The next event in our regular series of events on Tuesdays in Second Life will be a presentation and discussion with Dr Patricia Fara, Senior Tutor of Clare College, Cambridge.

How do you fit 4000 years of science into 400 pages? Historians of science call this the Big Picture problem, and now Patricia Fara has provided the first ever solution – Science: A Four Thousand Year History (Oxford University Press). In this talk, she discusses three of the Big Questions she had to confront while she was writing her book – When did science begin? Who did science? How does science change? Some of her answers may be unexpected.

Patricia Fara has a degree in physics from Oxford, and a PhD in History of Science from London. She spent fifteen years as Educational Director of an international audiovisual publishing company before moving to Cambridge University, where she lectures in the History and Philosophy of Science Department and is the Senior Tutor of Clare College. Her major research speciality is eighteenth-century England, but she has published a range of academic and popular books on the history of science.

Dr Fara will be Nature Publishing Group’s guest in Second Life on Tuesday 30th June at 10am PDT where she will talk about her work and take questions from the audience. All very welcome!

Title: Science: A 4000 Year History
Date: Tuesday 30th June, 10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm BST
Speaker: Dr Patricia Fara, Clare College, Cambridge
Location: Nature Amphitheatre, Second Life
Contact: Joanna Wombat / j.scott@nature.com