[Athena] 14 avril: journée IMACHINATIONS: Machines Recontextualisées à l'âge classique

[Koen Vermeir <Koen.Vermeir AT hiw.kuleuven.be>]

journée IMACHINATIONS

Machines Recontextualisées à l'âge classique /

Recontextualised Machines in the Early Modern Period

 

14 avril 2010, 10.00 – 18.30 h.

Salle Klein (612B), SPHERE/Université Paris 7, Bâtiment Condorcet, 4 rue Elsa Morante (ou 4 rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet), 75013 PARIS

http://www.rehseis.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article645

In this workshop, we will study how early modern machines, machine ideas and machine practices were transferred between very different contexts. In this process, guided by material constraints as well as by the imaginative processes of the actors, these machines came to represent new meanings, to perform new functions and to embody new kinds of knowledge. In particular, the contributors will look at recontextualisations between natural philosophy and mathematics on the one hand and warfare, practical engineering, theatre and religion on the other hand.

10.00 – 11.00: Pascal Brioist (Tours): “The art of transposition: Leonardo and the mechanical invention”

11.15 – 12.15: Maarten Van Dyck (Gent): “Constraining the imagination: From possibilities to limits. Texts on machines in the late 16th, early 17^th century”

Lunchbreak

14.00 – 15.00: Viktoria Tkaczyk (Berlin): “Ars volandi. Techniques of the imagination in the 17th Century”

15.15 – 16.15: Antoni Malet (Barcelona/REHSEIS): “Machines of nature and stage machines in 17th-century mechanical philosophy”

Coffee break

16.45 – 17.45: Koen Vermeir (REHSEIS-SPHERE): “Beatific experiments: Imagining God through instruments in the 17th Century”

18.00 – 18.30: Luisa Dolza (Turin/EHESS): commentary and subsequent discussion

 

 

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Dr. Koen Vermeir

Chargé de Recherche, REHSEIS-SPHERE, CNRS
Laboratoire SPHERE (UMR 7219), 5 rue Thomas Mann - Case 7093, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France