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Donato Verardi (Marie Curie Fellow at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) : Working together to do wonders : the Academia Secretorum Naturae.

Présentation du projet SECRETS – The Academia Secretorum Naturae: Magic, secrets and instruments of Experimental Science in the Sixteenth Century Naples (GA 101148607).

The aim of SECRETS is to provide the first, complete historical-philosophical reconstruction of the Academia secretorum naturae, one of the earliest Societies in Europe, to explore in an innovative way the “secrets of nature”. The Academia secretorum naturae was founded in Naples in 1560 by Giambattista Della Porta (1535-1615), one of the leading figures of the Italian Renaissance in natural philosophy. The Academy was the crossroads of an erudite but also applied knowledge, where scientists and philosophers interacted with artisans, breaking the boundaries between high and low culture, and overcoming gender barriers. In the Academy, the encounter between the theoretical-scientific tradition of geometric optics, natural magic, and the experimental approach of an empirical Aristotelianism that valued mechanics and the practical arts led to numerous inventions, destined to change the physiognomy of applied sciences of the early modern era. A study on the experimentalism promoted in Naples by the Academia secretorum naturae, which is at the core of the project, will significantly influence our understanding of the Italian Renaissance and its contribution to the so-called Scientific Revolution/rise of experimentalism. Donato Verardi will carry out his research at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca’ Foscari with Prof. Marco Sgarbi.

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Prochaines séances

— Vendredi 13 décembre 2024 

Godefroid de Callataÿ (UC Louvain) : M-Classi, un nouvel outil digital pour répertorier, comparer et visualiser les classifications des sciences de l’Islam et d’ailleurs.

— Vendredi 24 janvier 2025

Maud Pérez-Simon (Sorbonne Nouvelle / IUF) : Les vrais monstres ne sont pas ceux que l’on croit. Monstres d’Orient et société féodale à la fin du XIII^e siècle.

Communication autour du livre Les Monstres des hommes. Un inventaire critique de l’humanité au XIII^e siècle, édition bilingue, avec ses enluminures, traduite, présentée et annotée par Pierre-Olivier Dittmar et Maud Pérez-Simon, Paris, Honoré Champion, “CCMA, 63”, 2024. 

— Vendredi 28 février 2025 

Marion Charpier : Titre à venir.

— Vendredi 28 mars 2025 

Roberto Alessi (IRHT-CNRS) : Titre à venir.