Courts and Scientific Exchange in the Long Seventeenth Century

Friday, May 12

2:30 P.M.

Welcoming Remarks
Peter H. Reill, UCLA.

Introductory Remarks
Geoffrey Symcox, UCLA, and Malcolm Smuts, University of Massachusetts Boston

Session 1
Chair: Malcolm Smuts, University of Massachusetts Boston

John Robert Christianson, Luther College
Tycho Brahe and Networks of Science at the Danish Court, 1559-1601

Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University
Nobles and Insects: Collecting Art and Nature at Court

4:30 P.M.

Saturday, May 13

9:30 A.M

10:00 A.M.

SESSION 2
Chair: Geoffrey Symcox, UCLA

David Freedberg, Columbia University
The Failure of Trust: Scientific Exchange at the Court of Francesco Barberini

Paula Findlen, Stanford University
Reviving the Cimento: Gender, Science and Patronage in Early Eighteenth-Century Italy

12:00 P.M.

1:30 P.M.

SESSION 3
Chair: Margaret Jacob, UCLA

Mordechai Feingold, California Institute of Technology
An English Enigma? The Stuart Court and the Making of the Royal Society

Matthew L. Jones, Columbia University
History, Propaganda and Natural Knowledge in Hanover: Leibniz on Scholarly Exchange and Perfecting Courtly Rule

Simon Werrett, University of Washington, Seattle
Courting Expertise: Peter the Great’s Embassies and Scientific Exchange, 1696-1725