Séminaire – Histoire des sciences, histoire du texte

Commentaries
Org. K. Chemla

• Marie Bizais-Lillig (Lillig (Université de Strasbourg – USIAS – Consortium DISTAM)

Setting standards for commentaries
Résumé :
Exegetical devices vary from one author to another, from one base text to another. They might appear as the complementary material necessary to decipher a specific base text. The purpose served by a commentary is nonetheless sometimes explicit. Such is the case of the enriched commentary on the Chinese anthology entitled Wenxuan 文選 (Selection of Texts), which posits itself in contrast with Li Shan’s 李善 (630-689) recently published commentary. All in all, each commentary sets standards in a more or less clearly expressed way. By the thirteenth century, works such as the Kanzheng jiu Jing san zhuan yange li 刊正九經三傳沿革例 in one roll attributed to Yue Ke 岳 珂 set explicit expectations from exegesis. This text will be at the center of my presentation.

• Guillaume Loizelet

Al-Bīrūnī’s  » comments  » on Ptolemy’s Planetary Hypotheses
Résumé :
Chapter X.6 of al-Qānūn al-Masʿūdī al masudi, written in 1030 by al-Bīrūnī, deals with celestial dimensions. On this occasion, al-Bīrūnī returns to the seminal text on the subject : part I.2 of the Planetary Hypotheses.
I will begin by comparing the argumentative structure of the two texts and the motivations of both authors. I will then turn to a precise study of passages in chapter X.6 in which al-Bīrūnī uses Ptolemy’s text above all as an object in the service of making his own point.

Lieu : Salle Malevitch 483A bâtiment Condorcet