Date/Time
Date(s) - 25 Apr 2012
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location
NYU Room 801
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The New York City History of Science Working Group presents Daniel Margócsy (Hunter College, CUNY) on “Uffenbach and the Commerce of Nature in the Scientific Reovolution.”
This talk examines how long-distance trade transformed European natural history and anatomy in the years around 1700. It studies how
innovations in advertising, banking, marketing and intellectual property regimes turned scientific knowledge into a commodity. The
diaries and archives of Baron Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach, the renowned curioso and scientific traveler, reveal how, in this period,
a wealthy customer could acquire scientific expertise, and countless curiosities, by going on a shopping spree in the major cities of
Northern Europe.
Daniel Margocsy is an assistant professor at Hunter College ? CUNY. His research focuses on the impact of commercialization on the visual
culture of early modern natural history and medicine. He has published articles in the Journal of the History of Ideas, the British Journal
for the History of Science and the Netherlands Yearbook of Art History.
To RSVP for dinner with the speaker following the lecture, please contact Etienne Stockland [[email protected]]
Sponsoring organizations: Metropolitan New York Section of the History of Science Society; New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study; Columbia University, Colloquium for Science, Technology, Medicine; Columbia University, Society and University Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science; City University of New York, Ph.D. Program in History, History of
Science Lecture Series; New York Academy of Sciences, Section for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology