Events

Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions

Public event without registration
Start: May 22, 2024 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
End: May 24, 2024 06:00 PM
Speaker: Conference
Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo)
Categories: Conference, Research Group Fransen, MPFG-Fransen - Diagrams in Science, MPFG-Fransen - Media Revolutions and Images, MPFG-Fransen - Translation and the Early Modern World
Contact: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it

This conference brings together almost five years of research from the Max Planck Research Group “Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions.” The Research Group has compared different scientific disciplines of the late medieval and early modern periods, from anatomy to the study of magnetism. [more]

Time As Form and Movement in Medieval Diagrams

Research Seminar

Public event without registration
Date: Jun 15, 2023
Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Saskia Quené
Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
Categories: Research Seminar, Research Group Fransen, MPFG-Fransen - Diagrams in Science
Contact: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it

Located between the sensory and the imaginative, the quadrivium of musica, cosmology, arithmetic, and geometry was nonetheless grounded in the realm of the visual. In manuscripts, time and eternity appear as diagrams, graphs, and line drawings using parchment, ink, and pigments. [more]