Science and Nature in Early Modern Europe (1450-1750).

Un cycle de conférences internationales est organisé à l’Escorial du 7 au 12 septembre 2008, coordonné par Miguel López Pérez, sur le thème « La science et la nature en Europe (1450-1750) ». On trouvera toutes les informations sur le site spécialement conçu pour l’événement.

Le programme, encore provisoire, mais qui tourne beaucoup autour de la question de l’alchimie, devrait s’organiser comme suit :

– Pinella Travaglia, Temi alchemici e motivi religiosi nel Kitāb al-rahma di Ğābir ibn Hayyān

– William Eamon, Italian Alchemists in the Court of Philip II

– Leah DeVun, John of Rupescissa’s Trial by Fire : Alchemy and Prophecy in the Fourteenth Century

– Margaret D. Garber, The Crucible in the Caduceus. The Role of Alchemy in the First Scientific Society of Physicians in the German & Bohemian Territories (1652-1700)

– Rémi Franckowiak, Chemistry at the Royal Society in the 1660’s

– Didier Kahn, Alchemy as a quest to universal knowledge

– Dr. Pamela H. Smith, Alchemy, metalworking, and vernacular science

– MSc. José Rodríguez Guerrero, Chymistry enters Military Service in Spain (1551-1640). Five forgotten cases

– William Royall Newman, Isaac Newton and Alchemy - The State of the Question

– Michela Pereira, Testo e immagine nell’alchimia fra Medioevo e Rinascimento. I manoscritti Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, BR 52 e Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashburham. 1166

– Anke Timmermann, Doctor’s Order : An Early Modern Doctor’s Systematic Reading of Alchemica

– Miguel López Pérez, The Nature confirmed. Believing in secrets

– Stephen Clucas, Denis Zecaire’s Opusculum and the unity of the alchemical corpus in the sixteenth and seventeenth century

– Tara Nummedal, Paracelsus, Count Carl, and Anna Zieglerin’s Apocalyptic Alchemy

– Rafal T. Prinke, Beyond patronage. Michael Sendivogius and the meanings of success in alchemy

– Peter J. Forshaw, Bohemian Rhapsodies : Enthusiastic Alchemists at the Rožmberk Court

– Deborah E. Harkness, Vernacular Alchemy in Early Modern London

– Jennifer Rampling, A Universal Solvent : George Ripley and European Alchemy

– M.E. Warlick, Romance in the Alchemical Laboratory : Sexual Images and the Birth of the Philosophers’ Stone

– Gabriele Ferrario, A Hebrew handbook of practical alchemy : origin, composition and distinctive features of ms. Orient. Klein 514, Staatsbibliothek Berlin

– Hanns-Peter Neumann, The God of the Alchemists : Alchemy, Theology and the Secrets of Nature

– Antonio Barreda, The New Science of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries : From the Streets of Seville to the Gardens of El Escorial and the Desks of London

– Paula DeVos, Economic Botany and the Investigation of New World Medicines in the Reign of Philip II

– Maria M. Portuondo, El Escorial and the Stars

– Hiro Hirai, The Word of God and Universal Medicine : Oswald Croll’s Paracelsian Chemical Philosophy

– Sébastien Moureau, De anima in arte alchemiae of pseudo-Avicenna, a spanish treatise of the XIIth century

– Annelies van Gijsen, The Hollandus corpus : fact and fiction

– Urs Leo Gantenbein, The manuals of Paracelsus : two poorly known alchemical and medical books of secrets

– Vera A. Keller, The Artisan and the Natural Philosophers : Interpreting Cornelis Drebbel’s On the Nature of the Elements

– Ursula Klein, Early modern chymistry at the interface of experimental philosophy, experimental history, and the arts and crafts

– Marcos Martinón-Torres
The scientific archaeology of alchemy : recent discoveries.

– Antoine Calvet, La théorie corpusculaire, dite per minima, dans les textes alchimiques des XIVe et XVe siècles.

– Maria Luz López Terrada, The making of chemical medicines in Valencia during 16th century.

– Raimon Arola, The meaning of symbols in early 17th Century alchemical Literature.

– Mar Rey Bueno, The alchemical passion of Philip II.

– Antonio Clericuzio, Alchemy, Medicine and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Italy.

– Chiara Crisciani, Alchimia, umido radicale e lunga vita.

– Jean-Marc Mandosio, The question of alchemy in some medieval commentaries on the Latin translation of Ibn Sina’s chapters on minerals

– Luc Peterschmitt, Fontenelle, the Idea of Science and the Spirit of Chemistry

– Agustín Fernández, A New Way for Chymia. Conrad Gesner’s Thesaurus of secret remedies