Spaces, Knots and Bonds : At The Crossroads Between Early Modern "Magic" and "Science"

June 21, 2012 - June 23, 2012
Université de Paris 7 Diderot

Observatory of Paris
77 av. Denfert-Rochereau
Paris
France

Sponsor(s):

  • Projet PNEUMA : l'espace de l'esprit - ANR-09-SSOC-056, SPHERE (CNRS, UMR 7219)
  • SYRTE (CNRS, UMR 8360)
  • l'Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand)

Organisers:

Jonathan Regier
Université de Paris 7 Diderot
Koen Vermeir
Université de Paris 7 Diderot

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Thursday, June 21
Observatory of Paris, salle Cassini, 77 av. Denfert-Rochereau, Paris 14e
RER B : Denfert-Rochereau, Port-Royal
METRO : Denfert-Rochereau, lines 4 & 6

13:30 Welcome Address by Jonathan Regier and Koen Vermeir (Université Paris Diderot, SPHERE)

13:40 Introduction of Projet PNEUMA: Phillipe Hamou (Université Charles de Gaulle Lille III), Laurent Jaffro (Université Paris I)

14:00 -- 17:00 Cosmological Space : Metaphysics and Theology
Chair : Michela Malpangotto

14:00 Michel Blay (CNRS)

De l'espace de Bruno aux enjeux philosophiques de l'infini au XVIIe siècle

15:15 Coffee break

15:45 Brian Copenhaver (UCLA)
Vico on God, Space and Air : Not the New Science

Friday, June 22

Université Paris 7, salle 454A Luc Valentin, 4 rue Elsa Morante, Paris 13e metro line 14 and RER C : Bibliothèque François Mitterrand

10:00 -- 12:30 Voyages in space
Chair : Philippe Hamou

Ofer Gal (University of Sydney)
Two Bohemian Journeys : Motion in New Spaces at the turn of the 17th century

Thibaut Maus de Rolley (Oxford)
Le diable en mouvement : conceptions et représentations de l'espace dans le discours démonologique (XVIe-XVIIe siècles)

12:45 -- 13:45 Lunch

14:00 -- 18:00 How spaces are connected : Space and Causal Schemes 
Chair : Claire Schwartz

14:00  Roger Ariew (University of South Florida)
Leibniz and the Petrifying Virtue of the Place

15:15 Coffee Break

15:30 -- 18:00  Luc Peterschmitt (Projet PNEUMA)
L'organisation circulatoire de l'espace dans la tradition chimique

Hiro Hirai (Radboud University)
Celestial Influences and Cosmic Bonds in Renaissance Embryology after Pico

Saturday, June 23

Université Paris Diderot, salle 454A Luc Valentin, 4 rue Elsa Morante, Paris 13e
metro line 14 and RER C : Bibliothèque François Mitterrand

10:00 -- 12:30 Mental Spaces
Chair : Roberto Poma

Jonathan Regier (Université Paris Diderot, SPHERE)
Of Sun, Star and Mind : Geometry as Cause and Knowledge in Keplerian Spaces

Delphine Bellis (Ghent University)
La perception mentale de l'espace dans les théories de la vision de
Kepler et Descartes

12:45 -- 13:45 Lunch

14:00 -- 18:00 Representing and Structuring Space
Chair : Koen Vermeir (Université Paris Diderot/CNRS, SPHERE)

14:00  Vincenzo de Risi (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
The Birth of Space in the Renaissance : from Metaphysics to Geometry

15:15 Coffee Break

15:30 -- 18:00
Jean-Marc Besse (CNRS)
Schématisations de l'espace et formes de l'écriture géographique au
tournant des XVIe et XVIIe siècles en Europe

Jean Seidengart (Université Paris 10)
La structure de l'espace physique infini dans la cosmologie de Giordano Bruno

Scientific Committee:

Phillipe Hamou (Université Charles de Gaulle Lille III), Laurent Jaffro (Université Paris I), David Rabouin (SPHERE), Michela Malpangotto (SYRTE)

This conference is part of the project PNEUMA:http://anr-pneuma.fr/

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