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Experience.
9:00am. Meet for Coffee.
9:30am. Introduction. Audio Intro 1 and Intro 2 David Day, Dean of Science Faculty, University of Sydney
10:00am. First paper by Raz Chen and Ofer Gal (Bar Ilan and Sydney) “The Wig and the Instrument: Radical Instrumentalism from Galileo to Hooke”
Commentator: Nick Dew Audio
10:50 am. Morning Tea.
11:20 am. Second paper by Koen Vermeir (Leuven/Cambridge) “Magnetic Theology as a Baroque Phenomenon.”
Commentator: Raz Chen Audio
12:10 pm. Third paper by Antonio Clericuzio (Cassino) “Chemistry in the 17th Century: practical art or academic discipline?”
Commentator: Stephen Gaukroger (Sydney) Audio
2:00 pm. Fourth paper by Victor Boantza (Toronto) “Chemical Philosophy and Boyle’s Incongruous Philosophical Chemistry”
Commentator: Peter Anstey (Otago) Audio
2:50 pm. Fifth paper by Alan Salter (Sydney)
Commentator: Antonio Clericuzio (Cassino) Audio
3:40 pm. Break for Afternoon Tea.
4:00 pm. Sixth paper by Rivka Feldhay—Tel Aviv “Galilean Science in Jesuit Classes of the 17th Century”
Commentators: Peter Dear and John Schuster (New South Wales) Audio
5:00 pm. Free evening.
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Mathematization.
9:00am. Meet for Coffee.
9:15 am. First paper by Raz Chen (Bar Ilan) “The Formation of Nothing, or Kepler's Visual Economy of Science”
Commentator: Ofer Gal Audio
10:05 am. Second paper by Ofer Gal (Sydney) “From Divine Order To Human Approximation: Mathematics In Baroque Science ”
Commentator: John Schuster (New South Wales) Audio
10:55 am. Morning Tea.
11:15 am. Third paper by Stephen Gaukroger (Sydney) “The problem of calculus: Leibniz and Newton on blind reasoning”.
Commentator: Mark Colyvan (Sydney) Audio
12:05 pm. Fourth paper by Nick Dew (McGill) “The Hive and the Pendulum: Universal Metrology and Baroque Science”
Commentator: Peter Dear Audio
12:55 pm. Break for Blue Mountains trip. Picnic style lunch in car; drive to Blue Mountains.
2:30 pm. Arrive and explore.
6:30 pm. Dinner at Bon Ton.
9:00 pm. Travel back to Sydney.
10:30 pm. Arrive back in Sydney.
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Representation.
9:00 am. Meet for Coffee.
9:15 am. First paper by John Schuster (New South Wales) “What Was the Relation of Baroque Culture to the Trajectory of Early Modern Natural Philosophy? An Historiographical Reflection, Inspired by Maravall’s Culture of the Baroque–Analysis of a Historical Structure”
Commentator: John Sutton (Macquarie) Audio
10:05 am. Second paper by Paula Findlen (Stanford) "Representing Nature: Agostino Scilla and the Painting of Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Italy"
Commentator: Charles Wolfe Audio
10:55 am. Morning Tea.
11:15 am. Third paper by Dror Wahrman (Indiana University) “The eighteenth-century end-run around providence and chance: complexity, causality, and the roots of modern order” (Paper not to be posted)
Commentator: Koen Vermeir (Leuven/Cambridge) Audio
12:05 pm. Free time for Lunch (cafes in Glebe and Thai restaurants in Newtown recommended).
1:35 pm. Fourth paper by Peter Dear (Cornell)
Commentator: John Gascoigne (New South Wales) Audio
2:25 Fifth paper by John Gascoigne (New South Wales)
Commentator: Dror Wahrman (Indiana University) Audio
3:15 pm. Break for 10 min.
3:25 pm. Concluding comments by Stephen Gaukroger. Audio
4:15 pm. Break.
7:00 pm. Dinner at Pasha’s on King Street.
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7:00pm. Casual reception at The Rose. |