Conveners
S.2.3. From Observations to Representations: The Cultural Lives of Astronomy
- Justyna Rogińska
- Maciej Jasiński
Description
Chair: Vladimír Urbánek
Derya Tarbuck
(Bahcesehir University),
Kapil Raj,
Rob Iliffe
17/09/2025, 11:00
Organised panels
Presenter: Rob Iliffe and Derya Gurses Tarbuck
Title of the paper: Newtonianisms in Action: the Making of a Global Movement
This chapter challenges the long-standing notion of a “universal” Newtonianism by situating it within the global turn in the history of science. Newtonianism, we argue, never possessed the conceptual unity to claim universal validity; rather, what made it...