Archive for November 18th, 2009
Science not stamp collecting: the importance of botany from 1759 to 2059
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009Science not stamp collecting – the importance of botany from 1759 to 2059
1 December 2009
6:30-7:30 pm
The Royal Society, London
Professor Stephen Hopper
Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Professor Hopper will consider the vital role that the study of plant taxonomy and systematics has played in plant science. He will consider, in particular, how these fields [...]
Call for Papers: Circulating Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Europe
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009Circulating Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Europe:
Networks, Knowledge and Form
8 – 10 July 2010
Royal Society, 6-9, Carlton House Terrace, London
Keynote speakers: Mark Greengrass, Margaret Ezell, and Richard Serjeantson
The seventeenth century in Europe was an age of turmoil. As wars, revolutions, and exploration redrew the boundaries of the physical world, a tumult of new ideas shifted the boundaries [...]