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, September 28, 2023 (8:00 AM) to Saturday, September 30, 2023 (2:20 PM)

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

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
10:05 AM
10:05 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
Contributions

10:05 AM Copernicus and the Problem of Astrology: Some Remarks on the State of the Question - Robert Westman (University of California San Diego)
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
Contributions

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

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

12:15 PM How did Copernicus become a Copernican - Matjaz Vesel (Institute of Philosophy, The Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Ljubljana)
1:00 PM

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
Contributions

2:00 PM 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)

2:30 PM From the Alfonsine tables to the Prutenic tables - Giancarlo Truffa (Independent Scholar)

3:00 PM Copernicus and Maragha: the state of the transmission question - Viktor Blasjo (Utrecht University)

3:30 PM 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)
4:00 PM

4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
4:20 PM
4:20 PM - 5:20 PM
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
Contributions

4:20 PM Possible Copernicus’ portraits in Early Renaissance Italian art: a discussion - Gloria Vallese (Accademia di Belle Arti – Venezia)

4:50 PM Nicolaus Copernicus portrait at the Astronomical Observatory of Padua - Valeria Zanini (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova)
Friday, September 29, 2023
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
Contributions

9:00 AM Copernicus as a Reader of Bessarion and Regiomontanus - Michael Shank (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

9:45 AM Alberti, Copernicus and a Surprising “Thereafter” - Rivka Feldhay (Cohn Institute – Tel Aviv University)

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

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
Contributions

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

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

12:30 PM Wapowski in Rome and his cooperation with Copernicus - Harald Gropp (Heidelberg University)
1:00 PM

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
Contributions

2:00 PM Nicolaus Copernicus and Rome. A survey of the sources - Andreas Kuehne (Deutsche Museum – Munchen)

2:30 PM Copernico a Roma e i suoi legami con il misticismo solare alla luce degli studi di Bronisław Biliński - Jerzy Miziolek (Uniwersytet Warszawski)

3:00 PM 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)

3:30 PM Copernican Iconography in Michelangelo’s Last Judgment - Valerie Shrimplin (Independent Scholar)
4:00 PM

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
Contributions

5:00 PM Copernicus in Padua: Portrait of Astronomer with Figures - Giangiacomo Gandolfi (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma)

5:30 PM Copernicus, the inferior planets, and the Italian Jesuits between Rome and Bologna - Flavia Marcacci (Pontificia Università Lateranense - Roma)

6:00 PM 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)

6:30 PM Man Goes To The Moon: Copernicus' Legacy, an unconventional perspective - Elisa Belotti (Università di Bergamo)

7:00 PM The long term revolutionary influence of Copernicus on the Italian literature - Paola Focardi (Università di Bologna)
8:00 PM

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil
Saturday, September 30, 2023
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Villa Mellini
Contributions

9:30 AM 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 AM Artur Wolynski (1844-1893) – Copernicologist - Jan Piskurewicz (Instytut Historii Nauki PAN)

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

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

11:20 AM

11:20 AM - 1:20 PM
Room: Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Villa Mellini

1:20 PM

1:20 PM - 2:20 PM
Room: Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil

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