Rare Book School Lectures

Paper Session 2: Textual Instruments Session Organizer: Nick Wilding (Georgia State University) Moderator: Ann Blair (Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard University) Ivana Horacek (University of Minnesota) “Instrumental Images and Gifts of Knowledge: Stars, Books, and Instruments” Jennifer Nelson (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) “Basilischco, Elifanntto, Tiruno: The Holzschuher War Machines Revisited” Suzanne Karr Schmidt (The Newberry) “Making Time and Space: Collecting Early Modern Printed Instruments” E.R.Truitt (Bryn Mawr College) “The Necessity of Invention: Roger Bacon’s Speculative Technology” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.