On the Contested Expanding Rôle of Applied Mathematics from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
13 September 2010 - 16 September 2010Current List of Participants (See Documents)
Richard Arthur
McMaster University12 September 2010 - 17 September 2010
13 September 2010 - 16 September 2010
Talk: On the Mathematization of Motion before Instantaneous Velocity
Talk: Welcome and introduction to the workshop
James Bennett
University of Oxford13 September 2010 - 16 September 2010
Talk: The Place of Instruments in the Expanding Role of Mathematics
Jed Buchwald
California Institute of Technology13 September 2010 - 17 September 2010
Talk: Descartes' Experimental Journey Past the Prism and through the Invisible World to the Rainbow
Steffen Ducheyne
Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Ghent University12 September 2010 - 17 September 2010
Talk: Facing the Limits of "Deductions from Phenomena:" The Quest for a Mathematical-Demonstrative Optics
Stefano Gattei
Scuola di Alti Studi IMT, Lucca13 September 2010 - 16 September 2010
Stephen Gaukroger
University of Sydney/University of Aberdeen12 September 2010 - 16 September 2010
Talk: D’Alembert, Euler and Rational Mechanics: What Mechanics Does Not Tell Us about the World
Yves Gingras
Université du Québec à Montréal12 September 2010 - 17 September 2010
Talk: The Role of Formal Analogies in the Mathematization of Science
Enrico Giusti
Università di Firenze13 September 2010 - 16 September 2010
Talk: The Legacy of Galileo: the Case of Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Niccolò Guicciardini
Università di Bergamo12 September 2010 - 17 September 2010
13 September 2010 - 16 September 2010
Talk: Qualifying the Received View on the Birth of Analytical Mechanics: The Case of Johann Bernoulli’s Study of Motion in Resisting Media
Talk: Welcome and introduction to the workshop
John Heilbron
Worcester College, Oxford13 September 2010 - 17 September 2010
Talk: Galileo’s Force-free Physics