Second SISSA-MPIWG webinar on "The Evolution of Knowledge" February 17, 2022, 5 p.m. CET

[ICTP/infopoint - Emili Sabina]

ILAS - SISSA Interdisciplinary Lab for Advanced Studies and the Max 
Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin are 
pleased to invite you to participate in the joint webinar:


"From the Quadrivium to Modern Science"

delivered on zoom by Matteo Valleriani (Max Planck Institute for the 
History of Science, Technische Universität Berlin and Tel Aviv University)

Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 5 p.m. CET

Abstract: The traditional historical description of the emergence of 
modern science mostly focuses on singular events such as the 1543 
publication of Nicolaus Copernicus' "De revolutionibus orbis 
coelestium". This webinar challenges that approach by taking a longer 
temporal perspective beginning in the late medieval period to consider 
how scientific knowledge was organized - the quadrivium - and by 
exploring the mechanisms according to which such organizational schemes 
continued to change up until the seventeenth century.

This webinar is the second of a series of monthly seminars delivered by 
leading scholars in history and philosophy of science. The first seminar 
took place in January and was given by Michel Janssen on the "Evo-Devo 
of Scientific Knowledge". The series will continue in the next months 
with talks by Giulia Rispoli (March 17) on the anthropocene, Don 
Salisbury and Yin Xiaodong (April 28) on science in China and by Hanoch 
Gutfreund (May 19) on the history of neuroscience.
These seminars are meant as an opportunity for students, post-docs, and 
researchers to broaden their cultural perspectives on the scientific 
enterprise and as a prelude to the conference "The Evolution of 
Knowledge" that SISSA will host July 14-16, 2022. The conference is 
organised jointly by SISSA, the Max Planck Institute for the History of 
Science, the Chinese Academy of Science and the Hebrew University of 
Jerusalem.

The seminars can be joined at the link below: we strongly recommend 
using a login name on zoom which can be easily identified (ideally: Name 
Surname) by the moderator and to mute your microphone upon joining.

LINK ZOOM only for the second seminar:

Topic: Talk_Matteo_Valleriani

Time: Feb 17, 2022 5:00 PM Rome

Join Zoom Meeting
https://sissa-it.zoom.us/j/82911123511?pwd=OVRlVGV3RDNhSlIvNytXdHBUK3J5Zz09

Meeting ID: 829 1112 3511
Passcode: 792320




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