Event Description

The next online Scientiae workshop (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) is entitled “Between Nature and Cognition: Seventeenth-Century Experiments and the Sino-European Scientific Exchange.”

Tuesday 28 January

Defining Toujing: Lenses and Cosmotechnical Perspectives in Late Seventeenth-Century China – Qi Lu

Forging European Authority: Matteo Ricci’s Chinese of The Elements – Dong Han & Xianglong Zhu

How to Brew Gold: William Yworth’s Guide to Crafting Aurum Potabile – Elena Morgana

Wednesday 29 January

Entertaining Questions and Conjectures in Théophraste Renaudot’s Bureau d’adresse – Catherine Abou-Nemeh

Touching Bodies: Maluku Islanders’ Ways of Knowing in the 17th Century – Yunting Gu

Epistemic Frameworks for Experience: The Tabulae from Theodor Zwinger to Francis Bacon – Zongbei Huang

Anatomy and Self-Care: Testing Materia Medica from Eurasia in 17th-Century Florence – Stefano Gulizia

Mathematical Networks and Scientific Experiments in Leibniz’s Correspondence – James O’Hara

 

Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 29 January 2025, 8:00-18:00 CET

Source: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/between-nature-and-cognition-tickets-1208254805649

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