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SUMMARY:HAPP One-day Conference: Physics Feuds Throughout History - Profes
 sor Andrew Gregory (UCL)\, Professor Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincol
 n)\, Professor Robert Iliffe (University of Oxford)\, Professor Reinhard W
 erner (Leibniz University Hannover)\, Dr Simon Mitton (University of Cambr
 idge)\, Dr Patricia Fara (University of Cambridge )\, After-dinner Speaker
 : Professor Randall Parrish (University of Portsmouth and British Geologic
 al Survey)
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DESCRIPTION:In the progression of physics\, most facts and laws have been 
 established only after decades\, often centuries\, of discussion and dispu
 te. This conference will review some of the great disputes stretching from
  antiquity to the modern day. From the classical Greek discussions on the 
 nature of space and matter\, through the founding disputes of modern scien
 ce and its mathematics (led by Newton's disputes with contemporaries) up t
 o the recent controversies in quantum mechanics and cosmology\, the feuds 
 between leading thinkers and their vital role in establishing successive v
 iews of our physical world will be examined.\n\n*Registration to attend th
 is conference is free but booking is required*.  \nPlease visit the websit
 e for the booking links and to see the complete programme: https://www.stx
 .ox.ac.uk/event/physics-feuds-throughout-history\nSpeakers:\nProfessor And
 rew Gregory (UCL)\, Professor Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln)\, Pr
 ofessor Robert Iliffe (University of Oxford)\, Professor Reinhard Werner (
 Leibniz University Hannover)\, Dr Simon Mitton (University of Cambridge)\,
  Dr Patricia Fara (University of Cambridge )\, After-dinner Speaker: Profe
 ssor Randall Parrish (University of Portsmouth and British Geological Surv
 ey)
LOCATION:Mathematical Institute (And livestreamed on YouTube)\, Woodstock 
 Road OX2 6GG
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 of Lincoln)\, Professor Robert Iliffe (University of Oxford)\, Professor R
 einhard Werner (Leibniz University Hannover)\, Dr Simon Mitton (University
  of Cambridge)\, Dr Patricia Fara (University of Cambridge )\, After-dinne
 r Speaker: Professor Randall Parrish (University of Portsmouth and British
  Geological Survey)
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SUMMARY:Life after Gravity: Isaac Newton's London Career - Dr Patricia Far
 a (University of Cambridge )
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DESCRIPTION:The event will be broadcasted live on the Society's Facebook p
 age\, YouTube channel\, and Twitter account\, more information see: https:
 //fb.me/e/OnAH89Qm\n\nAbstract:\nIsaac Newton is celebrated throughout the
  world as a great scientific genius\, but in his early fifties\, he abando
 ned his life as a reclusive scholar at Cambridge to spend three decades in
  London\, a long period of metropolitan activity that is often overlooked.
  Through exploring a painting by William Hogarth packed with Newtonian all
 usions\, I describe aspects of Newton’s activities that usually receive 
 little attention.\n\nTaking Hogarth’s conversation piece as my cue\, I r
 eintegrate Newton into the metropolitan culture at a time when the British
  economy depended on global trading underpinned by slavery. Within only a 
 few years\, he was making and losing small fortunes on the stock market\, 
 manoeuvring for favour at court and entertaining eminent European visitors
 . Knighted by Queen Anne\, and a close ally of the influential Earl of Hal
 ifax (who became Chancellor of the Exchequer)\, Newton occupied a powerful
  position as President of London’s Royal Society. But he also became Mas
 ter of the Mint\, responsible for the nation’s money at a time of financ
 ial crisis. A major investor in the East India Company\, Newton profited f
 rom the revenue generated by selling African captives to wealthy plantatio
 n owners in the Americas\, monitored the African gold that was melted down
  for English guineas\, and revised his great book on gravity by soliciting
  scientific measurements from overseas traders. The Enlightenment is celeb
 rated as the Age of Reason\, but the exploitation and disparity it fostere
 d lie at the heart of modern capitalism.\n-\nDr Patricia Fara has a degree
  in physics from Oxford University (St Hugh’s College)\, a PhD in Histor
 y of Science from London University\, and is currently an Emeritus Fellow 
 of Clare College\, Cambridge. Her major research interests are Enlightenme
 nt Britain\, scientific imagery\, and topics related to women in science b
 oth now and in the past. A regular contributor to popular journals as well
  as In our Time and other radio/TV programmes\, she has published a range 
 of academic and popular books on the history of science. These include the
  prize-winning Science: A Four Thousand Year History (2009) and A Lab of O
 ne’s Own: Science and Suffrage in World War One (2018). This lecture is 
 based on her new book\, Life after Gravity: Isaac Newton’s London Career
  (2021).\nSpeakers:\nDr Patricia Fara (University of Cambridge )
LOCATION:virtual live-stream
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SUMMARY:A Lab of One’s Own - Dr Patricia Fara (University of Cambridge )
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Patricia Fara (University of Cambridge) discusses the pivot
 al roles of women scientists during the First World War\, and how their ef
 forts contributed to the war outcome and the Votes for Women movement.\nSp
 eakers:\nDr Patricia Fara (University of Cambridge )
LOCATION:History of Science Museum (Basement Gallery)\, Broad Street OX1 3
 AZ
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