|
Aula of the Polish Academy
|
| 9:00-9:25 |
Official
opening |
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Session I -
East-West – Cooperation, Competition and Trade |
| 9:25-9:45 |
Gloria
Clifton |
British Scientific Instrument Makers and the Transmission of
Knowledge in Europe |
| 9:45-10:05 |
Anita
McConnell |
Ramsden's
Workshop: Recruiting Craftsmen from East and West |
| 10:05-10:25 |
Alison
Morrison-Low |
From
West to East: Nineteenth Century Scottish Lighthouse
Technology in the Pacific Rim |
| 10:25-10:45 |
Sara
Schechner |
The
Adventures of Captain John Smith, Pocahontas , and a Sundial |
| 10:45-11:05 |
Robert D.Hicks |
Instruments
of Science and Technology in Early Virginia, USA, and New
Historical Perspectives |
|
11:05-11:20 |
Coffee
break |
|
| 11:20-11:40 |
Michel
Jean
Morizet |
Fahlmer
and Diebolt: two Instrument Dealers of Strasbourg at the
End of the 18th century |
| 11:40-12:00 |
Mathias
Ullmann |
Scientific Instruments from Saxony in the Petersburg Art
Collections |
| 12:00-12:20 |
Ewa
Wyka |
Liquefaction
of Gases: its History and the Problems Surrounding the
Discovery |
| 12:20-13:40 |
Pedro
Ruiz Castell
Pedro Ruiz-Castell,
Ignacio de la Lastra |
A communist instrument in Franco’s
Spain |
| 12:40-13:00 |
David
Pantalony |
Propaganda
or Education? The Controversy over the Importation of
Soviet Scientific Instruments to America in 1959 |
| 13:00-13:15 |
Session
summary |
|
13:30-15:00 |
Lunch
|
Chimera
restaurant |
|
up
 Monday |
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|
Session II - Shot at noon -
Aspects of
Artillery
Instruments from
Early
Modern Europe |
| 15:00-15:20 |
Wolfram
Dolz |
Early
Artillery Instruments - a Typology |
| 15:20-15:40 |
Roland
Schewe |
Artillery
Instruments from the German National Museum - Art.
Technology and Material Sources |
| 15:40-16:00 |
Peter
Plaßmeyer |
Strategic
Games? Remarks on the Function of Artillery Instruments in
Princely Collections |
|
16:00-16:20 |
Silke
Ackermann |
Insular Views? Artillery Instruments from England |
| 16:20-16:30 |
Session
summary |
|
Courtyard
of Collegium Maius, Jagiellońska 15 |
| 16:45-17:00 |
Common
photo (courtyard) |
| 17:00-17:30 |
Poster
session |
| 17:00-19:30 |
Parallel
visit: Interactive
exhibition “Senses”, exhibition “Polish globes”,
Reception |
| 19:45-20:15 |
Krakow
tour (electric cars) |
|
up
Monday |
|
Tuesday
(September 12th)
Pararell
sessions: Sessions
III and
IV
- Sessions
V and
VI
- Lunch -
Session VII -
Reception
in Museum of Pharmacy
|
|
Session III -
From Kepler’s astronomy to the 20th century
Bobrzyński
Room |
| 9:00-9:20 |
Inga
Elmqvist Söderlund |
The
Identity of the Astronomer in 17th century Imagery -
Instruments Used as Attributes |
| 9:20-9:40 |
Yaakov
Zik,
Giora Hon |
Science
and Instruments: Kepler's Optical Part of Astronomy |
| 9:40-10:00 |
Susanne
Débarbat |
Is
Lacaille (1713-1762) the First in Attempting to Uniformize
Instruments in View of a European Cooperation in Astronomy? |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Peter
Abrahams |
The
Telescopes of William Lassel (1799-1880) |
|
10:20-10:35 |
Coffee
break |
|
| 10:35-10:55 |
Kevin
Johnson |
The
1876 Special Loan Exhibition; a Global Snapshot of
Astronomy? |
| 10:55-11:15 |
Klaus
Staubermann
|
Instrument
and Image: the Nineteenth century Astronomical Lantern
Slide |
| 11:15-11:35 |
Anna
K. Zawada |
Tadeusz
Banachiewicz (1882 – 1954) Director of the Krakow
Observatory and Inventor of Chronocinematograph |
| 11:35-11:40 |
Session
summary |
|
|
11:40-12:00 |
Coffee
break |
|
|
up
Tuesday |
|
Session IV - Instruments
of 20th century
Cellarium |
| 9:00-9:20 |
Leonardo
Gariboldi |
Studying
Cosmic Ray Physics in Milan: the Four Cloud chambers
(1938-60) |
| 9:20-9:40 |
Sofia
Talas |
Baloons
and Nuclear Emulsion: the Role Played by the University of
Padua in the 1950s European Collaborations |
| 9:40-10:00 |
J.
Batlló,
C. Clemente, F. Pérez-Blanco, J. Morales |
The
Seismographs of the "Observatorio de Cartuja"
(Granada, Spain). Restoration of the "Cartuja
macroseismograph" |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Richard
Kremer |
Harold E. Edgerton's High Speed Cameras |
|
10:20-10:35 |
Coffee
break |
|
| 10:25-10:55 |
Vasily
Borisov |
The Birth of the Electronic Television: Cooperation and
Competition |
| 10:55-11:15 |
Šimon
Krýsl |
The
Resounding Heart: dr Leo Jacobsohn's Heart Sound
Transmission |
| 11:15-11:35 |
Tayce
Phillipson |
Mallard
and the Mouse Box: Prototype MRI Material from Aberdeen |
| 11:35-11:40 |
Session
summary |
|
|
11:40-12:00 |
Coffee
break |
|
|
up
Tuesday |
|
Session V
- Astronomical Observatories
Bobrzyński
room |
| 12:00-12:20 |
James
Caplan |
Meridian
Instruments of the Marseille Observatory |
| 12:20-12:40 |
Gudrun
Wolfschmidt |
Developement
of Radioastronomy in Germany until the Effelsberg
Telescope |
| 12:40-13:00 |
Françoise Le Guet Tully, Jean Davoigneau |
The
German Tradition and 19th century French Observatories |
| 13:00-13:20 |
Ileana
Chinnici |
Italian
Astronomical Instruments Heritage |
| 13:20-13:30 |
Session
Summary |
|
|
13:30-15:00 |
Lunch
|
Chimera
restaurant |
|
up
Tuesday |
|
Session
VI - Instruments of the Hellenic World
Cellarium |
| 12:00-12:20
|
Giorgio
Strano
|
The
In-existent Instruments of Ptolemy's "Almagest":
The Mysterious Error and Oscillation of the Obliquity of
the Ecliptic |
| 12:20-12:40
|
Yanis
Bitsakis
|
The
Antikythera Mechanism Research Project
|
| 12:40-13:10
|
Michael
T. Wright
|
The
Antikythera Mechanism: Hellenistic Bodging
|
| 13:10-13:30
|
Session
Summary
|
| 13:30-15:00
|
Lunch
|
Chimera
restaurant
|
|
up
Tuesday |
|
Session VII -
Historical laboratories
Bobrzyński
room
|
| 15:00-15:20
|
Paolo
Brenni
|
The
Physics Collection of the Instituto Technico Toscana:
20 Years of Work
|
| 15:20-15:40
|
Jan
Waling
Huisman
|
Historical
Laboratories at the University of Groningen
|
| 15:40-16:00
|
Staffan
Andersson
|
Acquisition
of a Collection in Context - a Case Study of the Uppsala
Cabinet of Physics
|
| 16:00-16:20
|
Tatiana
Moiseeva
|
The
Chemical Laboratory of Lomonosov is the First Scientific
and Educational Laboratory in Russia
|
|
16:20-16:35
|
Coffee
break
|
|
| 16:35-16:55
|
Joan Muñoz,
Jaume Valentines, Santiago Vallmitjana |
The
Mentora Alsina: a Century of Teaching Experimental Physics
in Barcelona
|
| 16:55-17:15
|
Santiago
Vallmitijana,
Carme Clemente |
The
Collection of Scientific Instruments of the Faculty of
Physics of the University of Barcelona
|
| 17:15-17:35
|
Ad
Maas
|
Mesmerized
by Onnes. Research with the Large Electromagnet of the
Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory in the 1930s
|
| 17:35-17:55
|
Zbigniew
Bela
|
The
“Virtual” Laboratory of Michał Sędziwój,
Reconstructed from his Operatie
Elixiris Philosophici and Andreas Libavius’s Alchimia
|
| 17:55-18:15
|
Session
summary
|
|
| 18:30-20:00
|
Reception
|
Museum
of Pharmacy |
|
up
Tuesday |
|
Wenesday
(September 13th)
Pararell
sessions: Sessions
VIII,
IX
and
X- Lunch - Transit to
Polish Aviation Museum -
Session XI
-
Reception in Polish
Aviation Museum
|
|
Session
VIII - Scholars,
Constructors,
Mechanicians
Bobrzyński
room |
| 9:00-9:20 |
Jim
Bennett
|
Christopher
Middleton and the Practice of Navigation 1730-50
|
| 9:20-9:40
|
Hans
Hooijmaijers
|
The
True Method of Finding the Longitude at Sea
|
| 9:40-10:00
|
Richard
Dunn
|
Touched,
Cleaned and Repaired; Equipping and Maintaining Trading
Voyages to the Baltic
|
| 10:00-10:20
|
Julian
Holland
|
Angelo
Tornaghi: Migrations of a Mathematical Instrument Maker
|
| 10:20-10:40
|
Stephen
Johnston
|
Science,
Satire and the Architectonic Sector
|
| 10:40-10:55
|
Session
summary
|
|
|
10:55-11:10
|
Coffee
break
|
|
| 11:10-11:30
|
Vladimir
Schurov,
Pavel Bandakov |
Ivan Kublin: Russian Leonardo or the Slave of Clockwork?
|
| 11:30-11:50
|
Karl
Grandin
|
Linnaeus's
Apostles and their Instruments
|
| 11:50-12:10
|
Klaus
Hentschel
|
Life
and Work of the Gottingen Instrument Maker Moritz
Meyerstein (1808-82)
|
| 12:10-12:30
|
Alberto
Mesichari
|
The
Website and the First Volume of the National Edition of
the Works and Correspondence of Giovanni Battista Amici
(Modena 1786 - Florence 1863) Optical Instrument Maker,
Astronomer, Naturalist
|
| 12:30-12:50
|
Session
summary
|
|
| 13:50-14:30
|
Lunch
|
Chimera
restaurant
|
|
up
Wenesday |
|
Session
IX -
Calculating Machines and Computers as Scientific
Instruments
Cellarium |
| 9:00-9:20
|
Larisa
Brylevskaya
|
Prizes
of the St-Petersburg Academy of Sciences: Joining of
Efforts of Russian and European Inventors in Creation of
Mechanical Calculating Machines
|
| 9:20-9:40
|
Theodore Lekkas,
Aristotle Tympas |
Ideologies
of World Fair Classification and Display of Calculating
Artefacts, 1851-1914
|
| 9:40-10:00
|
Allan
Olley
|
Digitizing
Measurement: Automating Scientific Table Making
|
| 10:00-10:20
|
Ola
Nordal
|
GIER
- a Computer Revolution in a Wardrobe. The Birth of
Digital Computing at the Norwegian Institute of Technology
in 1962
|
| 10:20-10:40
|
Jos Uyttenhove, Danny Segers |
Nuclear
Electronics as a Pioneer in the Implementation of
Minicomputers and Microprocessors in Laboratory
Instrumentation
|
| 10:40-10:55
|
Session
summary
|
|
| 10:55-11:10
|
Coffee
break
|
|
|
up
Wenesday |
|
Session X -
Study through the Replica, Virtual Experiments
Cellarium |
| 11:10-11:30
|
Efthymios
Nicolaidis
|
The
Project Organothea - 19th - 20th century Instruments and
Virtual Experiments
|
| 11:30-11:50
|
Steven
Turner
|
Opening
a Window to the Past: James Smithson and the Chemical
Blowpipe
|
| 11:50-12:10
|
Marvin
Bolt
|
Instrument
Databases in Adler Planetarium
|
| 12:10-12:30
|
Peter
Heering
|
Materialised
Skills and Strange Encounters: Experience from the
Practice with Solar Microsopes
|
| 12:30-12:50
|
Danny Segers,
Jos Uyttenhove |
The
Working of Einstein's "Maschinchen" Studied with
the Help of a Replica |
| 12:50-13:05
|
Session
summary
|
|
| 13:00-14:30
|
Lunch
|
Chimera
restaurant
|
|
up
Wenesday |
|
Session
XI - Conservation and dating of scientific instruments
Polish
Aviation Museum |
| 15:30-16:00
|
Trip to
the
Polish Aviation Museum
|
| 16:30-16:50
|
Krzysztof Mroczkowski,
Piotr Łopalewski |
Preservation
of the Aviation Technology Artefacts in the Museum of
Polish Aviation
|
| 16:50-17:10
|
Dariusz Niemiec |
Compasses from the Time of Galileo Found at the Excavations
in the Collegium Novum of the Jagiellonian University |
| 17:10-17:30
|
Richard
Paselk
|
Craft
Knowledge in Understanding Scientific Instruments
|
| 17:30-17:45
|
Session
summary
|
|
| 18:00-19:00
|
Visit
in the
Polish
Aviation Museum
|
| 19:00-21:00
|
Reception
|
|
| 21:00-22:00
|
Return
to the Collegium Maius
|
|
up
 Wenesday |
|
Thuersday
(September 14th)
Visit
of Przypkowski Museum in Jedrzejow nad Jedrzejow Abbey -
Lunch -
Plenary Meeting - Transit
to Krakow -
Official dinner
|
| 8:30-10:30
|
Trip
to the
Przypkowski
Museum
|
| 10:30-12:30
|
Visit
in the
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