The purpose of EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination) is to provide a London forum for scholars working in the history of philosophy, intellectual history and the history of science of Europe in the period 1400-1650. The term 'philosophy' is interpreted in its fullest Renaissance sense, and includes such themes as: Neoplatonism, scholasticism and late Aristotelian philosophy, Epicureanism, stoicism, scepticism, cosmological theories, the classification of the disciplines, encyclopaedism, Lullism, the art of memory, the philosophy of mathematics, theories of the soul, theories of language and signs, etc.
Saturday 10th March, 2.00-4.00pm: Room G35, 1st Floor, Senate House south block (Note room change)
PLEASE NOTE: THESE SEMINARS ARE VERY POPULAR AND THE MEETING ROOM IS OFTEN VERY FULL. Refreshments provided.
Mathematical Practitioners in Early Modern England:
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin (V&A): 'Mastering crafts: the mathematic text and artisanal epistemology in seventeenth-century England'
Stephen Johnston (Museum of the History of Science, Oxford): 'Confessions of a Mathematical Practitioner: Richard Norwood's Spiritual Autobiography'
