Events
Svante Lindqvist , President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and his wife Catharina will attend the Festival of Thinkers in the United Arab Emirates, November 2-4, 2009.
Marco Beretta will present a paper entitled, “Between Craft and Alchemy: Glass in Late Antiquity,” on November 19th at a Louvre sponsored workshop ( Pour une approche interdisciplinaire de l’alchimie grecque. Autour du verre, du cinabre et du bronze noir ), at the Maison de la Recherche, 28 rue Serpente, 75005 Paris. View Program.
William R. Shea will be speaking October 26th at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, London. The subject of his talk: "Galileo's Discovery of a New World in the Heavens.” Thereafter, he will speak at various institutions throughout Italy and the Middle East (see list).
29 October: "What the telescope shows". Lecture to the Accademia di Agricultura Scienze e Lettere di Verona Verona, Verona, Italy.
9 November: "Galileo and Paolo Sarpi". Lecture at the Liceo Scientifico, Venice, Italy
11 November: "How the Sky Was Opened by Galileo". Talk to the Interclub (Rotary and Lyons), Rovigo, Italy
13 November: "Galileo's Six Trips to Rome". Lecture to the Associazione "Filosofia di Vita", Montregrotto Terme, Italy
19 November: "News from on High". Lecture at a Conference on Galileo in Turin, Italy.
26 November: "Galileo and Bernardino Telesio". Keynote address at a meeting on Telesio (1509-1588), Cosenza, Italy
12 December: "The Impact of Muslim Astronomy on the West". Lecture at a conference on Muslim and Western Science, Istanbul, Turkey.
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