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Angela Axworthy

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Jan 2017-Dec 2023)

PhD

Angela Axworthy was awarded a PhD in philosophy in 2011 (C.E.S.R., Tours, France) with a dissertation on the epistemology of mathematics in the thought of the sixteenth-century French mathematician Oronce Fine, for which she received in 2012 the doctoral dissertation prize of the French Society of History of Sciences and Techniques (S.F.H.S.T.). She was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (2012–2016) and, in the framework of the Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge, at the Technische Universität Berlin (2017–2018). She is currently a Gerda Henkel Stiftung Postdoctoral Fellow, as well as a visiting scholar at the Department I of the MPIWG. Her research focuses on Renaissance epistemology of mathematics in its diverse aspects, among them medieval and Renaissance geocentric cosmology, sixteenth-century practical geometry, and the early modern Euclidean tradition. She is the author of Le Mathématicien renaissant et son savoir. Le statut des mathématiques selon Oronce Fine (Paris, Classique Garnier, 2016). Her forthcoming book, to be published with Birkhäuser, is entitled Motion and Genetic Definitions in the Sixteenth-century Euclidean Tradition.

Projects

Making Euclid Practical: The Impact of Practical Geometry on the Euclidean Tradition in the Sixteenth Century

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The Status of Practical Geometry and Its Relations to Theoretical and Applied Geometrical Knowledge in Sixteenth-century Treatises of Practical Geometry

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The Transmission of Cosmological Conceptions in the Paduan Sacrobosco Tradition from the Fifteenth to the Sixteenth Century

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The Commentaries on Sacrobosco’s Sphaera by Prosdocimo de’ Beldomandi and Bartolomeo Vespucci (1531)

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Past Events

Lecture

The Intrinsic Place. Space as a Measurable Entity in Early Modern Art and Science

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Predoctoral Event

Land Ahoy!

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Summer Colloquium

The Purpose, Modalities and Limits of the Admission of Movement in the Definition and Study of Geometrical Objects in the Sixteenth-century Euclidean Tradition: Oronce Fine, Jacques Peletier and Christoph Clavius

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Presentations, Talks, & Teaching Activities

The transformation of Euclid’s Elements in sixteenth-century treatises of practical geometry

Workshop: Euclid on the Road. Cross-cultural transmission, translation and transformationof the Elements, SPHere (CNRS), MPIWG, Berlin

Paper instruments as tools of unification in early modern practical mathematics

European Society for the History of Science Biennial Conference 2018, in conjunction with the British Society for the History of Science

Practical geometry in sixteenth-century France

Oberseminar in history of mathematics, University of Wuppertal

Practical mathematics in early modern Europe

Hauptseminar in History of Science Department, Technische Universität, Berlin

Oronce Fine: from the edition of Sacrobosco’s Sphaera (1516) to the Cosmographia, sive sphaera mundi (1532)

Workshop: The Authors of the Early Modern Commentaries on De sphaera, MPIWG, Berlin

Jacques Peletier du Mans (1517-1582) and Christoph Clavius (1538-1612) on the superposition of geometrical figures : a sixteenth-century debate on the ontological and epistemological status of geometrical objects and procedures

HU, Berlin

The Euclidean Definition of the Sphere in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance: from the commentaries on Sacrobosco’s Sphere to the commentaries on Euclid’s Elements

MPIWG, Berlin

La forme des traités de mathématiques pratiques d’Oronce Fine

Université Bordeaux-Montaigne

http://uranus.msha.fr/formesdusavoir/index.php/travaux/seminaires/formes-du-savoir
The epistemological and ontological background of the debate on superposition between Jacques Peletier du Mans (1517-1582) and Christophorus Clavius (1538-1612)

Ghent, Belgium

http://www.hopos2014.ugent.be
“Sixteenth-century Interpretations of the Nature and Use of Motion in Geometry”, The Mechanization of Geometry. From Antiquity to the Modern Age

MPIWG, Berlin

The notion of flow of the point as a principle of generation of the line in the Renaissance Euclidean tradition

HEST, Limoges

Renaissance interpretations of the geometrical notion of rhusis

MPIWG, Berlin

The Purpose, Modalities and Limits of the Admission of Movement in the Definition and Study of Geometrical Objects in the Sixteenth-century Euclidean Tradition: Oronce Fine (1494-1555), Jacques Peletier du Mans (1517-1582) and Christoph Clavius (1538-1611)

MPIWG, Berlin

Le statut des objets géométriques dans le commentaire des Éléments d’Euclide de Jacques Peletier du Mans (1557)

SPHERE (CNRS), Paris

http://www.sphere.univ-paris-diderot.fr/?lang=fr

News & Press

Summer 2018 Lecture Series in the “History of Knowledge” announced

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