Early Modern Transformations and Adaptations of the Aristotelian Scientific Vocabulary
Dal 17/10/2023 ore 15.00 al 12/12/2023 ore 18.00
Online - Cnr-Iliesi
This international online seminar series, starting from 17 October till 12 December, is organized by Simone Guidi and Enrico Pasini at the Institute for the european intellectual lexicon and history of ideas (CNR-ILIESI) and is associated with a forthcoming special issue of the Aristotelica journal. It aims to bring together leading scholars in the history of late medieval, Renaissance, and early modern Aristotelianism, invited to examine significant case studies in the development of Aristotelian terminology connected with natural philosophy.
From the fourteenth century until the end of the sixteenth century, Aristotelian natural philosophy underwent slight but significant conceptual adjustments. These changes are due to a number of intertwining factors, such as the eclecticism of the Nominalistic schools, the introduction of new textual practices, the rediscovery of alternative ancient sources, and the rising of non-Aristotelian trends in natural philosophy. As a tradition constructed in particular through dialectical reasoning and upon seeking proper definitions, Aristotelianism reveals these novelties, primarily via the development of new terminology, or in the adaptation of the vocabulary of medieval schools to new conceptual frameworks.
Program:
Session 1 | 17 October 2023, 3PM CET
Christoph Sander • Least Attractive? Aristotelian Presuppositions to Explain Magnetic Movements
Olivier Ribordy • “Nothing New Under the Sun”? Observations of Sunspots and New Views on the World in the Early-modern Period
Session 2 | 07 November 2023, 3PM CET
Daniel Di Liscia • The Notion of impetus in Late Medieval and Early-modern Science
Sylvain Roudaut • The Transformations of Heat in Late Scholastic Natural Philosophy
Session 3 | 14 November 2023, 3PM CET
Erik Åkerlund • Matter in Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza
Enrico Pasini • Aristotle Meets Infinity
Session 4 | 28 November 2023, 3PM CET
Fabrizio Bigotti • Life is the Capacity to Resist Decay. Medical Adaptations of Potentia and Capacitas from Late Scholasticism to Stahl
Yuan Tao • Elusive “Auditory Species” in Jesuit Theories of Sound
Session 5 | 12 December 2023, 3PM CET
Pietro D. Omodeo • Reflections on the Transformation of Cosmological Concepts in Renaissance Naturalism
Iolanda Ventura • Aristotelian Vocabulary in Silvestro Mauro’s Aristotelis Opera
Organizzato da:
Cnr-Iliesi
Aristotelica - A peer-reviewed journal devoted to Aristotle
Referente organizzativo:
Simone Guidi
Cnr-Iliesi
simone.guidi@cnr.it
Modalità di accesso: ingresso libero
All seminars take place at 3 PM CET Time.
Access is free
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