Warburg Work in Progress, Autumn 2024 - Frances Yates Fellows' joint session

Benjamin Wardhaugh (Frances Yates Fellow): ‘Greek mathematics in print 1475–1700’

My project this term is to catalogue the printed editions of ancient Greek mathematical texts that appeared before 1700: a companion to a catalogue of early modern Euclidean editions I completed a few years ago. I'll briefly introduce the project and some of the authors and texts I'll be looking at, as well as its fit with the Warburg's early modern holdings.

Sergio Orozco-Echeverri (Frances Yates Fellow): ‘Nature, body and environment in early modern Spain and the Americas (1492-1600)’

Repertorios de los tiempos is an early modern Iberian-American genre of almanacs that circulated widely across the Americas and Europe. Originating as a late fifteenth-century editorial initiative, repertorios sought to make a difference in the market for ephemeral literature by introducing visual and textual concepts and tools integral to the computations and uses of almanacs, such as the fundamentals of cosmography, calendrics, medical astrology, agriculture, and navigation. By the mid-sixteenth century, repertorios expanded globally by incorporating natural and human experiences from the 'New World'. In doing so, they came to embody the fundamental tensions defining Renaissance and early modern knowledge production: universal (conceptions) versus local (applications); and classical (knowledge) versus new (objects of knowledge). This presentation introduces the general aspects of the visual and textual transformations of nature, the body, and the environment (tiempo) resulting from the encounter between classical textual knowledge and the experiences of the 'New World' as reflected in the repertorios.

The Work in Progress seminar explores the variety of subjects studied and researched at the Warburg Institute. Papers are given by invited international scholars, research fellows studying at the Institute, and third-year PhD students.

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