KEPLER 2008: FROM TÜBINGEN TO SAGAN

• 10.00-24.00     Registration in the Reception desk of the Śródmiejski Hotel
• 19.00-19.15     Welcome
• 19.15-21.00     Reception

• 11.00-11.30     Auditorium
  Opening of the conference
  
  
• 12.00-13.30     Main Aula of the University of Zielona Góra
  The conferment of honorary degree from the University of Zielona Góra upon Professor Owen Gingerich

• 13.30-15.00     Lunch

• 15.30-16.00     Nick Jardine (University of Cambridge)
  God's "Ideal Reader": Kepler and his Serious Jokes
• 16.00-16.30     Adam Mosley (Swansea University)
  Kepler's other Defence of Tycho: Scipio Chiaromonti's Antitycho of 1621, and Kepler's Hyperaspistes of 1625
• 16.30-17.00     Peter Michael Schenkel (Kepler-Kommission der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich)
  Some remarks on Kepler and Galilei in the light of his Spicilegium ex Trutinatore Galilaei
  
  
• 17.00-17.30     Alena Hadravová and Petr Hadrava (Academy of Sciences, Prague)
  Johannes Kepler and Czech history
• 17.30-18.00     Eberhard Knobloch (Technische Universität Berlin)
  Kepler's De stella nova
• 20.00     Zielona Góra City Theatre
  Premier of a dramatisation on Copernicus and Rheticus "And the Sun Stood Still", written by Dava Sobel

• the Wallenstein Palace
• Kepler Room in the Old Town Hall
• Kepler Restaurant - refreshments
• Augustian Monastery with astronomical frescos
• Lunch in the Monastery and coffe in Kepler's Library
• Music for Kepler: Concert of the Ars Nova, the ancient instrument ensemble of the Warsaw Music Society Click this link

• 9.30-10.00     A. E. L. Davis (Imperial College, London)
  Astronomia Nova: Classification of the Planetary Eggs
• 10.00-10.30     Richard L. Kremer (Dartmouth College, Hanover)
  Kepler's Early Almanacs
• 10.30-11.00     Owen Gingerich (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
  Kepler versus Landsbergian: On Computing Ephemerides, 1632-1662
  
  
• 11.00-11.30     Coffe/Tea
  
  
• 11.30-12.00     Jarosław Włodarczyk (Institute for the History of Science, Warsaw)
  Kepler's Moon
• 12.00-12.30     Giora Hon (University of Haifa)
  Kepler's Optical and Astronomical Studies: Attending to Error in the New Sciences
  
• 12.30-13.00     Sven Dupré (Centre for History of Science, Ghent University)
  The Use and Meaning of Experiments in Kepler's Optics
  
  
• 13.00-14.30     Lunch

• 14.30-15.00     Volker Bialas (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich)
  Kepler's philosophy of Nature
• 15.00-15.30     William H. Donahue (St. John's College, Santa Fe)
  Kepler as a reader of Aristotle: comments on Physics, De Caelo and De Anima
• 15.30-16.00     Philip M. Sanders (University of Reading)
  Kepler on the significance of regular polyhedra in the Timaeus
  
  
• 16.00-16.30     Coffe/Tea
  
  
• 16.30-17.00     Rhonda Martens (University of Manitoba)
  Kepler: Models and Representations
• 17.00-17.30     T. J. Mahoney (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias)
  Breaking the Circle: Kepler's First Law as the First Major Paradigm Shift in Modern Science
  
  
• 19.00-22.00     Conference Dinner

• 9.00-9.30     Patrick J. Boner (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich) Finding Favour in the Heavens and Earth: Stadius, Kepler and Astrological Calendars in Early Modern Graz
• 9.30-10.00     Bruce Stephenson (Adler Planetarium, Chicago) Kepler and Astrological World History
• 10.00-10.30     Sheila Rabin (St. Peter's College, Jersey City) Kepler's Astrology and the Physical Universe
  
  
• 10.30-11.00     Coffe/Tea
  
  
• 11.00-11.30     J. V. Field (Birkbeck College, University of London) Kepler's Harmony of the World
• 11.30-12.00     Erwin Schadel (University of Bamberg) Kepler as a Theorist of Music: His Geometrical Presentation of Basic Intervals - Explained in the Perspective of Onto-Harmonical Integrality
• 12.00-12.30     Miguel A. Granada (University of Barcelona) Kepler and Bruno: On the Infinity of the Universe and of Solar Systems
• 12.30-12.45     Robert S. Westman (University of California, San Diego)
  Summary and Conclusions
  
  
• 13.00-14.30     Lunch