Ciencia y romanticismo

Science and Romanticism RS2002

Maspalomas (Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain)

September 12th, 13th and 14th, 2002

An International Symposium

Organized by

Fundación Canaria Orotava de Historia de la Ciencia

Sponsored by

The Municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana

(Ayuntamiento de San Bartolomé de Tirajana)

Aims and Scope

This Symposium is devoted to the study of a very interesting period in the History of Science: The Romantic years, a denomination encompassing a large number of tendencies in Literature, Painting, Music, Philosophy… and Science, dated roughly from 1775 to 1850. In the Symposium the relationship between Science and Romantic Culture and Life will be highlighted, focusing on those problems and aspects that had a major impact on the scientific developments leading to contemporary Science.

Honour Commitee

Excma. Sra. Doña Anna Birulés y Bertrán Ministra de Ciencia y Tecnología Excmo. Sr. D. José Miguel Ruano León Consejero de Educación, Cultura y Deportes del Gobierno de Canarias Ilma. Sra. Dña. María Eugenia Márquez Rodríguez Presidenta del Cabildo de Gran Canaria D. Marco Aurelio Pérez Sánchez Alcalde de San Bartolomé de Tirajana Excmo. Sr. D. Manuel Lobo Cabrera Rector Magnífico de la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Scientific Committee

Jean Dhombres Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris José Ferreirós Universidad de Sevilla José L. Montesinos Sirera FCOHC, La Orotava (Tenerife) Javier Ordóñez Rodríguez Universidad Autónoma de Madrid José M. Pacheco Castelao Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Jürgen Renn Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin Jesús Sánchez Navarro Universidad de La Laguna

Organizing Committee

Juan Luis García Cortí Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria José Hernández Afonso Escuela de Arte, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Juan Antonio Jaén Fuentes IES Santa Teresa, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Darío Jaén Rivero Ayuntamiento de San Bartolomé de Tirajana Carlos Martín Collantes IES Orotava, La Orotava (Tenerife) Rosario Miranda Escuela de Arte, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Estela Montes IES Siete Palmas, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria José L. Montesinos Sirera FCOHC, La Orotava (Tenerife) Sergio Toledo Prats I.E.S. Villalba Hervás, La Orotava (Tenerife)

Organizers' addresses

Fundación Canaria Orotava de Historia de la Ciencia (FCOHC) Calle Calvario, 17 Apdo /P.O. Box 238 38300 La OROTAVA Isla de Tenerife, SPAIN Tel +(34)922 322 862 Fax +(34)922 334 475 e-mail: fundacion@fundacionorotava.org Symposium e-mail: rs2002@dma.ulpgc.es

Symposium Development and Schedule The sessions of RS2002 will be held at the Casa de la Cultura de Maspalomas, in Maspalomas, the Beach Area of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, in the South of Gran Canaria, were the world renowned beaches of Maspalomas and Playa del Inglés can be found.

RS2002 is organized as follows:

a) Fifteen invited lectures with their corresponding discussions. All speakers are already confirmed: Marie-Noëlle Bourguet Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris Jean Dhombres Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris Nicole Dhombres Independent Scholar, Paris José Ferreirós Universidad de Sevilla Irina Gouzévitch Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris John L. Heilbron University of California, Berkeley Anja S. Jacobsen University of Aarhus Trevor H. Levere University of Toronto José Montesinos Fundación Canaria Orotava de Historia de la Ciencia Javier Ordóñez Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Antonio Pérez Universidad de La Laguna Jürgen Renn Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin Marco Segala Università degli Studi di L'Aquila Dennis Sepper University of Dallas Friedrich Steinle Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin Gereon Wolters Universitaet Konstanz

CIENCIA Y ROMANTICISMO / SCIENCE AND ROMANTICISM

Jueves mañana. El Romanticismo en su contexto Thursday morning. The Romanticism in its context

1. Jean Dhombres (Centre Alexandre Koyré) Science is young, science is an adventure: the romantic mood of some european scientists at the very beginning of the 19th century

2. Antonio Pérez (Universidad de La Laguna) La Filosofía de la Naturaleza y la Ciencia: Schelling

3. Nicole Dhombres (Independent scholar) Romanticism, Science and Poetry

Jueves tarde. Romanticismo y Vida Thursday afternoon. Romanticism and Life

1. Dennis Sepper (University of Dallas) Goethe's querelles and the formation of scientific character

2. Marco Segala (Università degli Studi di L'Aquila) Schopenhauer's physiology

3. Gereon Wolters (Universitaet Konstanz) Romanticism and science: the case of Franz Anton Mesmer

Relator: Javier Moscoso (Universidad de Murcia)

Viernes mañana. Figuras sobre fondo romántico Friday morning. Figures on a romantic background

1. José Ferreirós (Universidad de Sevilla) Del neohumanismo al organicismo: Gauss, Cantor y la matemática pura

2. John Heilbron (University of California, Berkeley) Physical science at Goettingen around 1800

3. Friedrich Steinle (Max Planck Institut) Romantic Experiment? The case of electricity

Relator: Jesús Hernández (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Viernes tarde. El mundo humano como escenario Friday afternoon. The human world as a stage

1. Trevor Levere (University of Toronto) Samuel Taylor Coleridge voyaging in seas unknown

11.Marie Noëlle Bourguet (Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot y Centre Alexandre Koyré) Travelling the world, viewing nature, writing science: scientific travels accounts around 1800

1. Irina Gouzévitch (Centre Alexandre Koyré) Agustín de Bethencourt: the parangon of engineering european communication in the late 18th - early 19th centuries

Relator: Dolores Martín Moruno (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Sábado mañana. El Romanticismo y las Instituciones Saturday morning. The Romanticism and the Institutions

1. Anja S. Jacobsen (University of Aarhus) Ørsted on anschavung versus mathematical insight

2. Javier Ordóñez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) El Romanticismo como programa científico

3. Jürgen Renn (Max Planck Institut) y José Montesinos (Fundación Canaria Orotava de Historia de la Ciencia) Scientific expeditions to the Canary Islands in the romantic period: A glance into a digital archive under construction