Fellowship recipient to give talk on Newton

[img_inline align=”right” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/Snobelen_Stephen.jpg” caption=”Stephen D. Snobelen, director and associate professor of the History of Science and Technology Programme at the University of King’s College, will give a presentation on Issac Newton at Mills Memorial Library on Tuesday, Aug. 28. Photo courtesy of Catherine Baird.”]McMaster University Library is pleased to announce that it has awarded a visiting ASECS fellowship to Stephen D. Snobelen, director and associate professor of the History of Science and Technology Programme at the University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

ASECS (the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) sponsors and sustains research at 15 research centres and libraries in North America. The ASECS programme at McMaster University is jointly funded by ASECS and the Faculty of Humanities.

Snobelen is writing a book on the relationship between the religious and scientific thought of Isaac Newton and will be conducting his research at McMaster University Library throughout August.

All are welcome to attend a presentation by Snobelen entitled Isaac Newton, Heretic: Alchemy, the Apocalypse and the Making of Modern Science on Tuesday, Aug. 28 from 12 to 1 p.m. at Mills Memorial Library in the third floor multi-purpose room.