Roy Porter Lecture 2006
10 April 2006
'Scientists, sea-trials and international espionage: who really invented the balance-spring watch?
17.30, Wednesday 26 April 2006
Lecture Theatre 1, University College London
The Roy Porter Lecture for 2006, 'Scientists, sea-trials and international espionage: who really invented the balance-spring watch?', will be delivered by Professor Lisa Jardine on Wednesday 26 April.
Professor Jardine is Director of the AHRC Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL) at Queen Mary, University of London (UCL), and regularly contributes to print media, radio and television shows. Her research interests encompass Renaissance intellectual history, early modern cultural history and the history of the scientific revolution.
The lecture starts at 17.30 in Lecture Theatre 1, Cruciform Building, and will be rounded off with refreshments in UCL's North Cloisters. The event is free, but admittance is by ticket only.
The lecture series was established in 2003 in memory of UCL's Professor Roy Porter, an eminent historian of medicine, science and the Enlightenment, and a well-loved character within the UCL community and international academic circles. A prolific author, he produced more than 200 books on a plethora of subjects before his death in 2002, including histories of geology, madness and psychiatry, the Enlightenment and a social history of London. Previous lectures have been given by John Brewer (2003) Linda Colley (2004) and Simon Schama (2005).
