Morning
Chair: TBA
10:00 Steven Vanden Broecke (Ghent) Astronomical images as spiritual tools: reason, vision, and the imagination in the Copernican astronomy of Philips van Lansbergen (1561–1632)
11:15 Break
11:30 Pieter Present (Ghent) Making things visible: the use of Hooke’s images in Micrographia
12:45 Lunch
Afternoon
Chair: TBA
14:00 Gilles Denis (Lille I) Mathieu Tillet, "physicien agriculteur," and his diagrams of field experiments (mid-18th c.): a new style of science?
15:15 Break
15:30 Sigrid Leyssen (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris/I:IMSK, Universität Regensburg) Psychological stimuli images: between perception and interpretation
Scientific organisation
Delphine Bellis (Nijmegen), Anne-Lise Rey (Lille I) and Maarten Van Dyck (Ghent)
Contact: annelise.rey@free.fr, maarten.vandyck@ugent.be