Two days of dynamic discussions on all aspects of ‘Reading Euclid in the Early Modern World’! Many thanks to all our participants for making our second workshop such an engaging event.
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Digital Approaches to the History of Science, the first of two planned workshops on this topic, was held at the History Faculty in Oxford on 28 September 2018. A total of nearly sixty attendees assembled to hear presentations from a selection of the most exciting current projects in this field from around the UK. Professor Rob Iliffe, representing the Newton Project, addressed the ongoing challenges and complexity of digitizing and presenting the manuscript writings of Isaac Newton, and Alison Pearn spoke of the related issues faced by the digital side of the ongoing Darwin Correspondence project. Lauren Kassell, of the Casebooks Project, introduced a very different type of material and spoke of the need to find new ways of representing, encoding and searching the mass of information contained in early modern medical-astrological casebooks.

After lunch two speakers discussed from complementary perspectives the opportunities represented by the very rich archive of the Royal Society. Louisiane Ferlier discussed the digitization of Royal Society journals and the work needed to clean and link the metadata about the articles in them. Pierpaolo Dondio described his work modelling and visualising the network of authors, editors and referees who controlled the content of those papers, and provided examples of the kinds of research outcomes such work can produce. A final talk turned to the use of digital humanities resources in the university classroom: Kathryn Eccles and Howard Hotson described the Cabinet project, which has made a rich ecology of digital images and objects available to students on a growing list of Oxford undergraduate papers.

Rich discussions took place both around the individual presentations and over lunch and coffee, and this sell-out event has certainly stimulated interest and ongoing discussion about the distinctive opportunities for history of science created by digital scholarship and resources. The event was supported by the Centre for Digital Scholarship (Oxford), ‘Reading Euclid’, the Royal Society and the Newton Project, and was organised jointly by the Centre for Digital Scholarship and ‘Reading Euclid‘.

Many thanks to all the participants — we are already looking forward to the next workshop!

Our second workshop, ‘Reading Euclid in the Early Modern World’, will take place 14 – 15 December 2017 at All Souls College, Oxford. The preliminary programme and abstracts are now available at http://readingeuclid.org/events/workshop-ii/.

We are happy to be co-organisers of the ‘Digital Approaches to the History of Science’ pair of one-day workshops that will showcase and explore some of the work currently being done at the intersection of digital scholarship and the history of science.

More information at http://readingeuclid.org/events/digital-approaches-to-the-history-of-science/.

We have just posted the call for papers for our second workshop ‘Reading Euclid in the early modern world’ to take place on 14 and 15 December 2017 (Thursday and Friday) at All Souls College, Oxford. Proposals are due 1 August.
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After two full days of compelling papers on all aspects of mathematical teaching in the early modern world, we have wrapped up our first project workshop. We thank all the participants for making it such a lively and engaging event!
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