Monday
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Opening Reception
Sponsored by the Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers |
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dinner
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Guest Lecture
Professor Martin Kemp
Toys for Boys: Instruments as Models of Nature |
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Tuesday
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Location A
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Historical Observatories and their Instruments I
1. Dr James Caplan
The Marseille Observatory and its instruments |
2. Inga Elmqvist
The Old Stockholm Observatory and its instruments |
3. Dr Antonella Testa
Thematic or Chronological Arrangement for an Exhibition of Ancient Instruments? The Case of the Brera Astronomical Observatory (Milano, Italy) |
4. Dr John Butler
Surviving astronomical instruments in Ireland from the late 18th and 19th centuries |
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Instrument Makers
1. Dr Gloria Clifton
Scientific Instrument Makers and the Royal Mint |
2. Dr Olov Amelin
Instrument Maker on the Run: A Case of Technology Transfer |
3. Mr Julian Holland
Samuel Charles Tisley and the Making of Instruments for Science |
4. Mr Neil Brown
Instrument making to instrument manufacturing. R.W. Paul's Unipivot galvanometer as a case study |
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coffee
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Historical Observatories and their Instruments II
1. Mr Marcus Granato
The Scientific Instrument collection of the Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) |
2. Prof. Dr. Gudrun Wolfschmidt
The Hamburg Observatory and its instruments |
3. Dr Paolo Brenni
Astronomical instruments heritage: the example of the observatory of Nice (in collaboration with Françoise Le Guet Tully and Anthony Turner) |
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Physics in the 19th and 20th Centuries
1. David Pantalony
Bringing sound into the laboratory: the Koenig Analyser |
2. Dr Dieter Hoffmann
The black body - a revolutionary instrument |
3. Bart Grob
The historic value of trade catalogues |
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lunch
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Visits and Tours I
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tea
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The Early Ashmolean Museum
1. Dr Jim Bennett
Solomon's House in Oxford: an Introduction to the Exhibition |
2. Mr Giles Hudson
Building the Old Ashmolean: fabric and function, 1683-2000 |
3. Mr Anthony Turner
"Solomon's House" in Oxfordshire, the origins and early years of Ashmole's Musaeum in Context |
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dinner
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Reception
Soirée and exhibition opening as guests of the Museum of the History of Science
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Wednesday
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Location A
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Location B
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Archives of Instrument Dealers and Collectors I
1. Mara Miniati
About the Florentine Strozzi manuscripts |
2. Mr William Andrewes
The Legacy of David Wheatland |
3. Mr Willem Mörzer Bruyns
Alain Brieux dealer and scholar in Paris: his archive on scientific instruments |
4. Dr Silke Ackermann
Dormant Treasures: The Zinner-Archive at Frankfurt University |
5. Dr Peter de Clercq
The papers of Thomas Henry Court (1868-1951) |
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Catalogues and Information Technology
1. Dr John McKnight
An Annotated Scientific Instruments Catalogue for a Living Museum |
2. Dr Josep Batlló
Inventory of Old Spanish Seismographs: Design Criteria and Results |
3. Dr Lajos Bartha
Preliminary report on the catalogue of old astronomical instruments kept in Hungarian Collections |
4. Professor Lioudmila Khazova
Specialists' training based on new information technology for technical museums |
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coffee
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Archives of Instrument Dealers and Collectors II
1. Dr Conrad van Cleempoel
The archives and correspondence of the gentleman and scholar Henri Michel |
2. Dr Silvia de Renzi
Between the Market and the Academy: R.S. Whipple as a Collector of Books of Science |
3. Dr Bruce Stephenson
The Derek Price Archive at The Adler Planetarium |
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Technologies
1. Professor Paul Zoller
Tool of Science and Stethoscope of the Engineer: Important Steam Engine Indicators of the 19th century. |
2. Professor Rand B. Evans
Morse's Telegraphic Indicator and the Electro-chronograph. |
3. Dr Robert Bud
Between Purity and Danger: testing milk for penicillin with the Delvotest |
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lunch
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Guest Lecture
Professor Robert Fox
'This gigantic Babylon': science and the University Museum in mid-Victorian Oxford |
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Poster Session
Mrs Inge Keil
Business-relations of the optical workshop of Johann Wiesel and Daniel Depiere in Augsburg in the 17th century |
Mrs Cláudia Penha dos Santos
Software for cataloguing scientific instruments |
Leili Kriis
Professor of pathological anatomy of Tartu University during 1884-1894 Richard Thomas (1847-1923) and instruments constructed by him. |
Dr Josep Batlló
A Seismic Microphone at the Madrid Astronomical Observatory |
Mr Rajinder Singh
Raman spectroscopy and its instruments |
Dr Keith Snedegar
Nineteenth-Century Stellar Photometers |
Mr Christopher Hill
Instruments represented in church memorial tablets |
Mr Spiridion Azzopardi
The Florentine Spiral Thermometer, Its Construction and Use as a Scientific Instrument |
Professor M. Eugene Rudd
Is this the earliest known English telescope? |
Dr Helga Beez
Some rare British microscopes in the collection of the Optical Museum in Jena |
Dr Liliane Dorikens-Vanpraet
Early Scientific Instruments in Bakelite, made by Dr Leo Baekland himself |
Professor Maurice Dorikens
The stereoscopic Bioscope disc by Duboscq |
Dr Jan C. Deiman
The Mensing Forgeries - After the Leyden Symposium |
Dr Victor Guijarro
The Introduction of Steam Power in Spain |
Dr Hamid Sadsaoud
Algiers Observatory and its historical instruments |
Ms Ilaria Meliconi
Pierre Louis Guinard, Swiss instrument maker |
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tea
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Meteorology and Physical Sciences
1. Dr Anita McConnell
The origins of the marine barometer, 1700-1800 |
2. Efthymios Nicolaïdis
We need the best instruments: The response of donors to the appeal of scientists in 19th-century Greece |
3. Miss Jane Insley
On matters meteorological |
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Mathematics and Astronomy
1. Sven Dupré
Galileo, Perspective and Mathematical Instruments |
2. Dr Günther Oestmann
On the History of the Nocturnal |
3. Dr Ileana Chinnici
About the Ramsden's Circle at the Palermo Observatory |
4. Joerg Zaun
The meridian-circles of Pistor and Martins |
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Reception
Reception at the University Museum of Natural History |
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dinner
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Evening Event
Musical and historical entertainment in the Holywell Music Room
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Thursday
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Instruments in the 20th Century
1. Roland Wittje
How can scientific instruments teach the historian about 20th century physics? |
2. Ms Trienke van der Spek
J.W. Giltay: a Dutch Instrument Maker |
3. Catherine Cuenca
Protection and Enrichment of the Technical and Scientific Heritage of the 20th Century |
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Instrument Studies
1. Rolf Willach
The development of lens grinding and polishing techniques in the first half of the 17th century |
2. Dr Randall Brooks
Micrometers for Reading Scale Divisions |
3. Dr Suzanne Débarbat
A Secondary Standard in Geodesy: The 'Règles de Borda'. |
4. Dr Allan Mills
Some New Sundials |
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coffee
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Natural Philosophy in the 18th Century
1. Dr Sofia Talas
Giovanni Poleni and his Experimental Philosophy Theatre |
2. Dr Catarina Isabel Carvalho
Two symbols of power |
3. Dr Carlo Triarico
On two unpublished letters by Boscovich regarding his work on optics, and on the finding of a vitrometre |
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Museums and Exhibitions I
1. Mr Tom Scheinfeldt
Science History and Attitudes towards Material Culture between the Wars |
2. Professor Pasquale Tucci
History of Science Museums, Science and Technics Museum, Historical Heritage at Scientific Research Institutes, Science Centres: which future for communication of science and technology and for dissemination of scientific and technological culture? |
3. Professor Vladimir Schurov
From Nizhegorodskaya Radio Laboratories to the Museum of Science |
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lunch
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Visits and Tours II
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tea
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Plenary Session
Plenary session of the Scientific Instrument Commission
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Workshop
'Instruments through the Microscope': workshop led by Prof. G. L'E. Turner
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Reception
Reception as guests of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science |
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Conference Dinner
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Evening Event
Post-prandial entertainment |
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Friday
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Practising with Instruments I
1. Dr Hester Higton
Practical Navigation and the Gunter Sector |
2. Ms Paola Bertucci
The 'shocking' bag: medico-electrical practice in 1760s London |
3. Dr Peter Heering
Practising with reconstructions of Jean Paul Marat's Perméomètre and Helioscope |
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Museums and Exhibitions II
1. Dr Ermelinda R. Antunes
The Physics Museums of Coimbra University - brief approach |
2. Tatiana Moisseeva
Petersburg time: the exhibition of different timekeepers, devoted to the new system in Russia, introduced 300 years ago |
3. Miss Frances Yeo
The development of the Manchester Science Gallery |
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coffee
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Practising with Instruments II
1. Dr Christine Blondel
Volta's electrometer and the "imperceptible electricity" |
2. Dr Elizabeth Cavicchi
Confusions with Coils: Johann Schweigger and Learning from Loops |
3. Dr Klaus Staubermann
Charles Pritchard's Wedge-Photometry at Oxford Observatory |
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Astrolabes and Early Instruments
1. Dr Alena Hadravova
The treatise on the composition and the use of the astrolabe by Cristannus of Prachatice |
2. Dr Petr Hadrava
The treatise on the eclipse instrument by Iohannes Schindel, and links between the Prague and Vienna astronomical schools |
3. Dr Peter Plassmeyer
Saxonian astrolabes in the 16th and 17th centuries |
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lunch
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Collections and Institutions
1. Mr Dana A. Freiburger
The John Thompson Collection of Instruments |
2. Dr Peter Wisse
The philosophical society Diligentia (1793) and its instrument collection |
3. Leonor González
Instruments for Physics Teaching at a XIXth Century Spanish University |
4. Mr Anne C. van Helden
Science teaching in a Dutch provincial Town |
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