Arabic Books and Astronomy in Seventeenth Century Oxford
CESTA graduate student Fyza Parviz and her collaborators invite you to join them virtually on Friday, June 4th, 2021, for the first workshop of the project: Arabic Books and Astronomy in Seventeenth Century Oxford. This project is a short-term pilot survey sponsored by St John's College, University of Oxford, to analyze the Arabic and Persian MSS on astronomical topics held in two Oxford libraries, St John's College, and the Bodleian. Its focus is notes written on the MSS by the seventeenth-century Oxford scholars who used them, in this case multilingual marginalia and interlinear notes by John Greaves, which we will annotate and digitize.
Workshop Schedule
Each of the workshop speakers will present for fifteen minutes, followed by a ten-minute Q&A session.
9 am PST (5 pm UK): Introduction
Dr. Julia Bray (St. John's College, Oxford)
9:25 am PST (5:25 pm UK): Greaves's Marginalia and seventeenth-century book culture
Fyza Parviz (Stanford University)
9:50 am PST (5:50 pm UK): Greaves's Observations and Astronomical Instruments Reconsidered
Dr. Taha Yasin Arslan (Istanbul Medeniyet University & St. John's College, Oxford)
10:15 am PST (6:15 pm UK): Greaves's Archimedes: the secrets of textual transmission
Dr. Ben Cartlidge (Christ Church, Oxford)
10:40 am PST (6:40 pm UK) BREAK
11:00 am PST (7 pm UK): Greaves's Use of Zījes from the Islamic World
Dr. Taha Yasin Arslan (Istanbul Medeniyet University & St. John's College, Oxford)
11:25 am PST (7:25 pm UK): Greaves and Golius: reconstructing contact from annotation
Dr. Ben Cartlidge (Christ Church, Oxford)
11:50 am PST (7:50 pm UK): Greaves and Languages: Arabic and Persian
Dr. Julia Bray (St. John's College, Oxford)
12:15 pm PST (8:15 pm UK): Project Digitization Efforts
Fyza Parviz (Stanford University)
12:40 pm PST (8:40 pm UK): Closing Remarks and Next Steps
Dr. Julia Bray (St. John's College, Oxford)