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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 SQUARE

LONDON 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

 

 

 

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