Across the Channel: Intellectual Relations between England and France in the Early Modern Period. Part Two

Date: Tuesday 28 Feb 2012 - 10:00 to 18:00

Place: Maison Française d'Oxford

Research programme: Modernities

Programme

10.30am Welcome by Luc Borot (MFO)

Chair: Sabine Rommevaux (CNRS-SPHERE, Paris-All Souls College)

10.45am Jackie Stedall (Queen's College)
John Wallis and the French: his quarrels with Fermat, Pascal, Dulaurens, and Descartes

11.45am Sébastien Marrone (University of Toulouse)
Geometry across the Channel: Pascal, Wallis and Newton

Chair: Philip Beeley (Linacre College)

2.15pm Per Landgren (Wolfson College)
The use and aims of Logic. Petrus Ramus, Jacobus Zarabella, and Francis Bacon: A preliminary comparison

3.15pm David Leech (Cambridge)
Henry More and Pierre Poiret: a case of mutual influence

4.45pm Sophie Roux (University Pierre-Mendès-France, Grenoble)
From Locke to Malebranche and Back : Ideas with or without Vision in God