Thomas Harriot Seminar 2015 - Durham 6-7 July
THOMAS HARRIOT SEMINAR 2015
Durham Castle, University of Durham, 6-7 July 2015
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, the new world, astronomy, natural philosophy, alchemy, optics,
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
Richard
Oosterhoff (CRASSH University of Cambridge) “Gabriel Harvey and
the utility of mathematics”
Robert
Goulding (University of Notre Dame), “Through a glass, darkly:
shadows, light, and prismatic colours.”
Glyn
Parry (University of Roehampton), “The Ordeal of Thomas
Digges”
Cathy
France (University of Leeds), “Thomas Digges and the
ballistic trajectory”
Stephen
Johnston (Museum of the History of Science, Oxford), “Edward
Wright at Sea – Detected and Corrected”.
David
Harris Sacks (Reed College, Oregon), “Learning to Know: Richard
Hakluyt and Thomas Harriot in Oxford.”
Todd
Andrew Borlik (University of Huddersfield), “John Dee’s ‘Hydragogie’
and Fen Drainage in the Seventeenth Century”
Susan
Maxwell (Independent Scholar), “Preparing for
circumnavigation: Thomas Cavendish and Francis Drake”
Registration
fee: £95 (includes accommodation at the Castle, drinks reception, conference
dinner in the Great Hall on the 6th and buffet lunch on the 7th).
Non-residential fee (without dinner and lunch): £35. Two bursaries are
available for MA or PhD students, covering residential registration (if you
would like to apply for one of these, please email the Chairman explaining why
attending the seminar would be useful to your research). To register please
email the Chairman Dr Stephen Clucas at s.clucas@bbk.ac.uk
(NB
bookings must be made before Friday 12 June).
Dr Stephen Clucas
Editor, Intellectual
History Review
Reader in Early Modern
Intellectual History,
English and Humanities,
Birkbeck, Univesity of
London,
Malet Street,
London WC1E 7HX
Tel: 020 3073 8421