Working Knowledge: the Emergence of Practitioners in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

On February 5th and 6th, a workshop entitled “Working Knowledge: the Emergence of Practitioners in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe” will take place at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa. The workshop is organised by the WorKnow project in collaboration with the Museo Galileo of Florence and focuses on the theme of Knowledge in Use in the late medieval and early modern period.

The workshop is linked to the forthcoming special issue of Galileana on Knowledge in Use. The full programme is available below.

Those interested in attending online are kindly invited to contact Giuliana Freschi (giuliana.freschi@santannapisa.it) or Andrea Papi (andrea.papi@santannapisa.it) who will be happy to share the link to join.

Programme (GMT+1 time):

Thursday, 5 February

• 09:45–10:15: Erased, Redrawn, Preserved. Palatino 767 & 15th-c. Italian Architecture — Elizabeth Merrill & Rebecca Sartore (Ghent). Discussant: Andrea Bocchi.
• 10:15–10:45: Artisanal Trading Zones on the Ottoman Mediterranean (1455-1600) — Büşra Dede (UAB) & Antonio Sanchez (UAM) [Online]. Discussant: Andrea Papi.
• 10:45–11:15: Philosophy and Mathematics in 14th-c. Italy: The Algebraic Unknown — Clelia Crialesi (CNRS-SPHERE). Discussant: Pier Daniele Napolitani.
• 11:15–12:00: Break
• 12:00–12:30: Projecting to paint: focusing the camera obscura (1568-1711) — Jip Van Besouw (Sant'Anna). Discussant: Argante Ciocci.
• 12:30–13:00: Warping rules: silk weaving in 15th-c. Italy — Suzanne Lassalle (EHESS/CNRS). Discussant: Francesco Guidi Bruscoli.
• 13:00–13:30: Coping with Tides in Renaissance Venice, ca. 1550 — Ovanes Akopyan (Ca' Foscari) [Online]. Discussant: Patricia Subirade.
• 13:30–14:30: Break
• 14:30–15:00: Taqī al-Din's Architectural Measurements of Hagia-Sophia — Mehmet Arıkan (Istanbul Medeniyet). Discussant: Rebecca Sartore.
• 15:00–15:30: Manuals as Objects and Sources of Knowledge — Raffaele Danna (Sant'Anna). Discussant: Damian Moosbrugger.
• 15:30–16:00: Ideology of Knowledge in Early Modern Hydraulics Handbooks — S. Gorostiza, M.A. Marti Escayol, D. Martino, C. Murphy [Online]. Discussant: Jip Van Besouw.
• 16:00–16:45: Break
• 16:45–17:15: Alchemy at Fonderia Medicea: Niccolò Sisti — Antonia Belli (Hertziana). Discussant: Stefano Locatelli [Online].
• 17:15–17:45: The Genesis of an Abacus Book — Andrea Papi (Sant'Anna). Discussant: Federica Favino.
• 17:45–18:15: Surgeons and Barbers in 16th-c. Medical Recipe Collections — Gastón Javier Basile (Medici Archive Project). Discussant: Leonardo Ridolfi.

Friday, 6 February

• 09:30–10:00: Practical and Theoretical Mathematics in Benjamin Bramer's Apollonius Cattus — Damian Moosbrugger (ETH Zürich). Discussant: Marco Martinez.
• 10:00–10:30: Practical Mathematical Knowledge in Early Modern Verona: Feliciano & Tartaglia — Samara Greenwood (Melbourne) [Online]. Discussant: Francesca Masiero.
• 10:30–11:15: Break
• 11:15–11:45: Guidobaldo del Monte and the Urbino workshops: Conic sections tools — Argante Ciocci (Bari). Discussant: Veronica Gavagna.
• 11:45–12:15: Miners and Engineers in the Duchy of Savoy (17th c.) — Patricia Subirade (Sorbonne). Discussant: Alessandro Nuvolari.