Snobelen, Stephen - History

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Personal Information
First Name: 
Stephen
Nom: 
Snobelen
Département / Programme: 
History of Science and Technology
Affiliation universitaire: 
University of King's College
Phone: 
902-422-1271
Extension: 
139
Email Address: 
stephen.snobelen@ukings.ca
Area of Research
Discipline: 
History
Objet: 
Science
Champ d'études: 
Snobelen specialises in the history of the interaction between science and religion. His current research focus is on the theological and prophetic views of Isaac Newton, but he also studies early modern natural philosophy, theology, heresy, biblical criticism, millenarianism and the popularisation of science.
Academics
PHD Program: 
History and Philosophy of Science
PHD University: 
Cambridge
Major Publications: 
Isaac Newton, Heretic: Alchemy, the Apocalypse and the Making of Modern Science, Icon Books, forthcoming. Isaac Newton in the Eighteenth Century, special issue of Enlightenment and Dissent, No. 25, 2009. “The theology of Isaac Newton’s Principia mathematica: a preliminary survey”. Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie 52 (2010): 377–412. “Isaac Newton, heresy laws and the persecution of religious dissent”. Enlightenment and Dissent 25 (2009): 204–59.
Courses Taught: 
HSTC1200/HSTC2200/SCIE2000/BIOL3503/HIST2074 Introduction to the History of Science HSTC 2204 The Darwinian Revolution HSTC2400 Science and the Media HSTC2500 Science Fiction in Film HSTC3000 The Scientific Revolution HSTC3200/EMSP3330/HIST3075/RELS3200 Science and Religion: Historical Perspectives HSTC3201/CTMP3201/HIST3076/RELS3201 Science and Religion: Contemporary Perspectives HSTC4400/EMSP4310 Newton and Newtonianism