(forwarded on behalf of Stephen Clucas. JA)
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THOMAS HARRIOT SEMINAR 2017
History of Early Modern Science and Mathematics. Maritime and New World History.
8-9 July, St John’s College, University of Durham
The Thomas Harriot Seminar celebrates the life and times of the mathematician Thomas Harriot (1560-1621), and welcomes papers on Harriot himself as well as on the history of mathematics and science in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century more generally. We particularly welcome papers on subjects of interest to Harriot, which included: pure and applied mathematics, natural philosophy, the new world, astronomy, optics, alchemy, occult philosophy, early modern linguistics, and the art of war. For more information about the Seminar please visit the Thomas Harriot Seminar website: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-research/research_seminars/thomas-harriot-seminar
This year’s seminar includes sessions on optics, statics, specific gravities and experiment, metallurgy in the New World, Humphrey Gilbert and the Royal Prerogative, Hakluyt and Sebastian Cabot, and magic as a political crime in Elizabethan England.
Please note that places are limited, so please register your interest as soon as possible (and no later than the 20 June) by emailing the Chairman, Dr Stephen Clucas at [log in to unmask]
PROGRAMME
Saturday 8 July 2017
14.00-15.00 REGISTRATION
15.00-17.00
Karin Amundsen (University of Southern California) “Meddling Metals: Metallurgy and the Foundations of the Virginia Colony, 1584-1624.”
Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London): “Ventilated questions: Nathaniel Torperley’s De pondere aquae.”
17.00-18.00 Drinks reception
18.00-19.30 Conference Dinner
20.00-21.00 Cesare Pastorino (Vossius Center, Amsterdam, and Technische Universität Berlin): “Reconstructing an Early Modern Experimental Tradition: the Discussion of Specific Gravities in Johannes Kepler’s Messekunst Archimedis.”
Sunday 9 July 2017
8.00-9.30 BREAKFAST
10.00-12.00
Rory Rapple (Notre Dame) “Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Conquest and the Royal Prerogative.”
Evan Jones (Bristol University) “Hakluyt, Carbonariis and the rediscovery of Cabot in the late sixteenth century.”
12.00-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-15.00
Francis Young (Catholic Record Society) “Magic as a political crime in Elizabethan England.”
15.00-15.30 TEA AND COFFEE
15.30-17.00
Robert Goulding (Notre Dame) “The birth of a physical law: Harriot’s path to refraction.”
17.00 End of Seminar.
Dr Stephen Clucas,
Editor, Intellectual History Review
Reader in Early Modern Intellectual History,
Birkbeck, University of London,
Malet Street,
London WC1E 7HX
Tel: 020 3073 8421