LECTURES & LITERATURE

    Science in an Artificial Language: Michael Gordin

    Science in an Artificial Language: Michael Gordin

    Presented by Penn Humanities Forum at University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum)

    January 25, 2012


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    By the turn of the 20th century, scientific knowledge was being produced in so many different national languages that individual scientists could no longer follow the important developments. Some thought the best way out of this linguistic logjam was to adapt one of the so-called "artificial languages," such as Esperanto, to the purposes of scientific communication. Award-winning Princeton historian Michael Gordin illuminates this curious moment of crisis and adaptation in the history of modern science.

    A program of the 2011-2012 Penn Humanities Forum on Adaptations.

    Cosponsored by Penn's Departments of History and History of Sociology of Science.


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        University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum)

        3260 South Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19104

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        Dates:
        January 25, 2012

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        5-6:30 pm

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