November 1, 2012
October 4—6, 2012 Including the speakers, thirty plus participated in a two and a half day conference (organized by Ursula Klein and Carsten Reinhardt) and sponsored by the Beckman Center, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia. Between Material Substances and Abstract Ideas: Chemists’ Objects of Inquiry, 18th-21st centuries Papers were stimulating and discussions often intense. Aside from […]
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October 31, 2012
Hoaxes, Counterfeits and Deception in Early Modern Science 2nd Watson Seminar in the History of Material and Visual Science (Museo Galileo – Florence, June 7, 2013) Organized by Marco Beretta and Maria Conforti The forgery or falsification of objects, as well as the creation or invention of artifacts consciously – if deceitfully – attributed to […]
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