BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Isaac Newton at University: A Remarkable New Source, and a New Vision of Late 17th-Century Intellectual Culture PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_1936501_0 SUMMARY:Isaac Newton at University: A Remarkable New Source, and a New Vision of Late 17th-Century Intellectual Culture DESCRIPTION:

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)

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.

LOCATION:New Location: Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall 110, Harvard Yard STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20260428T190000Z DTEND:20260429T035859Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR