The Reception of Newton:
An international conference at the
Edward Worth Library, Dublin
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Thursday 12 July
9.00am-9.30am: Registration.
9.30am-9.40am: Welcome.
9.40am-10.30am: Keynote:
Prof. Mordechai Feingold (Caltech): ‘Newton a Heretic? Some Eighteenth-Century Perceptions’.
10.30-11.00am: Coffee/Tea
11.00am-12.30pm: Reading Newton:
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:
Prof. Michael Nauenberg (University of California, Santa Cruz):  ‘Teaching Newton’s Natural Philosophy in the 18th century’.
Dr Gerhard Wiesenfeldt (Universityof 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:
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:
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:
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:
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: 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 essentialand we would be grateful if you could reserve your place by Thursday 5 July 2012.
To book a place: please e-mail eaboran@tcd.ieor phone 01 635 2215.
To pay: Please send a cheque to:
‘Newton Conference’,
The Edward Worth Library,
Dr Steevens’ Hospital,
Dublin8.
Cheques should be made payable to the ‘Trustees of the Edward Worth Library’.
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