Polemics and Defamation in Early Modern Science

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The University of Innsbruck will host a hybrid conference entitled “Saeva Scientia: Polemics and Defamation in Early Modern Science.”

Friday 1 July

Dominik Berrens (Innsbruck) – Introduction: Forms of Polemics and Defamation in Early Modern Science

Ludovica Sasso (Münster) – From Enemy in Real Life to dramatis persona: Poggio and Valla between Philological Criticism and Literary Construction

Karl Enenkel (Münster) – Zwischen polemischer Besitzergreifung und Plagiat: Erasmus‘ Apophthegmata

Robert Seidel (Frankfurt) – On the Justification of Envy among Scholars. The Debate De licita invidentia in Dissertations of the Early Modern Period

Daniel Margócsy (Cambridge) – The Republican Army of Letters: Military Metaphors and Scholarly Networks in Early Modern Science

Grigory Vorobyev (Innsbruck) – Reference Omission as a Polemic Tool in Early Modern Zoological Writings

Saturday 2 July

Julia Heideklang (Tübingen) – In the Arena of Science: Mattioli against His Critics

Irina Tautschnig (Innsbruck) – Teaching Copernicus a Lesson: Jacob Balde and the Fixed Sun

Sarah Lang (Graz) – Non ille Bombastus! Iatrochymist Michael Maier’s Invectives and His Defenses of Alchemy

Eva Sahr (Würzburg) – Averroes impius καὶ τρὶς κατάρατος: Humanist Attacks on Averroes in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Friday 1 and Saturday 2 July 2022, 9:30–18:30 CEST

Source: https://www.uibk.ac.at/projects/noscemus/saeva-scientia.html

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