The confirmed speakers are Philip Beeley, Elizabeth Biggs, Agnes Gehbald, Stefano Gulizia, Boris Jardine, Matthew Landrus, Ian Maclean, Yelda Nasifoglu, Renae Satterley, Tabitha Tuckett, Nick Wilding.
Places are available for observers; attendance fee is £40 (including dinner). Unfortunately accommodation cannot be provided for observers. To reserve a place, or for any enquiries, please contact benjamin.wardhaugh@all-souls.ox.ac.uk.
Call for Papers:
The mathematical book trade in the early modern world
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Mathematical books were a distinct specialism for certain early modern print shops, and they were of special interest to certain readers and institutions. Mathematical tables, geometrical diagrams and the new algebraic notation made for a distinct appearance on the page and, for many of those involved in their production and use, a distinct class of book. Primers, textbooks and practical manuals as well as new editions of the mathematical classics and works containing new mathematics issued from the presses in large numbers and were purchased, collected, used, and in many cases re-sold, sometimes repeatedly. In what ways was the advertisement, sale and subsequent re-circulation of mathematical books distinctive? What was the place of mathematical books in the activity of book collectors and connoisseurs? Were there distinctive issues in respect of pricing or of re-use of mathematical print? How did the actual use of mathematical books relate to the stratification of the market attempted by some producers and sellers of those books? These issues are the subject of this two-day workshop, to be held in All Souls College, Oxford.
Confirmed speakers:
Philip Beeley
Ian Maclean
Yelda Nasifoglu
Renae Satterley
Tabitha Tuckett
Nick Wilding
Proposals for papers are invited on, but not confined to, the following subject areas:
-Prices, print runs and advertisement for mathematical books
-Collectors and early modern collections of mathematical books
-Mathematical books as objects of prestige and display
-The trade in second-hand mathematical books
Proposals for papers should include an abstract of no more than 250 words and a brief CV, and should be emailed to benjamin.wardhaugh@history.ox.ac.uk by 15 September 2019. The conference can contribute to travel costs for speakers.
We are happy to be co-organisers of the conference ‘Reading the Classics of Science: historical and anthropological perspectives’ with the ‘SAW: Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World’ project and Maison Française d’Oxford. For more information, see http://readingeuclid.org/events/conference/.
The website of the ‘Seeing Euclid’ networked exhibition is now online! Visit seeingeuclid.org for more information and a map of the participating locations.
Our display of Euclidean texts and artefacts is now open at Blackwell Hall, Weston Library, and will be on view until 15 July 2018. For more information, see the webpage of the display on the ‘Seeing Euclid’ exhibition website.
We are happy to announce a series of public lectures tying in with the ‘Seeing Euclid’ display. The lectures will start at 7pm on Wednesdays through the month of June, and take place in Lecture Theatre 3 (lower floor) at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford (Andrew Wiles Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG).
6 June: Jeremy Gray (The Open University)
“Non-Euclidean geometry and the historian of mathematics”
Preparations are under way for the launch of ‘Seeing Euclid’ exhibition website on 19 May! Expect to see pop-up displays of Euclidean texts all over Britain and Ireland this summer.
We now have the programme for the second workshop of Digital Approaches to the History of Science, due to take place at the History Faculty, University of Oxford, on 23 March 2018, Friday:
Registration is now open for the second Digital Approaches to the History of Science Workshop, which will take place at the History Faculty, University of Oxford, on 23 March 2018 (9:30 to 17:00) .
Confirmed speakers include:
Richard Dunn: the Board of Longitude Project
Christy Henshaw: the Wellcome Collection
Miranda Lewis, Howard Hotson, Arno Bosse: Cultures of Knowledge
Image: René Descartes, Principia philosophiae (Amsterdam, 1644), ‘Cartesian network of vortices of celestial motion’, p. 110. Bodleian Library Savile T 22. Edited in Photoshop by Yelda Nasifoglu.
We shall announce further details soon, but please save the date for workshop 2 on the ‘Digital Approaches to the History of Science’: 23 March 2018 at the History Faculty, University of Oxford.
Euclid's Elements of Geometry in Early Modern Britain and Ireland
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