16.236 conference on editing scientific texts

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                   Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 236.
           Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                   <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
                  <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>

             Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 09:36:15 +0100
             From: "Domenico Fiormonte" <mc9809@mclink.it>
             Subject: Conference in Messina

                          FRANCESCO MAUROLICO AND THE
                           RENAISSANCE OF MATHEMATICS

        "Editing Scientific Texts and the Challenge of New Technologies"

                            INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

                          MESSINA, 16-20 OCTOBER 2002

    The goal of this Symposium is to present and discuss with the
    international scientific community the results achieved by the
    "Maurolico Project" ( http://www.maurolico.unipi.it). Thus, this
    meeting has been organized on a historical, philological and
    computational level.

              * Maurolico's works: the analysis of his writings,
              * the reconstruction of his scientific and intellectual career;
              * the influence of his works on the mathematical
              * community in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries.

              * The challenge of the critical edition of scientific
              * writings in the age of computers and Internet.

              * The use of computational tools and languages for
              * solving philological and interpretative problems.

    SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

    Pier Daniele NAPOLITANI (Un. Pisa)
    Rosario MOSCHEO (Un. Messina),
    Ottavio BESOMI (ETHZ, Zrich)
    Jean-Pierre SUTTO (Revel, France)
    Roshdi RASHED (Un. Paris VII),
    Jochen BTTNER (Max-Planck-Institut fr Wissenschaftsgeschichte,
    Berlin)
    Carlo MACCAGNI (Un. Genova)
    Roberta TASSORA (La Spezia, Italy),
    Peter ROBINSON (De Monfort Univ., UK)
    Ken'ichi TAKAHASHI (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
    Ken SAITO (Osaka Prefectural Univ., Japan)
    Paolo MASCELLANI (Un. Siena)
    Walter Roy LAIRD (Carleton Univ., Canada)
    Alessandra FIOCCA (Un. Ferrara)
    Antonella ROMANO (Centre Koyre, Paris),
    Michele CAMEROTA (Un. Cagliari),
    Paolo d'ALESSANDRO (Un.Chieti),
    Stefan HAGEL (Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Austria)
    Francesco FURLAN (Un. Paris VIII & CNRS),
    Andrea BOZZI (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa),
    Mario Otto HELBING (ETH Zurich)

    For more details about the conference and participation,
    please email to:
    maurolico@dm.unipi.it

    or visit the web site:
    http://viete.dm.unipi.it/symposium/



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