PreMaT – Premodern Mathematical Thought (Workshop)
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From: Clelia Crialesi <cleliac...@GMAIL.COM>
Dear colleagues,
It is my pleasure to invite you to PreMaT – Premodern Mathematical Thought : a series of workshops dedicated to philosophy of mathematics between the 13th and 16th centuries in the premodern Latin-speaking world.
All meetings are online. For further information and to register, please contact clelia....@kuleuven.be or visit www.mathematicalia.com/workshops.
Calendar:
September 16, 3pm CET
P. Mancosu (Berkeley, University of California)
How Many Points Are in a Line Segment? From Grosseteste to the Theory of Numerosities
C. Trifogli (University of Oxford)
A Science of mathematicalia in the Quaestiones mathematicae by Radulphus Brito
S. Rommevaux (CNRS Paris)
John Duns Scotus and Walter Chatton on Geometry and the Composition of a Continuum
October 7, 3pm CET
A. Robert (CNRS Paris)
Marco Trevisano (d. 1378) on the Ontology of Numbers
C. Crialesi (KU Leuven)
Can We Imagine Points? Three Different Ways of Conceiving Mathematical Objects According to Marsilius of Inghen
E. Jung & R. Podkonski (University of Łódź)
A New Understanding of the Concept of ‘Points’ and ‘Limits’ in the 14th-Century Philosophy of Nature in Oxford
October 28, 3pm CET
S. Roudaut (University of Stockholm)
The Use of Richard Swineshead’s Calculationes in 15th-Century Natural Philosophy
D. Di Liscia (LMU Munich)
The Latitude of the Forms as a New scientia media
J. Biard (University of Tours)
Blasius of Parma and the Italian Tradition
November 18, 3pm CET
A. Goddu (Stonehill College)
The Renaissance of Greek Mathematics and Early Modern Empiricism
S. Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London)
Beyond the Praeface: John Dee’s Contribution to Billingsley’s Euclid
V. De Risi (CNRS Paris)
The Theory of Axioms in the Middle Ages
Best wishes,
Dr. Clelia Crialesi
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FWO Postdoctoral Fellow
KU Leuven, Institute of Philosophy
Kardinaal Mercierplein 2, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Website: Mathematicalia