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International workshop on Cosmology
23 May 2014 @ 09:00 - 18:00
|Heaven and Earth in a Changing World
Old and New Cosmologies
in the Renaissance and the Early Modern Period
Morning
Chair: Carla Rita Palmerino (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
9:00 Delphine Bellis (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen): Welcome and introduction
9:15 Rienk Vermij (University of Oklahoma): Celestial physics and the Copernican system
10:15 Nienke Roelants (Universiteit Gent): The role of Lutheran scepticism in the 16th-century erosion of Aristotelian cosmology (Tycho Brahe, Caspar Peucer)
11:15 Coffee break
11:30 Miguel Angel Granada (Universitat de Barcelona): Heart, centre of the world and principle of motion in the new and the old cosmology
12:30 Lunch
Afternoon
Chair: Delphine Bellis (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
13:30 Pietro Daniel Omodeo (Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin): Necessity and contingency in Renaissance conceptions of natural order
14:30 Steven Vanden Broecke (Universiteit Gent): Doctrina, error and discipline in the debate on Copernican cosmology
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Leen Spruit (Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza & Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen): Censorship of heliocentrism before and after 1633
17:00 Carla Rita Palmerino (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen): Medieval thought experiments in early modern cosmology
Location:
Radboud University Nijmegen
Campus Heyendaal
Room: Gymnasion 6
Heyendaalseweg 141
Nijmegen
Organizer: Delphine Bellis (Center for the History of Philosophy and Science, Radboud University Nijmegen)
Contact: d.bellis@ftr.ru.nl
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