Lectures: History of Science, Technology and Medicine Seminars (The Royal Institution, London, UK)
Forwarded to HISTNEUR-L from H-SCI-MED-TECH. --RJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phillip Thurtle, H-SCI-MED-TECH" [smtedit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU] Date: Monday, January 26, 2004 8:58 am Subject: HSTM seminars at the Royal Institution this term From: Frank James [fjames@ri.ac.uk] Tuesday 27 January Professor David Gooding Patterns, Structures and Processes: the Art in Science Tuesday 24 February Rebekah Higgitt "Too much of a biographer and too little of an historian": David Brewster and his Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton (1855) Tuesday 30 March Peter Skelton Mountaineering and Manners: John Tyndall's Alpine Conquests and Controversies Tuesday 27 April Dr Jon Topham Scientific Publishing in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain All seminars begin at 6pm with tea from 5.30 Abstracts can be found at http://www.rigb.org Please display Further information from Dr Frank James (fjames@ri.ac.uk) __________________________________________________________________ Dr Frank A.J.L. James Reader in History of Science, The Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BS, England. Direct line 020 7670 2924 Switchboard 020 7409 2992 Mobile 07957 172 123 E-mail: fjames@ri.ac.uk Web page: http://www.rigb.org/heritage/publications.html Registered charity number 227938