iCHSTM 2013 Programme • Version 5.3.6, 27 July 2013 • ONLINE (includes late changes)
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T190. Literary approaches in the history of science, technology and medicine
Wed 24 July, 09:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 2.218
T190-A. Literary approaches
Wed 24 July, 09:00–10:30 ▪ Uni Place 2.218
Chair: Melanie Keene twitter | Homerton College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Benjamin Mitchell twitter | York University, Canada
When romance meets sensation: the trans-Atlantic collision of Edgar Allan Poe’s Eureka: a Prose Poem and Robert Chambers’ Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Andrea Candela | Università degli Studi dell'Insubria (Varese-Como, Italy), Italy
The Radium Terrors: popular science and science fiction on radioactive metals before the Bomb
Ester Boixereu | IGME, Spain
Geology in Spanish Renaissance literature: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478- 1557) and the Masaya volcano (Nicaragua)
Barbara Mohr | Museum of Natural History, Berlin, Germany
Annette B. Vogt | MPI for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany
The popularization of geosciences in literature: the case of children’s and youths’ books in Germany in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries
T190-B. Literary sources in the history of science, technology and medicine
Wed 24 July, 11:00–12:30 ▪ Uni Place 2.218
Chair: Ludmilla Jordanova | King’s College London, United Kingdom
Elena Zanoni | University of Verona, Italy
The Beautiful Country by Antonio Stoppani and the popularisation of science in Risorgimental Italy
Moema Vergara | Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins, Brazil
Franz Keller-Leuzinger: text and image in the nineteenth-century Brazilian Amazon
Nataliia Voloshkova | Donetsk National Medical University, Ukraine
The crossroads of literature and medicine: T Smollett in the history of naval medicine in the eighteenth century
Juan Maria Fornés | Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Spain
La percepción de los humedales en la literatura española
The perception of wetlands in Spanish literature
Location: University Place 2.218
Part of: University Place