Sight and Light in the Late Middle Ages
Leuven
Belgium
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Monday 12 June
Auditorium Emma Vorlat, Leercentrum Agora, Edward Van Evenstraat 4
09:00-09:10 Welcome Address
The Rise of Perspectiva
chair: Andrea Aldo Robiglio (KU Leuven)
09:10-10:10 A. Mark Smith (Missouri University)
Atmospheric Optics and Celestial Observation According to Perspectivist Analysis
10:20-11:20 Cecilia Panti (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”)
From linee radiales to linee visuales, and Return. The Swing of perspectiva in 13th-Century Theories of Vision
11:30-12:30 José Filipe Silva (University of Helsinki)
What Do You See? On the Nature of Objects of Visual Perception
12:30-14:00 lunch break
Optical Literacy
chair: Russell Friedman (KU Leuven)
14:00-15:00 Maria Sorokina (IRHT, CNRS, Paris)
The Luminous Bodies without Light. The Empyrean Heaven and the Sphere of Fire
15:20-16:20 Mattia Mantovani (KU Leuven)
The Bestiary of the Eyes. Animal Vision in the Late Middle Ages
16:30-17:30 Francesca Galli (Universität Zürich)
Optics from the Pulpit at the Turn of the 13th Century
Tuesday 13 June – Auditorium Emma Vorlat
The Institutionalization of Perspectiva
chair: Clelia Crialesi (KU Leuven)
09:00-10:00 Aurora Panzica (Université de Fribourg)
A Terrestrial or Celestial Light? The Milky Way: A Challenge to Aristotle's Cosmology
10:10-11:10 Lukáš Lička (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Between Peckham and Buridan. Visual Representation in 15th-Century Vienna Disputations
11:20-12:20 Dominique Raynaud (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Variations on the Principle of Least Time before Fermat
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