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Past Harriot Seminars

The regular Thomas Harriot Seminar is the headline event for this group and alternates between 糖心logo入口 and the University of Durham.

Thirteen seminars were held in Oxford at Trinity College between 1967 and 1983. Unfortunately no records are available for these meetings.

  • 糖心logo入口 2018

  • Durham 2017

    • : History of Early Modern Science and Mathematics. Maritime and New World History.

  • 糖心logo入口 2016

    • Angela Axworthy (Max Planck Institute Berlin): 'Conceptions of motion in geometrical definitions according to sixteenth-century commentators of Euclid.'
    • Eleanor Chan (St Catharine's College, Cambridge): 'The Kinesic Imagination in Early Modern Northern European Mathematics.'
    • Misha Ewen (University College London): 'Concern for the Fabric of Commonwealth: Tudor Concepts and Transportation to Virginia, c. 1606-1621.'
    • Lauren Working (University of Durham): 'Thomas Harriot's Virginia: Envisaging the Algonquian in the Jacobean Metropolis.'
    • James Christie (Warburg Institute): 'From Astrology to Aliens: A Shift in Early Modern Cosmology.'
    • Stephen Pumfrey (Lancaster University): 'How might a soul of the Earth act?'

  • Durham 2015

    • Richard Oosterhoff (CRASSH, University of Cambridge): 'Gabriel Harvey and the utility of mathematics'
    • Robert Goulding (Notre Dame University): 'Through a glass, darkly: shadows, light, and prismatic colours.'
    • Glyn Parry (Roehampton University): 'The Ordeal of Thomas Digges'
    • Cathy France (University of Leeds): 'Thomas Digges and the ballistic trajectory'
    • Stephen Johnston (Museum of the History of Science, Oxford): 'Edward Wright at Sea 鈥 Detected and Corrected.'
    • David Harris Sacks (Reed College, Oregon): 'Learning to Know: Richard Hakluyt and Thomas Harriot in Oxford.'
    • Todd Andrew Borlik (University of Hudderfield): 'John Dee鈥檚 鈥楬ydragogie鈥 and Fen Drainage in the Seventeenth Century'
    • Susan Maxwell (Independent scholar): 'Preparing for circumnavigation: Thomas Cavendish and Francis Drake'

  • 糖心logo入口 2014

    • Held on 11 July 2014.
    • Matthias Schemmel (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin): 鈥楪eometry in Flux: Thomas Harriot's Geometry of Motion鈥
    • Stephen Pumfrey (University of Lancaster): 鈥楢nnihilating the sublunary world: the background to William Gilbert鈥檚 revolutionary cosmos鈥.
    • Glyn Parry (University of Roehampton): 鈥楾homas Digges, Persecutor鈥.
    • Haileigh Robertson (University of York): 鈥楪unpowder Experiments in Early Modern Natural Philosophy.鈥
    • Fabrizio Bigotti (Warburg Institute): 鈥楧istillation and medicine in Italy at the age of Antonio de' Medici (1576-1621).鈥
    • James Everest (UCL): "That no due investigation has been made [.] may be considered an astonishing piece of negligence": Francis Bacon and the 'Form' of Light
    • Gavin Selerie: 'Harriot in Re-performance: a Poet's View.'

  • Durham 2012

    • Held at Durham Castle, 15-17 December.
    • Makiko Okamura (Kyoto Prefectural University of Japan): The Shadow of Night Illuminated: Knowledge in The Shadow of Night by George Chapman, a contemporary of Thomas Harriot
    • Matteo Valleriani (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin): The Early Modern Engineer's Nature
    • Philip Sanders (University of Reading): 'Polyhedral Mysteries in the Renaissance'
    • Adam Mosley (University of Swansea): 'Renaissance Cosmography'
    • Jim Bennett (Museum of History of Science University of Oxford): 'Craft in sixteenth-century Astronomy and Cosmography'
    • Alexander Marr (University of Cambridge): 'Ingenuity in the Gallery'
    • Robert Goulding (University of Notre Dame): 'The Place of Optics in Harriot's Scientific Researches'

  • Durham 2010

    • Held at Hatfield College, 16-18 December.
    • Harvey Sheldon (糖心logo入口, University of London): 'Archaeological work at Syon House'
    • Patrizia Grimaldi (University of Siena): 'The Magnetic Gesta Grayorum 1594-5'
    • Mark Nicholls (St John's College, Cambridge): 'The challenges of writing the biography of Sir Walter Raleigh'
    • Francesca Renzi (Florence): Presentation on her MA thesis on Thomas Harriot
    • Stephen Pumfrey (University of Lancaster): 'Lunar observation in the history of planetary astronomy'
    • Gordon Batho (University of Durham, Emeritus): 'George Percy: brother of the ninth Earl of Northumberland'
    • Mark Nicholls (St John's College, Cambridge): 'George Percy's "Trewe Relacyon" of the Jamestown Settlement'

  • Durham 2008

    • Held at St John's College, 18-20 December.
    • Jennifer Rampling (HPS, University of Cambridge): 'George Ripley and the Alchemy of Elizabethan England'
    • Stephen Johnston (Museum of the History of Science, Oxford): 'Thomas Digges and magnetism'.
    • Stephen Clucas (糖心logo入口, University of London): 'Atomism, mechanism and chymistry in the natural philosophy of Walter Warner.'
    • Professor Sir Arnold Wolfendale (Durham): 'A near contemporary of Harriot: Galileo Galilei.'
    • Jackie Stedall (University of Oxford): 'Thomas Harriot鈥檚 Magisteria magna.'
    • Cesare Pastorino (Indiana University): 'Francis Bacon and the mining entrepreneurs of the early Stuart period.'
    • Muriel Seltman (London): 'The significance of the Artis analyticae praxis (especially for non-mathematicians).'
    • Matthew Dimmock (University of Sussex): 'William Percy and Islam.'

  • Durham 2006

    • Held at St John's College, 18-20 December.
    • Ayesha Mukerjee (Trinity College, Cambridge): 鈥楧earth science 1580-1608: the writings of Hugh Plat.鈥
    • Robert Goulding (University of Notre Dame): 鈥Optical powers: Harriot on the efficacy of burning glasses鈥.
    • Pascal Briost (CSER, Tours): 鈥楾homas Harriot : Reader of Niccol貌 Tartaglia鈥
    • Stephen Clucas (糖心logo入口, University of London): 鈥 Thomas Harriot and Walter Warner on collisions: English mechanics in the early seventeenth century鈥
    • Stephen Pumfrey (Lancaster University): 鈥楾homas Harriot and William Gilbert on the Vacuum鈥
    • Jean-Jacques Brioist (Independent Scholar): 鈥楬arriot and Conics鈥
    • Peter J. Forshaw (糖心logo入口, University of London): 鈥楻itual Magic in Elizabethan England鈥

  • Durham 2004

    • Held at St John's College, 16-18 December.
    • Gordon R. Batho (University of Durham): 鈥楾he Library of the Ninth Earl鈥
    • Anna Beer(Faculty of Continuing Education, Oxford): 鈥楾homas Harriot and Lady Raleigh鈥
    • Juliet Fleming (Trinity Hall, Cambridge): 鈥楲ucretianism in the Harriot Circle鈥
    • Harriet Knight (Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, London): 鈥楶romus of Formularies and Elegancies: Francis Bacon and Seventeenth-Century Notebook Culture鈥.
    • Chloe Houston (糖心logo入口, University of London) 鈥楢n Idea for a Principality? The Eastern effect in Bacon鈥檚 New Atlantis鈥.
    • Nicholas Popper (Princeton University): 鈥楳agic and Natural Philosophy in Walter Raleigh鈥檚 History of the World鈥
    • Stephen Pumfrey (University of Lancaster): 鈥榃as Harriot the English Galileo? An answer from patronage Studies鈥

  • Durham 2002

    • Held at St John's College, 16-18 December.
    • David Wooton (Queen Mary and Westfield, University of London): 鈥楻eginald Scot and Tudor science鈥.
    • Matthias Schemmel (Max Planck Institut, Berlin): 鈥榃as Thomas Harriot an English Galileo? - Harriot鈥檚 Studies on Ballistics and the Fall of Bodies as an Example of Preclassical Mechanics鈥.
    • Rob Iliffe (Imperial College, London/Isaac Newton Project): 鈥楲ying Wonders and Juggling Tricks: Nature and Imposture in Early Modern England鈥.
    • Alexander Marr (New College Oxford): 鈥楶illars, pedagogy and Practice: the Mathematical Model of Sir Clement Edmondes鈥.
    • Patricia Brewerton (The Francis Bacon Project): 鈥楾imothy Bright鈥檚 Invention: the political and cultural significance of a new form of writing鈥.
    • Michael Booth (Brandeis University) 鈥楾homas Harriot鈥檚 mathematics and Algonquin linguistics鈥.
    • B. J. Sokol (Goldsmiths, University of London): 鈥楽hakesperean Sources in Obscure Continental European Publications鈥.

  • Durham 2000

    • Held at St John's College, 18-20 December.
    • Paul M. Hunneyball (History of Parliament): 鈥楽ir William Lower and the Harriot Circle鈥
    • Penny Bayer (University of Warwick): 鈥楲ady Margaret Clifford鈥檚 Alchemical receipt Book and the John Dee Circle鈥
    • M. Kennedy (Virginia): 鈥楬arriot鈥檚 Report on the New Found land 鈥 a printing and reception history鈥.
    • Pascal Brioist (CESR, Tours): 鈥楬arriot鈥檚 Optics鈥
    • Jacqueline Stedall (Open University): 鈥楬arriot's Algebra in the Seventeenth Century鈥.
    • Bill Engel (Nashville): 鈥楽ir Walter Raleigh's Cunning Terminus鈥.
    • Timothy J. Raylor (Carleton College, Minnesota): 鈥楬obbes, Warner and the Cavendish Circle鈥.
    • Michael Wilding (University of Sydney) 鈥楯ohn Dee and Edward Kelley鈥.

  • Cambridge 1999

    • Held at Homerton College, 13-15 September.
    • Robert Baldwin (London): 鈥楶roducing a Customised Atlas, 1587: A study of the practical links between Lord Burghley, Martin Frobisher, John Dee, Robert Norman, Thomas Harriot, John White, and the planning of a City procession for 1587鈥.
    • Deborah Harkness (University of California, Davis): 鈥楽cience in Harriot鈥檚 London鈥.
    • Karen Reeds (National Coalition for Independent Scholars, New Providence, NJ): 鈥楬erbals in Harriot鈥檚 Time鈥
    • Jim Reeds (AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ):鈥楬arriot鈥檚 Number and Letter Squares鈥
    • Eric Ash (Princeton University): 鈥楴avigation in Harriot鈥檚 Time鈥.
    • Eliane Glaser (糖心logo入口, University of London): 鈥楨lizabethan Anti-Semitism and Protestantism鈥.
    • David Loades (Oxford): 鈥楩oxe鈥檚 Book of Martyrs - John Foxe and 鈥淕entile Knowledge鈥濃.
    • Stephen Clucas (糖心logo入口, University of London): 鈥楬arriot鈥檚 Alchemy鈥.

  • Durham 1998

    • Held at St John's College, 14-16 December.
    • David Baldwin (The Chapel Royal, London): 鈥楾he Chapel Royal and London Theatres in Harriot鈥檚 Time鈥.
    • Richard Ovendon (National Library of Scotland): 鈥楲ord William Howard (1563-1640) as a Collector and Antiquary鈥.
    • A. D. Walker-Wraight (Marlowe Society) 鈥楽hakespeare: New Evidence鈥.
    • Moray McConnachie (St Hugh鈥檚 College, Oxford): 鈥楬arriot, Raleigh and the process of Time鈥.
    • Steven Walton (University of Toronto): 鈥楾homas Harriot鈥檚 Ballistics and English Renaissance Warfare鈥.
    • Penelope Gouk (UMIST): 鈥楳usical Models in Natural Philosophy in the Time of Harriot鈥.

  • Cambridge 1997

    • Held at Homerton College, 15-17 September.
    • Jenny Wilson (London): 鈥 Raleigh鈥檚 History of the World: its purpose and political significance鈥.
    • A. E. L. Davis (Imperial College, London): 鈥楰epler the ultimate Aristotelian鈥.
    • Gerard L'E Turner (Oxford): 鈥楺ueen Elizabeth鈥檚 Instrument Makers鈥.
    • E. Thomson Shields (Roanoke Colonies Research Office/East Carolina University): 鈥楥onquistadors and Englishmen: Tragedy and Apology in Spanish and English Exploration Narratives of North America鈥.
    • Peter Nockolds (Independent Scholar) 鈥楨choes of Roanoke in Shakespeare鈥.
    • Ivor Grattan-Guiness (Middlesex): The Harriot-Descartes Rule of Signs: background and influence.鈥
    • A. D. Burnett (University of Durham): 鈥楤acon鈥檚 Instauratio Magna: the engraved title page, an icon amd paradigm of science and its wider implications鈥.
    • B. J. Sokol (Goldsmiths, University of London): 鈥楥ornelius Drebbel, Jamestown and The Tempest鈥.
    • Alan Stewart (糖心logo入口, University of London): 鈥楾he Collaborations of Francis Bacon鈥.

  • Durham 1996

    • Held at St John's College, 16-18 December.
    • Nina Taunton (Brunel University, London): 鈥榃atching the Watch: Surveillance of the camp in Sixteenth-Century Discourses of War鈥.
    • Anita McConnell (Buckingham): 鈥楾he Moon through Glasse: Practical Optics in Harriot鈥檚 Day鈥.
    • Rosalind Davies (London): 鈥楾he Politics of Reconnaissance: The Raleigh-Sanderson Lawsuit (1611-1613) and the Guiana Voyage鈥.
    • Joan Kenworthy (Durham): 鈥楻ichard Madox and Meterology in Harriot's day: a study of Elizabethan Observation and Experience in Tropical Latitudes鈥.
    • Gareth Roberts (University of Exeter): 鈥楾he Language of Alchemy鈥.
    • Stephen Clucas (糖心logo入口, University of London): 鈥楴ewly Discovered Walter Warner Papers鈥.

  • Durham 1995

    • Held at St John's College, 18-20 December.
    • Robert Goulding (Warburg Institute): 鈥楧ee, Digges and Saville鈥.
    • V. Bialas (Munich): 鈥楰epler鈥檚 notebook on the Astronomia Nova鈥.
    • Urszula Szulakowska (Bretton Hall, Leeds): 鈥楯ohn Dee and European Alchemy鈥.
    • Alistair Crombie (Oxford): 鈥楪alileo and the Visual and Musical Arts鈥 (presented on Professor Crombie鈥檚 behalf by Stephen Clucas)
    • Sue Maxwell (Durham): 鈥楾he first Virginia voyages: the Cavendish connection鈥.
    • Cliff Forshaw (Wolfson College, Oxford): 鈥楽atyrs and Wild Men: representations in art And literature in Harriot鈥檚 time鈥.

  • Cambridge 1994

    • Held at Homerton College, 12-14 September.
    • Elizabeth Robertson (St Catherine鈥檚 College, Oxford): 鈥楢ngels in Harriot鈥檚 Time鈥.
    • B. J. Sokol (Goldsmiths, University of London): 鈥楾he problem of assessing Thomas Harriot鈥檚 A Briefe and True Report鈥.
    • Gordon R. Batho (University of Durham) Anna Beer (Oxford) and Stephen Clucas (糖心logo入口, University of London): 鈥楾he writings in prison of Sir Walter Raleigh and the ninth Earl of Northumberland鈥.
    • Paul Harvey(Osaka University): 鈥楨nglishmen describing the Non-European at the time of Harriot鈥.
    • Paul Hunneyball(Wolfson College, Oxford): 鈥楾he architecture of country houses in Harriot鈥檚 time鈥.
    • John Fauvel(The Open University): 鈥楳athematical Language in Harriot鈥檚 time鈥.

  • Durham 1993

    • Held at St Chad's College, 13-15 December.
    • Melanie Hansen (Trinity College, Dublin): 鈥榃riting the land: Renaissance English Antiquarianism鈥
    • Helen Wallis (London): 鈥楻oanoke Decoded鈥.
    • Richard S. Dunn (University of Cambridge): 鈥楢strology in Harriot's Time鈥.
    • Jan Prins (University of Utrecht): 鈥榃arner鈥檚 Ideas about Time and Space鈥.
    • J. V. Pepper (London): 鈥楬arriot鈥檚 Algebra鈥.
    • Gillian Mirrlees (Oxford): 鈥楽assafras: A Cure-All of Harriot's Time鈥.

  • Cambridge 1992

    • Held at Homerton College, 14-16 September.
    • Lisa Jardine (Queen Mary and Westfield, University of London): 鈥楪abriel Harvey, Scholar-Reader: Knowledge Transactions and Private Servides in England in the 1590s鈥.
    • Lyndy Abraham (University of Sydney): 鈥楢lchemy and Literature in Harriot's Time鈥.
    • Nina Taunton (London): 鈥楳arlowe, Harriot and the Art of War鈥.
    • Vivian Salmon (Oxford): 鈥楾homas Harriot and the English Origins of Algonkian Linguistics鈥.
    • James W. Binns (University of York): 鈥楲atin Culture in Harriot's Time鈥.

  • Durham 1991

    • Held at St Chad's College, 16-18 December.
    • Robert Baldwin (National Maritime Museum): 鈥楬arriot, White and the Birth of English Overseas Hydrography鈥.
    • Julian Roberts (Bodleian Library, Oxford): 鈥楯ohn Dee's Library鈥.
    • Sarah Hutton (Hatfield Polytechnic): 鈥楾homas Jackson (1579-1644): a younger contemporary of Harriot 鈥.
    • Stephen Clucas (糖心logo入口, University of London): 鈥榃alter Warner: Logic, Mathematics and Encyclopaedism鈥.
    • Arnold Wolfendale (Astronomer Royal): 鈥楽ome Durham Astronomers鈥.
    • Richard F. Wilson (University of Lancaster): 鈥楻epresentations of the Body in Harriot鈥檚 Time鈥.

  • Cambridge 1990

    • Held at Homerton College, 18-20 September.
    • E. J. Aiton: 鈥楢stronomy in the time of Thomas Harriot鈥
    • J. A. Bennett (Whipple Museum, Cambridge): 鈥楳athematical Instruments in Harriot鈥檚 Time鈥.
    • J. V. Pepper: 鈥楴aval Architecture in Harriot鈥檚 Time鈥
    • Willem Hackmann (Museum of the History of Science, Oxford): 鈥楴avigation in Harriot鈥檚 Time鈥
    • Peter J. Wallis and Ruth Wallis: 鈥楨arly British Philomaths鈥.
    • David M. Knight (University of Durham): 鈥楢 visual language for science: seventeenth-century illustration鈥.
    • Muriel Seltman (London): 鈥楾he algebra of Harriot鈥檚 time: forging a tool for science鈥.
      [NB. This was a joint meeting held with the British Society for the History of Mathematics]

  • Durham 1989

    • Held at St Chad's College, 18-19 December.
    • D. T. Whiteside (University of Cambridge): 鈥楾homas Harriot: his standing as a scientist鈥.
    • G. J. Whitrow (London): 鈥楾he role of Time in life and thought in the age of Thomas Harriot and our own鈥.
    • Stephen Clucas (University of Sheffield): 鈥楾he atomistic philosophy of Thomas Harriot and Walter Warner鈥.
    • G. Sabbagh (Paris): 鈥楧escartes and Harriot: about a neglected letter鈥.
    • Florentine Audette (Regina): 鈥楻aleigh, Harriot and Marlowe鈥.

  • Cambridge 1988

    • Held at Homerton College, 20-21 September.
    • Pio Rattansi (University College, London): 鈥楢lchemy in Harriot鈥檚 time鈥.
    • Penelope Gouk (St Hilda鈥檚, University of Oxford): 鈥業ntroduction to The Ivory Sundials of Nuremberg 1500-1700 at the Whipple Museum鈥.
    • Willem Hackmann (Museum of the History of Science, Oxford): 鈥楳agnetism and Experimentation in Harriot鈥檚 time鈥.
    • Jim Bennett (Whipple Museum, Cambridge): 鈥楳aps and Early Modern Mathematics鈥.
    • P. Barber (British Library): 鈥楽ymbols of Power and Policy in Europe, 1550-1625鈥.

  • December 1987

    • Catherine Ferguson: 'The Borders in Thomas Harriot鈥檚 Time'
    • Dudley Wilson: 'The Motivations and Implications of a Treatise on Midwifery, 1612'
    • Michael Sharratt: 'Galileo鈥檚 Theology'
    • Wilma George: 'Deere in Some Places There are a Great Store'
    • Helen Wallis: 'Elizabethan Terrestrial and Celestial Globes'

  • December 1985

    • John Henry: 'The Origins of the Mechanical Philosophy in England; Thomas Hobbes鈥檚 debt to Walter Warner'
    • G.L.E. Turner: 'Sir Robert Dudley and his Elizabethan Instrument Makers'
    • P.F. Fitzpatrick: 'Some Seventeenth-Century Theories of Transubstantiation'
    • D.H. Fowler: 'Greek Arithmetic with Fractions'
    • John J. Roche: 'Thomas Harriot鈥檚 Observations on Halley鈥檚 Comet in 1607'

  • December 1983

    • Allan Chapman: 'Three North Country Astronomers'
    • C. W. Brooks: 'Law Politics and the Ancient Constitution in Sixteenth-Century England'
    • Hilary Gatti: 'Giordano Bruno and the Northumberland Circle'
    • J.R. Kenyon: 'Guns and Garrison Fortification under the Tudors'

  • December 1981

    • M. Earles: 'The Pharmacopoeia Londinensis now Perfected'
    • Jon V. Pepper: 'Harriot as a Nautical Scientist: A Paradigm of an Applied Mathematician'
    • Julian Roberts: 'The Scientific University of England: John Dee鈥檚 Library from 1544 to 1626'
    • P. D. A. Harvey: 'Large Scale Maps of Harriot鈥檚 Time: The Historical Background'

  • December 1979

    • Gordon R. Batho: 'Thomas Harriot and life in the Northumberland Household'
    • A. G. Molland: 'Light and Matter in Harriot's Time'
    • David M Knight: 'Printing as an Agent of Change in Science'
    • W. A Wallace: 'John White, Harriot and Ralegh in Ireland'