10.40-11.10
COFFEE BREAK

11.10-12.50
Session VI
INSTRUMENTS ON DISPLAY
Palazzo Strozzi, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (“altana”, fifth floor)
Chairperson: Giorgio Strano

11.10-11.35
Gudrun Wolfschmidt
Presenting Instruments in Baroque Observatories
Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik und Technik, Universität Hamburg, Germany  

11.35-12.00
Ingrid Jendrzejewski
“Exceedingly Ridiculous”: Telescopes on Display on the 17th-Century Stage
Independent scholar, Cambridge, United Kingdom

12.00-12.25
Ileana Chinnici, Donata Randazzo
Old Astronomical Instruments on a Movie Set: The Case of the “Leopard”
INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Italy  

12.25-12.50
Valeria Zanini
The “Specola” Museum’s Experience: Between Current Efforts and Future Hopes
INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy

12.50-14.15
LUNCH

14.15-14.40
Session VII
INSTRUMENTS ON DISPLAY
Palazzo Strozzi, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (“altana”, fifth floor)
Chairperson: Steven Turner

14.15-14.40
Tacye Phillipson
In the Eye of the Beholder
National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom  

14.40-15.05
Bruce Stephenson
Displaying a Newly Acquired “Gothic” Astrolabe
Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA  

15.05-15.30
Peggy Aldrich Kidwell
Slide Rules on Display in the United States
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA  

15.30-15.55
Robert D. Hicks
Interpreting Electrotherapy and the Civil War Body
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

15.55-16.15
COFFEE BREAK

16.15-17.05
Session VIII
INSTRUMENTS ON DISPLAY 
Palazzo Strozzi, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (“altana”, fifth floor)
Chairperson: Paolo Brenni

16.15-16.40
Ivano Dal Prete
Count Gazola’s Scientific Instrument Collection: Between the Ancien Regime and the Napoleonic Age
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA  

16.40-17.05
Paola Bertucci
Architecture of Display: The Tarsia Museum and Scientific Culture in 18th-Century Naples
Yale University, New Haven, USA    

17.30-19.00
VISIT TO THE PHYSICS CABINET OF THE FONDAZIONE SCIENZA E TECNICA
Via Giusti 29 

The Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica (Foundation for Science and Technology) preserves the scientific heritage of the former Istituto Tecnico Toscano founded in 1850 by the by Grand Duke of Tuscany, Leopold II. The cabinet of physics, which is now completely restored and appears as it was around 1900, displays the largest Italian collection of physics teaching and research instruments of the second half of the 19th century. The cabinet with its original furniture and setting is one of the finest example of its kind. http://www.fstfirenze.it/

20.30-22.30
PRESENTATION AND FILM PROJECTION
Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica, Via Giusti 29 

20.30-20.50
Pierre Lauginie
All about the Film Wizards of Light: Evolution of Foucault’s Spinning Mirror from a Qualitative to a Metrological Experiment (1850-1862)
Université Paris-Sud, faculté d’Orsay, GHDSO, France  

20.50-21.50
Projection of the film Les magiciens de la lumière
(in French with English subtitles) illustrating some of the most famous experiments made in the mid-19th century by the French physicists H. Fizeau and L. Foucault in order to measure the speed of light.

Thursday, October 7
Palazzo Strozzi, Piazza Strozzi 1

9.00-10.40
Session IX a
INSTRUMENTS ON DISPLAY
Palazzo Strozzi, Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento (third floor)
Chairperson: David Pantalony

9.00-9.25
Sara Raquel Dias de Sousa Carvalho, Isabel Marília Peres, Fernanda Madalena Abreu Costa
Displaying Historical Scientific Photography through Material Culture
Centro de Ciências Moleculares e Materiais, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

9.25-9.50
M.E. Jardim (a), I.M. Peres (b), F.M. Costa (b)
The Oceanographic Instrument Collection of Prince Albert I of Monaco and King Carlos I of Portugal: A Case Study in Scientific Photography
a) Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
b) Centro de Ciências Moleculares e Materiais, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

9.50-10.15
Flora Paparou
From the History of Ideas to the History of Places, Institutions, Instruments, and Scientific Cultures
Department of Chemistry, University of Athens, Greece

10.15-10.40
Jean-François Loude
The Physics Museum at UNIL/EPFL
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

9.25-10.40
Session IX b
RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL TOOLS
Palazzo Strozzi, Gabinetto Vieusseux, Sala Ferri (ground floor)
Chairperson: Peter Heering

9.25-9.50
Marco Galloni, Mara Fausone
Making Old Instruments Live Again: The Video Experience of Scientific and Technologic Archives, University of Turin
ASTUT - Archivio Scientifico e Tecnologico dell’Università di Torino, Italy

9.50-10.15
Christine Blondel, Bertrand Wolff
Historical Instruments and Experiments on the Web: Videos Between History, Physics, Education and Popularisation
Centre Koyré, CNRS, Paris, France

10.15-10.40
Elizabeth Cavicchi
Telescopes and Telescopic Acts Bring Galileo into my Classroom
Edgerton Center, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

10.40-11.10
COFFEE BREAK

11.10-12.50
Session X a
PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL INSTRUMENTS
Palazzo Strozzi, Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento (third floor)
Chairperson: Christine Blondel

11.10-11.35
Huib Zuidervaart
Play Things or Serious Devices? The Content and Usage of Dutch Cabinets for Experimental Philosophy in the Long 18th Century
Huygens Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands

11.35-12.00
Gloria Clifton
Paris, London and St Petersburg: the Role of Scientific Instruments and Their Makers in European Scientific Networks
Royal Observatory, Greenwich, United Kingdom

12.00-12.25
Wolfgang Engels
Size Matters? The Big Lichtenberg Electrophorus
Universität Oldenburg, Germany

12.25-12.50
Peter Heering
Looking Again at Coulomb’s Torsion Balance Experiments
Institut für Physik und Chemie und ihre Didaktik, Universität Flensburg, Germany

11.10-12.25
Session X b
RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL TOOLS
Palazzo Strozzi, Gabinetto Vieusseux, Sala Ferri (ground floor)
Chairperson: Jean François Loude

11.10-11.35
Elena Corradini, Silvia Rossi, Sara Uboldi
Educational Programmes for the Cataloguing of Scientific/Technological Heritage: A Fundamental Tool for Preservation, Safeguard and Valorisation
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

11.35-12.00
Josep Batlló (a), Susana Custódio (b), João Narciso (b), Paulo Ribeiro (b), Fernando C. Lopes (b), Décio Martins (c), Celeste R. Gomes (b)
The Collection of Historical Instruments of the Geophysics Institute of the Coimbra University: Its Importance for Present Research and Science Education
a) Instituto D. Luis - CGUL, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
b) Centro de Geofísica, FCT, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
c) Departamento de Física, FCT, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

12.00-12.25
Marcus Granato (a), Marta C. Lourenço (b)
Thesaurus of Scientific Instruments in Portuguese: Networking for Preservation and Access
a) Museo de Astronomia e Ciências Afins, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
b) Museo de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

12.25-14.00
LUNCH

14.00-22.30
EXCURSION TO AREZZO

The trip to Arezzo by bus lasts about 1 hour. We will be welcomed by Mr. Fausto Casi, who will show us his remarkable collection of scientific instruments (17th-20th century). Afterwards we will move downtown and visit the Museo dei Mezzi di Comunicazione (Telecommunication Museum), which displays a fine collection of optical toys, pre-cinema apparatus, calculating and writing machines, telegraphic and wireless apparatus, radios and televisions, etc.
(link)

In the auditorium of the Museum we will hold the SIC PLENARY MEETING.
All the delegates are warmly invited to participate!

After a dinner in Arezzo, we will return to Florence (around 22.30).

Friday, 8 October
Palazzo Strozzi, Piazza Strozzi 1
Museo Galileo, Piazza dei Giudici 1

9.00-10.40
Session XI a
PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL INSTRUMENTS
Palazzo Strozzi, Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento (third floor)
Chairperson: Jozef Uyttenhove

9.00-9.25
Michel Morizet
The “Diagomètre de Rousseau”:
A Really Innovating Instrument and the First “Black Box”
Private collector, Versailles, France

9.25-9.50
Roberto Mantovani
Before Ruhmkorff: Induction Coils in Italy
Gabinetto di Fisica, Museo Urbinate della Scienza e della Tecnica, Università di Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Italy

9.50-10.15
Paolo Brenni
The Tamed Lightning: The Uses and the Diffusion of High Voltage and High Frequency Apparatus (1890-1950)
CNR; Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica, Florence, Italy

10.15-10.40
Martin Panusch
The Development of Millikan’s Oil Drop Experiment
Institut für Physik und Chemie und ihre Didaktik, University of Flensburg, Germany

9.25-10.40
Session XI b
RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL TOOLS
Palazzo Strozzi, Gabinetto Vieusseux, Sala Ferri (ground floor)
Chairperson: Michael Korey

9.25-9.50
Vincenza Ferrara (a), Marinella Calisi (b)
Astronomical and Copernican Museum: Online Catalog of Scientific Instruments
a) Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
b) INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Italy

9.50-10.15
Santiago Vallmitjana (a), Josep Batlló (b), Pedro Ruiz (c), Jaume Valentines (d), Gabriel Vidal (e), Alfons Zarzoso (f)
Database and Cataloguing of the Collection of Scientific Instruments Owned by the Faculty of Physics of the University of Barcelona
a) Departament de Física Aplicada i Òptica, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
b) Instituto D. Luiz, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
c) Instituto de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia, Universitat de Valencia, Spain
d) ETSEIB - Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona, Spain
e) Departament d’Enginyeria Electrònica, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
f) Museu d’Història de la Medicina, Barcelona, Spain

10.40-11.10
COFFEE BREAK

11.10-12.50
Session XII a
PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL INSTRUMENTS
Palazzo Strozzi, Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento (third floor)
Chairperson: Roberto Mantovani

11.10-11.35
George Brock-Nannestad
Human Interpretation of Scientific Data
Indipendent scholar, Patent Tactics, Gentofte, Copenhagen, Denmark

11.35-12.00
Alexander Jonckheere, Kristel Wautier
Jules Duboscq and the Bioscope: A Missing Link in Early Visual Media Brought Back to Life
Universiteit Gent, Museum voor de Geschiedenis van de Wetenschappen, Ghent, Belgium

12.00-12.25
Neil Brown
A Neglected Instrument: The Significance and History of the Diffraction Grating
Formerly The Science Museum, London, United Kingdom

12.25-12.50
Olympe Jouet, Axelle Amon, Dominique Bernard
Jules Violle’s Actinometer: A Simple Instrument to Deduce the Temperature of the Sun from Measurements with a Thermometer
Université de Rennes 1, France

11.10-12.50
Session XII b
ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS
Palazzo Strozzi, Gabinetto Vieusseux, Sala Ferri (ground floor)
Chairperson: Gudrun Wolfschmidt

11.10-11.35
Yaakov Zik, Giora Hon
Science and Instruments: Levi ben Gerson’s (1288-1344) Pinhole Camera
Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa, Israel

11.35-12.00
Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma
Indian Astronomical Instruments in Italy
Formerly Aligarh Muslim University, Uttar Pradesh, India

12.00-12.25
Michael Korey
New Light on an Old Master? Thoughts on Two Celestial Instruments by Christoph Schissler
Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, Dresden State Art Collections, Germany

12.25-12.50
Samuel Gessner
Fit for a Princely Collection: News About the Schissler Globe (1575) in Sintra
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Lisbon, Portugal

12.50-14.15
LUNCH

14.15-15.05
Session XIII a
PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL INSTRUMENTS
Museo Galileo, Sala Ginori Conti (basement)
Chairperson: Marta Lourenço

14.15-14.40
Andrea Bernardoni
What Did Leonardo da Vinci’s Chemical Laboratory Look Like? A Preliminary Survey
University of Bergamo, Italy
Museo Galileo, Florence, Italy

14.40-15.05
Alexey Emelyanov
On History of Chemical Glassware Production in Russia
Institute of History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Science, St Petersburg, Russia

14.15-15.55
Session XIII b
ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS
Museo Galileo, Sala Righini Bonelli (basement)
Chairperson: Richard Dunn

14.15-14.40
Giorgio Strano
Restoring Santucci’s Armillary Sphere at the Museo Galileo in Florence: Part II
Museo Galileo, Florence, Italy

14.40-15.05
Peter Abrahams
John Hadley and the Construction of Early Reflecting Telescopes
Independent scholar, Portland, Oregon, USA

15.05-15.30
John L. McKnight
A Telescope for the 1760’s Transit of Venus
College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA

15.30-15.55
Santiago Vallmitjana
Three Telescopes Belonging to the Faculty of Physics of the University of Barcelona
Departament de Física Aplicada i Òptica, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

15.55-16.15
COFFEE BREAK

16.15-17.05
Session XIV a
PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL INSTRUMENTS
Museo Galileo, Sala Ginori Conti (basement)
Chairperson: Gloria Clifton

16.15-16.40
Michael T. Wright
Scientific Clockmaking: Smeaton’s Measurements of the Thermal Expansion of Solids and a Dateable Early Application
Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

16.40-17.05
Jane Insley
James Watt’s Cookbook Chemistry
The Science Museum, London, United Kingdom

16.15-17.30
Session XIV b
ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS
Museo Galileo, Sala Righini Bonelli (basement)
Chairperson: Suzanne Débarbat

16.15-16.40
Simone Bianchi
The Historical Instruments of the Arcetri Astrophysics Observatory in Florence
INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Florence, Italy

16.40-17.05
James Caplan
The French Programme of Stellar Radial Velocity Measurement with Objective Prisms
Observatoire astronomique de Marseille-Provence, France

17.05-17.30
Françoise Le Guet Tully (a), Jean Davoigneau (b), Christine Etienne (a), James Caplan (c)
The Fate of Old Astronomical Instruments: A Comparative Approach Based on Case Studies
a) Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Nice, France
b) Direction des patrimoines, Ministère de la culture, Paris, France
c) Observatoire astronomique de Marseille-Provence, France

20.00-22.00
OFFICIAL DINNER
Terrazza Bardini Restaurant, Costa San Giorgio 6A

Saturday, 9 October
9.30-11.00
VISIT TO THE MUSEO “LA SPECOLA”
Via Romana, 17

The “La Specola” Zoological Museum is still located in the Palazzo Torrigiani, the original venue of the Museum of Physics and Natural History from which it originated. This museum was established in 1775 by Grand Duke of Tuscany, Peter Leopold. It preserves today the largest and most spectacular collection of anatomical waxworks in the world, manufactured between 1770 and 1850 as well as over 3,500,000 taxidermed animals, of which only 5,000 on display. In 1841, a Tribune dedicated to Galileo Galilei was built in the palazzo. Today’s Museum is known by the name of “La Specola”, because the highest part of the building was the site of an astronomical observatory, which by age-old usage was called “Specola”.
http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/itineraries/place/MuseoStoriaNaturaleFirenzeSezioneZoologiaSpecola.html
http://www.msn.unifi.it/CMpro-l-s-11.html