EMPHASIS: EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION SEMINAR

Organisers: Dr Stephen Clucas ( s.clucas@bbk.ac.uk ) and Dr Peter J. Forshaw (p.forshaw@bbk.ac.uk ).

Inaugural Series, 2003-4

Saturday 4 October 2003:(Room 265)
Dr Sophie Page (University College London) 'Magic and the Medieval Universe'

Saturday 1 November 2003: (Room 265)
Dr. Howard Hotson (University of Aberdeen) ' Instauratio imaginis dei ad hominem : encyclopedism, Baconianism, and universal reform.

Saturday 13 December 2003: (Room 265)
Prof. Michael J. B. Allen (UCLA), 'Neoplatonism and Renaissance Science'.

Saturday 17 January 2004 (Room 265)
Crofton Black (Warburg Institute) 'Pico della Mirandola's Heptaplus and Jewish Sources'

Saturday 7 February 2004 (Room 265)
Rhodri Lewis (Wolfson College, Oxford): 'Language, reason and religion in seventeenth-century England: John Wilkins's Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language .'  

Saturday 6 March 2004 (Room 265) 
Dr Dilwyn Knox (University College London): 'Copernicus' Neoplatonic theory of gravity and levity.'

Saturday 3 April 2004 (Room 265)
Dr Nick Wilding (Cambridge), 'Giulio Camillo's L'Idea del Teatro : the Fat Man's Way to Heaven'
 
Saturday 7 May 2004 (Room 265)  
Peter J. Forshaw (Birkbeck, University of London) 'Uses of Pythagorean symbolic numbers in sixteenth century occult philosophy'

Saturday 5 June 2004 (Room 265)
Dr J.V. Field (London) 'Truth, Proof and just getting answers in mathematics and natural philosophy'.