Niccolò Guicciardini Recipient of the Francis Bacon Award in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Professor of History of Science and Mathematics, University of Bergamo Un Altro Presente: on the Historical Interpretation of Mathematical Texts Mathematics is a discipline characterized by a notable stability through time and across cultures. Can mathematical texts of the past awaken a feeling of wonder, a “feeling,” as the historian Paolo Rossi once remarked of medicine and cosmology, “of an unbridgeable distance”? IMAGE: Engraving from Newton’s Analysis per Quantitatum Series, Fluxiones, ac Differentias (1711), attributed to Joseph Nutting. The Seventh Biennial Francis Bacon Conference Lecture Friday, April 13, 2018 5:00PM • Spalding Laboratory Auditorium (Building 41, ROOM 106) CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Reception to Follow Organized by Caltech’s Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, this lecture made possible by generous financial support from the Francis Bacon Foundation.
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Niccolò GuicciardiniRecipient of the Francis Bacon Award in the History and Philosophy of Science and TechnologyProfessor of History of Science and Mathematics, University of Bergamo
Un Altro Presente: on the Historical Interpretation of Mathematical Texts
Mathematics is a discipline characterized by a notable stability through time and across cultures. Can mathematical texts of the past awaken a feeling of wonder, a “feeling,” as the historian Paolo Rossi once remarked of medicine and cosmology, “of an unbridgeable distance”?
IMAGE: Engraving from Newton’s Analysis per Quantitatum Series,
Fluxiones, ac Differentias
(1711), attributed to
Joseph Nutting.
The Seventh Biennial Francis Bacon Conference Lecture
Friday, April 13, 2018 5:00PM • Spalding Laboratory Auditorium (Building 41, ROOM 106)
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Reception to Follow
Organized by Caltech’s Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, this lecture made possible by generous financial support from the Francis Bacon Foundation.
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