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In 2014, CESIMA (Centre Simão Mathias of Studies in History of Science) celebrates its 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, CESIMA will host an international conference, co-sponsored with the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) and the Centre of Logic, Epistemology and History of Science, Unicamp (CLE), with particular focus on the history of chemistry and related sciences. This conference also marks SHAC’s first meeting in Latin America. The following SHAC members have confirmed their participation: Robert Anderson, Jennifer Rampling, Carsten Reinhardt, Hasok Chang, Frank James, Conleth Loonan, Malika Basu and Hjalmar Fors. The 4th Allen Debus Biannual Lectures, are included as a part of the conferences programme.
Presentations will focus on exchanges of chemical knowledge – whether of theoretical aspects, practices, materials, instruments, or apparatus – from medieval times to the present day. From the reception of alchemical theories of matter, to the development of worldwide markets for chemical raw materials and products, we will ask how the science of material transformation was itself transformed through local, regional and global exchanges. Presentations will address all aspects of the history of chemistry, broadly defined to include related topics in the history of medicine and interfacial sciences.
Also studies discussing the organisation, acquisition and nature of knowledge will be presented: from “trees of knowledge” in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, to attempts to classify the scientific disciplines that ground contemporary science, and new historical methodologies and search tools that offer resources to scholars.
Conference
Committees
Executive Committee:
Ana M. Alfonso-Goldfarb (CESIMA, PUC-SP),
Walter Carnielli (CLE, Unicamp)
Robert Anderson (Clare Hall, Cambridge; president of SHAC)
Scientific Committee
Chairs:
Marcia H. M. Ferraz (CESIMA, PUC-SP)
Itala M. Loffredo D’Ottaviano (CLE, Unicamp)
Hasok Chang (Univ. of Cambridge, UK)
Heloisa Domingues (Museum of Astronomy and Allied Sciences, Rio de Janeiro)
Luiz Carlos Soares (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/ Fluminense Federal University)
Olival Freire (Federal University of Bahia)
Thomas Haddad (University of Sao Paulo)
Paulo Alves Porto (University of Sao Paulo)
Patricia Aceves Pastrana (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
Carlos Alberto Filgueiras (Federal University of Minas Gerais)
Floriano Jonas Cesar (St Judas Thaddeus University, Sao Paulo)
Stephen Weldon (University of Oklahoma / Isis– CB)
Organising Committee
Chairs:
José Luiz Goldfarb (CESIMA, PUC-SP),
Marcelo E. Coniglio (CLE, Unicamp)
Frank James (Royal Institution, UK)
Maria Helena Roxo Beltran (CESIMA, PUC-SP)
Vera Cecilia Machline (CESIMA, PUC-SP)
Fumikazu Saito (CESIMA, PUC-SP)
Silvia Waisse (CESIMA, PUC-SP)
Carla Bromberg (CESIMA, PUC-SP)
Cristiana Couto (CESIMA, PUC-SP)
Lais Trindade (CESIMA, PUC-SP)
Andrea Paula dos Santos (Federal University of ABC)
Kleber Cecon (Sao Paulo State University)
Carlos Gonçalves (University of Sao Paulo)
Maria de Lourdes Bacha (Mackenzie University, CESIMA, PUC-SP)
Gilson Queluz (Federal University of Parana)
Fabio Maia Bertato (CLE, Unicamp)
Iris Kantor (University of Sao Paulo)
Andre Mota (University of Sao Paulo)
Marcos Galindo (Federal University of Pernambuco)
Elaine Pereira de Souza (Brazilian Federal Agency for Evaluation
and Support of Graduate Education - CAPES/CESIMA, PUC-SP)
Support staff: CESIMA, PUC-SP
Chair: Silvia Waisse
Julio F. Bacha Lamounier
Luciana C. L. Thomaz
Raphael Uchoa
Vera Lucia Oliveira Neves
Yaeko Uehara
10:00 – 12:00
Plenary session S10
S7: 11h45-13h15 – Crossing oceans: maps, territories and ideas
Classification in science: classification theories and the faceted classification principles
Physical methods of chemistry between disciplines and national cultures
24/08, Sunday
Casa das Rosas
Carsten Reinhardt, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, USA
On the history of the Ex Falso Sequitur Quodlibet and the historical roots of paraconsistent reasoning
19:30 – 20:00
Conference opening
Itala M. Loffredo D'Ottaviano, CLE, Campinas, SP
On Lonergan’s philosophy of knowing and historical insights
20:00 – 21:00
Fábio Maia Bertato, CLE, Campinas, SP
S10: 10h00-12h00 – Conceptual foundations and ‘instruments’ for organization of knowledge
Joseph Priestley: a liberal, radical and democratic thinker and activist
Cocktail
21:00 – 22:30
Constructing documents and memories of the Brazilian chemical community: life stories of scientists in the twentieth century
Andrea Paula dos Santos Oliveira Kamensky, UFABC, São Bernardo do Campo, SP
25/08, Monday
Casa das Rosas
250 years of Vicente Seabra, the first modern Brazilian chemist
Carlos Alberto Filgueiras, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, MG
10:00 – 11:30
Plenary session S1
Coffee break
11:30 – 11:45
Teaching the chemistry of platinum
Robert Anderson, Univ. of Cambridge, UK
11:45 – 13:15
Plenary session S2
Lunch
13:15 – 14:30
S9: 16h50-18h20 – Crossing oceans: chemistry and the chemists
Principles of discovery in the history of science
Stephen Weldon, Univ. of Oklahoma, USA
14:30 – 16:30
Plenary session S3
Contexts of knowledge classification in Ancient Mesopotamian Culture
Coffee break
16:30 – 16:50
Carlos H. B. Gonçalves, EACH-USP, São Paulo, SP
The role of chemistry in the development of a systematic organization of mineral bodies
16:50 – 18:50
Plenary session S4
26/08, Tuesday
Andréa Bortolotto, CESIMA, São Paulo, SP
Charles Sanders Peirce and experimental science
Cultural programme
10:00
Guided tour to the Portuguese Language Museum (in English)
Maria de Lourdes Bacha, Univ. Mackenzie/CESIMA, São Paulo, SP
CESIMA
S8: 14h30-16h30 – Conceptual foundations and ‘instruments’ for history and philosophy of science
Lunch
12:30 – 14:00
Appropriation of evolutionary ideas in Brazilian Anarchism (1900-1920)
Gilson Leandro Queluz, UTFPR, Curitiba, PR
14:00 – 16:00
Plenary session S5
Coffee break
16:00 – 16:20
From Bologna to Belém: Giovanni Angelo Brunelli crosses the Atlantic
Thomás A. S. Haddad, EACH-USP, São Paulo, SP
16:20 – 18:20
Poster presentation
Evening
Cultural and entertainment programme
Cachaça tasting (cost depends on individual consumption)
Crossing territories: Dutch cartographic legacy in seventeenth century Brazil
Casa das Rosas
Marcos Galindo, UFPE, Recife, PE
Cristiana L. M. Couto, CESIMA, São Paulo, SP
Reconsidering the idea of quintessence through the analysis of Renaissance texts
10:00 – 11:30
Plenary session S6
Coffee break
11:30 – 11:45
Fumikazu Saito & Maria Helena Roxo Beltran, CESIMA, São Paulo, SP
Epistemic and ontological reality of the elements for Robert Boyle
11:45 – 13:15
Plenary session S7
Lunch
13:15 – 14:30
Conleth Loonan, National Univ. of Ireland, Ireland
How to deny elements in chemistry turned sensible qualities into experimentally accessible entities in a corpuscularian paradigm
14:30 – 16:30
Plenary session S8
Coffee break
16:30 – 16:50
Kleber Cecon, UNESP, Marília, SP
S6: 10h00-11h30 – Crossing conceptual boundaries: from the quintessence to the early modern chemical element
16:50 – 18:50
Plenary session S9
Evening
Cultural and entertainment programme
Brazilian typical dinner (separate fee)
28/08, Thursday
Casa das Rosas
Distillation and the preparing of the vital balm in the work of Joseph Du Chesne
Lais dos Santos Pinto Trindade, CESIMA, São Paulo, SP
S2: 11:45-13:15 – Crossroads: medicine, chemistry and classification of knowledge
The impact of Davy’s agricultural chemistry in North America
A late eighteenth-century English formula for scurvy: "Coxwell's Concrete Salt of Lemons"
12:10 – 13:10
Vera Cecilia Machline, CESIMA, São Paulo, SP
Science, colonialism and indigenous pharmaceuticals in colonial Bengal: An East - West endeavour
Malika Basu Ghosh,Vidyasagar University, West Bengal
13:15 – 13:45
Conference closing
Cultural programme
14:15
Analytical chemistry of Mexican plants at Instituto Médico Nacional
Patricia Aceves & Liliana Schifter, UAM - Xochimilco, México
S5: 14h00-16h00 – Crossing boundaries: plant remedies in different cultures
Brokering houses of the exotic: Unpacking global pharmacy 1650-1800
S1: 10:00-11:30 – Spreading across boundaries: dissemination of chemical knowledge
José Otavio Baldinato & Paulo Alves Porto, IQ-USP, São Paulo, SP
Popularising chemistry in early nineteenth-century: Samuel Parkes’s Chemical Catechism
Hasok Chang, Univ. of Cambridge, UK
The transmission of the battery in Europe and America
Frank James, Royal Institution/ UCL, UK
Carla Bromberg, CESIMA, São Paulo, SP
Musical knowledge in the history of Atalanta fugiens
Ana Maria Alfonso-Goldfarb, Márcia Ferraz & Sílvia Waisse, CESIMA, São Paulo, SP
Crossing over time: the place of chemistry in modern trees of knowledge
Floriano J. Cesar, USJT, São Paulo, SP
Hjalmar Fors, Uppsala University, Sweden
The chemistry of taste: science and gastronomy in 19th century cooking books
Jennifer M. Rampling, Princeton University, USA
What did alchemy learn from medicine? Disciplinary exchanges in late medieval Europe
S3: 14:30-16:30 – Conceptual foundations and ‘instruments’ to make knowledge available
Walter Carnielli, CLE, Campinas, SP
Contradiction in reasoning: an evil or a blessing?
Marcelo E. Coniglio, CLE, Campinas, SP
Paraconsistency and undeterminedness in information Systems
José Luiz Goldfarb, CESIMA, São Paulo, SP
Using Twitter to promote science and education: are we again facing the beginning of a “New Science”?
Eliseo B. Reategui, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, RS
Automatic concept extraction and its application to text analysis and comprehension
S4: 16:50-18:20 – Crossroads: sensing, translating and representing matter
Maria Helena Roxo Beltran, CESIMA, São Paulo, SP
Alchemical images as documents for the history of science: analysing representations of the mercury/sulphur theory as provided in the treatise Splendor Solis
Programme
Venues:
Casa das Rosas: Avenida Paulista, 37
CESIMA: Rua Caio Prado, 102, room 48, 3rd floor, Consolação
Museu da Língua Portuguesa (Portuguese Language Museum): Praça da Luz, s/nº, Centro
Plenary sessions
25/08, Monday, Casa das Rosas
27/08, Wednesday, Casa das Rosas
28/08, Thursday, Casa das Rosas
26/08, Tuesday, CESIMA
27/08, Wednesday
Allen Debus Lecture:
'Michael Faraday and the chemical history of a candle', Frank James, Royal Institution/ UCL, UK
Allen Debus Lecture:
'How workers learnt chemistry',
Robert Anderson, Univ. of Cambridge, UK
Visit to Natura (manufacturers of Brazilian native plant-based cosmetics), Cajamar, SP
Luiz Carlos Soares, HCTE-UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro / PPGH-UFF, Niterói, RJ
Elaine Pereira de Souza, CAPES, Brasília/CESIMA, São Paulo, SP
Back to the origins of the modern scientific method: Pietro d’Abano and the relationship between medicine and other disciplines
