From: L-Soft list server at St. John's University (1.8c) To: Ian Pitchford Subject: File: "SCI-CULT LOG9702" Date: Sunday, September 27, 1998 10:18 AM ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 06:29:33 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: Re: EVENT HORIZON: Exploring science and the humanities > ANNOUNCING > > EVENT HORIZON > > a new interdisciplinary journal in the arts and sciences > > Science and technology have transformed our world and brought new ways of > manipulating our environment, communicating with each other, and solving > complex problems. But with these transformations have come new problems and > unanswered questions about the work of science and technology. > Investigations into these questions have pitted academics from various > disciplines against one another. Scientists accuse cultural critics of > theorizing irresponsibly, of misunderstanding the process of scientific > review, of even denying that objective knowledge exists. Cultural critics > accuse scientists of being blind to the social implications of their research > and its use by big government and big business. The recent _Social Text_ > imbroglio has offered a vivid portrait of the duel between what C. P. Snow > termed the RTwo Cultures.S But in the face of a general decline in > scientific knowledge and an alarming erosion of public support for academic > research of any kind, hasnUt the time come for mutual understanding? > > EVENT HORIZON is an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and writers in > the sciences and humanities. In each issue, we will consider a topic of > broad interest. The journal intends to create dialogue between fields that > all too rarely interact. > > EVENT HORIZON invites contributions from the natural and physical sciences, > medicine, computer science, engineering, social science, history, literary > and cultural studies, and the arts. Each issue will feature a variety of > essays, book and film reviews, and a simple and relevant science experiment. > > EVENT HORIZON will foster shared creative and critical exploration. Articles > will be printed with responses, contributors will be asked to publicly > correspond with colleagues from other disciplines, and panel discussions will > be arranged. Disagreement will be encouraged; name-calling will not. We all > need to learn more. > > EVENT HORIZON is planning its first issue on one of several topics: behavior > and genetics; genetic screening; changing patterns of science funding; > scientific literacy; relativism and objectivity. One-page proposals that > address these topics are requested by 17 February 1997 and manuscripts by 31 > March 1997. The inaugural issue of the journal is planned for late Spring > 1997. > > EVENT HORIZON needs contributors, referees and readers, and curiosity. > Please contact: > > EVENT HORIZON > c/o Thomas Akbari and Don Fallon > Department of Literatures in English > Murray Hall, CAC > Rutgers University > New Brunswick, NJ 08903 > > e-mail: akbari @eden.rutgers.edu > ubik@eden.rutgers.edu __________________________________________ Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 11:31:49 GMT Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Erwin Broschinski Subject: unwanted list In-Reply-To: <199702031130.LAA21651@aut> This is an automatic answer to your email. If this mailing belongs to a mailing list, please unsubscribe me immediately. The background: After complaining about a commercial mail from JThomas@centralregistry.com I was suddenly miraculously subscribed to various mailing lists. Up to today I have received several thousand mails from various lists. I am aware that all members in theses lists are not involved in this net abuse. Therefore I want to apologize for any inconvenience by sending this automatic mail. It takes a bit of time to get unsubscribed from your mailing list. I have sent a mail (21 Jan 97) to the original sender to stop his illegal action and will take further legal steps if necessary. There is a website with various offerings at: http://www.centralregistry.com None of these services include subscribing to mailing lists with forged email sender address ;*) There are also postings in news.admin.net-abuse about JThomas@centralregistry.com sending unsolicited bulk email. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 11:45:31 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: public understanding of science The London Public Understanding of Science Network. Dear colleague, A number of us at UCL, LSE and the Science Museum are interested in exploring the possibility of an occasional seminar which would offer the opportunity for a broad academic discussion of issues in public understanding of science. This is intended to complement, not supersede, existing meetings like the methodology seminars in South Kensington. We hope that broadening the institutional base, and exchanging ideas with people from a range of disciplines who are considering similar issues, will help us all develop our thinking in this area. As a start, and to see what support this idea attracts, we have set up two such discussions to set the ball rolling. We also hope that anyone interested in these two will accept an invitation from Yvonne Rydin of the LSE to attend a meeting already scheduled for the Argument, Culture and Ethics group, as detailed below. That gives us three meetings this term, after which we hope to offer a programme for the rest of the year. The dates are: Wedneday 12th February 1997 SIMON JOSS, Science Museum/Imperial College PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE IN DENMARK: REVISITING THE CONSENSUS CONFERENCE MODEL 5.00-6.30pm, conference room, level 2, Science Museum Library, Imperial College, London. (nearest tube: South Kensington) Wednesday 26th February 1997 JACQUIE BURGESS, University College London RESISTING THE RHETORIC OF ENVIRONMENTAL CITIZENSHIP: AN ANGLO-DUTCH COMPARISON 5.00-6.30pm, room 114, Geography Department, 26 Bedford Way, UCL, London, WC1. (nearest tube: Russel sq, Euston, Euston sq) Friday 14th March 1997 ANDREW BARRY, Goldsmith College SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE 12.30-2.00pm, room s418, St.Clements Building, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, WC1. (nearest tube: Holborn, Temple) We hope to see you there. Gail Davies, Simon Joss Jon Turney All are welcome, but I would be grateful if you could let me know, (by e- mail preferably - gdavies@geog.ucl.ac.uk; or by phone - 0171 482 1056) if you plan to attend to give us an idea of numbers, Gail. --------------------------------------------Geography UCL generic signature--- Dept office: +44 (0)171-380-7551 Department of Geography Fax: +44 (0)171-380-7565 University College London 26 Bedford Way College switchboard: London WC1H 0AP +44 (0)171-387-7050 __________________________________________ Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 12:35:55 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: Re: unwanted list To unsubscribe from psa-public-sphere send a message to listproc@sheffield.ac.uk Body of message: unsubscribe psa-public-sphere or signoff psa-public-sphere To unsbscribe from science-as-culture send a message to listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu Body of message:: unsubscribe science-as-culture I would be glad if you would share your impressions of the list and tell me why you are unsubscribing. Best wishes, Bob Young robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk >This is an automatic answer to your email. >If this mailing belongs to a mailing list, >please unsubscribe me immediately. > >The background: >After complaining about a commercial mail from >JThomas@centralregistry.com I was suddenly miraculously subscribed to >various mailing lists. Up to today I have received several thousand >mails from various lists. I am aware that all members in theses lists >are not involved in this net abuse. Therefore I want to apologize for >any inconvenience by sending this automatic mail. It takes a bit of >time to get unsubscribed from your mailing list. > >I have sent a mail (21 Jan 97) to the original sender to stop his >illegal action and will take further legal steps if necessary. > >There is a website with various offerings at: >http://www.centralregistry.com >None of these services include subscribing to mailing lists with forged >email sender address ;*) > >There are also postings in news.admin.net-abuse about >JThomas@centralregistry.com sending unsolicited bulk email. __________________________________________ Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 11:14:58 BST Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Jon Agar Subject: CHSTM seminars, Manchester X-To: mersenne@mailbase.ac.uk, sts@cctr.umkc.edu UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER CENTRE FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE, and WELLCOME UNIT FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE Seminars Second Semester 1997 *4.00 pm TUESDAYS, *Room 3.29, 3rdfloor, Maths Tower, Oxford Road * Unless otherwise stated Tea from 3.30pm, Room 3.04 4 Feb James Secord (History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge) Selling Science in the Age of Reform 11 Feb John Stewart (History, Oxford Brookes University) Fascism, War & Medicine:the Socialist Medical Association & the International Crisis 1930-45 18 Feb lan Inkster (History, Nottingham Trent) Technology and the State Wed 19 Feb University History of Medicine Lecture Professor Jane Lewis (Wellcome Unit for History of Medicine, Oxford) Community Care: the Very Recent History of Promises and Practices (* Stopford Building 5.30) Mon 24 Feb J. Rogers Hollingsworth (University of Wisconsin) Why Research Organisations Have Varied in Their Capacity to Make Major Discoveries in the Twentieth-Century: the American Experience 4 March Thomas Junker (University of Tubingen) The Notion of Progress in Biology: Science or Ideology 11 March Kim Pelis (Wellcome Institute, London) Transfusion with Teeth Re-animation and the Re-introduction of Human Blood Transfusion to British Medical Practice, 1810-1834 18 March Joe Cain (University College London) Intimate Working: Collaborations between Husband and Wife in the Early Scientific Careers of Anne Roe and George Gaylord Simpson 15 April Thomas Rohkramer (History, Lancaster) Forced to Take a Challenge:Technocratic Tendencies & Conservatism in Germany, 1914-1933 22 April Margaret Felling (Wellcome Unit Oxford) "The Head and Front of My Offending":Barbers & Self-Presentation in Early Modem London 29 April Martin Campbell-Kelly (Computer Science, Warwick) From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry 6 May JOINT SEMINAR WITH SOCIOLOGY Peter Wagner (Sociology, Warwick) The Rise and Fall of "Society" As an Object of Sociology 13 May JOINT SEMINAR WITH ANTHROPOLOGY Steven Feierman (University of Pennsylvania) History, Anthropology and African Medicine Thurs. 19 June SPECIAL SEMINAR Barbara Duden (Hanover) Understandings and Misunderstandings in Genetic Counselling Enquiries: John Pickstone, Room 3.31, CHSTM, Maths Tower (0161-275-5926) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 13:01:40 -0400 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: NEW DISCUSSION LIST: History of Science, Medicine & Technol X-To: science-as-culture@SJUVM.stjohns.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" We wish to announce the inauguration of H-SCI-MED-TECH, an electronic discussion list intended for the growing number of scholars who study science, medicine and technology across a wide variety of periods and regions of the world. Our aim is to foster communication on these subjects within and across the disciplines of history, the history of science, the history of medicine and the history of technology, which have become distinct professional fields despite their obvious (and not so obvious) interconnections. H-SCI-MED-TECH is one of 80+ discussion lists in history and the humanities sponsored by H-NET. Subscribers to will be able to share information about teaching and research, to get news of professional activities (e.g., jobs, conferences, fellowships and grants) and, most importantly, to participate in conversations about matters of common interest: new methods, new questions and new scholarship. The editors (Nina Lerman, Whitman College; Harry M. Marks, Johns Hopkins University; and Kathryn Olesko, Georgetown University) welcome your participation and views about what H-SCI-MED-TECH should be doing. To subscribe, send the following message: "subscribe H-SCI-MED-TECH your name, your institution" to listserv@h-net.msu.edu __________________________________________ Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:37:20 BST Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Jon Agar Subject: BSHS conference: The Electron - 100 Years of Physics and Hi X-To: mersenne@mailbase.ac.uk, rete@maillist.ox.ac.uk, sts@cctr.umkc.edu, h-sci-med-tech@h-net.msu.edu, science-as-culture@SJUVM.stjohns.edu, HOPOS-L@lsv.UKY.EDU (apologies for cross posting) The Electron - 100 years of Physics and History To mark the centenary of the discovery of the electron, the BSHS will be holding a conference to explore the history of modern physics on Friday and Saturday, 11-12 April 1997. Speakers and discussants include: Harvey Brown, Laurie Brown, Jed Buchwald, Isobel Falconer, Graeme Gooday, Anna Guagnini, John Heilbron, Bruce Hevly, Lillian Hoddeson, Jeff Hughes, Frank James, Helge Kragh, Benoit Lelong, Arthur Miller, Alan Morton, Dominique Pestre, Andy Pickering, Michael Redhead, Simon Schaffer, Sam Schweber, Andrew Warwick, Bruce R Wheaton. On Friday 11 April: The conference will be held at the Royal Society with a reception and conference dinner there in the evening On Saturday 12 April: The conference will be held at the Science Museum, London, with a reception and preview of a special exhibition marking the electron centenary The Society is grateful to the Royal Society and the Science Museum for supporting this meeting Registration Please complete the form below and send to the address given. Registration fee includes the cost of teas, coffees, and receptions. Further details will be sent to registrants. ------------8<-----------------8<----------------8<----------- The Electron - 100 years of Physics and History Please register me for this meeting on 11-12 Apr 97: Registration ______ (BSHS members 20 pounds Student members 10 pounds Non-members 30 pounds) Lunch (at an additional cost of 11 pounds each day) Friday lunch @11 pounds ______ Saturday lunch @11 pounds ______ Conference Dinner Friday 11 April, 25 pounds ____ dinners @25 pounds each ______ Accommodation ______ (at Imperial College, Fri 11 Apr 1 night B&B @26.50 pounds) TOTAL ______ I enclose a cheque for ______ pounds payable to BSHS Ltd Name ____________________________________ Daytime Tel No ____________________________________ Address ____________________________________ Please list any special needs, and return this form with your cheque before 26 March to: BSHS Executive Secretary, 31 High St, Stanford in the Vale, Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 8LH ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 11:02:46 -0400 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: New Chinese medicine webpages X-To: science-as-culture@SJUVM.stjohns.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Announcement of a new and important WWW resource on the history of Chinese medicine. The links it contains will make it clear what an exciting initiative it is - or just go straight to the URL: http://www.soas.ac.uk/Needham/Chimed/ (include that final backslash!) and take a look. HOMEPAGE TEXT: The ChiMed webpage is managed by an international group of scholars who study the history of medicine in China. We hope it will serve as an electronic clearinghouse where people with similar interests can meet to exchange information and ideas. This page is still under construction. We welcome your input! Feel free to send us comments or contribute news and information for posting on this page. Directory of scholars See listing Add yourself to the list Institutions Libraries On-line and electronic resources Bibliographies News and events Acknowledgements Bridie Andrews, Carol Benedict, Yuan-ling Chao, Ping-yi Chu, Charlotte Furth, Marta Hanson, TJ Hinrichs John Moffett, Fabrizio Pregadio, Nathan Sivin, Michelle Thompson, Michael Thouless. A resource such as this inevitably begins as "under contruction" - and if it is any good it stays that way! Only boring websites never change. We hope this resource will be developed as a collaborative resource by all those with an interest in the field. __________________________________________ Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 14:09:21 -0800 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Stephen Straker Subject: Position in Environmental History / Historical Geography X-To: Robert Maxwell Young X-cc: Multiple recipients of list SCIENCE-AS-CULTURE In-Reply-To: <199607081047.DAA00274@unixg.ubc.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The following position at UBC has just been advertised. Please spread the word (with apologies for multiple posts). Thanks, Stephen Straker straker@unixg.ubc.ca Arts One // History (604) 822-6863 University of British Columbia / FAX: (604) 822-4520 Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Z1 * * * * * * * * *ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY / HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY* Applications are invited for a joint (equally shared) tenure stream appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in the Departments of Geography and History at the University of British Columbia. The search is for an outstanding scholar in American (preferably western American) environmental history / historical geography who is well-grounded in the sciences and the humanities. Research and teaching interests must be compatible with those of both departments and preferred applicants will be those with: developed interests in the social dimensions of environmental change and the social construction of nature; and research that centres upon renewable resources, preferably forestry. Teaching responsibilities include undergraduate courses in both departments and in two or more of the following areas: American environmental history, Forest History, Natural resource or environmental geography, and Humanistic perspectives on the environment. Applicants are expected to have a Ph.D., teaching experience and significant publications. Inquiries or applications, including a curriculum vitae and the names, addresses and telephone numbers of three referees should be sent to either: Dr. David Breen Dr. Trevor Barnes Department of History Department of Geography University of British Columbia University of British Columbia #1297 - 1873 East Mall 1984 West Mall Vancouver, British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1 V6T 1Z2 FAX: (604) 822-6658 FAX: (604) 822-6150 The closing date for applications is 24 March 1997 and the starting date for this position is 1 July 1997. This position is subject to final budgetary approval. Web pages -- http://www.arts.ubc.ca./history/history.htm http://www.geog.ubc.ca./ The University of British Columbia welcomes all qualified applicants, especially women, aboriginal people, visible minorities and persons with disabilities. In accordance with Canada's immigration requirements, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada. * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 04:29:29 -0400 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: History of Neurosciences meeting X-To: science-as-culture@SJUVM.stjohns.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Meeting Announcement - 1998 INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF THE NEUROSCIENCES Thursday, June 4 to Saturday, June 6, 1998 Annapolis Marriott Waterfront Hotel 80 Compromise Street Annapolis, Maryland 21401 Phone: (410) 268-7555 FAX: (410) 269-5864 The 3rd meeting of the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences, will be held in the historic town of Annapolis, Maryland at the harbor. The structure of the meeting will be platform and poster papers as well as thematic symposia, all to be refereed by the program committee. Platform papers are normally about 20 minutes in duration followed by 5-10 minutes for discussion. Poster papers normally fill an 8 x 4 foot poster board area. Athough the program committee has not yet been officially appointed (this will occur at this year's annual meeting in Leyden, Holland), proposals for papers and ideas for possible symposia can be submitted now to Harry Whitaker (who is Local Arrangements chair and who will be a member of the program committee) or to any of the officers of ISHN (listed below) for feedback/comments. Papers are expected to have at least one author who is a member of the society (for information on membership, please contact Duane Haines (below). A block of rooms is reserved at the Annapolis Marriott Waterfront hotel at a favorable convention rate and there is an arrangement for students willing to room together. All attendees will be expected to make their own room reservations, no later than 45 days in advance of the meeting in order to obtain the convention rate. Please contact Whitaker for further details about the meeting, hotel, city and the Chesapeake Bay venue. Given the proximity of Washington, D.C. and the various library collections there which are of historical research interest, plus the Annapolis venue itself with easy access to the scenic Eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay, the ISHN anticipates a great deal interest in this meeting. We suggest that you consider contacting us soon if you are interested in presenting or organizing a symposium. Local Arrangements Committee: Chair: Dr. Harry Whitaker, University of Quebec at Montreal Dr. Ola Selnes, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Officers of the ISHN: Stan Finger Sam Greenblatt Duane Haines Peter Koehler Harry Whitaker For information on membership in the society, contact: Dr. Duane E. Haines Department of Anatomy University of Mississippi Med. Ctr. 2500 North State Street Jackson, MS 39216-4505 VOICE: 601-984-1640 FAX: 601-984-1655 EMAIL: dehaines@fiona.umsmed.edu For information on the ISHN WEB site and discussion list: Russell A. Johnson (310) 206-2336 Archivist, Science Collections University Research Library, UCLA Box 951575 Los Angeles CA 90095-1575 For information on the 1997 meeting in Leyden: P.J.Koehler MD,PhD Department of Neurology de Wever Hospital PO Box 4446 6401 CX Heerlen The Netherlands ============================================= Prof. Harry A. Whitaker Laboratoire de neuroscience de la cognition Universite du Quebec a Montreal Case postale 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville Montreal, Quebec, CANADA H3C 3P8 Fax: (514) 987-8952 E-mail: whitakeh@ere.umontreal.ca Phone: (514) 987-3000 X- 8547# __________________________________________ Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 11:01:59 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Marvin Bolt Subject: Interdisciplinary study on a comet X-To: sci-cult@SJUVM.stjohns.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" A new book, *The Comet of 44 BC and Caesar's Funeral Games* (Scholars Press 1997) will be published on the Ides of March, the 2040th anniversary of Caesar's assassination. Written by John Ramsey of the Classics Dept. and Lewis Licht of the Physics Dept. at the Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, this study draws upon sources from China, as well as the Greco-Roman world, to shed new light on the probable orbit of the great daylight comet of July 44 BC and on the factors that caused it to be treated not as a baleful omen (as comets invariably were) but as a sign of Caesar's apotheosis. For details, including an abstract, please visit http://www.uic.edu/las/clas/comet; or send e-mail to comet@uic.edu. ----------- Marvin Bolt --------------------------------------------------------------------- History and Philosophy of Science Bolt.1@nd.edu 346 O'Shaughnessy University of Notre Dame Dept: (219) 631-5015 Notre Dame, IN 46556 Fax: (219) 631-4268 http://www.nd.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------- Assistant Curator Marv_Bolt@orbit.adler.uchicago.edu History of Astronomy Department Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum 1300 South Lake Shore Drive Direct:(312) 322-0540 Chicago, IL 60605 Fax: (312) 341-9935 http://astro.uchicago.edu/adler --------------------------------------------------------------------- All opinions expressed are (probably) the author's. They certainly do not necessarily reflect those held by anyone else at the Adler Planetarium or at the University of Notre Dame, their official policies, or any other sentient being.