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SUMMARY:Taxonomy\, Translatability and Intelligibility of Scientific Image
 s - For a list of speakers please see http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2
 6682
DTSTART:20160618T083000Z
DTEND:20160618T120000Z
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CONTACT:Judith Weik
DESCRIPTION:The establishment of scientific academies (Royal Society 1660\
 , Academie Royale\, 1666\, Leopoldina 1652/87) is an important development
  in the history of early modern science as these institutions represented 
 new\, collective forms of investigating nature\, and gave shape and author
 ity to communities of investigators. The project\, ‘Making Visible’\, 
 funded by the AHRC\, and in partnership with the Royal Society\, focuses o
 n the visual and graphic practices to better historicize observational and
  experimental practices of one such institution\, the Royal Society\, in i
 ts first fifty years. \n\nUnderstanding the functions of images in shaping
  and disseminating collective natural knowledge requires comparative analy
 ses of the functions of image\, text and object in communicating knowledge
 \; their effectiveness and limitations in resolving conflicts\; and their 
 uses in forming and defining a community. How did graphic craftsmen help v
 isualize objects that had never been seen before? Were images sufficient t
 o prove the veracity of an object\, or did they require texts and other fo
 rms of persuasion? How ‘transparent’ were meanings of images: could th
 ey be understood without understanding the accompanying English text? Did 
 certain types of images broaden the Society’s audience\, or limit it? Wh
 en the Society sought to gather information from far-flung places across t
 he globe using lists and queries\, did they also include instructions abou
 t aligning ways of visualization? Did images prompt others to collect and 
 examine certain types of objects and problems\, rather than others? \n\nTh
 e focus of this first workshop is the range of images (e.g. is there such 
 a thing as a 'scientific' image?) used by the Royal Society\, with a compa
 rative angle (e.g. are there 'national' styles of scientific imagery?)\, a
 nd to examine more generally and critically the role of images as vehicles
  of knowledge transmissions in early modern scientific institutions. Each 
 talk will last for 30 minutes\, to allow for full discussion and raise lar
 ger questions and historiographic insights. There will be a Round-Table di
 scussion at the end of the workshop to discuss current and future directio
 ns of research and collaborations
LOCATION:Alison Richard Building (ARB)\, 7 West Road\, SG1/2
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