Monday, November 19, 2007

Objectivity vs Wonder? - Victorian Science and Curiosity

London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar

Saturday 1st December, 3.00-5.30pm
Room NG-15, Senate House

"Objectivity vs. Wonder? - Victorian Science and Curiosity"

This seminar brings together two scholars to think about scientific curiosity and the ways in which it is mediated to produce different kinds of scientific knowledge for different groups in the nineteenth century. This is a seminar with two speakers who will give full-length research papers followed by a chaired discussion.

Dr Paul White (University of Cambridge, History of Science and The Darwin Project)
Dr Ralph O'Connor (University of Aberdeen, History)

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