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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