Cornelis J Schilt
Under the heading Corpus Newtonicum this blog will document the proces of reproducing and reconstructing Newton's methodology. First and foremost, we are in need of a fundamental theory of digital editing. Whereas most classical theories of editing take a published text (or a composition of a number of these) as their starting point, Newton's draft materials were not meant to be published and there is no published volume to relate to. And secondly, many of today's digital editions take some advantage of their digital nature, but are in essence classical editions in a digital jacket, accompanied by useful tools. There must be more to digital editing than just redressing! A new theory of digital editing should take full advantage of the digital world and assist in answering questions of reconstruction, and Newton's materials are the ideal candidate for field testing. To be continued!
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
Isaac Newton Biography Working Practices Publication Chronology Manuscripts Newton Editing Dating Library Alchemy Religion Natural Philosophy conferences health gravity
Newton and Chronology: first review!
4 March 2022
The Renaissance Mathematics aka Thony Christie put up a review of my Isaac Newton and the Study of Chronology: Prophecy, History, and Method, and it made me blush… Find it here for...
Back to the basics: Isaac Newton and the Study of Chronology
2 November 2021
To many die-hard historians of science the scholarly activities of in particular early modern natural philosophers are still seen as alien. This is already a great leap forward compared...
21 September 2021
Out on 5 October with AUP, the result of seven years of dogears and manuscript snippets: Cornelis J. Schilt, Isaac Newton and the Study of Chronology: Prophecy, History, and Method...
19 June 2019
When Isaac Newton died, in 1727, the scholarly world was eagerly awaiting the publication of his chronological studies. A topic he had been working on since his mid-thirties, in the...