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Mathematics from Ancient to Modern Age 2019–2020


Organization : Pascal Crozet, Vincenzo de Risi, Sabine Rommevaux-Tani, (CNRS, SPHERE)

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SCHEDULE 2019-2020

October 18 November 22 December 13 January 17, 2020
!!postponed!!
February 14 March 13 April 24 May 29 June 19

The sessions take place once a month, on Thursdays, from 9.30 am to 12.30 am, Room 646A
University Paris Diderot, Building Condorcet, 4 rue Elsa Morante, 75013 Paris –Map of the campus with access

Details will be displayed on this page from October on

All sessions of SPHERE seminars are suspended from March 15 due to covid-19. We hope to be able to provide further updates and to see you soon.



October 18, 2019

  • Pierre Agéron (University of Caen)
    Le traité d’arithmétique d’Ibrāhīm al-Balīshṭār (v. 1575) : élaboration d’un hybride euro-islamique


November 22

  • Arilès Remaki (Univ. Paris Diderot, SPHERE)
    Combinatoire et calcul différentiel chez Leibniz - analogie et approximation


December 13, !! 9:30am – 6pm, Room 366A !!



Euclid on the road transcultural, Workshop III: On Clavius’ Edition of Euclid

Study Day organised by V. de Risi (CNRS, SPHERE, & MPIWG), with the support of SPHERE and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin

9:30am Welcome
9:45am–11:00am Eberhard Knobloch (Berlin–Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin)
On Clavius’s contributions to the mathematical sciences
11:00am–11:15am Break
11:15am–12:30am Ugo Baldini (Università di Padova)
The Jesuits’ thrust into Slavic Europe, and the diffusion of the western Euclid
12:30am–1:45pm Lunch
1:45pm–3:00pm Shin Higashi (Tokai University, Tokyo)
Clavius vu de la philosophie des mathématiques au XVIe siècle
3:00pm–3:15pm Break
3:15pm–4:30pm Shuyan Pan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)
Understanding and Reinterpreting: A textual-contextual analysis of the Translation
of Clavius’
Elements into China in the Early 17th Century
4:30pm–4:45pm Break
4:45pm–6:00pm Sabine Rommevaux (CNRS, SPHERE)
Les ajoûts à la seconde édition de Clavius des Eléments d’Euclide



January 17, 2020 !!! session postponed !!!
  • Mattia Brancato (ANR Mathesis, SPHERE)

    Mathematical achievements in Leibniz’s binary arithmetic



February 14 !!! session cancelled !!!

  • Vincenzo de Risi (CNRS, SPHERE)
    The discovery of non-euclidean geometry. Johann Lambert and modern axiomatics


March 13

  • Guillaume Loizelet (Univ. paris Diderot, SPHERE)
    Al-Bīrūnī et un possible obstacle mathématique à la prise en compte du volume des planètes dans la détermination de leur distance à la Terre


April 24

  • Zeinab Karimian (Univ. paris Diderot, SPHERE)
    Le Résumé des Coniques d’al-Isfahani (XIe siècle)


May 17
9:30am–10:45am

  • Pietro Daniel Omodeo (University of Venice)
    Late-Scholastic Celestial Physics: The Problem of Heavenly Motion in the Age of Copernicus and Kepler

10:45am–11:00am break

11:00am–12:15am

  • David Marshall Miller (Iowa State University)
    Reconciling Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in the Quaestio de Certitude


June 19

  • Sara Confalonieri (HPS, Univ. Paris Diderot, & SPHERE)
    La "voie royale" au soutien de l’algèbre : argumentations géométriques dans les démonstrations de Cardano




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