Thursday 21 January:
09.00 – Reception: Location, Botanical Garden, Council Hall
09.15 – Welcome Address from Authorities and the Minister of Culture of Romania
Session title: Botanical Experimentation: Collectors, Therapists, Magicians, Naturalists (pt.1)
09.45 – “Garden experimentation by 16th-century naturalists and collectors, and its role in the development of botany as a science”, Florike Egmond (Leiden University)
10.45 – “Botánica to botica. Translation and Localization of Botanical and Pharmaceutical Knowledge in 16th-century Spain”, María M. Carrión (Emory University)
11.30 – Coffee Break & Visit to the Greenhouses of the Botanical Garden
12.45 – “Plants and Signatures in Paracelsian Magic, Chymistry and Science”, Hiro Hirai (Radboud University)
13.45 – Lunch Break
Session title: Botanical Experimentation: Collectors, Therapists, Magicians, Naturalists (pt.2)
Location, Botanical Garden, Council Hall
15.15 – “Plants as Scientific Instruments in Natural Magic and Natural Philosophy”, Doina-Cristina Rusu (University of Bucharest)
16.15 – “From recipes to creative experiments: tests, trials and learning by doing in Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum”, Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest)
17.00 – Coffee Break
17.30 – “Complexio and periculum in Federico Cesi’s botanical writings and drawings”, Luigi Guerrini (Galileo Museum)
18.15 – “Mastering the method of experimentation in the Hartlib Circle: the case of vegetation”, Oana Matei (Vasile Goldiş University of Arad)
Friday 22 January:
09.00 – Reception: Location, Botanical Garden, Council Hall
Session title: Gardens as Laboratories: Microscopes and Books
09.15 – “Fructiferous Experiments: the Baconian Garden as a Laboratory”, Cesare Pastorino (TU Berlin)
10.15 – “Experimenting with ‘Garden Discours’: Growing knowledge in Thomas Browne’s Garden of Cyrus”, Sarah Cawthorne (University of York)
11.00 – “Of the beard of a wild oat. Cavendish and Hooke on the microscope”, Michael Deckard (Lenoir-Rhyne University/University of Bucharest)
11.45 – Coffee Break & Visit to the Museum of the Botanical Garden
Session title: Mechanical or Chemical Vegetation. From Kircher to Boyle
12.45 – “Plant palingenesis in 17th-century England”, Antonio Clericuzio (Roma Tre)
13.45 – Lunch Break
Location, Botanical Garden, Council Hall
15.15 – “Athanasius Kircher and vegetal magnetism”, Lucie Čermáková (Charles University)
16.00 – “René Descartes and the mechanization of nature. Vegetative Soul/Vegetative Power”, Fabrizio Baldassarri (Forschungszentrum Gotha/Institute for Research in the Humanities)
16.45 – Coffee Break
Session title: Gardens in Europe
17.15 – “Building gardens with meanings. The symbolical role of vegetation in the creation of landscape design in Eastern and Western Europe”, Alexandru Mexi (University of Bucharest/Vasile Goldiş University of Arad)
18.00 – “The changing nature of archiving plants”, Alette Fleischer (Amsterdam University)
Could you send me your conference schedule so that I could post it on my Early Modern Philosophy Calendar? Steve Daniel
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What a wonderful program! I wish I could be there. Enjoy!
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Thanks!
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Fantastic program! Will there be proceedings and/or video recordings for those of us who cannot travel to Bucharest?
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Yes, a report of the conference will appear [in English] on an Italian Journal – with the schedule of the journal.
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Thank you!
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