Sebestian Kroupa

Name:	Sebestian Kroupa
Affiliation:	Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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Talks given by Sebestian Kroupa

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• From indigenous panaceas to global drugs, or, how the Philippine plant igasud became the St Ignatius bean (c.1670–1750)
• Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706): natural knowledge in transit between the Philippines and Europe
• Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706): a Jesuit pharmacist in Manila at the borderlines of erudition and empiricism

Talks organised by Sebestian Kroupa

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• Inventorying the Rhone: the scientific travels of Claude Jourdan collecting for the Natural History Museum of Lyon, 1834–1869
• Earthquakes, the end of the world, and perspectives on the Last Judgment (1686–1756)
• Watering plants, drying specimens: the Calcutta Botanical Garden and its fraught relationship with moisture (c.1864–c.1900)
• Beetles in a haystack: collecting insects via the eighteenth‐century British slave trade
• The Ambonese Rumphius and his inter-island information networks
• A cabinet of natural history: the long-lost Paston collection
• How to rediscover a medical secret in eighteenth-century France: the lost recipe of the Chevalier de Guiller's powder febrifuge
• Physico-chemical biology in practice, 1920s–1930s
• Trees as keys, ladders, maps: a revisionist history of early systematic trees
• Joseph Banks: science, culture and the remaking of the Indo-Pacific world
• The first geological chronology of ancient Egypt and the antiquity of man, 1846–63
• Blood will tell? Constructions of the 'vampire problem' in the eighteenth century
• A silent servant of natural knowledge: the herbarium of 'The Flying Monk' Brother Cyprian
• From natural histories to man-made futures: the origins and ends of R.A. Fisher's Darwinism
• Iron holds the whale
• What's in a name? Negotiations of credibility and authority in the naming of the giant otter shrew (Potamogale velox)
• Experimental reconstruction of the bronze life-cast lizard of the Renaissance
• 'The motion of the blood is in fact a sort of living barometer': altitude sickness, poisonous plants and instrumentalised bodies in the Himalaya, 1800–1850
• On Tupaia Street: the travels of artefacts from Cook's first voyage