Beyond Galileo’s “O”

March 19, 2012

Humboldt-University
Institute for Art and Visual History

Max Planck Institute
for the History of Science

Venue
Max Planck Institute
for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

Programme
Flyer – Beyond Galileo’s O (PDF)

Publikation
Horst Bredekamp (Herausgeber) – Galileo’s O

Programme

10:00 Jürgen Renn/Horst Bredekamp – Introduction
10:20 Heiko Hartmann – Akademie-Verlag

Chair Alexis Ruccius

10:30 Paul Needham – The False Testimony of Facsimiles
11:00 Irene Brückle – Tracer
11:30 Oliver Hahn – High-Tech Analyses for the Investigation of Cultural Assets
12:00 Cutting Edges of Materiality and Printing
Sonja Krug
Robert Felfe
Manfred Mayer
Hans Jakob Meier
Enrica Schettini Piazza
Theresa Smith

13:00 Lunch break

Chair Markus Rath

14:30 Jürgen Renn – The Equilibrium Controvercy
15:00 Jürgen Renn/Matteo Valleriani – Galileo’s “Ricordi autografi” and his activity as an engineer
15:30 Jochen Büttner – Swinging and Rolling: at the Root of Galileo’s New Theory of Motion

16:00 Coffee break

16:30 Horst Bredekamp – Galileo’s Scribbling
17:00 William Shea – The Quest for Galileo Star Gazer
17:30 Irving Lavin – Mellan’s Moons

18:30 Final remarks