Agenda

31 Jan 2025 15:30

History and Epistemology of Geography: Universe, World, and Territory in the Early Modern Period

Aula Biral, Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà, Venice and on Zoom

The seminar scheduled for January 30, 2025, has been postponed to January 31, 2025, from 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM in Aula Biral and on Zoom.

The seminar series "History and Epistemology of Geography: Universe, World, and Territory in the Early Modern Period" explores the evolving conceptions of geography, cosmography, and the conceptualization of space during the early modern period. Speakers will examine the interplay between historical imagination, scientific discovery, and philosophical debates.

The seminars are in person and online. Attendance is free. For info and the Zoom link, please email: vittoria.comacchi@unive.it 

December 17, 2024
3.30 PM – 5.30 PM (CET, Italy Time)


Dario Tessicini, Università degli Studi di Genova
Ambivalence and Change: the Cosmographical Imagination from Apian to Kepler

Marco Sgarbi, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
The Epistemology of Discovery and Novelty: Confutation of Aristotelian Theories and the Emergence of New Conceptions of Truth and Experience

January 30, 2025
3.30 PM – 5.30 PM (CET, Italy Time)


Edgar Omar Rodriguez Camarena, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
The Conceptualization of the New World. The Cosmographic Place of New Spain in the 16th and 17th Centuries

Alberto Fabris, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Topographies of Free Living : Reflections on Urban Space in Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories

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This seminar cycle is part of the project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska Curie grant agreement No. 101025084, “PostelEast”.

Language

The event will be held in English

Organized by

Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali, CREMT Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Thought

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