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SUMMARY:Jean André Peyssonnel and the coral island - Susannah Gibson (Dep
 artment of History and Philosophy of Science)
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CONTACT:Margaret Carlyle
DESCRIPTION:In the 1720s\, Jean André Peyssonnel\, a physician and natura
 list from Marseille\, conducted a series of experiments on corals that dem
 onstrated for the first time that they were neither vegetable nor mineral 
 but belonged instead in the animal kingdom. In great excitement\, Peyssonn
 el sent his findings to the Académie des Sciences in Paris where they wer
 e first mocked\, and then ignored\, before being accepted several decades 
 later. This talk examines not only Peyssonnel's observational and experime
 ntal results\, but also the conditions necessary for once-rejected scienti
 fic results to become generally accepted as true.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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