Scientific Instrument Symposium
Athens, Greece
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XXI International Scientific Instrument Symposium Athens, Greece |
Programme and Events
Monday September 9
19.00 Opening session
Welcome addresses by:
Ion Siotis, President of the N.H.R.F., Jim Bennett, President of the Scientific Instrument Commission of the IUHPS/DHS, Paschalis Kitromilides, Director of the I.N.R./N.H.R.F., Andreas Andreopoulos, Vice Rector of N.T.U.A., Costas Crimbas, Academy of Athens, Efthymios Nicolaidis, History and Philosophy of Science Programme, N.H.R.F.
Event in the honor of Dr Jim Bennett and Dr Yannis Karas
Concert by Melos Brass Quintet
Reception
Tuesday September 10
Session 1a. Twentieth century scientific instruments (amphitheater Zervas)
Chair: Theodossios Tassios
09.00-09.20 Roland Wittje, From the Academic Radio Club to the Particle Accelerator: Electroacoustics and scientific instrument making at the Norwegian Institute of Technology during the inter-war period
09.20-09.40 F.P. Simion, G. Simion., Mihail-Dan Simion, Development of instrumentation and measuring techniques for mechanical vibrations
09.40-10.00 Jahnavi Phalkey, Writing about scientific instruments in India in the twentieth century
10.00-10.20 Vladimir Schurov, The formation of the Physics Scientific Schools in Nizhny Novgorod in the first half of the twentieth century: Meaning of the scientific instruments
10.20-10.40 Rand B Evans., In the flash on an eye: A history of the eye movement camera
Session 1b. Interpretation of scientific instruments (conference hall)
Chair: Silke Ackermann
09.00-09.20 Carlos Macchi, Instruments as interfaces
9.20-09.40 Constantine Skordoulis, Michelson’s Interferometry in Greek scientific literature
09.40-10.00 Pasquale Tucci, History of Science Museums and dissemination of scientific culture
10.00-10.20 George Vlahakis, Illustrating science: Images of scientific instruments in eighteenth and nineteenth Greek books of natural science
10.40-11.10 COFFEE (AND TEA) BREAK
Session 2. Optics in Ninetieth century (amphitheater Zervas)
Session organisers: Suzanne Debarbat and Françoise Launay
11.10-11.30 Ileana Chinnici, Suzanne Debarbat, Instruments for an Enterprise: The Carte du Ciel Astrographs
11.30-11.50 Paolo Brenni, An Italian in Paris. Ignazio Porro, the Institut technomatique and the Parc astronomique
11.50-12.10 Françoise Launay, The “Great Paris Exhibition Telescope” of 1900
12.10-12.30 Françoise Le Guet - Tully - Hamid Sadsaoud, The Loewy astronomical coudé refractor
12.30-12.50 Efthymios Nicolaidis, The Ploessl and Gautier instruments of the Observatory of Athens
12.50-13.10 Gloria Clifton, Nineteenth-Century Optical Instruments at the Royal Observatory of Greenwich, and their makers
13.10-13.30 Gudrun Wolfschmidt, Visual Astronomical Photometers
13.30-15.00 LUNCH
18.00 Departure for Newall Telescope.
Nikos Matsopoulos: The history of the Newall Telescope
Wednesday September 11
Session 3. Instruments in National Context (amphitheater Zervas)
Chair: Jim Bennett
09.00-09.20 P Hadrava., A Hadravova., Astronomical instruments and observations in Prague
09.20-09.40 Sofia Talas, Giorgia Miglioranzi, Scientific life in Venice and Padua at the end of the seventeenth century
09.40-10.00 Ewa Wyka, Scientific interests of the last King of Poland Stanislaw August Poniatowski and his collection
10.00-10.20 Eiji Nagata, The reception of Newtonian Corpuscularism in Japan -- A case study of experiments on cohesion of matter--
10.20-10.40 David Pantalony, Americans in Europe: The purchasing trip of Ira and Charles Young in 1853
10.40-11.00 E. Theodossiou, V.N. Manimanis, E. Danezis, E.-M. Kalyva, 17th Century physics beliefs and the first mechanical clock of Athens
11.00-11.30 COFFEE (AND TEA) BREAK
Session 4. Museums and Collections I (amphitheater Zervas)
Chair: Peter de Clercq
11.30-11.50 Anastasia Filipoupoliti, Old Collections, New Connections: Museums, scientific instruments and practice in 19th century England
11.50-12.10 A. Sebastian, R. Martin, "Movements": A multimedia project for the understanding of scientific heritage
12.10-12.30 Kostas Nikolantonakis, The Technology Museum of Thessaloniki
12.30-12.50 A. Sebastian, M. Villaverde, J. Tchadie, “Why and for what?: two Flemish astrolabes with undescribed virtues”
12.50-13.10 Rob Warren, John Lort Stokes & HMS Beagle
13.10-13.30 J. Battlo , J.A. Canas , F. Vidal, first inventory of Spanish old geomagnetic instruments
13.30-15.00 LUNCH
17.00 Departure for the Archaeological Museum (Antikythera Mechanism)
Thursday September 12
Session 5a. Museums and Collections II (amphitheater Zervas)
Chair: Kostas Nikolantonakis
09.00-09.20 Catherine Cuenca, Essays on scientific and technological innovation of the 20th century. A regional project with a scientific and technical background
09.20-09.40 Chrysoleon Simeonidis, The Scientific instruments collections of the Physical Sciences and Technology Museum of the University of Athens
09.40-10.00 Christos Karahalios, Anna-Maria Patra, Documentation of scientific instruments, historical apparatus collection at Museum of Natural (Physics) Science and Technology of university of Athens
10.00-10.20 Peter De Clercq, 19th-century copies of historical instruments
10.20-10.40 Tatiana Moiseeva, Arabian scientific instruments 14th-19th centuries in M.V. Lomonosov Museum
10.40-11.00 R.P. Martin Martinez, S. Amparo, Sharing time and sharing wisdom
Session 5b. Instrument Makers (conference hall)
Chair: Michael Assimacopoulos
09.00-09.20 Rajinder Singh, Jagadis Chandra Bose FRS and some of his scientific instruments
09.20-09.40 Shaw Kinsley, Andrew Ellicott Douglass (1867-1962)
09.40-10.00 Julian Holland, Scientific instrument makers in an institutional context
10.00-10.20 Maria Rentetzi, Designing their own instruments: Women as designers rather than merely users of apparatuses on radioactivity research from 1920 to 1938
11.00-11.30 COFFEE (AND TEA) BREAK
Session 6a. Cabinets / New Techniques (amphitheater Zervas)
Chair: George Vlahakis
11.30-11.50 M. Dorikens, L. Dorikens-Vanpraet , J. Uyttenhove, Joseph Plateau and his "Cabinet de Physique" at Ghent University around 1840
11.50-12.10 Jim Bennett, The social and philosophical origins of the cabinet of physics
12.10-12.30 Marvin Bolt, Telescope fingerprinting and genetics
12.30-12.50 Bruce Stephenson, High-energy astrolabe research
Session 6b. Observatories and Astronomical Instruments (conference hall)
Chair: Vassilis Karasmanis
11.30-11.50 Laetitia Maison, Georges Rayet (1839-1906), an actor of the French astronomy’s revival in the 1870s, on a visit to the Italian spectroscopists in 1875.
11.50-12.10 Frederic Soulu, L'observatoire astronomique décimal d'Antoine d'Abbadie (1810-1897)
12.10-12.30 Emily Winterburn, Arabic Instruments at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
12.30-12.50 M.A. Egido, R. Lopez, A Sebastian, Two Astronomical Compendia in the MNCT
13.30-15.00 LUNCH
19.30 Plenary Session of the SIC (amphitheater Zervas)
21.00 Conference Dinner
Friday September 13
Session 7a. Ancient and early modern instruments (amphitheater Zervas)
Chair: Constantine Skordoulis
09.00-09.20 Manolis Kartsonakis, Philosophy versus Science: Scientific instruments in Ancient Greece
09.20-09.40 M.T. Wright, New Work on the Antikythera Mechanism
09.40-10.00 Michael Lambrou, On burning mirrors: caustic instruments.
10.00-10.20 Sven Dupre, Refractive Dials as evidence for the history of Optics
10.20-10.40 Jaakov Zik, Galileo and optical aberrations
10.40-11.00 Stephen Johnston, Between mathematics and craft: interpreting a 17th-century wooden rule
Session 7b. 19th century scientific instruments (conference hall)
Chair: Tassos Tsiantoulas
09.00-09.20 Allan Mills, Early Batteries, Some results of practical measurements of their electrical characteristics
09.20-09.40 Christos Nasiopoulos, Instruments and laboratory practices for the liquefaction of gases: The case of Thomas Andrews laboratory (1862-1869)
09.40-10.00 Alcestis Zervopoulou-Logothetidi, On the liquefaction of air and hydrogen
10.00-10.20 Anastasios Tsiadoulas, Instrumentation in the Cryogenics of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Content and context
10.20-10.40 Alexandar Petrovich, Development of the First Hydraulic Analog Computer in the second half of the 19th Century in Serbia.
10.40-11.00 Steven Turner, Implicit information in 19th century Physics demonstrations
11.00-11.30 COFFEE (AND TEA) BREAK
11.30-13.00 Poster Session
Spiridion Azzopardi, The Hidden Clocks of Mount Athos
J. Batllo, C. Clemente, F. Diaz and F. Vidal, Reconstruction of a Bosh-Omori seismograph
Patrick Fuentes, The failure of big observation instruments at Paris Observatory in the XIXth century.
Laszlo Kovacs, Eugen P. Wigner the nuclear engineer
M. Leone, A. Paoletti and N. Robotti, The same discovery with different scientific instruments: The case of electric field effect on spectral lines
Grazia Zini, Science Museum of the University of Ferrara, The exhibition of the Antique Scientific Instruments of the Physics Department, Ferrara University, Italy.
13.00 LUNCH
Departure for the excursion to Syros (hour to be announced)