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SEEING SCIENCE. IMAGE, TEXT, AND NATURE 1500-1800
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A workshop organized by Daniela Bleichmar and Anthony Grafton
March 25-26, 2005
211 Dickinson Hall (History Department)
Princeton University
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Friday, March 25, 2005

4.30pm
Keynote lecture
Lorraine Daston, Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science
“Four-Eyed Seeing: Artists, Naturalists, and their Images”
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Saturday, 26 March, 2005

9am: Sachiko Kusukawa, Cambridge University
“Andreas Vesalius and the Canonization of the Human Body: Res, Verba,
Pictura”
Comment: Eileen Reeves, Princeton University

10.45am: Brian Ogilvie, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
“Description and Persuasion in Seventeenth-century Entomological
Illustrations”
Comment: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Princeton University

1.30pm: Amy R. Meyers, Yale University
“From Nature and Memory: William Bartram's Drawings of North American
Flora and Fauna”
Comment: Pamela Smith, Pomona College

3.15pm: Tamara Griggs, University of Chicago
“Drawn from Nature: Stuart and Revett in Athens”
Comment: John Pinto, Princeton University

5pm: General discussion
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PAPERS ARE PRECIRCULATED and can be downloaded from
www.princeton.edu/~hos.
The workshop will consist of general discussion by all attendants
(not formal presentations of the papers).
Attendance is free and open to all. Meals will be provided for all
participants.

For more information, contact Daniela Bleichmar at bleichmausc.edu or
visit www.princeton.edu/~hos.

This workshop has been funded by the Program in the History of
Science, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, the
Center for the Study of Books and Media, the Council of the
Humanities, and the History Department at Princeton University.

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