Curtis Wilson, Selected Writings: Dean's Lectures and Other Writings for St. John's College

Name: Curtis Wilson, Selected Writings: Dean's Lectures and Other Writings for St. John's College
Author: Wilson, Curtis Alan
ISBN: 9780692832691

Wilson, Curtis Alan

Language: English

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Title: Curtis Wilson, Selected Writings: Dean's Lectures and Other Writings for St. John's College
Author: Wilson, Curtis Alan
Publisher: St. John's College Press
Publication year: 2017
Condition: New
Binding: Soft cover
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0692832696
ISBN 13: 9780692832691

About the Author

Curtis Wilson was born in Los Angeles, California in 1921. After graduation from the University of California, Los Angeles, he received both his master's and doctoral degrees from Columbia University, New York. At Columbia he was a University Fellow. He was appointed to the St. John's faculty in 1948, even before having obtained his doctorate. In 1950-51 he received a Fullbright Fellowship to complete work toward his dissertation at the University of Padua. His doctoral dissertation became the source of his first book, William Heytesbury: Medieval Logic and the Rise of Mathematical Physics. Ten years after joining the St. John's faculty, in 1958, he was chosen Dean of the College and served in this capacity for four years, until 1962. In 1962-63 he was a visiting research fellow at Birbeck College of the University of London, and in 1964 he was one of a group of tutors who became the core of the faculty at the new campus of St. John's in Santa Fe, N.M. Beginning in 1966 he spent seven years as a professor at the University of California in San Diego. He returned to St. John's in 1973 to begin a second term as Dean of the College. During his two deanships St. John's made, under his guidance, two major curricular revisions, the institution of preceptorials and the reorganization of the mathematics and science programs. During the autumn semesters of 1982 and 1986 he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Following his retirement in 1988 he was a visiting professor in 1991 at the University of Toronto. Mr. Wilson's research in the history of science centered on the writings of Kepler, Newton, Horrocks, Delambre, Euler, and other scientists important in the early foundations of modern physics and astronomy. In recognition of his contributions he became the first recipient in 1998 of the LeRoy E. Doggett Prize for writings in the history of astronomy awarded by the American Astronomical society. Between 1979 and 2001 he served on the editorial board of the Archive for the History of the Exact Sciences. He was also editor of the second volume of The General history of Astronomy: Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of Astrophysics." In 1995 he published his translation of Francois de Gandt's Force and Geometry in Newton's Principia. In 2010, more than seven years of study culminated in the publication of his final book, The Hill-Brown Theory of the Moon's Motion: Its Coming-to-be and Short-lived Ascendancy (1877-1984). Mr. Wilson was a member of the International Academy of the History of Science, and of Commission 41 of the International Astronomical Union. He was a man of wide interests. He played both the piano and the harpsichord. He knew many languages and had deep and abiding interests in literature and philosophy. He died on Aug. 24, 2012 at the age of 91.

The late Chaninah Maschler was a tutor and emerita tutor at St. John's College in Annapolis for over five decades.

Nicholas Maistrellis joined the faculty of St. John's College in Annapolis in 1967, and has been a tutor emeritus since 2013.

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