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SUMMARY:Paula Findlen - Newton's Prisms:  Why Francesco Algarotti Became an Experimenter
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Paula Findlen\, Chair\, Depairtment of History\, Stanford University \nIn the decade before Francesco Algarotti became internationally known for his Newtonianism for Ladies (1737) he first came to the attention of an international community of experimental philosophers for his role in the successful replication of Newton’s prism experiments during his philosophical studies in Bologna.  This talk explores the circumstances that led the teenage Algarotti to become a celebrity experimenter in relation to debates about Newtonian science in Italy in the early eighteenth century.  This episode has been studied and explained rather differently by Simon Schaffer and Alan Shapiro\, emphasizing different dimensions of why Algarotti and his mentor succeeded with his prisms.  Here I will offer another perspective that emerges from examining Algarotti and his world\, and considering the long legacy of the prisms that Algarotti kept among his possessions that still exist today. \nThis event is free and open to the public.\nThis event is part of the New York History of Science Lecture Series. \nSponsoring Organizations:\nNew York University\nGallatin School of Individualized Study\nColumbia University in the City of New York\nCity University of New York\nThe New York Academy of Sciences\nThe New York Academy of Medicine
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