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

13 September 2010 - 16 September 2010

Timetable

Weeks: [Mon 13 Sep - Thu 16 Sep]
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