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<div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 16.55pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><i>Sahin
Seminar Series<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; font-size: 21px; "></span></i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 16.55pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; font-size: 21px; ">Massachusetts
Institute of Technology</span></i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -24pt; margin-left: -12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#003771"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; font-weight: bold; "> </span></span></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 40.8pt; margin-left: 0.75in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook";
color:maroon"><b>“Making Enlightenment Newtonianism <o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 40.8pt; margin-left: 0.75in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook";
color:maroon"><b>in France c. 1700”<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 40.8pt; margin-left: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook""><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 40.8pt; margin-left: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook""><b>J.
B. Shank<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 40.8pt; margin-left: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook"">Associate
Professor of History, University of Minnesota</span><span style="font-size:
8.0pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook""><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 40.8pt; margin-left: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size:8.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 40.8pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">The eighteenth-century
French <i>philosophes </i></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Helvetica">claimed that they were responsible for introducing the French to the
light of Newtonian science, and a still powerful tradition of historiography
echoes their view. This lecture will challenge that account by examining the
immediate reception of Newton's <i>Principia </i></span><span style="font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">in 1690s Paris. It will show that rather than
being ignorant of Newton's work, or prejudicially aligned against it because of
their Cartesian loyalties, French men and women embraced a version of Newton's
science that became foundational to later Enlightenment French science. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 40.8pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#003771"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:40.8pt;text-align:center;
tab-stops:2.5in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook";
color:maroon"><b>Tuesday, March 3, 2009<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:40.8pt;text-align:center;
tab-stops:2.5in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook";
color:maroon"><b>Building E51 Room 149</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:40.8pt;text-align:center;
tab-stops:2.5in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook";
color:maroon"><b>Corner of Amherst and Wadsworth Streets, Cambridge, MA</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:40.8pt;text-align:center;
tab-stops:2.5in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook";
color:maroon"><b>4:30 – 6:00 pm<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:40.8pt;text-align:center;
tab-stops:2.5in"><span class="subtitle2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:#333300"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Free and open to the public.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>For more information, contact Margo Collett at <a href="mailto:mcollett@mit.edu">mcollett@mit.edu</a>. This lecture</span></span></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0.4in; margin-left: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; "><span class="subtitle2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">is sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and the Program in
Science, Technology and Society.</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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