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NEER Dual Theme Symposium

Early European/Australasian Connections and Intellectual Formations: Science, Medicine and Philosophy

"Notebooks and Note-takers: da Vinci to Darwin"

17-19 July 2008

Venue: State Library of Queensland, Brisbane

Hosted by: Griffith University

Convenors: Michael Bennett (University of Tasmania) and Richard Yeo (Griffith University)

International speakers: Professor Ann Blair (Harvard), Paul Nelles (Carleton) and Marie-Noëlle Bourguet (Université Paris VII - Denis Diderot)

NEER members giving papers include Peter Anstey (Otago), Michael Bennett (Tasmania), Yasmin Haskell (UWA), Margaret Sankey (Sydney) and Richard Yeo (Griffith).

PROGRAMME with abstracts.

Two articles relevant to the theme of the conference were made available here in PDF format for the duration of the conference but the links have now been removed at the publishers request.

Ann Blair, "Reading Strategies for Coping with Information Overload ca. 1550-1700", Journal of the History of Ideas, Volume 64, Number 1, January 2003.

Richard Yeo, "Between Memory and Paperbooks: Baconianism and Natural history in Seventeenth-Century England", History of Science, 45, March 2007.

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