New Perspectives on Gerard of Cremona (colloque)
Les mercredi 25 et jeudi 26 septembre 2024 a lieu le colloque international « New Perspectives on Gerard of Cremona » organisé par David Juste et Colette Dufossé dans le cadre du projet Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus dont il est le deuxième colloque international. Il a lieu à Würzburg, au Friedrich-Wilhelm-Joseph-Schelling-Forum.

Source : Claude Ptolémée, Almageste, trad. Gérard de Crémone, MS Paris, BnF, Latin 7258, fol. 165r
URL : https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b100271182/f342.item
Argumentaire
The reason for organising a conference on Gerard of Cremona is that a number of discoveries have been made about his scholarly activities in recent years. Gerard of Cremona (d. 1187) has long been known as the most prolific translator from Arabic into Latin in the Middle Ages. He translated over 70 scientific and philosophical texts, in the fields of logic, geometry, astronomy, natural philosophy, medicine, alchemy and divination, among which his greatest achievements are perhaps the translations of Ptolemy’s Almagest and Avicenna’s Canon. However, recent research conducted at Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus has shown that Gerard was not only a translator, but also an author, a commentator and a revisor of previous translations. The starting point was the discovery by Stefan Georges that Gerard produced a massive commentary on the Almagest. This discovery in turn led to the identification of similar commentaries on Ptolemy’s Quadripartitum and Pseudo-Ptolemy’s Centiloquium, and there are reasons to suspect that the same was done for other texts yet to be identified. We can also confirm earlier suggestions that Gerard revised and corrected preexisting translations, by Plato of Tivoli and others. Finally, in 2023, Stefan Zieme showed that in his translation of the Almagest, Gerard did not simply adopt the numerical tables as they appeared in his Arabic models, but recalculated them. These new perspectives invite us to reconsider Gerard’s scientific activity as a whole and to highlight his multifaceted scholarly endeavours.
Programme
Mercredi 25 septembre 2024
9h30 : ouverture
9h45–10h00 : discours de bienvenue
Session du matin
Modération : Dag Nikolaus Hasse
10h00–10h45 : David Juste (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich), « Gerard of Cremona Before this Conference: His Life and Works »
10h45–11h30 : Stefan Georges (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg), « Gerard’s Achievements: Some Additions »
11h30–12h00 : pause café
12h00–12h45 : Andreas Büttner (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg), « Unveiling the Invisible Translator: A Computational Analysis of Gerard of Cremona’s Translation Style »
12h45–14h30 : déjeuner
Session de l’après-midi
Modération : David Juste
14h30–15h15 : Colette Dufossé (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich), « Making the Almagest Accessible to Latin Readers: The Translation of Gerard of Cremona »
15h15–16h00 : Marc Moyon (Université de Limoges), « Gerard of Cremona and Some Geometrical Parts of MS Paris, Lat. 7377B: Euclid and Abū Bakr »
16h00–16h30 : pause café
16h30–17h15 : Emanuele Rovati (University of Zurich), « Gerard of Cremona as an Astrologer »
17h15–18h00 : Charles Burnett (The Warburg Institute, London), « Gerard of Cremona’s Involvement in Alchemy, Geomancy, Divination and the Occult »
19h30 : dîner
Jeudi 26 septembre 2024
Session du matin
Modération : Irene Caiazzo
09h15–10h00 : Michael McVaugh (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), « How Did Gerard of Cremona Acquire His Technical Medical Latin? »
10h00–10h45 : Marina Díaz Marcos (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha), « Gerard of Cremona: A Good Translator? Some Problems of Interpretation and Transcription in His Latin Translations of Greek Medical Texts Through Arabic »
10h45–11h15 : pause café
11h15–12h00 : Danielle Jacquart (EPHE, PSL, Paris), « La traduction du Canon d’Avicenne : plusieurs intervenants ? »
12h00-12h45 : Dag Nikolaus Hasse (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg), « Who Was the Translator of the Anonymous Latin Translations of Rhazes (Ibn Zakarīyāʾ al-Rāzī)? »
12h45-14h30 : déjeuner
Session de l’après-midi
Modération : Colette Dufossé
14h30–15h15 : Stefan Zieme (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), « 45°: The Toledan Tables and the Latitude of Cremona »
15h15–16h00 : Philipp Nothaft (All Souls College, Oxford), « On the Liber omnium sperarum celi et compositionis tabularum, Allegedly Translated by Gerard of Cremona »
16h00–16h30 : pause café
16h30–17h15 : Joel Chandelier (Université Paris 8), « New Light on the First Reception of Gerard of Cremona’s Medical Translations »
17h15–18h00 : John Mulhall (Purdue University), « A School in Toledo: Gerard of Cremona’s Teaching of the Sciences »
18h00–18h30 : discussion finale
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Jean-Charles Coulon (22 septembre 2024). New Perspectives on Gerard of Cremona (colloque). Le monde des djinns. Consulté le 15 juin 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/12c3u