Video and audio
The Department is not yet producing its own video and audio, but below are some links to relevant items elsewhere.
Cambridge
CRASSH
- Disciplines and Disorientation
Simon Schaffer's contribution to the conference The Future University, organised by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. - Things: Material Cultures of the Long 18th Century
Recordings of the seminar series on 18th-century material culture.
Darwin College
- Darwin College Lecture Series 2009: Global Darwin
Jim Secord on the international significance of Charles Darwin's work.
Darwin Correspondence Project
- Darwin and Religion
Paul White interviews Tim Lewens about the role of Darwin in modern science and the implications of evolution for religious belief.
Fitzwilliam Museum
- Darwin and the Ancient Earth
In a podcast to complement the 2009 exhibition Endless Forms, Jim Secord explains why the young Darwin's fascination with geology was so important for his later work.
Trinity College
- Tarner Lectures 2010
Simon Schaffer gives a series of four lectures on 'When the stars threw down their spears: histories of astronomy and empire'.
External
BBC
- BBC News: Books and Babies
Nick Hopwood narrates an audio slideshow of images from the exhibition Books and Babies: Communicating Reproduction at Cambridge University Library. - A History of the World in 100 Objects: Rhind Mathematical Papyrus
Eleanor Robson describes the British Museum's most famous mathematical papyrus. - In Our Time: Alchemy
Lauren Kassell is among the guests discussing the ancient science of transformations. - In Our Time: The Alphabet
Eleanor Robson takes part in a discussion about the origins of the alphabet. - In Our Time: Archaeology and Imperialism
Eleanor Robson explains why ancient cultures gripped the 19th-century imagination. - In Our Time: Astronomy and Empire
Simon Schaffer discusses the relationship between astronomy and the British Empire. - In Our Time: Calculus
Patricia Fara and Simon Schaffer discuss the feud between Newton and Leibniz. - In Our Time: The Cavendish Family in Science
Patricia Fara and Simon Schaffer on how members of the Cavendish family contributed to science. - In Our Time: Darwin
Jim Moore, Alison Pearn and Jim Secord feature in a series of four programmes marking the Darwin anniversary. - In Our Time: Electrickery
Patricia Fara and Simon Schaffer on why the development of electricity in the 18th and 19th centuries was politically contentious. - In Our Time: Goethe and the Science of the Enlightenment
Simon Schaffer explains how the poet and dramatist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was also a scientist. - In Our Time: Heat
Hasok Chang and Simon Schaffer explore the complex history of scientific ideas about heat. - In Our Time: Humboldt
Patricia Fara and Jim Secord discuss the life of 'the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived', Alexander Von Humboldt. - In Our Time: The Laws of Motion
Simon Schaffer takes part in a discussion about Isaac Newton's three laws of motion. - In Our Time: The Library at Nineveh
Eleanor Robson discusses the treasure house of Assyrian ideas. - In Our Time: The Lunar Society
Simon Schaffer on how a small group of friends had an extraordinary influence on science, technology and industry. - In Our Time: Maxwell
Simon Schaffer discusses the life and ideas of James Clerk Maxwell. - In Our Time: Meteorology
Liba Taub takes part in a discussion about the history of meteorology from the ancient world to the 18th century. - In Our Time: Oceanography
Simon Schaffer is among the guests discussing how we understand the sea. - In Our Time: Optics
Simon Schaffer discusses the history of seeing the world through a lens. - In Our Time: Oxygen
Hasok Chang and Simon Schaffer examine the dispute between Joseph Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier. - In Our Time: Pliny's Natural History
Liba Taub takes part in a discussion about Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia. - In Our Time: Ptolemy and Ancient Astronomy
Liba Taub discusses Ptolemy's geocentric theory of the universe. - In Our Time: Renaissance Astrology
Lauren Kassell explains why astrological ideas flourished during the Renaissance. - In Our Time: Rutherford
Patricia Fara and Simon Schaffer discuss the Cambridge nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford. - In Our Time: The Scientific Method Simon Schaffer discusses the evolution of a systematic and analytical approach to scientific thought.
- In Our Time: The Unicorn
Lauren Kassell takes part in a discussion about the mythical creature once thought to be real. - More or Less: Babylonian Numbers
Eleanor Robson visits the British Museum's Babylon exhibition and explains what we owe to Babylonian mathematics.
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
- Simon Forman: Astrology, Medicine and Quackery in Elizabethan England
Lauren Kassell gives a lecture linked to the museum's Eccentricity exhibition.
YouTube
- The Longitude Problem
Simon Schaffer introduces a video about the project 'The Board of Longitude 1714–1828: Science, Innovation and Empire in the Georgian World'. - A Tour Round the Old Cavendish Laboratory
Simon Schaffer on the founding of the University's Cavendish Laboratory.