Project Development

 

October 2020

• Research seminars.
• Vida, Grigore, Seria „Cafeneaua filosofică”: Despre impostură. Dana Jalobeanu și Grigore Vida în dialog cu Călin Cotoi și Andrei Cornea (23 October 2020).
• Conferences attended by the members of the research team:
  • The Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy series.
  • Series „Cafeneaua filosofică”.
  • Conference Cartesian Images. Picturing Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Age (15 October – 26 November 2020).

November 2020

• Research seminars.
• Vida, Grigore, Seria „Cafeneaua filosofică”: Newton the Alchemist. A discussion with Prof. William R. Newman (Indiana University), hosted by Dana Jalobeanu, Georgiana Hedeșan and Grigore Vida (6 November 2020).
• Dobre, Mihnea & Vida, Grigore, Seria „Cafeneaua filosofică”: De ce este filosofică traducerea filosofică? Un dialog între Alexander Baumgarten, Andrei Cornea și Mihnea Dobre. Moderator: Grigore Vida (13 November 2020).
• Vida, Grigore, Seria „Cafeneaua filosofică”: The book detectives. What can we learn from a book without reading it? A dialogue with Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge University) hosted by Dana Jalobeanu, Grigore Vida and Alexandru Liciu (20 November 2020).
• Conferences attended by the members of the research team:
  • The Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy series.
  • Series „Cafeneaua filosofică”.
  • Conference Cartesian Images. Picturing Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Age (15 October – 26 November 2020).
  • The Joint Seminar with the Maison Française d’Oxford and the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology: AFHOPOS Michaelmas 2020 - The Early Modern Comet (18 November 2020).
  • The conference on Medicine in the Philosophy of Descartes. Light & Shade (18-20 November 2020).

December 2020

• Research seminars.
• Added a timeline on the Home page.
• Vida, Grigore, Seria „Cafeneaua filosofică”: Ce este și la ce e bună istoria ideilor. Dana Jalobeanu și Grigore Vida în dialog cu Horia-Roman Patapievici și Sorana Corneanu (11 December 2020).

January 2021

• Research seminars.
• Setting up a new digital working space for the research team.
• Charting library resources for early modern Cartesian publications.
• Vida, Grigore, Seria „Cafeneaua filosofică”: Povestiri despre epidemii și vaccinuri. Dana Jalobeanu și Grigore Vida în dialog cu Toma Pătrașcu și Mihnea Boștină (29 January 2021).

February 2021

• Research seminars.
• Consolidating the digital working space.
• Members of the team have attended virtual lectures and events.
• Vida, Grigore, Seria „Cafeneaua filosofică”: Cum (nu) ajunge știința în școala românească?. Dana Jalobeanu și Grigore Vida în dialog cu Doru Căstăian și Cristian Presură (12 February 2021).

March 2021

• Research seminars.
• Members of the team have attended virtual lectures and events.
• Vida, Grigore, Seria „Cafeneaua filosofică”: Isaac Newton, Priest of Nature. A discussion with Rob Iliffe (Oxford University), hosted by Dana Jalobeanu, Georgiana Hedeșan and Grigore Vida (5 March 2021).
• Dobre, Mihnea, “Natural Philosophy and Cartesian cosmology: Rohault and the popularization of Cartesianism” in the Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (23 March 2021). A record of the meeting is available here.

April 2021

• Research seminars.
• Vida, Grigore, Seria „Cafeneaua filosofică”: Salvatorii culturii antice. Dana Jalobeanu și Grigore Vida în dialog cu Andrei Cornea (2 April 2021).
• Bujor, Ioana, „Compendium Grammatices Linguae Hebraeae: Spinoza și insistența asupra numelui (nomen)” in the Sesiunea de comunicări științifice a studenților, masteranzilor și doctoranzilor, FLLS, University of Bucharest (23-24 April 2021).
• Dobre, Mihnea, “Jacques Rohault’s Traité de physique between Cartesianism and Newtonianism – historical and historiographical considerations” in the Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology (26 April 2021).
• Members of the team have attended virtual lectures and events.

May 2021

• Research seminars.
• Members of the team have attended virtual lectures and events.
• Babeș, Ovidiu; Ioana Bujor, Mihnea Dobre; Grigore Vida, in The Bucharest-Athens Workshop: Digital approaches in the history of science (24 May 2021).

June 2021

• Research seminars.
• Members of the team have attended virtual lectures and events.
• Bujor, Ioana, “Johannes Amerpoel’s Quest for Reconciliation in the Cartesius Mosaizans (1669)” in the Scientiae 2021 conference, Early Modern Knowledge, 1400-1800 (9-12 June 2021).
• Dobre, Mihnea, “Cartesianism at Bay: Rohault as a Defender of Cartesian Cosmology” in the Scientiae 2021 conference, Early Modern Knowledge, 1400-1800 (9-12 June 2021).
• Bujor, Ioana, “‘A Caution Concerning Words’: Jacques Rohault and the Port-Royal Logic” in the Venice-Bucharest Online Workshop in Early Modern Cosmology (17-18 June 2021).
• Babeș, Ovidiu, “Constructing Oppositions: Samuel Clarke’s Experimental Grounding of Anti-Cartesian Matter” in the Venice-Bucharest Online Workshop in Early Modern Cosmology (17-18 June 2021).
• Dobre, Mihnea, “A Populariser of Cartesian Cosmology? Jacques Rohault” in the Venice-Bucharest Online Workshop in Early Modern Cosmology (17-18 June 2021).
• Vida, Grigore, “Samuel Clarke and Cartesianism” in the Venice-Bucharest Online Workshop in Early Modern Cosmology (17-18 June 2021).

July 2021

• Research seminars on Rohault and Le Grand.
• Vida, Grigore, Seria „Cafeneaua filosofică”: Cealaltă filosofie. Epicur și epicureismul. Dana Jalobeanu și Grigore Vida în dialog cu Andrei Cornea (2 July 2021).

August 2021

• Individual research.
• Paper submitted for an edited volume (international publisher).

September 2021

• Research seminars on Rohault. Discussions of drafts prepared by the team members.
• Paper submitted for an edited volume (international publisher).
• Conferences attended by the members of the research team:
  • The Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy series.
  • The Thomas Harriot in Global and Local Contexts: A Quatercentenary Conference (9-10 and 16-17 September 2021).
  • The in-between meeting of the European Society for the History of Science, “History of Science and the Humanities” (23-24 September 2021).

October 2021

• Research seminars on Samuel Clarke. Discussions of drafts prepared by the team members.
• Book review submitted for an international journal.
• Conferences attended by the members of the research team:
  • The Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy series.
  • Series „Cafeneaua filosofică”.
• Babeș, Ovidiu, “Solid Explanations: Descartes on Mathematically Modelling the Fall of Water” in the Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (26 October 2021). A record of the meeting is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96D7F7PcMcw.
• Mihnea Dobre, Ovidiu Babes and Ioana Bujor, “Cartesian Visual Cosmology: ways towards a digital platform” in the RADH 2021 – Recent Advances in Digital Humanities conference (29.10.2021).
• Vida, Grigore, Seria „Cafeneaua filosofică”: Știința între național și universal. Dana Jalobeanu și Grigore Vida în dialog cu Mircea Flonta și Cătălin Vasilescu (29 October 2021).

November 2021

• Research seminars on the draft database of library resources.
• Conferences attended by the members of the research team:
  • The Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy series.
  • Series „Cafeneaua filosofică”.
  • The online conference Celebrating the quatercentenary of the birth of Thomas Willis (18 November 2021).
  • The online conference Recipes Transformed: seventeenth-century perspectives (18, 19, 26 November 2021).
• Dobre, Mihnea, “Beyond digitalization: challenges for humans and machines” (with Anca Dinu) in the UNeECC and UNICA Joint Webinar: UniverCities and Culture (17 November 2021). The record of the event is available here: https://youtu.be/lLqhiOShhP8.
• Dobre, Mihnea, “Constructing Experiments with Glass Drops in Jacques Rohault’s Natural Philosophy” in the online conference Recipes Transformed: seventeenth-century perspectives (19 November 2021).
• Vida, Grigore, „Banchetul Cărturești”: Cum e mai bine să trăiești? Ca un stoic sau ca un epicureic? Dezbatere moderată de Dana Jalobeanu și Grigore Vida (20 November 2021).
•  Vida, Grigore, „Banchetul Cărturești”: Raftul traducătorului: Andrei Cornea în dialog cu Grigore Vida (22 November 2021).
• Bujor, Ioana, „Baruch Spinoza: lector al gramaticilor de limbă ebraică din Evul Mediu?” in the Conferința Internațională Anuală a Facultății de Limbi și Literaturi Străine, University of Bucharest (26-27 November 2021).

December 2021

• Research seminar.
• Individual research.

January 2022

• Individual research.
• Research seminars.
• Vida, Grigore, Seria „Cafeneaua filosofică”: Este limba română o limbă filosofică? Dana Jalobeanu și Grigore Vida în dialog cu Ioan Alexandru Tofan și Mihai Maci despre Constantin Noica, Cuvânt împreună despre rostirea românească (ed. 2021) (14 January 2022).
• Vida, Grigore, Seria „Cafeneaua filosofică”: Geografia infernului. Galileo și Dante. Dana Jalobeanu și Grigore Vida în dialog cu Smaranda Bratu Elian și Horia Roman Patapievici (21 January 2022).
• Outreach: Dobre, Mihnea, Interview for “Radio România Cultural” (Acolade, 21:00, 26.01.2022).
• Dobre, Mihnea, “Review: Ann Blair, Kaspar Greyerz (eds.), 2020. Physico-Theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650-1750." Physis 56 (1-2): 412-414, 2021.

February 2022

• Work on the draft database of library resources.
• Research seminars.
• Vida, Grigore, Seria „Cafeneaua filosofică”: Filosofia & viitorul omenirii. Dana Jalobeanu și Grigore Vida în dialog cu Andrei Cornea și Mircea Flonta despre Bertrand Russell, Viitorul omenirii (4 february 2022).
• Vida, Grigore, Seria „Cafeneaua filosofică”: Conversații cu Descartes. Dana Jalobeanu în dialog cu Vlad Alexandrescu, Călin-Cristian Pop, Robert Arnăutu și Grigore Vida despre Descartes, Corespondența completă (18 February 2022).

March 2022

• Work on individual drafts of papers.
• Work on the database of library resources.
• Research seminars.

April 2022

• Research seminars.
• Correcting and editing the paper ("Cartesian Visual Cosmology: ways towards a digital platform") about the Cartesian Cosmological Illustrations platform. Preparing it for a forthcoming edited volume.
• Discussion of a draft version of the Leibniz-Clarke edition.
• Work on the database of library resources.
• Vida, Grigore, Seria „Cafeneaua filosofică”: Umbrele lui Shakespeare (Shakespeare, Bacon și câteva secole de teorii ale conspirației). Dana Jalobeanu și Grigore Vida în dialog cu George Volceanov (1 April 2022).
• Dobre, Mihnea, "Digital Humanities and Early Modern Scholarship" in the online conference series History of thought and Digital Scholarship Seminars; HITDIG (8 April 2022).

May 2022

• Research seminars.
• Discussion of a draft version of the Leibniz-Clarke edition.
• Work on the database of library resources.
• Vida, Grigore, Seria „Cafeneaua filosofică”: Izolarea lui Lucian Blaga și destinul filosofiei românești. Dana Jalobeanu și Grigore Vida în dialog cu Marta Petreu, Luana Stroe și Michael S. Jones (6 May 2022).
• Babeș, Ovidiu, "The Experimentalism of Jacques Rohault" in the workshop Rethinking the Constituents of Early Modern Science; ICUB-Humanities, Bucharest (12 May 2022).
• Dobre, Mihnea, "Authorities and Historiographical Categories in Early Modern Texts: Cartesianism" in the workshop Rethinking the Constituents of Early Modern Science; ICUB-Humanities, Bucharest (12 May 2022).
• Vida, Grigore, "The Text and Context of the Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence" in the workshop Rethinking the Constituents of Early Modern Science; ICUB-Humanities, Bucharest (12 May 2022).
• Bujor, Ioana, “Spinoza’s Compendium of Hebrew Grammar: Cui prodest?” (part of the panel on Spinoza’s Hebrew Grammar) in the Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (17 May 2022). The record of the meeting is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugl_6d6E31s.
• Vida, Grigore, Seria „Cafeneaua filosofică”: Ce este filosofia analitică? Dana Jalobeanu și Grigore Vida în dialog cu Mircea Flonta, Adrian Miroiu, Gheorghe Ștefanov, Andrei Mărășoiu și Paula Tomi (20 May 2022).
• Babeș, Ovidiu, "Solid Explanations: Descartes on Mathematically Modeling the Flow of Water", ICUB Workshops in Understanding, ICUB-Humanities, Bucharest (27 May 2022).

June 2022

• Research seminars.
• Work on the edition of Jacques Rohault's programatic preface to the Traité de physique (Fr. 1671, Lat. 1674, Lat. 1697, Eng. 1723).
• Babeș, Ovidiu, "'Whether the world be full or not, it is the same thing': The Experimentalism of Jacques Rohault" in the 2nd Venice-Bucharest Workshop on Early Modern Philosophy and Science (13-14.06.2022).
• Bujor, Ioana, “Antoine Le Grand's Annotations in the Second Part of Rohault's Traité de Physique” in the 2nd Venice-Bucharest Workshop on Early Modern Philosophy and Science (13-14.06.2022).
• Dobre, Mihnea, "Layers of Knowledge: constructing authority in an early modern textbook on natural philosophy" in the 2nd Venice-Bucharest Workshop on Early Modern Philosophy and Science (13-14.06.2022).
• Vida, Grigore, "Samuel Clarke: From Cartesianism to Newtonianism" in the 2nd Venice-Bucharest Workshop on Early Modern Philosophy and Science (13-14.06.2022).
• Dobre, Mihnea, "'Nonsense' in the history of philosophy and science: the case of historiographical categories" in the CLEFIS Seminar (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest).

July 2022

• Work on the edition of Jacques Rohault's programatic preface to the Traité de physique (Fr. 1671, Lat. 1674, Lat. 1697, Eng. 1723).
• Dobre, Mihnea, Babeș, Ovidiu, Bujor, Ioana, & Vida, Grigore. (2022). "Cartesian and Newtonian authors: a database" [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6923317.
• Vida, Grigore. Seria „Cafeneaua filosofică”: Memoria ca salvare. Dana Jalobeanu și Grigore Vida în dialog cu Vladimir Tismăneanu și Radu Vancu (15 July 2022).
• Vida, Grigore. Seria „Cafeneaua filosofică”: Știința ca poveste. Dana Jalobeanu și Grigore Vida în dialog cu Cristian Presură, Roxana Bojariu și Alexandru Stermin (22 July 2022).
• Vida, Grigore. Seria „Cafeneaua filosofică”: Despre moderație. Dana Jalobeanu și Grigore Vida în dialog cu Aurelian Crăiuțu (29 July 2022).

August 2022

• Work on the edition of Jacques Rohault's programatic preface to the Traité de physique (Fr. 1671, Lat. 1674, Lat. 1697, Eng. 1723).
• Work on the edition of Antoine Le Grand's annotations to the Traité de physique.
• Work on the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence.

September 2022

• Work on the edition of Jacques Rohault's programatic preface to the Traité de physique (Fr. 1671, Lat. 1674, Lat. 1697, Eng. 1723).
• Bujor, Ioana and Dobre, Mihnea, “The reception of Jacques Rohault’s Traité de physique (1671): from Antoine Le Grand to Samuel Clarke” at the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) Conference, (Brussels, 07-10 September 2022).
• Babeș, Ovidiu, “The Experimentalism of Jacques Rohault” at Rethinking the Narratives of Early Modern Philosophy (University of Copenhagen, 14-16 September 2022).
• Vida, Grigore. Seria „Cafeneaua filosofică”: O luciditate rănită: Monica Lovinescu. Dana Jalobeanu și Grigore Vida în dialog cu Vladimir Tismăneanu, Cristina Cioabă și Radu Vancu (16 September 2022).
• Vida, Grigore. Seria „Cafeneaua filosofică”: Despre iubire la Platon (Banchetul și Phaidros). Dana Jalobeanu și Grigore Vida în dialog cu Andrei Cornea (23 September 2022).

October 2022

• Vida, Grigore. Seria „Cafeneaua filosofică”: Excomunicarea lui Galileo Galilei și efectele ei în istoria culturii europene. Dana Jalobeanu și Grigore Vida în dialog cu Horia-Roman Patapievici (7 Octomber 2022).
• Bujor, Ioana, “Annotating a Cartesian Textbook on Natural Philosophy: Antoine Le Grand” in The Making of Modern Science and the Metaphor of the Scientific Revolution Conference (Bucharest, 17 October 2022).
• Vida, Grigore and Dobre, Mihnea, “Cosmology and Mosaic Physics. On Géraud de Cordemoy’s Lettre au R.P. Cossart” in The Making of Modern Science and the Metaphor of the Scientific Revolution Conference (Bucharest, 17 October 2022).
• Dobre, Mihnea and Babeș, Ovidiu, “Jacques Rohault’s Preface to the Traité de physique and its role in the Scientific Revolution of the early modern period” in The Making of Modern Science and the Metaphor of the Scientific Revolution Conference (Bucharest, 17 October 2022).
• Hosting the final conference in the project, The Making of Modern Science and the Metaphor of the Scientific Revolution; ICUB-Humanities, Bucharest (17 October 2022).