Oxford’s Sedleian Professors of Natural Philosophy: The First 400 Years

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CONFERENCE

Oxford’s Sedleian Professors of Natural Philosophy: The First 400 Years

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 Saturday 18 June 2022

 9.45am–2pm

  Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, Weston Library

  Free event, booking required

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About the event 

The Sedleian Professorship of Natural Philosophy, founded in 1619, is one of Oxford's oldest Chairs. In its first century, it was held by a sequence of physicians, and then passed into the hands of theologians whose credentials in natural philosophy are unclear. After being held by an astronomer in the late eighteenth century, the professorship passed into the hands of applied mathematicians, with whom it has remained ever since.

This day of short talks, by the contributors to a forthcoming Oxford University Press book on the history of the Sedleian Chair, will tell the story of the professors from the seventeenth century through to the twentieth.

Picture credit: David Fisher

 Speakers 

For full details of the programme visit the British Society for the History of Mathematics website

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to the British Society for the History of Mathematics and to the London Mathematical Society for their generous funding of this event.

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