Early modern collections played a key role in the creation and transmission of knowledge, but they are usually studied in terms of the objects they contained or how they came to exist. This conference instead explores how they were actually used in the 16th and 17th centuries. The conference was held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

CONFERENCE | Early Modern Collections in Use

Clifford Will delivers a lecture titled “Was Einstein Right? A Centennial Assessment.” Will is the Distinguished Professor of Physics at University of Florida.

Part of “Francis Bacon Conference: General Relativity at One Hundred,” a conference held at Caltech and The Huntington March 10–12, 2016.

Was Einstein Right? A Centennial Assessment

Vera Keller from University of Oregon delivers a talk titled “Johann Daniel Major (1634-1693) and the Experimental Museum.” This talk was included in the session titled “Displaying.”

Part of “Early Modern Collections in Use,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

Johann Daniel Major (1634-1693) and the Experimental Museum

Peter Mancall from University of Southern California and The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute delivers a talk titled “Birds of (Early) America.” This talk was included in the session titled “Conceptualizing.” 

Part of “Early Modern Collections in Use,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

Birds of (Early) America

Paula Findlen from Stanford University delivers a talk titled “Why Put a Museum in a Book? Ferrante Imperato and Natural History in Sixteenth-Century Naples.” This talk was included in the session titled “Conceptualizing.”

Part of “Early Modern Collections in Use,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

Why Put a Museum in a Book? Ferrante Imperato and Natural History in Sixteenth-Century Naples

Elizabeth Eger and Anne Goldgar from King’s College London deliver remarks for “Early Modern Collections in Use,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

Remarks by Elizabeth Eger and Anne Goldgar

Steve Hindle from The Huntington welcomes participants and attendees to “Early Modern Collections in Use,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

Welcoming Remarks by Steve Hindle

Historian Daniela Bleichmar, co-curator of the exhibition “Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin,” discusses the surprising and little-known story of the pivotal role that Latin America played in the pursuit of science and art during the first global era. This talk is part of the Wark Lecture Series at The Huntington.
 
Recorded Oct. 16, 2017.

Seeing and Knowing: Visions of Latin American Nature, ca. 1492–1859

The Browns of California: A Conversation with Governor Jerry Brown and Miriam Pawel, moderated by William Deverell.

The Browns of California: A Conversation with Governor Jerry Brown

Architect Marc Appleton, author of "Ranches: Home on the Range in California", discusses the history of cattle ranching in California. Once a robust industry in the state, ranching is now a much diminished and challenged enterprise, says Appleton, and many ranchers are witnessing the passing of a way of life.

California Ranches: Lands in Transition

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Why Put a Museum in a Book? Ferrante Imperato and Natural History in Sixteenth-Century Naples

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