Symposium – The Materiality of Scientific Knowledge: Image–Text–Book

Throughout the long history of scientific investigation, knowledge was formulated, shared, legitimated, and disseminated in manuscript and printed text, as well as in paintings, drawings, and engravings. These material factors —the conditions of writing, printing, and image making —underwrite the exchange and dissemination of scientific knowledge from classical antiquity to the nineteenth century. This cross-disciplinary symposium will investigate the myriad, often contradictory, vocabularies we use to analyze images and text in scientific writing. Its goal is to promote more fruitful interdisciplinary, collaborative work in the history of scientific thought.

Free and open to the public.  ID required to enter University buildings.  Registration requested for the Keynote Adress, details below

The Keynote Address, “Copying as Translation: Direct Observations v. Copied Scientific Illustrations,” will be given by Sachiko Kusukawa, Fellow, History and Philosophy of Science, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, Friday, September 30, at 5 pm, in the Rainey Auditorim, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia. Please register for the keynote here.