Somatmospheres: Atoms, Ambiance, and Nascent Sky Bodies
Fri 5/29 • 12PM - 1PM PDT
Katharina N. Piechocki, Associate Professor in the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, presents "Somatmospheres: Atoms, Ambiance, and Nascent Sky Bodies in the Work of Athanasius Kircher, María de Jesús de Ágreda, and Sor Juana." This Zoom talk brings into a Transatlantic dialogue three seventeenth-century writers who explored sky bodies through the joint lens of science, poetic thought, and religion, recurring to what was then a relatively new vocabulary, such as “atmosphere” or “ambiance”.