2024年12月20日下午，科学史系举办“Global Microhistory of Science”学术研讨会，会议由沈宇斌副教授主持，Alberto Bardi副教授主讲介绍近日出版专著In Light of Bessarion's Astronomical Manuscripts: A Global Microhistory of Science.
This book was published by Ca' Foscari University Press, his monograph challenges the narrative of the revival of Greek science during the early modern age and offers a global microhistory of the cross‑cultural legacy between the Arabo‑Persian and Hellenistic astronomical traditions, which converged through the efforts of Byzantine émigrés such as Bessarion. An examination of Bessarion's life and manuscripts demonstrates that Byzantine astronomical texts were part of a rich hybrid culture that emerged from the encounter of these two traditions. Bardi’s work intends to illustrate the global significance of this coexistence in light of Bessarion's activities and their symbolic and cultural meanings, and aims to reshape our understanding of science in the transition from the Middle Ages to Modernity.
Teachers and students discussed, among others, about the problems and meanings of global and microhistorical methods in the history of science.
本次研讨会是Alberto Bardi老师在科学史系在职期间的最后一次公开报告，吴国盛教授代表科学史系向Alberto Bardi老师任职期间所作的贡献表达了认可和感谢，并赠送由张恩硕老师、刘骁老师、王京老师制作的纪念礼物。本次研讨会在热烈的讨论氛围中圆满结束。
