The Scientific Revolutions of the 16th and 17th Centuries
12 September 2005 - 14 December 2005Invited Speakers
Alexander Jones
Department of Classics, University of Toronto4 September 2005 - 18 September 2005
Seminar: Euclides Analyticus
Talk: Pappus' Collection and the European rediscovery and reconstruction of Greek mathematics
Vincent Jullien
Université de Brest20 October 2005 - 23 October 2005
Seminar: Les éléments de continuité dans les méthodes d’indivisibles
Eberhard Knobloch
Technische Universität Berlin / Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften12 September 2005 - 14 December 2005
20 October 2005 - 23 October 2005
Talk: Leibniz and his theory of infinitesimals
Walter Roy Laird
Carleton University21 November 2005 - 2 December 2005
Seminar: Hero of Alexandria and Sixteenth-Century Mechanics
Course: Mechanics in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries
Course: Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century
Carlo Maccagni
Università di Genova5 December 2005 - 9 December 2005
Seminar: La Theorica Planetarum
Cesare Maffioli
Institute of Advanced Study, University of Bologna24 November 2005 - 26 November 2005
Seminar: The Mechanics of Fluids in 16th- and 17th-century Italy: A Case of Revolution in Science?
Antoni Malet
Universitat Pompeu Fabra17 October 2005 - 23 October 2005
Talk: Some uses of 17th-century indivisibles in physics
Gianni Micheli
Università degli Studi di Milano24 November 2005 - 26 November 2005
Seminar: Il trattato pseudo-aristotelico le Questioni meccaniche
Carla Rita Palmerino
Radboud University Nijmegen6 December 2005 - 7 December 2005
Seminar: Descartes' vortex theory and its internal tensions
Isabelle Pantin
Université de Paris X - Nanterre6 December 2005 - 8 December 2005
Seminar: The meaning of 'instauratio astronomica' from Regiomontanus to Tycho Brahe