Artist & Historian
Upcoming Events
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry - Spring Meeting, 2026
University of Oxford - Maison Française
My talk will be on Lavoisier and diamond burning in the early 1770s and the beginning of reduction firing at the Sèvres Porcelain Maufactory over the same period.
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Burning Diamonds: Lavoisier, Guettard, and the 1771 Development of Reduction Firing and Hard-Paste Porcelain in Paris
HSS/ESHS Joint Conference
July 2026 - Edinburgh
My talk will be on Alexandre Brongniart, Georges Cuvier, Eteinne Geoffroy Hilaire, and the controvery over transformism and the practice of natural history.
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Brongniart, Cuvier, and Geoffroy: Rivalry, Friendship, and Debate in Early Nineteenth-Century Natural History
"...not theorising is an act. . . It takes considerable effort to see the facts (and remember them) while withholding judgment and resisting explanations."
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb,
The Black Swan
Past Events
Dr. Robert Peter and the Kentucky Geological Survey
Poster Presentation
15 MAY 2024
Kentucky Geological Survey 163rd Annual Seminar
Video Available on the
Kentucky Geological Survey
YouTube Channel!
This video is a recording of a working draft presentation of the talk, On Ancient Seas. It was presented to an audience of members of the staff of KGS, which includes geologists, researchers, archivists, and other stakeholders during one of the bi-weekly sessions of
the KGS Internal Seminar in Spring 2024.
On Ancient Seas:
Alexandre Brongniart and the Terrains of Paris
Presentation
31 MAY 2024
Kentucky Paleontological Society