You are cordially invited to attend a three-day international conference on the question of space in 16th and 17th century Europe. The conference will be held June 21-23 in Paris, at the Paris Observatory and Université Paris 7.

All information can also be accessed by way of the following site:

http://www.rehseis.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article1213&lang=fr

Sincerely,
Jonathan Regier (Université Paris 7, SPHERE)
Koen Vermeir (SPHERE)

** SPACES, KNOTS AND BONDS : AT THE CROSSROADS BETWEEN EARLY MODERN "MAGIC" and "SCIENCE" **

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, JUNE 21

Observatory of Paris, salle Cassini, 77 av. de l’Observatoire, Paris 14e
RER B : Port-Royal

13:30 Welcome Address by Jonathan Regier and Koen Vermeir (Université Paris Diderot, SPHERE)

13:40 Introduction of Projet PNEUMA: Phillipe Hamou (Université Charles de Gaulle Lille III), Laurent Jaffro (Université Paris I)

14:00 – 17:00 Cosmological Space : Metaphysics and Theology
Chair : Michela Malpangotto (SYRTE)

14:00 Michel Blay (CNRS)
De l’espace de Bruno aux enjeux philosophiques de l’infini au XVIIe siècle

15:15 Coffee break

15:45 Brian Copenhaver (UCLA)
Vico on God, Space and Air : Not the New Science

FRIDAY, JUNE 22
Université Paris 7, salle 454A Luc Valentin, 4 rue Elsa Morante, Paris 13e
metro line 14 and RER B : Bibliothèque François Mitterrand

10:00 – 12:30 Voyages in space
Chair : Philippe Hamou (Université Charles de Gaulle Lille III)

Ofer Gal (University of Sydney)
Two Bohemian Journeys : Motion in New Spaces at the turn of the 17th century

Thibaut Maus de Rolley (Oxford)
Le diable en mouvement : conceptions et représentations de l’espace dans le discours démonologique (XVIe-XVIIe siècles)

12:45 – 13:45 Lunch

14:00 – 18:00 How spaces are connected : Space and Causal Schemes
Chair : Claire Schwartz (Université Paris Ouest)

14:00 Roger Ariew (University of South Florida)
Leibniz and the Petrifying Virtue of the Place

15:15 Coffee Break

15:30 – 18:00
Luc Peterschmitt (Projet PNEUMA)
L’organisation circulatoire de l’espace dans la tradition chimique

Hiro Hirai (Radboud University)
Celestial Influences and Cosmic Bonds in Renaissance Embryology after Pico

SATURDAY, JUNE 23
Université Paris Diderot, salle 454A Luc Valentin, 4 rue Elsa Morante, Paris 13e
metro line 14 and RER B : Bibliothèque François Mitterrand

10:00 – 12:30 Mental Spaces
Chair : Roberto Poma (Université Paris 12)

Jonathan Regier (Université Paris Diderot, SPHERE)
Of Sun, Star and Mind : Geometry as Cause and Knowledge in Keplerian Spaces

Delphine Bellis (Ghent University)
La perception mentale de l’espace dans les théories de la vision de Kepler et Descartes

12:45 – 13:45 Lunch

14:00 – 18:00 Representing and Structuring Space
Chair : Koen Vermeir (Université Paris 7/CNRS, SPHERE)

14:00 Vincenzo de Risi (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) The Birth of Space in the Renaissance : from Metaphysics to Geometry

15:15 Coffee Break

15:30 – 18:00
Jean-Marc Besse (CNRS)
Schématisations de l’espace et formes de l’écriture géographique au tournant des XVIe et XVIIe siècles en Europe

Jean Seidengart (Université Paris 10)
La structure de l’espace physique infini dans la cosmologie de Giordano Bruno

Organization:
Jonathan Regier (Université Paris 7, SPHERE) and Koen Vermeir (SPHERE)

Scientific Committee:
Phillipe Hamou (Université Charles de Gaulle Lille III), Laurent Jaffro (Université Paris I), David Rabouin (SPHERE), Michela Malpangotto (SYRTE)

With generous support from
Projet PNEUMA : l’espace de l’esprit - ANR-09-SSOC-056, SPHERE (CNRS, UMR 7219), SYRTE (CNRS, UMR 8360), et l’Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand)