Recipes, experiments and the new language(s) of natural philosophy in early modern Europe
14-15 October 2022
Organized by Dana Jalobeanu and Oana Matei at the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB-Humanities)
Keynote speakers: Daniel Garber, Jennifer Rampling, Hiro Hirai, Vlad Alexandrescu
Speakers: Raffaella Derosa, Christoffer Basse Eriksen, Benjamin Goldberg, Claire Crignon, Oana Matei, Dana Jalobeanu
This will be an in-person meeting, at the ICUB-Humanities (Dimitrie Brandza str. 1, Bucharest, Romania). We aim to bring together historical and philosophical perspectives upon the origins of early modern experiments and the emergence of experimental philosophy.
Programme
Friday, 14.10.2022
10:00-11:00 Dan Garber (Princeton University), Bacon’s Other Method
11:00-11:10 break
11:10-11:55 Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest), Constructing Baconian Science: Henry Power’s “Experimental Philosophy”
11:55-12:10 coffee break
12:10-12:55 Christoffer Basse Eriksen (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Seeing Atoms: Generation and Circulation in Henry Power’s Natural Philosophy
12:55-13:05 break
13:05-13:50 Oana Matei (University of Bucharest, UVVG), Henry Power’s Observations on Plants
13:50-15:30 lunch break
15:30-16:30 Vlad Alexandrescu (University of Bucharest), Time in Dimitrie Cantemir’s “Sacro-sanctae Scientiae Indepingibilis Imago” (1700)
16:30-16:40 break
16:40-17:25 Claire Crignon (Université de Lorraine), What is at Stake in a Natural History of the Air? Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle
17:25-17:40 coffee break
17:40-18:25 Raffaella Derosa (Rutgers Univeristy), Is the Science of the Mind an Experimental Science? Descartes and Malebranche on Knowledge of the Mind
Saturday, 15.10.2022
10:00-11:00 Hiro Hirai (Columbia University), Pseudo-Paracelsus, Recipes and Experiments
11:00-11:10 break
11:10-11:55 Benjamin Goldberg (University of South Florida), Universal Medicine and Experiment in the Recipe Collections of Margaret and William Cavendish
11:55-12:10 coffee break
12:10-13:10 Jennifer Rampling (Princeton University), Experimenting with Alchemical Imagery in Early Modern England
13:10-13:20 break
13:20-14:05 Barbara di Genarro Splendore (University of Bucharest), Bitter Honey. Recipes and Experiments on Compounds in 17th Century Venice
14:05-15:30 lunch break