Measuring Shadows
"Observation and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe" A Symposium to celebrate the publication of Raz Chen-Morris' Measuring Shadows : Kepler's Optics of Invisibility
15:30 Gathering and Greetings
15:45- 17:45 Pre Modern Sight
Chair: Moshe Sluhovsky, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Rivka Feldhay, Tel-Aviv University "Kepler in the Context of Early Modern Science and Culture: Opening Remarks"
J.H. (Yossi) Chajes, University of Haifa "Re-envisioning the Evil Eye: Magic, Optical Theory, and Modern Supernaturalism"
Yaakov Mascetti, Bar-Ilan University "With the Eye of Faith": Aemilia Lanyer’s Religious and Feminine Sight in Context"
17:45 Coffee Break
18:00-20:00 Making Time, Producing Geometry
Chair: Rivka Feldhay, Tel-Aviv University
J.B. Shank, University of Minnesota "At the Periphery of the Western Gaze, Or Kepler’s Light and Vision as Viewed from its Penumbra.”
Gadi Algazi, Tel-Aviv University "Humanists and Time, or: Kepler Wagging his Tail"
Eileen Reeves, Princeton University "Picturing Shadows".
20:00 Raz Chen-Morris, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Response