Matteo Valleriani

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Talks and presentations

April 2013 – Institute’s Colloquium, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin – The Renaissance Engineer’s Nature
December 2010 – Mathematical Life in the Dutch Republic - The Lorentz Center. Leiden, The Netherlands – Practical and Theoretical Knowledge in Early Modern Italy
June 2010 – Fabrique et usage du jardin du XIVe au XVIIe siècle. Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours, France – The Garden of Pratolino: Ancient Science on the Workbench of the Renaissance Engineer
January 2010 – Evening lecture - Sternwarte Bruno H. Bürgel, Berlin – Galileo Engineer
December 2009 – Research Colloquium organized by Klaus Hentschel - Universität Stuttgart, Dept. for History of Sicnce and Technology – Galileo Engineer
December 2009 – Research Colloquium organized by Friedrich Steinle - Technische Universität, Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, Berlin – Galileo Engineer
September 2009 – Annual Meeting of the German Society for the History of Science (Ursula Klein's Panel) - Hannover – Galileo Engineer
November 2009 – HSS Annual Meeting - Phoenix, AZ – Galileo Engineer
April 2009 – BB Lecture organized by Kristie Macrakis - Dept. of History of Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology – Galileo Engineer
April 2009 – Evening lecture organized by Mario Biagioli - Dept. of History of Science, Harvard University – Galileo Engineer
April 2009 – "Garden Panel" organized by K. Park - Dept. of History of Science of Harvard University – Hero’s Pneumatics: An Ancient Framework Tested and Approved at the Garden of Pratolino for the Development of Modern Science
January 2013 – 3rd International Conference of the European Society for Early Modern Philosophy - Grenoble – 16th-century Professionals and Natural Philosophers: A Debate about Nature
November 2008 – Colloquium Dept. II (Lorraine Daston) - Max Planck Institute for the History of Science – Galileo’s Cancelled Project on Acoustic Instruments at the Medici Court
October 2008 – SHOT - Lisboa – The Garden of Pratolino: Material Translation and Transformation of Hero’s Pneumatics
October 2008 – La cultura delle acque dal Medioevo al Rinascimento - Centro Leon Battista Alberti, Mantova (Italy) – Erone rinascimentale: le macchine pneumatiche di Pratolino
July 2008 – Three Societies Meeting - Oxford, UK – Galileo Engineer: Exploring Galileo’s Practical Knowledge
April 2008 – Ludi Naturae. Transformations of an Ancient Topos in Science and Art - Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin (Germany) – The Garden of Pratolino: Ancient Technology Breaks Through Modern Iconology’s Barriers
April 2008 – War in Words - Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin (Germany) – The War in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso: Snap-Shot Of The Passage From Medieval to Early Modern Technology
December 2012 – Thomas Harriot Seminar, Durham – The Renaissance Engineer’s Nature
November 2012 – Annual Meeting of the American History of Science Society, San Diego – Organizer of Session: Experience as a Mechanism of Appropriation and Transformation of Ancient Science Speakers: Joyce van Leeuwen (University of Pittsburgh), Courtney Roby (Cornell University), Harald Siebert (Université de Versailles), and Matteo Valleriani (MPIWG)
September 2012 – Gardening and Knowledge. Landscape Design and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period - University of Hannover – The Organ of the Garden of Tivoli
September 2012 – Tintenfass und Teleskop - Villa Vigoni, Italy – Galileo’s Trattato della Sfera in the Context of the Tradition of Practical Astronomy
June 2012 – Matters of Weight - Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence – Mechanics and the Resistance of Materials
May 2012 – My Anthropocene - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin – Implementation of Water in Antiquity from the Near East to the Borders of the Roman Empire
January 2011 – Technische Universität Berlin. Forschungscolloquium – Dir Struktur des praktischen Wissens. Italien. Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts