Speakers
Claudia Dumitru (University of Bucharest), Dana Jalobeanu, Silvia Manzo (National University of La Plata), Cesare Pastorino (TU Berlin), Doina-Cristina Rusu (University of Bucharest),
Koen Vermeir (CNRS, SPHERE)
Organisatione
Dana Jalobeanu and Koen Vermeir
With the support of the Laboratoire SPHERE (UMR7219, CNRS–Universities Paris Diderot and Paris 1) .
10:00
Dana Jalobeanu and Koen Vermeir
Introduction
10:30
Silvia Manzo (National University of La Plata)
KEYNOTE: Pretergenerations and strange facts in Sylva Sylvarum.
11.30 Coffe–Break
11:45 – 12:30
Cesare Pastorino (TU Berlin)
Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum and mechanical arts: a refutation of Deborah Harkness’s thesis.
14:00 – 16:00
Roundtable 1 : Bacon’s methods and forms of philosophizing: The Sylva and its contexts.
9:30 opening
10:00
Roundtable 2 : Spirits and pneumatic substances in the Sylva Sylvarum.
12:00 Break
12:15
Doina-Cristina Rusu (University of Bucharest)
Ants, Spiders and Bees. Sources, Experiments and Causal Explanations in Sylva sylvarum.
13:00 Lunch
14:00– 14:45
Claudia Dumitru (University of Bucharest)
The irreducibility of sound to motion in Francis Bacon and the Aristotelian Tradition.
Université Paris Diderot,
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plan d’accès.
Metro: line 14 & RER C, stop: Bibliothèque François Mitterrand or line 6, stop: Quai de la gare.
Bus: 62, 64, 89 (stop: Bibliothèque François Mitterrand), 325 (stop: Watt)