Programme: Professor Eileen Reeves, Princeton University Real fakes: pre-telescopic devices on the English stage
Dr Marvin Bolt, Adler Planetarium, Chicago Towards a more diplomatic understanding: the techniques, materials, and politics of early 17th-century telescopes
Dr Frédérique Aït-Touati, University of Oxford Kepler’s technologies: optical fiction and telescopic observation
Dr Jennifer Downes, University of Aberdeen Hevelius’s Selenographia: using telescopes to explore and map the Moon in the seventeenth century
Alexi Baker, University of Oxford The telescope’s tale: popular ownership of the instrument and its symbolism in early eighteenth century London
Professor Timon Screech, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Telescopes and metaphors of seeing in early-modern Japan
Professor Patrick Parrinder, University of Reading Beyond the telescope: the hypertelescopic imagination from Kepler to the twentieth century
Nicky Reeves, University of Cambridge Disciplining materials and bodies: Nevil Maskelyne and the construction of the zenith sector
Dr John McAleer, National Maritime Museum Observatories, their telescopes and scientific ‘views’ of empire at the Cape of Good Hope, 1820-40
Dr Jon Agar, University College London The place of the Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope reassessed
Dr Richard Dunn, National Maritime Museum Politics, progress and the pastoral: telescopes in modern film
Dr Isobel Hook, University of Oxford The world’s biggest optical telescopes, present and future
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