Scientiae 2025: Istanbul, 16-19 September, Annual Conference

Session

P.2.2. Making Science Global: Examples from Mesmerism and Newtonianism

17 Sept 2025, 11:00

MAIN HALL (Kurul Odası) (Istanbul University Faculty of Letters)

Conveners

P.2.2. Making Science Global: Examples from Mesmerism and Newtonianism

• Kapil Raj
• Rob Iliffe & Derya Gürses Tarbuck

Description

Chair: Stefano Gulizia

Gottfried Kirch’s Observational Journals (1677–1710) and the Secrets of Early Modern Astronomical Observations

Justyna Rogińska (Institute for the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences)

17/09/2025, 11:00

Individual papers

Gottfried Kirch (1639–1710), a German astronomer, calendar-maker, and author of ephemerides, kept observational journals throughout his astronomical career. In these journals, he documented astronomical, meteorological, and occasionally magnetic observations. Kirch’s observational journals, written between 1677 and 1710, are preserved in the collections of the Paris Observatory Library and the...

Sobieski Moves the Sun. Poems Dedicated to King Jan III of Poland by Johannes Hevelius's Correspondents

Maciej Jasiński

17/09/2025, 11:20

Individual papers

In 1684, Johannes Hevelius, an astronomer from Gdańsk, honored Jan III Sobieski, the King of Poland, by naming a new constellation Scutum Sobiescianum – after the King's coat of arms. This fact was commemorated at that time in several poems which can be found in the collection of Hevelius's astronomical correspondence. They are examples of non-scientific endeavors originating from...