{"id":5065,"date":"2019-02-18T14:16:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T14:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/?page_id=5065"},"modified":"2021-03-22T22:38:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T22:38:27","slug":"february-2019-symposium-on-kircher-at-avignon-universite","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/?page_id=5065","title":{"rendered":"February 2019: Symposium on Kircher at Avignon Universit\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 22,\u00a0le Laboratoire de Math\u00e9matiques d&#8217;Avignon (LMA) et la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration de Recherche AGORANTIC d&#8217;Avignon Universit\u00e9 hosts a day-long symposium on Athanasius Kircher, S.J.\u00a0(1602-1680).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The symposium features presentations by mathematicians and historians, all considering the mathematics behind sundials. The event takes place in a building in which Kircher, noted German Jesuit scholar and polymath, taught in 1632. One of the rooms, the program announcement notes, &#8220;conserve dans ses murs les vestiges d&#8217;un exceptionnel cadran solaire \u00e0 r\u00e9flexion qu&#8217;il r\u00e9alisa alors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A program appears below. More details are available at:\u00a0<strong>http:\/\/univ-avignon.fr\/colloque-athanase-kircher-entre-mathematiques-et-gnomonique&#8211;13438.kjsp<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>09:30 &gt; 10:00 : Accueil<\/p>\n<p>10:00 &gt; 10:45 : Denis Savoie (Astronome, SYRTE \u2013 Observatoire de Paris et mus\u00e9e des Arts et M\u00e9tiers), La gnomonique de Kircher : une diversit\u00e9 in\u00e9gal\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<p>11:00 &gt; 11:45 : \u00c9tienne Ghys (Math\u00e9maticien, ENS Lyon, secr\u00e9taire perp\u00e9tuel de l&#8217;Acad\u00e9mie des Sciences), Ombre et lumi\u00e8re.<\/p>\n<p>13:45 &gt; 14:15 : Rapha\u00ebl Dallaporta pr\u00e9sentera son installation vid\u00e9o : Mundo combinatorio \/ Monde combinatoire.<\/p>\n<p>14:30 &gt; 15:15 : Isabelle Pantin (Litt\u00e9rature et Language, ENS Ulm), Kircher, le livre et l\u2019image scientifique.<\/p>\n<p>15:30 &gt; 16:15 : Jean-Michel Mathoni\u00e8re, Les compagnons tailleurs de pierre et la gnomonique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 22,\u00a0le Laboratoire de Math\u00e9matiques d&#8217;Avignon (LMA) et la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration de Recherche AGORANTIC d&#8217;Avignon Universit\u00e9 hosts a day-long symposium on Athanasius Kircher, S.J.\u00a0(1602-1680). &nbsp; The symposium features presentations by mathematicians and historians, all considering the mathematics behind sundials. The event takes place in a building in which Kircher, noted German Jesuit scholar and polymath, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127185,"featured_media":5067,"parent":888,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-standard.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5065","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/127185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5886,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5065\/revisions\/5886"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}