Tea Time with Bacon

NEXT MEETINGS

11 March 2022, 4 pm CET – Magic

Nicolas Weill-Parot, Roger Bacon’s Utopian Science as an Anti-Magic Way for the Power of Human ars

Chaired by Meagan Allen

11 February 2021, 4 pm CET – Reform of sciences

Nikolaus Egel, Roger Bacon’s Reform of the Sciences

Chaired by Nicola Polloni (KU Leuven)

19 March 2021, 4 pm CET – Division of sciences

Alexander Fidora, The Division of the Sciences in Opus Maius IV, 1, 2: Notes on Bacon’s Sources and Their Transformation

Chaired by Dominic Dold (MPIWG and TU Berlin)

9 April 2021, 3 pm CEST (instead of 4 pm) – Optics

Nader El-Bizri, On Vision: Roger Bacon’s Opus maius (V.1-2) in light of Alhazen’s Optics (I-II)

Chaired by Lukaš Lička (Akademie věd České republiky)

6 May 2021, 4 pm CEST – Astronomy

Philipp Nothaft, Roger Bacon and Giles of Lessines

Chaired by Cecilia Panti (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”)

16 July 2021, 4 pm CEST – Science of weights

Yael Kedar, The motion of the scale and Bacon’s scientific method

Chaired by Giora Hon (University of Haifa)

17 September 2021, 4 pm CEST – Arithmetic

Aurélien Robert, Roger Bacon and John Peckham on the place and role of arithmetic

Chaired by Clelia Crialesi (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”)

8 October 2021, 4 pm CEST – Alchemy

William Newman, Roger Bacon and Thirteenth-Century Alchemy

Chaired by Meagan Allen

12 November 2021, 4 pm CET – Medicine

Meagan Allen, Pharmacology and the prolongatio vitae in the works of Roger Bacon

Chaired by Yael Kedar

4 February 2022, 4 pm CET – Astrology

H. Darrel Rutkin, Roger Bacon on Mathematics, Perspectiva and Astrology: The ‘Unnamed Master’ Revisited

Chaired by Elena Baltuta