Aug 3, 2018
So in this episode, I am fortunate enough to
interview Cornelis Schilt – perhaps better known to the world by
his blog title, Corpus Newtonicum, which you can go and read at
Corpus Newtonicum.wordpress.com. He is a DPhil student at the
University of Oxford, studying the History of Science, and focused
on the life, career, and works of Isaac Newton. What’s more, he
just handed in his thesis the day before I conducted this interview
– best of luck on the viva, CJ!
In this, the first part of our interview, we discuss Newton’s less
well-known works, his attempts to understand chronology, and how
his religious faith predominated in his life.
If you want to find out more, you can follow him on Twitter, and
do visit the blog Corpus Newtonicum. You can also check out the
newton project atwww.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk which CJ contributed
to – an attempt to transcribe all of Newton’s works.
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