Name: COPERNICUS AND ITALY 2023
Start: 2023-09-28T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-30T14:20:00+02:00
Location: Rome

COPERNICUS AND ITALY 2023

from Thursday 28 September 2023 (08:00) to Saturday 30 September 2023 (14:20)

Monday 25 September 2023
Tuesday 26 September 2023
Wednesday 27 September 2023
Thursday 28 September 2023

09:00

09:00 - 10:00
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
10:05
10:05 - 11:00
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
Contributions

10:05 Copernicus and the Problem of Astrology: Some Remarks on the State of the Question - Robert Westman (University of California San Diego)
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
Contributions

11:00 From Toruń to Bologna—The Education of a Late-Medieval Astronomer - André Goddu (Stonehill College, Easton MA)

11:45 Role and meaning of the 'methodos' in the foundation of Copernican Heliocentrism - Anna De Pace (Università di Milano)

12:15 How did Copernicus become a Copernican - Matjaz Vesel (Institute of Philosophy, The Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Ljubljana)
13:00

13:00 - 14:00
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
Contributions

14:00 The Hardware Society: Copernicus’s Observational Instruments and Their Connection to Tradition - Giorgio Strano (Museo Galileo - Institute and Museum of the History of Science of Florence)

14:30 From the Alfonsine tables to the Prutenic tables - Giancarlo Truffa (Independent Scholar)

15:00 Copernicus and Maragha: the state of the transmission question - Viktor Blasjo (Utrecht University)

15:30 The book nobody should read: a follow-up to Owen Gingerich’s census of Copernicus’ De revolutionibus in Rome - Flavia Bruni (Università degli Studi di Chieti Gabriele Dannunzio)
16:00

16:00 - 16:20
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
16:20
16:20 - 17:20
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
Contributions

16:20 Possible Copernicus’ portraits in Early Renaissance Italian art: a discussion - Gloria Vallese (Accademia di Belle Arti – Venezia)

16:50 Nicolaus Copernicus portrait at the Astronomical Observatory of Padua - Valeria Zanini (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova)
Friday 29 September 2023
09:00
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
Contributions

09:00 Copernicus as a Reader of Bessarion and Regiomontanus - Michael Shank (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

09:45 Alberti, Copernicus and a Surprising “Thereafter” - Rivka Feldhay (Cohn Institute – Tel Aviv University)

10:30 Celio Calcagnini’s Philosophical Defense of the Motion of the Earth (ca. 1518) - Pietro Daniel Omodeo (Università Cà Foscari Venezia)
11:00

11:00 - 11:30
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
Contributions

11:30 Domenico Maria da Novara, Copernicus' Teacher of Astronomy in Bologna - Fabrizio Bonoli (Università di Bologna)

12:00 Copernicus in Ferrara - Luigi Pepe (Università di Ferrara)

12:30 Wapowski in Rome and his cooperation with Copernicus - Harald Gropp (Heidelberg University)
13:00

13:00 - 14:00
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
Contributions

14:00 Nicolaus Copernicus and Rome. A survey of the sources - Andreas Kuehne (Deutsche Museum – Munchen)

14:30 Copernico a Roma e i suoi legami con il misticismo solare alla luce degli studi di Bronisław Biliński - Jerzy Miziolek (Uniwersytet Warszawski)

15:00 Copernico, Roma e la luna: la raffigurazione dell'astronomo polacco su alcune stampe della fine dell'Ottocento relative al suo soggiorno romano - Francesca Ceci (Sovrintendenza ai Beni Culturali – Roma)

15:30 Copernican Iconography in Michelangelo’s Last Judgment - Valerie Shrimplin (Independent Scholar)
16:00

16:00 - 16:30
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
16:30
16:30 - 19:30
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
Contributions

17:00 Copernicus in Padua: Portrait of Astronomer with Figures - Giangiacomo Gandolfi (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma)

17:30 Copernicus, the inferior planets, and the Italian Jesuits between Rome and Bologna - Flavia Marcacci (Pontificia Università Lateranense - Roma)

18:00 An Unknown Astronomical Work on Planetary Theory from the Renaissance: Giulio Cesare Luchini, Delle revolutioni delle sfere celesti libri IX (ca. 1581) - Razieh Moussavi (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) Pietro Daniel Omodeo (Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia)

18:30 Man Goes To The Moon: Copernicus' Legacy, an unconventional perspective - Elisa Belotti (Università di Bergamo)

19:00 The long term revolutionary influence of Copernicus on the Italian literature - Paola Focardi (Università di Bologna)
20:00

20:00 - 22:00
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
Saturday 30 September 2023
09:30
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Villa Mellini
Contributions

09:30 From the idea of a Copernican museum in Rome to the foundation of the Astronomical and Copernican Museum: 1873-1882 - Francesco Poppi (INAF-OAR)

10:00 Artur Wolynski (1844-1893) – Copernicologist - Jan Piskurewicz (Instytut Historii Nauki PAN)

10:30 Copernicus at Sapienza University. The IV Centenary in Rome (February 1873) - Federica Favino (Università Sapienza – Roma)
11:00

11:00 - 11:20
Room: Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Villa Mellini

11:20

11:20 - 13:20
Room: Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Villa Mellini

13:20

13:20 - 14:20
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil