Lauren Kassell, University of Cambridge

New York University (New York, NY)

Tuesday, February 7, 2017, 11:30 pm EST
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor, New York, NY

How does the digitization of archival information influence knowledge? Learn about Dr. Lauren Kassell’s 10-year project to digitize one of the largest surviving sets of private medical records in history—the 80,000 consultations recorded by the seventeenth-century astrologer-physicians Simon Forman and Richard Napier—with responses from New York University thought leaders across various fields.

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3 Societies Opening

Opening of the joint meeting of the Canadian, UK and US societies of historians of science at the Science History Institute (formerly the Chemical Heritage Foundation) in Philadelphia, 2012.