“New Perspectives on the History of British Science from the 17th to the 19th Centuries” is a seminar series hosted by the Journal of Dialectics of Nature and Professor Bernard Lightman. It will last from September 2022 to June 2023, with a monthly session throughout the 10-month duration. We have scholarly papers from 20 contributors based in 15 cities in China, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia. Join us for the sessions that interest you and be sure to mark your calendars.
The following is the agenda of the series：
New Perspectives on the History of British Science | ||
Session number | Topic | Date and time |
Seminar 1 | Issues in Nineteenth Century Astronomy | 9:00 AM Beijing Time, Monday Sept. 19th, 2022/ |
Speech Title: Visual Technology and Religious Sentiment in Nineteenth-Century Popular Astronomy Lecturing | ||
Speech Title: The Retellings of the Discovery of Neptune | ||
Seminar 2 | Imagination and Innovation in Natural Philosophy | 12:00 Noon Oxford Time/ |
Speech Title: The Imagination and Conceptions of Scientific Creativity 1760-1840 | ||
Speech Title: The Mathematics Work of Thomson and Stokes in "Notes on Hydrodynamics" | ||
Seminar 3 | Darwin and the Big Picture | 9:00 AM Toronto/ |
Speech Title: Was natural selection abandoned in Darwin psychological study—— an analysis based on his hypothetico-deductive methodology | ||
Speech Title: Nineteenth-Century British Science and the Big Picture | ||
Seminar 4 | Gardens as Scientific Sites in the Early Modern Period | 8:00 PM Eugene, Oregon, Sunday Dec. 11th, 2023/ |
Speech Title: Charting Plants: Robert Morison’s Practice of Visualising Botanical Classification | ||
Speech Title: “Garden Philosophy”: The early 17th-century Pleasure Garden as Experimental and Colonial Site | ||
Seminar 5 | The Chemical Revolution and Climate Change | 8:00 PM Durham, New Hampshire, Sunday January 8th/ |
Speech Title: Between Atomism, Elementalism, and Empiricism: The Chemical Studies of Étienne-François Geoffrey | ||
Speech Title: Climate Change and Society in Britain, 1790-1820 | ||
Seminar 6 | Imperial Economies and the Exchange of Natural Knowledge in the 17th and 18th Centuries | 2:00 PM, Cambridge, England, Monday Feb. 13th, 2023 |
Speech Title: Construction of botany and imperial economy ecosphere during the 18th century in Britain | ||
Speech Title: James Petiver and Georg Joseph Kamel: Knowledge in Transit Between London and Manila (c. 1700) | ||
Seminar 7 | Optics and Astronomy |
12:00 Noon, Coventry, England/ |
Speech Title: The Dark Chamber: Descartes, Hobbes and the Epistemological Implications of Kepler’s Optics | ||
Speech Title: Fly Me to the Moon: Lunar Projects in Seventeenth-Century England | ||
Seminar 8 | Empire and Gender | 9:00 AM Beijing Time, Monday April 10th, 2023 |
Speech Title: Challenge or opportunity? The establishment of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society in the context of scientific imperialism | ||
Speech Title: Angel’s Wings: Three British Women Illustrators and Colonial Ornithology | ||
Seminar 9 | Science and Industry | 9:00 AM Middletown, Conn., USA/ |
Speech Title: “The Sino-British Scientific Communication and the Early Development of Chinese Nuclear Industry in the Mid-20th Century”. | ||
Speech Title: Photography at the Nexus of Science and Industry | ||
Seminar 10 | The Royal Society of London | 2:00 PM St. Andrews, Scotland/ |
Speech Title: A Last-minute Kick: William Grove and the Scientific Reform of the Royal Society in 19th Century | ||
Speech Title: Academy transactions and the global circulation of scientific knowledge: The | ||
The event is set to take place at a time friendly to most international participants. Our organizing committee is keen for you to attend.
For up-to-date conference schedule and academic information, please visit http://jdn.ucas.ac.cn/public/index.php/home/dynamics/index.html to keep informed by the organizing committee and to find out more about each monthly session shortly before they take place.
