People
Jimena Canales
Associate 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.
Book:
- A Tenth of a Second: A History (Chicago: Chicago University Press, October 2009).
Articles, Essays and Reviews:
- “Desired Machines: Cinema and the World in its Own Image,” Science in Context (forthcoming).
- “A Number of Scenes in a Badly Cut Film’: Observation in the Age of Strobe.” In Histories of Scientific Observation, ed. Lorraine Daston and Elizabeth Lunbeck (forthcoming).
- “Review of Chris Otter, The Victorian Eye: A Political History of Light and Vision in Britain, 1800–1910,” British Journal for the History of Science 42 (June 2009), pp. 305-306
- "Review of Françoise Launay’s Un Globe-Trotter de la Physique Céleste: L’Astronome Jules Janssen,” Journal for the History of Astronomy 40 (2009), pp. 233-235
- “Die Geschwindigkeit des Empfindens: Philosophie im Zeitalter der Bewegungstechnologien.” In Parasiten und Sirenen, ed. By Bernhard J. Dotzler and Henning Schmidgen (Transcript: Bielefeld, 2008), pp. 83-106.
- “Pieles Criminales,” ABCD: Las Artes y las Letras (13-19 September 2008), pp. 6-7.
- “Introduction.” In The Matter of Fact (Exhibition Catalog Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, 2008), pp. 2-3.
- “Einstein, Bergson, and the Experiment that Failed: Intellectual Cooperation at the League of Nations,” Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, ed. by Michal Kokowski (The Press of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2007), 723-724
- “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.
- “Cultures of Astronomy,” In Time, Life and Matter (Exhibition Catalog Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, 2007, p. 7.
- “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 Organized
- North South Passage
- Science & Literature
Conferences Participated
Ongoing Projects
Working Groups
- History of the Physical Sciences
- Literature, Science, & the Media
Education Reviews
- Sophomore Tutorial, Harvard Crimson
- The Matter of Fact, Harvard Divinity School Online
Contact
- Email: canales@fas.harvard.edu
- Phone: (617) 495-3550
Classes
- HS 97: Tutorial - Sophomore Year
- HS 182: Science, Modernity, and Discontent
- HS 126: The Matter of Fact: Physics in the Modern Age
- HS 251. Whither History of Science?
