Early Modern Metaphors of Knowledge 4

Live stream of online seminar series organized by the Department of Comenius Studies and Early Modern Intellectual History, IoP CAS

Further information

The programme includes two papers:

Tristan Spillmann (University of Cologne):
A War of Words between Light and Dark or Truth and Falsity: Lorenzo Valla’s Radical Theory of Knowledge and his Use of Metaphors

and

Stefano Gulizia (Università degli studi, Department of History, Milan, Italy):
Mathesis as a metaphor of knowledge: Symmetry, data-extraction, playfulness, and natural regeneration in Kepler's science (1596-1611)

Each presentation takes 20 minutes and a discussion follows.

The seminar takes place at YouTube channel Comenius online: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkPUamXdlAJsfr01290EPqg

Invitation pdf