Experiments and the Arts of Discovery in the Early Modern Europe

Program:

Sunday, May 12, 2013
Chair: Dana Jalobeanu (Bucharest)

10:00-11:00     Peter Anstey (Sydney), Experimental natural history (keynote lecture)

11:00-11:30     Coffee Break

11:30-12.30     Sergius Kodera (Vienna), The Laboratory as Stage: Giovanni Battista
della Porta’s Experiments

12.30-13.30     Lunch Break
Chair: Cesare Pastorino (Sussex)

13.30-14.30     Arianna Borrelli (Wuppertal), The invisible technique: the emergence of transparent glass and the development of Giovan Battista Della Porta's optical
experiments

14.30-15:00     Coffee break 

15:00-16:00     Evan Ragland (Alabama), Making Trials in Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth-Century Medicine

16:00-16:30     Coffee break

16:30-17:30     Jonathan Regier (Paris),Mathematics and experiment in Kepler's De stella nova (1604)

17:30-18:00     Coffee break

18:00-19:00     Round-up discussion: Experiments in Early Modern Philosophy.
 
Monday, May 13, 2013
Chair: Roger Ariew (South Florida)

10:00-11:00     Daniel Garber (Princeton), Merchants of Light and Mystery Men: Bacon’s Last Projects in Natural History

11:00-11.30     Cofee break

11:30-12.30     Sorana Corneanu (Bucharest), Experimenting with the Operations of the Mind: Medicine and the ‘Intellectual Arts’

12:30-13:30     Lunch break
Chair: Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge)

13:30-14.30     Kathryn Murphy (Oxford), Strategies of Experimental Reading in
Francis Bacon and Dean Christopher Wren

14.30-15:00     Coffee break

15:00-16:00     Vlad Alexandrescu (Bucharest), Descartes et le rêve (baconien) de "la plus haute et plus parfaite science"

16:00-16:30     Coffee break

16:30-19:00     Round-up discussion: Baconian experimentation (Proponents: Dana Jalobeanu, Cesare Pastorino, Mihnea Dobre, Oana Matei, Sebastian Mateiescu, Claudia Dumitru)
 
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Chair: Daniel Garber (Princeton)

10:00-11:00     Mordechai Feingold (Caltech), What was the "Experimental Philosophy'? (keynote lecture)

11:00-11:30     Coffee break

11:30-12:30     Albrecht Heeffer (Ghent), The use of material models in
physico-mathematics

12:30-13:30     Lunch break
Chair: Peter Anstey (Sydney)

13:30-14:30     Koen Vermeir (Paris),  John Wilkins' mathematical experiments and the perpetuity of discovery

14:30-15:00     Coffee break

15:00-16:00     Benedino Gemelli (Bellinzona), Francis Bacon in Isaac Beeckman’s Journal

16:00-16:30     Coffee break

16:30-17:30     Alberto Vanzo (Warwick), Experimental philosophy in late seventeenth-century Italy

17:30-18:00     Coffee break

18:00-19:00     Round-up discussion (Cesare Pastorino)