Alex Wragge-Morley, Ardeta Gjikola and Lan Li

Columbia University

Friday, April 19, 2019, 10:00 pm EDT
Fayerweather Hall (Room 513) Columbia University 1180 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027

Join historians Ardeta Gjikola and Alex Wragge-Morley as they discuss Wragge-Morley’s new book reinterpreting the role of aesthetic experience in scientific practice. To mark the forthcoming publication of Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720, Alex Wragge-Morley and Ardeta Gjikola will engage in a wide-ranging discussion about the place of taste, judgment, and sensory pleasure in the production of scientific knowledge.

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De distributione geographica plantarum…

Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859). De distributione geographica plantarum…. Paris: Lutetiae Parisiorum, 1817. From the exhibit Dialogues with Darwin.