Scientiae 2025: Istanbul, 16-19 September, Annual Conference

Session

S.2.3. From Observations to Representations: The Cultural Lives of Astronomy

17 Sept 2025, 11:00

Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Lecture Hall (Amfi 8) (Istanbul)

Conveners

S.2.3. From Observations to Representations: The Cultural Lives of Astronomy

• Justyna Rogińska
• Maciej Jasiński

Description

Chair: Vladimír Urbánek

42. Making Science Global: Examples from Mesmerism and Newtonianism

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...