| Dec. 21 |
Activity: A Brand New Sky—A poetic narrative on Galilean astronomical discoveries |
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| Nov. 25–Nov. 27 |
International Workshop: Mechanics and Cosmology |
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Sept. 16 –Jan. 2, 2005
9 a.m.–7 p.m. daily |
Exhibition: Beautiful Minds: The Nobel Prize—a Century of Creativity
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence |
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| Sept. 2004 - June 2005 |
Educational Workshops: Weekends at the Museum
New educational workshops are now available to the public, open on weekends to families.
(Note: All workshops conducted in Italian) |
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Announcement:  Galilæana
The first volume of Galilæana, a new annual scientific journal of Galilaean studies published by the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, has been released. The review is published by the Leo S. Olschki publishing house. |
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Jul. 1, Aug. 26, Sept. 2
9:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
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Evening Openings Summer 2004: "Incontri con la storia: Galileo Galilei"
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| June 26–end of summer, 2004 |
Travelling Exhibition: Leonardo's Automobile
A project to reconstruct digital and functional models of Leonardo da Vinci's self-propelled cart. |
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| June 18–Dec. 18 |
Travelling Exhibition: Machina Mundi—"Images and Measures of the Cosmos from Copernicus to Newton" |
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June 18, 21, 28
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m. |
Evening Openings Summer 2004: "L'immagine e la misura del cosmo di Galileo" |
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Mon., June 14
6:00 p.m. |
Lecture: "The Book Nobody Read: Pursuing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus"
A lecture by Owen Gingerich of Harvard University, presented in association with Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
Via di Vincigliata 22, Florence, Italy
R.S.V.P. 055 603251 or online |
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June 8
12:15 p.m. |
Astronomical Event: Observation of the Transit of Venus at the Great Sundial of the Cathedral
On the occasion of the transit of Venus across the Sun we will attempt to observe the phenomenon with "the largest sundial rod in the world".
Enter from Porta dei Canonici, Cappella della Croce, Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore (the Duomo)
free entrance |
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May 21
4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. |
Seminar: La rivoluzione in un soffio. L'arte vetraria nell'antica Roma
(Revolution in a Breath—The Art of Glassblowing in Ancient Rome)
E. Marianne Stern
Maria Luisa Righini Bonelli Hall
Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Piazza dei Giudici, 1 |
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Sun., Apr. 25
11:00 a.m. |
Demonstration: Historical Reenactment of a Draisine race
Twelve athletes in 19th-century dress will race draisines along the Arno river between the Ponte alle Grazie and Santa Trinità bridges.
Piazza dei Giudici |
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Apr. 20
4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. |
Seminar: Processi a Galileo, 1633–1992 (in Italian)
M. Finocchiaro
The seminar will discuss, on the basis of a vast collection of little-known documentation, the evolution of the attitude of censorship with regards to the new assumed Copernican cosmology, over the course of the past three centuries and up until the recent "rehabilitation" of Galileo by Giovanni Paolo II, not only from the ecclesiastical authorities, but also from intellectual movements and environments.
Marie Luisa Righini Bonelli Hall
Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Piazza dei Giudici, 1 |
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| Spring 2004 |
National Project: La Primavera della Scienza (in Italian)
From the Scientific and Technological Culture Week to Science Days—II Edition |
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| Mar. 22–28 |
IMSS activities during the 14th Annual Scientific Culture Week (in Italian) |
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| Mar. 27, 2004–Jan. 16, 2005 |
Exhibition: Vitrum—the Use of Glass in Roman Times |
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| Mar. 26 |
Event: E-DAY
Presentation of the new IMSS web site, innovative multimedia applications and inauguration of the new museum spaces. |
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| Mar. 26–28 |
Contest: Discover Florence—Science Gardens (PDF - in Italian) |
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| Mar. 25 |
Conference: Science Education in Tuscan Museums (in Italian) |
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| Mar. 24–28 |
Film Series: Seeing Science (in Italian) |
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| Mar. 24–28 |
Activities Calendar: 14th Annual Scientific Culture Week in Tuscany (in Italian) |
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| from Mar. 22 |
Exhibition: Cycling through Time
An exhibition of antique bicycles |
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| Jan. 8–10 |
International Symposium: Machina (in Italian)
XI International Symposium of the Institute of Lessico intellettuale Europeo and Storia delle Idee - CNR
Rome |
