According to the old narrative, Isaac Newton’s natural philosophy became widely accepted across Europe in a relatively short time span. Recently, historians of science, philosophy, and ideas have begun to question this narrative. Newton’s natural philosophy was contested and criticized from many directions, and it took decades before Newton’s natural philosophical program gained traction on the European Continent. This international conference seeks to study the full scope of criticisms that was raised against Newton’s novel natural philosophical program in Europe between 1672―the year in which Newton published his first optical paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London―and roughly 1750.
More info and a call for abstracts are to be found on the conference website.