On the Contested Expanding Rôle of Applied Mathematics from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

13 September 2010 - 16 September 2010

Timetable

Date	Time	Speaker	Room
Mon 13 Sep	10:00- 12:00	Registration	Segreteria
	16:30- 17:00	Arthur, Richard - Guicciardini, Niccolò "Welcome and introduction to the workshop"	Sala Conferenze Centro De Giorgi
	17:00- 18:30	Heilbron, John "Galileo’s Force-free Physics"	Sala Conferenze Centro De Giorgi
Tue 14 Sep	9:00- 10:30	Giusti, Enrico "The Legacy of Galileo: the Case of Giovanni Alfonso Borelli"	Sala Conferenze Centro De Giorgi
	10:30- 12:00	Arthur, Richard "On the Mathematization of Motion before Instantaneous Velocity"	Sala Conferenze Centro De Giorgi
	15:00- 16:30	Buchwald, Jed "Descartes' Experimental Journey Past the Prism and through the Invisible World to the Rainbow"	Sala Conferenze Centro De Giorgi
	16:30- 18:00	Ducheyne, Steffen "Facing the Limits of "Deductions from Phenomena:" The Quest for a Mathematical-Demonstrative Optics"	Sala Conferenze Centro De Giorgi
Wed 15 Sep	9:00- 10:30	Jesseph, Douglas "Abstract Symbols and Concrete Magnitudes"	Sala Conferenze Centro De Giorgi
	10:30- 12:00	Gingras, Yves "The Role of Formal Analogies in the Mathematization of Science"	Sala Conferenze Centro De Giorgi
	15:00- 16:30	Guicciardini, Niccolò "Qualifying the Received View on the Birth of Analytical Mechanics: The Case of Johann Bernoulli’s Study of Motion in Resisting Media"	Sala Conferenze Centro De Giorgi
	16:30- 18:00	Gaukroger, Stephen "D’Alembert, Euler and Rational Mechanics: What Mechanics Does Not Tell Us about the World"	Sala Conferenze Centro De Giorgi
Thu 16 Sep	9:00- 10:30	Wardhaugh, Benjamin "The End of 'Harmonics'?"	Sala Conferenze Centro De Giorgi
	10:30- 12:00	Bennett, James "The Place of Instruments in the Expanding Role of Mathematics"	Sala Conferenze Centro De Giorgi