Time: 4pm-6:30pm, CET
Concepts
Ivan Malara (Milano and Ghent).
The Notion(s) of Weight in Late-Renaissance Aristotelianism. A Few Examples from Natural Philosophy.
Arianna Borrelli (Berlin and Lüneburg).
The balance and the church: Setting up analogies between water and air in the early modern period.
Jo Coture (Ghent).
Pierre Gassendi on the weight of Epicurus’s atoms.
Break
Case study: Artisans and instruments
Michael Bycroft (Warwick).
Gem assays and the hydrostatic balance in early modern science.
Cesare Pastorino (Berlin).
Building instruments based on values of specific weights during the sixteenth century: interactions between instrument makers, goldsmiths, and practical mathematicians.
Break
General Discussion
all Participants