Event Description
The online colloquium is organized by the Institute for Research of the University of Bucharest. This is the first colloquium of the research project Recipes, ‘technologies’, experiments: Enactment and the emergence of modern science. The discussions will focus on the transformation of the recipe format from the late sixteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century, encompassing fields as diverse as medicine, husbandry, pneumatics, mechanics, alchemy and practical mathematics.
Thursday 18 November
Arianna Borrelli (Leuphana University of Lünenburg) – Recipes as Tools for Concept Formation in the Work of Giovan Battista Della Porta
Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest) – The “Missing Results” of Bacon’s Tables: Or Reading the Novum Organum in Context
Friday 19 November
Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck University of London) – Going with the Alchemical Flow: Schematizing Laboratory Technique in the Late Sixteenth Century
Georgiana Hedesan (University of Oxford) – Between Incomplete and Philosophical Recipes: Deciphering Van Helmont’s Universal Medicines
Alexandru Liciu (University of Cambridge) – Francis Bacon’s Chain of Being and the Programme of a New Natural Philosophy
Laura Georgescu (University of Groningen) – Philosophising with Objects: The Role of Artefacts in Digby’s Treatise on Body
Doina-Cristina Rusu (University of Groningen) – Distillations, Spirits, and Essences. Experimentation and Matter Theory in the Early Modern Period
Mihnea Dobre (University of Bucharest) – Constructing Experiments with Glass Drops in Jacques Rohault’s Natural Philosophy
Friday 18 and 19 November 2021, 19:00–21:00 CET
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