Sarton Centre for History of Science

Seminar

Feb 20
On the Oxford Calculators and their Legacy up to Galileo

Sabine Rommevaux-Tani (CNRS)
Seminar

Location: 
Room 1.3, Plateau-Rozier, Jozef Plateaustraat 22

Apr 23
TBA - Regarding Conceptions of the Anthropocene

Giulia Rispoli (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Seminar

Location: 
Room 110.046, Blandijn, Blandijnberg 2

Dec 12
Molding the space of interpretations in quantum mechanics

Markus Hauru (UGent)
Seminar

Location: 
Simon Stevin Room, Plateau-Rozier, Jozef Plateaustraat 22

Mar 19
Joint Seminar with UGent Group for Early Modern Studies

Matteo Valleriani (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)Gwendoline de Mûelenaere (UGent)
Seminar

Location: 
Simon Stevin Room, Plateau-Rozier, Jozef Plateaustraat 22

May 28
On philosophical and scientific self-translation in early modern Europe

Sara Miglietti (The Warburg Institute)
Seminar

Location: 
Simon Stevin Room, Plateau-Rozier, Jozef Plateaustraat 22

Jan 30
Is atomism atheism? A trial (Naples 1688-1697) and a controversy (Giovanni Battista De Benedictis vs. Francesco d’Andrea)

Leen Spruit (Radboud Universiteit)
Seminar

Location: 
Simon Stevin Room, Plateau-Rozier, Jozef Plateaustraat 22

Oct 3
Ideology and the Natural Sciences: A Study of Boris Hessen’s 1927 and 1931 Papers on Sir Isaac Newton

Sean Winkler (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
Seminar

Location: 
Blandijn Building, 3rd floor, Room 130.007 (Camelot)

May 27
New monographs on Giordano Bruno and Spinoza

Manuel Mertens, Jetze Touber
Seminar

Location: 
Blandijn Building 120.012 (2nd floor)

Apr 29
Galen in the Medical Context of the Scientific Revolution

Hiro Hirai (Radboud)
Seminar

Location: 
Plateauzaal (Jozef Plateaustraat 22, Gent)

May 9
Capitalism without Desire? Economic Thinking and the Visualisation of the Biomedical Body c. 1900

Claudia Stein (University of Warwick)
Seminar

Location: 
Room Freddy Mortier Rozier 44