Sarton Centre for History of Science

Seminar

Feb 11
Causal Determinism in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period

Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado Boulder)
Seminar
Jan 28
Climates Fetishized: Ideologies of Climatological Citizenship in the Long Nineteenth Century

Vladimir Jankovic (University of Manchester)
Seminar
Oct 29
POSTPONED: English engineer John Smeaton’s experimental method: Optimisation, hypothesis-testing and practical maxims in the early Industrial Revolution.

Andrew Morris (VUB)
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

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
'A different climate has given to shape to a novel species': Early modern climate theories and the debate on anthropogenic climate change

Sara Miglietti (The Warburg Institute)
Seminar

Location: 
Online - Please contact <jonathan.regier@ugent.be> to join

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)