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Conference “Julius Caesar Scaliger and Sixteenth-Century Natural Philosophy”
26 June 2015 @ 09:00 - 27 June 2015 @ 15:00
Julius Caesar Scaliger and Sixteenth-Century Natural Philosophy
Radboud University, Nijmegen, 26/27 June 2015
Organized by Kuni Sakamoto and Christoph Lüthy
Program:
Day 1, Friday, June 26
Erasmusplein1, Room 15.39/41
09.00 – 09.15 Welcome
09.15 – 09.30 Introduction
09.30-10.15
Ian Maclean (All Souls College, Oxford): The Scaliger-Cardano Debate Revisited
10.15-11.00
John Henry (University of Edinburgh): “The Element of Fire is Quite Put Out …”: Girolamo Cardano’s Exclusion of Fire from the Elements, and Contemporary Responses
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.15
Guido Giglioni (The Warburg Institute, London): Who’s the Real Averroist Here? Cardano and Scaliger on Radical Aristotelianism
12.15 – 13.45 Lunch break
13.45-14.30
José Manuel García Valverde (University of Seville): Cardano vs. Scaliger on the Conception of God and the Relation between Him and His Creation
14.30-15.15
Kuni Sakamoto (Radboud University): Anti-Naturalism and the “Religion of Form” in Julius Caesar Scaliger
15.15 – 15.45 Coffee break
15.45-16.30
Stefano Perfetti (University of Pisa): Julius Caesar Scaliger on Aristotle’s Animals and Theophrastus’ Plants
Day 2, Saturday, June 27
Faculty Club Huize Heyendael
Geert Grooteplein-Noord 9, 6525 EZ
9.30-10.15
Leen Spruit (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”): Roman Censorship of Cardano and Scaliger
10.15-11.00
Simone De Angelis (University of Graz): The Reception of J.C. Scaliger in Germany: Rudolph Goclenius’ Adversaria ad exotericas exercitationes
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.15
Andreas Blank (University of Paderborn): Antonio Ponce Santacruz vs. Julius Caesar Scaliger on Animal Spirits and Animal Seeds
12.15 – 13.45 Lunch break
13.45-15.00 General Discussion, introduced by Christoph Lüthy (Radboud University)
Organizers and contact persons:
Kuni Sakamoto, Center for the History of Philosophy and Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen (kuni.sakamoto@gmail.com)
Christoph Lüthy, Center for the History of Philosophy and Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen (c.luethy@ftr.ru.nl)
For a fuller program with abstracts, please visit the following page: http://www.ru.nl/ptrs/
Everyone is welcome, but registration should be made by sending an e-mail to Kuni Sakamoto (kuni.sakamoto@gmail.com).
The organizers are also looking for additional authors who would like to contribute to the Conference Proceedings (a book to be published with Brill Publishers) on Julius Caesar Scaliger (and his relationship with Girolamo Cardano). If you are an expert on Scaliger and/or Cardano and would like to be included in this volume, please contact Kuni Sakamoto (kuni.sakamoto@gmail.com).
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