truth and error inearly modern science: thomas...
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9:00 Registration & Coffee
9:30 Session 4 The Wilderness of Forms: Bacon and Browne
Moderator:JonathanPost(UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles)
KathrynMurphy(OrielCollege,Oxford)“TheWildernessofFormsandtheDifferenceofThingsinBrowneandHisContemporaries”
CarynO’Connell(UniversityofChicago)“‘ContinuallConversation’:LateBaconandBrowne”
11:30 Lunch
12:30 Session 5 Fact and Fiction
Moderator:MordechaiFeingold(Caltech)
SethLobis(ClaremontMcKennaCollege)“FactandFictioninRalphCudworth’sTrue Intellectual System of the Universe”
VeraKeller(UniversityofOregonHonorsCollege)“ErrorsandNon-Entities:BrowneandHartlibbetweenDiscourseandCatalog”
F R I D A Y , J A N U A R Y 2 2 , 2 0 1 6
8:30 Registration & Coffee
9:30 Welcome: SteveHindle(TheHuntington)
Remarks:JessicaWolfe(UniversityofNorthCarolina,ChapelHill)
10:00 Session 1 Browne and the Royal Society
Moderator:LoriAnneFerrell(ClaremontGraduateUniversity)
ReneeRaphael(UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine)“ReadingMinesandMiningTexts:ReadingandObservationalPracticeintheWritingsofEdwardandThomasBrowneandtheEarlyRoyalSociety”
RhodriLewis(St.Hugh’sCollege,Oxford)“TheirMannerofDiscourse?ScribalCulture,Civility,andtheEarlyRoyalSociety”
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Session 2 Language and “Characters”
Moderator:KristineHaugen(Caltech)
J.D.Fleming(SimonFraserUniversity)“UnrealCharacters:TechnologyandOralityintheSeventeenthCentury”
ClairePreston(QueenMaryUniversityofLondon)“ThePunctualRelationsofMusaeum Clausum”
3:00 Break
3:15 Session 3 Negative Knowledge
Moderator:DeboraShuger(UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles)
KevinKilleen(UniversityofYork)“TheFleetingShapeoftheAbsentGod:The Garden of CyrusandtheApophatic”
JessicaWolfe“BrowneandtheSilentText”
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Featuringtwelveleadingexpertsinthe
literary,philosophical,andscientific
cultureofseventeenth-century
England,thisconferencefocusesonthe
worksandworldsofSirThomasBrowne,the
physician,essayist,andnaturalistwhowasone
oftheera’smosteloquentandidiosyncratic
interpretersofthebookofnature.
l o c a t i o n
Rothenberg Hall, Steven S. Koblik Education and Visitor Center
2:30 Break
2:45 Session 6 The Ethics of Naturalism and the Science of Error
Moderator:GideonManning(Caltech)
JoannaPicciotto(UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley)“WhyLookatAnimals?”
AnthonyOssa-Richardson(UniversityofSouthampton)“ThePericardiumofTruth:ThomasBrowneandtheScienceofError”
4:45 Closing Remarks: JessicaWolfeandReidBarbour(UniversityofNorthCarolina,ChapelHill)
S A T U R D A Y , J A N U A R Y 2 3 , 2 0 1 6
A CONFERENCE AT THE HUNTINGTON1151 Oxford Road, San Marino CA 91108
Funding provided by
The Dibner History of Science Program at The Huntington
The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute
AthanasiusKircher,Mundus subterraneus(1678),p.228.HuntingtonLibrarycopy.
Truth and Errorin
Thomas BrowneEarly Modern Science:
and his world
Truth and Errorin
Thomas BrowneEarly Modern Science:
and his world