#  Isaac Newton at University: A Remarkable New Source, and a New Vision of Late 17th-Century Intellectual Culture 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 28, 2026** 

 03:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **New Location: Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall 110, Harvard Yard**  



 

 



 

Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in the History of the Book and by the Dept of History of Science, Harvard

Speaker: **Dmitri Levitin** (All Souls College, Oxford)

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Abstract:  
This talk focusses on the recently discovered notebook of Isaac Newton’s  
university roommate of more than twenty years, John Wickins, which is being  
edited for publication by Dmitri Levitin and Scott Mandelbrote. The notebook  
contains remarkable new information about Newton’s university life, his  
collaboration with Wickins, and the way in which his institutional setting  
stimulated his religious heterodoxy. More broadly, it allows a broader discussion  
of—and new perspective on—the nature of intellectual culture in the late  
seventeenth century, one which focusses on institutions of higher education,  
social mobility, and homosociability more than on gentlemanly culture and  
fledging and precarious enterprises such as the Royal Society.



 

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