Sophia Davis

Name:	Sophia Davis
Affiliation:	Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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Talks given by Sophia Davis

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• Orford Ness: landscape of war and science
• Military landscapes and secret science: mythical and empirical histories of the Suffolk coast

Talks organised by Sophia Davis

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• Locating true North: a physiognomic analysis of Marianne North and the North Gallery at Kew
• Reality and representation: Mark Catesby's natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands and the epistemological limits of pictorial illustration
• Gardening like gentlemen? Constructing the nurseryman in early eighteenth-century London
• 'It is to do one's best to look without laughing': the spectacle of the kangaroo in late eighteenth-century London
• Founding the science of ethnology: James Cowles Prichard and his 'Researches into the physical history of man'
• Popularizing evolution: biographies and books for children
• Distancing animals in medieval chronicles
• 'The unrecovered country': the non-drainage of the Fens, 1619-20
• Punishing bodies: image and ambiguity in the Lydian-Phrygian 'confession stelae'
• JBS Haldane on the role of disease in evolution (1949): sickle cell anaemia, ecology, evolutionary medicine, and feeding the world
• Long in the tooth: a study of a set of papier-mache horses' teeth
• The ends of the earth: rearticulating the image of the poles in the age of polar aviation
• Responding to Darwin: The Reverend Thomas Stebbing (1835-1926), clergyman, naturalist and apologist
• Food, fair weather and fields: fundamental change in Anglo-Saxon England
• A botanical tour in Paris: botany, amateurship and communities of knowledge
• Why do we want Aristotle to have been a biologist (given that he wasn't)?
• New manuscript evidence for medieval Latin bestiary ownership and use
• The early Soviet project of hybridising humans and apes
• Orford Ness: landscape of war and science
• The evolution of wonder