[Athena] séminaire d'histoire des sciences mathématiques, Jussieu

[Catherine Goldstein <catherine.goldstein AT wanadoo.fr>]

Chers et chères collègues,

J’ai le plaisir de vous annoncer que le séminaire d’histoire des sciences mathématiques, de l'Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu Paris Gauche (Paris) accueillera le

Mercredi 26 février 2020 (report de la séance annulée du 11 décembre 2019) : Maria Giulia Lugaresi (Universita' degli Studi di Ferrara, Italie), The science of waters in Italy between theory and practice: the Collections on the motion of water.

Abstract: The science of waters had a very long tradition in Italy, whose origins can be traced back to the works by Galileo and his school, such as Benedetto Castelli, Della misura dell’acque correnti (1628), Evangelista Torricelli, Opera geometrica (1644), Famiano Michelini, Della direzione dei fiumi (1664) and Domenico Guglielmini, Della natura dei fiumi (1697). Many attempts had been done in order to give a theoretical foundation to this discipline and many mathematicians had been involved in this discipline.  The relevance of such studies in Italy is well documented by the publication of five editions of the collection on the motion of waters. These works collect the main contributions of Italian mathematicians to the collections on the motion of water that were published in Italy between the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century in Florence (1723; 1765-1774), Parma (1766-1768) and Bologna (1821-1826; 1823-1845). In my talk I will focus on the three eighteenth century editions of the collections on the motion of waters and I will give an overview of their reception inside and outside Italian boundaries.

Métro Station Jussieu, Couloir 15-16 (accès par la tour 16 ou la tour 15), 4e étage,  salle 413, de 14h à 16h (attention changement d’horaire par rapport aux années précédentes).

Séances suivantes : 

Mercredi 11 mars 2020, Annette Imhausen-Warner (Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Francfurt-am-Main, Allemagne), Mathematics and justice in ancient Egypt.

Mercredi 25 mars 2020, Alain Herreman (Université de Rennes 1, IRMAR), Sur l'analyse des conditions et des modalités de l'introduction de l'algèbre en géométrie : les interprétations des premiers paragraphes de La Géométrie de Descartes

Bien cordialement,

Catherine Goldstein
Histoire des sciences mathématiques
IMJ-PRG
Case 247
4 place Jussieu
75252 Paris Cedex 05
catherine.goldstein AT imj-prg.fr
catherine.goldstein AT wanadoo.fr