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Devices of Enlightenment: A Literary History of Technology
Location:

Sanders Classroom, Spitzer Auditorium (Room 212)

Tita Chico, University of Maryland Professor of English, will discuss the literary history of 18th-century technology.

This event is open to the public.

Sponsored by the English Department.

An 18th-century astronomical diagram depicting the Sun at the center, with the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
Image from Conversations on the plurality of worlds, by Monsieur Fontenelle (1715)