Certissima signa. A Venice Conference on Greek and Latin Astronomical Texts

16 giugno 2016

13.45 Maurizio Messina (direttore Bibl. Naz. Marciana), Indirizzo di saluto

14.00 Susy Marcon - Elisabetta Sciarra (Venezia), Astronomica Marciana

session I

14.40 Klaus Geus (Berlin), Astronomy and Geography. Some unexplored connections

15.10 Jordi Pamias (Barcelona), Mitos catasterísmicos en la tradición no eratosténica

15.40 Anne Weddigen (Reims/Paris), Le diagramme astronomique dans la tradition manuscrite des Harmoniques de Manuel Bryenne

16.10 - 16.40 break

session II

16.40 Arnaud Zucker (Nice), Astronomical relevancy of illuminated constellations in medieval manuscripts of Hyginus’ Astronomy

17.10 Alena Hadravova (Prag), Star myths in the so-called Vatican Mythographers I–III

17.40 Petr Hadrava - Alena Hadravova (Prag), Cristannus de Prachaticz's treatises on the astrolabe:a computer method for preparation of critical editions and statistical treatment of variant readings in apparatus

18.10 - 18.30 discussion

17 giugno 2016

session III

9.00 Anna Santoni (Pisa), De signis coeli and De ordine ac positione stellarum in signis: two star catalogues from the Carolingian Age. Analogies and differences

9.30 Fabio Guidetti (Berlin), Texts and illustrations in Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, ms. VIII 22

10.00 Francesco Bertola (Padova), Astronomical Tubes

10.30 - 11.00 break

session IV

11.30 K. Lippincott (London), Hyginus, Michael Scot and the tyranny of technology in the early Renaissance

12.00 Elisabetta Lugato - Filippomaria Pontani (Venezia), On Aldus' Scriptores astronomici 

12.40 Davide Baldi (Firenze), Gli auctores antichi nella Cosmographiae introductio (1507) di M. Ringmann - M. Waldseemueller

13.10 - 13.30 discussion