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SUMMARY:Zoophagous geology: William Buckland and extra-visual scientific o
 bservation - David Allan Feller (Department of History and Philosophy of S
 cience)
DTSTART:20101102T131000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Anke Plagnol
DESCRIPTION:Perhaps because his fellow naturalists thought William Bucklan
 d’s personal habits a bit ‘showy’ for a professional\, important asp
 ects of Buckland’s fieldwork methodology have been labeled ‘eccentric
 ’.  The best example of this is Buckland’s zoophagy. Buckland’s ecce
 ntric eating habits\, which included a vow to sample every member of the a
 nimal kingdom.  In Buckland’s kitchen\, friends could expect to dine on 
 all manner of things\, from toasted mice to roasted rhino.  Was Buckland
 ’s interesting culinary desires the expression of some greater ‘scient
 ific’ inquiry?  In his lectures at Oxford\, Buckland taught that the wor
 ld was ‘ruled by the stomach’ extended from\, and so from that philoso
 phy we may begin to look at just what eating had to do with Buckland’s n
 atural history and his theories of the earth’s origin.
LOCATION:Entertaining Room\, Darwin College
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