Konf: Between Orient and Occident: Transformation of Knowledge - Deutsches Museum, München November 6-7, 2009
Konf: Between Orient and Occident: Transformation of
Knowledge - Deutsches Museum, München November 6-7, 2009
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http://www.gn.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/konferenz
To Register, write to: transformation@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
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Friday, November 6, 2009
10.00–10.30 Registration, coffee and tea
Session 1: Early Transmission in the East
10.30–11.00 Opening and Introduction
11.00–11.40 John Steele (Browne University, Providence RI): From
numerical schemes to mechanical gears: a new form of the transmission of
Babylonian astronomy to Greece
11.40–12.20 Kim Plofker (Union College, Schenectady NY): “Indian” and
“Yavana”: Foreign identity in the transmission of the exact sciences
12.20–13.30 Lunch
13.30–14.10 Hidemi Takahashi (University of Tokyo, Japan): What remains
of the mathematical sciences in Syriac–From Sergius of Resh‘aina and
Severus Sebokt to Barhebraeus and Patriarch Ni‘matallah
14.10–14.50 Peter E. Pormann (Warwick University, UK): The formation of
the Arabic pharmacology. Between transmission and innovation
14.50–15.20 Tea and coffee
Session 2: Earliest Transmission to Medieval Europe
15.20–16.00 Bruce Eastwood (University of Kentucky, Lexington): Students
and teachers of Latin astronomy from Roman schools to the Carolingian
court and cloister into the eleventh century
16.00–16.40 David Juste (University of Sydney, Australia): The transfer
of Arabic and Hebrew onomancy into Latin: the case of the Alchandreana
16.40–17.10 Break
17.10–17.50 Pieter De Leemans (De Wulf-Mansion Centre, Leuven, Belgium):
The Paradox of the Fides Interpres. Remarks on the transformation of
Aristotelian Thought in the Middle Ages
17.50–18.30 Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute, London): The multiple
translations of Ptolemy in the Middle Ages
19.30 Conference dinner
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Session 3: From Islam to Europe
09.30–10.10 Renate Smithuis (University of Manchester, UK): Transmission
strategies in medieval science: the case of Abraham ibn Ezra
(1089/92-1164/67)
10.10–10.50 Warren Van Egmond (Tempe AZ, USA): The Transformation of
algebra from Arabic to Latin to Italian
10.50–11.20 Coffee and tea
11.20–12.00 Stefan Schröder (Universität Kassel, Germany): The transfer
and transformation of Arabic-Islamic knowledge in mediaeval European
maps
12.00–12.40 Sonja Brentjes (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain): The cultural
potpourri of visual knowledge in portolan charts of the fourteenth
century
12.40–13.50 Lunch
Session 4: Byzantium and the European Renaissance
13.50–14.30 Anne Tihon (Université Catholique, Louvain-de-la-Neuve,
Belgium): Success and failure of foreign astronomical tables in
Byzantium
14.30–15.10 Michael H. Shank (University of Wisconsin, Madison): In the
Wake of Bessarion’s Greek Almagest: The Circulation of Ptolemy in the
Fifteenth Century
15.10–15.40 Tea and coffee
15.40–16.20 Dag Nikolaus Hasse (Julius-Maximilians-Universität,
Würzburg): The Transformation of Arabic Astrology in Renaissance
Humanism
16.20–17.00 Jan P. Hogendijk (Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands):
Parallel Transformations: Two rules of Brahmagupta in the Islamic world
and the Dutch republic
17.00–18.00 Round table discussion
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Benno van Dalen
Lehrstuhl für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften
Museumsinsel 1, 80538 München
089-2180 73938
Transformation@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Themabeschreibung, Programm, Zusammenfassungen der Vorträge und
praktische Infos zur Konferenz:
http://www.gn.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/konferenz
Knowledge - Deutsches Museum, München November 6-7, 2009
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http://www.gn.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/konferenz
To Register, write to: transformation@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
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Friday, November 6, 2009
10.00–10.30 Registration, coffee and tea
Session 1: Early Transmission in the East
10.30–11.00 Opening and Introduction
11.00–11.40 John Steele (Browne University, Providence RI): From
numerical schemes to mechanical gears: a new form of the transmission of
Babylonian astronomy to Greece
11.40–12.20 Kim Plofker (Union College, Schenectady NY): “Indian” and
“Yavana”: Foreign identity in the transmission of the exact sciences
12.20–13.30 Lunch
13.30–14.10 Hidemi Takahashi (University of Tokyo, Japan): What remains
of the mathematical sciences in Syriac–From Sergius of Resh‘aina and
Severus Sebokt to Barhebraeus and Patriarch Ni‘matallah
14.10–14.50 Peter E. Pormann (Warwick University, UK): The formation of
the Arabic pharmacology. Between transmission and innovation
14.50–15.20 Tea and coffee
Session 2: Earliest Transmission to Medieval Europe
15.20–16.00 Bruce Eastwood (University of Kentucky, Lexington): Students
and teachers of Latin astronomy from Roman schools to the Carolingian
court and cloister into the eleventh century
16.00–16.40 David Juste (University of Sydney, Australia): The transfer
of Arabic and Hebrew onomancy into Latin: the case of the Alchandreana
16.40–17.10 Break
17.10–17.50 Pieter De Leemans (De Wulf-Mansion Centre, Leuven, Belgium):
The Paradox of the Fides Interpres. Remarks on the transformation of
Aristotelian Thought in the Middle Ages
17.50–18.30 Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute, London): The multiple
translations of Ptolemy in the Middle Ages
19.30 Conference dinner
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Session 3: From Islam to Europe
09.30–10.10 Renate Smithuis (University of Manchester, UK): Transmission
strategies in medieval science: the case of Abraham ibn Ezra
(1089/92-1164/67)
10.10–10.50 Warren Van Egmond (Tempe AZ, USA): The Transformation of
algebra from Arabic to Latin to Italian
10.50–11.20 Coffee and tea
11.20–12.00 Stefan Schröder (Universität Kassel, Germany): The transfer
and transformation of Arabic-Islamic knowledge in mediaeval European
maps
12.00–12.40 Sonja Brentjes (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain): The cultural
potpourri of visual knowledge in portolan charts of the fourteenth
century
12.40–13.50 Lunch
Session 4: Byzantium and the European Renaissance
13.50–14.30 Anne Tihon (Université Catholique, Louvain-de-la-Neuve,
Belgium): Success and failure of foreign astronomical tables in
Byzantium
14.30–15.10 Michael H. Shank (University of Wisconsin, Madison): In the
Wake of Bessarion’s Greek Almagest: The Circulation of Ptolemy in the
Fifteenth Century
15.10–15.40 Tea and coffee
15.40–16.20 Dag Nikolaus Hasse (Julius-Maximilians-Universität,
Würzburg): The Transformation of Arabic Astrology in Renaissance
Humanism
16.20–17.00 Jan P. Hogendijk (Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands):
Parallel Transformations: Two rules of Brahmagupta in the Islamic world
and the Dutch republic
17.00–18.00 Round table discussion
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Benno van Dalen
Lehrstuhl für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften
Museumsinsel 1, 80538 München
089-2180 73938
Transformation@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Themabeschreibung, Programm, Zusammenfassungen der Vorträge und
praktische Infos zur Konferenz:
http://www.gn.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/konferenz