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)