Science Teaching in Early Modern Europe
  International conference
 

Florence, 5 - 7 June 2003

Programme

5 June. Tradition and innovation

9.30-12.45
Aristotelian Natural Philosophy and the Jesuits

Wellcome address
PAUL RICHARD BLUM (Loyola College, Baltimore, MD)
  The Principles of Nature according to Benedictus Pererius and the Philosophy of Nature of his time
RIVKA FELDHAY (The Cohn Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Ideas, Tel Aviv)
  Can the Earth be moved by a machine? Remarks on the transmission of mechanical knowledge by Jesuits

12.00-12.45 Discussion

13.00 Lunch

14.30-17.30
Jesuits

MICHAEL J. GORMAN (Stanford University, California)
  Private lessons: The Mathematical Cubiculum of the Collegio Romano
MARCUS HELLYER (Brandeis University, Waltham, MA)
  Experimenting in the Jesuit classroom
ROMANO GATTO (Università della Basilicata, Potenza)
  Cristoforo Clavio’s "Ordo servandus in addiscendis disciplinis mathematicis" and Mathematics teaching in early modern Jesuit colleges

16.45-17.30 Discussion

6 June. National contexts (Universities, colleges and courts)

9.30-12.45

FEDERICA FAVINO (Istituto Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples)
  Mathematics and mathematicians at the University of Rome "La Sapienza"
(17th - 18 th centuries)
DAVID A. LINES (University of Miami, Florida)
  Natural Philosophy and Mathematics in 16th century Bologna
VICTOR NAVARRO BROTÓNS (Universitat de València)
  Teaching mathematical disciplines in Spain in the 16th century

12.00-12.45 Discussion

13.00 Lunch

14.30-17.30

KLAAS VAN BERKEL (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
  “Mathematica hic frigent”. On the decline of Mathematics teaching in the Dutch Republic in the 17th century
MORDECHAI FEINGOLD (Caltech, Pasadena, CA)
  Scientific teaching in early modern England: The case of Optics
LAURENCE BROCKLISS (Magdalen College, Oxford)
  The moment of no return: The University of Paris and the death of Aristotle
ISABELLE PANTIN (Université Paris X, Nanterre)
  Teaching Astronomy in France: The Collège Royal (1550 - 1650)

16.45-17.30 Discussion


7 June. Disciplines (curricula and textbooks)

9.30-12.45
Chemistry

BRUCE T. MORAN (University of Nevada, Reno)
  Axioms, essences and mostly clean hands: Teaching Chemistry with Libavius and Aristotle
ANTONIO CLERICUZIO (Università di Cassino)
  Chemical textbooks in the 17th century
MARCO BERETTA (Università di Bologna)
  Between Medicine and Natural Philosophy: Hermann Boerhaave and the teaching of Chemistry

12.00-12.45 Discussion

13.00 Lunch

14.30-17.30
Mathematics, Astronomy, Geography

ADAM MOSLEY (Trinity College, Cambridge)
  Scientific instruments and the teaching of Mathematics and Astronomy in the 16th century
LESLEY B. CORMACK (University of Alberta, Canada)
  Maps and texts: Geography teaching in the early modern universities
FILIPPO CAMEROTA (Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia)
  Teaching Euclid in a practical context: Linear perspective and practical Geometry

16.45-17.30 Discussion


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