BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Rome BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221030T020000 RDATE:20230326T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231029T020000 RDATE:20240331T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241027T020000 RDATE:20250330T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251026T020000 RDATE:20260329T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261025T020000 RDATE:20270328T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20271031T020000 RDATE:20280326T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20281029T020000 RDATE:20290325T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20291028T020000 RDATE:20300331T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20301027T020000 RDATE:20310330T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20311026T020000 RDATE:20320328T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220427T090000 RDATE:20221030T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230326T030000 RDATE:20231029T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240331T030000 RDATE:20241027T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T030000 RDATE:20251026T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260329T030000 RDATE:20261025T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20270328T030000 RDATE:20271031T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20280326T030000 RDATE:20281029T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20290325T030000 RDATE:20291028T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20300331T030000 RDATE:20301027T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20310330T030000 RDATE:20311026T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:d119d29b561aab3bc0502a2cbe920788 CATEGORIES:Call for papers CREATED:20230428T151519 SUMMARY:Reassessing the "Scientific Revolution": Key Concepts and New Case Studies DESCRIPTION:Edited by\nSimone Guidi (CNR-ILIESI, Roma)\nLudovica Marinucci (Università degli Studi di Salerno)\nMarco Storni (Université Libre de Bruxelles)\nSinc e the early twentieth century, scholars have provided manifold characteriza tions of the momentous change in scientific culture traditionally categoriz ed as the “Scientific Revolution.” Alexandre Koyré has famously described t he new physical science as a form of knowledge based on quantitative reason ing and measurement, whose emergence marked the passage from the “world of approximation” to the “universe of precision” (Koyré [1948] 1961). The intr oduction of mathematics into natural philosophy, the focus on quantity rath er than on quality, the pursuit of accuracy and objectivity, are all genera l traits that several historians have referred to while characterizing the birth of modern science. One famous example is the discussion of the “quant ifying spirit” of the eighteenth century, that John L. Heilbron has defined as a generalized “passion to order and systematize as well as to measure a nd calculate” (Heilbron 1990:2). At the same time, a crowded lore well repr esented by Thomas S. Kuhn (1960, 1972), strongly associated the notion of “ Scientific Revolution” with those of astronomical and Copernican Revolution , portraying the new science as the outcome of the interplay between observ ative novelties and the emergence of new epistemological paradigms.\nFinall y, other interpretative traditions (e.g., Rossi [1957] 1974, [1973] 2020) c onsidered early modern science as stemming from the rise in the Renaissance of new research in mechanics and alchemy, as well as from the rediscovery of Greek mathematics. In the last decades, scholars have been striving to r edefine the key categories at the basis of the traditional narratives of ea rly modern science, starting from the very idea of “Scientific Revolution” (although some still tried to defend the notion: e.g., Floris Cohen 1994, 2 010).\nThis concept has been challenged with multifarious arguments: it is grounded on artificial disciplinary divides, anachronistic assumptions on s cientific method, a rhetoric of masculinity, and a radical separation of th e West from the rest of the world (Merchant 1980, 2006; Biagioli 1998). In the same way, other facets of the traditional characterization of science a s a specific construction of early modern European culture have started to be reassessed. These include the concepts of quantification (Daston 1995) a nd mathematization (Roux 2010), the role played by experiments, thought exp eriments, and scientific instrumentation (e.g., Warner 1990; Van Helden and Hankins 1994), and even the chronological coordinates that make the “Scien tific Revolution” start as of the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, excluding earlier attempts at reformulating philosophy of nature (Grant 199 6).\nHowever, further critical work is needed to shed full light on these c ategories, notably by adopting a “bottom-up approach” that reflects on spec ific case studies to reassess mainstream views of natural philosophy from t he sixteenth to the eighteenth century. This volume aims to do so by coupli ng historiographical analyses of well-known texts, and presentation of new case studies, with theoretical reflections on key categories underpinning t he current views of the “Scientific Revolution.”\n\nWe welcome abstracts of up to 500 words from potential contributors before 1 August 2023.\nProposa ls should be sent to Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È ne cessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.. (mailto:marco.storni@ulb.be.) A ccepted contributors will have to submit a full paper before 1 May 2024. Th e volume project will be submitted to a major international publisher soon after the selection of abstracts; further details will be provided to accep ted contributors.\nSee also the CFP at the link (https://www.academia.edu/1 00848368/CFP_Reassessing_the_Scientific_Revolution_Key_Concepts_and_New_Cas e_Studies).\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Edited by

Simone Guidi (CNR-ILIESI, Roma)
Ludovica Marinucci (Università degli Studi di Salerno)
Marco Storni (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Since the early twentieth century, scholars have provided manifold characterizations of the momentous change in scientific culture tr aditionally categorized as the “Scientific Revolution.” Alexandre Koyré has famously described the new physical science as a form of knowledge based o n quantitative reasoning and measurement, whose emergence marked the passag e from the “world of approximation” to the “universe of precision” (Koyré [ 1948] 1961). The introduction of mathematics into natural philosophy, the f ocus on quantity rather than on quality, the pursuit of accuracy and object ivity, are all general traits that several historians have referred to whil e characterizing the birth of modern science. One famous example is the dis cussion of the “quantifying spirit” of the eighteenth century, that John L. Heilbron has defined as a generalized “passion to order and systematize as well as to measure and calculate” (Heilbron 1990:2). At the same time, a c rowded lore well represented by Thomas S. Kuhn (1960, 1972), strongly assoc iated the notion of “Scientific Revolution” with those of astronomical and Copernican Revolution, portraying the new science as the outcome of the int erplay between observative novelties and the emergence of new epistemologic al paradigms.
Finally, other interpretative traditions (e.g., Rossi [1 957] 1974, [1973] 2020) considered early modern science as stemming from th e rise in the Renaissance of new research in mechanics and alchemy, as well as from the rediscovery of Greek mathematics. In the last decades, scholar s have been striving to redefine the key categories at the basis of the tra ditional narratives of early modern science, starting from the very idea of “Scientific Revolution” (although some still tried to defend the notion: e .g., Floris Cohen 1994, 2010).
This concept has been challenged with m ultifarious arguments: it is grounded on artificial disciplinary divides, a nachronistic assumptions on scientific method, a rhetoric of masculinity, a nd a radical separation of the West from the rest of the world (Merchant 19 80, 2006; Biagioli 1998). In the same way, other facets of the traditional characterization of science as a specific construction of early modern Euro pean culture have started to be reassessed. These include the concepts of q uantification (Daston 1995) and mathematization (Roux 2010), the role playe d by experiments, thought experiments, and scientific instrumentation (e.g. , Warner 1990; Van Helden and Hankins 1994), and even the chronological coo rdinates that make the “Scientific Revolution” start as of the sixteenth an d the seventeenth centuries, excluding earlier attempts at reformulating ph ilosophy of nature (Grant 1996).
However, further critical work is nee ded to shed full light on these categories, notably by adopting a “bottom-u p approach” that reflects on specific case studies to reassess mainstream v iews of natural philosophy from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Th is volume aims to do so by coupling historiographical analyses of well-know n texts, and presentation of new case studies, with theoretical reflections on key categories underpinning the current views of the “Scientific Revolu tion.”


We welcome abstracts of up to 500 words from potential c ontributors before 1 August 2023.
Proposals should be sent to Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.. Accepted contri butors will have to submit a full paper before 1 May 2024. The volume proje ct will be submitted to a major international publisher soon after the sele ction of abstracts; further details will be provided to accepted contributo rs.

See also the CFP at the link.

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