OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
The College’s annual Thomas Harriot Lecture was inaugurated in 1990. Revised versions of the lectures delivered since then have been published in three volumes, edited by Robert Fox: Thomas Harriot. An Elizabethan man of science (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000); Thomas Harriot. Mathematics, exploration, and natural philosophy in early modern England (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012); and Thomas Harriot. Science and discovery in the English Renaissance (London: Routledge, 2023).
Thomas Harriot, mathematician and natural philosopher, was born in Oxfordshire. He matriculated at Oxford in 1577 as a member of St Mary Hall (which united with Oriel College in 1902) and was awarded a BA degree at Easter 1580.
Harriot’s skills in astronomical navigation led to his employment by Sir Walter Raleigh (another member of Oriel) to teach Raleigh and prepare his sea captains for the voyage that left in 1585 to establish a settlement in America. After spending almost a year at Roanoke, near the coast of today’s North Carolina, Harriot wrote A brief and true report of the new found land of Virginia, the first account of America to be published in English (1588).
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