Iris Montero Sobrevilla

Name:	Iris Montero Sobrevilla
Affiliation:	Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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Talks given by Iris Montero Sobrevilla

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• Transatlantic hum: Mexican hummingbirds and the French encyclopedic project

Talks organised by Iris Montero Sobrevilla

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• 'Strange are the ways of providence': Calvinism, evolution, and the autobiography of James Croll
• The politics of participation: Francis Galton's Anthropometric Laboratory and the formation of civic selves
• Mad women and mad-doctors
• Placing trust in photographs – photography and the illustrated press
• Visual organisation of heavenly knowledge in the 16th and 17th centuries
• God, king, and geometry: Cauchy's reactionary rigour
• The golden road to China: cartographical representations of an improbable railway project, c.1881-5
• Products of conception and the order of nature in Danish natural philosophy and medicine, c.1650-1800
• Hunting the phoenix: an alchemical detective story
• Wu Wen-Tsun: a modern Chinese mathematician and the Chinese mathematical tradition
• 'Restitution' in seventeenth-century architecture and natural philosophy
• Puns and pea-shooters: play, words, and plays on words in John Ayrton Paris's 'Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest' (1827)
• 'In shape vnparfett that nature hathe not drest': vision, experience and incongruous anatomies in early modern England
• The natural and the divine in Al-Farabi's classification of knowledge
• Finding favour in the heavens and earth: Georg Stadius, Johannes Kepler and the composition of astrological calendars in early modern Graz
• Thomas Digges' astronomy
• Preserving the forgotten: Fox Talbot’s interest in the antique – and what it has to do with photography
• Zhang Jingsheng and the ‘sexual field’ in 1920s China
• Political radicalism and scientific discovery: the Cambridge Biotheoretical Gathering, 1932-1937
• Military landscapes and secret science: mythical and empirical histories of the Suffolk coast