Restart Radio: Strong links between thrift and innovation, past and present
Isabel and Ugo interview Simon Werrett, Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at University College London. We talk about his upcoming book "Thrifty Science", which discusses historical practices of repair and reuse.
First, what is thrifty science? Simon proposes this concept as "an attitude …
Episode 11 - Laura Bassi, part 2
Italy. The mid-eighteenth century. A ragtag band of adventurers - a physicist, the Pope, and his secretary - set out to reform science.
Sources:
Did Isaac Newton believe in ghosts? No he did not https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227260712_Lust_Pride_and_Ambition_Isaac_Newton_and_the_Devi…
Symposium - The New History of Scientific Experience: Observing, Experimenting, Collecting, Representing and Reading in Early Modern Europe
With Professor Lorraine Daston, Dr Simon Werrett (UCL), Dr Rhodri Lewis (Oxford), Dr Sachiko Kusukawa (Cambridge) and Prof Martin Mulsow (Erfurt), chaired by Prof Laurence Brockliss (Oxford).
Bright Sparks: the history & science of fireworks (30 Oct 2014)
Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2014
Dr Simon Werrett, UCL Science and Technology Studies
Dr Werrett explores the changing relationship between science and art in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries by looking at interactions between pyrotechnicians and scientists. Fireworks, used to celebrate gra…
Symposium - The New History of Scientific Experience: Observing, Experimenting, Collecting, Representing and Reading in Early Modern Europe
With Professor Lorraine Daston, Dr Simon Werrett (UCL), Dr Rhodri Lewis (Oxford), Dr Sachiko Kusukawa (Cambridge) and Prof Martin Mulsow (Erfurt), chaired by Prof Laurence Brockliss (Oxford).
Things - 5 November 2014 - Explosive Things
Dr Simon Werrett (Dept of Science and Technology Studies, UCL)
Haileigh Robertson (History,Royal Armouries,York)
Abstracts
Simon Werrett
Theatre and Effect in Early Modern Fireworks
Much of the literature on early modern fireworks displays tends to treat them as texts, to be deciphered and rea…
Fireworks
In this special July 4-themed episode, we're talking about a staple of many people's Independence Day celebration: giant explosions! Whether you love fireworks or hate them, you'll learn something about where they come from and how they're made with our expert Simon Werrett! Show notes at https://b…
Fireworks with Simon Werrett
The technology of explosions to celebrate or mark an occasion of jubilation that we know today as fireworks was a new thing for Shakespeare's lifetime. Shakespeare mentions the word "firework" only twice in his works, once in relation to a fight in Henry VIII and another time in relation to a show …
Fireworks with Simon Werrett
The technology of explosions to celebrate or mark an occasion of jubilation that we know today as fireworks was a new thing for Shakespeare's lifetime. Shakespeare mentions the word "firework" only twice in his works, once in relation to a fight in Henry VIII and another time in relation to a show …
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