SCIENTIFIC CULTURE IN EARLY MODERN ROME

Colloquium organised by the
École française de Rome and the Warburg Institute in association with the
Centre Alexandre Koyré (CNRS-MNHN-EHESS)
10 - 11 October 2003

http://www.sas.ac.uk/warburg

FRIDAY 10 OCTOBER
09.30 Doors open: registration
10.00 Welcome: Charles Hope

FIRST SESSION: Science, Culture and Religion
Chair: Katharine Park

10.15 Antonella Romano
Introductory paper

11.00 Maarten Delbeke
The truth value of art from a theological perspective in mid 17th-century Rome

11.30 Coffee

12.00 Jonathan Woolfson
Apian monarchy and Papal monarchy

12.30 Maria Pia Donato
Science and the Inquisition: a reassessment of late 17th-century Atomism

1.15 Lunch (for invited guests)

SECOND SESSION: Patronage and Knowledge
Chair: Charles Hope

2.15 Paula Findlen
Introductory paper

3.00 Pamela Long
Rome, 1560-1612. Knowledge, power and urbanization: are these three
entities related and, if so, how?

3.30 Laurent Pinon
Ulisse Aldrovandi between Rome and Tuscany: books for patronage or
patronage for books?

4.00 Tea

4.30 Maria Conforti
Medicine, patronage and books: the early years of the Biblioteca Lancisiana

5.00 Lucia Dacome
Prospero's tools: anatomical stratagems in the Catholic Enlightenment

5.30 Discussion

6.15 Wine Reception

7.00 Buffet Supper (for invited guests)

SATURDAY 11 OCTOBER

10.00 Doors open
THIRD SESSION: The Culture of Experiment
Chair: Antonella Romano

10.15 Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Introductory paper

11.00 David Gentilcore
"I am in possession of a most perfect remedy": the licensing of charlatans
and their medicines in early modern Rome

11.30 Coffee

12.00 Hiro Hirai
"De novo" or "ex semine": Kircher and the problem of spontaneous generation

12.30 Federica Favino
The "Fisicomatematici" and the vacuum

1.15 Lunch (for invited guests)

FOURTH SESSION: Round Table
Chair: Jill Kraye

2.15 General discussion with contributions from:

Jean-Marc Besse, Robert Iliffe, Antonio Clericuzio, Katharine Park, Harold
Cook, Simon Schaffer, Silvia De Renzi, Nancy Siraisi, Simon Ditchfield,
Stephane Van Damme, Pascal Dubourg Glatigny

5.30 CLOSE

Admission £10.00 per day.

For further information contact Elizabeth Witchell at the Warburg Institute.
Tel: (020) 7862 8949 or email:Elizabeth.Witchellsas.ac.uk