March 2016
Jamie Pietruska – Weather Prophets, Frauds, and Counterfeiters from the Gilded Age to the New Era – NY HoS Series
This talk will draw together histories of science, capitalism, and culture to examine epistemological debates over weather prediction during a period when the first national weather service in the United States found itself in constant competition with a multitude of private commercial forecasters in a contest for professional scientific authority.
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Joseph Dauben – Science and Art in China. 利瑪竇 Li Matou (Matteo Ricci), 郎世寧 Lang Shining (Giuseppe Castiglione) and the Influence of Western Geometry and Mathematical Perspective on Early Qing Dynasty Mathematicians and Artists – NY HoS Series
Speaker: Joseph Dauben, Distinguished Professor in the Department of History, Herbert H. Lehman College and Ph.D. Program in History, The Graduate Center, CUNY In 1607 the Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci (1552–1610), in collaboration with his colleague 徐光啟 Xu Guangqi (1562–1633), translated the first six books of Euclid’s Elements of Geometry into Chinese. Among those to take a serious interest in this work was the prominent mathematician 梅文鼎 Mei Wending (1632-1721), but his 幾何通解 Jihe tongjie (General Explanation of (Euclid’s) Geometry) eliminated most of…
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Atlas Obscura and the New York Academy of Medicine – After Hours Series: Medical Photography
This event is part of the six-session 2016 series "After Hours: Inside the Rare Book Collections of The New York Academy of Medicine" presented by Atlas Obscura at the Academy. Guest-host Dr. Heidi Knoblauch will take visitors on a tour of our 19th and 20th-century collections of medical photographs, including dermatological atlases, portraits of wounded Civil War veterans, 19th-century daguerrotypes kept by doctors of their patients, and many more photographic gems. Tickets: $30. Registration required. Please visit the New York Academy of…
Find out more »Up!: Manhood, Democratic Medicine, and Walt Whitman’s Secret Health Writings
Speaker: Zachary Turpin, PhD Candidate,University of Houston Respondent: Isaac Gewirtz, Curator, New York Public Library In 1858, Walt Whitman covertly published in serial form "Manly Health and Training," a book-length manifesto on diet, exercise, and the future of American health. Appearing at a critical juncture in US history, this newly rediscovered work encapsulates many of the great debates that helped define the health sciences, then and now. It also offers a rare glimpse into a "lost" year in the life of Walt Whitman.…
Find out more »September 2016
Science, Technology, and Society Discussion Series – Geopolitical Science and the Logic of Preventive War
In this lecture and roundtable, the Ecole Polytechnique and Columbia University aim to explore issues concerning science and technology in war.
Find out more »Anita Guerrini – Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris
The New York Academy of Medicine will be hosting a talk "Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris" with Anita Guerrini on September 13th, 2016. Drawn from her book, The Courtiers’ Anatomists, Anita Guerrini tells the largely overlooked story of seventeenth-century Parisian anatomists who examined both the abandoned human corpses at the Châtelet, and the pampered animals of the king’s menageries. Dissections of both animal and human bodies were spectacles before the King at Versailles and crowds at the King’s Gardens in…
Find out more »Ligo Project – Art of Science Kickstarter Happy Hour
Art of Science brings together NYC scientists & artists to collaborate and explore the fusion of two seemingly different disciplines and its impact on art, science, and society. The Art of Science’s final exhibition of the artists’ work provides the NYC community a unique way to learn about science through an artist’s lens. This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP.
Find out more »Paula Findlen – Newton’s Prisms: Why Francesco Algarotti Became an Experimenter
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.
Find out more »NYBG Humanities Institute and Fordham University: Biduum Latinum: a Celebration of Roman and Medieval Botany
The general public is warmly invited to a unique Biduum Latinum: a two-day celebration of Roman and Medieval Botany, including a lecture, book-viewing, and botanical walking tour, organized jointly by Fordham University and The New York Botanical Garden’s Humanities Institute. Please refer to the following schedule: Friday, Sept. 30, 3-5 pm. Location: Humanities Institute—LuEsther T. Mertz Library, The New York Botanical Garden, Library Building, 6th floor 3:00 pm Welcome and Introduction: Vanessa Sellers, Coordinator Humanities Institute, NYBG, and Susanne Hafner, Director…
Find out more »October 2016
Beyond Circulation: Non-Western Universalisms and Global Histories of Science – Day 2
This workshop aims to encourage greater dialogue between the history of science on the one hand, and intellectual and cultural history on the other.
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