2000 HSS/PSA Program 1 - History of Science Society

Sunday, 5 November
HSS 2000 Program
David␣ A. Pantalony, University of Toronto, Bringing Sound Into the
Laboratory: The Visual Analysis of Compound Tones
Matthias Doerries, Max Planck Institute / University of Strasbourg (Louis
Pasteur), Self-Effacement and Objective Knowledge: Henri-Victor Regnault
CHAIR: Ken Caneva, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Putting Nature on Show in Early Modern Europe
(Plaza West)
Michael␣ John Gorman, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and
Technology, Johannes Kepler and the Death of Painting
Janice␣ L. Neri, University of California, Irvine, The Visual Rhetoric of Insect
Illustration: Technology and Visuality in the Seventeenth Century
*Nicholas Dew, Cambridge University, The Menagerie of Versailles and the
Visualisation of Nature
Simon␣ R.␣ E. Werrett, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, An Odd
Sort of Exhibition: Spectacles of Science and the Russian State in the Eighteenth
Century
CHAIR AND COMMENTATOR: TBA
H
S
S
Galileo’s Optics
(Plaza Centre)
Eileen Reeves, Princeton University, Galileo and the Reflecting Telescope:
Some Speculation
*Sven Dupre, Ghent University, Galileo, Optics and the Pinelli Circle
Yaakov Zik, University of Haifa, Israel, Beyond the Naked Eye
A.␣ Mark Smith, University of Missouri, Columbia, Galileo’s Telescope:
Theoretical Implications
Filippo Camerota, Venice University School of Architecture, The Portrait of
the Moon: Linear Perspective and the Scientific Representation of the Celestial
World
CHAIR: Albert Van␣ Helden, Rice University
Darwinian Heresies
(Cypress)
*Abigail␣ J. Lustig, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Natural
Atheology and Evolutionary Explanations of the Origins of Religion
Michael Ruse, University of Guelph, How Darwinian is neo-Darwinism?
Stephen␣ G. Alter, Gordon College, Unconscious Selection and Darwin’s
Distribution Thinking
Robert␣ N. Proctor, Pennsylvania State University, When did Humans become
Human? The Impact of Racial Liberalism on the Recognition (and Denial) of
Fossil Hominid Diversity 1944-2000
CHAIR AND COMMENTATOR: John Beatty, University of Minnesota
43