Thomas Harriot in Global and Local Contexts (I)
An online conference organised by the Thomas Harriot Seminar and hosted by The Warburg Institute. Convenor: Dr Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University London) The English mathematician and natural philosopher Thomas Harriot […]
Thomas Harriot in Global and Local Contexts (II)
An online conference organised by the Thomas Harriot Seminar and hosted by The Warburg Institute. Convenor: Dr Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University London) The English mathematician and natural philosopher Thomas Harriot […]
Recipes Transformed: 17th-Century Perspectives
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 […]
Common Knowledge and Private Property in the Mathematical Republic of Letters
The next online Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar (EMPHASIS) at the University of Oxford will host Abram Kaplan (Harvard University) on “The Advancement of Mathematical Learning: Common Knowledge […]
Artisanal Practices and Mathematics in the Early Modern Period
The next Early Modern Philosophy webinar at the University of Bucharest and Princeton University will host a panel entitled “On Trading Zones between Scholars and Craftsmen: Artisanal Practices and Mathematics […]
Renaissance Mathematics as Pleasure Reading
The Reappraising the “Art of Counting”. An international symposium to celebrate 500 years of Cuthbert Tunstall’s De arte supputandi libri quattuor (British Society for the History of Mathematics / Durham […]
Encyclopedism in Sixteenth-Century Iran
The next Work-in-Progress hybrid seminar at the Warburg Institute will host James White (Warburg Institute) on “Interpreting Antiquity: Encyclopedism in Sixteenth-Century Iran.” Wednesday 16 November 2022, 14:00–15:30 GMT Source: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/work-in-progress-white
A Cultural Kinematics of Astral Knowledge
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 […]
17th-Century Experiments and the Sino-European Scientific Exchange
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 […]