Dear colleagues,
Some of you will attend the 23rd International Congress of History of
Science and Technology which will be held this year in Budapest. We are
pleased to invite you to our symposium devoted to the following subject:
Letters at War
Scientific Controversies in Correspondences
of the 17th, and 18th Centuries
It will take place on July 28 from 11:00am to 7:30pm (Room 18). You'll find
a programme at the end of this mail.
We are delighted to welcome speakers of divers countries and academical
domains, all experts in their fields. We are looking forward to an
interesting and prolific discussion.
Best regards,
Anne-Lise Rey & Siegfried Bodenmann
Session n° 1 (11:30 – 13:30) Chair: Siegfried Bodenmann
- Marcelo Dascal (Israël)
The interplay between the private and the public dimensions
in 17th and 18th centuries scientific debates
- Fabien Chareix (France)
Geometrization or mathematization:
Christian Huygens' Critiques on Infinitesimal
- Catherine Goldstein (France)
Routine controversies: mathematical challenges in early modern France
- Anne-Lise Rey (France)
La controverse entre G.W. Leibniz et Denis Papin :
de la polémique publique à la correspondance
Session n° 2 (15:00 – 17:00) Chair: Jean-Pierre Schandeler
- Philippe Hamou (France)
Anatomie d’une controverse épistolaire:
la « correspondance » Leibniz-Clarke (1715-1716)
- Claire Crignon-De Oliveira (France)
Le rôle des correspondances dans la querelle de la circulation sanguine
- Vincent Barras & Séverine Pilloud (Switzerland)
Correspondre avec son médecin à l'âge des Lumières:
débats et contestations
- Rainer Godel (Germany)
Enlightened Controversies or Controversies in the Enlightenment?
Albrecht von Haller versus Coschwitz and La Mettrie
Session n° 3 (17:30 – 19:30) Chair: Anne-Lise Rey
- Jean-Pierre Schandeler (France)
La violence sous le verbe académique.
Aspect rhétorique d’un « débat » sur la certitude en histoire
à l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres au XVIIIe siècle
- Roderick W. Home (Australia)
Spreading the Word: Reporting an Eighteenth-Century
Controversy about Lightning Rods
- Siegfried Bodenmann (Switzerland)
Une réconciliation controversée de Séléné et Newton:
Clairaut, d’Alembert, Euler et la théorie de la Lune
- Anne-Lise Rey & Siegfried Bodenmann
Discussion finale/Final discussion
For more details on the congress, see below:
http://www.conferences.hu/ichs09/index.htm
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