International Conference for the 3rd centenary of the birth of Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich (Ragusa 1711 - Milano 1787)
International Conference for the 3rd centenary of the birth of Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich (Ragusa 1711 - Milano 1787)
University of Pavia
Pavia, Italy
8 - 11 September 2011
Call for papers
The University of Pavia, together with the Scientific Commission for the National Edition of Boscovich's collected works and correspondence (The Italian National Academy of Sciences, The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Brera, The Pontifical Gregorian University), is glad to announce an International Conference to commemorate the third centenary of the birth of the polymath Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich, who was professor of Mathematics at the University of Pavia from
1764 to 1768.
The Pavia Conference will be attended by the foremost international specialists on Boscovich studies and will enhance the results of other important conferences held in Dubrovnik (1958, 1961, 1987), Milan (1962, 1987), Rome (1988) and Vienna (2008). During the Pavia Conference the results of the project for the digital publication of Boscovich's collected
works and of the translation of some of his major works on natural
philosophy will be presented.
Invited Speakers
Ugo Baldini, University of Padua
?arko Dadi?, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Roger Hahn, University of California, Berkeley
John L. Heilbron, Worcester College, Oxford
Jürgen Renn, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Hans Ullmeier, Forschungszentrum Jülich Gmbh, Jülich
Conference website and Topics:
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Information
<mailto:marni@unipv.it> marni@unipv.it; Skype: marnisticky; tel. + 39 0382
987565 - Fax + 39 0382 987694
Fabio Bevilacqua - Department of Physics "A. Volta" - University of Pavia
Edoardo Proverbio - INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Brera