Early Modern Transformations and Adaptations of the Aristotelian Scientific Vocabulary

Description

Organized by Simone Guidi and Enrico Pasini at the Institute for the European Intellectual Lexicon and History of Ideas of the National Research Council of Italy, in collaboration with Aristotelica - A peer-reviewed journal devoted to Aristotle.

Attendance is online only, via Microsoft Teams, and completely free. You can find the access credentials for each session on this Google Sheet: bit.ly/Aristotelica-Seminar. They will be posted a couple of days prior to each seminar.

Program

Session 1 | 17 October 2023, 3PM CET
Christoph Sander • Least Attractive? Aristotelian Presuppositions to Explain Magnetic Movements
Olivier Ribordy • “Nothing New Under the Sun”? Observations of Sunspots and New Views on the World in the Early-modern Period

Session 2 | 07 November 2023, 3PM CET
Daniel Di Liscia • The Notion of impetus in Late Medieval and Early-modern Science
Sylvain Roudaut • The Transformations of Heat in Late Scholastic Natural Philosophy

Session 3 | 14 November 2023, 3PM CET
Erik Åkerlund • Matter in Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza
Enrico Pasini • Aristotle Meets Infinity

Session 4 | 28 November 2023, 3PM CET
Fabrizio Bigotti • Life is the Capacity to Resist Decay. Medical Adaptations of Potentia and Capacitas from Late Scholasticism to Stahl
Yuan Tao • Elusive “Auditory Species” in Jesuit Theories of Sound

Session 5 | 12 December 2023, 3PM CET
Pietro D. Omodeo • Reflections on the Transformation of Cosmological Concepts in Renaissance Naturalism
Iolanda Ventura • Aristotelian Vocabulary in Silvestro Mauro’s Aristotelis Opera
October 17, 2023
December 12, 2023
This online seminar series has ended.

Link for additional information

Organisers

Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche

Sponsoring institution

Aristotelica - A peer-reviewed journal devoted to Aristotle, Institute for the European Intellectual Lexicon and History of Ideas - National Research Council of Italy