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EMPHASIS 2004-5 Programme

9 October 2004 (Room 265)

Dr Raphael Hallett
(University of Sussex)
Words in Abstract Space: Pierre Ramus, Rhetoric and the Geometry of Print.


6 November 2004 (Room 265)

Dr Kevin Killeen (Birkbeck, University of London)
"The Doctor Quarrels with Some Pictures": Animals and Exegesis in Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica.


4 December 2004 (Room 265)

Dr Kate Eagleton (British Museum)
The Fruits of Learning and the Contents of a Great Library – John Whethamstede, Abbot of St Albans, and his Encyclopaedia Granarium.


8 January 2005 (Room 265)

Dr Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Humane Understanding before Locke.


5 February 2005 (Room 265)

Dr Lauren Kassell (University of Cambridge)
“All was this land full fill'd of faerie”: Magic and the Past in Early Modern England.


5 March 2005 (Room 265)

Dr Leo Catana (University of Copenhagen)
The Exposition of Giordano Bruno in Jacob Brucker's History of Philosophy: Some Historiographical Considerations.


19 March 2005 (Room 265) Additional Session

Prof. Lawrence Principe (Johns Hopkins University)
Transmutational Experiments at the Early Eighteenth Century Parisian Academy.

 

2 April 2005 (Room 265)

Dr Koen Vermeir (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Divination and the Powers of the Imagination in the late Seventeenth Century.


7 May 2005 (Room 265)

Dr Nick Wilding
(University of Cambridge)
Pseudonymity and seventeenth-century Natural Philosophy.



18 June 2005 (Room 248)

Professor Charles Burnett
(Warburg Institute)
Arabic Magic in the Renaissance.

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