Exhibition and Lecture: The Art of Seventeenth-Century Science

CofK Generic User — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:11:52 +0000

The following exhibition and talk may be of interest to speakers and delegates who are extending their stay in Oxford. Posted via the main Cultures of Knowledge Blog.

Our Martin Lister Research Fellow Anna Marie Roos has curated a small exhibition entitled ‘The Lister Sisters and the Art of Seventeenth-Century Science’, which will run in the Proscholium of the Old Bodleian Library from 18 August to 30 September (the poster can be downloaded here [pdf]). The free display showcases a unique set of drawings, prints, and copperplates of molluscs and their shells, (re)discovered among the library’s holdings by Anna Marie in 2010, which formed the basis for the illustrations in Martin Lister’s conchological magnum opus, the Historiae Conchyliorum (1685-92). Prepared by Lister’s teenage daughters, Susanna and Anna, the materials shed light on representational conventions within late seventeenth-century natural history, as well as on the gendered nature of illustrative practice in this boom era for lavishly illuminated scientific books. Anna Marie will also be giving a free lecture on ‘The Art of Science: The Rediscovery of the Lister Copperplates’ at 1pm on Wednesday 19 September in the Bodleian’s Convocation House (more info and booking on the library website).

Conference Website Launched

CofK Generic User — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:05:43 +0000

Welcome to the website for ‘Communities of Knowledge: Epistolary Cultures in the Early Modern World’, the third and final international conference of the Project Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters, a collaboration between the Humanities Division and the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Stay tuned to this page, which can be followed via an RSS feed, for conference updates.