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