Okay, blogosphere, I’m picking it up again for the summer. Stay tuned for reports from the February/March UK trip, the depths of Newton’s strangeness, and the various adventures I’ll be partaking in over the summer.
Stay tuned!
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Summertime and the updates are easy
Posted in Uncategorized on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Back in the states again — uk trip report 1
Posted in Uncategorized on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, I have many updates to make, now that I am back home from a lengthy research and conference trip to the UK.
My first stretch was at the Wren library in cambridge. It was a wonderful place to work, although it was very intimidating having multiple busts of newton glowering at me as i leafed [...]
Alchemists and grammar
Posted in Uncategorized on May 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I found something interesting today from ECCO — a French grammar book that uses a sample dialogue about alchemy to teach grammar. In the dialogue, the alchemist is a friend of the conversants who has “run mad on chymistry.” Finally a useful French textbook! Much better than “Jacques donne de l’argent a la vendeuse” or [...]
Ewww — Old People!
Posted in Uncategorized on May 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Of course, I’m speaking relatively. Even though much of my work goes back to the seventeenth century — Newton was, after all, born in 1642 — when I find myself reading older writers, it’s sometimes rather painful. I just finished Jonson’s The Alchemist as research for this chapter and, even though I find it wonderful, I [...]
Some thoughts on media
Posted in Uncategorized on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m tracking the different English editions of Algarotti’s Newtonianismo per le Dame for my SHARP presentation in Oxford this June, and I’m feeling ambivalent about both rare books and online sources.
ECCO is so daft to work with sometimes, but at least I could scribble on printed pages that way. At the huntington, on the other [...]
Il faut reorganiser ma vie.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
That’s the only line I remember from Sartre’s Huis Clos. But I had my first chapter conference today and have the surge of energy that comes from reorganizing and planning. It’s pretty exciting — I am splitting my first chapter into two chapters, so the chapter I’m working on now will be the third. What’s [...]
What I’m reading this week, and what I’m doing this quarter.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This week I have a few reading goals. First is the first volume of the series of early Newton biographies edited by Iliffe, Keynes, and Higgitt. I’ve read most of the material that is online, but I like seeing it in book form. Call me old-fashioned. The introduction offers some helpful historiography. Obviously I’m hoping [...]
Hello and Welcome!
Posted in Uncategorized on April 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is a blog about my doctoral dissertation, which focuses on Isaac Newton, print culture, and scientific authorship. I plan to use the blog to provide updates on my research, interesting things I have learned, and puzzling questions that emerge. I hope that others with similar interests will stop by to visit and comment.
