Podcasts by Truth and Error in Early Modern Science: Thomas Browne and His World
Featuring twelve leading experts in the literary, philosophical, and scientific culture of seventeenth-century England, this conference focuses on the works and worlds of Sir Thomas Browne, the physician, essayist, and naturalist who was one of the era’s most eloquent and idiosyncratic interpreters of the book of nature.
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Opening Remarks by Jessica Wolfe from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jessica Wolfe delivers the opening remarks to the “Truth and Error in Early Modern Science: Thomas Browne and His World" conference, held at the Huntington on January 22–23, 2016. Wolfe is Director...
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Reading Mines and Mining Texts: Reading and Observational Practice in the Writings of Edward and Thomas Browne and the Early Royal Society from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Renee Raphael discusses, “Reading Mines and Mining Texts: Reading and Observational Practice in the Writings of Edward and Thomas Browne and the Early Royal Society”. Raphael is Assistant Professor...
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Their Manner of Discourse? Scribal Culture, Civility, and the Early Royal Society from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Rhodri Lewis discusses, “Their Manner of Discourse? Scribal Culture, Civility, and the Early Royal Society”. Lewis is Professor of English Literature; Tutorial Fellow at St Hugh's College, Oxford. ...
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Unreal Characters: Technology and Orality in the Seventeenth Century from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
J.D. Fleming discusses, “Unreal Characters: Technology and Orality in the Seventeenth Century”. Fleming is Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser University. This lecture was part of the se...
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The Punctual Relations of 'Musaeum Clausum' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Claire Preston discusses, “The Punctual Relations of 'Musaeum Clausum'”. Preston is Professor of Renaissance Literature in the Department of English, Queen Mary, University of London. This lecture ...
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The Fleeting Shape of the Absent God: The Garden of Cyrus and the Apophatic from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Kevin Killeen discusses, “The Fleeting Shape of the Absent God: The Garden of Cyrus and the Apophatic”. Killeen is Senior Lecturer at the University of York. This lecture was part of the session ti...
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The Wilderness of Forms and the Difference of Things in Browne and His Contemporaries from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Kathryn Murphy discusses, “The Wilderness of Forms and the Difference of Things in Browne and His Contemporaries”. Murphy is Fellow And Tutor In English Literature at Oriel College, Oxford. This le...
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Errors and Non-Entities: Browne and Hartlib between Discourse and Catalog from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Vera Keller discusses, “Errors and Non-Entities: Browne and Hartlib between Discourse and Catalog”. Keller is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Oregon Honors College. This lecture...
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Fact and Fiction in Ralph Cudworth’s 'True Intellectual System of the Universe' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Seth Lobis discusses, “Fact and Fiction in Ralph Cudworth’s 'True Intellectual System of the Universe'”. Lobis is Associate Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College. This lecture was pa...
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Why Look at Animals? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Joanna Picciotto discusses, “Why Look at Animals?”. Picciotto is Associate Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College. This lecture was part of the session titled, “The Ethics of Naturali...
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The Pericardium of Truth: Thomas Browne and the Science of Error from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Anthony Ossa-Richardson discusses, “The Pericardium of Truth: Thomas Browne and the Science of Error”. Ossa-Richardson is Faculty of English, School of Humanities at the University of Southampton. ...
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Closing Remarks by Jessica Wolfe and Reid Barbour from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jessica Wolfe and Reid Barbour deliver the closing remarks to the “Truth and Error in Early Modern Science: Thomas Browne and His World" conference, held at the Huntington on January 22–23, 2016. W...
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Closing Remarks by Jessica Wolfe and Reid Barbour from 2015-01-23T07:00:54
Jessica Wolfe and Reid Barbour deliver the closing remarks to the “Truth and Error in Early Modern Science: Thomas Browne and His World" conference, held at the Huntington on January 22–23, 2016. W...
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Closing Remarks by Jessica Wolfe and Reid Barbour from 2015-01-23T07:00:54
Jessica Wolfe and Reid Barbour deliver the closing remarks to the “Truth and Error in Early Modern Science: Thomas Browne and His World" conference, held at the Huntington on January 22–23, 2016. W...
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