4000 Years in 400 Pages
Patricia Fara
Monday 30 March 2009, 7.00pm
Glyndŵr University, Plas Coch Site, Wrexham
Organiser: Glyndŵr University
How do you fit 4000 years of science into 400 pages? For over twenty years, historians of science have been wondering how to tackle this ‘big picture’ problem. Now Patricia Fara has provided a solution – Science: A Four Thousand Year History (which will be published in March by Oxford University Press).
In this talk, she discusses three of the big questions she had to confront while she was writing her book: When did science begin? Who did science? How does science change? Some of her answers may be unexpected.
Patricia Fara has a degree in physics from Oxford, and a PhD in the History of Science from London. At Cambridge she lectures in the History and Philosophy of Science Department and is Senior Tutor of Clare College. Her major research speciality is eighteenth-century England, but she has published a range of academic and popular books on the history of science, including Newton: The Making of Genius; Sex, Botany and Empire; and Pandora’s Breeches: Women, Science and Power.
She has a particular interest in scientific pictures, and her books and talks are always based around illustrations. Fara has appeared in several TV and radio programmes, and features regularly on Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time. She has written many articles for journals including Nature, Science, Endeavour, Times Higher Education Supplement and History Today.
This event is suitable for adults and children aged 13+.
Free event: to reserve a place call Glyndŵr University on 01978 293473, email wsf@glyndwr.ac.uk, book online or call Wrexham Tourist Information Centre on 01978 292015.
4000 Years in 400 Pages
Patricia Fara
Monday 30 March 2009, 7.00pm
Glyndŵr University, Plas Coch Site, Wrexham
Organiser: Glyndŵr University
How do you fit 4000 years of science into 400 pages? For over twenty years, historians of science have been wondering how to tackle this ‘big picture’ problem. Now Patricia Fara has provided a solution – Science: A Four Thousand Year History (which will be published in March by Oxford University Press).
In this talk, she discusses three of the big questions she had to confront while she was writing her book: When did science begin? Who did science? How does science change? Some of her answers may be unexpected.
Patricia Fara has a degree in physics from Oxford, and a PhD in the History of Science from London. At Cambridge she lectures in the History and Philosophy of Science Department and is Senior Tutor of Clare College. Her major research speciality is eighteenth-century England, but she has published a range of academic and popular books on the history of science, including Newton: The Making of Genius; Sex, Botany and Empire; and Pandora’s Breeches: Women, Science and Power.
She has a particular interest in scientific pictures, and her books and talks are always based around illustrations. Fara has appeared in several TV and radio programmes, and features regularly on Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time. She has written many articles for journals including Nature, Science, Endeavour, Times Higher Education Supplement and History Today.
This event is suitable for adults and children aged 13+.
Free event: to reserve a place call Glyndŵr University on 01978 293473, email wsf@glyndwr.ac.uk, book online or call Wrexham Tourist Information Centre on 01978 292015.
