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SUMMARY:Learning things: the objects of familiar science in nineteenth-cen
 tury Britain - Melanie Keene (Homerton College\, Cambridge)
DTSTART:20091112T163000Z
DTEND:20091112T180000Z
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CONTACT:Alex Broadbent
DESCRIPTION:'To many a Royal Society\, the Creation of a World is little m
 ore mysterious than the cooking of a Dumpling' – Thomas Carlyle\, _Sarto
 r Resartus_ (1838).\n\nThe use of familiar objects as both physical didact
 ic devices and literary pedagogic analogies was particularly prevalent and
  powerful in nineteenth-century science education. Candles and cups of tea
 \, pebbles and primroses\, salt and see-saws were recruited to explain and
  entertain\, as everyday science was placed at the heart of Victorian dome
 stic life. In this talk I shall introduce the aims and artefacts of 'famil
 iar science'\, exploring how the quotidian world of commonplace artefacts 
 was used to communicate facts and phenomena – in short\, how learning th
 ings was achieved through learning with things.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, History and Philosophy of Science\, Department o
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