Baroque Science Workshop 26 September 2006

Participants

Peter Anstey

Luciano Boschiero

Raz Chen-Morris

Lucia Dacome

Ofer Gal

Stephen Gaukroger

Larissa Johnson

Jamie Kassler

Kiran Krishna

James William Ley

Ian Maclean

Alan Maddox

Louise Marshall

Jennifer Milam

David Oldroyd

Alan Salter

Liam Semler

John Schuster

John Sutton

Jennifer Tomlinson

Evelyn Tribble

Andres Vaccari

Ian Wills

Richard Yeo

The Program

9:00 Morning Tea

9:30 Allan Maddox on Ofer Gal's paper

10:30 Coffee Break

10:45 Alan Salter on Ian Maclean's chapter

11:45 Coffee Break

12:00 Liam Semler on Raz Chen's paper

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Luciano Boschiero on John Sutton's paper

15:00 Coffee Break

15:15 Andres Vaccari on John Schuster's chapter

16:15 Afternoon Tea

16:45 Concluding remarks by Stephen Gaukroger and general discussion

17:45 Break

18:30 Dinner

Paper Listings

Ofer Gal

From Divine Order to Human Approximation: Mathematics in Baroque Science.

Ian Maclean

Logic, Signs and Nature in the Renaissance.
Chapter 4
Chapter 5

Raz D. Chen-Morris

From Emblems to Diagrams: Kepler's New Pictorial Language of Scientific Representation.

John Sutton

Spongy Brains and Material Memories

John A. Schuster

The Young René Descartes: Baroque Chap Playing Baroque Natural Knowledge Games in a Baroque Manner?
Chapter III: ‘Recalled to Study’–Descartes, Physico-mathematicus