A Symposium <\/em><\/h3>\nNovember 17-18, 1992
\nRoom 525, School of Theology
\n745 Commonwealth Ave
\nSupported by the Dibner Institute for the History of Science<\/p>\n
Tuesday<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n- \n
Otto Neurath and Visual Education: Art and Science in the Social and Economic Museum in Vienna<\/p>\n
Robert S. Cohen,\u00a0<\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
Physics and Art: Philosophical Presuppositions of Comparison<\/p>\n
Catherine Chevalley,\u00a0<\/strong>CNRS, Paris<\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
Beauty and the Beast: Atoms and the Aesthetics of Nature<\/p>\n
Jürgen Renn,\u00a0<\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
Is Mathematics Beautiful?<\/p>\n
Gian-Carlo Rota,\u00a0<\/strong>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
Beauty and Fractals<\/p>\n
H. Eugene Stanley,\u00a0<\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \nChairman: Alfred I. Tauber,<\/strong> Boston University\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Wednesday<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n- \n
The Art of Displaying Science: Museum Exhibitions<\/p>\n
Hilde Hein,\u00a0<\/strong>College of the Holy Cross<\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
Being and Becoming: The Aesthetics of Developmental Biology<\/p>\n
Scott Gilbert,\u00a0<\/strong>Swarthmore College<\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
Beautiful Experiments in the Life Sciences<\/p>\n
Larry Holmes,\u00a0<\/strong>Yale University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
On Goethe<\/p>\n
Stephen Jay Gould,\u00a0<\/strong>Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
On the Aesthetic Construction of Darwin’s Theory<\/p>\n
David Kohn,\u00a0<\/strong>Drew University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \nChairman: Alfred I. Tauber,<\/strong> Boston University\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
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Physics, Community, and the Crisis in Physical Theory<\/h3>\n
December 1, 1992
\nRoom 525, School of Theology
\n745 Commonwealth Ave<\/p>\n
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Silvan Schweber,\u00a0<\/strong>Brandeis University<\/p>\nCommentators: Peter Galison,\u00a0<\/strong>Harvard University, and Cao Tienyu, <\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\nChairman: Robert S. Cohen, <\/strong>Boston University\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n
Wittgenstein on Propositions: “I’ll Teach You The Differences”<\/h3>\n
January 26, 1993
\nRoom 525, School of Theology
\n745 Commonwealth Ave<\/p>\n
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Mathieu Marion,\u00a0<\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\nCommentator: Juliet Floyd,\u00a0<\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\nChairman: Judson Webb <\/strong>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n
The New Science in Colonial Latin America: José Celestino Mutis<\/h3>\n
February 2, 1993
\nRoom 525, School of Theology
\n745 Commonwealth Ave<\/p>\n
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On Mutis and Newton<\/p>\n
Luis Carlos Arboleda,\u00a0<\/strong>University of Calí, Columbia<\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
On Mutis and Linnaeus<\/p>\n
Thomas F. Glick,\u00a0<\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \nChairman and Commentator: I. Bernard Cohen, <\/strong>Harvard University\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
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Varieties of Philosophical Interest in Quantum Mechanics<\/h3>\n
February 2, 1993
\nRoom 525, School of Theology
\n745 Commonwealth Ave<\/p>\n