Month: October 2010
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Event News: The Royal Society Prize for Science Books, October 21st 2010
At a thoroughly enjoyable public event yesterday, shortlisted authors and judges of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books 2010 met to discuss the ins and outs of popular science books – why we read them, how authors write them and what the future holds. After an introduction by Lord Martin Rees, President of the Royal…
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BSLS Conference 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS The 6th annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at Homerton College, Cambridge, from 8-10th April 2011. The Society invites proposals for twenty-minute research papers addressing any aspect of the interaction between literature and science, medicine, and technology; collaborative panels of three themed papers; and papers…
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Cfp: The Book in Art and Science
The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) is holding a conference on ‘The Book in Art and Science’ in Washington DC, 14-17 July 2011. Proposals for individual papers and panels are invited: the deadline is November 30 2010. Questions to be addressed may include: What tensions exist between the book in…
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Lecture: Between the Lines (Tuesday, 12 October 2010, 7 pm)
Museum of the History of Science, Broad Street, Oxford (doors open 6.30) Celina Fox will talk about her outstanding new book ‘The Arts of Industry in the Age of Enlightenment.’ ‘Celina Fox’s brilliant and beautifully illustrated opus restores the connection between drawing and technology originally embedded in the very word “art”, before the Romantics turned…
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Killeen, Kevin, Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England: Thomas Browne and the Thorny Place of Knowledge
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Mary Morrissey
Kevin Killeen, Biblical scholarship, science and politics in early modern England: Thomas Browne and the thorny place of knowledge (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009). 268 pp. £55 hb. ISBN 978-0-7546-5730-9. (BSLS members receive a discount on all Ashgate titles) This thought-provoking monograph is one of several book-length publications on the writings of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) in…
