THOMAS HARRIOT SEMINAR, 2004.
The Thomas Harriot Seminar, held biennially at the University of
Durham, is devoted to the life and times of the Elizabethan
scientist and mathematician Thomas Harriot. This years's seminar will
be held at St John's College, 16-18 December. Speakers will include
Robert Goulding (Notre Dame) on the Harriot-Kepler correspondence,
Stephen Pumfrey (University of Lancaster), on Thomas Harriot and
scientific patronage, Nicholas Popper (Princeton) on Magic and
Natural Philosophy in Walter Raleigh's History of the World', Harriet
Knight on Francis Bacon and notebook culture in the seventeenth
century.
For more information and details about registration please
contact Dr Stephen Clucas ([log in to unmask]).
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Dr Stephen Clucas
Senior Lecturer in English and Humanities
Birkbeck, University of London,
Malet Street, LONDON WC1E 7HX.
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