NOTCOM Science and consensus in the 17th century
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We are pleased to circulate the new programme for the Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy XIV. Location: University of Edinburgh Date: 14–15 May 2026 Venue: Douglas Stewart Building (Room 1.20),3 Charles Street,...
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Pour ce nouvel épisode, nous recevons Hélène Leblanc (FPSE – Université de Genève & IHRIM – ENS de Lyon) qui nous parle du statut du combat à l’épée, et notamment l’escrime, en histoire de...
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The Journal des Sçavans of Monday 18 January 1666 (p. 29–32) opened with a review of a small Roman treatise with an intriguing title: De chocolatis potu diatribe (Rome 1664) by Cardinal Francesco Maria...
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This commentary on Raphaële Andrault’s Le Fer ou le feu. Penser la douleur après Descartes (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2024, 389 pp.) was presented at the Forum Descartes in Turin, 21–23 January 2026. Towards the...
NOTCOM is pleased to announce its upcoming conference “Science, Critique and Opinion: Challenges for Scientific Consensus”. This event will take place on 28-29 May 2026. It will be held at the Maison Française...
This second NOTCOM blog post on Steno and his context (see also Steno’s Disciple: Jacobæus, Leibniz, and the Lost Geological Manuscripts) is a revised version of a short commentary presented at the launch of...
Notcom is holding a workshop on “Tschirnhaus: Invention, Logic, and Medicine of the Mind”. This event will take place on 4 February 2026, from 14:00 to 17:00, at the Maison Française d’Oxford. Mode of attendance:...
The next NOTCOM / All Souls Joint Session (Intellectual History Seminar) will take place on 5 February 2026, from 2:00 to 4:00 pm, at All Souls College (Hovenden Room). Ivano Dal Prete (Yale University)...
For this new episode of our podcast on the history of science and philosophy, we are delighted to welcome Úna Faller, a doctoral researcher at NOTCOM (IHRIM/CNRS), who joins us to discuss her work...
L’équipe NOTCOM est ravie d’organiser le mercredi 10 décembre un séminaire dédié au lancement et à la présentation de l’édition numérique du Journal des savants. L’événement est organisé par Mouhamadoul Khaly Wélé (IHRIM/CNRS/NOTCOM). Il...
Mogens Lærke : — (2023). “La démonstration présomptive a priori de l’existence de Dieu. Certitude morale et religion naturelle chez Leibniz”. In La Certitude Morale de Descartes à Hume, edited by Vincent Darveau St....
Nicolas Steno (1638–1686) was among the most influential anatomists and natural philosophers of the seventeenth century. As Nuno Castel-Branco shows in his splendid new book on Steno, The Traveling Anatomist. Nicolaus Steno and the...
We are delighted to announce our next conference “Exercises in Early Modern Thought: Philosophy, Arts, Science, Theology, Politics”, taking place 19–21 November 2025 in Oxford. The event will be hosted jointly at the Maison...
The Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology (OCHSMT) and the ERC project NOTCOM (ERC AdG n. 101052433, Maison Française d’Oxford) are hosting a joint session. For this seminar, we are...