Across the Channel: Intellectual Relations between England and France in the Early Modern Period (Part Two)

10.30am Tea/Coffee - Welcome by Luc Borot (MFO)

Chair: Sabine Rommevaux (CNRS-SPHERE, Paris-All Souls College)

 10.45am  Jackie Stedall (Queen’s College)

John Wallis and the French: his quarrels with Fermat, Pascal, Dulaurens, and Descartes

11.45am  Sébastien Marrone (University of Toulouse)

Geometry across the Channel: Pascal, Wallis, and Newton

Chair: Philip Beeley (Linacre College)

 2.15pm  Per Landgren (Wolfson College)

The use and aims of Logic. Petrus Ramus, Jacobus Zarabella, and Francis Bacon: A preliminary comparison

3.15pm  David Leech (Cambridge)

Henry More and Pierre Poiret: a case of mutual influence

4.15pm Tea/Coffee

Chair: Martine Pécharman (CNRS-MFO)

4.45pm  Sophie Roux (University Pierre-Mendès-France, Grenoble)

From Locke to Malebranche and Back : Ideas with or without Vision in God

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