THOMAS HARRIOT AND HIS TIME
St. John's College, University of Durham, England.
Mon. 18 December -- Wednesday 20 December, 1995
Papers on "Dee, Digges and Savile," (Robert Goulding, Warburg);
"Kepler's Notebook on the Astronomia Nova," (V. Bialas, Munich); "John
Dee and European Alchemy," (Ursula Szulakowska, Bretton Hall); "Galileo and the
Visual and Musical Arts," (Alastair Crombie, Oxford); "The First
Virginia Voyages : the Cavendish Connection," (Sue Maxwell, Durham);
and "Satyrs and Wild Men," (Cliff Forshaw, Oxford).
First 15 registrants may join the special restricted visit to the
Department of Archives and Special Collections on Dec. 19.
Full board residence 18 December (tea) to 20 December (breakfast),
including conference dinner, is 95 pounds, but a number of other
arrangements are possible.
For details on registration and housing, contact: Prof. G. R. Batho,
School of Education, University of Durham, Leazes Road, Durham DH1
1TA, England (phone: 0191-374-3497/8). Students and overseas members
will be considered sympathetically for subsidy.
The Durham Thomas Harriot seminar publishes a series of papers on
Harriot and related topics (19 in print), as well as a newsletter,
"The Harrioteer." For information on these contact Prof. Batho at the
address above.