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Sight and Light in the Late Middle Ages

Monday 12 June Auditorium Emma Vorlat, Leercentrum Agora, Edward Van Evenstraat 4 09:00-09:10       Welcome Address The Rise of Perspectiva chair: Andrea Aldo Robiglio (KU Leuven) 09:10-10:10       A. Mark Smith (Missouri University) Atmospheric Optics and Celestial Observation According to Perspectivist Analysis 10:20-11:20       Cecilia Panti (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”) From linee radiales to linee visuales, and Return. The Swing of perspectiva in 13th-Century Theories of Vision 11:30-12:30       José Filipe Silva (University of Helsinki) What Do You See? On the Nature of Objects of Visual Perception 12:30-14:00       lunch break Optical Literacy chair: Russell Friedman (KU Leuven) 14:00-15:00       Maria Sorokina (IRHT, CNRS, Paris) The Luminous Bodies without Light. The Empyrean Heaven and the Sphere of Fire 15:20-16:20       Mattia Mantovani (KU Leuven) The Bestiary of the Eyes. Animal Vision in the Late Middle Ages 16:30-17:30       Francesca Galli (Universität Zürich) Optics from the Pulpit at the Turn of the 13th Century Tuesday 13 June – Auditorium Emma Vorlat The Institutionalization of  Perspectiva chair: Clelia Crialesi (KU Leuven) 09:00-10:00       Aurora Panzica (Université de Fribourg) A Terrestrial or Celestial Light? The Milky Way: A Challenge to Aristotle's Cosmology 10:10-11:10       Lukáš Lička (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) Between Peckham and Buridan. Visual Representation in 15th-Century Vienna Disputations 11:20-12:20       Dominique Raynaud (Université Grenoble Alpes) Variations on the Principle of Least Time before Fermat

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Leuven, Belgium

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12.06.2023, 00:00 13.06.2023, 00:00 Tickets
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