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**WHAT IS A SCIENTIFIC AUTHOR?**

**Cultures of Scientific Publishing**

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**Friday, 10 May 2013**

**Barker Center, 133, Harvard University**

Sponsored by the Seminar in the History of the Book

of the Mahindra Humanities Center

Guest commentator

**Elizabeth Eisenstein**

RSVP: <mfelton@fas.harvard.edu>

8:30-9:00

**Welcome, coffee, snacks**

9:00-9:10

**Welcoming remarks**: **Marie-Claude Felton**

9:10-10:55

Chair: **Ann Blair** (History, Harvard University)

**Vera Keller** (University of Oregon)

*Authors of the Unknown: From Visible Systems to the Research Niche*

**Richard J. Oosterhoff** (Notre Dame)

*Authorship, Community, and Method in Renaissance Mathematics: The Case of Early Printed Textbooks at Paris*

**Hannah Murphy** (University of California, Berkeley)

*Authorship, Correspondence and Consensus in Early Modern Botanical Observations*

10:55-11:10

**Coffee break**

11:10-12:20

Chair: **Caroline Duroselle-Melish** (Houghton Library, Harvard University)

**Elizabeth Yale** (Western Carolina University)

*Crafting the “Great Father of the Botanick Science”: John Ray and Authorship after Death in the Eighteenth Century*

**Daniel Margocsy** (Hunter College – CUNY)

*The Emergence of the Scientific Ghostwriter: Forging Albertus Seba’s Thesaurus*

12:20-2:00

**Lunch**

Visit to the **Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments**

with **Sara Schechner** (David P. Wheatland Curator)

2:00-3:45

Chair: **Matthew Battles** (metaLAB (at) Harvard)

**Cindy Stelmackowich** (Dalhousie University / University of King’s College)

*The Order of Bodies and the Order of Books: Nineteenth-Century Anatomical Atlases, Authorship and Scientific Publishing*

**Sylvia Nickerson** (University of Toronto)

*Paper Index of the Mind: The Printed Culture of Mathematics in Victorian England*

**Simon Frost** (Bournemouth University)

*Economising in Public: Publishing History as a Challenge to Scientific Method*

3:45-4:00

**Coffee Break**

4:00-5:15

Chair: **Alex Csiszar** (History of Science, Harvard University)

**Geoffrey Belknap** (Harvard University)

*Reproducing Images, Producing Authority? Photography, the Press, and Popular Science in the 1874 Transit of Venus Enterprise*

**Melinda Baldwin** (Academy of Arts &amp; Sciences)

*Credibility, Peer Review, and the Laissez-faire Era of Nature, 1939-1966*

5:15-6:15

**Commentary and General discussion**

**Organized by**

Marie-Claude Felton <mfelton@fas.harvard.edu>

Alex Csiszar <acsiszar@fas.harvard.edu>

Ann Blair <amblair@fas.harvard.edu>

Attendance is free and open to the public (space limited). Papers are pre-circulated (though speakers will also give short presentations). Please RSVP to<mfelton@fas.harvard.edu>