Aktuality

Texts, Images and the Materiality of the Book: Architectonic Paratexts in Early Modern Natural Philosophy and the Bibliospace

12 May 2025, 14.00, Lecture room, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences Prof. Dr. Márton Szentpéteri Ph.D. (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest)...

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Pozvánka na prezentaci knih

Petra Pavlas, Knize knih vstřícLenka Řezníková, Historiam videre 6. května 2025, 17.00, Café Husovka

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The international relations of the Halle Orphanage in the early modern times

!! ZRUŠENO !! 16 April 2025, 17:00,the Academy Conference Centre (Husova 4a, 110 00 Prague 1) Prof. Dr. Holger Zaunstöck – Dr. Thomas Grunewald(Franckesche Stiftungen Halle) lecture...

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Přejít na přehled aktualit
veritrace-data-driven-humanities

Wednesday June 14, 2023, 3 p. m.,
meeting room of the Institute of Philosophy, Jilská 1, Praha 1, 

Prof. Dr. Cornelis J. Schilt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

lecture,

 

The ERC-funded project „Traces de la Verité: the reappropriation of ancient wisdom in early modern natural philosophy“ aka VERITRACE (for which see https://veritrace.eu) is part of a larger movement within the humanities to provide more robust conclusions drawn from large datasets. The project makes use of several large digital collections of Renaissance and early modern printed books to try understand how the idea of a „prisca sapientia“ and its associated literature influenced early modern natural philosophy. We know Copernicus, Kepler, Bacon, Newton, and many other researchers were deeply interested in works like the „Corpus Hermeticum“ and the „Chaldean Oracles“, yet we have no idea what it is exactly that they took from these writings. The research performed as part of VERITRACE may very well confirm existing conclusions in the field but then supported with abundant, reliable data, provide alternative explanations for which clear support exists, or indeed overthrow existing opinion. This talk will introduce in more depth the research vision underlying data driven humanities in general and VERITRACE in particular.

Invitation to download here.