Date
and time:
Friday, July 7, 2006, from 2 pm till 6 pm
Location: Building FLAT
1, Robert-Mayer-Straße 1 (at the corner with the
Senckenberganlage), 60325
Frankfurt am Main, room 006 (on the ground floor). The
Institute for History of Science is a short walk south of the U-Bahn station Bockenheimer Warte (U4 or
U6/U7, south exit in the direction Senckenbergmuseum) along the
Senckenberganlage.
Organization: Petra Schmidl
and Benno van Dalen, Institute for the History of
Science (Institut für Geschichte der
Naturwissenschaften), P.O.
Box 111932 (FB 13), 60054 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Program
| 2.00 - 2.40 pm | Annette Imhausen
(Gutenberg University, Mainz): Demotic Mathematics: Tradition, Transmission, Development (?) |
| 2.45 - 3.30 pm |
Glen van Brummelen
(Goethe University, Frankfurt): Controversies in the Early History of Trigonometry |
| 3.30 - 4.00 pm |
Tea break |
| 4.00 - 4.35 pm |
Benno van Dalen
(Goethe University, Frankfurt): Islamic Astronomical Tables and their Transmission |
| 4.40 - 5.15 pm |
Petra Schmidl (Goethe
University, Frankfurt): On Folk Astronomy in Medieval Islamic Astronomy |
| 5.20 - 6.00 pm |
François
Charette (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich): Astronomers and Institutions under the Mamluks |
All
presentations will be given in English. Each presentation includes
an introduction aimed at non-specialists and a discussion
of recent results and developments.