University of Wisconsin-Madison
*Mellon/White Science & Print Culture Workshop*

Alternative science & the occult in print culture: From the holdings  
of Special Collections
Introduction by  Ronald Numbers, Hilldale Professor of the History of  
Science and Medicine
Departments of Medical History & Bioethics and History of Science

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 @ 4:00 pm
Special Collections (984 Memorial Library)

This session in Special Collections (984 Memorial Library) affords us  
the opportunity to examine 19th- and 20th-century titles from the  
Science and Religion Collection (gift of Prof. Numbers) and the  
Schadewald Collection on Pseudo-Science, as well as early printed  
books of secrets and treatises on the philosopher's stone from the  
Duveen Alchemy and Chemistry Collection. Professor Ronald Numbers  
will speak on some highlights in these collections as a way of  
introducing us to the print cultures of alternative and occult  
science. For location and directions, see http:// 
specialcollections.library.wisc.edu/location.html.

For more information about the Mellon/White Science and Print Culture  
Workshop's events, see
http://www.humanities.wisc.edu/programs/mellon-workshops/science-and- 
print-culture/events.html.

This program is part of the A.W. Mellon/Helen C. White  
Interdisciplinary Workshops in the Humanities, sponsored by the  
Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison with support from the A.W.  
Mellon Foundation and the College of Letters and Science.