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LOCATION:The Heyman Center\, Second Floor Common Room
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SUMMARY:Travel\, Science\, and the Question of Observation: 1580-1800
DESCRIPTION:In the early modern period\, the emergence of travel as a mea
 ns of information gathering on natural history\, demography\, 
 government\, and religion was accompanied by the use of quest
 ionnaires to orient observation. This conference investigate
 s the development of techniques of information gathering of 
 this kind and the networks on which they relied. Papers addr
 ess the integral role of travel in the process of scientific
  exchange as well as to the ways that information itself tra
 veled in British\, French\, Spanish\, and Swedish contexts.
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