Field Trip 2/18/03

Dear Students, I've arranged an optional field trip for the class the week we are not having seminar (week 7). The last few years at Stanford, we've created an entity called the Early Science Lab, which is sponsoring several pilot projects that reconstruct key aspects of the material culture of early modern science and medicine. My colleague in STS, Dr. Michael John Gorman, has been heading a team focusing on science and optics and the reconstruction of early scientific instruments.

He has kindly invited any of you would would like to see his project to a presentation he is also doing for an art history class on science and optics.

PRESENTATION: FEB 18 "Visit to the Early Science Lab: Science, Art and Optics in Early Modern Europe"
TIME AND LOCATION: meet 6:15 pm in the main entrance (the door facing the oval) of Building 160 (Wallenberg Hall)
N.B. This is a restricted access building so don't be late because you won't be able to get in on your own!

If you want further background to the project, the best starting point is reading Dr. Gorman's critique of David Hockney's thesis about science and art:

http://shl.stanford.edu/Eyes/hockney/

You are also welcome to look at another early reconstruction of a seventeenth-century instrument, the magnetic clock, that we sponsored a few years ago:

http://shl.stanford.edu/Eyes/kircher/history.html