A Cultural Kinematics of Astral Knowledge

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The University of Copenhagen will host a three-day hybrid conference on “Transmission, Translocation, and Transcreation: A cultural kinematics of astral knowledge.”

13 November 2023

Jean ARZOUMANOV (University of Chicago) and Anuj MISRA (University of Copenhagen) – On the Changing Episteme in Early Modern Sanskrit Astronomy

Eva ORTHMANN (University of Göttingen) – Astrology at the Mughal Court

Adrian PIRTEA – Pseudo-Planets and Eclipse Deities in the Astral Sciences of Medieval Eurasia

14 November 2023

Divna MANOLOVA (Université PSL-Observatoire de Paris) – Aratus in Byzantine Schools: The Case of Vaticanus graecus 191

Matthieu HUSSON (CNRS, Observatoire de Paris) – Historicalities as Components of Astronomical Cultures: A Case Study from Alfonsine Astronomy
Yoichi ISAHAYA (Hokkaido University) – Beyond Commensurability: Chinese Calendar in Islamicate Astronomical Handbook in the Period of the Mongol Empire (1206–1368)

Dror WEIL (University of Cambridge) – The Naturalisation of Arabo-Persian Astral Knowledge in Early-Modern China

15 November 2023

Pouyan REZVANI (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities) – A Comparative Survey of Two Ninth-Century Arabic Translations of Ptolemy’s Almagest: Their Methods and Terminology

Scott TRIGG (Observatoire de Paris) – “I have discerned the flame in the deserts of these mathematical sciences”: Qāḍīzādah al-Rūmī’s Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ and the Transmission of Knowledge in Fifteenth-Century Islamicate Astronomy

Monday 13 to Wednesday 15 November 2023, 9:00–16:00 CET

Source: https://ceemsa.hypotheses.org/conference

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