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SUMMARY:"Medieval Physics in Oxford" One-Day Conference - Professor Robert
  Iliffe (University of Oxford)\, Dr James Hannam (author of "God's Philoso
 phers")\, Dr Jack Cunningham (Bishop Grosseteste University)\, Brian Clegg
  (author of "The First Scientist: A Life of Roger Bacon")\, Dr Pierre Dech
 ant (University of York)\, Dr Allan Chapman (University of Oxford)\, Profe
 ssor Nicolas Weill-Parot (Université Paris-Est Créteil)\, Professor Bria
 n Tanner (Durham University)
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DESCRIPTION:This conference is intended to challenge the commonly held vie
 w of the prolonged gap in the progress of Western civilisation's understan
 ding of the natural world between the theories of the Ancient Greeks\, led
  in particular by Aristotle and Plato\, and the formation of the modern wo
 rld view leading to the heliocentric theory of the Solar System and the th
 eories of mechanics and gravity. These modern theories were in fact the re
 sult of centuries of empirical and theoretical work\, which was conducted 
 mainly in the universities of Europe and in particular at Oxford and which
  replaced in turn the Aristotelian world view of antiquity and then the li
 terally biblical view of the Church. The conference will review the contri
 butions of these medieval scholars working in Oxford and is intended to de
 monstrate the evolution of this activity from its theoretical\, theologica
 l origins into the activity using mathematics and experimental observation
 s which forms the basis of modern physics.\n\nRegistration to attend this 
 conference is free\, but must be confirmed using the Conference booking fo
 rm by Monday 22nd February.\n\nThe programme for the day is below:\n\nMORN
 ING CHAIR: Professor Robert Iliffe (University of Oxford)\n\n10.30 am WELC
 OME\n\n 10.40 am Dr James Hannam (author of "God's Philosophers") - Mediev
 al Physics at Oxford: Who\, What and Why?\n\n11.30 am Dr Jack Cunningham (
 Bishop Grosseteste University) - Robert Grosseteste: The Oxford Years\n\n1
 2.20 pm Brian Clegg (author of "The First Scientist: A Life of Roger Bacon
 ") - Doctor Mirabilis: Roger Bacon’s Legend and Legacy\n\n1.15 pm LUNCH 
 BREAK\n\nAFTERNOON CHAIR: Dr Pierre Dechant (University of York)\n\n2.15 p
 m Dr Allan Chapman (University of Oxford) - Friars\, Physicists and Natura
 l Philosophers in Medieval Oxford\n\n3.05 pm Professor Nicolas Weill-Parot
  (Université Paris-Est Créteil) - The Historical Meaning of Late Medieva
 l Physics in Oxford\n\n4 pm TEA/COFFEE BREAK\n\n4.30 pm SUMMARY OF THE DAY
 'S PROCEEDINGS - Professor Brian Tanner (Durham University)\n\nThere will 
 be a conference dinner at St Cross in the evening following the end of the
  conference with an after-dinner talk by Alan Ereira (scriptwriter for the
  BBC's Medieval Lives series). Although the conference itself is free of c
 harge\, the dinner carries a cost of £35 to attend - booking a place for 
 dinner can be done here.\nSpeakers:\nProfessor Robert Iliffe (University o
 f Oxford)\, Dr James Hannam (author of "God's Philosophers")\, Dr Jack Cun
 ningham (Bishop Grosseteste University)\, Brian Clegg (author of "The Firs
 t Scientist: A Life of Roger Bacon")\, Dr Pierre Dechant (University of Yo
 rk)\, Dr Allan Chapman (University of Oxford)\, Professor Nicolas Weill-Pa
 rot (Université Paris-Est Créteil)\, Professor Brian Tanner (Durham Univ
 ersity)
LOCATION:St Cross College\, St Giles OX1 3LZ
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