Cabinet of Natural History

The political anatomy of natural history: on Petty's contrivance of the Down Survey (1655–1659)

Svit Komel (University of Ljubljana).

Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 07 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Chinese natural history objects in 18th-century Paris: reflections on the non-circulation of knowledge

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Huiyi Wu (CNRS-Centre Alexandre Koyré).

Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 28 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Bernardino Gomes' quest for 'local knowledge': ipecacuanha in Brazil around 1800

Sophia Spielmann (Technische Universität Berlin).

Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 07 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Interlaced spaces: the importance of fieldwork and presence on crop conservation histories

Daniela Sclavo (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 24 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The frog and the vine: indigenous knowledge, biomedical innovation, and biopiracy in Latin America

Ernesto Schwartz-Marin (Exeter University).

Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 15 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The biological age of plant virus research: studying viruses through other organisms in 1920s and 1930s Britain

João Joaquim (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 08 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Remarks on Joachim Jungius's work method in botany: Ficus indica in his letters, notes, garden and Isagoge Phytoscopica

Niklaas Görsch (University of Lübeck).

Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 01 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Environment and Empire... in the museum': Cambridge and the platypus

Charlotte Connelly (The Polar Museum), Jack Ashby (University Museum of Zoology).

Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 25 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The upland exchange: village life in natural history, 1771–1832

Patrick Anthony (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 18 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The 'lesser herbals' in early modern natural history

Xinyi Wen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Zoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 11 October 2021, 13:00-14:00