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Book launch
17 October 2019
2.00 pm
Institute of Philosophy
Czech Academy of Sciences
Meeting room, 1st floor
The book will be introduced by one of the editors and co-authors Prof. Howard Hotson (University of Oxford).
Photogallery is here.
Department of Comenius Studies and Early Modern Intellectual History
Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1
tel.: 221 183 337
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Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Martin Korenjak
Universität Innsbruck
přednáška
9. 5. 2019, 10.30
zasedací místnost CMS, 1. parto,
Jilská 1, Praha 1
Oddělení pro komeniologii a intelektuální dějiny raného novověku FLÚ AV ČR, v. v. i.
Viz také pozvánku.
Although didactic epic counts among the most intensely studied genres of Neo-Latin poetry, the numerous didactic poems treating all kinds of scientific topics from the polar lights to balneology have received scant attention so far. Insofar as they are considered at all, they are mostly understood as exercises in literary imitatio and demonstrations of poetic virtuosity, while their professed goal of explaining science to their readers is often disregarded. The talk intends to show that the formal side of these texts should not be evaluated in isolation from their contents. Rather, they should be taken seriously as attempts to familiarise their readers with the mass of new notions, facts and insights that confronted them in the age of the Scientific Revolution.
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