ILAS - SISSA Interdisciplinary Lab for Advanced Studies and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin are pleased to invite you to participate in the joint webinar:
“From the Quadrivium to Modern Science”
delivered on Zoom by Matteo Valleriani (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Technische Universität Berlin and Tel Aviv University)
Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 5 p.m. CET
Abstract:
The traditional historical description of the emergence of modern science mostly focuses on singular events such as the 1543 publication of Nicolaus Copernicus’ "De revolutionibus orbis coelestium". This webinar challenges that approach by taking a longer temporal perspective beginning in the late medieval period to consider how scientific knowledge was organized — the quadrivium — and by exploring the mechanisms according to which such organizational schemes continued to change up until the seventeenth century.
This webinar is the second of a series of monthly seminars delivered by leading scholars in history and philosophy of science. The first seminar took place in January and was given by Michel Janssen on the "Evo-Devo of Scientific Knowledge".
The series will continue in the next months with talks by Giulia Rispoli (March 17) on the anthropocene, Don Salisbury and Yin Xiaodong (April 28) on science in China and by Hanoch Gutfreund (May 19) on the history of neuroscience.
These seminars are meant as an opportunity for students, post-docs, and researchers to broaden their cultural perspectives on the scientific enterprise and as a prelude to the conference “The Evolution of Knowledge” that SISSA will host July 14-16, 2022.
The conference is organised jointly by SISSA, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Chinese Academy of Science and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Please contact the Interdisciplinary Laboratoryilas@sissa.it to recieve the zoom link.