From natural history to science

December 6, 2012 - December 7, 2012
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest

Bucharest
Romania

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Workshop Program:
 
Thursday 6th December
 
09:00-09:30  Opening addresses, coffee and cookies

09:30-10:30  Cesare Pastorino (University of Sussex), Francis Bacon’s Early Formulations of
Experientia Literata

10:30-11:00  Coffee Break

11:00-12:00  Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest), Bacon's Mature Form of Experientia Literata and Its Practical Uses

12:00-13:00  Lunch

13:00-14:00  Iovan Drehe (Babes Bolyai University, Cluj), Rhetoric and the Baconian  Experientia Literata

14.00-15.00   Sebastian Mateiescu (University of Bucharest), Francis Bacon on Potential Heat

15.00-15.30   Coffee Break

15:30-17.00  Round-up discussion: Bacon and Experiment

17.00-17.30   Tea, cookies

17.30-18.30    Invited talk: Daniel Andersson (University of Oxford), The Early Reception of
Descartes in Hungary: A New Manuscript.

19:00  Dinner
 
Friday 7th December
 
09:00-09:30  Coffee and cookies

09:30-10:30  Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge University), Francis Willughby and the New Philosophy in Mid-Seventeenth Century England

10:30-11:00  Coffee Break

11:00-12:00  Oana Matei (Western University Vasile Goldis Arad, Romania), Vegetable Philosophy: John Evelyn's Technologies of Amelioration

12:00-13:00  Lunch

13:00-14:00  Claudia Dumitru (University of Bucharest), Robert Hooke’s “Baconian Method”: Memory and Natural History

14:00-14:30  Coffee Break

14:30-15:30   Laura Georgescu (Ghent University), Processes of Experimentation: Gilbert's Investigation of Magnetic Motions

15:30-17:30  Round-up discussion: Forms of Experimentation in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy
 
Organizer: Dana Jalobeanu. Organizing and program committee: Mihnea Dobre, Sandra Dragomir, Claudia Dumitru, Sebastian Mateiescu, Cesare Pastorino

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