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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:blue'>Below are two messages from Harvard’s
History of Science event announcement listserve. Apologies for duplicate
postings.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:blue'>1) </span></font><font size=2
color=blue face=Georgia><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
color:blue'>Historical Colloquium at Center for Astrophysics, Sept 25</span></font><font
size=2 color=blue face=Georgia><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:blue'>2) Language of Color – opening lecture
9/25/08, exhibit open 9/26/08-9/6/09<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Historical Colloquium at Center for Astrophysics,
Sept 25<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:55:10 -0400 (EDT)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Owen Gingerich <a
href="mailto:ginger@cfa.harvard.edu"><ginger@cfa.harvard.edu></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
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<pre><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The CfA at <st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">60 Garden Street</st1:address></st1:Street> includes a history of science colloquium in <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>its schedule each year, and this coming Thursday afternoon (Sept 25) at <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>4 p.m. in Phillips Auditorium Jim Evans will speak. Evans is editor-elect <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>of the Journal for the History of Astronomy, and known for his book THE <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF ANCIENT ASTRONOMY. If you would like to join <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Evans for dinner afterward, contact Owen Gingerich at 5-7216.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Speaker: James Evans (Program in Science, Technology and Society, <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on"><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>University</span></font></st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Puget Sound</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>)<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Title: Gravity in the Century of Light: The Gravitation Theory of <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Georges-Louis Le Sage<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Abstract: Each generation of physicists, or natural philosophers, has <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>sought to place universal gravitation in the context of its own worldview. <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Often this has entailed an effort to reduce gravity to something more <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>fundamental. But what is deemed fundamental has, of course, changed with <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>time. Each generation attacked the problem of universal gravitation with <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>the tools of its day and brought to bear the concepts of its own standard <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>model. The most successful eighteenth-century attempt to provide a <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>mechanical explanation of gravity was that of Georges-Louis Le Sage <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>(1724-1803) of <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Geneva</st1:City></st1:place>. Le Sage imagined a sea of ultramundane corpuscles, <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>streaming in all directions and characterized by minute mass, great <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>velocity, and complete inelasticity. Mostly these corpuscles just pass <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>through large bodies such as apples or planets, but a few are absorbed, <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>leading to all the phenomena of attraction. Le Sage's theory is an <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>especially interesting one, for several reasons. First, it serves as the <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>prototype of a dynamical explanation of Newtonian gravity. Second, the <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>theory came quite close to accomplishing its aim. Third, the theory had a <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>long life and attracted comment by the leading physical thinkers of <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>several successive generations, including Laplace, Kelvin, Maxwell and <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Feynman. Le Sage's theory therefore provides an excellent opportunity for <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>the study of the evolution of attitudes toward physical explanation. The <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>effects of national style in science and generational change take on a new <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>clarity.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:windowtext'> events-hs-bounces@lists.fas.harvard.edu
[mailto:events-hs-bounces@lists.fas.harvard.edu] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>hsdept<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, September 22, 2008
1:53 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> events-hs@fas.harvard.edu<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [events-hs] [Fwd:
Language of Color exhibition opening Sept 26 at Harvard Museum of Natural
History, Press preview 9/25]</span></font><font color=black><span
style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%'><b><i><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'>Language of Color</span></font></i></b><b><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'> opens September 26, 2008, at
Harvard Museum of Natural History</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%'><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial'>Whether it’s the brilliant
blue wings of a butterfly, the scarlet feathers of a tanager, or iridescent
beetles that shimmer purple and green, animals display color in vastly
different ways. <b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Language
of Color</span></i></b>, a new exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural
History will explore how animal colors are produced, the varied ways in which
color is perceived, and the diverse messages that animal colors can convey.
The exhibit will open <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>September 26,
2008</span></b> and be on display through <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>September
6, 2009.</span></b> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%'><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial'>Dr. Hopi Hoekstra, the John L. Loeb
Associate Professor of Biology in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary
Biology and the Curator of Mammals at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at
Harvard University, will offer the <b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'>Language of Color</span></i></b> exhibition opening lecture
on Thursday, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>September 25<sup>th</sup></span></b>
at 6:00 pm</span></font>. <font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Dr.
Hoekstra’s lecture, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Nature's Palette:
the Biological Significance of Color, </span></b>will be free and open to the
public</span></font>. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%'><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial'>“This exhibition combines a
spectacular array of species, and reveals the truly dazzling spectrum of colors
used by animals to communicate with each other,” said Elisabeth
Werby, Executive Director of the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
"<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Language of Color</span></i> also
showcases some of the cutting-edge evolutionary research ongoing at Harvard
today.” <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%'><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial'>With dramatic displays of real
animal specimens including bird, mammal, reptile, fish, mollusk, and insect
specimens from Harvard’s vast collections, <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Language of Color</span></i> will help visitors to understand the
nature of color, how different animals “see” it, and how animal
color and its perception have co-evolved to produce an extraordinarily complex
and diverse palette of colors. <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%'><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial'>Colors can conceal, warn,
intimidate, or attract; and animal colors are so diverse both because these
messages vary and because the animals receiving the messages perceive colors in
different ways. Through computer interactives, visitors will be given the
opportunity to “see” colors through the eyes of other animals,
including large parts of the color spectrum that are imperceptible to humans. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%'><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial'>Visitors will also have the
opportunity to examine the colors in bird feathers and butterfly wings as if
through an electron microscope, to explore the contrasting black and white
stripes of a 9-foot-high hide of a mountain zebra, and to learn through a video
presentation about how zebra stripes develop and why they have evolved. Some
scientists have theorized that the variation in width of different
zebras’ stripes might be explained by differences in when, in the early
development of the zebra fetus, the gene for striping “turned on.”</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
Arial'> </span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Another
exhibition highlight is a stunning display of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>live</span></i>
dart frogs whose colors warn predators that they are a bad choice of food. </span></font><font
size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
Arial'> </span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Another
video, filmed by Woods Hole scientists, shows dramatic instantaneous color change
in flounder, octopus and cuttle fish</span></font><font size=2><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%'>. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%'><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial'>The Harvard Museum of Natural
History is located at <st1:address u2:st="on"><st1:Street u2:st="on"><st1:address
w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">26 Oxford Street</st1:Street></st1:Street>, <st1:City u2:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:City></st1:City>, <st1:State u2:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">MA</st1:State></st1:address></st1:State></st1:address>, a 6 minute
walk from the Harvard Square T station. The Museum is handicapped accessible.
For general information please call 617 495 3045 or visit <a
href="http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/" moz-do-not-send=true>www.hmnh.harvard.edu</a>.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
font-style:italic'>With a mission to enhance public understanding and
appreciation of the natural world and the human place in it, the <st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:PlaceName u2:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Harvard</st1:PlaceName></st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType u2:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType></st1:place></st1:PlaceType></st1:place> of
Natural History draws on the University’s collections and research to
present a historic and interdisciplinary exploration of science and nature.
More than 160,000 visitors annually make it the University’s most-visited
attraction. </span></font></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Language of Color</span></font></i></b><i><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:
italic'> </span></font></i><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>has been organized by the Harvard Museum of Natural
History. <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>For
images and more information, contact Blue Magruder, <a
href="mailto:bmagruder@oeb.harvard.edu" moz-do-not-send=true>bmagruder@oeb.harvard.edu</a>
or call 617-496-0049<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<pre cols=72><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Mary Blue Magruder<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Director of Communications & Marketing<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Harvard</span></font></st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> of Natural History<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>26 Oxford Street</span></font></st1:address></st1:Street><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Cambridge</span></font></st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">MA</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">02138</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>617-496-0049<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a
href="mailto:bmagruder@oeb.harvard.edu">bmagruder@oeb.harvard.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Explore <a
href="http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu">www.hmnh.harvard.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Language of Color, opens September 26, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Fall lectures announced: <a
href="http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php">http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Harvard Museum of Natural History elected Boston 2008 '<st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Best</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> for Big Kids' on Nickelodeon's ParentsConnect <a
href="http://gocitykids.parentsconnect.com/ParentsPicks/cityresults.htm?city_id=9">http://gocitykids.parentsconnect.com/ParentsPicks/cityresults.htm?city_id=9</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Looking at Leaves: Photographs by Amanda Means, thru Feb.8, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Sea Creatures in Glass, Harvard's Blaschka marine models, thru Jan 4, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Visit our Press Room for releases, links to images,<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a
href="http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/press_room/index.php">http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/press_room/index.php</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre></div>
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