Programme:
Wednesday, May 28th
Ghent, Het Pand, Zaal Rector Blancquaert
10.00 Welcome — Opening
GENERALITIES
10.30 Adam MOSLEY, University of Wales, Swansea
The Cosmographer's Role in the Sixteenth Century: A Preliminary Study
11.00 Lesley CORMACK, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia
The World at your fingertips: Renaissance Globes as Cosmographical,
Mathematical and Pedagogical Instruments
11.30 Discussion/ break
12.00 Steven James HARRIS, Harvard University
The Cosmographer's Way of Knowing: The Place of Emergent, Collective,
Distributed Knowledge in the Scientific Revolution
12.30 Discussion
VOYAGES AND NOVELTIES
14.30 Brigitte GAUVIN, University of Caen, Basse-Normandie
Per tabellam huius cosmographiae nouae… : Pierre Martyr d’Anghiera
cosmographe, ou comment élaborer la cosmographie d’un monde nouveau
15.00 Dominique ARRIGHI, Paris 4 - Sorbonne
La cosmographie dans les Lettres turques d’Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq
15.30 Discussion/ break
16.00 Monique MUND-DOPCHIE, Université Catholique de Louvain
Les terres merveilleuses des traités cosmographiques de la Renaissance :
produits d’une démarche raisonnée ou surgeons d’une imagination débridée ?
16.30 Discussion
Thursday, May 29th
Louvain University
9.00 Departure from Ghent
PRACTICAL QUESTIONS CONCERNING PUBLICATION
10.15 Jan ROEGIERS, Leuven University: Welcome
10.30 Peter VAN DER KROGT, Utrecht University
How the Atlas became an atlas: Gerard Mercator and his Atlas sive
cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricate figura.
11.00 Angelo CATTANEO, CNRS Paris
Establishing Cosmographic Lexicons in Vernacular in the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth Centuries
11.30 Discussion/ break
12.00 Jan PARMENTIER , Ghent University
Navigation and cartography at sea in the 16th and early 17th century
12.30 Sven DUPRÉ, Ghent University
The paper instruments of Renaissance cosmography
13.00 Discussion/ break
15.00 VISIT TO THE GEMMA FRISIUS EXHIBITION
18.00 Return to Ghent
Friday, May 30th
Ghent, Het Pand, Zaal Rector Blancquaert
POLITICAL CONTEXTS
9.30 Zur SHALEV, University of Haifa
The intersections of geography/cosmography and political theory in the early
modern period
10.00 Mark S. ROSEN, Medici Archive Project, Florence
Visualizing Cosmography at the Medici (Grand) Duchy before Galileo
10.30 Discussion/ break
11.00 Henrique LEITAO, Lisboa University
Redefining the cosmographer's role: The «Chief-Cosmographer» in
Portugal in the late sixteenth century
11.30 Victor NAVARRO BROTONS, Valencia University
Aspects of the cosmography in Spain in the last decades of the sixteenth century
(until 1625).
12.00 Nicholas DEW, McGill University, Montréal
Shifting ground: the transformations of cosmography in the France of Louis XIV
12.30 Discussion
PHILOSOPHY-RELIGION
14.30 Frank LESTRINGANT, Paris 4 - Sorbonne
La Providence et l'image du monde
15.00 Jean-Marc BESSE, CNRS Paris
Peut-il y avoir une cosmographie catholique ? Le cas d’Antonio Possevino
15.30 Discussion/ break
16.00 Hiro HIRAI, Ghent University
Kircher's cosmography
16.30 Frédéric TINGUELY, Genève University
Le vertige cosmographique à la Renaissance
17.00 Discussion
17.15 GENERAL DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS