Physical Attraction3 Aug 2018

CJ Schilt (Corpus Newtonicum) on Isaac Newton: Part I

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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