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 ).

2006-7 Programme

* Saturday 30 September 2006:
Venue: Room NG14 (Senate House North)
Stephen Gaukroger (University of Sydney):
'Spinoza on Politico-theology and Natural Philosophy'

Saturday 4 November 2006:
Venue: Room ST273 (Stewart House)
Sarah Hutton (Middlesex University)
'A New Star: Astronomy and Platonism in the Poetry of Hester Pulter (1596-1678)'

Saturday 18 November 2006:
Venue: Room STB9 (Stewart House)
to be confirmed

Saturday 9 December 2006:
Venue: Room STB9 (Stewart House) NB: ROOM CHANGE
John Henderson (Birkbeck, University of London)
'"Filth is the Mother of Corruption": Plagues, Putrefaction and the Body of the Poor in Late Renaissance Italy'

Saturday 6 January 2007:
Venue: Room ST273 (Stewart House)
Sachiko Kusukawa (Trinity College, Cambridge)
'Picturing the Book of Nature: the Case of Conrad Gesner'

Saturday 3 February 2007:
Venue: Room ST274 (Stewart House)
Charles Webster (All Souls College, Oxford)
'The Radical Reformation of Paracelsus'

Saturday 3 March 2007:
Venue: Room ST274 (Stewart House)
Rob Iliffe (Imperial College, London)
'New Perspectives on Newton 's Theology'

Saturday 14 April 2007:
Venue: Room ST273 (Stewart House)
Candice Delisle (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL)
'Between the Particular and the General: Conrad Gesner's Correspondence'

Saturday 5 May 2007:
Venue: Room ST273 (Stewart House)
Simon Schaffer (HPS, University of Cambridge)
'The Information Order of Newtonianism'

Saturday 2 June 2007:
Venue: Room ST273 (Stewart House)
Catherine Rider (Christ's College, Cambridge)
'The Doctor and the Witches: Bartholomaeus Carrichter's "On the Healing of Magical Illnesses (1551)"'

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