THOMAS HARRIOT SEMINAR 2012

This is a reminder about the 2012 Thomas Harriot Seminar, to be held 15-17 December at Durham Castle. You are advised to register as soon as possible. Please pass this on to anybody you think might be interested in attending.

PROGRAMME

“The Early Modern Engineer’s Nature” – Matteo Valleriani (Max Planck Institute/University of Berlin)

“The Shadow of Night Illuminated: Harriot, Chapman and the Northumberland Circle” Makiko Okamura (Kyoto Prefectural University of Japan)

“Polyhedral Mysteries in the Renaissance” – Philip Sanders (University of Reading)

“Renaissance Cosmography” – Adam Mosley (University of Swansea)

“Craft in sixteenth-century Astronomy and Cosmography” – Jim Bennett (Museum of History of Science, University of Oxford)

“Ingenuity in the Gallery” – Alexander Marr (University of Cambridge)

“Hidden Images Revealed on Harriot’s Map of Virginia” – Brent Lane (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina)

“The Place of Optics in Harriot’s Scientific Researches” – Robert Goulding (University of Notre Dame).

To register please download a copy of the registration form from the Thomas Harriot Seminar website: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-research/research_seminars/thomas-harriot-seminar

For more information contact the Vice Chairman of the seminar, Dr Stephen Clucas: [log in to unmask]

Dr Stephen Clucas,

Editor, Intellectual History Review

Reader in Early Modern Intellectual History,

English and Humanities,

Birkbeck, University of London,

Malet Street,

London, WC1E 7HX

Tel: 020 3073 8421