"Science in the Civilization of the Renaissance" is the subject of meetings at the University Friday and Saturday. The public sessions represent the 13th annual New England Conference on Renaissance Studies under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies.

The lecture topics include: "The Elusiveness of Paracelsus," "The Revival of Claudius Ptolemy," and "Theories of Generation in the Renaissance."

Members of the University faculty speaking during the conference are I. Bernard Cohen '37, associate professor of General Education and the History of Science; Arnolfo B. Ferrnolo, assistant professor of Romance Languages and Literature; John P. Coolidge '35, associate professor of Fine Arts and Director of the Fogg Art Museum; and Sharles S. Singleton, professor of Romance Languages and Literature.

Also participating are Owsel Temkin of Johns Hopkins University. Lloyd Brown of the Peabody Institute Library, Conway Zirkle of the University of Pennsylvania, and Erwin Panovsky of the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey.

Addresses during the weekend conference are scheduled in the Alston Bur Lecture Hall, and there will be special exhibitions concurrently in Fogg Art Museum and the Houghton Library, Registration time is 9 a.m. Friday at Fogg; the first session will begin at 2:30 p.m. that afternoon at the Burr Lecture Hall.