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SUMMARY:Re-enacting past experiments: how and why - Hasok Chang (Departmen
 t of History and Philosophy of Science)
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CONTACT:Tom Banbury
DESCRIPTION:In recent decades 're-enactment' has become an accepted\, even
  fashionable\, mode of historical work. Building on the talk he gave in th
 e Cabinet of Natural History series last year\, Hasok Chang will consider 
 different purposes that are served by different types of historical experi
 ments (historical replication\, physical replication\, and extension). And
  then he will discuss his own line of work\, which he calls 'complementary
  experiments'\, which seeks to recover lost scientific knowledge from the 
 past and further extend what has been recovered. The discussion will be il
 lustrated with cases from his current work on the history of 'battery scie
 nce' in the 19th century. He will invite reflections from the audience on 
 the functions of historical experiments for history of science\, for scien
 ce education\, and for citizen science. (If there is demand\, a follow-up 
 hands-on workshop may be organised in the Easter Term.)
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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