Friday, March 06, 2020
4:00 PM -
5:00 PM
Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
▶︎ CANCELED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
This seminar has been canceled.
Paula Findlen,
Professor of Early Modern Europe and History of Science,
Stanford University,
Title: Portrait of the Artist as Scientist: Agostino Scilla among the Galileans
Abstract: At some point after the publication of an important book on the fossil record of Sicily and Malta, Vain Speculation Undeceived by Sense (1670-71), the Messinese artist Agostino Scilla (1629-1700) painted a self-portrait. This talk explores Scilla's relationship to the world of the seventeenth-century Galileans between Messina and Rome, and his understanding of how to approach science as an artist in the late seventeenth century.
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