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London Ancient Science Conference 2008.
The Garden Room, University College London
11:00-1:00
Micah Ross – Evidence for Macrobius’ ‘Egyptian’ cosmology.
John Steele (Brown) – Shadows in Babylonian astronomy
Jennifer Gray (Durham) - Late Babylonian planetary predictions and the changing length of the
year.
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-4:00
Andrew Gregory (UCL) – The Derveni Papyrus and Early Greek Science
Javier Beneitez (Cambridge) – Logos, Otherness and Theory of Homonymy in Aristotle
Alex Bellamy (LSE) – Aristotle's law of inertia: a reply to critics
4-4:30 Tea
4:30-6:30
Paul Ranford (UCL) – From Celestial Commentaries to Medieval Dynamics.
Michael Champion (KCL) – Christians and Neoplatonists on the Eternity of the World.
Lydia Wilson (Cambridge) – Genres of Galenic Pedagogical Texts
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/gregory/Ancsci/2008/ancsci-order.htm
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