UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies presents:
Courts and Scientific Communication in the Long Seventeenth Century
May 2006.......................................................................................................................................................................Time TBA
Program:
Proposed speakers and topics
1. Naturalism, Art and Aesthetics in Court Culture
Pamela Smith, Pomona College,
“Nobles and Insects: Collecting Art and Nature at Court”
Thomas de Costa Kaufmann, Princeton, “Before Caravaggio: Arcimboldo and the
Origins of Still Life”
2. Courts and Networks of Communication: Rome and Italy
Paula Findlen, Stanford
University, “Natural History in Italian Courts”
David Freedberg, Columbia, “The Barberini, the Lincei and Mexico”
3. Courts and Scientific Communication: Northern Europe
John R. Christianson, Luther
College, “Tycho Brahe and Networks of Science at the Danish Court 1559-1596”
Mordechai Feingold, California Institute of Technology, “An English Enigma:
Court Science and the Making of the Royal Society”
Matthew Jones, Columbia, Letters, “Libraries and Courtly Points of View:
Leibniz on the Intelligence Necessary for Proper Rule”
Simon Werrett, University of Washington, TBA. A paper dealing with Leibniz and the spread of scientific information in northeastern Europe