PROGRAM

Monday 12 October

9:30-10:00 Welcome and opening remarks

Session 1 The Continental Newton: French and Dutch Perspectives

10:00-10:50 Andrew Janiak (Duke University), Émilie Du Châtelet and Continental

Newtonianism

10:50-11:40 Steffen Ducheyne (VUB), New perspectives on Herman Boerhaave’s

appropriation of Newton’s natural philosophy

11:40-12:00 Coffee break

Session 2 Against Newton: Eighteenth-Century Perspectives

12:00-12:50 Moti Feingold (Caltech), The Grounds for Prejudice: Varieties of Eighteenth-

Century Anti-Newtonianism

12:50-14:00 Lunch break

Session 3 Receptions of Newton in the Franco-German Enlightenment

14:00-14:50 Guillem Sales Vilalta (CSIC Madrid), Between Experiment and Calculation:

Christian Wolff and the Newtonian Challenge in the German Enlightenment

14:50-15:40 Christian Leduc (Université de Montréal), Maupertuis and Replicability

15:40-16:00 Coffee break

Session 4 Extending Mathematics and Mechanics: Adaptations of Newton’s

Mathematical Physics

16:00-16:50 Henny Blomme (ULB) From Gravitation to Electricity: Franz Ulrich Theodor

Aepinus and the Extension of Newtonian Mathematical Physics

16:50-17:40 Michael Friedman (Universität Bonn) Agriculture and Mathematics in the 18th

Century: Or, Why Should Farmers Employ the Newtonian Laws of Motion?

Tuesday 13 October

Session 5 Colours and light: Newtonian Optics in the Eighteenth-Century

10:00-10:50 Friedrich Steinle (TU Berlin), Newton’s mathematization of colours and its 18th

century reverberations

10:50-11:40 Maja Rausch (Philipps-Universität Marburg), Refracting Nature: Newtonian

Optics and the Poetic Negotiation of Knowledge in Barthold Heinrich Brockes

11:40-12:00 Coffee break

Session 6 Laypeople and Mavericks: Learning and Contesting Newton’s

Mathematical Physics

12:00-12:50 Adrien Miqueu (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen), Silence and Ridicule. How to

join the discussion on gravity in the 18th century

12:50-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-14:50 Ilaria Ampollini (Università degli Studi di Ferrara), Learning Newton by

amusement. Ludic practices, board games and the dissemination of physics (1770-1820)

14:50-15:10 Coffee break

Session 7 Peripheral Knowledge and Marginal Circulations: From Provincial

France to the New World

15:10-16:00 Marco Storni (ULB), The Long Life of Provincial Cartesianism: Resisting

Newton in Eighteenth-Century Toulouse

16:00-16:50 Sebastián Molina-Betancur (University of Oxford), Marginal Newtons: The

Circulations and Appropriations of Newtonianism in Late Eighteenth-Century New Granada

16:50-17:00 Concluding remarks and farewell

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Arnaud.Pelletier@ulb.be

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