4000 years of science in 400 pages

21 Oct 2009

Public lecture by Patricia Fara on Saturday 24 October

Saturday 24 October 2009, 1pm to 2.30pm
John Rylands Library, Deansgate
Free public event: all welcome

How do you fit 4000 years of science into 400 pages? Historians call this the Big Picture problem, and now Patricia Fara has provided a solution. In this talk, she discusses three of the Big Questions she had to confront while she was writing Science: A Four Thousand Year History: When did science begin? Who did science? How does science change? Some of her answers may be unexpected.

Patricia Fara's books include Newton: the Making of Genius (2002), An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment (2003), and Scientists Anonymous: Great Stories of Women in Science (2005). She is a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, where she lectures on the history of science.

Organised for Manchester Science Festival by the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, The University of Manchester, and Oxford University Press.