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.

Venue: Room ST273 (Stewart House) (unless otherwise stated), Institute of English Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E. Refreshments provided.

2005-6 Programme

8 October 2005:
Venue: Room 248 (Senate House)
Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute):
Matter and Appetite: Interpreting Francis Bacon's Theory of Induction.

5 November 2005:
Venue: Room ST273 (Stewart House)
Graham Yewbrey
Ideas into Action: John Dee's Problems of Reputation, with particular reference to "General and Rare Memorials" (1576-7).

3 December 2005:
Venue: Room ST273 (Stewart House)
Anke Timmermann (University of Cambridge)
With rhyme and reason: the genre of alchemical poetry in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries.

14 January 2006:
Venue: Room ST273 (Stewart House) ** Please note change of speaker
Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London):
"Margaret Cavendish and the Rhetoric of Microvisibility"

4 February 2006:
Venue: Room ST273 (Stewart House)
Benjamin Wardhaugh (Hertford College, Oxford):
The idea of 'harmonics' 1600-1700 .

Tom Dixon (University of Manchester):
Venue: Room ST273 (Stewart House)
"Spirituall Musick": Peter Sterry's Model of Divine Harmony .

4 March 2006:
Venue: Room ST273 (Stewart House)
Jacqueline Broad (Monash University, Australia),
Margaret Cavendish and Joseph Glanvill: Science, Religion, and Witchcraft

22 April 2006:
Venue: Room ST273 (Stewart House)
A.E.L. Davis (Imperial College),
Kepler: the ultimate Aristotelian.

6 May 2006:
Venue: Room ST273 (Stewart House)
Michael Hunter (Birkbeck, University of London)
Bacon, Boyle and the early Royal Society: a question of mutual influence.

3 June 2006:
NB: MOVED TO 10 JUNE:

10 June 2006: PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE
Venue: Room ST273 (Stewart House)
Barbara Obrist (CNRS, Paris)
"Nuda Natura" and the Alchemist in Jean Perréal's Early Sixteenth Century Miniature.

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

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