Voltaire and the Newtonian Revolution Conference
This event will be a one-day conference on the 28th February 2015 at St Cross College, Oxford on Voltaire and how he was influenced by Newtonian science. In the promotion of the Newtonian theory he was aided in large part by his long-time companion and leading woman scientist of her era, the Marquise Émilie du Chatelet, herself at the forefront of the mathematics of the era and the translator of Newton’s Principia into French. This conference explores Voltaire’s and du Chatelet’s roles in the promotion of Newtonian theory as well as their activities in the physics of their era.

Registration and attendance at the conference are FREE.

Details of the conference and how to register are at www.stx.ox.ac.uk/happ/events/voltaire-and-newtonian-revolution-one-day-conference
Date: 28 February 2015, 10:30 (Saturday, 6th week, Hilary 2015)
Venue: St Cross College, St Giles OX1 3LZ
Speakers: Speaker to be announced
Part of: Voltaire and the Newtonian Revolution Conference
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: http://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/happ/events/voltaire-and-newtonian-revolution-one-day-conference
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Anne Bowtell