iCHSTM 2013 Programme • Version 5.3.6, 27 July 2013 • ONLINE (includes late changes)
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T165. Contexts of natural history
Tue 23 July, 09:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 3.204
T165-A. Botany books and careers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Tue 23 July, 09:00–10:30 ▪ Uni Place 3.204
Chair: Peter Bowler | Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
Isabelle Charmantier | University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Carl Linnaeus’s Materia medica
Jenny Beckman | Uppsala University, Sweden
Handbooks and the making or breaking of scientific careers
Lucie Čermáková | Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Using senses in sixteenth-century plant description
Caroline Gillan | National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Ties of gratitude: the relationship between patron and client
T165-B. Spaces and places of natural history
Tue 23 July, 11:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 3.204
Chair: Alexandra Cook | University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Hanna Hodacs | Royal Swedish Academy of Science, United Kingdom
Understanding tea from China in eighteenth-century Europe
Anto Leikola | University of Helsinki, Finland
Pehr Kalm: the eighteenth-century traveller in America and the father of ecology in Finland
Nadezhda Yusupova | European University at St.Petersburg, Russia
WITHDRAWN: The diaries of a traveler as a historical source: Pyotr Kozlov’s journals of the expedition to Mongolia and Sichuan, 1907-1909
T165-C. Local contexts for natural history
Tue 23 July, 14:00–15:30 ▪ Uni Place 3.204
Chair: Anne Secord | University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Arena Libera Paola | Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Field experiments on the Plinian source (Torno, Lake Como): Carlo Amoretti and the different explanations of its irregular flow from the two Plinys to nowadays
Patience Schell twitter | University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Cultivating natural history in nineteenth-century Chile
Jeon Hyeri | Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
How the literati in Chŏsun understood Zhu Xi’s comment on ‘fossils’
T165-D. Animals, monsters, and culture
Tue 23 July, 16:00–17:30 ▪ Uni Place 3.204
Chair: Peter Collins | Royal Society, United Kingdom
Helena Ekerholm | The Centre for History of Science, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden
Getting to know ocean creatures in the nineteenth century: marine zoologists, fishermen and beach tourists making knowledge
James Hall | University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
The spectacle of the serpent in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century London
Alistair Sponsel twitter | Vanderbilt University, United States
From threatening to threatened: coral reefs as objects of scientific study
Location: University Place 3.204
Part of: University Place