David Allan Feller

Name:	David Allan Feller
Affiliation:	Department of History and Philosophy of Science
E-mail:	(only provided to users who are logged into talks.cam)
Last login:	21 Jul 2009, 10:29 a.m.

Public lists managed by David Allan Feller

• Natural History Cabinet, Cambridge University Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Talks given by David Allan Feller

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• The natural history of the Chihuahua: canine mythology and the science of breeding
• Zoophagous geology: William Buckland and extra-visual scientific observation
• William Buckland's oral history of deep time, or, things that made him go mmmmmmmmmm
• The hunter's gaze: establishing a 'period eye' in Charles Darwin's scientific methodology

Talks organised by David Allan Feller

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• Natural history as national history: post-19th century historiography of appeals to nature to establish symbols of Baltic nationalism
• Setting eyes on the holy: the description of sacred sites in accounts of pilgrimages to Jerusalem and the medieval school of seeing, 12th-15th century
• Anatomist holds model embryo: interpreting a marble portrait from 1900
• "Linnaean traditions? School botany and biological recording"
• Mineralogy, Stratigraphy and Practical Geology: Shifting tensions in the Geological Society of London, 1807-1840
• The Earl of Oxford's stud at Welbeck in the 1720s
• "Ritual Patricide: Why Stephen Jay Gould Assassinated His Idol"
• Alchemy and natural history
• Amateurs and pros(e): growing pains in twentieth century natural history publishing
• Conquering the world through plants: kings and botany in the Graeco-Roman world
• Geological deluge and snowball Earth
• Tropical invalids: climate and culture in nineteenth-century British natural history
• Divine design arguments in the eighteenth century
• More like apes than angels: natural history and the political economy of David Hume and Adam Smith
• More like apes than angels: natural history and the political economy of David Hume and Adam Smith
• R.A. Fisher: a faith fit for eugenics
• "R. A. Fisher: a faith fit for eugenics," by Jim Moore (Open University)
• Transcultural botany: Japanese gardens in New Zealand, 1890-1950
• Botany, empire, religion and collecting in early nineteenth-century north India
• The strange tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hunter: the social and professional life of naturalist John Hunter (1728-1793)