Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science

17 October 2022

Invited speakers: Daniel Garber (Princeton University) and Hiro Hirai (Columbia University)

10.00–10.45 Daniel Garber (Princeton University), On the Frontlines of the Scientific Revolution: Living Through Change

10.45–11.00 Coffee break

11.00–11.45 Grigore Vida and Mihnea Dobre (ICUB-Humanities, University of Bucharest), Cosmology and Mosaic Physics. On Géraud de Cordemoy’s Lettre au R.P. Cossart​

11.45-12.00 Coffee break

12.00-12.45 Rodolfo Garrau (Ca’Foscari Venice), Pseudoscience and Early Modern Science

12.45-14.00 Lunch break

14.00-14.45 Hiro Hirai (Columbia University), Early Modern Myth of Anaxagoras the Atomist

14.45–15.00 Coffee break

15.00–15.45 Ioana Bujor (ICUB-Humanities, University of Bucharest), Annotating a Cartesian Textbook on Natural Philosophy: Antoine Le Grand

15.45–16.00 Coffee break

16.00–16.45 Mihnea Dobre and Ovidiu Babes (ICUB-Humanities, University of Bucharest), Jacques Rohault’s Preface to the Traité de physique and its role in the Scientific Revolution of the early modern period

The event will take place at the ICUB-Humanities (Dimitrie Brandza str. 1, Bucharest, Romania).

Organized by Mihnea Dobre and Grigore Vida at the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB-Humanities). The event is organized within the framework of the research project Making Modern Science: tracing the dynamics of a ‘Cartesian Newtonian textbook’ during the Scientific Revolution (CartesianPhysics); PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2019-0841 and Recipes, ‘technologies’, experiments: Enactment and the emergence of modern science; PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-0251, with the support of the ICUB-Humanities.