Notebooks, Medicine and the Sciences in Early Modern Europe
Friday, 12 July
9:00 Registration and coffee
9:30 Welcoming comments
9:45-10:45
Paper-books and the Reform of Learning
Angus Vine, University of Stirling
Discussant: Peter Jones, University of Cambridge
10:45-11:00 Coffee
11:00-1:00
Note-taking and the Rise of Empirical Observation in 16th-century Medical Practice
Michael Stolberg, Universität Würzburg
Discussant: Hannah Murphy, University of Exeter
Ulisse Aldrovandi, Francis Bacon, and the Use of Paper Technology in Renaissance Natural History
Fabian Krämer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Discussant: Valentina Pugliano, University of Cambridge
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-4:00
Word and Image in the Renaissance Notebook
William Sherman, University of York
Discussant: Alexander Marr, University of Cambridge
Invention: Literary Creativity in a Network of Notebooks
Adam Smyth, Birkbeck, University of London
Discussant: John Gallagher, University of Cambridge
4:00-4:30 Tea
4:30-5:30
Johann Buxtorf Makes a Notebook
Anthony Grafton, Princeton University and Joanna Weinberg, University of Oxford
Discussant: Lauren Kassell, University of Cambridge
5:30-6:30 Drinks reception
7:30 Conference dinner (registration required)
Saturday, 13 July
9:30 Coffee
9:45-10:45
Early Modern Attitudes Toward Delegating Copying and Note-taking
Ann Blair, Harvard University
Discussant: Arnold Hunt, British Library
10:45-11:00 Coffee
11:00-1:00
Notes in Space: Geography and Note-taking in Early Modern Europe
Nicholas Popper, College of William and Mary
Discussant, Renée Raphael, University of California, Irvine and I Tatti, Harvard University
Note-taking for Health: Medical Notebooks in the Early Modern Household
Elaine Leong, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Discussant: Alexandra Walsham, University of Cambridge
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-4:00
John Locke’s Notes and Baconian Information
Richard Yeo, Griffith University
Discussant: Natalie Kaoukji, University of Cambridge
“Fragments of a Natural Method”: How Linnaeus Explored Plant Odours, Tastes, and Virtues on Paper
Staffan Müller-Wille and Isabelle Charmantier, University of Exeter
Discussant: Emma Spary, University of Cambridge
4:00-4:15 Tea
4:15-5:15
Industrialization of the Medical Notebook
Volker Hess, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and
Andrew Mendelsohn, Queen Mary, University of London
Discussant: Silvia De Renzi, Open University
5:15-6:00 Roundtable – what’s next?