Press Releases
Neale W. Watson Seminar on the Material and Visual
History of Science 2012
Tennis and the Scientific Revolution
Museo Galileo - Florence, June 15-16, 2012
Preliminary program
Annarita Angelini (University of Bologna): Praecisio and Conjecture: Cusanus’s Ball Game and the ‘Learned Ignorance’ of the World (Commentator: Antonio Clericuzio – University of Cassino)
Marco Beretta (University of Bologna – Museo Galileo): Training Tennis Players with Natural Philosophy. From Scaino’s Trattato to the Art du paumier (Commentator: Claudio Pogliano – University of Pisa)
Concetta Pennuto (University of Tours): Jeu de la paume: Health of the Body and of the Mind in Early Modern Medicine (Commentator: Maria Conforti – La Sapienza)
Michele Camerota (University of Cagliari): ‘Cutting the Ball.’ How Galileo played Tennis in the Dialogue (Commentator: Stefano Gattei – IMT Lucca)
Alessandro Tosi (University of Pisa): Tennis in Early Modern Visual Culture (Commentator: Claus Zittel - Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie, Berlin)
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis (University of Twente): Jeu de Paume in Dutch Culture: Descartes, Van Schooten and the Huygenses; Images, Moves and Models (Commentator: Larry Principe – The Johns Hopkins University)
D. Graham Burnett (Princeton University): Keep your Eye on the Ball: Optics and the Metaphors of the Court (Commentator: Dario Tessicini – Villa I Tatti, Firenze)
Edith Sylla (North Carolina State University): Jacob Bernoulli on conjecturing the Outcomes of Tennis Matches (Commentator: Niccolò Guicciardini – University of Bergamo)
