Mathematical Teachers in the Early Modern World: A Workshop
Note that the workshop will be in-person only. Participation is free of charge, but those wishing to attend are requested to register with the organizer, Benjamin Wardhaugh (benjamin.wardhaugh@history.ox.ac.uk).
Programme
Thursday 17 December
Registration: from 9.30am.
10.00am Matthew Landrus (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Teaching applied mathematics at the end of the fifteenth century
10.45am Coffee
11.15am Stefano Gulizia (Università degli studi di Milano)
Euclid in Early Qing China: Translation, Accommodation, Teamwork
12.00 noon Will Poole (New College, Oxford)
Edmund Chilmead (1610–1654): between Ancient theory and Modern practice
12.45pm Lunch (not provided)
2.45pm Louisiane Ferlier (Royal Society)
An ‘enthusiastical’ teacher of mathematics: George Keith
(1639–1716)
3.30pm Tea
4.00–4.45pm Catherine Goldstein (CNRS, IMJ-PRG, SU, UPC)
Teaching Arithmetic in Early Modern France: Jacques de Billy and Jean Prestet
4.45–5.30pm Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
Tall Ships, Tobacco, and the Clyde. The Greenock Teacher of Mathematics John Watt (1694-1737) and his Professional Milieus.
7.00 for 7.30pm Conference dinner (location TBC)
Friday 18 December
10.00am Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)
Mathematics under the tuition of Elizabeth Beane
10.45am Coffee
11.15am Davide Crippa (Czech Academy of Sciences)
Teachers in Early Modern Padua: Giovanni Poleni Pubblico Professore di Matematica
12.00 noon Olivier Bruneau (Université de Lorraine and Archives Poincaré)
The different facets of Maclaurin as a teacher: Maclaurin, the multi-talented teacher
12.45pm Lunch (not provided)
2.45pm Philippe Schmid (Universität Basel)
Collecting the Teacher: Mathematical Textbooks and Early Modern Heritage Making
3.30pm Tea
4.00–4.45pm Rebekah Higgitt (National Museums Scotland)
Advertising, networks and patronage: the mathematical career of Andrew Mackay
The conference organisers are grateful for financial support from the AHRC (grant number UKRI4383) and for practical support from the staff of the Queen’s College and the Faculty of History, University of Oxford.