Robert Boyle Conference in Dublin
Robert Boyle Seminar
at the Edward Worth Library, Dublin
Friday 2 December 2011
As space is limited, booking is essential for this one-day seminar.
9.00am-9.30am: Registration.
9.30am: Chair: Professor James Malone, Director of the Robert Boyle Foundation.
Speaker: Professor Michael Hunter (Birkbeck College, London): ‘Robert Boyle’s Early Intellectual Evolution: A Reappraisal’.
10.30am-11.00am Coffee/Tea
Chair: Professor Theodore Hoppen (Professor Emeritus, University of Hull):
Speaker: Ms Sue Hemmens (Marsh’s Library, Dublin): ‘Crow’s Nest and beyond:
chymistry in The Dublin Philosophical Society, 1683-1709’.
Speaker: Dr Michelle DiMeo (Georgia Institute of Technology): ‘Katherine Ranelagh’s Influence on Robert Boyle’s Ethical and Intellectual Thought’.
1.00pm-2.00pm: Lunch
2.00pm: Chair: Dr Michael John Gorman (Science Gallery, TCD)
Dr Iordan Avramov (The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences): ‘Boyle as Reader’.
Dr Antonio Clericuzio (Università di Cassino), ‘The Organical Motions of Body Fluids’. Robert Boyle’s investigations of human physiology.
4.00pm: Reception and launch of the ‘Alchemy and Chemistry at the Edward Worth Library’ web exhibition.
We are grateful to The Robert Boyle Foundation for sponsoring this seminar.
Contact details:
Dr Elizabethanne Boran,
The Edward Worth Library,
Dr Steevens’ Hospital,
Dublin 8,
Ireland.
Tel: 00 353 1 635 2215
E-mail: eaboran@tcd.ie
