall, Cambridge) |
| "Some meanings of monsters." |
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2nd May | The Thomas Harriot Lecture, |
5 p.m. | in the Champneys Room, Oriel College |
| Dr Muriel Seltman |
| "Thomas Harriot's algebra: reputation and reality." |
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3rd May | Study afternoon, in the Museum and the |
2 p.m. | Faculty of Modern History, to mark the |
| 150th anniversary of the Hakluyt Society |
| "Science and geography in Imperial contexts." |
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8th May | Workshop, at the Maison Française |
9.15 a.m. | "The transfer of concepts and practices in the biological and human sciences." |
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8th May | Seminar, in the Museum |
6 p.m. | Mr Anthony J. Turner (Paris) |
| "Collecting history and natural history: Robert Plot, the Ashmolean Musæum, and the Survey of Britain." |
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11th May | 'Women and Natural History' |
| Exhibition closes in the Bodleian |
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15th May | Seminar, in the Museum |
5 p.m. | Mr Eric Jorink (University of Groningen) |
| "Reading the Book of Nature: changing ideas on the marvels of nature in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic." |
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22nd May | Seminar, in the Museum |
5 p.m. | Dr Michael Wintroub (University of Cambridge) |
| "Taking stock at the end of the world: millenarian eschatology, civic ritual and collecting in the Royal Entry Festival of Henri II." |
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23rd May | Workshop, at the Maison Française, Oxford |
9.15 a.m. | "The transfer of concepts and practices in the physical and mathematical sciences in the nineteenth centuries." |
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28th May | The Delta Lecture, |
5 p.m. | in the Danson Room, Trinity College |
| Professor Svante Lindqvist |
| "The bricks and mortar of science." |
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12th June | One-day Meeting in association with the |
| British Society for the History of Science |
| "Images and practice" |