Michael Bycroft

Name:	Michael Bycroft
Affiliation:	Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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Talks given by Michael Bycroft

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• Cabinet physics in 18th-century France: the case of the Iceland spar, 1710–1788
• The many roles of material variation in Charles Dufay's mémoires on electricity and phosphorescence
• Did wonders ever cease? The singular, shining and spectacular in Charles Dufay's 'Mémoires sur l'électricité' (1733–7)

Talks organised by Michael Bycroft

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• Have you heard the northern lights? Science and re-enchantment in 19th-century Arctic exploration
• Laughing at the doctors: satire and public practice, 1660–1720
• Mythologizing popular scientists: the cult of Feynman and the image of Sagan
• Liebig's vampire: agricultural chemistry and the embodied earth in mid-19th century Britain
• Varieties of tacit knowledge
• The meanings of a breakthrough: categories, news and priority in the making of transgenic mice
• Governing for happiness: Mark Abrams, the Central Statistical Office and the development of subjective social indicators
• Common sense and phrenology
• Fashionable intelligence: popular experiences of galvanism and the Regency newspaper press
• Everything is illuminated: candles, funerals and sensuous technology in 18th-century London
• 'What is Mercury?', chapter 1 of The Making of English Alchemy, the speaker's forthcoming book
• Jane Squire, the lone woman of the longitude: gender and religion in early modern science