BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Moore Institute - ECPv6.0.0.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Moore Institute X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Moore Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Dublin BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:IST DTSTART:20140330T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20141026T010000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20140711T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20140711T160000 DTSTAMP:20260416T091528 CREATED:20160824T134712Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160824T134712Z UID:2249-1405094400-1405094400@mooreinstitute.ie SUMMARY:5th International Conference on the Science of Computus July 11-13\, 2014 DESCRIPTION:5th International Conference on the Science of Computus July 11 – 13\, 2014\nhttp://www.nuigalway.ie/history/Computus_Conference/computusconference2014.html \nThe Science of Computistics – the mathematics required to calculate the date of Easter\, and related topics (incl. astronomical observations and calculations) – straddles the fields of mathematics and astronomy\, biblical interpretation and cosmology\, empirical astronomical observation\, and the perennial quest to understand the concepts of Time and Time-Reckoning. ‘Since in the 7th century the leading experts on the computus were the Irish’ (the verdict of Leofranc Holford-Strevens\, The History of Time\, a very short introduction [Oxford 2005] 56) it was entirely appropriate that the first landmark conference devoted to this topic should have taken place in Galway\, as it did in 2006. It brought together\, for the first time\, the leading scholars in this field from all over the world\, and the conference papersprovided a panorama of Early Medieval scientific knowledge\, both in Ireland and in the rest of Western Europe\, during the period of the so-called ‘Dark Ages’. That first Conference was an outstanding success\, and the proof is in the fact that we have had four others since\, and are now looking forward to the fifth this coming July. In fact\, the study of computistics has become synonymous with Galway\, with the result that NUIG has become the permanent home for the Conference \nThe previous Science of Computus conferences in Galway highlighted \n\nThe transmission of Late Antique Mathematical Knowledge in Ireland & Europe The Development of Astronomy in Early Medieval Ireland & Europe The Irish role in the development of Computistical Mathematics The use of computistics for purposes of prognostication \n\nThe Proceedings of the 1st (2006) Conference and of the 2nd (2008) have already been published\, while those of the 3rd (2010) Conference will shortly go to press. The papers\, as a rule\, appeal equally to those interested in the history of science in Ireland and Europe\, and in the origins of present-day mathematical and astronomical ideas\, specialist scholars and the wider public. \nThis year’s image is the zodiac from the Aratea manuscript in Boulogne\, Boulogne Ms 188\, f. 30v. \nFriday\, July 11\n16:00 -16:30 Welcome to the Conference \n16:30-18:00 Session 1 \nCharles Burnett: The Abacista\, companion to the Computista \nSusan Rankin: Remembering the calendar: singing Nonae Aprilis \nMichal Choptiany: Late-17th-century Cracow manuscripts of computes: Cracow\, Jagiellonian Libr.\, MS. 3377\, and Warsaw\, Nat. Libr.\, MS. 9102 II \n18:15 Book Launches \nSaturday\, July 12 \n9:30 – 11:00 Session 2 \nImmo Warntjes: Hermannus Contractus and the revolution of computes in the 12th century \nAlfred Lohr: Computus und computer. Prinzipien und Methoden bei der Editon er Computi von Abbo\, Gerland\, Roger von Hereford und Constabularius \nC.P.E. Nothaft: Arabic Science and Natural Computus in 12th-century England. Computus Constabularii and its context \n11:00 – 11:30 Tea / Coffee \n11:30 – 13:00 Session 3 \nLeofranc Holford-Strevens: The computistical fragment in Brussels\, KBR\, MS. 10127-44 (s. VIII ex)\, fols 80r-82r \nIvana Dobcheva: Were computistae stargazers? The shared readership of computistics and star-catalogues\, with a special emphasis on Aratea manuscripts \nJacopo Bisagni: A newly-discovered Irish (?) copy of the Sphere of Life and Death \n13:00 – 15:00 Lunch \n15:00 – 16:30 Session 4 \nMichael Norris: Digital resources and the classification of the manuscripts of Bede’s De natura rerum \nMÌÁirÌ_n Mc Carron: The origins of Bede’s Anno Mundi dating \nUlirch Voigt: Did the Venerable Bede understand the 532-year cycle? 16:30 – 17:00 Tea / Coffee \n17:00 – 18:30 Session 5 \nRobert Gallagher: The intellectual context of the ‘Metrical Calendar of Hampson’ \nTony Harris: The language of medieval ocmputus and the surprising vocabulary of Aelfric’s De temporibus anni \nChristian Etheridge: The venerable Bede in a 12thcentury Icelandic context: from discoverer of Iceland to computistical authority \nSunday\, July 13\n9:30 – 11:00 Session 6 \nDan Mac Carthy: Changing perspectives upon the Paschal tract of Anatolius\, Bishop of Laodicea \nLuciani Cuppo: Something old\, something new. An Insular twist on the Roman Easter prologue of AD 395 \nAlden Mosshammer: A neglected Iberian Computus: Paris\, BNF\, MS lat. 609 \n11:00 – 11:30 Tea / Coffee \n11:30 – 13:00 Session 7 \nJames Palmer: Irish computistics in 8th-century Lombardy \nDavid Ganz: Milan\, Bibl. Ambr.\, MS. f 60 sup.: an 8th-century Irish compendium \nDavid Howlett: Dicuill on Astronomy URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/5th-international-conference-on-the-science-of-computus-july-11-13-2014/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR