ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD
2016 THOMAS HARRIOT LECTURE
The 2016 Thomas Harriot Lecture will be given at 5 pm on Wednesday 1 June in the Champneys Room, Oriel College, Oxford
Dr Beeley’s lecture will be entitled “Our learned countryman – Thomas Harriot and the emergence of mathematical community in seventeenth century England”
The lecture will be followed by an informal drinks reception, also in the Champneys Room, at 6 pm. After drinks, there will be an opportunity of visiting Oriel’s Senior Library, with the college librarian, Mrs Marjory Szurko.
Dr Beeley has provided the following summary of his lecture:
Thomas Harriot's considerable legacy as a mathematical scientist was secured for over 350 years posthumously and inaccurately by his friend Walter Warner, who not least because of the many flaws in Artis analyticae praxis (1631) has been treated rather scathingly by historians ever since. But who was Warner and how did he and other members of Harriot's circle such as Nathaniel Torporley and Robert Hues contribute to his contemporary image and archival memory? The lecture will turn the spotlight on Harriot's friends and, drawing on previously unpublished material, consider the role they helped to create the man seen by some as a talisman-like figure in England's fledgling mathematical community in the second half of the seventeenth century.
All welcome. For further details, please contact Mrs Rebecca Bricklebank at Oriel ([log in to unmask]) or Professor Robert Fox ([log in to unmask])
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