On 28th November OxTalks will move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events' (full details are available on the Staff Gateway).
There will be an OxTalks freeze beginning on Friday 14th November. This means you will need to publish any of your known events to OxTalks by then as there will be no facility to publish or edit events in that fortnight. During the freeze, all events will be migrated to the new Oxford Events site. It will still be possible to view events on OxTalks during this time.
If you have any questions, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
The mathematical culture of early modern London was extraordinarily rich with a multitude of authors, printers, booksellers, instrument makers, and accountants plying their trade. Knowledge was communicated, disseminated, and taught primarily by men with a practical background in a variety of locations ranging from coffee shops to the homes of more well off individuals. Mathematics permeated warehouses, dockyards, and building sites, while its practitioners frequented public lectures at Gresham College or joined one of a number of clubs devoted to promoting geometry, astronomy or more practical disciplines such as navigation.
The talk will consider the role of Euclid’s Elements of Geometry in this culture of learning and practice against the background of an almost complete absence of organized instruction in mathematics in seventeenth-century England. It will conclude by suggesting that advances in practical mathematics were directly related to a call for the reform of university teaching in mathematics around 1700.
