Science and Literature Reading Group

Monday, October 04, 2010

18th October

For our first meeting of Michaelmas Term 2010 on the theme of 'Extreme Events' we shall be reading Daniel Defoe's The Storm (1704), especially Chapter III, "Of the Storm in General", pp. 26-36 in the Penguin Classics edition. To find this chapter online, search for the phrase "before we come to examine the damage" on Google books.We meet from 7.30-9pm in the Skillicorn Room at Homerton College, in the Ibberson Building on this map. All welcome!
 

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The Science and Literature Reading Group is run in association with the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

Each term we select a set of texts on a given theme. Past topics have included 1919, frogs, literary technologies, relativity theory, contemporary poetry, short stories about doctors, and science and drama. We have just completed a series of meetings on the elements, discussing fire, air, water, earth, and aether. At our seminars a brief introduction to the readings is followed by informal discussion.

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