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2:00-6:00 p.m
Registration
Foyer A

6:00-7:00p.m.

Keynote Address

Tall Tales and Short Stories: Narrating the History of Science
Jan Golinski, University of New Hampshire
Grand Ballroom F

7:00-8:00 p.m.

Reception
Grand Hall

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Registration
Foyer A

Book Exhibit
Foyer C

9:00-11:45 a.m.
*Denotes Session Organizer & Special Millennial Sessions

Reconsidering Mathematical Practitioners in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Grand Ballroom A

*Steven A. Walton, IHPST - University of Toronto, Thomas Hood and Armada Angst: How Mathematical Were the Military Sciences?
Hester K. Higton, University of Exeter, ‘Does Using an Instrument Make you mathematical? ‘Mathematical practitioners’ of the 17th Century, and Their Instruments
Katherine Neal, University of Sydney and John Schuster, University of New South Wales, Practical Mathematics and Narratives of the Scientific Revolution: What Ever is to be Done?
Commentator: Lesley B. Cormack, University of Alberta
Chair: TBA

Alchemy in Old Egypt
Grand Ballroom B

*Hamed A. Ead, Science Heritage Center,Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, Earliest Chemical Manuscripts of the Chemical Arts in Egypt
Daryn Lehoux, University of Toronto, Astronomy and Weather Prediction in Ancient Egypt
Nasry Iskander, Egyptian Mueseum, Egypt, Chemistry In Pharaonic Egypt
Maher Aly, Alexandria University, Egypt, Medical School Traditions in Ancient Egypt
Commentator: Hamed A. Ead, Cairo University, Egypt
Chair: TBA

Scientific Ways of Seeing: A Re-Vision*
Grand Ballroom C

Anke te Heesen, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, Closed and Transparent Orders: How the Furniture of Collections was Seen in the Enlightenment
*Emma Spary, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, By design: Shell prints and an ‘Aesthetics’ of Scientific Illustration in 18th-century Europe
Anne Secord, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge, Botany on a Plate: The Role of Illustration in Dishing up Knowledge
Commentator and Chair: Ludmilla Jordanova

The Legacy of Thomas Kuhn: Reflections on Fuller’s Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times*
Grand Ballroom D

Jeff Hughes, University of Manchester
Jan Golinski, University of New Hampshire
Philip Mirowski, University of Notre Dame
Paul Roth, University of Missouri at St Louis
Commentator: *Steve W. Fuller, University of Warwick
Chair: Paul Roth, University of Missouri at St Louis

Rethinking "Professionalisation" in Victorian Science
Grand Ballroom E

Ruth Barton, Auckland University, "Men of Science": Language, Identity and the Professionalization of British Science, 1850-1880
Jim Endersby, Cambridge University, Putting Plants in their Place: Joseph Hooker and the Making of Amateurs
Ben Marsden, Aberdeen University, The Professional and Professorial: Engineering under Cover in the Early Victorian Universities
Commentator and Chair: Sophie Forgan, University of Teesside

New Directions in the Historiography of Scientific Instruments*
Regency B

Richard Sorrenson, Indiana University, Instruments, Science and Mixed up Mathematics in the Eighteenth Century
Catherine Westfall, Smithsonian Institution, Re-Examining Big Science
Commentator and Chair: Deborah Warner, Smithsonian Institution

1:30-3:10 p.m.

Mathematics and Art in the Scientific Revolution
Grand Ballroom A

Scott L. Montgomery, Independent Scholar, Needed Revision in the History of Science and Art: The Case of Jan Van Eyck
Renzo Baldasso, University of Oklahoma, Galileo’s Dialogo and Scheiner’s Rosa Ursina
Katherine L. Neal, University of Sydney, A tale of two teachers: success and failure in early modern mathematics
Chair: Wilbur Applebaum, Illinois Institute of Technology

Science and Religion
Grand Ballroom B

Russell M. Lawson, Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics, The Pious Scientist: Jeremy Belknap, the New Science, and Christianity
Sujit P. Sivasundaram, University of Cambridge, Probing Bounds: Collection, Natural History, Missionaries and Pacific Islanders
Susantha Goonatilake, New School for Social Research, South Asian Philosophical Resonances and the New Physics: Influence or Resonance?
Chair: Margaret C. Jacob, University of California, Los Angeles

Science in the Nineteenth Century Periodical: Demonstration of SciPer Database
Grand Ballroom C

Jonathan R. Topham, University of Leeds
*Geoffrey N. Cantor, University of Leeds
Gowan Dawson, University of Sheffield

Nineteenth-Century Science
Grand Ballroom D

Michael P. White, McGill University, Modern Times: Temporality and Modernity in Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology
Elizabeth Garber, SUNY Stony Brook, Why Mathematics?
Hannah Gay, Simon Fraser University, The Scientific World of Herbert McLeod: A Microhistorical Challenge to Some of the More Systematic Accounts in the History of Victorian Science
Chair: TBA

Ethics, Humanism and the Humanities
Grand Ballroom E

Katharine Wright, University of Toronto, Humanism, Antihumanism, and Technoscience
Benjamin R. Cohen, Virginia Tech, On the Two Temperaments of Science and the Humanities: Those That Bridge the Divide and Those That Blur
Gary S. Belkin, Harvard University, Crossing Disciplines: Using History to Change Bioethics
Chair: TBA

3:30-5:30 p.m.

Science, Health and the State
Grand Ballroom A

Paul C. Chrostowski, CPF Associates, Inc., Public Perception of the Evolution of the Dose-Response Relationship in Toxicology
Elizabeth A. Hachten, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Across the Revolutionary Divide: Epidemics, Science and the Russian State
Martin Lengwiler, University of Zurich, Welfare State and Risk Society: The Historical Dimension of Current Risk Debates
Ki-heung Kim, The University of Edinburgh, Controversy on the Nature of the Scrapie Agent in the 1960s
Chair: TBA

Natural History and Evolution
Grand Ballroom B

Tobias Cheung, University of Tokyo, Cuvier’s Heritage: Living Architecture Between Natural Burdens and Regulative Devices
Gregory S. Goodale, George Mason University, The Early Evolution of Evolution Theory
Igor Yu. Popov, St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Analysis of a Prototype of ‘Case Study’
Gregory M. Radick, University of Cambridge, Victorian Society in Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection
Chair: TBA

The Context of Discovery
Grand Ballroom C

Lawrence S. Dritsas, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, The Nile Sources: Rereading the Journals of Discovery
André R. LeBlanc, Université du Québec à Montréal, The Problem of Post-hypnotic Suggestion in France, 1884-1896
David A. Steinberg, Saa Institute, Concomitance and Complementarity–Common Paths to a Modern Science
Rhona G. Leibel, Metropolitan State University, Epistemic Disunity in the Study of International Relations: Assessing Interwar Idealism
Chair: TBA

Reading "Books of Nature": New Directions in Science and Religion*
Grand Ballroom D

Jonathan Topham, University of Leeds, Religious Practices and the Uses of Books
Peter Denton, University of Winnipeg, Framing the Discourse: Science, Religion and the Hermeneutics of ‘the Book’
Geoffrey Cantor, University of Leeds, Rhetorics of Concord and Dissonance
Commentator and Chair: David B. Wilson, Iowa State University

History and Philosophy of Science: State of the Relationship*
Grand Ballroom E

Don Howard, Notre Dame University, Kith or Kin? On the Relationship between History and Philosophy of Science
Catherine Wilson, University of British Columbia, History of Science Meets History of Philosophy
Gary Hatfield, University of Pennsylvania, History and Philosophy of Science: On Telling the Players
Commentator and Chair: TBA

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Registration
Foyer A

Book Exhibit
Foyer C

*Denotes Session Organizer & Special Millennial Sessions

Newton’s Principia: Translation and Reassessment
Grand Ballroom A

I. Bernard Cohen, Harvard University, Translating Newton’s Principia
William Harper, University of Western Ontario, Newton’s Principia as a Historical Introduction to Theory and Evidence
George Smith, Tufts University, Newton’s Principia in the Philosophy Curriculum
Michael Nauenberg, University of California, Santa Cruz, The Role of Curvature in Newton’s Dynamics
Chair: *J.Bruce Brackenridge, Lawrence University

Visualisation of Scientific Activity*
Grand Ballroom B

Ludmilla Jordanova, University of East Anglia, Visual Culture and Scientific Practice
Charlotte Klonk, University of Warwick, Artful Science: Natural History and its Images in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Deborah Jean Warner, Smithsonian Institution, I never intend to wrap my Talent in a Napkin": Benjamin Franklin as a Man of Achievement
*Frank A.J.L. James, Royal Institution, Harriet Moore, Michael Faraday and her watercolours of the interior of the Royal Institution
Chair: TBA

New Directions in the History and Material Culture of Experiment*
Grand Ballroom C

Graeme J.N. Gooday, University of Leeds, Tempering and Amalgamating the Boundaries: Characters and Metals in the History of Science and Technology
Nani Clow, Max Planck Institut for the History of Science, Berlin, The Indispensable Research Staff: Collaborative Experiment and Laboratory Culture in Liverpool, 1881-1900
Falk Mueller, Carl-von-Ossietzky University, Experimental Spaces and Conceptual Development in 19th-century Gas Discharge Physics
Tatyana B. Shaskina, Russian Academy of Sciences, Bell Founding as a Testing Ground for Developing a Methodological Approach to the Science vs. Craftsmanship Problem
Commentator: Peter Heering, Carl-von-Ossietzky University
Chair: TBA

Founding Disciplines
Grand Ballroom D

Matthew R. Goodrum, Indiana University, Establishing a Place for the History of Prehistoric Anthropology and Archaeology Within the History of Science
Nicolas Rasmussen, University of California, Berkeley, Plant Hormones in War and Peace: Science, Industry, and Intellectual Property in the Development of Herbicides in 1940s America
Colin Russell, The Open University, Where Science Meets Technology: The Special Case of Chemistry?
Chair: TBA

The Emotional Economy of Science: Sympathy and the Formation of Scientific Communities, 1800-1930
Grand Ballroom E

Elizabeth Green Musselman, Southwestern University, Forging Community Through Bodily Sympathy in Industrial-era Natural Philosophy
*Paul S. White, University of Cambridge, Passion for Science: The Display of Feeling in Late-Victorian Biology and Medicine
Otniel E. Dror, Getty Research Institute, Purity and Danger: Sympathy, Antipathies, and the Boundaries of Science
Commentator and Chair: James A. Secord, University of Cambridge

1:30-3:10 p.m.

Political Cosmology
Grand Ballroom A

Elizabeth R. Neswald, Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin, Cyclical Cosmologies in Late 19th Century Germany
Daniel Gasman, CUNY, Ernst Haeckel in Italy: Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology
Paul T. Arpaia, Baruch College, Evolving into Italians: Evolutionism in Giosuè Carducci’s Conception of Italian Cultural and Political Identity
Chair: TBA

History of Scientific Instrumentation
Grand Ballroom B

Sven Dupré, University of Gent, Instruments and Embodiment in Art and Science
Jennifer K. Alexander, University of Minnesota, Viva Vis Viva: John Smeaton, Vis Viva, and Engineering Experiments in the Industrial Revolution
Roland Wittje, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Scientific Instruments as Source Material for History of Late 19th and Early 20th Century Physics
Chair: TBA

Eighteenth Century Studies
Grand Ballroom C

Susan McMahon, University of Alberta, Inventing Botany at the Royal Society
Peter Heering, Carl-von-Ossietzky University, Replicating a Revolutionary’s Experiments: Jean Paul Marat’s Scientific Approach
Scott L. Montgomery, Independent Scholar, Nativizing Western Science: Two Examples from Japan
Chair: TBA

Nineteenth Century British Science, Culture, and Public
Grand Ballroom D

Martin Fichman, York University, Alfred Russel Wallace’s North American Tour: Transatlantic Evolutionary Theism
David A. Riley, University of Manchester, ‘Science Lectures for the People’: Problems in the Public Understanding of Science in 19th Century Britain
Linda C. McCabe, Independent Scholar, Origins of the Cultural Image of the Cave Man
Chair: TBA

Science in Eastern Europe and the East
Grand Ballroom E

Susantha Goonatilake, New School for Social Research, The Inflow of Major South Asian Textual Material into Contemporary Psychology
Gary J. Hausman, University of Manchester, Making Medicine Indigenous: Homoeopathy in Madras [India]
J. A. Krikstopaitis and Romualdas Sviedrys, Polytechnic University, History of Science Behind the Iron Curtain in the Baltic Nations
Chair: TBA

3:30-5:30 p.m.

Scientific Communities
Grand Ballroom A

John Suppe, Princeton University, The Tandem Bicycle Ride: Exponential Growth of Science and the Academy in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Dong-Won Kim, KAIST, Australians and Canadians at the Cavendish Laboratory in the Early Twentieth Century
Anna Binnie, Macquarie University, From Atomic Energy to Nuclear Science
James W. Endersby, University of Missouri, Collaboration, Authorship, and Scientific Research: Trends and Patterns Among Disciplines
Chair: TBA

Science Museums and the Display of Knowledge
Grand Ballroom B

Linda E. Endersby, University of Missouri, The ‘Stepchildren’ of Science: Engineers and Technology in the Hallowed Halls of Science Museums
Constance A. Malpas, Princeton University, Framing the Master Narrative: Museological and Bibliographic Approaches to the Organization of Knowledge
Tom Scheinfeldt, University of Oxford, Constructivist Historiography: Some Implications for Science Museums
Chair: TBA

Cultural and Social Studies of Science
Grand Ballroom C

Paromita Chakravarti, Jadavpur University, Juan Huarte’s Examination of Men’s Wits, 1594 and the Historiography of Mental Disability
Michael W. Seltzer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Historiography and Our Cultural Understanding of Science
Scott L. Montgomery, Independent Scholar, Translation and the History of Science: An Overdue Subject
Michael C. Soller, University of California, Los Angeles, History, Memory, Emotion: Episodes in American Historical Practice
Chair: TBA

Popular Science?*
Grand Ballroom D

*Aileen Fyfe, University of Cambridge, Industrialised Conversion: Publishing popular science and religion in Victorian Britain
Suzanne Le-May Sheffield,Dalhousie University, ‘Beyond Popularization’: Women Naturalists Exploring Science
Carsten Timmerman,University of Manchester, ‘Folk Knowledge’ and Professional Politics: Medical Historians and Popular Science in Interwar Germany
Commentator and Chair: Jon Topham, Universities of Leeds and Sheffield

Reading and Writing Medical History Rhetorically*
Grand Ballroom E

Philip M. Teigen, National Library of Medicine, Language, Logic, and the Historiography of Medicine
Jill G. Morawski, Wesleyan University, Tales of Sperm: The Storied Historiography of Artifical Insemination
David N. Harley, University of Notre Dame, The Present in the Past: Charles Webster and the 17th-Century Prehistory of the NHS
Commentator: Theodore M. Brown, University of Rochester
Chair: Conevery Bolton Valencius, Washington University, St. Louis

5:30-6:30 p.m.

Ron Numbers
Lesley Cormack
Ludmilla Jordanova

Grand Ballroom F