Mechanics and Cosmology

Florence, 25 - 27 November 2004

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25 November, 3:00 pm

• • Welcome address
   
• • Marcus Popplow (Brandenburg Technical University, Cottbus)
  Setting the World Machine in Motion: the Meaning of “machina mundi” in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

• • Michael H. Shank (University of Wisconsin)
  Models and Machines in European Astronomy (13th – 15th Centuries)

• • Jürgen Sarnowsky (Universität Hamburg)
  The De Sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco and its Commentators

26 November, 9:30 am

• • Giorgio Strano (Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza)
  Giancarlo Truffa (Milan, Italy)
  An Overview on the Genesis, Development and Fortune of the Geo-heliocentric World System

• • Miguel Angel Granada (Universitat de Barcelona)
  The defence of the movement of the Earth in Rothmann, Maestlin and Kepler: From heavenly geometry to celestial physics

• • Rienk H. Vermij (Universiteit Utrecht)
  Philips Lansbergen: Heavens and Earth According to the Early Dutch Copernicans

26 November, 3:00 pm

• • Mario Otto Helbing (Coldrerio, Switzerland)
  Pier Daniele Napolitani (Università di Pisa)
  Young Galileo Between Ptolemy and Copernicus

• • Carla Rita Palmerino (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
  The Application of Fluid Mechanics to the Study of Planetary Motion in the 17th-Century

• • Jochen Büttner (Max-Planck-Institute für Wissenschaftsgeschichte)
  Galileo's New Mechanics: Challenges Between Earth and Heaven

27 November, 9:30 am

• • Domenico Bertoloni Meli (Indiana University)
  Newton, Descartes and the Role of Experiments in Principia Mathematica

• • Niccolò Guicciardini (Università di Siena)
  “Mechanica rationalis” and “philosophia naturalis” in the Auctoris Praefatio to Newton’s Principia

• • José L. Montesinos (Fundación Canaria Orotava de Historia de la Ciencia)
  From Circularity to Centrifugal Force

Comments by:

Massimo Bucciantini (Università di Siena)
Michele Camerota (Università di Cagliari)
Ofer Gal (University of Sydney)
Romano Gatto (Università della Basilicata)
Christoph Lüthy (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
Víctor Navarro-Brotóns (Universitat de València)
Sophie Roux (Université Pierre Mendès France)
Geert Vanpaemel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Christiane Vilain (Observatoire de Paris - Meudon)

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