STEP - Science and Technology in the European Periphery

Thursday 13 October at 5.30 for 6.30pm
Annual E.G.R. Taylor Lecture
'Instruments, geography and scientific enquiry: guides to travellers and method in nineteenth-century Britain and France'
by Charles W. J. Withers, Professor of Historical Geography, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh.

In keeping with E G R Taylor's interests in the history of geography, instrumentation and travel, this illustrated lecture will examine printed guides to travellers as they helped promote geography as an emergent science in the nineteenth century, highlighting amongst others the work in the RGS of Julian Jackson and William Hamilton. Drawing upon work in book history, geography and the history of science, the lecture will illuminate the key but under-explored role of instruments and instrumental training in understanding geography's many narratives of exploration.

Lecture tickets: Lecture Attendance free, no booking required.
Supper tickets: £25.00 must be purchased in advance (by midday on 7 October) T 020 7591 3100
Venue: Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR