Ordering Colors in 18th and Early 19th Century Europe III
Organized by the Department for the History of Science (TU Berlin) and held in three parts (June 5, June 12, June 19).
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Program
14:00 – 14:45
Session 4: Natural History and Color Order
Chair: André Karliczek (Jena)
Tanja Kleinwächter (Berlin) – Schiffermüller and Newton in Sinter United – Franz Uibelakers Theory of Colors (1781)
14:45 – 15:00
Break
15:00 – 15:45
Peter Davidson (Edinburgh), Joyce Dixon (Edinburgh) - From Minerals to Pigments, and Saxony to Scotland: The Creation of Werner’s Nomenclature of Colors (1814)
15:45 – 16:00
Break
16:00 – 16:45
Elaine Ayers (New York) - Color for a 'Mere Flower Painter': Art, Botany, and the Sensuous Nature of Pigmentation in the Early-19th Century
16:45 – 17:00
Break
17:00 – 17:45
Session 5: Final comment & discussion
Chair: Friedrich Steinle (Berlin)
Sarah Lowengard (New York)