Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Series dates:
Tuesdays, 5.00 pm
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 - Mathematicians on board: introducing lunar distances to life at sea
15th January 2019 5:00pm
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Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences - Vitruvius in seventeenth-century Oxford: notes on the manuscript of the first English translation of the De architectura by Christopher Wase (1625–1690)
22nd January 2019 5:00pm
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Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences - “The instrument that excited the keenest interest”: Olaus Henrici’s harmonic analyser
29th January 2019 5:00pm
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Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences - Understanding the differential in Mary Somerville’s Theory of Differences
5th February 2019 5:00pm
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Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences - On the history of linear algebra: the emergence of a global discipline from local mathematical cultures
12th February 2019 5:00pm
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Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences - Bartel L. Van der Waerden: algebraic geometry, physics, statistics, and the ancient history of science
19th February 2019 5:00pm
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Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences - Inventing accuracy in Giovanni Domenico Cassini’s Paris Observatory: an analysis of a sample of letters (1667–1712)
26th February 2019 5:00pm
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Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences - The Second Quantification of Physics, c. 1830–1900
5th March 2019 5:00pm
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