Alberto Bardi 艾博 delivered an invited lecture at the World Copernican Congress in Toruń, Poland, the birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus on September 11-15, 2023. Major foreign authorities in the history of science, such as Robert Westman, Pamela Smith, Michael Shank, and Richard Kremer (and many others) participated to that event and delivered keynotes on Copernicus and the astronomical traditions surrounding him. Our teacher lectured on the astronomical traditions from late Byzantium.
As reported in the official website of the event, “The World Copernican Congress, organised to mark the 550th birthday of Nicolaus Copernicus by the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, the Jagiellonian University and the University of Warmia and Mazury, as well as the Institute of the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, was inaugurated on 19 February in Toruń, the city where Copernicus was born and grew up. In May, the proceedings moved to Kraków, where he studied, and in June to Olsztyn - the heart of Warmia, with which the scientist was associated for the last 40 years of his life. In September, the Congress returned to Toruń, where it had its grand finale on 15 September. A summary and reports from the event can be found on the Nicolaus Copernicus University information portal.”
