University of Sydney, Workshop – Themes in Early Modern Mathematics and Medicine

Themes in Early Modern Mathematics and Medicine
University of Sydney
Kevin Lee Room, Level 6, Quadrangle A14 (enter via MacLaurin Hall Stairway)
8 November 2013

Program:

  • 9.30 Charles Wolfe (Ghent): ‘Early modern medical empiricism’ (60 mins paper & discussion inclusive)
  • 10.30 Alan Salter (Sydney): ‘Richard Lower’s model heart. The diagram as object of inquiry in early modern anatomy’
  • 11.30 Coffee
  • 12.00 Anik Waldow (Sydney): ‘Experience and its explanatory role’
  • 1.00 Lunch (provided) in Main Quad N293
  • 2.30 Peter Anstey (Sydney): ‘Mathematical principles as models’
  • 3.30 Laura Kotevska (Sydney): ‘Geometry at Port-Royal: some remarks on Arnauld’s Nouveaux éléments de géométrie’ (45 mins paper & discussion)
  • 4.15 Roundtable discussion
  • 5.00 Wind up

Space is limited. To register contact Professor Peter Anstey by 6 November (peter.anstey@sydney.edu.au).