The debate on heliocentric cosmology and theology from Copernicus to Newton
Thursday, 4 December,
- 9:15 to 17:45
- 9:15-9:30, Institutional welcome (Andrea Canova, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) and Introduction (Franco Giudice, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
- 9:30-12:15 (Chair: Franco Giudice, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
- 9:30-10:15, Dario Tessicini (University of Genoa): "Mirar l'immagine sua in tanti specchi": Theological Imagination and Giordano Bruno's Infinite Universe
- 10:15-11:00 Ivan Malara (University of Milan), Reading God's Two Books: Hermeneutical Strategies in Ludovico delle Colombe and Galileo Galilei
- 11:00-11.30 Coffee break
- 11:30-12:15 Miguel Á. Granada (Universitat de Barcelona), The Spanish Translation of the "Almagest" and the Astronomicalcosmological Debate in Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries
- 13:15 Lunch
- 15:00-17:45 (Chair: Niccolò Guicciardini, University of Milan)
- 15:00-15:45, Philippe Hamou (Sorbonne Université), Pascal and Copernican Immensity
- 15:45-16:30, Dmitri Levitin (All Souls College, Oxford), The Historicisation of Moses and the Authority of Mathematics: Johannes Herbinius, Maria Cunitz, and Some Others
- 16:30-17:00, Coffee break
- 17:00 -17:45 Carla Rita Palmerino (Radboud University, Nijmegen), Pierre Gassendi between Probabilism, Copernicanism and Biblical Exegesis
- 19:30 Dinner
Friday, 5 December, 9:30 to 13:00
- 9:30-11:00 (Chair Carla Rita Palmerino)
- 9:30-10:15, Rob Iliffe (University of Oxford), 'Rude and Unlearned'; Depicting Homo Vulgaris in Copernican Accommodationism
- 10:15-11.00, Scott Mandelbrote (Peterhouse, Cambridge), 'Can Astronomy Deserve the Name of a Science?': Sir John Finch between Galileo, Henry More, and Newton
- 11:00-11:30, Coffee break
- 11:30-13:00 (Chair Franco Giudice)
- 11:30-12:15, Francesco Barreca (Museo Galileo, Florence), Encounters at the End of the World: 'New Science' and Theology in Alfonso Pandolfi's Disputationes de fine mundi
- 12:15-13:00, Lucia Bucciarelli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Beyond Earth: Isaac Newton on the Plurality of Worlds
- 13:15, Lunch
Funded by the NRRP for Mission 4, Component 2, investment 1.1.Notice 104/2022 Funded by the European Union - Next Generation EU. Copernicanism - Prot. 2022CCKT93 - CUP J53D23000190008
