Events
Events for Friday, February 6, 2026
10:00 am
The Living Machine: The Magic Lantern and Transnational Knowledge in Tokugawa Japan – Lewis Bremner History and Philosophy of Science University of Cambridge
This talk provides an examination of how intellectuals in Japan understood the magic lantern as a technology. It starts in the 1770s, when the instrument was first recorded in the country, and focuses on a group of scholars seeking to understand the complex mechanism of the human eye. Until the mid-1770s, this organ had been … Continued
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