Reception of Newton conference programme
The
Reception of Newton:
An
international conference at the
Edward
Worth Library, Dublin
Thursday 12 July:
9.00am-9.30am: Registration.
9.30am-9.40am: Welcome.
9.40am-10.30am: Keynote: Chaired by Professor William R.
Newman (Indiana University).
Prof. Mordechai Feingold (Caltech): ‘Newton
a Heretic? Some Eighteenth-Century Perceptions’.
10.30-11.00am: Coffee/Tea
11.00am-12.30pm: Reading
Newton: Chaired by
Dr Elizabethanne Boran (Edward Worth Library, Dublin).
Prof. Steffen Ducheyne (Vrije
Universiteit Brussel): ‘Qui caste hanc methodum sequitur’. W. J. ‘s Gravesande’s appropriation of Newton’s
methodology’.
Prof. Sarah Hutton (Aberystwyth
University): ‘Newton
for all: Elizabeth Carter’s translation of Algarotti and ‘popular’ Newtonianism
in the eighteenth century’.
Dr Luc Peterschmidt
(Université de Lille): ‘How did Berkeley
read Newton?’
12.30pm-2.00pm: Lunch.
2.00pm-3.30pm: Teaching Newton:
Chaired by Prof. Mordechai Feingold (Caltech)
Prof. Michael Nauenberg (University
of California, Santa
Cruz): ‘Teaching Newton’s Natural Philosophy in the 18th century’.
Dr Gerhard Wiesenfeldt (University
of Melbourne): ‘The Practical Tradition of Dutch
Newtonianism’.
Prof. Peeter Muürsepp (Tallinn
University of Technology): ‘Sven Dimberg and the Reception of Newton
at Tartu University’.
3.30pm-4.00pm: Coffee/Tea
4.00-5.00pm: Newton in Germany:
Chaired by Professor Sarah Hutton (Aberystwyth
University)
Dr Thomas Ahnert (University
of Edinburgh): ‘The Reception of Newton
in the German Lands: Eclecticism and Metaphysics’.
Dr Marius Stan (Caltech): ‘Newton’s
Foundations of Mechanics in Post-Leibnizian Germany’.
Friday 13 July
9.00am-10.30am: Newton in Ireland:
Chaired by Dr Patrick Kelly, Fellow emeritus,
TCD.
Mr Macdara Dwyer (King’s
College, London): ‘The most celebrated
antiquarian of the present or any age’: Newton’s
Reputation and an Irish Antiquarian Dispute’.
Prof. Robert Batchelor (Georgia
Southern University): ‘Time, Perception and Data: Rethinking the Reception of Newtonianism in
Early Eighteenth-century Ireland’.
Dr Anna Marie Roos (University
of Oxford): ‘Bryan Robinson (1680-1754), Respiratory
Theories, and the Atmospheric Acids of Sir Isaac Newton’.
10.30am-11.00am: Coffee/Tea
11.00am-12.30: Newton in Southern Europe: Chaired by Professor Michael Hunter (Birkbeck, London)
Ms Claudia Addabbo (University
of Pisa): ‘Philosophiae naturalis principia
mathematica in Naples’.
Dr Lorenzo Santoro (Università
della Calabria): ‘Newton
and Italian Jacobinism: Politics and Science on the eve of a new era’.
Dr Juan Navarro-Loidi (independent scholar): ‘Newton
and the Spanish gunners’.
12.30-2.00pm: Lunch.
2.00pm-3.30pm: Newton and the Disciplines: Chaired by
Professor Antonio Clericuzio (Università di Cassino).
Dr Scott Mandelbrote (Peterhouse
College, Cambridge):
‘The Legacy
of Newton’s Theology.’
Prof. Robert Iliffe (University
of Sussex):
‘Jean-Baptiste Biot and David Brewster: a dialogue in science and history of
science, 1815-60’.
Professor Lawrence Principe (Johns
Hopkins University): ‘Continental Responses to Newtonian
Chemistry, Real and Imagined’.
3.30pm-4.00pm: Coffee/Tea
4.00-5.00pm: Keynote: Chaired by Professor Lawrence
Principe (Johns Hopkins
University).
Professor Willliam R. Newman (Indiana
University) ‘A
New Look at Newton’s
Alchemy’.
Reception in Worth Library.
Registration for ‘Reception of Newton’
conference on
12 and 13 July 2012.
€50, Standard rate: includes teas/coffees, lunches, and
reception
€20, Student, OAP, unwaged, rate: includes teas/coffees,
lunches, and reception.
Booking in advance is essential and we would be grateful if you could
reserve your place by Thursday 5
July 2012.
To book a place:
please e-mail eaboran@tcd.ie
or phone 00353 1 635 2215.
To pay: Please send a cheque to:
‘Newton
Conference’,
The Edward Worth Library,
Dr Steevens’ Hospital,
Dublin
8.
Cheques should be made payable
to the ‘Trustees of the Edward Worth Library’.
We would be grateful if you
would include the following information with your cheque:
Name: ....................................................................................................
Institution: ....................................................................................................
Address: ....................................................................................................
....................................................................................................
Email: ....................................................................................................
Rate: (i.e. Standard or Student) …………………………………………
Payment in cash may also be made on the day but only if registration has
taken place by Thursday 5 July.
Receipts will be provided
during registration.
Dr Elizabethanne Boran,
Librarian,
The Edward Worth Library (1733),
Dr Steevens' Hospital,
Dublin 8,
Ireland.
Tel: 00 353 1 635 2215.
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