IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 322: Mnemonics in Word and Image, II
Monday 2 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Huygens ING, De Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen |
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Organisers: | Seb Falk, Girton College, University of Cambridge Amanda Gerber, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles Irene A. O'Daly, Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen (ING - KNAW), Amsterdam |
Moderator/Chair: | Philipp Nothaft, All Souls College, University of Oxford |
Paper 322-a | Drawn, Diagrammed, and Versified: The Various Guises of Scientific Mnemonics in Classical Commentaries (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Science |
Paper 322-b | Diagrams in Pseudo-Lullian Alchemy (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Medicine, Philosophy, Science |
Paper 322-c | Astronomical Mnemonics in Late Medieval Monasteries (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Medicine, Monasticism, Science |
Abstract | Historians have drawn attention to the range of mnemonic devices used by medieval scholars, but have tended to treat graphical and discursive models separately. These two sessions aim to bridge the divide, reconnecting the two fields of mnemonics in order to better understand how form related to function. The papers in this second session will consider the applications of different mnemonic techniques in natural sciences such as astronomy and alchemy. They will ask how ever more specific content was reflected in developing forms, and how complex technical ideas were memorized and communicated in different settings. |