Lecture on book forgery

Bibliography Week Lecture
"The History of Material Forgery"
The New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
New York NY 10029
Saturday, January 24, 2015
1 am - 12:30 pm

Recent forgeries of early modern books using photopolymer plates
have attained a high level of sophistication.  This talk will
examine the technological, intellectual, and material aspects of
book forgery, looking especially at efforts to create convincing
artifacts, rather than merely forge texts.

About the Speaker: Nick Wilding is Associate Professor of History at
Georgia State University.  He received his BA in English from Oxford
University, his MA in Renaissance Studies at Warwick, and his PhD
from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.  He has
held postdoctoral positions at Stanford University, Cambridge
University, Columbia University, and the American Academy in Rome.
Specializing in early modern history of science and communication,
he has worked on two projects bringing archival resources to the
internet: the Athanasius Kircher Correspondence Project and the
Medici Archive Project.  His first book, Galileo's Idol:
Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge, was published
in September 2014 by the University of Chicago Press.  Wilding has
also been commissioned by Penguin Classics to produce a new
translation of Galile's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems.  He
has written book reviews for, among others, Isis, Annals of Science,
The Journal of Modern History, and the London Review of Books.

The event is free and open to the public; advance registration is
requested.  To register for this event, please see

    <URL:http://support.nyam.org/site/Calendar?id=105461&view=Detail>

Erin Albritton
Head of Conservation
Gladys Brooks Book and Paper Conservation Lab
The New York Academy of Medicine


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