First Ptolemy Conference, Warburg Institute 5-7 November 2015
Ptolemy’s Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages
Warburg Institute, 5-7 November 2015
This first international conference of the project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus (http://ptolemaeus.badw.de) will explore the Arabic and Latin traditions of Ptolemy’s astronomical and astrological works from late Antiquity to the seventeenth century.
Organisers
David Juste (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich)
Benno van Dalen (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich)
Dag Nikolaus Hasse (University of Würzburg)
Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute)
Programme
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Thursday 5 November 2015 |
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10.00 |
Doors open and registration |
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10.15 |
Charles Burnett Welcome address – Dag Nikolaus Hasse, Benno van Dalen, David Juste Introduction to the Project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus |
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11.00 |
Alexander Jones (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University) The Ancient Ptolemy and the Medieval Ptolemy |
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11.45 |
Coffee break |
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12.15 |
George Saliba (Columbia University) Long Detour or the “Devil in the Details” of the Arabic Ptolemaic Texts |
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13.00 |
Dirk Grupe (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich) Thabit ibn Qurra’s Version of the Almagest and Its Reception in Arabic Astronomical Commentaries |
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13.45 |
Lunch |
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15.00 |
Tzvi Langermann (Bar-Ilan University) Commentaries on the Almagest, Book I, in Arabic and Hebrew |
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15.45 |
Johannes Thomann (Universität Zürich) Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ’s Critique of al-Fārābī’s Commentary on Almagest V.17–19 |
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16.30 |
Coffee break |
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17.00 |
Flora Vafea (Cairo) The Arabic Treatise Dhāt al-kursī Attributed to Ptolemy and Its Plausible Relation to Him |
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17.45 |
María José Parra Pérez (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich) Creating a Catalogue of Arabic Ptolemaic Manuscripts |
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18.30 |
Wine reception Evening buffet (speakers only) |
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Friday 6 November 2015 |
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10.00 |
Doors open and registration |
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10.15 |
Bojidar Dimitrov (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich) Observations on the Transmission of Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos in Syriac and Arabic |
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11.00 |
Josep Casulleras (Universitat de Barcelona) The Attribution to Ptolemy of Methods for Solving Astrological Problems in Medieval Arabic Sources |
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11.45 |
Coffee break |
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12.15 |
Maria Mavroudi (University of California, Berkeley) The Byzantine Reception of Ptolemy’s Karpos and the Origin of the Text |
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13.00 |
Lunch |
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14.15 |
Henry Zepeda (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich) The Almagestum parvum and Medieval Latin Glosses on the Almagest |
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15.00 |
Nathan Sidoli (Waseda University, Tokyo) William of Moerbeke’s Translation of Ptolemy’s Analemma |
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15.45 |
Coffee break |
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16.15 |
Carlos Steel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) William of Moerbeke’s Translation of the Tetrabiblos |
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17.00 |
David Juste (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich) Hyleg, Alcochoden, Almuten: Calculating the Ruling Planet in the Latin Tradition |
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17.45 |
Close |
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Saturday 7 November 2015 |
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10.00 |
Doors open and registration |
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10.15 |
Jean-Patrice Boudet (Université d’Orléans) The Medieval Latin Versions of Pseudo-Ptolemy’s Centiloquium: A Survey |
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11.00 |
Darrel Rutkin (University of Sydney) Optimus Malorum: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Complex and Highly Interested Use of Ptolemy in the Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem (1496) |
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11.45 |
Coffee break |
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12.15 |
Michael Shank (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Regiomontanus vs. George of Trebizond on Planetary Order and Distances (Almagest, Book 9) |
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13.00 |
Richard Kremer (Dartmouth College) Longomontanus, the Last Ptolemaic Mathematical Astronomer |
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13.45 |
Close |
Registration and Payment
Please note that in order to attend this conference everyone, except the speakers/organisers, needs to register and pay online in advance.
Registration fees (which include tea/coffee breaks and lunch) are:
- Standard rate: £35 for three days, or £15 for one day only
- Concessions: £15 (for full-time students/retired) for three days, or £7 for one day only
To register: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/colloquia-2015-16/ptolemys-science
Downloads: this programme as a PDF file, the conference poster.