BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:researchseminars.org CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:researchseminars.org BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Niccolò Guicciardini (Università di Milano) DTSTART:20250218T140000Z DTEND:20250218T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260421T154110Z UID:UEAPS/47 DESCRIPTION:Title: T he status of mathematics in sixteenth-century Europe\nby Niccolò Guic ciardini (Università di Milano) as part of ANTLR seminar\n\nLecture held in LT4.\n\nAbstract\nAt the dawn of the so-called scientific revolution\, the mathematical sciences acquired a new status as the key to understandin g the structure of reality in a way that contradicted Aristotelian physics and cosmology. This new role for mathematics did not come without controv ersy. In this talk I will explore some of these debates\, placing them in philosophical\, scientific and sociological contexts. I will begin with Co pernicus’s statements in the Preface to De revolutionibus (1543) conc erning the role of mathematics in revealing the harmony of the planetary s ystem and end with Galileo’s statement in the Assayer (1623) that the Bo ok of Nature is written in mathematical characters and his statement at th e end of the first Day of the Dialogo sui due massimi sistemi del mondo (1 632) that mathematics provides man with knowledge as certain as that avai lable to God. As we shall see these statements\, which characterise the sc ientific revolution\, were controversial.\n LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/UEAPS/47/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR