Scientific Books and their Makers

Friday, October 16 – Saturday, October 17, 2015 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, MAIN LIBRARY, ROOM 2032

4.00 pm           Welcome to participants, Beth Yale (University of Iowa)

4-5.30 pm       “Tradition and Novelty in Natural Knowledge: Using early modern books and printing artifacts to teach an undergraduate course on                        the Scientific Revolution” 

                       Florence Hsia , (UW-Madison)

                       Tracy Honn (Silver Buckle Press, UW-Madison)

                       Robin Rider (UW-Madison)

                       Adam Hooks (University of Iowa), Chair

6.00 pm           Reception for “Micrographia: Book Art Responses to Early Modern Scientific Books,” K.K. Merker Gallery, North Hall, UICB

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, HARDIN MEDICAL LIBRARY, 4^TH FLOOR

9.00 am           Coffee and Registration

9.30                 Welcome to participants. Hardin Medical Library, Room 401.

                       Timothy Barrett (University of Iowa), Donna Hirst (University of Iowa), and Beth Yale.

9.30-11.00       Authors, Images, and Art in Early Printed Scientific and Medical Books                   

                       Kathleen Crowther (University of Oklahoma), “Sacrobosco’s Sphere and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Europe”

                       Jole Shackelford (University of Minnesota), “Textual Images, Pictorial Images, and the Authorship Problem in Early Scientific and Medical                              Books: The Case of Andreas Vesalius’ Great Surgery.”

                       Candida Pagan (Digraph Press), “Holistic Consideration”

                       Chair, TBD

11-11.15          Break + Exhibition, John Martin Rare Book Room

11.15-12.15     Katherine Tachau (University of Iowa)

                       Timothy Barrett (University of Iowa), Chair

12.15-1.15       Lunch

1.15-2.15 pm The Book and the Body

                       Conversation with Jillian Linster (University of Iowa), and Leslie Smith (Book Artist). Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa), Chair.      

2.15-2.30         Break + Exhibition, John Martin Rare Book Room

2.30-3.30         Scientific Books: Modern Refractions

                       Eric Gidal (University of Iowa), Chair 

                       Jennifer Burek-Pierce (University of Iowa), “Bones Without Motion”: An Inquiry Into the Curious Content of Cheselden’s Osteographia

                       Bill Atkinson (York University, Toronto), “Sparking Interest: Scientific Books as Catalysts for Sociotechnical Imaginaries”

4-5.30 pm       Anthony Grafton (Princeton University), “Learned Histories: How They Were Made and Why it Matters”

                      Medical Education and Research Facility, Room 2117