People
Jimena Canales
Assistant Professor of the History of Science
Publications:
For the final version of the following articles, please refer to the originals in print. The copyright for these texts is with the publisher. Please contact the publisher for any use other than private reading.
- “Sensational Differences: The Case of the Transit of Venus,” Cahiers François
Viète 11-12 (2007): 15-40. - “Contacto Celestial: Un Instante en la Ciencia,” In Variedad Sin Límites: Las Representaciones en la Ciencia, edited by Edna Suárez Díaz, (México: UNAM and Limusa, forthcoming).
- “Movement before Cinematography: The High-Speed Qualities of Sentiment,”
Journal of Visual Culture 5 (2006): 275-294. - “Review of Arnaud Maillet, The Claude Glass: Use and Meaning of the Black Mirror in Western Art,” Isis (2006): 149-150.
- “Einstein, Bergson, and the Experiment that Failed: Intellectual Cooperation at the League of Nations,” Modern Language Notes 120 (2005): 1168-1191.
- “Criminal Skins: Tattoos and Modern Architecture in the work of Adolf Loos,” Architectural History: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 48 (2005): 235-256.
- “Photogenic Venus: The 'Cinematographic Turn' in Science and its Alternatives,” Isis 93 (2002): 585-613.
- “Ornamento y Crimen: Tatuajes, Antropología Criminal, y Arquitectura Moderna,” Celeste (2001): 30-32.
- “Exit the Frog, Enter the Human: Astronomy, Physiology and Experimental
Psychology in the Nineteenth Century,” British Journal for the History of
Science 34 (2001): 173-197. - “The Single Eye: Reevaluating Ancien Régime Science,” History of Science
39 (2001): 71-94.
Conferences
Ongoing Projects
Working Groups
- History of the Physical Sciences
- Literature, Science, & the Media
Contact
- Email: canales@fas.harvard.edu
- Phone: (617) 495-3550
Classes
- HS 97: Tutorial - Sophomore Year
- HS 126: The Matter of Fact: Physics in the Modern Age
- HS 182: Science, Modernity, and Discontent
