Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Colloquium “Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space”

Benedetti‘s project of a physics beyond Aristotle

Presentation
Pietro Daniele Omodeo (MPIWG)
Time
Thursday, February 9
3-5 p.m.
Address
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
room 265
Organizers
Research Group “Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space”
Notes
Please contact Vincenzo De Risi for any questions or registration.
 

Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”

Medieval Artists’ Technical Recipes: Use, Re-use, Abuse

Presentation
Mark Clarke (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Time
Monday, February 20
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Address
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Villa
Harnackstraße 5
14195 Berlin
Organizers
Research Group Dupré
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Lecture Series EnergieWissen

Vom Kalten Krieg zum nuklearen Erbe: Sowjetisches Atomprogramm und biomedizinische Forschung

Presentation
Susanne Bauer (MPIWG)
Time
Tuesday, February 21
6.15 pm
Address
FU Berlin, Fachbereich Physik, Arnimallee 14, Hörsaal B, 1.1.01
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Institute's Colloquium

Knowledge in the Artist‘s Studio

Presentation
Sven Dupré
Time
February 22, 2012
3 p.m.
Address
Max-Planck-Institute for the history of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
 

Colloquium “Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space”

Descartes & the virtues of algebraic reasoning in geometry

Presentation
Andrew Arana (Kansas State University)
Time
Thursday, March 1
3-5 p.m.
Address
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
room 265
Organizers
Research Group “Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space”
Notes
Please contact Vincenzo De Risi for any questions or registration.
 

Workshop

Regulating Research

Date
March 16-17, 2012
Organizer
Etienne Benson
Address
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
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Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”

Nature Manufactured: The Artisans’ Touch in Renaissaance Cabinets of Naturalia

Presentation
Valentina Pugliano (MPIWG and University of Oxford)
Time
Monday, March 19
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Address
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Villa
Harnackstraße 5
14195 Berlin
Organizers
Research Group Dupré
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Institute's Colloquium

Natural History Museums as Scientific Repositories and Research Laboratories

Presentation
Martha Fleming
Time
March 21, 2012
3 p.m.
Address
Max-Planck-Institute for the history of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
 

Colloquium “Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space”

Towards an Historical Epistemology of Space

Presentation
Matthias Schemmel (MPIWG)
Time
Thursday, March 22
3-5 p.m.
Address
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
room 265
Organizers
Research Group “Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space”
Notes
Please contact Vincenzo De Risi for any questions or registration.
 

Colloquium “Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space”

What does it mean that ‘Space can be transcendental without the axioms being so’?

Presentation
Francesca Biagioli (Università di Torino)
Time
Thursday, April 19
3-5 p.m.
Address
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
room 265
Organizers
Research Group “Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space”
Notes
Please contact Vincenzo De Risi for any questions or registration.
 

Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”

Historiography and the Display of the Infinite Amount. About Recent Exhibitions

Presentation
Anke te Heesen (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Time
Monday, April 23
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Address
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Villa
Harnackstraße 5
14195 Berlin
Organizers
Research Group Dupré
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Institute's Colloquium

Proving the Parallel Postulate in the Early Modern Age: Philosophy and Mathematics

Presentation
Vincenzo De Risi
Time
April 25, 2012
3 p.m.
Address
Max-Planck-Institute for the history of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
 

Colloquium “Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space”

Formalism and Validation in Greek Mathematics

Presentation
Fabio Acerbi (CNRS, France)
Time
Thursday, May 3
3-5 p.m.
Address
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
room 265
Organizers
Research Group “Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space”
Notes
Please contact Vincenzo De Risi for any questions or registration.
 

Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”

The Strasbourg Tradition : Genesis and Peregrination of Artists’ Recipe Books in Pre-Modern Europe

Presentation
Sylvie Neven (University of Liège, Belgium)
Time
Monday, May 21
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Address
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Villa
Harnackstraße 5
14195 Berlin
Organizers
Research Group Dupré
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Institute's Colloquium

The Place of Mohist Science in a Long-Term History of Knowledge

Presentation
Matthias Schemmel
Time
May 23, 2012
3 p.m.
Address
Max-Planck-Institute for the history of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
 

Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”

Recipes and Ideas: Another Look at the Chymical Diptych of Theory and Practice

Presentation
Lawrence Principe (Johns Hopkins University)
Time
Monday, June 11
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Address
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Villa
Harnackstraße 5
14195 Berlin
Organizers
Research Group Dupré
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Institute's Colloquium

Situating the Brain Between the Natural Science and Humanities

Presentation
Suparna Choudhury/Felicity Callard
Time
June 20, 2012
3 p.m.
Address
Max-Planck-Institute for the history of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
 

Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”

The Glass Puzzle. (Al)chemical Theories on Vitrification

Presentation
Marco Beretta (University of Bologna)
Time
Monday, July 2
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Address
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Villa
Harnackstraße 5
14195 Berlin
Organizers
Research Group Dupré
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Conference

Perspective as Practice

Date
October 12-13, 2012
Full title
Perspective as Practice.
An international conference on the circulation of optical knowledge in and outside the workshop
Organizer
Sven Dupré, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin & Jeanne Peiffer, Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Address
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
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