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Museo Galileo, Piazza dei Giudici 1, Frirenze
Conference organised by the Museo Galileo, Firenze, the Centre André-Chastel and the CNRS
PROGRAM
DAY 1 - OPENING & VISIT
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Welcome Address
Roberto Ferrari (Executive Director, Museo Galileo) and Filippo Camerota (Scientific Director, Museo Galileo) - Introduction to the Conference
Florian Métral (CNRS/Centre André-Chastel, CPJ Arvigraph) and Maddalena Napolitani (Assistant Curator, Museo Galileo) - Visit to the Museo Galileo collections (for conference speakers only)
Giorgio Strano (Head of Collections, Museo Galileo) and Gaia Cugini (Assistant Curator, Museo Galileo)
DAY 2 - CONFERENCE DAY
Thursday, November 20, 2025 | 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM
9:30 AM – 10:45 AM | Session 1: Early Modern Era I
- Stéphane Toussaint (CNRS/Centre André-Chastel, Paris)
Scaling the Cosmos in Marsilio Ficino’s De Amor - Jérémie Koering (University of Fribourg)
Scaling the Future. An Astromantic Sky in Mantua - 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM | Coffee break
- Francesco Barreca (Università di Milano)
Philosophizing with Hands: Patronage-Seeking, Theory Evaluation, and Popularization of Knowledge in Johannes Kepler - Ruth Noyes (Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn)
Odo van Maelcote’s Equinoctial Astrolabe: Print, Parallax, and the Society of Jesus in the Quest to Scale the Cosmos in Galilean Europe - 12:15 AM – 1:45 PM | Free lunch
1:45 PM – 3:00 PM | Session 2: Early Modern Era II
- Günther Oestmann (Technical University of Berlin)
Representing and Understanding Celestial Movements on a Comprehensible Scale: The Application of Equatoria and Gearing Mechanisms to Clocks - Giorgio Strano (Museo Galileo)
On Cassini and his Preference for Campani’s Telescopes
3:00 PM – 4:15 PM | Session 3: From the Late Modernity to the Contemporary Era
- Ilaria Ampollini (Università di Ferrara)
Immersed in the Cosmos: Manipulation, Miniaturisation, and the Circulation of Scientific Knowledge (18th-19th Century) - Charlotte Bigg (CNRS, Centre Alexandre-Koyré)
Narratives of Cosmic Scaling and Their Alternatives in the Observatory Sciences since the 19th Century - 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM | Coffee break
4:30 PM – 5:45 PM | Session 4: Scaling the Cosmos in Contemporary Visual Displays
- Thomas Moser (Vienna University of Technology)
Planet(arium) Hollywood: Cosmic Simulation, Visual Spectacle and Education in Mid-Century Los Angeles - Enguerrand Lasclos (MUCEM, Marseille)
Presentation of the Exhibition “Lire le ciel” (MUCEM, Marseille) - 8:00 PM | Dinner (for conference speakers only)
DAY 3 - WORKSHOP & FINAL ROUNDTABLE
Friday, November 21, 2025 | 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Workshop Presentations
All speakers from Day 2 will be kindly invited to act as respondents
- Ricardo Uribe (Freie Universität Berlin)
Universal Clocks for the New World: Re-scaling Time in the Modern Era - Angèle Tence (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
The Hand-Cranked Celestial Globe on the Title-page of the Triompho di Fortuna (1527) - Antoine Gallay (University of Lausanne)
- Making the Heavens Tangible: Late 17th-Century Attempts to Represent the Cosmos in a Verisimilar Way
- 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM | Coffee break
11:15 AM – 12:45 AM | Final Roundtable
Contemporary Cartographies of the Cosmos in Geosciences and Astrophysics
- Claudia Principe (INHIHEO/IGG/CNR Pisa)
Scaling the Earth Using Geological Maps - François Bouchet (CNRS/Institut d’astrophysique de Paris)
Scaling the Cosmos with Archaeological Light Maps
Moderators: Florian Métral and Maddalena Napolitani
Conclusion of the conference
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