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The Department of Science and Technology Studies, UCL is an interdisciplinary centre for the integrated study of science's history, philosophy, sociology, communication and policy, located in the heart of London. Founded in 1921. Award winning for teaching and research, plus for our public engagement programme. Rated as outstanding by students at every level.

At UCL, the academic mission is paramount. Our ambition is to achieve the highest standards in our teaching and research.

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6th London Ancient Science 2011.

Weds 16th November 2011, Council Room, South Wing, Wilkins Building, UCL.

Session 1 – 11:00 - 13:00 Ancient Philosophy and Science

Prof. Peter Adamson (KCL), Galen on Void.

Dr. Andrew Gregory (UCL), Parmenides and Cosmology.

Eric Morelli (Emory University), Natural Exegesis: Plato’s Timaeus as an Explanation of Explanation.

Session 2 – 14:00 – 16:00 Ancient Mathematics and Philosophy

Dr. Ilana Wartenberg (UCL), The Old Testament as a source of medieval Hebrew mathematical vocabulary.

Michalis Sialaros (Birkbeck), Some New Thoughts on Euclidean Lemmas.

Dr. Frederica La Nave (Oxford), Antiphon and Squaring the Circle.

Session 3 – 16:30 – 18:00 Claudius Ptolemy

Peter Griffiths (Independent Scholar), Ptolemy's Almagest is based on Ancient Explorations and Observations as well as on Mathematical Calculations.

Dr. Massimo Raffa (Calabria), Teaching and Studying Harmonics after Ptolemy: some aspects of Porphyry's Commentary on Ptolemy's "Harmonics".

Lunch 13:00 – 14:00
Tea 16:00 – 16:30

London Ancient Science 2011 - Abstracts

London Ancient Science 2011 - Homepage

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