Paper Session 2: Textual Instruments
Session Organizer: Nick Wilding (Georgia State University)
Moderator: Ann Blair (Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard University)
Ivana Horacek (University of Minnesota)
“Instrumental Images and Gifts of Knowledge: Stars, Books, and Instruments”
Jennifer Nelson (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
“Basilischco, Elifanntto, Tiruno: The Holzschuher War Machines Revisited”
Suzanne Karr Schmidt (The Newberry)
“Making Time and Space: Collecting Early Modern Printed Instruments”
E.R.Truitt (Bryn Mawr College)
“The Necessity of Invention: Roger Bacon’s Speculative Technology”
See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.
