Margaret Carlyle

Name:	Margaret Carlyle
Affiliation:	Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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Talks given by Margaret Carlyle

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• Sizing up the pelvis: birthing technology in late 18th-century France
• Skeletons in the cabinet and the Grand Tour of anatomy
• Illustrating Enlightenment science: women at the margins in 18th-century France

Talks organised by Margaret Carlyle

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• Natural history, chemistry and the mysteries of vegetation in the 18th century
• The elephant in the room: presence, practice and pachyderms in Victorian education
• The hand of the naturalist: Charles Plumier, images and overseas natural history in late-17th-century France
• Beavers, brains, behaviour: the natural histories of 1950s psychiatry
• Deadwood taxonomies: trees of nature before evolution
• Jewellers, travellers and the classification of gems, c. 1600–1800
• Jan Swammerdam's visions of nature
• Verbal picturing and aesthetic experience in natural history, 1650–1720
• Visions of useful nature in late-colonial Central America (c. 1770–1821)
• 'O! How glad I am I have no pendulum': in pursuit of the figure of the earth
• Bringing ancient grains to life: Tutankhamen, Egyptomania and modernist enchantment in interwar Britain
• Cabinets, eclipses and lightning rods: the role of curiosity in the perception of science in 18th-century Russia
• Jane Squire's early modern adventures: 'I see not why I should confine myself to needles, cards, and dice'
• Collecting natural history: Sloane's 'Vegetable Substances'
• W.B. Carpenter and the wonder of microscopy
• Natural history on the move: John Ray's continental travels, 1663–1666
• The role of instruments in exploration: the RGS and its explorers, c.1830–1900
• Historical time, primitive peoples and the abyss of race: conceptions of temporality in German anthropology and folklore studies (1850s–1930s)
• Jean André Peyssonnel and the coral island