Programme
17 jun. '1609h30–11h00 Opening Session (Chairman: Thomas Horst)
Short Welcome Speech | Henrique Leitão (CIUHCT, Lisbon)
Introduction: The cosmographical network of Nicolaus Cusanus and German-Portuguese relations in the Humanism | Thomas Horst (CIUHCT, Lisbon)
Cosmography as Christological Phenomenology | Harald Schwaetzer (Kueser Akademie für Europäische Geistesgeschichte and Cusanus-Hochschule, Bernkastel-Kues / Germany)
Das Universum als metaphysische Größe bei Nicolaus Cusanus | Matthias Vollet (Kueser Akademie für Europäische Geistesgeschichte, Bernkastel-Kues / Germany)
11h00–11h30 Break
11h30–13h00 Panel I: «Universum Infinitum»
– Cosmology and Cosmography in the 15th Century | (Chairman: Harald Schwaetzer)
En quel sens l’univers est-il infini? | Jean-Marie Nicolle (Rouen/France)
Nec finitum – nec infinitum. Erwägungen zur Kosmologie des Nikolaus Cusanus | Gregor Nickel (Universität Siegen/Germany)
Nicholas of Cusa as Cosmographer | Johanna Hueck (Cusanus-Hochschule, Bernkastel-Kues / Germany)
13h00–14h30 Lunch break
14h30–16h30 Panel II: Ocean World in European Exploration: Reflection of Iberian Discoveries on texts and maps (Chairman: Semuel Gessner)
Die deutsche Beteiligung an den überseeischen Expeditionen Portugals im 15. Jahrhundert: von Oswald von Wolkenstein bis Martin Behaim | Jürgen Pohle (CHAM, Lisbon)
Writing meridians of water into the maps – from Tordesillas till Zaragoza | Harald Gropp (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
Magnus Sinus, Java and Locach from Martellus to Mercator, 1489–1569 | Robert King (National Library of Australia)
Spicing Up Natural Philosophy: Global Trade Footprints in Early Recipes and their Implications for the Exchange of Manuscripts and Ideas | Karl Galle (Linda Hall Library, Egypt / USA)
20h00 Conference Diner
18 jun. '169h30–11h00 Panel III: Constructing a new world (Chairman: Matthias Vollet)
Nuevas glosas de Nicolás de Cusa al Alchoranus Latinus en el ms Vat. Lat. 4071 de la BAV | José Martínez Gázquez (Barcelona)
Sifting Humanist Understandings of Islam. Peter Martyr d’Anghiera’s Worldview from the Mediterranean to the New World | Davide Scotto (Tübingen University / Germany)
Mapping a new World with ancient authors. The reception of antique authors in the De coelo
by the Conimbricenses and their role in the constructing a new imago
mundi | Cristóvão S. Marinheiro (National Library of Luxembourg)
11h00–11h15 Break
11h15–12h45
Panel IV: Intellectual practice in astronomy and astrology of the 15th Century: Cusanus and his influence on the History of Science (Chairman: Henrique Leitão)
The Cosmographer Nicolaus Cusanus (1401–1464) and his Philosophical Game with the Globe: The Dialogus de ludo globi | Thomas Horst (CIUHCT, University of Lisbon)
Astronomical Instruments in the fifteenth century: the astrolabe in the Cusanusstift of Bernkastel-Kues revisited | Samuel Gessner (CIUHCT, University of Lisbon)
Astrology as Science and Politics in Maximilian’s Vienna | Darin Hayton (USA)
12h45–13h00 Discussion and formal end of the workshop / Lunch (with the possibility to informal discussions)
17h30–19h30 Tour through Lisbon with old maps with João Carlos Garcia (only for registered participants)
19 jun. '16
Day Tour to Sintra, Mafra and Ericeira (together with João Carlos Garcia, only for registered participants)