Scientific Research Network Circulating Knowledge in Early Modern Science and the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO-Vlaanderen) present the 

3rd Workshop 'Institutions and Networks'

Leuven, 12-13 June 2008

Organised by Mordechai Feingold and Geert Vanpaemel

Programme

Thursday 12 June

• 14.00
  Mordechai Feingold (California Institute of Technology)
  Confabulatory Life
• 14.45
  Ugo Baldini (University of Padua)
  The Euro-Asian correspondence network of the Jesuits as a channel for scientific communication: Typology and location
  
• 15.30
  Coffee break
• 16.00
  Thomas Wallnig (University of Vienna)
  Congregatio or Academia? The Institutional Frameworks of Benedictine Erudition in the 17th and 18th Centuries
• 16.45
  Klaas van Berkel (University of Groningen)
  Trading companies as scientific institutions: the case of the Dutch East India Company
• 20.00
  Conference Dinner

Friday 13 June

• 9.00
  Marta Cavazza (University of Bologna)
  The role of the Bolognese Institute of sciences in the dissemination of Northern European scientific knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Italy
• 9.45
  Huib Zuidervaart (Huygens Institute, Den Haag)
  Standardization and Institutionalization of Meteorology in the Low Countries in the 18th-century
• 10.30
  Coffee break
• 11.00
  Noel Malcolm (Oxford University)
  The Correspondence of Marin Mersenne: Experimentalism and Communication
• 11.45
  Paul Arblaster (KU Leuven)
  Connectivity in the Republic of Letters: the Case of Constantijn Huygens
• 12.30
  Lunch
• 14.30
  Minhea Dobre (University of Bucharest)
  Early Cartesianism in the Scientific Journals of the Seventeenth-Century
• 15.15
  Djoeke van Netten (University of Groningen)
  Early modern scholar-printers as intermediaries of knowledge
• 16.00
  Coffee break
• 16.30
  Geert Vanpaemel (KU Leuven)
  The role of textbooks in the physics curriculum of the Leuven Faculty of Arts
• 17.15
  Conclusions and Round Table Debate

Attendance is free.

For practical reasons, we ask any one wishing to participate to contact geert.vanpaemel@wet.kuleuven.be.

Venue:

Faculty Club

Groot Begijnhof 14, 3000 Leuven (Belgium)