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May 2014
- 00:00
- Conference
Language, Norms, and Forms of Life
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Secundum Quid and Contingentia: Scholastic Concepts in Early Modern Physics
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:30 to 12:00
- Lecture
Cloning California: Oranges, Genetics, and the Mediterranean
- Dept. III
- Tiago Saraiva
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:30 to 18:00
- Workshop
Geometrical, Astronomical and Geographical Notions of Space in the Renaissance
- The Construction of Norms in 17th to 19th-Century Europe & the United States
- Several Speakers
- Michela Malpangotto (CNRS, Paris)
- Anna de Pace (University of Milan)
- Jean-Marc Besse
- Henrique Leitao (University of Lisbon)
- Adam Mosley (Swansea University)
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:30 to 12:00
- Lecture
Knowledge in the Context of Planning: Examples from Prussia
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00 to 17:00
- Colloquium
On the Early History of Subterranean Geometry. Elements of Context and Possible Influences
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00 to 17:00
- Colloquium
Frege’s Grundlagen §64 and the Mathematical Practice of Definitions by Abstraction in the Nineteenth Century
- Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space
- Paolo Mancosu (University of California, Berkeley)
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 16:00
- Colloquium
Modeling, Experimenting, Conserving—Different Uses of Wax in Early Modern Anatomy
- Art and Knowledge in Pre–Modern Europe
- Jenny Boulboullé (MPIWG, University of Amsterdam)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
April 2014
- 15:00 to 18:00
- Colloquium
Geometrizing World Images. How Geometry Shaped R.J. Boscovich’s Natural Philosophy
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 14:00
- Seminar
Doomed to Die: Endangered Races, Science and Modern Settler Colonialism
- Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge about Human Variation
- Sadiah Qureshi (University of Birmingham)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 14:00
- Seminar
The Greenberg Controversy: Studying Language and Prehistory in the Americas
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 16:00
- Colloquium
Which Stones are Precious? Classification and Counterfeit in Early Modern Mineralogy
- Art and Knowledge in Pre–Modern Europe
- Michael Bycroft (MPIWG)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00 to 18:00
- Colloquium
The Telling of the Unattainable Attempt to Avoid the Casus Irreducibilis for Cubic Equations: Cardano’s De Regula Aliza
- Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space
- Sara Confalonieri (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 11:00
- Seminar
Indigenous Biospecimens and the Cryopolitics of Frozen Life
- Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge about Human Variation
- Emma Kowal (University of Melbourne)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:30 to 12:00
- Lecture
What Does a Plan Want? Fragments of a Response from Kuala Lumpur
- Dept. III
- Richard Baxstrom
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
March 2014
- 16:00
- Colloquium
The Mariani Treatise, Court Workshops and Books of Secrets in Late 16th-Century Italy: a Synergy of Art and Science
- Art and Knowledge in Pre–Modern Europe
- Erma Hermens (MPIWG, University of Glasgow)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00 to 18:00
- Colloquium
Renaissance Interpretations of the Geometrical Notion of “Rhusis”
Organizer(s)- Vincenzo de Risi
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00 to 18:00
- Colloquium
L'enseignement de la Géométrie par Conrad Dasypodius, à Strasbourg, au XVIe Siècle
- Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space
- Sabine Rommevaux (CNRS, Paris)
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:00 to 00:00
- Workshop
Early Modern Colour Practices, 1450–1650 II
Organizer(s)- Sven Dupré
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany