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SCIENTIFIC CULTURE IN EARLY MODERN ROME COLLOQUIUM Organised by
the Ecole française
de Rome and the Warburg Institute in association with the Centre
Alexandre Koyré (CNRS-MNHN-EHESS) 10 - 11 October 2003 PROGRAMME
Venue: THE
WARBURG INSTITUTE WOBURN SQUARELONDON
WC1H OAB Telephone:
(020) 7862 8949 Fax:
(020) 7862 8955 |
FRIDAY 10 OCTOBER 09.30 Doors open: registration 10.00 Welcome: Charles Hope FIRST SESSION: Science, Culture and Religion Chair: Katharine
Park 10.15 Antonella
Romano Introductory
paper 11.00 Maarten
Delbeke The truth value
of art from a theological perspective in mid 17th-century Rome 11.30 Coffee 12.00
Jonathan Woolfson Apian monarchy and Papal monarchy 12.30 Maria
Pia Donato Science and the
Inquisition: a reassessment of late 17th-century Atomism 1.15 Lunch
(for invited guests) SECOND SESSION:
Patronage and Knowledge
Chair: Charles Hope 2.15 Paula Findlen Introductory paper 3.00 Pamela Long Rome, 1560-1612.
Knowledge, power and urbanization: are these three entities related
and, if so, how? 3.30 Laurent Pinon Ulisse Aldrovandi between
Rome and Tuscany: books for patronage or patronage for books? 4.00 Tea 4.30 Maria Conforti Medicine, patronage and
books: the early years of the Biblioteca Lancisiana 5.00
Lucia Dacome Prosperofs tools:
anatomical stratagems in the Catholic Enlightenment 5.30 Discussion 6.15 Wine Reception 7.00 Buffet
Supper (for invited guests) |
SATURDAY 11 OCTOBER 10.00 Doors open THIRD SESSION:
The Culture of Experiment Chair: Antonella Romano 10.15 Domenico Bertoloni Meli Introductory paper 11.00 David Gentilcore gI am in possession of a
most perfect remedyh: the licensing of charlatans and their medicines in
early modern Rome 11.30 Coffee 12.00 Hiro Hirai gDe novoh or gex semineh:
Kircher and the problem of spontaneous generation 12.30 Federica Favino The gFisicomatematicih and
the vacuum 1.15 Lunch (for invited
guests) FOURTH SESSION: Round Table Chair: Jill Kraye 2.15 General discussion with contributions from: Jean-Marc
Besse, Robert Iliffe, Antonio Clericuzio, Katharine Park, Harold Cook, Simon
Schaffer, Silvia De Renzi, Nancy Siraisi, Simon Ditchfield, Stephane Van
Damme, Pascal Dubourg Glatigny 5.30 CLOSE Admission £10.00 per day. For further information contact Elizabeth Witchell at the Warburg Institute. Tel: (020) 7862 8949 or
email:Elizabeth.Witchell@sas.ac.uk |