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CATEGORIES:Cabinet of Natural History
SUMMARY:Re-enacting past experiments: how and why - Hasok 
 Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Sci
 ence)
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/210694
DESCRIPTION:In recent decades 're-enactment' has become an acc
 epted\, even fashionable\, mode of historical work
 . Building on the talk he gave in the Cabinet of N
 atural History series last year\, Hasok Chang will
  consider different purposes that are served by di
 fferent types of historical experiments (historica
 l replication\, physical replication\, and extensi
 on). And then he will discuss his own line of work
 \, which he calls 'complementary experiments'\, wh
 ich seeks to recover lost scientific knowledge fro
 m the past and further extend what has been recove
 red. The discussion will be illustrated with cases
  from his current work on the history of 'battery 
 science' in the 19th century. He will invite refle
 ctions from the audience on the functions of histo
 rical experiments for history of science\, for sci
 ence education\, and for citizen science. (If ther
 e is demand\, a follow-up hands-on workshop may be
  organised in the Easter Term.)
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philoso
 phy of Science
CONTACT:Tom Banbury
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