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Macguglia氏は近年、ニュートン物理学の影響の伝播を研究する新進気鋭の科学史家です。イタリアのパヴィア大学にて原子物理学の学士号、合衆国のシカゴ大学で科学史の修士号を取得し現在博士課程に在籍しています。第13回イタリア若手科学者賞およびEU若手科学者特別賞を受賞しています。

Speaker：Prof.Daniele Macuglia (University of Chicago）
Title: Newtonianism and the crisis of European mind
Date：　May 25 (Mon.) 2015　16:30-
Venue：Lecture room 4, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University. 京都大学文学研究科第4講義室
http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/access/downlodemap/documents/2014/main-j.pdf (No. 8)
Abstract:
The period that goes from the late-Renaissance to the initial stages of the Enlightenment is characterized by a set of remarkable sociological traumas that determined what we could define as the crisis of the European medieval mind―the set of all of the social, religious, and cultural values that characterized, in a more or less monolithic way, a good portion of the preceding medieval period. In my talk I will focus on the way in which the new cosmology formulated by Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) contributed to such a crisis and on how Newtonianism resonated within the Italian cultural and scientific scenario thorough the Eighteenth century. I will show that, despite its destabilizing effects, it was thanks to Newtonianism that Italian scholars were able to initiate within the Italian peninsula a robust strand of Enlightenment thought.

about the speaker:
Daniele Macuglia is a fifth-year PhD student at the University of Chicago’s Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine. He earned a bachelor’s degree in atomic physics from the University of Pavia in Italy, and a master’s degree in the history of science from the University of Chicago. He won the 13th Italian National Contest for Young Scientists, and received a European Union Contest for Young Scientists Special Prize. Macuglia is a member of the Italian and German Physical Societies, the Italian Society for the History of Physics and Astronomy, and the British Society for the History of Science. In his current dissertation project, he is researching the influence and spread of Newton’s ideas on gravitation and on the nature of light among mathematicians and natural philosophers in 18th-century century Rome―one of the major European hubs for the spread of Newtonian science.