In this episode of Houghton75, we speak to Elaheh Kheirandish, Postdoctoral Associate of the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard. For our current exhibition, she has chosen a copy of Alhazen’s Optics in Latin from 1572. She’ll delve into some of Alhazen’s importance to the science of Optics, and his place in the creation and transmission of scientific learning through the Islamic world and to the west. Find out more about the exhibition and Houghton Library’s 75th anniversary celebrations at http://houghton75.org/hist-75h
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Music by دنگ شو Dang Show
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Additional Music Performed by
Mohammad Reza Haeri (setar) and Hormoz Goodarzy (tonbak)
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Joseph Connors: The Art of Architectural Sketching
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Stephen Greenblatt: On the Nature of Science and the Humanities
Ann Blair: Renaissance Writing Tables
Danielle Allen: John Adams’ and Our Declaration
Stephanie Sandler: The Russian Avant Garde’s Enigmatic Misfit, Elena Guro
Racha Kirakosian: A Manuscript’s Never Ending Story
Michael Canfield: Teddy Roosevelt in the Field
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Tom Conley: A Kinder, Gentler Map
James Engell: Anti-War Sentiment on the University Campus
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Eric Nelson: Hebraism, Monarchy, and the American Revolution
Elaine Scarry: Charlotte Brontë’s Miniature Books
Daniel Donoghue: Fragments of Anglo-Saxon England
John Stauffer: Wanted Posters, Photography, and the Search for Lincoln’s Assassins
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