Measures of Exactness — Exactness of Measures

Topics in the History of Mathematics

Monday, 24 September 2007

Symposium to mark the Ph.D. defenses of Liesbeth de Wreede and Steven Wepster at Utrecht University on the following day (see announcement).

Programme:

10:00 Jan HogendijkOpening word
10:15   Liesbeth de Wreede    Snellius's exactification of measurements
11:15 Sébastien Maronne Descartes' ovals in Excerpta Mathematica and the method for normals
12:00 Marc van der Poel Latin as a vehicle for scientific discourse in the 17th and 18th centuries
12:45 Lunch
14:00 Rob van Gent Measuring the Stars for a New Sky
14:45 Frauke Böttcher Too Exact for Vulgarization? -- Mathematics, a Self-Taught Discipline in the 18th Century
15:45 Steven Wepster On Longitude and Lunars: the other half of the story
16:45 Henk Bos Concluding remarks

There will be drinks afterwards and a dinner in the evening.
Registration for the day programme is encouraged but not compulsory. If you want to join for dinner then let us know in advance, so that we can make a reservation in time.
Register via this link and manually change the word "spam" in "math".

Place now decided:

room 611
Mathematisch Instituut
Budapestlaan 6
Utrecht (Uithof)
Universiteit Utrecht Mathematisch Instituut
Mathematical Research Institute NWO GMFW
Last modified: Thu Sep 6 13:58:57 CEST 2007