Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Series dates:
Tuesdays at 5.00pm
Series venues:
Hovenden Room
Series Convenor:
Philip Beeley, Christopher Hollings and Benjamin Wardhaugh

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Events in this series

Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences - When was cosmology? The curious history of a disciplinary category, c.1600–c.1730
21st January 2020 5:00pm
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Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences - Unity and diversity of practical geometry in sixteenth-century France
28th January 2020 5:00pm
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Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences - To G or not to G: J H Poynting and the gravitational constant in the nineteenth century
4th February 2020 5:00pm
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Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences - Proposals to move the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1836–1945
11th February 2020 5:00pm
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Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences - Mastering the Mint: Isaac Newton’s economic and numismatic work
18th February 2020 5:00pm
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Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences - How general relativity resonated with differential geometers
25th February 2020 5:00pm
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Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences - The “Galilean Sect”: Talented mathematicians, devoted disciples
3rd March 2020 5:00pm
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Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences - The puzzle of Brahmagupta’s quadrilaterals: Hankel’s reading of Colebrooke
10th March 2020 5:00pm
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