Mary Terrall’s new book is a beautifully-written, carefully-researched, and compellingly-argued account of the practices of natural history in the eighteenth-century francophone world. It is a must-read for historians of science, and as a bonus it also includes descriptions of frog pants, chickens wearing stockings, and mittens made of spider silk. You can find our conversation about it here. Continue reading Catching Nature in the Act: An Interview
Emma Spary and I spoke recently about her new book on the science and cultures of food in France during the long 18th century. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Eating the Enlightenment: An Interview
Daniela Bleichmar and I recently spoke about her beautiful new book on botany and the imaging of empire in the eighteenth-century Hispanic world. This is likely to be of interest to historians of science, of empire, and of art. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Visible Empire: An Interview
I recently spoke with historian and fiction writer Minsoo Kang about his recent work on automata and robots in the European imagination. You can find it here. Continue reading Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: An Interview
Carla Nappi 