EMPHASIS: EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION SEMINAR

Organisers: Dr Stephen Clucas ( s.clucas@bbk.ac.uk ) and Dr Peter J. Forshaw (p.forshaw@bbk.ac.uk ).

The group meets Saturdays, 2pm - 4pm, Institute of English Studies, Senate House.

2004-5 Programme

EMPHASIS will meet monthly on Saturdays in room 265 (unless otherwise stated) during the academic term at the Institute for English Studies, Senate House.    

9 October 2004
Dr Raphael Hallett (University of Sussex)
Words in Abstract Space: Pierre Ramus, Rhetoric and the Geometry of Print

6 November 2004
Dr Kevin Killeen (Birkbeck, University of London)
"The Doctor Quarrels with Some Pictures": Animals and Exegesis in Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica

4 December 2004
Dr Kate Eagleton (British Museum)
The fruits of learning and the contents of a great library – John Whethamstede, Abbot of St Albans, and his encyclopaedia Granarium.

8 January 2005
Dr Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Humane understanding before Locke.

5 February 2005
Dr Lauren T. Kassell (University of Cambridge)
“All was this land full fill'd of faerie”: magic and the past in early modern England

5 March 2005
Dr Leo Catana (University of Copenhagen).
The exposition of Giordano Bruno in Jacob Brucker’s history of philosophy:
Some historiographical considerations

19 March 2005
Prof. Lawrence Principe (Johns Hopkins University)
Transmutational Experiments at the Early Eighteenth Century Parisian Academy

2 April 2005
Koen Vermeir (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven):
Divination and the powers of the imagination in the late Seventeenth-century

7 May 2005
Dr Nick Wilding (University of Cambridge)
Pseudonymity and seventeenth-century natural philosophy

18 June 2005 (please note: room 248)
Professor Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute)
Astronomy, Astrology and Magic as the motivation for the Scientific Renaissance of the Twelfth Century

Organisers: Dr Stephen Clucas (s.clucas@bbk.ac.uk) and Dr Peter J. Forshaw (p.forshaw@english.bbk.ac.uk).

Organisers: Stephen Clucas and Peter Forshaw

Venue: Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, 3rd Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London 
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