When Novelty Was New: Francis Bacon’s Reformation of Science
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm CET/GMT+1Online (Zoom)
Around 1600, “innovation” was a dirty word in science, associated with heretics in religion and cranks in medicine. Technology and science were entirely separate fields of endeavor, the one associated with the artisan’s workshop and the other with the university lecture hall. Francis Bacon’s reimagined innovation as a virtue and science and technology as an inseparable pair.
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Prof. Dr. Lorraine Daston is Director emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, visiting professor at the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought, and permanent fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Her many books include: Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate (Columbia Global Reports 2023); Rules: A Short History of What We Live By ( Princeton University Press 2022); and Against Nature (MIT Press 2019).
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