Programme
The complete programme of the Conference can be found here.
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Programme Thursday 27 September
All sessions (except where mentioned) will take place in the old City Hall of Middelburg, located at the Market Square (entrance: Lange Noordstraat 1).
Thursday 27 September
9.30 / Welcome
9.45 / Opening
10.00 / Keynote lecture
Huib Zuidervaart – Middelburg, city of scientific knowledge around 1600
10.45 / Session 1
Eric Jorink – Visualizing knowledge in early 17th century Middelburg
Bram van Overdijk – Finding Lime Street. The Republic of Letters in Middelburg
Edouard Mehl – Looking for spots in the Sun. Hortensius, Beeckman, Kepler and the accuracy of the telescope in 1630
12.15 / Lunch
13.30 / Session 2
Albert Clement – Musical life in Middelburg in the times of Isaac Beeckman
Jelle Kalsbeek – Understanding God Through Music
14.45 / Teabreak
15.15 / Session 3
Elisabeth Moreau – The physiological theory of Isaac Beeckman
Dániel Moerman – When a physician becomes a patient: Isaac Beeckman’s accounts of illness and death
Djoeke van Netten – To Publish or not to publish?
17.30 / Dinner for speakers and organisers
19.30 / Public lecture (in Dutch)
Floris H. Cohen – Verkenningstocht door de Beeckmanstraat
N.B. This lecture will take place in the Zeeuwse Bibliotheek, Kousteensedijk 7, Middelburg
Friday 28 September
9.30 / Keynote lecture
John A. Schuster – Isaac Beeckman in the context of the Scientific Revolution
10.15 / Session 4
Fabrizio Baldassari – Beeckman’s mechanical philosophizing with plants: a source to Descartes?
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis – Beeckman and the braving of the elements
11.15 / Coffee break
11.45 / Session 5
Arjan van Dixhoorn – The consten-culture of Isaac Beeckman
Bart Ramakers – “Only iambs and trochees”. Isaac Beeckman, Dingman Beens and the question of meter
Semra Meray – What is in a language? Dutch and Latin in Beeckman’s Journal
13.15 / Lunch
14.30 / Session 6
Raffaele Pisano, Antonella Mastrorilli – Reading Tartaglia’s and Beeckman’s geometrical and mathematical modelling applied to natural phenomena
Tiemen Cocquyt – Beeckman gaining an understanding of the telescope
Klaas van Berkel – The enigma of Cornelis de Waard
16.00 / Concluding remarks by H.F. Cohen
16.15 / Closing of the conference, reception