Adam Olearius, Gottorfische Kunstkammer, Schleswig, 1674, Zurich, Zentralbibliothek

Scientiae: online Turin-Prague seminar, fall 2024

Organizers

Stefano Gulizia (virtual host in Turin) and Vladimír Urbánek (virtual host in Prague)

Hours

16:30-17:30, with roughly 40 minutes for a paper presentation, followed by discussion

Calendar

SEPTEMBER 30

BARBARA BIENIAS

‘There is no new thing under the Sun’: Discussing New Astronomy in Early Modern English Almanacs

OCTOBER 7

SERGIO H. OROZCO-ECHEVERRI

Astrology, Almanacs, and the Global Shift: From Flat Charts to Spherical Maps in Early Modern Ibero-America

OCTOBER 14

THOMAS VOZAR

The Dragoman and the Scholar: Ali Ufki, Isaac Barrow, and the Orientalizing Poetics of De Religione Turcica (1658)

OCTOBER 21

EWA ZAKRZEWSKA

Desiderata, or Experimental Wish List: A Case Study in Information Architecture and Principles of Collaborative Inquiry in the Early Royal Society

OCTOBER 28

MICHAŁ CHOPTIANY

Reforming Calendar and World Chronology in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania: The Case of Joannes Latosinus

NOVEMBER 4

VERONIKA ČAPSKÁ

Multiperspectivity and the Conceptualisation of Gifts, (In)equality, Social Order and Generosity in the Works of Jan Amos Comenius (1592–1670)

NOVEMBER 11

STEFANO GULIZIA

World Chronologies from China to Scandinavia: Christoph Helwig’s Theatrum (1609) and Thomas Bangius’s Caelum Orientis (1657)

NOVEMBER 18

JOHANNA LUGGIN

Heavenly Travels, from Rome to Brazil: Baroque Imagination and Global Science in Valentin Stansel’s Uranophilus (1685)

NOVEMBER 25

GÁBOR PETNEHÁZI

The Dark Side of Catholic Enlightenment: Reinventing and Rationalizing Blood Libel at the Academia Taxiana (1741– 1755)

DECEMBER 2

ODED RABINOVITCH

Aristocratic Science and Book Publishing: The Case of Blaise-François, Comte de Pagan (1603–1665)

DECEMBER 9

JUSTYNA ROGIŃSKA

How Much Did a Woman Calendar-maker Earn? Christina Kirch (1697–1782) and Her Work for the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences

DECEMBER 16

GÁBOR FÖRKÖLI

Commonplacing, Paroemiology, and Knowledge Management at the Lutheran Gymnasium of Strasbourg in the 1580s–90s