Special Interests
William B. Ashworth
Jr.
Publications
Scholarly publications:
1) Paper Dinosaurs, 1824-1969. Kansas City: Linda Hall Library, 1996 [printed exhibition catalog].
2) Paper Dinosaurs, 1824-1969: The Web Version. Kansas City: Linda Hall Library, 1996 [Web online exhibition catalog, at http://www.lhl.lib.mo.us/pubserv/hos/dino/welcome.htm ]
3) "Brahe, Tycho;" "Copernicus, Nicholas;" "Kepler, Johannes;" "Galilei, Galileo;" "The Copernican revolution;" "Astronomy in the scientific revolution;" in The Garland Encyclopedia of Astronomy. New York: Garland, 1996.
4) "Emblematic natural history of the Renaissance," in Cultures of Natural History, ed. N. Jardine et al., pp. 17-37. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1995.
5) Out of This World: The Celestial Atlas, 1482-1843. Kansas City: Linda Hall Library, 1995 [Web online exhibition catalog, at http://www.lhl.lib.mo.us/pubserv/hos/stars/welcome.htm ].
6) "Remarkable humans and singular beasts," in The Age of the Marvelous, ed. by Joy Kenseth, pp. 113-144. Hanover: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1992.
7) "The Habsburg Circle," in Patronage and Institutions: Science, Technology, and Medicine at the European Court, 1500-1700, ed. by Bruce T. Moran, pp. 137-167. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1991.
8) "Natural history and the emblematic world view," in Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution, ed. by David C. Lindberg and Robert S. Westman, pp. 303-332. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
9) "Light of Reason, Light of Nature: Catholic and Protestant metaphors of scientific progress," Science in Context, 1989, 3(1):89-107.
10. The Face of the Moon: Galileo to Apollo. Kansas City: Linda Hall Library, 1989 [exhibition catalog].
11) "Iconography for a new physics," History and Technology, 1987, 4:263-293.
12) "Catholicism and early modern science," in God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science, ed. by David C. Lindberg and Ronald Numbers, pp. 136-166. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
13) Jesuit Science in the Age of Galileo. Kansas City: Linda Hall Library, 1986. [exhibition catalog].
14) "Divine reflections and profane refractions: Images of a scientific impasse in 17th-century Italy," in Gianlorenzo Bernini: New Aspects of his Art and Thought, ed. by Irving Lavin, pp. 179-207. University Park, Pa: Penn State University Press, 1985.
15) "The persistent beast: Recurring images in early zoological illustration," in The Natural Sciences and the Arts, ed. by Allain Ellenius, pp. 46-66. Uppsala: Almqvist & Wikell, 1985.
16) "Allegorical astronomy," The Sciences, Sept./Oct. 1985, pp. 34-37.
17) Theories of the Earth, 1644-1830: The History of a Genre. Kansas City: Linda Hall Library, 1984 [exhibition catalog].
18) "Marcus Gheeraerts and the Aesopic connection in seventeenth-century scientific illustration," Art Journal, 1984, 44:132-138.
19) "John Bevis and his Uranographia (c. 1750)," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 1981, 125-52-73.
20) "Halley's discovery of NGC 6231 and the hazards of early star nomenclature," Journal for the History of Astronomy, 1981, 12:1-10.
21) "A rejection of nova Orionis 1667", Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1981, 22:22-27.
22) "A probable Flamsteed observation of the Cassiopeia A supernova," Journal for the History of Astronomy, 1980, 11:1-9.
Papers at professional meetings:
1) History of Science Society, national meeting, Atlanta, November 10, 1996: "Second Impressions."
2) History of Science Society, national meeting, Minneapolis, October 27, 1995: Visual perceptions: Images, optics, and the scientific revolution."
3) History of Science Society, national meeting, Santa Fe, November 4, 1993: "The meaning of plants: Emblematic botany in the late Renaissance."
4) Digne, France, International Gassendi Colloquium, May 17-23, 1992, "La carte de la lune par Gassendi, Peiresc, et Mellan," an invited paper.
5) Renaissance Society of America, national meeting, Stanford, March 27, 1992: "Nature Enclosed," an invited commentary.
6) History of Science Society, national meeting, Madison, November 1, 1991: "The Scientific Revolution: The Problem of Visual Authority," an invited paper.
7) History of Science Society, national meeting, Seattle, October 26, 1990: "The Garden of Nature: Evolution of a Seventeenth-century Image," an invited paper; I also chaired and commented on a session: "Galileo's Science and Court Culture."
8) University of Oklahoma, September 7, 1990: "Visual Argument in the Scientific Revolution," an invited paper for a national Conference: "Representing and Understanding the Natural World: Science in Western Culture."
9) History of Science Society, national meeting, Gainesville, October 28, 1989: "Squaring the Habsburg Circle," an invited paper.
10) Renaissance Society of America, national meeting, Harvard University, March 31, 1989: "Aldrovandi and Emblemata," a paper for a session I organized.
11) American Historical Association, national meeting, Cincinnati, December 28, 1988: "In the Lap of Nature: A Mertonian Postscript," an invited paper.
12) British Society for the History of Science, international meeting, Manchester, England, July 14, 1988: "Claude Mellan and the Selenographic Tradition," submitted and refereed paper.
13) Jerusalem, Israel, May 17, 1988: "The Light of Reason: Catholic and Protestant metaphors of scientific knowledge," an invited paper for an International Symposium: "Fifty Years of the Merton Thesis."
14) History of Science Society, national meeting, Raleigh, October 30, 1987: "Emblems of Baconianism," a submitted and refereed paper.
15) Paris, France, June 11, 1986: "Iconography for a new physics," an invited paper for an International Symposium in honor of Alexandre Koyre.
16) Central Renaissance Conference, regional meeting, Lawrence, Kansas, April 5, 1986: "Images of the Cosmos in the late Renaissance," an invited paper.
17) History of Science Society, national meeting, Bloomington, November 3, 1985: "Emblems in the cause of science. Or vice versa?" An invited paper for a special plenary session, "The Jesuits and the scientific revolution: A fresh look."
18) History of Science Society, national meeting, Chicago, December 29, 1984: "Science and religion in the 17th century: A commentary."
19) Williams College, October 19, 1984: "Educating Alciati: Emblems for a scientific revolution," an invited paper for an international Conference: "Art and science in related revolutions."
20) American Society of Church History, national meeting, Denver, March 29, 1984: "Catholicism and early modern science," an invited paper.
21) History of Science Society, national meeting, Norwalk, October 29, 1983: "Recurring images in early scientific illustration," a submitted paper.
22) Uppsala University, Sweden, May 26, 1983: "The persistent beast: Recurring images in early zoological illustration," an invited paper for an international Symposium on "The Natural Sciences and the Arts.
23) American Astronomical Society, national meeting, Boulder, January 12, 1982: "Variable stars and cosmological speculation in the century after Descartes," an invited paper.
24) American Historical Association/History of Science Society, national meeting, Los Angeles, December 30, 1981: "Natural history, antiquarianism, and the demise of the sympathetic cosmos," an invited paper at a special plenary session: "Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution."
25) University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 23, 1981: "Christianity and the scientific revolution: A commentary," an invited paper for an International Conference on Christianity and Science.
26) Central Renaissance Conference, regional meeting, Kansas City, March 20, 1981: "The flaying of Apollo: Classical sculpture and its influence on Renaissance anatomical illustration," a submitted paper.
27) History of Science Society, national meeting, Toronto, October 19, 1980: "Sharks-teeth, ax-heads, and belemnites: Problems of nomenclature in 17th-century paleontology," a submitted paper.
28) American Association of the History of Medicine, national meeting, Boston, May 2, 1980: "Vesalian figures and niches of honor in 17th-century title-page allegory," a submitted paper.
29) American Astronomical Society, national meeting, San Francisco, January 15, 1980: "A probable Flamsteed observation of the Cassiopeia A supernova," an invited paper.
Public Lectures:
1) Austin College, Sherman, Texas, February 17, 1993: "The Golden Age of the Telescope," an invited lecture
2) Smithsonian Institution, Washington, May 13, 1993, second annual Dibner Library Lecture: "Animal Encounters of the Emblematic Kind;" also presented, by invitation, at Folger Library, Washington, June 13, 1993.
3) High Museum of Art, Atlanta, November 4, 1992: "Zoological Wonders and Cabinets of Curioities."
4) Houston Museum of Fine Arts, May 24, 1992: "Exotic Animals in Early Wonderrooms."
5) Dartmouth College, Hood Museum of Art, November 15, 1991: "Great Auks and Fishing Frogs: Early Zoological Marvels."
6) University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 5, 1990: "The Renaissance Illustrated Book," for the Centennial Celebration of the University of Wisconsin Library.
7) University of Richmond, April 3, 1989: "The old world confronts the new."
8) Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., March 13, 1989: "The Meaning of plants: Botanical emblems of the late Renaissance."
9) Ohio Northern University, March 9, 1989: "Galileo and the Jesuits."
10) Idaho State University, April 7, 1988: "An Invasion of Sloths and Possums: The Old World confronts the New."
11) University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 18-19, 1985 "Emblematic warfare in the age of Galileo."
12) Harvard University, March 13, 1984: "Quiet earth or quiet sun? A battle of emblems in the age of Galileo."
13) Williams College, March 8-9, 1984: "Recurring images in early zoological illustration," an IBM lecture.
14) Princeton University, March 9, 1983: "Nature revealed: The evolution of a scientific emblem," the Joseph Henry Public Lecture; March 12, 1983: "Animals, emblems, and antiquities: The metamorphosis of natural history, 1550-1650," a colloquium.