Organization : Pascal Crozet, Vincenzo de Risi, Sabine Rommevaux-Tani, (CNRS, SPHERE)
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
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| 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. |
- Pierre Agéron (University of Caen)
Le traité d’arithmétique d’Ibrāhīm al-Balīshṭār (v. 1575) : élaboration d’un hybride euro-islamique
- 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
- 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
- Zeinab Karimian (Univ. paris Diderot, SPHERE)
Le Résumé des Coniques d’al-Isfahani (XIe siècle)
- 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
- Sara Confalonieri (HPS, Univ. Paris Diderot, & SPHERE)
La "voie royale" au soutien de l’algèbre : argumentations géométriques dans les démonstrations de Cardano
Building Condorcet, University Paris Diderot, 4 rue Elsa Morante, 75013 - Paris*.Map
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Metro : lines 14 and RER C, stop : Bibliothèque François Mitterrand or line 6, stop : Quai de la gare. Bus : 62 and 89 (stop : Bibliothèque rue Mann), 325 (stop : Watt), 64 (stop : Tolbiac-Bibliothèque François Mitterrand)
