Communication and Dissimulation
in Seventeenth-Century Europe
February 6 –7, 2004– at the Clark Library

Friday, February 6

9:30 a.m. – Coffee
10:00 a.m. — Session 1
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Françoise Waquet, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
Communication in the Republic of Letters’ Theory and Practices

Antonio Clericuzio, Università degli Studi di CassinoItalian Scientists and the Royal Society

Malina Stefanovska, UCLA; Université de Lausanne
Spreading Secrets, Keeping Rumors: Political Communication during the Fronde in the Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz

 

12:30 p.m. – Lunch
1:30 p.m. — Session 2

Stefano Di Bella, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
The Revealing Cipher: Nature and Art Codes in Leibniz

Paolo Ponzio, Università degli Studi di Bari
Communication and Dissimulation in the First Lyncean
Academy: The Case of Galileo

Irving Lavin, Institute for Advanced Study
Caravaggio’s Divine Dissimulation

Stefano Cracolici, University of Pennsylvania
The Ability to Cheat: Love as Dissimulation

 

5:00 p.m. – Reception

Saturday, February 7

9:30 a.m. – Coffee
10:00 a.m.— Session 3

Jean-Robert Armogathe, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Sorbonne
Breaking the Cipher: Secret Writing and Mathematics in Seventeenth-Century Europe

Marco Panza, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris; Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona
What Analysis Hides: Some Reflection on Viète’s Reform of the Method of Analysis and Synthesis

Kirstie M. McClure, UCLA
Poetry, Stoics, and Friesland Sheep: Lockean Language in Exile

12:30 p.m. – Lunch
1:30 p.m. — Session 4

Daniel Garber, Princeton University
What Did Leibniz Really Believe?

Giulia Belgioioso and Massimiliano Savini, Università degli Studi di Lecce
Signs and Ciphers and Symbols in Descartes

John D. Lyons, University of Virginia
Naturally Secret: The Cosmos as Model of Dissimulation